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Germany moves closer to rationing gas as Russia cuts supply.
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richwicks
2023 Feb 10, 9:47pm
richwicks
2023 Feb 10, 9:47pm
Eric Holder says
For fucks sake, the USSR dissolved on December 26, 1991. Russia today is more capitalist than the United States is.
So their got their Nordstream pipeline blown up, they are selling to India and China. It's centralized planning of the United States and NATO that is fucking over Europe now.
Tired of this stupidity. The USSR had been dead for over 30 FUCKING years, and it's just stupid to pretend the USSR still exists. Even CHINA is more capitalist than the US is now. Where the fuck is the US' manufacturing? Oh, we have to be "green", we employ slave labor to manufacture shit, then ship it across the Pacific ocean, then distribute it throughout the country, because somehow this is environmentally a good thing. It's "green"....
You aren't this stupid, and stop thinking the public is this stupid. We're not. We can see what is going on.
The correlation between Commies getting their paws on some dough and them getting froggy has been clearly and repeatedly confirmed:
For fucks sake, the USSR dissolved on December 26, 1991. Russia today is more capitalist than the United States is.
So their got their Nordstream pipeline blown up, they are selling to India and China. It's centralized planning of the United States and NATO that is fucking over Europe now.
Tired of this stupidity. The USSR had been dead for over 30 FUCKING years, and it's just stupid to pretend the USSR still exists. Even CHINA is more capitalist than the US is now. Where the fuck is the US' manufacturing? Oh, we have to be "green", we employ slave labor to manufacture shit, then ship it across the Pacific ocean, then distribute it throughout the country, because somehow this is environmentally a good thing. It's "green"....
You aren't this stupid, and stop thinking the public is this stupid. We're not. We can see what is going on.
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RWSGFY
2023 Feb 17, 6:16pm
RWSGFY
2023 Feb 17, 6:16pm
NuttBoxer says
What for? Pukin stopped supplying natgas to Europe long before the explosions. Or did you men for exporting vodka? (Bears and cheap whores can't be shipped via pipes).
And there is no proof for your last statement.
If only they still had that pipeline. Too bad US blew it up!
What for? Pukin stopped supplying natgas to Europe long before the explosions. Or did you men for exporting vodka? (Bears and cheap whores can't be shipped via pipes).
And there is no proof for your last statement.
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RWSGFY
2023 Feb 17, 6:21pm
Pukin should've learned from his idol - Joseph Stalin - who said "nobody is irrepleacable".
Turns out nobody really needs CCCP for anything and the whole gamble of "we can do whatever we want because everybody is our energy bitches" had failed miserably.
RWSGFY
2023 Feb 17, 6:21pm
Thanks to a warm winter and support from new suppliers, European natural gas prices have dropped below 50 euros per megawatt hour and hit the lowest level in 18 months.
On Friday, the benchmark TTF contract fell 5% to a low of 49 euros...
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.... prices have plunged 85% from highs reached last summer, when Russia President Vladimir Putin sought to weaponize energy by cutting off gas supplies to Europe, which had imposed sanctions on Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine.
At the current level, natural gas prices are equivalent to $85 per barrel, nearly on par with Brent crude oil at around $83.
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Europe's gas storage is at 65% of capacity with winter now more than halfway over.
Meanwhile, Europe also found alternate supplies, including from the US and Middle East. In November, Germany signed a 15-year contract with Qatar, a major liquefied natural gas exporter.
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Prices are now low enough that Europe may go back to using gas for power generation, after turning to cheaper coal last year.
Russia has signaled hopes to redirect gas sales to China as state-owned energy giant Gazprom reportedly lost $3 billion in overseas revenue last month compared to a year ago.
But others are also vying to supply China. Qatar signed a 27-year contract it has signed with China to supply 4 million tons of gas per year.
Pukin should've learned from his idol - Joseph Stalin - who said "nobody is irrepleacable".
Turns out nobody really needs CCCP for anything and the whole gamble of "we can do whatever we want because everybody is our energy bitches" had failed miserably.
