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by fuoqi 4y ago
The biggest issue with mass-scale installation of heat pumps is non-linear load on grid in cold weather. Failing efficiency and ultimately automatic switch to resistive heating causes electricity consumption spike, together with other accid
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by fuoqi 4y ago
Are you suggesting to use flywheels as an energy source in EVs??? There is a heap of issues with this idea, the main ones: - They are VERY heavy. Typical energy density for flywheels is 10-40 kJ/kg (if you account for the whole flywhee
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by fuoqi 4y ago
>the Russians (Telegram, prolly not) I wouldn't call it a "Russian" system. Just consider where Durov currently resides and has his wealth.
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by fuoqi 4y ago
>Ukraine is outfighting Russia despite massive disadvantages numerically and technologically You are somewhat misinformed about the Ukrainian war. Ukraine has 3-4 times less population than Russia, but it started full mobilization early
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by fuoqi 4y ago
I wonder why Russia "unilaterally" decided to demand payment in rubles after the western politicians were seriously floating ideas about immediately freezing funds received by Gazprom as a payment for Russian natural resources. &#
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by fuoqi 4y ago
Footprint of spent nuclear fuel is laughably small when compared to other industrial processes and it can be reduced even further by using fast-neutron "burner" reactors. Why do you complain about nuclear and not about "immor
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by fuoqi 4y ago
There is absolutely no need to blow pipelines for that. Pipelines which were paid in half by Russia. Russia was successfully limiting gas supplies by citing "technical" issues, which were likely to continue until some solution for
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by fuoqi 4y ago
I am not saying that it's proven that the "dark" ship is responsible here. I am objecting to the opinion that blowing up NS/NS2 is somehow not an obvious act of sabotage. With all the rhetoric from the US about not allow
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by fuoqi 4y ago
Sure, I am confident the US will react in the same way to Germany or France intelligence services tapping their president.
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by fuoqi 4y ago
Ah, sure. It could've been swamp gas from a weather balloon trapped in a thermal pocket, which has reflected the light from Venus.
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by fuoqi 4y ago
>The PR disaster that would ensue if the US were caught doing this Ha-ha, let's take a look how much of "PR disaster" was direct spying on European "allied" leaders. Europe simply swallowed it without much troubl
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by fuoqi 4y ago
Tens of thousands (24k by some estimates) is quite sizable in my book and it was long before cold weather and full economic impact of the high prices. The inflation issue is #1 in internal politics for many countries, add recession and job
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by fuoqi 4y ago
I never heard about such valves in underwater pipelines. How would they be powered? It's possible that they could have reverse sumps, so water would flood only one section and the rest will be protected by residual pressure, but I do n
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by fuoqi 4y ago
>>That proves the explosion was deliberate. >No it doesn't. No one denies that the explosions are an act of sabotage. How do you imagine non-deliberate explosions happening approximately at the same time and of such power as t
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by fuoqi 4y ago
You are forgetting that repairing the pipelines is not easy and longer they stay in sea water, less likely it can be done reliably due to corrosion. Also secretly blowing up a pipeline in effectively NATOs backwater is easier said than done
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by fuoqi 4y ago
Are you serious? The NS/NS2 pipelines were a constant temptation for Germany and a good leverage for Russia. Before the pipelines got blown up we have seen quite sizable protests in Germany with demands to open NS2 and find some compro
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by fuoqi 4y ago
It's important to note that it was done not in the small part thanks to the rising debt levels of other EU countries. In my opinion, you should view EU as one system.
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by fuoqi 4y ago
Let's be honest: prolonged "financial repression" is effectively soft default of governments. It can work fine in the short term, especially with elevated instability abroad (as usual the US benefits quite immensely from it r
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by fuoqi 4y ago
Are you implying that Chinese nationalism prevents the collaboration? Look into why China is not part of ISS, despite its desire to join. Spoiler: the US has blocked it. It's a small miracle that Russia is part of ISS, not in small par
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by fuoqi 4y ago
Are you unable to see the difference between the first and second national banks and the Fed behemoth which was created in 1900s and got only fatter (in the sense of power it holds over the national economy) ever since?
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by fuoqi 4y ago
And? It does not change that the OP is factually wrong. Also, compare the Putin's age with Biden who wants to run for presidency at 82.
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by fuoqi 4y ago
You are factually wrong about Russia. The new constitution removes the loophole used by Putin which restricted presidency of a single person by two consecutive terms. Thus in past he has used Medvedev as a seat warmer for one term, while
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by fuoqi 4y ago
Deploying anti-missile systems in Poland/Romania and potential deployment in South Korea does a lot of good to the world in the sense of balance and mutual trust between nuclear powers. You can spout as much nonsense as you want about
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by fuoqi 4y ago
Because it cuts a huge temptation for Germans to find some compromise with Russia and allows them to sell LNG for huge profits?
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by fuoqi 4y ago
Are you saying the following article does not exist? https://www.tagesspiegel.de/wirtschaft/erste-detonation-an-n... Google translate: >With regard to the authorship of the alleged attacks, two main options are bein
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by fuoqi 4y ago
>up to 100k civilian casualties Sounds like a blatant propaganda BS for a city with 400k population in regular times. A significant portion of population has left the city before fighting reached it and the Russian army has absolutely no
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by fuoqi 4y ago
>No one needs to demonise a country that commits genocide and has its military rape children, "Genocide" became a meaningless word because it's used willy-nilly similarly to "terrorism". Even if we are to trust n
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by fuoqi 4y ago
>Currently we think about the nuclear fleet in the Ukraine which is literally under fire from Russia. It's hilarious how the Western politicians and mass media seriously blame Russia for shelling a nuclear plant which it controls fo
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by fuoqi 4y ago
>Ukraine exports mostly to the Middle East and other nearby Asian/African countries. In normal times. But now most of Ukrainian wheat exported by sea and probably almost all exported by ground gets hoarded by Europe without getting
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by fuoqi 4y ago
Suburbia is TERRIBLE from long-term efficiency and sustainability point of view. They create car-centric living style which is very hard to get rid off after it settles in. Here is a really good video about it: https://www.youtub

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