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H2 View: "Universal Hydrogen to make $254m investment in New Mexico manufacturing hub.. New Mexico is set to be the heart of Universal Hydrogen’s zero-emissions flight mission"

H2 View: "UK could increase its targets for hydrogen and transition away from Russian fossil fuel and gas reliance"

H2 View: "ABB has been awarded two major contracts by Plug Power Inc. (NASDAQ: PLUG).. a leading provider of turnkey solutions for the global green hydrogen economy, to provide the electrical systems for two new hydrogen plants in North America, set to collectively produce 60 tons of green hydrogen per day"

H2 Fuel News: "Floating green hydrogen production vessel under development.. A statement from RINA explained that the Thessalonica Hydroship will be able to produce renewable H2 by using wind and tidal stream turbines to generate the electricity to power the electrolysis. This way, using Floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) is unnecessary, substantially reducing the overall levelized cost of energy (LCOE) to generate cost competitive H2 fuel. The vessel will be constructed using off-the-shelf electrolyzers and ready-made wind and tidal stream turbine"

H2 View: "In response to the European Commission’s plan to make Europe independent from Russian fossil fuels before 2030, Nel is increasing its electrolyser production capacity to meet raised ambitions for renewable hydrogen"

H2 Fuel News: "Traditionally, the Scottish Highlands have been renowned for majestic and wild scenery, as well as its famous whiskey, but soon the region will also be well-known a network of green hydrogen hubs. [An MoU] inked between H2 Green Limited and Getech has set out to carry out the vision of the proposed hubs, in an effort to accelerate decarbonisation in the Highlands"

H2 View: "Suburban Propane is extending its reach into the hydrogen market with the company unveiling a new 25% equity stake in Independence Hydrogen to localise hydrogen production and distribution"

Batteries would have died there at those temperatures no need to even test.

H2 View: "BMW is pushing its iX5 Hydrogen to the limits, with the vehicle manufacturer currently testing the zero-emission vehicle in Sweden to ensure extreme performance can be achieved in sub-zero temperatures"

'First commercial scale hydrogen-to-MCH' project.. Interesting. Posted about MCH here.

"PETRONAS Hydrogen.. and ENEOS Corporation.. have signed a Joint Feasibility Study Agreement (JFSA) to advance the studies for a commercial hydrogen production and conversion project in [Malaysia].

Under the JFSA, both parties will pursue detailed technical and commercial feasibility studies for the production of low carbon hydrogen from PETRONAS’ existing facilities, production of green hydrogen from a new hydro-powered electrolyser facility, and hydrogen conversion into methylcyclohexane (MCH). The agreement is part of the long-term [MoU] signed last August for the development of a clean hydrogen supply chain between Malaysia and Japan.

The facilities are projected to have a total hydrogen production and conversion capacity of up to 50,000 tonnes per annum (50KTPA) by 2027 for export in MCH form to Japan, where the clean hydrogen will be distributed to Japanese industries through ENEOS’ refineries. Once onstream, the project could potentially be the first commercial scale hydrogen-to-MCH undertaking in the world...

Through ENEOS, this hydrogen-to-MCH project has been selected as one of the Green Innovation Fund project by the Japanese Government, a testament to the project's viability and competitiveness which is a critical aspect in the development of the nascent clean hydrogen supply chain"

H2 View: "Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, unveil plans to create a regional clean hydrogen hub"

That is Gigawatts, the G is not a typo.

The Mandarin: "China plans to build 450 GW of wind and solar power in the desert"

'If more people had a voice outcome wld be different?'. The mass 'having a voice' is less valuable than thought leaders thinking better who can then shape the opinion. Have a voice, fine, but modern society does not improve politically through people dancing on Tiktok.

"[2019] Zuckerberg says the Iraq War motivated him to create Facebook"

Blame Luigi Mengele; all his fault

Arab News: "Global pandemic deaths could be three times official figure, US study suggests"

That soldier might have pulled the trigger but Fidel is the true killer of Che.

"Bolivian soldier who shot dead revolutionary Che Guevara dies at 80"

WION just called Pakistan a 'terrorist state' 😂 Ok I see your bias..

Al Jazeera has a reporter named Imran Khan. "Reporting from Kyiv" That guy needs a nickname.. I thought, 'why the f wld Pakistani PM wld go to Kyiv'?

"People" wanted an Iraqi invasion after 9/11 lets not forget.

