Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

On Sat, 11 Jan 2025, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

One of the most fascinating statistics I've found when looking at solar is that it has a significant amount of people who died, when the owner wanted to adjust something on the roof, climbed up and fell down. This figure and related deaths is very interesting.

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And yet Fukushima, where no one died at all, is recorded as a 'disaster'

This is the truth and utterly dishonest. This is why I cannot rely on mainstream
media for anything related to technology or the environment. Only political
slogans, nothing else, is to be found in the mainstream media.

The fact is that wind turbines kill people, As do solar installations.

This is the truth. Probably way more than nuclear. This number will only expand
as we continue to throw money away on windmills and solar. Add to that, the nr
of birds, and other animals killed, and the picture does not look so pretty for
the environmentalists out there.

What would you rather attend - a wind turbine in the middle of a storm tossed North Sea  hundreds of feet up with only one way down, or a solar farm generating thousands of volts ...

No!

Or a nice cold reactor in a safe machine hall with overhead cranes already installed. Subject to such stringent safety regulations that almost no one has died during routine maintenance, ever.

Yes!

Remember 'creates green jobs' means it needs an army of expensive people juts to build, install  and keep it working, which means its expensive and unreliable...

This is the truth. I have never seen the maintenance cost for sea-based wind, or
mega solar farms in deserts. I have never seen the cost of security to protect
the mega solar farms in deserts. Fun fact... when Ericsson built out cell phone
networks in africa, they quickly discovered that every base station needed
guards. If not, as soon as they were built, and the crew left, some local tribes
dismantled it and sold it as junk.