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Eric Holder
2023 Mar 7, 4:38pm
Eric Holder
2023 Mar 7, 4:38pm
LOL, I fucking told you so - it's the fucking CCCP who blew up the pipelines. They had the motive ("freeze Europe"), the means (in-pipe "pigs") and absebse of effort to repair was the final piece of the puzzle. And now it's confirmed - they are not going to repair it. Open and shut.
MOSCOW/FRANKFURT, March 3 (Reuters) - Russia's ruptured undersea Nord Stream gas pipelines are set to be sealed up and mothballed as there are no immediate plans to repair or reactivate them, sources familiar with the plans have told Reuters.
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AmericanKulak
2023 Mar 7, 8:50pm
AmericanKulak
2023 Mar 7, 8:50pm
Apparently Chancellor Scholz arrived last week in DC and there was almost no US domestic coverage.
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Reality
2023 Mar 7, 9:14pm
Not sure what the pro-war propagandists' obsession with the "CCCP" is about. "CCCP" was just a group of previous generation bankster agents: Lenin was shipped from Switzerland to Russia and Trotsky was shipped from NYC to Russia. Trotsky had no visible employment when in NYC but lived a lavish life, presumably financed by banksters, just like Karl Marx was. Putin was also a bankster agent: he was an alum of WEF "Young Global Leaders School," and his mistress and kids are living in Switzerland. Merkle, Sholtz, Macron, Trudeau, Blinken and Butgieg all went to the same Young Global Leaders School sponsored by WEF.
The war is just an excuse to disrupt gas supplies to Europe, and cut off electricity and fresh water supply to people living in Ukraine (and wherever the war spreads to after pissing off and training up more Russian soldiers to expand the war in response to whatever the alums of "Young Global Leaders School" in Europe and the US can throw at Russians). Russians are fairly poor after many years of sanctions; the oligarchs' money in western banks is already seized. Now prolonging and expanding the war is just to kill the population in Ukraine, Baltics, Poland and Romania . . . all countries that have worked hard the last 30+ years turning cheap labor into exports in exchange for money, running up a surplus that has been deposited into globalist banks; all those countries' demographics have turned into negative growth in recent years, so the globalist banking cabal is trying to kill them so as to prevent a net withdrawal . . . just like the globalist banking cabal hired Lenin and Trotsky more than a century ago to foment communist revolution and civil war in Russia to kill Russians (and fomenting WWI before that to kill Europeans). Being an agent of the banksters often means a bloody monster harvesting the general population but also eventually getting harvested by the banking cabal, like an ice-pick to the head for Trotsky, hanging noose for Saddam and sodomized by a knife like Qaddafy, so their money in the bank too can be recycled by the banking cabal.
The war is just an excuse to disrupt gas supplies to Europe, and cut off electricity and fresh water supply to people living in Ukraine (and wherever the war spreads to after pissing off and training up more Russian soldiers to expand the war in response to whatever the alums of "Young Global Leaders School" in Europe and the US can throw at Russians). Russians are fairly poor after many years of sanctions; the oligarchs' money in western banks is already seized. Now prolonging and expanding the war is just to kill the population in Ukraine, Baltics, Poland and Romania . . . all countries that have worked hard the last 30+ years turning cheap labor into exports in exchange for money, running up a surplus that has been deposited into globalist banks; all those countries' demographics have turned into negative growth in recent years, so the globalist banking cabal is trying to kill them so as to prevent a net withdrawal . . . just like the globalist banking cabal hired Lenin and Trotsky more than a century ago to foment communist revolution and civil war in Russia to kill Russians (and fomenting WWI before that to kill Europeans). Being an agent of the banksters often means a bloody monster harvesting the general population but also eventually getting harvested by the banking cabal, like an ice-pick to the head for Trotsky, hanging noose for Saddam and sodomized by a knife like Qaddafy, so their money in the bank too can be recycled by the banking cabal.
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Patrick
2023 Mar 11, 11:56pm
Patrick
2023 Mar 11, 11:56pm
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/everything-all-at-once/
Meanwhile, our Intel Community has discovered that it was… well might have been… Ukraine, after all, who blew up the Nord Stream pipelines — with help from some outside parties (namely, America’s Intel Community).
