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macanchex

3년 전discuss

LNG exports: https://www.eia.gov/dnav/ng/hist/n9133us2m.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDdmbPni6BI

macanchex

4년 전discuss

https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/

macanchex

4년 전discuss

The article doesn't address Gosplan and the rapid industrialization of the Soviet Union.

macanchex

4년 전discuss

The historical consensus is that Germany had no way of ending the war on their own terms even without the aid. The impacts of Lend-Lease materialized mostly after 1942/Stalingrad.

You might want to look into the history of Radio Free Europe and the sources they link to.

macanchex

4년 전discuss

Jacques Baud is a former colonel of the General Staff, ex-member of the Swiss strategic intelligence, specialist on Eastern countries. He was trained in the American and British intelligence services. He has served as Policy Chief for United Nations Peace Operations.

On Bucha: https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/04/if-the-pentagon-can-no...

macanchex

4년 전discuss

https://www.thepostil.com/the-military-situation-in-the-ukra...

The dramatic developments we are witnessing today have causes that we knew about but refused to see:

    on the strategic level, the expansion of NATO (which we have not dealt with here);
    on the political level, the Western refusal to implement the Minsk Agreements;
    and operationally, the continuous and repeated attacks on the civilian population of the Donbass over the past years and the dramatic increase in late February 2022.

macanchex

5년 전discuss

The relevant parts about CCS:

For more than two decades politicians, academics and industrialists have promised great things from carbon capture and storage, or CCS. But after years of trial and error and multiple project cancellations due to prohibitive costs, this highly expensive technology stores less than one-tenth of one per cent of global emissions a year. Even JP Morgan in its 2021 annual energy report sarcastically notes that the “highest ratio in the history of science appears to be the number of academic papers written about CCS compared to its real life implementation.”

The energy ecologist Vaclav Smil considers CCS a ridiculous endeavour because it will never scale up fast enough to make a dent in global emissions. The global economy now produces about 37 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide per year. Tackling 10 per cent of that problem (roughly four billion tonnes) would require the same infrastructure that now supports the entire global oil industry, which produces four billion tonnes of oil a year.

Like carbon capture and storage, direct air capture doesn’t scale up very well. Researchers recently calculated that if the world deployed direct air capture using a chemical reaction that relies on caustic soda to break down CO2 emissions to water and sodium carbonate, it would require a new mining industry.

Just to capture 25 per cent of global emissions, it would need a system of extracting caustic soda that is 20 to 40 times greater than current global production. And this system would consume 15 to 24 per cent of the world’s primary energy spending to get the job done.

The technology also has a big footprint. An industrial factory, powered by natural gas and capable of removing just one billion tonnes of carbon out of the 37 billion tonnes emitted per year, would occupy an area five times greater than Los Angeles. If powered by solar energy such a factory would require a landmass 10 times greater than Delaware.

In other words don’t expect a direct air capture unit in your backyard soon. One group of researchers concluded that the technology “is unfortunately an energetically and financially costly distraction in effective mitigation of climate changes at a meaningful scale.” Another recent study concluded that carbon capture and storage and direct air capture projects emit more carbon than they remove or store.

macanchex

5년 전discuss

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14747731.2020.1...

Degrowth is a planned reduction of energy and resource use designed to bring the economy back into balance with the living world in a way that reduces inequality and improves human well-being. Over the past few years, the idea has attracted significant attention among academics and social movements, but for people new to the idea it raises a number of questions. Here I set out to clarify three specific issues: (1) I specify what degrowth means, and argue that the framing of degrowth is an asset, not a liability; (2) I explain how degrowth differs fundamentally from a recession; and (3) I affirm that degrowth is primarily focused on high-income nations, and explore the implications of degrowth for the global South.

macanchex

5년 전discuss

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2021/11/03/Tech-Will-Not-Save-Us...

macanchex

5년 전discuss

Afghanistan resumes export of pine nuts to China: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0BkbrHCEBU

macanchex

5년 전discuss

Banks create money mainly to lend against assets in place (real estate, corporate takeovers and privatization of public infrastructure monopolies), not to fund new tangible capital investment and hiring. The result of such lending is to bid up asset prices.

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