Deliver on needs, based on idio, then sell.

They are bleeping clueless - who gives a shit abt what they think.

"Almost three out of four Americans support Ukraine no-fly zone"

'But there has been a rise of nationalism in Ukraine recently'. RU took pieces of the country, what else would there be a 'rise' of?

That is Iranian linked Hezbollah (photo taken at a funeral of a Hezb soldier killed by Israelis). Was Hezbollah expounding the principles of the Aryan race in that photo, believe they came from Atlantis? No. They are flashing the salute to troll Jewish Israelis.. This is the extent of "Nazism" in Ukraine.

Nazis in Ukraine..

Here are some other Nazis

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TDB: "It is the first time previously unaffected cities in the country’s west have come under such heavy mortars since the first day of the invasion. The airport at Lutsk took substantial fire, pocking its runway and rendering it useless. The airport had been a key link in the supply chain to this point"

Does not suggest total war on the RU side, but that can change.

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Politico: "EU leaders back Ukraine but balk at fast-track membership"

Wion: "West made a mistake by promising NATO membership to Ukraine: EU foreign policy chief Borrell"

Toyota has it all - fuel cells, H2 combustion.

This race already happened, the H2 car did great

"At the end of April 2021, Toyota announced it would be testing the performance of a new hydrogen-fuelled internal combustion engine by installing it in a racecar that would compete in one of Japan’s toughest motorsports events: The NAPAC Fuji Super TEC 24 Hours"

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Forbes: "[March 2021] As Hydrogen’s Levelized Cost Projections Fall Toyota Sends It Racing.. [H2] levelized cost, or the measure of average net present cost of production as a fuel or heat source for a generating plant over its lifetime, especially from renewable energy via electrolysis of water, is likely to fall considerably over the coming years..

Should the forecasts materialize, such 'low renewable hydrogen costs could completely rewrite the energy map," says Martin Tengler, lead hydrogen analyst at BNEF. 'It shows that in future, at least a third of the world economy could be powered by clean energy for not a cent more than it pays for fossil fuels.'..

Automakers and their partner fuel vendors in many quarters remain suitably excited, and none more so than Toyota. The Japanese automaker has consistently nailed its colors to the mast via its Mirai range. It is now going one step further by testing the performance of a new hydrogen [combustion] engine by installing it in a race car that will compete in one of Japan's toughest motorsport events"

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Started a doc on energy plant costs, LCOE, and 'overnight costs' 🚧

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Energy Voice: "[Scated] also recently signed an agreement with India’s ACME Group to build and operate a green ammonia plant in Oman. The first phase will produce 100,000 tpy of green ammonia, scaling up to 1.2mn tpy"

Energy Voice: "[Norway's] Scatec signs up to mammoth green ammonia plan in Egypt.. a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for a green hydrogen and ammonia plant in Egypt [was signed]... The plant will produce 1 million tonnes per year of green ammonia initially, it said. It will have the opportunity to reach 3mn tpy ultimately"

Sounds like a smart guy, obviously knows where the action is

The Sydney Morning Herald: "[Reserve Bank of Australia] heir apparent Guy Debelle unexpectedly quits to join Forrest’s green hydrogen play.. The future of [RBA] has been upended with the man considered most likely to lead the interest rate setting institution through the rest of the decade quitting to join private sector efforts to secure Australia’s green hydrogen future. Dr Guy Debelle, deputy to governor Philip Lowe since 2016 and perceived by many as one of the RBA’s brightest minds, stunned monetary policy circles on Thursday by revealing plans to become Fortescue Future Industries’ chief financial officer"

H2 View: "UK-based Levidian recently developed a device which uses plasma technology to separate methane into its constituent atoms: carbon, locked into high-quality graphene, and hydrogen, which can either be used immediately or stored for future use. According to the climate-tech company, their model means they can offer turquoise hydrogen at little to no cost, as there is a thriving market for the by-product produced during the process – high-quality graphene"

Thats good but fixing the base energy infrastructure (using clean fuels everywhere) would fix all pollution in one fell swoop.