But waitagoshdarnminnit! How does that get anybody off-the-hook for the costly caper? NATO supposedly backs Ukraine, right? And Germany is the European leader of NATO, right? So you’re telling me Ukraine blew up a systemically-important asset of a leading country that supports Ukraine? Something doesn’t add up in that-there rebus puzzle. I’ll spare you the mental labor. The US Spook Industrial Complex is just laying another trip on you. And the “you” includes poor bamboozled Germany, led by arguably the biggest sap ever elected by a supposedly advanced nation, Olaf Scholz, whose name will evermore ring through history as a synonym for “chump.”
Sooner or later, one or both of the following must happen: the German people will dump this chump and / or his replacement will find a way to bow out of Germany’s commitment to America’s foolish proxy war against Russia, leading post-haste to the disintegration of NATO, and leaving America’s army of vaccine-injured transsexuals to reconquer the Donbas and Crimea, led by Tony Blinken in an off-the-shoulder cocktail dress.
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AmericanKulak
2023 Mar 11, 11:59pm
AmericanKulak
2023 Mar 11, 11:59pm
Reality says
We know who did this, it was the Kaiser's High Command frustrated that the Liberal Interim government wasn't ending the Eastern Front War fast enough. The participants wrote books and bragged about it.
Lenin was shipped from Switzerland to Russia
We know who did this, it was the Kaiser's High Command frustrated that the Liberal Interim government wasn't ending the Eastern Front War fast enough. The participants wrote books and bragged about it.
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richwicks
2023 Mar 12, 12:07am
richwicks
2023 Mar 12, 12:07am
RWSGFY says
No they didn't.
This a complete lie.
If they had done this, what would be the purpose of blowing up the pipeline? You don't even have to do research on this, you don't have to verify the energy exports of Russia to the EU for this, you just have to think.
If there were no exports going to Europe at the time, we wouldn't be getting pictures of bubbles of natural gas in the ocean even.
Don't be dishonest.
What for? Pukin stopped supplying natgas to Europe long before the explosions.
No they didn't.
This a complete lie.
If they had done this, what would be the purpose of blowing up the pipeline? You don't even have to do research on this, you don't have to verify the energy exports of Russia to the EU for this, you just have to think.
If there were no exports going to Europe at the time, we wouldn't be getting pictures of bubbles of natural gas in the ocean even.
Don't be dishonest.
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richwicks
2023 Mar 12, 12:09am
richwicks
2023 Mar 12, 12:09am
RWSGFY says
Look, subsidizing resources using tax money to create an illusion of plenty, is what the USSR did. Now the EU is doing it. It will just create shortages in the long term. Centralized control in economics is always a disaster.
Pukin should've learned from his idol - Joseph Stalin - who said "nobody is irrepleacable".
Turns out nobody really needs CCCP for anything and the whole gamble of "we can do whatever we want because everybody is our energy bitches" had failed miserably.
Look, subsidizing resources using tax money to create an illusion of plenty, is what the USSR did. Now the EU is doing it. It will just create shortages in the long term. Centralized control in economics is always a disaster.
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richwicks
2023 Mar 12, 12:10am
richwicks
2023 Mar 12, 12:10am
Eric Holder says
OR, they could have just turned off the tap at the source, and used that as blackmail.
Too bad the leaders of Russia are so fucking stupid, and didn't realize they could do that, rather than make it impossible for them to use leverage.
LOL, I fucking told you so - it's the fucking CCCP who blew up the pipelines. They had the motive ("freeze Europe"), the means (in-pipe "pigs") and absebse of effort to repair was the final piece of the puzzle. And now it's confirmed - they are not going to repair it. Open and shut.
OR, they could have just turned off the tap at the source, and used that as blackmail.
Too bad the leaders of Russia are so fucking stupid, and didn't realize they could do that, rather than make it impossible for them to use leverage.
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richwicks
2023 Mar 12, 12:13am
richwicks
2023 Mar 12, 12:13am
Patrick says
NOOOOOooo.
