Saudi Arabia has sentenced to death a government critic who denounced alleged corruption and human rights abuses on social media, his brother and others familiar with the case told AFP on Monday.
The judgement was handed down against Mohammed al-Ghamdi in July by the Specialized Criminal Court, a secretive institution established in 2008 to try terrorism cases that has a history of unfair trials resulting in death sentences.
The charges against al-Ghamdi include conspiracy against the Saudi leadership, undermining state institutions and supporting terrorist ideology, sources briefed on the details of the case told AFP.
Why did we send a generations worth of our wealth to these people instead of developing solar and wind?
Conservatism. That’s why.
Better yet, go nuclear.
Same issue with providing countries
There are other alternatives to existing uranium-based nuclear power plants, like thorium which is much more abundant. Because nuclear isn’t mainstream in many places however, none of those alternatives have gained any steam to get built.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m for nuclear, and Thorium seems like a great alternative to uranium even if I haven’t researched it enough, but the issue with uranium is that it’s basically in dictatorships, just like oil
Current uranium reserves are expected to be depleted by the end of the century, at current use.
Fission as a serious replacement for just coal plants is a pipe dream without asteroid mining, and contrary to what people pretend we still don’t have a good answer for the waste, or what to do for developing nations that don’t have the human infrastructure to run them safely.
We need a global fusion research project and orbital solar. Simple as that.
Yes, yes. A well done fusion plant is ∞ times better than covering tens of kilometers in solar panels or wind turbines.
Supporting something doesn’t mean I can’t acknowledge its cons
we still don’t have a good answer for the waste
Yes we do, because 95% of the waste is low level waste that is safe within a dozen years. This waste is currently almost entirely stored on site at every plant. These are things like paperwork, clothing, safety materials, etc. The remaining 5% high level waste that humanity has ever produced from all plants worldwide, the stuff that’s dangerous for thousands of years, would fit within an area the size of a football field.
Nuclear waste is a boogeyman just like nuclear power in general has become due to a poorly educated public and a ton of misinformation. Just look at the blowback from the recent Fukushima news regarding the release of radioactive water into the ocean bcause the holding tanks are finally running out of capacity. The treated water only has one radioactive isotope, Tritium, that can’t be filtered since it’s an isotope of Hydrogen, and that’s kid of a big part of water itself. It’s not uranium that nearly every damned comment I’ve seen online seems to assume. Tritum is a weak source of beta radiation, too weak to even penetrate the skin. The treated water is being diluted further with seawater and the plan will take decades to release the water off the coast through an undersea tunnel which would further dilute it. The resulting release would be lower than that of many currently operating plants that release similar water else where in the world every day. In addition, the half life of Tritium is only 12 years, and the oldest portions of this water which would be released first date back to the disaster in 2011, which is already 12 years ago now, so effectively the released water would already be halfway decayed. Numerous professors and nuclear experts have stated that the risk from this is nearly non-existent both to humans and to marine life. Yet people are stupid and panic about things they don’t understand.
People just aren’t educated about how radiation works, they only see the extreme cases because that’s what makes for good media. The media is absolutely fucking terrible now at anything that requires nuance or a true explanation. If it can’t be summarized in a simple catchy headline, and the public needs to get some ecuation to understand it properly, the media doesn’t care enough to report it properly. It won’t bring in that ad revenue from clicks online.
but the issue with uranium is that it’s basically in dictatorships
Because oil is more efficient, simple as that
It was more profitable.
And? You make it sound like it isn’t obvious that oil is cheaper than investing in an experimental source of energy where not being in deficit is an achievement
experimental source of energy where not being in a deficit is an achievement
No one is talking about fusion here.
It’s not just fusion
This descriptor only applies to fusion.
The rest of renewables are pretty inefficient compared to oil tho
Or hear me out. Maybe we don’t give money to tyrants who kill their people who criticizing the government. It’s a crazy, novel idea, I know, but it’s possible.
Where do you think you get the resources to make a power generator from?
Solar powered diesel trucks? How is that supposed to work?
Im struggling to see if you are serious and you don’t see how utterly stupid that question is or if you are playing the fool for comical reasons.
Electric semis dude. They are definitely coming.
you have good intentions,
but
“our welth”? 🤡
Our “ally”
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Don’t bash their prophets, bash their profits
Or Iraq them
That’s the dumbest fucking thing I heard in a while, and I just watched the GQP primaries.
Why would you do that to yourself?
Know your enemy
They’re not very enigmatic or opaque. It’s pretty obvious who and what they are without the need for self-torture.
Yeah I didn’t learn anything. My thought was to understand them better, but it was too vapid to learn anything.
Know both yourself and your enemies.
That’s a great Idea let created EVEN MORE TERRORIST GROUPS. BECAUSE WE DONT HAVE ENOUGH
like Jamal Khashoggi with extra steps
And yet, dubai is advertisedd by many influencer as a dream place to live.
But it’s an autocratic hell, they live on the backs of slaves and they aren’t save from repercussions
Dubai isn’t in Saudi Arabia.
My bad, got them mixed up
Different country
Seems my Geographie is rusted, got it mixed up
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Hey remember all those times the US government did business with Saudi Arabia? I wish I could come up with something to say about that that wouldn’t get me visited by at least 9 letters worth of government agencies
Why did ?
As European, I’m laughing or crying, depend, to see we have turned Putin to this…
I wish I could come up with something to say about that that wouldn’t get me visited by at least 9 letters worth of government agencies
Lol what? Yeah, no. That’s silly.
What’s silly is that we keep voting for people who keep selling weapons to terrorists
Ok. Still not going to be visited by several alphabet agencies for criticizing Saudi Arabia on the internet LOL
Scumbags.
