Posted on 04/25/2022 6:40:28 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Russia’s military capabilities should be degraded after he and Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky and announced more U.S. military aid to the country.
“We want to see Russia weakened to the degree that it can’t do the kinds of things that it has done in invading Ukraine,” Mr. Austin said Monday after the highest-level visit of U.S. officials to Kyiv since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24. Mr. Blinken said: “Russia is failing, Ukraine is succeeding.”
In what could be a significant escalation of the conflict on Monday, large fires broke out at fuel-storage facilities in the Russian region of Bryansk, some 60 miles from the border with Ukraine, as well as at a nearby military fuel depot, Russian state media said. Russian missiles struck railroad targets in central Ukraine early Monday.
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Don’t leave out George Soros and the WEF
—> Bring the world to the brink of world war in order to weaken Russia. Brilliant!
The west wants war
If I didn't have a large solar system I'd consider a HEV. But with having pre-paid electricity from solar, charging a BEV is more practical than using that electricity to run an electrolyzer to generate hydrogen and store it to pump into a HEV. The last I read the round trip to run an electrolyzer to generate hydrogen, store it, then retrieve the electricity from the fuel cell when I need it loses 40% to 60% of the power. But when my home solar batteries I get about 95% of what I put into them (round trip). Once I put that into a BEV, which would involved converting DC to AC to run my normal charger, then AC to DC within the car to charge the car's battery, I believe I'd have an overall efficiency of 85% to 90%.
That may not be good for a cross country trip like a HEV can do with just a couple of fill ups (assuming you can find a couple of hydrogen stations along the way). But it's great for running a BEV ~200 miles per week on average, the BEV getting 300 miles on a max charge, let's say it's more like 270 miles because nothing is as good as advertised, and that's assuming charging the BEV to 100% instead of 80% like they suggest, so now let's say it's 205 miles per charge. Then if you don't like letting the BEV get below 100 miles left on charge let's say I need it charged at least every 3 days. That means I can go 2 days in a row with rain (no solar power) before I give up and charge it from a charger that is constantly powered (read: increase my power bill if no solar is making it free).
Anytime I come home with over 100 miles left on the charge I'll plug my BEV into a charger outlet that's powered only when my solar system has about 80% charge in the home batteries (meaning way more than I need to power my house through the night without pulling power from the utility). Thus my BEV will be charged for a while with pre-paid power from the solar system (it's free, but it cost money up front), then quit being charged when the home solar batteries' charge drops below 80%. Then if I stay home the next day, around noon or 1 PM on a sunny day my home solar batteries will be charged 80% and my EV will go back to automatically being charged by my solar system's automatic trigger.
I'm expecting the end result to be that about 90% of all power I consume to be free from solar, including powering the house and charging the EV. This past year 57% of all power I consumed was free with my current system in my two-story all-electric house. My current system would pay for itself on about the 10th year. My upgrade with EV cost (as opposed to buying and gassing up a used car every now and then) will pay for itself on about the 12th or 13th year.
And by "pay for itself" I'm including paying the interest on the HELOC I took out to fund all of that. Think of the HELOC and interest as a fixed payment part of my budget, replacing the unpredictable costs I used to have to provide energy to my house and gas up a car to drive it ~200 miles per week.
“Calling for Russia to be weakened is borderline act of war.”
What’s Russia really going to do about it? Complain to the Pentagon Diversity and Equity Office that Secretary Austin hurt their feelings with his bad words? Because words are violence, right?
Maybe we need to send some LGBTQ counselors to Russia to provide therapy and healing for the Russian dictator and his butthurt minions.
And we will sacrifice as many Ukrainians as it takes.
Russia looks weak enough as it is.
To your point, the Russians openly said they are trying to weaken the U.S. by invading Ukraine. That’s part of how Putin is trying to sell the war domestically.
One of the biggest draw back of solar systems is the replacement costs even the best system on the market can’t last for 20 years and the cost never lowers.
The hydrogen combustion engine if far more cheaper than having to pay out for $20.000 battery they has a short life span.
Not much plus of the solar systems even during world war II the Brits had hydrogen stoves the government handed out lasted for years.
Back a bear into a corner, and then throw rocks at it, what could go wrong.
“Austin is a covid-coward and a deep state tool.”
exactly. What we wants, is something I dont want. We’[ve had this Russia policy since the Cold War for crying out loud.
Warmongering globalists are firing economic boomerang bullets that they say are targeted towards Putin but that keep hitting Western economies.
The forty-mile-long convoy of tanks that didn’t work and were staffed by conscripts with insufficient food and fuel supplies looked impressive for a minute or two.
Warmongering globalists want millions of people of European heritage dead.
Americans.
Europeans.
Ukrainians.
Russians.
flirting with a nuclear excahnge?
Aka
Biden Boner.
Impeach Brandon now......before it’s too late.
For example, my new solar panels I'm having installed will have 10% more solar panel production than my current ones bought a year ago and be only 4% more in cost (costing 6% less per watt than a year ago). My new batteries stay the same cost for the same performance as the current ones bought a year ago. That's even with the crazy inflation and supply chain issues and Brandon making everything else cost more.
My home solar batteries are guaranteed to last 19 years (albeit operating at 50% on the final year) and solar panels 25 years (operating at 70%). The BEV batteries are now costing about $5K to $10K to replace every 10 years (as opposed to me replacing my old used gas cars every 7 years for $8K to $10K).
Hydrogen combustion cars are a fantasy. To my knowledge no one is making them. So if you get a hydrogen car it's a hydrogen fuel cell powered EV. I like an HEV over a BEV (battery electric vehicle) except for one thing: I have no means to produce hydrogen on my own without losing 50% of the energy it takes to power an electrolyzer. That would still make me dependent on government policies for all of my mobility as I would have to buy my hydrogen from someone. Not so with a strong solar system and BEV. I'll buy only about 10% of my power from the power company, all while living comfortably in the hot Alabama weather (read: lots of power consumed to keep my house at 68 degrees) in my two-story house with a hot tub.
China is eating popcorn and enjoying the show.
Globalists have had an aggressive anti-Russian foreign policy that has sought to weaken Russia and drive Putin from office for more than a decade.
The policy has been a disaster. It's made Russia our enemy and pushed it into an alliance with China.
I respectfully disagree with solar replacement costs.
Best hope for no hail storms or you will end up with mercury covered roof and ground and many other toxins ever see what it takes to do a clean up job of it or see the problems with trying to recycle them they not worth the cost.
You can’t live off the grid unless you can pay the cost.
Along with those Galician Uke idiots hitting that oil tank farm and us helping them sink the Moskva.
Our leaders and old frustrated cold warriors cheated out of their big game are having a ball.
But I just have a feeling, this is going to get bad.
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