WWIII thread
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Considering the subsidies, the insane profits and the externalized costs?
Ya, I think they are due.
fAKe nEwS!
Lest we forget, at least one person on this board is highly incentivised to see oil companies maintain the status quo.
I don't think the "renewable" resources are coming from Russia. In fact, it's kinda the opposite. What's making them dependant on Russian oil and gas is that they haven't transitioned to renewables fully.That sounds like a sound strategy for the duration of this war.Almost as good as the german brainless hasted transition to renewables that now make them 100% dependable on the russians.
Busy airspace via NATO operations. This is only those with transponders on
@Sandro can explain to you how amazing the German energy strategy has been in the last decade.
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I have a Russian employee who were lucky that her dad could buy a ticket from Finland where he lives so she could get on a train out of Russia. She was on vacation and also left as soon as she could. She is not happy about the whole thing.
saw some stuff that rus is having international flights turn back.
this may mean they are already in the process of closing their borders, or it is perhaps related to the airplanes themselves being seized outside the country (as i posted previously)
this may mean they are already in the process of closing their borders, or it is perhaps related to the airplanes themselves being seized outside the country (as i posted previously)
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Front line trace in Belarus are holding and refusing
Just unnecessarily stupid. The major and costly switch to renewables is more than welcome, it’s mainly the premature shutdown of perfectly good and modern nuclear plants and the geostrategic implications of the gas transit routes that irks me. Gas accounts for 20% of energy in the country, with 38% coming from Russia. There will be a need for gas for quite some time as it’s the prevalent heating technology, with all the related infrastructure in place. 15% of gas however is used for power generation and that part could have largely been replaced by keeping the nuclear plants online. And if the intention is to go green, why in the world would you shut down power plants who’s entire CO2 footprint was generated during their expensive construction but keep on burning coal until 2030? (Rhetorical question as we have two states with major coal deposits.)
Importing gas isn’t bad per se, not even from Russia, and countries such as Poland are even far more reliant on Russian gas. What’s inexcusable is the construction of the Nordstream 2 pipeline against the express wishes of everyone in the EU and particularly the countries in the east and Ukraine. The project was entirely unnecessary as gas use should decrease and the existing pipelines that run through the Baltic Sea and through Ukraine and Poland had more than enough capacity. The whole project was designed to circumvent Ukraine and get gas to Germany directly without paying any transit fees to the Ukrainians. It was initiated by best buddies Putin and chancellor Gerhard Schröder, who miraculously ended up heading the project after being beaten by Merkel and has since held highly lucrative posts with state run Russian energy giants Gazprom and Rosneft.
That fuckstick, who famously called Putin a flawless democrat, could have had a stellar political legacy as Merkel was able to stay in office so long to a large extent due to the wide ranging reforms he pushed through that started paying dividends in the decade after he left office. And while even the most heinous organizations on the planet cannot distance themselves from Russia quick enough, Schröder is still a board member of Rosneft.
Merkel should get at least as much blame as she has persisted with the project against the will of pretty much every international partner, especially Eastern European countries that got crushed by German expansionism in the past.
Certain politicians will drone on about some special responsibility towards Russia but completely ignore any responsibility towards the countries that got double teamed by Adolf and Joseph, some of which are EU partners. Rapprochement with Russia was initiated by Social Democratic chancellors Brandt and Schmidt, but it was done with Germany firmly part of the western alliance and a vastly larger military and corresponding spending. I can understand that defense policy wasn’t prioritized after the fall of the Berlin wall as the world did appear to become more peaceful and money was diverted from defense to building up the former communist states. But Russia’s aggression has been plain to see since at least 2008, yet the concerns of the Russia’s neighbors have been largely ignored, which is shameful.
There’s now been a turnaround on defense and extending the life of the three remaining nuclear plants and even bringing older plants back online is on the table again. To bring it back to gas, neither Germany nor its neighbors will be able to wean themselves of gas completely in short order. The former Polish foreign minister suggested a European Gas Union that purchases and distributes gas as a collective. It doesn’t reduce dependency, but I like the idea as it harkens back to the beginning of the EU when countries pooled their resources for steel production and nuclear power and grew closer and more interdependent. At first economically and limited to a few industries and subsequently in virtually all areas.
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Remember Katyn. Russians are perfectly capable of and have a history of committing bloody massacres.
U.S. - Vietnam
What's ironic, Germany now has to import nuclear-produced electricity from neighbors like France and Czech Republic because the renewables can't cover demand when weather isn't cooperating.
oh i believe. just sharing it because this plan is already out there
The US is energy independent. We can unplug from their taps and self fuel with no concerns. It's the rest of the world that cannot keep warm, which is the issue.
Just like here in Mass, our electricity costs are the highest in the US. We cannot have US natural gas transported from other US ports via tankers, and our green whackos are blocking NG pipeline, so we buy NG for electricity generation and residential heating from Russia, Nigeria, the Saudis... total shitshow.
who dat?
Looks like a firefight going on at Zaporozhye power plant that seems to be the largest plant in Europe, currently has fires going, Radiation sensors and alarms are down.
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But we don't have a viable product yet to cut off fossil fuels. You need a bulletproof solution before ending it, we're not there yet. Batteries don't work well in the cold, solar isn't as efficient in the winter to sustain heating your home. Where do you think that electricity comes from to charge your electric car? Mostly fossil fuels. In time they'll transition away from it, companies are moving forward with it as we speak, but I think we're still about 15-20+ years away. Biden ended the construction of the Keystone pipeline. John Kerry said right after, those laid off workers can get a job making solar panels, sad this is we don't manufacture them here in the US they all come from China. All I'm saying is, make sure it works and works well in all seasons, before moving forward.
He literally cannot
The issue I see is that was the school of thought that lead to the current situation.
The change didnt happen fast enough and wont come fast enough unless you step outside the boundaries of "comfort".
If morons like Brian had been able to see the writing on the wall 30 years ago, like so many of us began to, we wouldn’t BE in this mess, it would have started... 30 years ago. But the petro- dickheads kept the gullible tools fooled, and here we are.
So, my thought here, if Musk, Gates, Bezos, and a few others had any balls or love of fellow man in their hearts, they would pony up a 10 BILLION dollar bounty for Putin’s head.
That would probably do it.
No takers?
Raise it by a billion a week.
it would STILL be pocket change.
That would probably do it.
No takers?
Raise it by a billion a week.
it would STILL be pocket change.
Why does Putin have superfans among the US right wing?
The Russian leader is an autocrat with a homophobic and misogynistic worldview. No wonder he is admired by so many Republicans, writes Arwa Mahdawi
www.theguardian.com
It would also be illegal by both US and international law. Those guys aren't doing anything that isn't good for them let alone something that will get them locked up.
Seriously, name calling? Very sad you're incapable of having a discussion with someone that shares a different opinion without getting all defensive. Speaks volumes about yourself. Must suck to be you.
You don’t have opinions, Brian, you have misinformation.
I apologize, seeing the effects of decades of gaslighting makes me angry.
I apologize, seeing the effects of decades of gaslighting makes me angry.
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"discussion" LOL
I'm totally on board for other solutions for energy production. Just saying we're not there yet to rely on it 100%.
On cell phone, my spelling isn't great but worse on a phone.
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