The US did it, or the British did it with US compliance, it doesn't matter.
They are just coming up with a better story, because their first story was so fucking stupid and nobody with even the most basic common sense believes it.
They should have ALWAYS said it was Ukraine, after all, they are in a war, and they want to starve Russia of monetary resources (although they are already under sanctions anyhow, and they can't technically buy anything from Europe anyhow) - however it would have been more believable, and justifiable than the US engaging in terrorism against both Russia and the EU.
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/everything-all-at-once/
Meanwhile, our Intel Community has discovered that it was… well might have been… Ukraine, after all, who blew up the Nord Stream pipelines — with help from some outside parties (namely, America’s Intel Community).
But waitagoshdarnminnit! How does that get anybody off-the-hook for the costly caper? NATO supposedly backs Ukraine, right? And Germany is the European leader of NATO, right? So you’re telling me Ukraine blew up a systemically-important asset of a leading country that supports Ukraine? Something doesn’t add up in that-there rebus puzzle. I’ll spare you the mental labor. The US Spook Industrial Complex is just laying another trip on you. And the “you” includes poor bamboozled Germany, led by arguably the biggest sap ever elected by a supposedly advanced nati...
NOOOOOooo.
The US did it, or the British did it with US compliance, it doesn't matter.
They are just coming up with a better story, because their first story was so fucking stupid and nobody with even the most basic common sense believes it.
They should have ALWAYS said it was Ukraine, after all, they are in a war, and they want to starve Russia of monetary resources (although they are already under sanctions anyhow, and they can't technically buy anything from Europe anyhow) - however it would have been more believable, and justifiable than the US engaging in terrorism against both Russia and the EU.
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AD
2023 Mar 12, 12:17am
AD
2023 Mar 12, 12:17am
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does not seem like there is a crisis as far as LNG export price ... and now that spring is near, there is not as much concern about eastern and northern Europeans not having electricity or freezing due to natural gas scarcity
also look at Ycharts for price of propane and natural gas...seems like there is more glut than shortages
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does not seem like there is a crisis as far as LNG export price ... and now that spring is near, there is not as much concern about eastern and northern Europeans not having electricity or freezing due to natural gas scarcity
also look at Ycharts for price of propane and natural gas...seems like there is more glut than shortages
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Eric Holder
2023 Mar 29, 12:49pm
Eric Holder
2023 Mar 29, 12:49pm
HAS THE BODYCOUNT BEEN RELEASED YET? ARE THEY TRYING TO HIDE THE TRUTH? OF COURSE THEY ARE, MOTHERFUCKING MOTHERFUCKERS THEY!!!
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Eric Holder
2023 May 17, 4:01pm
Eric Holder
2023 May 17, 4:01pm
Gas prices in Europe is 1/10th of its peak when Pukin banned Soviet gas exports:
The cretin truly knows nothing, not even his idol's famous saying: "nobody is irreplaceable".
The cretin truly knows nothing, not even his idol's famous saying: "nobody is irreplaceable".
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mell
2023 May 17, 4:14pm
Energy prices in many European countries are still through the roof, but that's mostly due to their "green" politics. Obviously gas prices come down in the summer, it's hot now in most of Europe. Also many have restarted old nuclear reactors or built and started new ones (such as Finland) to not rely on natural gas. This graph is similar seasonally each year, but many couldn't afford it when it spiked unusually high in the fall/winter. Body count was always exaggerated, but many harmed their health by using firewood and burning other shit.
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EBGuy
2023 May 17, 4:42pm
Wonder how much the Chinese are paying these days? Europe moving closer (though still double) historic range...
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Eric Holder
2023 May 17, 5:14pm
Eric Holder
2023 May 17, 5:14pm
mell says
EBGuy has posted much wider version of that graph and it's not similar at all. The "war criminal cretin spike" is clear but now it's gone.
This graph is similar seasonally each year
EBGuy has posted much wider version of that graph and it's not similar at all. The "war criminal cretin spike" is clear but now it's gone.