"@shafikyaghmour

Hong Kong using roadside sensors to detect most polluting cars and force them to get fixed"

They got shaky legs there little bit.. US probably did some arm twisting through Dubai, the place lives on intl connections, tourism, u can really clamp down on it, but then UAE backtracked on backtracking.. Sup

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Markets Insider: "Oil prices climb 5% after UAE appears to backtrack on its earlier call for OPEC+ to boost output faster"

Bloomberg: "OPEC+ Member the UAE Says Group Should Boost Oil Output"

Am fine personally with individual, even positive rights. Just saying countries can be on a different path, schedule. If a new non-military org was to be founded for democracies, I'd argue it should only offer carrot, no stick.

Liberalism is about the individual, who can think freely, but that can lead to conflicts, so you need a state to protect rights. Therefore, one can continue, if everyone has such inalienable rights, they do so all over the world too, a liberal state can try to expand lib abroad (wanting to become that intl watcher that protects right for others too) -- through coercion, or sometimes by force, which can entice 'the other side' to the same.

'Not understanding' states like Russia cld be due to liberalism's mental block.. See Meirsheimer.

What was the deal w NATO chief Stoltenberg "Central Bank appointment announcement" right in the beginning of the conflict? Is he being 'demoted upwards'? He was talking tough game early on, then NATO got cucked.

NATO was sadly a disadvantage in this conflict. Motto "one for all, all for one" works if you are in it. If outside, the deterrent aspect becomes a disadvantage. They are built to kick some serious ass, which means going all in, with everyone on board, which you cannot do even partially in a situation such as in UKR. So they were reduced to watching the whole conf from the sidelines. Putin finds those blind spots, and exploits them well.

My assumption was since 2014 UKR had been loading for bear (no pun intended), had all aspects of a possible war covered, with NATO's help. Then found out abt the air/sea shortcomings, it became clear this cld turn into another Aleppo, Grozny.

That whole Polish jet deal talk was just sad

F24: "Half of Kyiv's population has fled Russian invasion, mayor says"

They clearly belive they have the upper hand. Took huge risk going in and now want the payoff.

Politico: "Russia doesn’t budge in high-level talks with Ukraine.. And those demands are .. essentially full subjugation to Russia"

CNBC: "Bitcoin drops below $40,000, almost wiping out gains from Biden's crypto executive order"

Arab News: "Narendra Modi’s BJP wins big in India’s largest state election"

H2 View: "Air Products has said will it develop a 10 metric ton per day liquid hydrogen plant in Casa Grande, Arizona"

H2 View: "Elogen selects French town [Vendôme] for its electrolyser manufacturing gigafactory"

H2 View: "Wales to gain hydrogen-powered trains"

H2 Fuel News: "Alberta Industrial Heartland to integrate low-carbon hydrogen through new Keyera, Shell Canada partnership"

H2 View: "Agfa to provide its innovative separator membrane for large-scale, cost-competitive green hydrogen production.. Agfa has been selected by thyssenkrupp nucera to support the development of large-scale green hydrogen production projects across the globe"

Canada has lots of hydrocarbons; generate clean fuel + ccs, ship to DE.

#Scholz #Trudeau #H2

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"In February 2022, economy and climate minister.. said that 55 percent of German gas supply comes from Russian imports"

Toronto Sun: "German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said there was no point in supporting.. [a Russian energy] ban, 'if in three weeks we find that we only have a few days of electricity left in Germany, and therefore we have to go back on these sanctions.'"

Politico: "House temporarily punts vote on Russia oil ban.. Republicans complained that the bill did not include a key trade provision"

The US ban is largely symbolic. It's easy to be bold and courageous when only a fraction of your energy comes from Russia Russia Russia and live on a country blessed with all kinds of natural resources.

"Last year, roughly 8% of U.S. imports of oil and petroleum products came from Russia"

Why not - Pakistan certainly needs energy.. A developing country, why should they give up on their energy needs for a war partly "encouraged" by the West

The Independent: "Pakistan’s prime minister Imran Khan has struck a deal to import natural gas from Russia – despite outcry over the invasion of Ukraine.. As countries impose sanctions and seek to isolate Vladimir Putin, Khan became the first leader to sign a new trade deal with Russia since the attack"

K.. likely due to some US pressure..

"Oil price dips as UAE endorses increased production"

Al Jazeera: "Brazil is one of the world’s top food producers and the largest importer of potash.. used as fertiliser. The country relies on imports for 85 percent of the fertiliser used for its grain crops. And a quarter of Brazil’s demand for potash has usually been met by Russia, which halted exports...

