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Anyone remember the footage of the lone UAF tank ambushing the Russian column of BTRs? I think they found the tank commander and interviewed him, but I don’t know Ukrainian. https://mobile.twitter.com/radiosvoboda/status/1554392618741768193
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Suicide Watch posted:Anyone remember the footage of the lone UAF tank ambushing the Russian column of BTRs? I think they found the tank commander and interviewed him, but I don’t know Ukrainian. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfTrQiFkWyk source video for the record, brave/lucky as gently caress tank crew tbh, jumping a Russian convoy with a single tank and some infantry, when the Russians could and did try to dismount to gently caress your day up after you attack them. I think this was one of the convoys that was pushing for Kyiv and was forced to retreat? orange juche fucked around with this message at 23:59 on Aug 2, 2022 |
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Do they ask him to comment on his atrocious shooting? 
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aphid_licker posted:Do they ask him to comment on his atrocious shooting? Blame the gunner anyways but I don't know exactly what tank they had, it might have not had thermal sights, I'm not a tank analyst so I don't know the model of the tank. Stuff thats T-80 or newer should have them? If that's a T-84 then yeah they should have had thermals. orange juche fucked around with this message at 00:59 on Aug 3, 2022 |
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orange juche posted:Blame the gunner anyways but I don't know exactly what tank they had, it might have not had thermal sights, I'm not a tank analyst so I don't know the model of the tank. Stuff thats T-80 or newer should have them? If that's a T-84 then yeah they should have had thermals. Ukrainians use modernized T-64s. I believe some were in the process of being fitted with thermal sights, but I doubt it's widespread.
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"we had to blow up the train in order to save it"
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Jasper Tin Neck posted:Any idea how deploying a smokescreen could make a Russian supply train blow up? Smoke projectors may launch WP (or anything that burns hot as hell) to create hot smoke to disrupt thermal vision. WP getting chucked about next to, say, small waxed paperboard boxes containing little boom in the same train as bigger boxes containing bigger boom could very easily go sideways. Or up.
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Germany: no Russian gas? No problem! We'll just burn more coal. Mother Nature: lol no you aren't, bitch https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-02/europe-s-vital-rhine-river-is-on-brink-of-effectively-closing
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psydude posted:Germany: no Russian gas? No problem! We'll just burn more coal. Question. Apart from natural gas (unavailable due to geopolitical instability), coal (dirty), and nuclear (too easy to gently caress up), what energy options does Germany meaningfully have?
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Quackles posted:Question. Apart from natural gas (unavailable due to geopolitical instability), coal (dirty), and nuclear (too easy to gently caress up), what energy options does Germany meaningfully have? They have three operational nuclear plants they're planning to decommission at the end of the year, and three they just decommissioned at the beginning of this year that could likely be brought back online (this would require substantial government assistance due to the costs). In the less environmentally friendly arena, they also have domestic natural gas reserves that could be tapped, but that would take time. This is a self-inflicted wound for which there's no short term solution. We're seeing what happens when a sclerotic government engages in short term planning and improper risk mitigation for energy policy. Then again, the German voters continually rewarded the CDU for years of dumb decisions like this. After years of chastising everyone else in Europe for not doing things the "German way," I'm sure Spain, Poland, and the likes are experiencing a good amount of schadenfreude. And all of those Schwäbische Hausfrauen are going to be doing a lot less lüften this winter. psydude fucked around with this message at 09:44 on Aug 3, 2022 |
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Turns out looking at the end result of intentionally discarding nuclear reactor safety and assuming that's just how nuclear power plants work and burning it all down to force your country to suckle on the Russian natgas teat for power and heat is a really stupid loving idea. Who could have guessed? 
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psydude posted:They have three operational nuclear plants they're planning to decommission at the end of the year, and three they just decommissioned at the beginning of this year that could likely be brought back online (this would require substantial government assistance due to the costs). In the less environmentally friendly arena, they also have domestic natural gas reserves that could be tapped, but that would take time. I mean.... for fucks sake. What does it take to try nuke?
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:I mean.... for fucks sake. They had a functioning nuclear infrastructure for a long time before now, but the literal mission of the German Green party is to end nuclear power in the country and they don't give a poo poo about how much coal they burn to do it, because they are afraid of the radiant glow of almighty Atom, nevermind that coal power plants emit 100x more radiation via Uranium, Radium, Thorium, and Potassium than a functioning nuclear plant at the same power level. (The fact that the amount from coal is like 0.05μSv/yr (equivalent to eating ~65% of a banana) says something about how clean nuclear plants are, that they discharge 1/100th of the airborne radioactive material.) orange juche fucked around with this message at 10:42 on Aug 3, 2022 |
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Quackles posted:nuclear (too easy to gently caress up) 
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orange juche posted:They had a functioning nuclear infrastructure for a long time before now, but the literal mission of the German Green party is to end nuclear power in the country and they don't give a poo poo about how much coal they burn to do it, because they are afraid of the radiant glow of almighty Atom, nevermind that coal power plants emit 100x more radiation via Uranium, Radium, Thorium, and Potassium than a functioning nuclear plant at the same power level. I'm certainly pro-nuclear power, but this is a little unfair to folks opposed to nuclear power. It's not the regular operation of nuclear plants that's the fear, it's what happens if something goes wrong.