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mell
2023 May 17, 5:35pm
Eric Holder says
The seasonal adjustments are similar. You expected it to stay high even after demand fades in the summer?
mell says
This graph is similar seasonally each year
EBGuy has posted much wider version of that graph and it's not similar at all. The "war criminal cretin spike" is clear but now it's gone.
The seasonal adjustments are similar. You expected it to stay high even after demand fades in the summer?
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HeadSet
2023 Sep 24, 2:39pm
HeadSet
2023 Sep 24, 2:39pm
I wonder if Germany would be criticized if they repaired the Nordstream pipe.
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richwicks
2023 Sep 24, 6:38pm
richwicks
2023 Sep 24, 6:38pm
HeadSet says
The United States would just blow it up again.
Germany ought to bomb Washington DC and Langley Virginia. They'd be criticized, of course, but they have every right to do it. Bombing the Nordstream was an act of war by the United States, and it was done by our intelligence agencies.
I wonder if Germany would be criticized if they repaired the Nordstream pipe.
The United States would just blow it up again.
Germany ought to bomb Washington DC and Langley Virginia. They'd be criticized, of course, but they have every right to do it. Bombing the Nordstream was an act of war by the United States, and it was done by our intelligence agencies.
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AD
2023 Sep 24, 10:48pm
AD
2023 Sep 24, 10:48pm
richwicks says
I loved thinking about those smug German officials who smirked at Trump when he was stating how dependent they are on Russian natural gas and how the are not spending their fair share of NATO military costs.
And I wish I could see the same German officials when Anthony Blinken wryly stated the Nordstream pipeline accident created a great opportunity for America to sell LNG to Germany.
The United States would just blow it up again.
I loved thinking about those smug German officials who smirked at Trump when he was stating how dependent they are on Russian natural gas and how the are not spending their fair share of NATO military costs.
And I wish I could see the same German officials when Anthony Blinken wryly stated the Nordstream pipeline accident created a great opportunity for America to sell LNG to Germany.
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richwicks
2023 Sep 25, 8:11pm
richwicks
2023 Sep 25, 8:11pm
ad says
Well, they were too stupid to realize that the United States is their enemy. They were too dumb to realize that the US is run by a mafia.
I loved thinking about those smug German officials who smirked at Trump when he was stating how dependent they are on Russian natural gas and how the are not spending their fair share of NATO military costs.
Well, they were too stupid to realize that the United States is their enemy. They were too dumb to realize that the US is run by a mafia.
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AD
2023 Sep 25, 9:39pm
AD
2023 Sep 25, 9:39pm
richwicks says
Well they can't say anything now because there is a Democrat in the White House. They cannot complain nor try to work around the Russian sanctions.
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Well, they were too stupid to realize that the United States is their enemy. They were too dumb to realize that the US is run by a mafia.
Well they can't say anything now because there is a Democrat in the White House. They cannot complain nor try to work around the Russian sanctions.
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AmericanKulak
2023 Sep 26, 1:00am
AmericanKulak
2023 Sep 26, 1:00am
richwicks says
Oh, they know pretty good how to run the EU Regs to keep out US Imports. The FRG did so starting in the 50s, long before we were irradiating food. They have a new excuse everytime a rare decision goes our way.
They're really great and letting the US pay for it's defense while their handful of soldiers, a shadow of just the FRG side of the Cold War military, train with cardboard cutouts. Pocketing the difference to make themselves more competitive. And backseat driving US policy and playing the "We're more reasonable game"
Demanding for two decades that Poland and Hungary shut down coal plants and coal mines while importing Russian gas with the fig leaf of handouts for rich landowners with useless wind leases. Grossly blasting through EU budgetary caps during the 90s reunification, but demanding it be strictly held during the Financial Crisis by other Euro states.
Strangling Greece for the 2nd time in a century.
The CDU is the top NWO party of Germany. Love how Merkel went from being a major executive in Communist organs one day, and two weeks after the Berlin Wall fell remade herself as center-right. Though her pastor father was a Hard Left Mainline.
We need a better relationship with Russia and an Anglo Alliance, and fence in China and Europe.
