I’m fine with NG as methadone, the turbines are cheap and do good peaking and load following for solar.
Clean coal is about as practical as communism and Santa Claus. It’s theoretically possible, in the same way that Craigslist hookups are possible, and never just scammers catfishing from Asia.
We need a long term plan, but we’ve needed one for decades now.
I mean, Moscow is big, we don’t have to be stingy.
just because Russians, Moscow.
Leningrad looked at me funny, I swear.
BTW, they really so desperate to survive?
GO THE FUCK HOME!!!
Staying in Ukraine is just begging for everyone else to revisit all the genocides they’ve inflicted on others, like Armenia, Ukraine, poles, the list is endless.
I think a lot of those people would love to lay hands-on Russian citizens right now, for old times sake.
It’s so delicious to watch karma unfold in real time to someone who so deserves it.
This is like a man trying to defend murder by saying you were just trying to rape her but she resisted.
They are a rat, I’m not afraid of a rat, we are going to stomp this rat’s head into mush.
The rat can hiss and threaten all it wants, it went too far and there is no alternative, we put up with the rat shitting all over us for far too long.
Watching that made me so hungry, had to order delivery of some Kentucky fried kitten.
Sigh.
OK, this is basically bad metrics.
Yes, by tonnage NG produces a lot of co2, but they’re measuring gas emissions from both, while coal has non-gas emissions they don’t count.
They’re basically comparing the worst case NG emissions with the beyond best case coal emissions assuming we forced them to use maximum particulate reclamation and carbon capture and sequestration.
Which is great, but we have no large-scale working examples of that in this country, and this is the kind of BS they spout to get people to let them build more plants with minimum protections then act shocked when we say anything.
NG produces co2, but that’s about it, it’s the cleanest fossil fuel we have, if they have a problem with that they should push for renewable or nuclear.
BTW, for future lessons, this is modern lobbying now: claim numbers from a solution you have 0 intention of implementing just so they’ll let you get started, then do whatever you want once their back is turned.
The moment it’s off the ground they parade kids crying about not understanding why their daddies are losing their jobs, making everybody else the monster.
Life expectancy was absolute shit in China till the last 2 decades.
Heaven is high and the emperor is far away.
But not anymore, now the emperor watches you, always, through his silicon servants. There is no freedom from his gaze, anywhere.
Moscow is not the big prize you might think it is
Nobody has ever considered Russia a prize, or at least nobody that wasn’t a complete idiot.
It’s a festering shithole full of Russians, a nuke would improve it dramatically.
Nobody wants to win a war in Russia, but nobody has to.
Knock out Moscow, the rest of Russia hates them and will fracture instantly.
Is anyone, anywhere in the West afraid of this happening?
It might just be time to shut them the fuck up for good.
How marxist-lenninist of them…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_billionaires
China - 406
NATO: staying in Ukraine would put Russia ‘at war’ with NATO.
Considering your army can’t take Ukraine, this really a fight you want to pick?
God, it really is the Russian religion that they’re the only strong ones and everyone else is just so spoiled and weak, as your oligarchs tell you, from their mega yachts.
The exact number of executions carried out in China is not publicly disclosed, as the country treats execution data as a state secret. However, human rights organizations estimate that China executes more people annually than the rest of the world combined.
According to estimates by organizations like Amnesty International, the number of executions in China is believed to be in the thousands each year, but precise figures are difficult to verify.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_China
At least our statistics are available…
He would have had no choice, not taking ukraine would have required every country to start arming, Europe would have tooled up, Sweden and Finland too, they weren’t thrilled with Russia before this.
Yeah putin might have imagined he’d keep Ukraine subjugated by fear alone, but they were moving to the western sphere ever since maidan, that was unlikely.
Putin was trying to command the tides to withdraw, that’s futile, it’s all over already.
You’re right about why he took Crimea.
He tried to take Ukraine because Xi had finished subjugating Hong Kong and said he’d be moving on Taiwan soon, putin didn’t want to look like the weaker partner, and if both moved at the same time they were positive the west would be paralyzed by fear, Afghanistan was already proof the west was weak.
His miscalculation was 2 fold: 1. Xi didn’t understand how naval power worked, the PLAN needed another decade minimum to credibly threaten Taiwan, 2. Russia’s army was decimated by decades of corruption itself.
We got lucky, if big daddy z took that ride the west would be in a bad place right now.
Russians genuinely believe the only way to prevent being invaded is to invade and dominate all their neighbors as far as possible, for purely defensive reasons you understand.
Russia can never be safe, until the entire planet is subjugated by Russia.
Cultural paranoia as foreign policy.
Also, fallout moves, and they’re literally next door.
Their water supplies would destroyed.
This is what Kursk bought Ukraine, by showing a willingness to bring the fight to Russia, and Russia showing they had no way to respond.
We bought those people off decades ago, all their yachts, townhouses and other decent shit is as far from Russia as possible.
But if they see they can back us down and let them invade a country by waving nukes, they will be greatly encouraged to do so again, the cost/benefit ratio is far too high, they’re getting something for literally nothing.
This is exactly how world wars start.