A leak of an interdepartmental memo would not use such casual language and cussing.Its a leak. It could have been written for other people in the business, or leaked by a different person than the author or the intended recipient.
A leak of an interdepartmental memo would not use such casual language and cussing.Its a leak. It could have been written for other people in the business, or leaked by a different person than the author or the intended recipient.
Biodiesel and biogas is the future.Depending on where it is built, yes. In most of Europe, for example, the total environmental cost of manufacturing, shipping, and installing those solar panels exceeds the expected carbon reduction from their lifespan compared to fossil fuels (although I'm not positive about coal specifically, I know NatGas is cleaner total life cycle than most EU solar).
When you factor in all of the ancillary costs, the situation gets even more pro fossil fuel.
I mean electric cars? They are, net, dirtier than modern internal combustion cars. That one is somewhat a side effect of the fact that auto ICE's are incredibly clean and efficient while most grid electric generation is actually less environmentally friendly.
Solar and Wind are also strongly environment dependent, which means you need an alternative energy source so that the grid has consistent, reliable, power. Storing electricity directly at scale is horrifically inefficient. But what this means is that in addition to the environmental cost of the solar panels you also need to include the environmental cost of all the additional ancillary infrastructure needed to make it a viable power source.
In some places Solar and Wind make a great deal of sense (Texas for example, likely to be the first state to really go green for its power generation), in other places (most of Europe for example) Solar & Wind are farcical and it would be better for the environment to just burn the trillions in cash spent trying to make Europe green.
EDIT: And we always forget geothermal, which is kinda sad because that really is an area that should see a ton more investment. Consistent, reliable, safe, clean, power. Of course, the viable geographies are relatively limited. And no one wants to pour tons of money into trying to make geo more cost effective/more broadly viable for some inane reason that I've never figured out beyond "it's not as sexy".
Its Russia. Its silovki. Casual cussing is... not out of question.A leak of an interdepartmental memo would not use such casual language and cussing.
Dude, it really, really doesn't look authentic. Did you ever work in a corporation, or served in the military or any other large organization where emails are passed? Memos never look anything like whatever this thing is supposed to be.Its Russia. Its silovki. Casual cussing is... not out of question.
Its not a memo that was leaked, not sure where you got the idea that it was.Dude, it really, really doesn't look authentic. Did you ever work in a corporation, or served in the military or any other large organization where emails are passed? Memos never look anything like whatever this thing is supposed to be.
Edit: don't get me wrong, the conclusions might well be spot on, but it's definitely not an authentic document.
For western ones, absolutely. For eastern...Dude, it really, really doesn't look authentic. Did you ever work in a corporation, or served in the military or any other large organization where emails are passed? Memos never look anything like whatever this thing is supposed to be.
Edit: don't get me wrong, the conclusions might well be spot on, but it's definitely not an authentic document.
Christo Grozev, who works for the Netherlands-based investigative journalism group Bellingcat, tweeted that he showed the letter to two FSB contacts, one current and one former employee.
They had no doubt that the author was a colleague, he said.
Yet Rebekah Koffler, a former Defense Intelligence Agency officer and author of 'Putin's Playbook: Russia's Secret Plan to Defeat America', told Fox News she was suspicious of its authenticity.
If that was all there was to it, he would have invaded immediately after the failed withdraw from Afghanistan. A lot of things are going on behind the scenes we're not aware of, and I suspect the Biden administration had a hand in somehow provoking Putin into acting now, instead of waiting a few more years.
Bellingcat does some pretty great work, but their participants are all staunchly anti-Putin. You can trust their actual reports, but what they post on their personal twitter accounts should be approached a bit more skeptically. These people all want Putin to fail.For western ones, absolutely. For eastern...
'FSB whistleblower': Russia's invasion going horribly wrong
A long letter supposedly written by a FSB whistleblower has been shared online, claiming that Russia cannot win the war. It comes as two senior Russian military leaders are killed.www.dailymail.co.uk
Modern technology doesn't really work without access to some special materials, some of which are found only in specific places in the world. Maybe Russia can survive a complete and total embargo, but not as anything close to a modern, powerful, technological nation. It will become something much closer to the worst of the shittiest African countries.Honestly sounds like wishful thinking. Isn't Rússia mostly self sufficient in food? And with these embargoes they have a bunch of oil and derivates backed up so they won't run out of Gas anytime soom.
Modern technology doesn't really work without access to some special materials, some of which are found only in specific places in the world. Maybe Russia can survive a complete and total embargo, but not as anything close to a modern, powerful, technological nation. It will become something much closer to the worst of the shittiest African countries.
I think it is time to ramp up this technology.
We have the technology time to go whole hog on Gas from Coal.
The Vocal Minority want to be Green. If everybody did. SUV sales would not have been so high as it is.Coal liquefaction has been a thing since the 1920's, But if everyone wants to be "green" we should just build nuclear power plants maybe of the molten salt variety and then just build the infrastructure for hydrogen.
Biodiesel and biogas is the future.
I think it is time to ramp up this technology.
We have the technology time to go whole hog on Gas from Coal.
Both solutions can be supplemental, but I think the biggest portion of the solution should be nuclear technology. Not that it is politically feasible.
If the problem gets solved, you can't start charities to rip off or get awarded nobel peace prizes for bringing attention to the problem.Ironically its the "green energy" lobby that fights hardest against nuclear now, Probably because they know their shit is snake oil and nuclear is an actual solution.
Yeah, but they had Zelenski and Poroshenko, instead.Yeah, I thought all that stuff about 'denazifying' Ukraine (via total regime change) came after Putin's declaration of war. If the Russians get most or all of the priorities they were after before formally popping off the fireworks anyway - well, this entire war seems like the sort of situation that could've been averted a couple weeks and a couple thousand lost lives ago with capable and realistic leadership.
Yeah, but they had Zelenski and Poroshenko, instead.
Reminder, we are talking about a real, literal TV clown:
Yeah, but they had Zelenski and Poroshenko, instead.
Reminder, we are talking about a real, literal TV clown: