Gendai Shakai de Otome Game no Akuyaku Reijou wo Suru no wa Chotto Taihen - Ch. 17 - The Trader: Toudou Nagayoshi
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By 2 years ago you mean 2022? The problem is due to the COVID recovery, oil prices went up. Add the sanctions and it went up even more. Add in sales of their oil on Black Markets, their income hasn't gone down that much
I will accept his bet 2 years ago.
Don't underestimate Russian. That place is not for beginner.
They could have face collapse due to currency failing. But they essentially decoupled their currency from the world market
Of course they aren't out of the woods as they are facing quite serious inflation and other issues
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Random question but was the Hedge Fund thing what started the Great Recession in the US? I thought I heard something like that when I was younger.
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I'm answering this at work so it's not going to be comprehensive, but Mortgages, and it's derivatives, were seen as an alternative store of wealth like gold, and so Funds in general demanded it a lot. Demand led to approval of subprime loans, leading to defaults and the Great Recession. Again, massively oversimplified.
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@SiliconSignatureSwissChair thank you for the chapter! 
I believe this is a typo though on page 24.
The first box reads "resuce", but it should be "rescue" I believe.
I believe this is a typo though on page 24.
The first box reads "resuce", but it should be "rescue" I believe.
Late to reading this chapter, but as to your concern, "mid-20s OL" is PERFECT if you are thinking of something serious, absolutely not hag. In fact, in my region (Canada), mid-20s folks are usually too young because all the ladies are freaking childish. Then again, in my region, the men in that age group are also very immature. The sad part is that in my culture (Korean), young people nowadays think it's optimal to marry and have kids in their 30s, not realizing that female fertility especially takes a nosedive in the 30s...
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Leaning into commodities trading and oil? I see Runa's taking the Koch Industries approach to business.
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This reminded me of how much I generally dislike lazy foreshadowing. Things like "[...], but she didn't know that yet", "she will learn [...]", "soon, she will see [...]". It works well as a teaser, but it's so easy to do that it gets messy easily. It also trades its advantage in hype value for a loss of surprise. When you do this more than a few times, you end up unable to surprise the reader as they already expect every twist to happen.
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I think the thing I like the least about this work is how unsure and indecisive the MC is, despite knowing the future and having intimate finance knowledge. It's like reading about someone who doesn't know the future navigate their way through a financial disaster, but they do know the future and aren't decisively acting on it.
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The stuff out of that guy's mouth... that's the sort of stuff CIA analysts compile.
Imagine if she, or Toudou (yeah yeah, the author, really) knew about thorium molten salt reactors?
TED:
LONG:
NOW:
East Asia:
Intrinsically safe (walk-away safe) - no Fukushima, or other catastrophes
Modular (size down to trailer container)
High-temp (more efficient w higher temp differential+can be used directly for process industries)
Can "burn"/use what we regard as highly dangerous waste, resulting in energy+a few % waste that requires management ~300 years, instead of 10,000+ years
Thorium is 4 times as prolific as Uranium PLUS only 0.7% of Uranium is fissile (useful as fuel), so we have 400+ times as much Thorium as the useful Uranium. Th is everywhere, so by just looking at what has been dug up when extracting other minerals, we can get tons of it (especially when it's rare earths, since they are products of radioactive decay (from e.g. Thorium))
Harder to use for nuclear weapons
Potential issues
Status today?
Chinese are sort of quiet, but seem to be pumping money into this, and "say" they have a full-scale reactor being built
Copenhagen Atomics seem to do it the smartest, one step at a time, and have gotten backers in Switzerland, where a test facility is being established. I think these guys can be IT.
Thorcon have a cool concept ((they are cooperating with a tanker builder) put the reactor in basically a tanker ship, float it to where you need the energy, hook it up to the grid, and run the reactor - then switch out the fuel in a few years time (worst case, drive up another tanker, best case just switch out the fuel module)), AND they are working with the Indonesian government, so they have no (?) legal problems, test site, and backing in general by a large country that knows it will need a LOT of energy to bootstrap itself, and its population - and they don't want to build a lot of coal plants ...)
Flibe Energy (Kirk Sorensen) is cool, but they are in the USA, so all the red tape, and politics will continue to severely cause problems.
(It would be interesting if someone included this sort of thing in a manga like this, since that way one can ignore feasibility issues, and hypothesise around what the effects would be on a country/world where such a technology becomes commonplace ... And yes, I do believe this sort of tech could save our world.)
TED:
Intrinsically safe (walk-away safe) - no Fukushima, or other catastrophes
Modular (size down to trailer container)
High-temp (more efficient w higher temp differential+can be used directly for process industries)
Can "burn"/use what we regard as highly dangerous waste, resulting in energy+a few % waste that requires management ~300 years, instead of 10,000+ years
Thorium is 4 times as prolific as Uranium PLUS only 0.7% of Uranium is fissile (useful as fuel), so we have 400+ times as much Thorium as the useful Uranium. Th is everywhere, so by just looking at what has been dug up when extracting other minerals, we can get tons of it (especially when it's rare earths, since they are products of radioactive decay (from e.g. Thorium))
Harder to use for nuclear weapons
Potential issues
- getting the COOLest version to work (Kirk Sorensen's dream+what Copenhagen Atomics seem to be aiming for, step by step)
- materials; the molten salts can be reactive, degrading tubing and pumps faster than advisable (Copenhagen Atomics say they've solved this, soooo ...)
Status today?
Chinese are sort of quiet, but seem to be pumping money into this, and "say" they have a full-scale reactor being built
Copenhagen Atomics seem to do it the smartest, one step at a time, and have gotten backers in Switzerland, where a test facility is being established. I think these guys can be IT.
Thorcon have a cool concept ((they are cooperating with a tanker builder) put the reactor in basically a tanker ship, float it to where you need the energy, hook it up to the grid, and run the reactor - then switch out the fuel in a few years time (worst case, drive up another tanker, best case just switch out the fuel module)), AND they are working with the Indonesian government, so they have no (?) legal problems, test site, and backing in general by a large country that knows it will need a LOT of energy to bootstrap itself, and its population - and they don't want to build a lot of coal plants ...)
Flibe Energy (Kirk Sorensen) is cool, but they are in the USA, so all the red tape, and politics will continue to severely cause problems.
(It would be interesting if someone included this sort of thing in a manga like this, since that way one can ignore feasibility issues, and hypothesise around what the effects would be on a country/world where such a technology becomes commonplace ... And yes, I do believe this sort of tech could save our world.)
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