cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
how are they under contested airspace?Chaney's move fast. Halliburton can prove you wrong.
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Grandpapy
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I'll bet you they have or can get anything (through one or more of their subs) to protect their "What's good for Halliburton is good for America". Seeing how they shouldn't be getting a tax credit this year, it's the least they can do to recoup the loss.
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
now class, who here can tell me when non-national warfare began?I'll bet you they have or can get anything (through one or more of their subs) to protect their "What's good for Halliburton is good for America". Seeing how they shouldn't be getting a tax credit this year, it's the least they can do to recoup the loss.
Nice try, Elián, but the nonaggression pact with Gazprom was in ‘38. In ‘39 Exxon wholly acquired Iran, which gave HR conniptions about holidays.
That, and not their bold betrayal of Gazprom when they took Moskva in nine days using forces amassed in Turkmenistan where they negotiated passage and assembly in Turkmenistan.
(place pic of WS-774 Negotiator here)
(add the famous pic of Karakalpakstan from orbit at night, preindustrial black steppe with a few lights respectfully far from patches that glowed faint blue)
(gif of consternation on the Kazakh/Philip Morris air commander’s face)
They left Ukraine (a joint division of Lockheed Martin and John Deere) alone but downsized Belarus and sent the extra workforce to their new extraction site in Taimyr, where they intend to get about ten months’ productivity out of them.
Not long after that Toyota and Samsung, under mutual treaty, launched a hostile takeover of the Aleutians and parts of Alaska. Toyota minded air and sea while the Korean firm’s elite infantry rolled up the countryside from under the boots of bored, tired and hungry garrisons inadequately run by a coalition of GM and Labatt’s. (Last paycheck any of them saw. They spent most if their time shopping online at a unique Laotian research-chemical storefront, and what the kimchi Spetsnaz found were hollow-eyed giggling cadavers. Some neg brainiacs called it a voluntary acid-soaked death camp. Their stories of PTSD were last month’s essay: “I used my young body up conquering the last rainforests for Merck Busch on the promise of a lifetime supply from each.” Shoulda read the fine print, marine.
Lorenus Almojar is our guest today. She survived Soldotna, rose to rear admiral for McDonald’sWalmart by bringing their fish pirates back to competitive, and will describe the Korean POW camp system, which routinely gets one more star in Yelp than Army anything anywhere west of the Mackenzie.
Did everyone bring their signed slip for our tour of Nevada (a division of GE Disney)
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DIY-HP-LED
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How did the solid fuel in this rocket not ignite! Usually it would burn like Hell and considering the damage, it's surprisingly intact, there even appears to be solid fuel left!
UKRAINE DESTROYS THE PRAISED RUSSIAN S-300 AIR DEFENSE SYSTEMS || 2022
UKRAINE DESTROYS THE PRAISED RUSSIAN S-300 AIR DEFENSE SYSTEMS || 2022
printer
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No stocking up for winter.
Russia cuts gas through Nord Stream 1 to 20% of capacity
Russia’s Gazprom on Wednesday halved the amount of natural gas flowing through a major pipeline from Russia to Europe to 20% of capacity. It’s the latest Nord Stream 1 reduction that Russia has blamed on technical problems but Germany calls a political move to sow uncertainty and push up prices amid the war in Ukraine.
The Russian state-controlled energy giant announced Monday that it would slash flows on the Nord Stream 1 pipeline that runs to Germany because of equipment repairs. It’s raised new fears that Russia could completely cut off gas that is used to power industry, generate electricity and heat homes to try to gain political leverage over Europe as it tries to bolster its storage levels for winter.
Nord Stream’s network data and the head of Germany’s network regulator, Klaus Mueller, confirmed the reduction.
“Gas is now a part of Russian foreign policy and possibly Russian war strategy,” Mueller told Deutschlandfunk radio.
Natural gas prices have surged on Europe’s TTF benchmark to levels not seen since early March and are nearly six times higher than they were a year ago. Soaring energy prices are fueling record inflation, squeezing people’s spending power and heightening concerns that Europe could plunge into recession if it does not save enough gas to get through the cold months.
That fear led EU governments on Tuesday to agree to reduce natural gas use to protect against further Russian supply cuts.
The draft law aims to lower demand for gas by 15% from August through March with voluntary steps. If there aren’t enough savings, mandatory cuts would be triggered in the 27-nation bloc.
