don_esteban

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by don_esteban 5mo ago
Did you actually read the sources you provided, with the keen eyes to see what is written, and not what you wish to be there? To quote (from your provided https://www.dw.com/en/iran-war-strait-of-hormuz-oil-supply-r...
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by don_esteban 5mo ago
You have shown nothing to disprove my original point, just throwing irrelevant or wrong statements at the wall. Massive investments by gulf countries to build infrastructure to bypass Hormuz starting decades ago ... and still nothing much t
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by don_esteban 5mo ago
Yeah, concentrating CO2 from atmospheric concentrations is not easy. The benefit is that it actually removes carbon from the atmosphere. Whether it can ever be done on a large scale is a question, though. Is there any work on doing that, at
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by don_esteban 5mo ago
What is the conversion efficiency for electricity + C02 + H20 -> ethanol/hydrocarbons? Because that is the overall path (for long-term storable chemical energy, i.e. usable for transport or seasonal energy storage in countries where
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by don_esteban 5mo ago
I bow to your grand understanding of Oil Economy, Global Geopolitics, Military Matters etc. Just somehow can't fathom how (with all your superior understanding) you can utter this nonsense: Any collateral damage to world/oil econo
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by don_esteban 6mo ago
You can 'justify' the actions of Israel and USA, but in the same way Iran and others can 'justify' their actions. The fact is that USA has attacked Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, bombed Yemen and Syria. Add to that Israel&#x27
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by don_esteban 6mo ago
If Israel and USA did not attack Iran, there would have not been any need for all the weaponry US is selling UAE. You see 'providing security', I see stirring instability and protection racket. Your Q.E.D. works only on yourself.
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by don_esteban 6mo ago
Yes, it is true, the weather at that time did that big loop thing, taking the bad stuff up to Scandinavia and then eventually looping it back. Still, some stuff clearly came here, the mushrooms appreciated it. Unfortunately, I don't ha
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by don_esteban 6mo ago
I will leave this one to shine on its own, there is really no need to add anything else: "whether you like it or not US/Israel are the only guarantors of security in the Gulf"
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by don_esteban 6mo ago
It would be interesting to do a survey in Eastern Europe countries of the effect of eating 'too hot to eat' stuff for a generation. Because, I can assure you, nothing of that kind has ever been done here. And we are much, much, cl
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by don_esteban 6mo ago
Care to document what expensive countermeasures are nowadays being taken in the area the size of half the continental US?
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by don_esteban 6mo ago
do you account for all the air pollution and downstream health effects coal power plants cause?
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by don_esteban 6mo ago
I had a look over this entire chain of posts. We are still talking past each other. Your main point is long-term plans of UAE to increase its production and to build up its ability to bypass Hormuz. My main point is that in the short-term (
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by don_esteban 6mo ago
You yourself said "five year from now, there will be far better bypass options". That is very, very long term for what is now going on with Hormuz. Yes, petrochemicals have many, many applications. But those are not in millions ba
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by don_esteban 6mo ago
Central/Eastern Europe is rather into nuclear (Austria on renewables) and not too heavy on fossil, exceptions being Poland/Czechs/Germany with too much coal. The Balkans are quite fossil-heavy, but solar should be quite feas
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by don_esteban 6mo ago
I think we are talking past each other. The increase in production capacity is irrelevant if you don't have a way to export the said production. My question was specifically about the increase in the pipeline's capacity. Because y
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by don_esteban 6mo ago
If you are doing grid-scale installation, surely you would want your own control system (perhaps also on your own network, separated from the general internet), precisely in order to protect the grid.
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by don_esteban 6mo ago
Cirizens United has everything to say about anti-trust. Big companies that would be subject to anti-trust use their $$$ to buy politicians to squash any anti-trust legislation. Isn't it absolutely obvious? Are you paid bot?
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by don_esteban 6mo ago
1) any sources for 'is being ramped up significantly'? To what capacity? 2) how much are you willing to bet? :-) 3) selling them arms and then causing a conflict where they expend those arms is a protection racket, not a help 4) s
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by don_esteban 6mo ago
The Israeli openly proposed for the Gaza Palestinians to move to Egypt (effectively ethnic cleansing Gaza, their obvious goal), not that long after 7.10. Egypt said 'HELL NO', first, because they don't want to deal with Pales
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by don_esteban 6mo ago
Of all the nations of the world, the one that has lost the most (at least in the short term) is clearly Iran. On the other hand, from the longer term point of view, it looks like big part of the business model of UAE/Dubai (a safe, lux
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by don_esteban 6mo ago
1) The pipeline to Fujairah has capacity of 1.5m barrels per day, i.e. less than hald of UAE's current oil production. They still need Hormuz badly. 2) They can gain by increasing their production, IF they can get that out through Hozm
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by don_esteban 6mo ago
China is making great strides in renewables and investing in nuclear (and in electrification of transport). It can be energy independent in not too distant future. India has geography for solar, and the human/industrial capability for
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by don_esteban 6mo ago
Not only is the renewable energy cheaper, it also raises energy independence, which turns out to be quite relevant in today's world. Furthermore, it also reduces the drain on the (often very fragile, for thirld world countries) foreign
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by don_esteban 6mo ago
First, thank you for taking your time to write a proper response. Second, I must respectfully disagree. The reformist/liberals lost it by mismanaging the transition in the 90's. And the society at large was not ready anyway. And i
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by don_esteban 6mo ago
Sorry, no. Both are problem. And it is not pro-speech at all, it is pro-$$$. It is a standard practice to drown the unwanted speech in the noise of the paid-for 'speech'. Nothing about pro-speech for ordinary people there. Further
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by don_esteban 6mo ago
You are applying western thinking (acquiring captive markets, NATO is a force of good, surely not threatening) to Russia. Big fail, they think differently. It is obviously clear that Ukraine is not about securing resources: Given the costs
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by don_esteban 6mo ago
Sigh, joke sources. Burns and Kennan also, right? Anybody who actually understood Russians is a joke. Study a bit, and not only neocon think tank sources, but from the people who actually understood Russians (there are practically none left
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by don_esteban 6mo ago
There are many western authoritative sources documenting that. Have a look at William Burn's 'Nyet means nyet' depeshe. Or Merkel's memoirs. Or George Kennan's statement's in the 90's on the wisdom of expa
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by don_esteban 6mo ago
I agree, the will was never there. We will see whether the new realities of the war in Ukraine and Trump's approach to Europe will substantially change that. The whole economic and societal tensions in the west make things tougher...

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