Brazil has large reserves of potash underground in the Amazon rainforest, including in and around lands inhabited by Indigenous people, whose concerns have held up some mining projects for years"

#ukraine #foxnews

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Gravitas LIVE with Palki, First signs of a compromise in Ukraine?

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WION: "Volodymyr Zelensky has announced that Ukraine will no longer be seeking NATO membership, a delicate issue cited by Russia as a reason for invading its pro-Western neighbor.. Zelensky also said he is open to "compromise" over the status of two breakaway pro-Russian territories that Putin recognized as independent just before the invasion"

Al-Monitor: "Egypt to have eight months of wheat reserves, says minister"

The Guardian: "‘We need bread’: fears in Middle East as Ukraine war hits wheat imports"

Collated comments on inflation

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H2 View: "EU draws out plan to increase hydrogen production to replace Russian fossil fuels and gas dependency.. The European Commission has revealed a brand-new plan in which to phase out dependency on Russian gas and fossil fuels with hydrogen a key aspect of this"

H2 View: "Air Liquide gains French State support for 200MW Normandy hydrogen production project"

H2 View: "Australia, Germany officially open new incubator to support hydrogen projects and reduce its cost.. Australia and Germany have both solidified their commitments to hydrogen with the official opening of the Innovation and Technology Incubator aimed at collaborations between the two countries"

H2 View: "Fortescue Future Industries (FFI) and Airbus have formed a focused taskforce to implement green hydrogen within the aviation industry in an effort to decarbonise the future of flying"

Bancor

Petrodollar system going bust after latest events? It is possible.

😂

MarketWatch: "Leaders of Saudi Arabia, UAE declined calls with Biden amid Ukraine crisis"

Better meet MBS, shake the man's hand and give a good, wide smile while doing it

Axios: "Biden advisers weigh Saudi Arabia trip for more oil"

But forget about that - let's clap

Watch Mariupol, a city in the South, under attack. It is slowly turning into a parking lot. The soundbytes coming out of there are not 'the resistance' but 'humanitarian corridors'. People are trying to get the f--k out.

Why is it assumed there will be 'urban fighting' in Kyiv, Ukranian cities? Attackers can easily shell, bomb Kyiv into a big pile of rubble wout taking a step into the city.

WaPo: "Zelensky receives standing ovation, calls for more support in address to U.K. Parliament via video"

Politico: "UN: 2 million people have now fled Ukraine"

Failure of monarchs (first wave concept) being in disagreement with the modern states (second wave concept) is actually normal. Feudal, 1st wave ruling is about land expansion, posh elites who do whatever in their palaces (thanks beating on peasants, taking their money). Second wave structures are different, waves cannot mix like oil and water. The incompatbility could cause major suffering, as in the alleged fueling of WWI.

WWI being caused by a family feud.. Sometimes real answers are avoided bcz mainstream (history/politics) wants to hide something or mired in self-delusion. While studying finance I'd read journos; columnists would regularly throw up their hands and go "well, it's a mystery, year after year, stimulus after stimulus, there is still no inflation". The obvious was avoided -- the money was going to corporations, not to people.

Same with WWI, the bigger reason is "unknown". The assasination of Franz Ferdinand is the obvious 'trigger', but the plethora of equally viable (and contradicting) theories fail to reach a conclusion. People throw up their hands and say "still a big mystery to us". 🤨 Is the consensus trying to avoid certain conslusions?

Yes you could say Ukraine 'ate the quince'

Q is somewhat tougher to chew on too, maybe that's another why is used in the idiom.

This could be where the tigger idiom ayvayı yedi comes from, 'he ate the quince'; a way of saying 'you stepped in it' when a person messes up, stuff goes wrong, and is now in trouble.

Haha

"The quince may have in fact been the 'forbidden fruit' in the Garden of Eden that tempted Eve"

Testing the fruit quince for new veg mix

Thought ZC was done until the Winter Olympics. Now that WO is over, any reason to continue it? Omicron will overwhelm it anyway..