Well, they were too stupid to realize that the United States is their enemy. They were too dumb to realize that the US is run by a mafia.
Oh, they know pretty good how to run the EU Regs to keep out US Imports. The FRG did so starting in the 50s, long before we were irradiating food. They have a new excuse everytime a rare decision goes our way.
They're really great and letting the US pay for it's defense while their handful of soldiers, a shadow of just the FRG side of the Cold War military, train with cardboard cutouts. Pocketing the difference to make themselves more competitive. And backseat driving US policy and playing the "We're more reasonable game"
Demanding for two decades that Poland and Hungary shut down coal plants and coal mines while importing Russian gas with the fig leaf of handouts for rich landowners with useless wind leases. Grossly blasting through EU budgetary caps during the 90s reunification, but demanding it be strictly held during the Financial Crisis by other Euro states.
Strangling Greece for the 2nd time in a century.
The CDU is the top NWO party of Germany. Love how Merkel went from being a major executive in Communist organs one day, and two weeks after the Berlin Wall fell remade herself as center-right. Though her pastor father was a Hard Left Mainline.
We need a better relationship with Russia and an Anglo Alliance, and fence in China and Europe.
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richwicks
2023 Oct 21, 11:00pm
richwicks
2023 Oct 21, 11:00pm
AmericanKulak says
IF the US finally got some people that were working on behalf of this nation, they would forge a good relationship with Russia and Germany, and start working with the old Eastern Bloc nations to be developed and getting rid of the corruption there. The US would do the same in the US. Europe we can ignore, we should work to develop South America as well.
We could be a tremendous nation and society, but we have psychopaths in charge.
We need a better relationship with Russia and an Anglo Alliance, and fence in China and Europe.
IF the US finally got some people that were working on behalf of this nation, they would forge a good relationship with Russia and Germany, and start working with the old Eastern Bloc nations to be developed and getting rid of the corruption there. The US would do the same in the US. Europe we can ignore, we should work to develop South America as well.
We could be a tremendous nation and society, but we have psychopaths in charge.
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AD
2023 Nov 19, 3:03pm
AD
2023 Nov 19, 3:03pm
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According to this article, Portugal generated electricity with only solar, wind and hydropower for one week in late October:
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy/portugal-just-ran-on-100-renewables-for-six-days-in-a-row
This works great when you don't have to run air conditioners or need a natural gas furnace to provide the BTU's to keep your home warm such as in northern Germany.
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According to this article, Portugal generated electricity with only solar, wind and hydropower for one week in late October:
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy/portugal-just-ran-on-100-renewables-for-six-days-in-a-row
This works great when you don't have to run air conditioners or need a natural gas furnace to provide the BTU's to keep your home warm such as in northern Germany.
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DemocratsAreTotallyFucked
2023 Nov 19, 3:55pm
DemocratsAreTotallyFucked
2023 Nov 19, 3:55pm
ad says
Europeans (California too) engage in all kinds of accounting chicanery when it comes to these types of numbers, fyi.
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According to this article, Portugal generated electricity with only solar, wind and hydropower for one week in late October:
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy/portugal-just-ran-on-100-renewables-for-six-days-in-a-row
This works great when you don't have to run air conditioners or need a natural gas furnace to provide the BTU's to keep your home warm such as in northern Germany.
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Europeans (California too) engage in all kinds of accounting chicanery when it comes to these types of numbers, fyi.
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The_Deplorable
2023 Nov 19, 5:33pm
ad says
This is not true - this is a lie because you cannot run the electrical grid on solar and wind - the grid needs a very steady voltage - something the solar and wind cannot provide.
Therefore solar and wind need to have backup turbines equal in power to the installed wattage of these so-called renewables.
Question: Who provides these backup gas turbines that make wind and solar viable?
Answer: The taxpayers and consumers.
That is why solar and wind is the most expensive electricity on the planet.
"According to this article, Portugal generated electricity with only solar, wind and hydropower for one week in late October:
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy/portugal-just-ran-on-100-renewables-for-six-days-in-a-row "
This is not true - this is a lie because you cannot run the electrical grid on solar and wind - the grid needs a very steady voltage - something the solar and wind cannot provide.
