Ukraine NATO version of a ceasefire proposal is so Ukraine can dig new defensive lines, and let western weapons production catch up with donations. Conducting terrorist operations day before meetings doesn’t put Russia in a good mood either.

Zelensky power/bribery clinging does not bring peace to Ukraine any time soon.

Some sources said 2023 was first to hit +1.5C. Must have been 1.495C. This year is ahead of 2023. CO2 measurements this spring were above the decades 2.5ppm per year, which was the highest decade increase. Temperature increases lag CO2 levels.

Forest fires and spread are at high activitity at current temperatures. Arctic ice keeps shrinking without record temperatures. Natural methane releases even as human activity methane gets deregulated.

There is no expectation of seeing a temperature decrease even if 2025 ends up 3rd instead of 2nd. The precision for exact carbon budget may have been overestimated.

H2 makes the best long term electrical storage, because not only is it more efficient than other cheap alternatives, it can be even more efficient with heat use, and it is economically transportable/exportable and so is not capped by utilization/capacity constraints.

heat storage is extremely useful for complementing winter solar in low winter sun places. Including at small scale. Hydronic floor heating is most efficient use of heat. Heat pumps can very efficiently gain 30C of temperature gain. Sand and construction waste box with water pipes, and heat resistors, flowing through it, can store heat well above 100C that water doesn’t ineffienctly. 2000 liters of just water is sufficient in most locations with a fireplace or EV backup, but sand/dirt/gypsum of 500L to 1000L significantly boosts resilence and heat capacity.

efficient because heat is used for heat. (district heating system). getting electricity from heat is relatively inefficient. Stacked blocks are relatively efficient but concerns over wind resistance.

Mines like datacenters can be in remote low land value areas that have a lot of room for solar, which without grid connections is even cheaper than grid connected energy, and cheaper power than transporting fuel. Surrounding land, certainly not usable for civilization. Most uranium mines in the world have a proper exclusion zone that allows more solar energy than the energy value of the uranium inside the mine.

After mine’s life, power availability means a cleaned up side does have civilization/land value. It also makes it attractive for eventual grid connection to rest of continent, or just “microgrid” short transmission to touristier locations. Solar development of a mining area not only offers cheapest mining operations, it creates future land value appreciation, and power supply revenues. Both significantly improving economics of a mining project.

On mining debt, china has opened fully electric mines. Mining is not an inherently oil/diesel using activity.

Obviously japan is not forced to rely on coal, too.

Cooperation level disturbing on many fronts. Not clear how tabling affects timing of law, but some conditionality for Canadian evil on end of USA economic evil is a minimum… But that is the point of being assholes.

Nothing good happens if headed to Persian Gulf

There is a mild secessionist movement in CA. People of all ethnicities in the city can dissaprove of the oppression taking place. Pre-2022, ask in Donbas was just autonomy from nazis shelling it relatively indiscriminantly. CA even if it were to ask for military help from Mexico or China, wouldn’t have as first choice to join as one of their provinces. In both cases, independence is more about humanist self determination rather than ethnic loyalties even if the fascist oppression is centered on extermination of ethnic/liberal “sub humans”

If risky to put dick in mouth, why make it friend sized?

I think that is an Arabic phrase. They speek Persian/Farsi

Know that US gives fake loans (forgiven the same day) for all IDF expenses. This is somehow not part of US miitary budget even though they pay for everything.

In short term, the trends are opposite to Europe or its coastal Atlantic having colder winters, and this opposite trend has many reasons to continue with more warming.

1. Tropical Atlantic is getting warmer. Even if current flow northward slows down, the amount of heat flowing could stay about the same.

2. Air termperatures are warming entire oceans, but especially North Atlantic from North American westerlies.

3. Arctic ocean is not melting at an accelerated rate. It is not freezing as much in winter. This is feedback from hotter oceans in summer, and there is in fact an extreme record low Arctic sea ice volume now and this winter. https://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icethickness/thk.uk.php

4. That feedback pattern comes from early summer sea ice extent loss. Hot open Arctic ocean is more the result of baking in the sun for 20+ hours per day then AMOC. Ice regrowth is slowed. Number of days ice free is as important as air temperature

5. Europe’s winter weather depends on coastal Atlantic sea temperature. That can keep getting warmer despite slower AMOC from above factors.

Withdrawal would be worse.

If we withdraw then China, Iran, human peaceniks win because of demonstrated weakness and failure. We must achieve bankruptcy!

At the same time, the hope is that Russian society would come out en masse against Russian President Putin and dispose of him from power.

Theory that Russia will collapse relies on hoping that Russians don’t understand the existential threat of NATO expansion, and NATO hatred of them, AND all Russian power brokers will start believing NATO disinformation, AND risk of losing war will motivate Russians to surrender to Ukraine/NATO.

Instead, any Russian regime change is likely to be caused by Putin weakness and failure to nuke German and UK US military bases. Or otherwise perception of insufficient aggression/speed of progress.

Delta wing designs will harry a lot of H2. It is suitable for LH2. Carbon fibre reinforced wing tanks. Efficiency is not as bad as other storage processes. Exportable/transportable fuel has huge advantages in monetizing surplus renewables.

Self-vapourising fuel is a major crash issue.

I don’t know about this. Vaporization does create a cooling effect, and having some battery can increase takeoff power and be charged during flight. Venting pressure release is an easy option.

While prioritizing civilization terrorism is always the first resort, a railway could outlast dead ender energy compared to a pipeline. Quicker/cheaper and able to transport anything of use across the country and to ports for export. New northern routes can mitigate the danger of accidents, and access cheap land that eventually increases population. Expanding Thunder Bay ports for more St Lawrence shipping, and Canadian built ships is a lot of steel use too. Would free up passenger rail traffic in windsor-Quebec corridor.

By far the most disgusting inaction that is a prelude to gaslighting for greater US subservience is not cancelling all US military procurement. The F35 is the worst overpriced ineffective system out of the lot. Cancel first, make trade deal later. Being put at the back of the line would be a blessing in case they manage to fix problems. But US software that prevents most of the plane’s systems from being turned on without permission is a deal breaker, that Israel does not submit to.

Solar power per acre will drive a Model Y 200 times further than ethanol will drive at 30mpg. And you can grow crops underneath/around solar. Corn ethanol, and other biofuels, are greenwashing that with fertilizers can emit as much as gasoline.

E-fuels are different. Take that 200 higher energy/range, and making H2 through electrolysis, makes a fuel that can get 100 times the range of ethanol. Can further chemically process that H2 to make gasoline or kerosene, and it is still green if the CO2 input is sourced from the air. H2 is best because it’s the cheapest green fuel, but also because a fuel cell is 2x+ more efficient than an engine. Aviation especially has the most to gain, as H2 is highest energy density by weight fuel, and a typical plane costs 100x more in fuel over its lifetime than its purchase price.

You can download a car… but are you allowed to “steal” (get for free) the filament???