Russia, which has reduced or cut off natural gas to 12 EU countries since the war, insists that the new drop-off through Nord Stream 1 is because maintenance is needed on a turbine for a compressor station and another turbine sent for repairs in Canada isn’t yet back in place. It has said the paperwork for the return of the latter turbine has raised questions about Western sanctions.
European leaders and analysts say the reductions are a pretext to try to divide EU countries and elevate prices.
“As before, we see no technical cause” for the cuts, German government spokeswoman Christiane Hoffmann said in Berlin, adding that “from our point of view, there is nothing standing in the way of transporting the turbine to Russia.”
“What we are seeing here is actually a power play, and we won’t let ourselves be impressed by that,” she added.
Gazprom’s latest move “seems to support our view that recent Russian cuts in flows are a purposeful deterioration in gas trade due to geopolitical escalations,” James Huckstepp, manager for Europe, Middle East and Africa gas analytics at S&P Global Commodity Insights, said in a research note Tuesday.
“That being the case, it increases our skepticism around Russian imports in the months ahead,” Huckstepp said.
Russia recently has accounted for about a third of Germany’s gas supplies. The government said last week that the drop in gas flows confirmed that Germany can’t rely on Russian deliveries, announcing that it would step up its gas storage requirements and take further measures to conserve supplies.
thehill.com
Russia cuts gas through Nord Stream 1 to 20% of capacity
Russia’s Gazprom on Wednesday halved the amount of natural gas flowing through a major pipeline from Russia to Europe to 20% of capacity. It’s the latest Nord Stream 1 reduction that Russia has blamed on technical problems but Germany calls a political move to sow uncertainty and push up prices amid the war in Ukraine.
The Russian state-controlled energy giant announced Monday that it would slash flows on the Nord Stream 1 pipeline that runs to Germany because of equipment repairs. It’s raised new fears that Russia could completely cut off gas that is used to power industry, generate electricity and heat homes to try to gain political leverage over Europe as it tries to bolster its storage levels for winter.
Nord Stream’s network data and the head of Germany’s network regulator, Klaus Mueller, confirmed the reduction.
“Gas is now a part of Russian foreign policy and possibly Russian war strategy,” Mueller told Deutschlandfunk radio.
Natural gas prices have surged on Europe’s TTF benchmark to levels not seen since early March and are nearly six times higher than they were a year ago. Soaring energy prices are fueling record inflation, squeezing people’s spending power and heightening concerns that Europe could plunge into recession if it does not save enough gas to get through the cold months.
That fear led EU governments on Tuesday to agree to reduce natural gas use to protect against further Russian supply cuts.
The draft law aims to lower demand for gas by 15% from August through March with voluntary steps. If there aren’t enough savings, mandatory cuts would be triggered in the 27-nation bloc.
Russia, which has reduced or cut off natural gas to 12 EU countries since the war, insists that the new drop-off through Nord Stream 1 is because maintenance is needed on a turbine for a compressor station and another turbine sent for repairs in Canada isn’t yet back in place. It has said the paperwork for the return of the latter turbine has raised questions about Western sanctions.
European leaders and analysts say the reductions are a pretext to try to divide EU countries and elevate prices.
“As before, we see no technical cause” for the cuts, German government spokeswoman Christiane Hoffmann said in Berlin, adding that “from our point of view, there is nothing standing in the way of transporting the turbine to Russia.”
“What we are seeing here is actually a power play, and we won’t let ourselves be impressed by that,” she added.
Gazprom’s latest move “seems to support our view that recent Russian cuts in flows are a purposeful deterioration in gas trade due to geopolitical escalations,” James Huckstepp, manager for Europe, Middle East and Africa gas analytics at S&P Global Commodity Insights, said in a research note Tuesday.
“That being the case, it increases our skepticism around Russian imports in the months ahead,” Huckstepp said.
Russia recently has accounted for about a third of Germany’s gas supplies. The government said last week that the drop in gas flows confirmed that Germany can’t rely on Russian deliveries, announcing that it would step up its gas storage requirements and take further measures to conserve supplies.
Russia cuts gas through Nord Stream 1 to 20% of capacity
BERLIN (AP) — Russia’s Gazprom on Wednesday halved the amount of natural gas flowing through a major pipeline from Russia to Europe to 20% of capacity. It’s the latest Nord Stream 1 reduction that …
thehill.com
Roger A. Shrubber
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good, Germans are lpg junkies, cut them the fuck off and watch them puke and shit on themselves during withdrawal...they'll either be stronger for it, or they'll fucking die...but same answer as a real junkie, better they fucking die than "live" like that...under putin's thumb, enabling his war on freedomNo stocking up for winter.