Therefore solar and wind need to have backup turbines equal in power to the installed wattage of these so-called renewables.
Question: Who provides these backup gas turbines that make wind and solar viable?
Answer: The taxpayers and consumers.
That is why solar and wind is the most expensive electricity on the planet.
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HeadSet
2023 Nov 19, 7:24pm
HeadSet
2023 Nov 19, 7:24pm
The_Deplorable says
But the hydro can. I suspect it was really hydro carrying the main load with some inputs from wind and solar.
This is not true - this is a lie because you cannot run the electrical grid on solar and wind - the grid needs a very steady voltage - something the solar and wind cannot provide.
But the hydro can. I suspect it was really hydro carrying the main load with some inputs from wind and solar.
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The_Deplorable
2023 Nov 19, 8:39pm
HeadSet says
According to the link... "The gas plants were there, waiting to dispatch energy, should it be needed. It was not, because the wind was blowing... And we were producing with a positive impact to the consumers because the prices have dropped dramatically, almost to zero." [1]
Again, this is a lie because the grid needs a very steady voltage - something the solar plants and wind plants cannot provide.
Note that the consumers pay for the installation cost of the backup gas turbines - $1 million per mw - they pay for the operation and maintenance of these backup turbines and they pay subsidies to the frauds who installed the wind and solar plants. And to add insult to injury, we are told by the frauds that the most expensive electricity on the planet is free.
[1] https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy/portugal-just-ran-on-100-renewables-for-six-days-in-a-row
"...I suspect it was really hydro carrying the main load with some inputs from wind and solar."
According to the link... "The gas plants were there, waiting to dispatch energy, should it be needed. It was not, because the wind was blowing... And we were producing with a positive impact to the consumers because the prices have dropped dramatically, almost to zero." [1]
Again, this is a lie because the grid needs a very steady voltage - something the solar plants and wind plants cannot provide.
Note that the consumers pay for the installation cost of the backup gas turbines - $1 million per mw - they pay for the operation and maintenance of these backup turbines and they pay subsidies to the frauds who installed the wind and solar plants. And to add insult to injury, we are told by the frauds that the most expensive electricity on the planet is free.
[1] https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy/portugal-just-ran-on-100-renewables-for-six-days-in-a-row
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Germany has moved closer to rationing gas as it raised the alert level under an emergency plan after Russia slashed supplies to the country.
“Gas is now a scarce commodity in Germany,” economy minister Robert Habeck told reporters at a press conference on Thursday.
Triggering the second “alarm” level under its action plan brings Germany a step closer to the third and final stage that could see gas rationing in Europe’s top economy.
The development reflected a “significant deterioration of the gas supply situation”, Habeck said.
Germany, like several other European countries, is highly reliant on Russian energy imports to meet its needs.
Russian energy giant Gazprom last week reduced supplies to Germany via the Nord Stream pipeline by 60 percent due to what the company said was a delayed repair. But Germany has brushed aside the technical justification for the move, instead calling it a “political decision”.
Russia was using gas “as a weapon” against Germany in retaliation for the West’s support for Ukraine following Moscow’s invasion, Habeck said, with the aim of “destroying” European unity.
Al Jazeera’s Dominic Kane, reporting from Berlin, said the implications for the government’s decision will vary between household consumers and industry.
“For those residential homeowners, for people living in rented accommodation it does not mean that their gas supply is threatened right now,” Kane said.
“For those consumers in industries it is more serious because the government here is saying ‘We believe that a time is coming where we will have to potentially ration gas supply’ and bear in mind that during summer in Europe, residential gas users are not going to be heating their houses much, but the industrial sector will use and is using a large amount of gas the entire year round,” he added.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/6/23/germany-raises-gas-alert-level-after-russia-cuts-supply
Germany unveils list of military equipment and weapons supplied to Ukraine
After several months of discussions on the military aid brought to Ukraine, Germany finally unveils a list of military equipment and weapons delivered to Ukraine, as well as the combat vehicles that will be delivered to the Ukrainian armed forces in the next few weeks.
