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On Saturday, May 14, 2022 at 11:20:09 PM UTC+10, John Doe wrote:
Cursitor Doom wrote:
John Doe wrote:
As you probably already know (not from mainstream media)... Russia
demands hostile countries use rubles to pay for Russian oil and gas
(henceforth \"gas\", seems that\'s the most used terminology). That\'s one
of Russia\'s responses to sanctions. Apparently that demand has helped
Russia\'s economy.
Germans are already suffering the pain of destroying their own nuclear
power plants
They didn\'t actually destroy them, which would be difficult and dangerous, but they did de-commission them.
while burning a record amount of dirty coal,
Probably not any kind of record.
in their effort to run on windmills and unicorns.
The windmills - or wind turbines which is what the power generators are called - are working fine. They haven\'t built enough of them yet - it takes time and costs money and they haven\'t installed the kind of grid scale storage they\'d need to cover the times when the wind isn\'t blowing fast enough, though they do have connections to neighbouring countries to provide a useful amount of geographical averaging.
Unicorns are mythical beasts, and not a great source of electrical power.
John Doe might have meant
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unicorn_startup_companies
There are a few German examples, but they don\'t seem to be into power generation
https://hb11.energy/
is an Australian start-up - and I\'ve met Heinrich Hora - but at five millions dollars it isn\'t a unicorn. If they do manage to get boron-hydrogen fusion they will be worth a lot more
They\'ll pay under the table and we\'ll never be told. They have no choic
e other than the worst recession in history.
Probably not true. The great recession that started in 1929 is probably worse than anything that might be allowed to happen today. Cursitor Doom\'s grasp of economics isn\'t impressive at the best of times, and his enthusiasm for propagating alarmist nonsense is truly remarkable.
In hindsight, seems you are correct. Lots of European Union NATO countrie
s
are paying rubles for Russian gas.
Or the Russians are claiming that they are.
The Western European media is covering for them by keeping quiet about i
t.
Or only reporting stories that are likely to be true. John Doe doesn\'t like the way they ignore the nonsense he favours.
And now the European Union has banned Russian media for spreading propaga
nda, like \"Many EU countries are paying rubles for
Russian gas.\"
And Cursitor Doom and John Doe are the kinds of gullible twits who fall for the Russian propaganda. Granting John Doe\'s surprising positive view of Putin, it might be that John Doe is actually a Russian glove-puppet, or maybe he\'s just taking his cue from Donald Trump.
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