Russia cuts gas through Nord Stream 1 to 20% of capacity
Russia’s Gazprom on Wednesday halved the amount of natural gas flowing through a major pipeline from Russia to Europe to 20% of capacity. It’s the latest Nord Stream 1 reduction that Russia has blamed on technical problems but Germany calls a political move to sow uncertainty and push up prices amid the war in Ukraine.
The Russian state-controlled energy giant announced Monday that it would slash flows on the Nord Stream 1 pipeline that runs to Germany because of equipment repairs. It’s raised new fears that Russia could completely cut off gas that is used to power industry, generate electricity and heat homes to try to gain political leverage over Europe as it tries to bolster its storage levels for winter.
Nord Stream’s network data and the head of Germany’s network regulator, Klaus Mueller, confirmed the reduction.
“Gas is now a part of Russian foreign policy and possibly Russian war strategy,” Mueller told Deutschlandfunk radio.
Natural gas prices have surged on Europe’s TTF benchmark to levels not seen since early March and are nearly six times higher than they were a year ago. Soaring energy prices are fueling record inflation, squeezing people’s spending power and heightening concerns that Europe could plunge into recession if it does not save enough gas to get through the cold months.
That fear led EU governments on Tuesday to agree to reduce natural gas use to protect against further Russian supply cuts.
The draft law aims to lower demand for gas by 15% from August through March with voluntary steps. If there aren’t enough savings, mandatory cuts would be triggered in the 27-nation bloc.
Russia, which has reduced or cut off natural gas to 12 EU countries since the war, insists that the new drop-off through Nord Stream 1 is because maintenance is needed on a turbine for a compressor station and another turbine sent for repairs in Canada isn’t yet back in place. It has said the paperwork for the return of the latter turbine has raised questions about Western sanctions.
European leaders and analysts say the reductions are a pretext to try to divide EU countries and elevate prices.
“As before, we see no technical cause” for the cuts, German government spokeswoman Christiane Hoffmann said in Berlin, adding that “from our point of view, there is nothing standing in the way of transporting the turbine to Russia.”
“What we are seeing here is actually a power play, and we won’t let ourselves be impressed by that,” she added.
Gazprom’s latest move “seems to support our view that recent Russian cuts in flows are a purposeful deterioration in gas trade due to geopolitical escalations,” James Huckstepp, manager for Europe, Middle East and Africa gas analytics at S&P Global Commodity Insights, said in a research note Tuesday.
“That being the case, it increases our skepticism around Russian imports in the months ahead,” Huckstepp said.
Russia recently has accounted for about a third of Germany’s gas supplies. The government said last week that the drop in gas flows confirmed that Germany can’t rely on Russian deliveries, announcing that it would step up its gas storage requirements and take further measures to conserve supplies.
Russia cuts gas through Nord Stream 1 to 20% of capacity
BERLIN (AP) — Russia’s Gazprom on Wednesday halved the amount of natural gas flowing through a major pipeline from Russia to Europe to 20% of capacity. It’s the latest Nord Stream 1 reduction that …
Roger A. Shrubber
Well-Known Member
same reason it's a long shot a car will explode if you shoot the gas tank...it's designed not to. you can shoot a block of c4 with a rifle all day, and you'll just get a chunk of c4 with a lot of holes in it. impact isn't a reliable trigger, you need a detonation of a certain strength, to set most modern explosives off.
DIY-HP-LED
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I believe these days they can break down heavier hydrocarbons into lighter fractions and also turn lighter fractions into heavier fuel to an extent during refining. More jet fuel as opposed to gasoline for future applications say.
BudmanTX
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DIY-HP-LED
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This shit burns, it does not explode normally and once lite is damn near impossible to put out.
DIY-HP-LED
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They can do a lot in Europe with energy efficiency measures, insulation and mass conversion to heat pumps could dramatically reduce demand for NG. Gasoline is easier to bring in via tanker and over the next decade demand for that should steadily diminish in Europe. Resistance heating is 100% efficient, 1 watt in 1 watt of heat out of the baseboard, however heat pumps using ground water loops give 5 watts of heat for every watt of electricity they use and regular heat pumps are 3X more efficient. Winters in Europe are generally milder than in North America and it was only in recent decades that most people in England had central heating, so heat pumps should work out there. Just doing those kinds of things could dramatically reduce demand for NG over the next few years. The automotive industry is getting ready to replace most of the car models with EVs, as soon as better batteries arrive and they are.