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Quackles posted:Question. Apart from natural gas (unavailable due to geopolitical instability), coal (dirty), and nuclear (too easy to gently caress up), what energy options does Germany meaningfully have? Short answer is LNG terminals
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Nuclear - So easy to gently caress up that it has the highest safety rating, even higher than renewables.
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It's like the Germans never played a game of Funkenschlag before
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EasilyConfused posted:I'm certainly pro-nuclear power, but this is a little unfair to folks opposed to nuclear power. It's not the regular operation of nuclear plants that's the fear, it's what happens if something goes wrong. I'll grant you that the fear of being irradiated is more tangible for the average person than being slowly cooked to death due to global warming. Although the average German can now tangibly experience being slowly cooked to death on a packed regional train, so maybe that'll change. psydude fucked around with this message at 12:52 on Aug 3, 2022 |
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EasilyConfused posted:I'm certainly pro-nuclear power, but this is a little unfair to folks opposed to nuclear power. It's not the regular operation of nuclear plants that's the fear, it's what happens if something goes wrong. I mean it's not like people weren't killed by other power options, be it for lung cancer or drowning(yes, hydro can kill).
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Quackles posted:(too easy to gently caress up)
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CommieGIR posted:Nuclear - So easy to gently caress up that it has the highest safety rating, even higher than renewables. In Illinois even the power company is trying to get out of nuclear because gas and coal plants are much cheaper to run, even as they talk about renewable energy sources. Is Germany involved in the ITER fusion project? It seems like it's mostly US-Japan-France-UK.
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The X-man cometh posted:In Illinois even the power company is trying to get out of nuclear because gas and coal plants are much cheaper to run, even as they talk about renewable energy sources. Yeah, this is a huge problem with the whole 'renewables are cheap' excuse every Environmentalist/Green Party candidate rants about : Cheap is not solving climate change. Cheap is Fossil Fuels backyard. When they rant about how cheap it is, what they mean is they can make more profits on overhead versus having to actually maintain their plants. Thankfully Illinois threatened their power operators when they wanted to close their plants, or we'd have more Indian Point style scenarios where they close a zero emissions nuclear plant, promise renewables, and then just burn natural gas. SlowBloke posted:I mean it's not like people weren't killed by other power options, be it for lung cancer or drowning(yes, hydro can kill). Yes, unfortunately Hydro has a huge bodycount. Not a reason not to do it, given the crisis we face. CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 14:45 on Aug 3, 2022 |
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Hydro is the only power source that had to contend with sirens and krakens, ofc it has a high bodycount
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RFC2324 posted:Hydro is the only power source that had to contend with sirens and krakens, ofc it has a high bodycount https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJmU_wXF6zo definitely no joke lol water will kill you and there's nothing you can do about it
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The X-man cometh posted:Is Germany involved in the ITER fusion project? It seems like it's mostly US-Japan-France-UK. Fusion is a fun science project and not relevant to our current climate crisis.
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The X-man cometh posted:In Illinois even the power company is trying to get out of nuclear because gas and coal plants are much cheaper to run, even as they talk about renewable energy sources. The cost aspect should be solved by the Small Modular reactors that are becoming available. GE-Hitachi is already beginning to productize them. CommieGIR posted:Yeah, this is a huge problem with the whole 'renewables are cheap' excuse every Environmentalist/Green Party candidate rants about : Cheap is not solving climate change. Cheap is Fossil Fuels backyard. When they rant about how cheap it is, what they mean is they can make more profits on overhead versus having to actually maintain their plants. Well, plus we need some kind of thermal power as a stop gap measure until we can find a way to better manage excess capacity in the grid (and even then - sometimes the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow). Nuclear is a good candidate.
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orange juche posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJmU_wXF6zo I absolutely wasn't challenging it, everything about water in quantities larger than a bathtub is absurdly powerful and dangerous.
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orange juche posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJmU_wXF6zo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVDpqphHhAE
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SlowBloke posted:I mean it's not like people weren't killed by other power options, be it for lung cancer or drowning(yes, hydro can kill). Thousands upon thousands of tons of dihydrogen monoxide, stored in the open and exposed to the elements, with little or no regulation, or even barriers to keep the public safely away. O tempora, o mores.
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psydude posted:They have three operational nuclear plants they're planning to decommission at the end of the year, and three they just decommissioned at the beginning of this year that could likely be brought back online (this would require substantial government assistance due to the costs). In the less environmentally friendly arena, they also have domestic natural gas reserves that could be tapped, but that would take time. Thank god the nuclear power plants don't need cooling water from those rivers that are falling dry
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psydude posted:They have three operational nuclear plants they're planning to decommission at the end of the year, and three they just decommissioned at the beginning of this year that could likely be brought back online (this would require substantial government assistance due to the costs). In the less environmentally friendly arena, they also have domestic natural gas reserves that could be tapped, but that would take time. Even loving Trump said during the UN General Assembly in like 2018 that Germany was on its way to becoming completely addicted to Russian energy, and the German delegation basically laughed it off.
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aphid_licker posted:Thank god the nuclear power plants don't need cooling water from those rivers that are falling dry I mean so do the coal plants.
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aphid_licker posted:Thank god the nuclear power plants don't need cooling water from those rivers that are falling dry Most steam generation methods do, including gas and coal. The internal loop is sealed, as modern nuclear plants use a two loop system. Trust me, they can get water still and they wouldn't run the plant otherwise. Ironically, this is also an issue for the other big green energy solution in Europe: Hydro.
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