In a united response to Russia's war on Ukraine, which started on 24 February 2022, EU (European Union) Member States agreed to supply Ukraine with military equipment, including equipment designed to deliver lethal force.
As of 16 May 2022, European Member States had agreed to make available €1.5 billion through the European Peace Facility (EPF) to fund assistance measures aimed at supporting the capabilities and resilience of the Ukrainian armed forces.
A further €500 million in assistance was proposed on 13 May 2022 and is likely to be adopted very soon, bringing the amount up to €2 billion. Accordingly, the EPF will pay for some of the equipment Member States have provided or will provide to Ukraine. This is a first in the EU's history, which has never jointly financed the provision of weapons to a third country.
Today, Germany is the second country in Europe that has supplied the largest military aid to Ukraine, with a total of 1,342 weapon systems delivered to the Ukrainian armed forces, behind Poland which has provided 1,470 pieces of military equipment
List of military equipment and weapons already delivered to Ukraine:
- 3,000 Panzerfaust 3 anti-tank rockets
- 14,900 anti-tank mines
- 500 STINGER man-portable anti-aircraft missiles
- 2,700 STRELA
- 16 million rounds of handgun ammunition
- 50 bunker fists
- 100 MG 3 machine guns with 500 spare barrels and bolts
- 100,000 hand grenades
- 5,300 explosive charges
- 100,000 meters of detonating cord and 100,000 detonators
- 350,000 detonators
- 23,000 combat helmets
- 15 pallets of clothing
- 178 motor vehicles (trucks , mini buses, SUVs)
- 100 tents
- 12 power generators
- 6 pallets of material for explosive ordnance disposal
- 125 binoculars
- 1,200 hospital beds
- 18 pallets of medical supplies, 60 surgical lights
- Protective clothing, surgical masks
- 10,000 sleeping bags
- 600 shooting glasses
- 1 radio frequency system
- 3,000 field telephones with 5,000 reels of field cord and carrying equipment
- 1 field hospital (joint project with Estonia)
- 353 night vision goggles
- 4 electronic anti-drone devices
- 165 binoculars
- Medical supplies (including rucksacks, first-aid kits)
- 38 laser range finder
- Fuel diesel and petrol (current delivery)
- 10 tons of AdBlue
- 500 pieces of wound dressings to stop bleeding
- 500 pieces of food rations
- Food: 2,025 pallets (68 truckloads) with 360,000 rations one-pack (EPa)
- MiG-29 spare parts
- 30 armored vehicles
List of military equipment and weapons to be delivered to Ukraine in the next few weeks:
- 10,000 rounds of artillery ammunition
- 53,000 rounds of anti-aircraft ammunition
- 5.8 million rounds of handgun ammunition
- 7 Panzerhaubitzen 2000 155mm tracked self-propelled howitzers including adaptation, training and spare parts (joint project with the Netherlands)
- 5,000 combat helmets
- 8 mobile ground radars and thermal imaging devices
- 8 recon drones
- 10 protected vehicles
- 7 jammers
- 8 electronic anti-drone devices
- 4 mobile, remote-controlled and protected demining devices
- 65 refrigerators for medical supplies
- 1 vehicle decontamination point
- 100 auto-injectors
- 14 anti-drone sensors and jammers
- 10 anti-drone cannons
- 32 Recon Drones
- 54 M113 tracked armored personnel carriers with armament (systems from Denmark, conversion financed by Germany)
- 30 GEPARD anti-aircraft self-propelled tracked armored vehicles including around 6,000 rounds of anti-aircraft ammunition
- Air Defense System IRIS-T SLM
- Artillery detection radar COBRA
- 80 Toyota pickup
- 3 MARS M270 MLRS Multiple Launch Rocket Systems with ammunition
- 100,000 first aid kits
- 22 trucks
https://www.armyrecognition.com/defense_news_june_2022_global_security_army_industry/germany_unveils_list_of_military_equipment_and_weapons_supplied_to_ukraine.html