DIY-HP-LED
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I wonder how many of these things the Russians are wasting on cheap decoy target drones, made to reflect like something much larger? These things would cost more than the dumb cheap decoy drone it was sent to kill, mix in some real lethal ones, just to keep their interest. If they happen to get in range of a HIMARS, it would be game over, no decoy required.
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Why is Russia using surface-to-air missiles to hit ground targets?
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Why is Russia using surface-to-air missiles to hit ground targets?
13,625 views Jul 27, 2022 Could Russia's use of S-300V weapons to hit ground targets in Ukraine be a sign of desperation? We spoke to Dr Sidharth Kaushai, from the defence and security think tank in RUSI, who said it is reported Russia has fitted S-300V ground-to-air missiles with GPS guidance kits to enable them to hit ground targets.
Roger A. Shrubber
Well-Known Member
https://www.statista.com/statistics/232302/number-of-dwellings-in-england/
https://www.statista.com/statistics/767493/number-housing-france/
https://www.bbsr.bund.de/BBSR/EN/publications/AnalysenKompakt/Issues/ak-08-2021-dl.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=2
around 100 million separate homes in just those three countries...
https://www.statista.com/statistics/739745/heat-pumps-in-operation-eu/
it took them over 7 years to implement a 15% increase.
there are about 200 million separate dwellings in the E.U.
if a 15% increase took 15 years, a 50% increase should take about 50 years or so...
account for added government incentives, and you might take as much as five to seven years off of that.
around 180 million heat pumps are produced annually, worldwide...of course, the rest of the world will need supplied out of that too, so it would only take...4 or 5 years to get enough units...of course, every 5 years or so they will update equipment, make improvements, change regulations, so there's no point in buying more at one time than can be installed in one year....
then there is the retrofitting...not an easy task in a modern home, it's actually impossible in most homes built before 1900, you cannot install the correct type of insulation, and there is no space for the heating ducts...if the home is suitable for retrofitting, and you have all your materials on hand, it's still a week to ten day procces to get everything in place and working properly. that means a skilled crew with materials on hand can do 3 or 4 houses a month. how many crews are there doing this, and what are their levels of skill? i'm guessing that on average, they will be able to retrofit two or three houses a month per crew...
i'm not trying to jump on the bash D.I.Y. train, but you have to start thinking about the associated logistics to these "solutions"...you can't just get everyone in the EU that can actually use one, equipped with heat pumps in less than 15 years, and that's a conservative estimate
BudmanTX
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IMO i really don't see UA on the energy stage for a while....even if this war stops and UA gets there country back. I honestly don't see them in the energy game in another 10 to 15yrs conservatively...plus they still got to weed out RA supporters who will try to get back into RA good graces( this will be the problem as i see it). So for the time being the EU still has some work to do to get independent from RA grip on NG.....time will tell in the long run......
DIY-HP-LED
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Production rates of heat pumps can increase to meet demand and government initiatives can do a lot to stimulate this. Just converting to renewables won't do the job and reducing demand is the most logical solution for now and into the future. If there is a market in a capitalist society, the capacity to meet it will rapidly evolve and that includes contractor businesses that retrofit homes for increased energy efficiency.
We await the results of new geothermal drilling technology that could be a game changer, I posted on this development awhile back. It could solve much of Europe's and everybody else's green energy issues at a stroke by converting existing coal and gas plants to geothermal. It is due for testing soon and if they can overcome the hurdles and develop the technology, investments in solar, wind and even fusion power might not seem so wise!
I posted this before and it is worth keeping an eye on IMHO, this guy covers technology subjects quite well and the people involved are very serious scientists who can get a lot of financing.
DIY-HP-LED
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Anyway you cut it, Europe will have a cold winter and even a dark winter, if Vlad cuts off their gas and they need to prepare and diversify sources, while cutting consumption through increased efficiency. Short term it could include wood stoves for some people and long term a green new grid with EV's and heat pumps, NG would be conserved for power generation, if in short supply. As for Ukrainian oil and gas, that depends on the destruction of Russian military power, once that happens, there's money to be made and demand to be met.
DIY-HP-LED
Well-Known Member
The announcer said there are now 14,000 starlink terminals in Ukraine and each one can be a wireless connection point for multiple cellphones and computers.
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Starlink Internet in Ukraine warfare – to adjust strikes, control drones and plan combat actions
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DIY-HP-LED
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Tank wrecks and dead Russian soldiers - offensive in the south | Military Mind – TVP World
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printer
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Russia Requiring Regions Muster New Battalions for Ukraine War
The Russian army is seeking new recruits to replace battle losses from its invasion of Ukraine and are using mobile phones to contact potential soldiers while also requiring each region in Russia to muster and train one volunteer battalion.
The requirement of assembling the battalions comes from a report by Defense Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine as well as Russian media.
Newsweek reported that the Russian language Telegram social media account Mozhem Obyasnit, or "We Can Explain," said that young men are being contacted via their phone since postal requests were being ignored.
Russia has 85 regions, including the annexed Crimea. Sizes of battalions vary but usually don’t exceed 1,000 men.
A lower estimate of 400 soldiers per battalion would provide an additional 34,000 for the war, which should be near the reported estimate of 36,000 soldiers Russia reportedly has lost since the invasion began Feb. 24.
Ukrainian Intelligence also has reported that some metropolitan regions are unlikely to muster volunteers from the local population. Instead, it believes recruits will either come from poorer regions or central Asian countries like Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan that Russia exerts influence over.
As an incentive, Moscow recruiters will offer an easier path to citizenship for the citizens of the three countries.
The U.S. think tank the Institute for the Study of War reports that the new recruits are under 50 and are being asked to sign a six-month contract that would pay anywhere from $3,750 to $6,000 depending on experience.
In the long term, Russia intends to expand access to military training, especially for children.
Ukrainian Intelligence reports that in the city of Belgorod and the surrounding regions, Russia has begun 500 cadet courses as well as a 1,000 junior army classes. The junior army classes accept eight-year-old children, while the cadet classes are accepting teenagers.
The graduates of the military training are being encouraged to sign contracts with the Russian military as early as possible.
The new approaches suggest Russia's wariness to declare a full-scale mobilization, which could cause civic unrest. However, some military experts believe that a full-scale conscription is still possible.
The deputy director of the non-governmental Ukrainian Center for Army Conversion and Disarmament Studies, Mykhailo Samus, thinks that Russia most likely will conduct a mobilization in late August and early September under the guise of military training.
"These 'military training' exercises are conducted in Russia every year," Samus said. "I'm certain that this year they will conduct a mobilization in secret during the annual training."
The training is scheduled for Aug. 30-Sept. 5.
The Russian army is seeking new recruits to replace battle losses from its invasion of Ukraine and are using mobile phones to contact potential soldiers while also requiring each region in Russia to muster and train one volunteer battalion.
The requirement of assembling the battalions comes from a report by Defense Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine as well as Russian media.
Newsweek reported that the Russian language Telegram social media account Mozhem Obyasnit, or "We Can Explain," said that young men are being contacted via their phone since postal requests were being ignored.
Russia has 85 regions, including the annexed Crimea. Sizes of battalions vary but usually don’t exceed 1,000 men.
A lower estimate of 400 soldiers per battalion would provide an additional 34,000 for the war, which should be near the reported estimate of 36,000 soldiers Russia reportedly has lost since the invasion began Feb. 24.
Ukrainian Intelligence also has reported that some metropolitan regions are unlikely to muster volunteers from the local population. Instead, it believes recruits will either come from poorer regions or central Asian countries like Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan that Russia exerts influence over.
As an incentive, Moscow recruiters will offer an easier path to citizenship for the citizens of the three countries.
The U.S. think tank the Institute for the Study of War reports that the new recruits are under 50 and are being asked to sign a six-month contract that would pay anywhere from $3,750 to $6,000 depending on experience.
In the long term, Russia intends to expand access to military training, especially for children.
Ukrainian Intelligence reports that in the city of Belgorod and the surrounding regions, Russia has begun 500 cadet courses as well as a 1,000 junior army classes. The junior army classes accept eight-year-old children, while the cadet classes are accepting teenagers.
The graduates of the military training are being encouraged to sign contracts with the Russian military as early as possible.
The new approaches suggest Russia's wariness to declare a full-scale mobilization, which could cause civic unrest. However, some military experts believe that a full-scale conscription is still possible.
The deputy director of the non-governmental Ukrainian Center for Army Conversion and Disarmament Studies, Mykhailo Samus, thinks that Russia most likely will conduct a mobilization in late August and early September under the guise of military training.
"These 'military training' exercises are conducted in Russia every year," Samus said. "I'm certain that this year they will conduct a mobilization in secret during the annual training."
The training is scheduled for Aug. 30-Sept. 5.