South China Morning Post: "Shenzhen electronics market shut as zero-Covid policy forces lockdown"

H2 View: "JBIC invests.. support the ‘world’s largest’ clean hydrogen infrastructure investment fund. The Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) has revealed plans to invest up to €100m ($108m) into a clean hydrogen infrastructure fund"

H2 View: "Egypt could be set to grow its hydrogen economy with the revealing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to assess low-carbon hydrogen production in the country. Signed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the company will support Egypt in achieving its renewable energy potential with masses of solar energy production which can then be turned into hydrogen"

H2 View: "100 hydrogen fuel cell cold-chain logistic vehicles have officially been put into operation in Beijing, China, as the country looks to expand its hydrogen expertise"

H2 View: "A major new hydrogen project in the US is set to be developed in Texas.. Dubbed Hydrogen City, the project is being developed by Green Hydrogen international (GHI) and will include integrated green hydrogen production, storage, and transportation capabilities.. able to produce 2.5 billion kilogrammes of green hydrogen each year...

Included within the project is the development of a hydrogen storage facility in the Piedras Pintas Salt Dome. From this facility, pipelines will deliver the green hydrogen to Corpus Christi and Brownsville where it will be turned into green ammonia, sustainable aviation fuel and other fuels... This also opens up opportunities to potentially be directly transported to hydrogen power plants and other users around the state"

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H2 Fuel News: "Israel to roll out new hydrogen powered trucks.. The introduction of the vehicles is the result of a new deal among Colmobil, Bazan and Sonol"

The road towards the conflict was full of images of EU getting cucked on energy. "We'll cut your pipeline (NS2)", "we'll find you natgas if things go awry (from Qatar, while tying them into NATO in the process)". We'll take care of you boy.. Don't you worry.. Are you happy now, feel taken care of, BOY?

I repeat the scenario. This whole ordeal can still be an answer to a long-running ploy to cut off EU/RU energy relation, to stop the formation of an Eurasian Superpowah.. RU gets tired of the little blocks, delays here and there, throws down the gauntlet. 'We either form a good relationship, or there is trouble'

And I wonder why...

UK.gov: "Unlike other countries in Europe, the UK is in no way dependent on Russian gas supply... There are no gas pipelines directly linking the UK with Russia and imports from Russia made up less than 4% of total UK gas supply in 2021"

UK sounds more enthusiastic on banning RU energy

I'm glad Germany denied the ban.

I really wanted to see RU part of this whole H2/NH3 transition.. Hopefully latest events are not a show-stopper in the long-term.

Politico: "Germany’s Scholz rejects calls to ban Russian oil and gas"

That's exactly right

"Mid-tempo 80s boogie feel - slap bass and all - with warm keys"

Merschmellows - Soulpower (Jazzanova Rework) #music

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All those relations could not stop (allegedly fueled) a World War, one would assume relatives holding high positions in each country could act as natural ambassadors to eachother's countries, but no. They failed and now mostly disappeared.

They are all related, like inbred probably, everybody's somebody else's mother, half-brother, father, cousin, they they all have weird relations, maybe including the royal goat (royalty is a product of agrarian era, you never know what goes on in there, at those palaces. It's f--ked up).

I first heard this angle in a 2021 movie in all places, The King's Man, was pretty well done historically.

End of WWI saw the fall of two of those monarchs, and others too in Europe. Maybe they got what they deserved, paid the price for their uselessness.

"Was WWI caused by a family feud?

Far from being remote rulers who knew nothing of their enemies, the heads of state of Britain, Germany and Russia – George V, Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar Nicholas II – were first cousins who knew one another very well.

A BBC documentary screened in 2018, Royal Cousins at War, told the story of Wilhelm's difficult relationship with his parents and antipathy towards all things British and argues that this helped bring the world to the brink of war.

The three monarchs were like 'sleepwalkers stepping towards an open lift shaft', Richard Davenport-Hines says in his review of Miranda Carter's book on the subject, The Three Emperors. The events leading up to the conflict are 'a study in the envy, insincerity, festering rancour and muddle that only families can manage'.

Unlike many family feuds, however, disagreements between the royal cousins exacted a geopolitical price. 'As relationships between the royal cousins waxed and waned, so did the relationships between their countries,' the Daily Mail's Ruth Styles says"

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Interesting point on League of Nations too, that US itself would not join.. Tsck tsck tsck

Comrade Ho

Fought for self-determination but then his system devolved into dictatorship? Great job, Ho

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That'll show them.. How can a country manage wout Tiktok?

"TikTok restricts service in Russia and Netflix stops streaming"

Jane's Defense: "Russia has established an unprecedented command-and-control (C2) structure to co-ordinate its multipronged invasion of Ukraine. For the first time it is simultaneously running a major operation through the headquarters of four military districts, which are the equivalent of four-star headquarters in Western military organisations"

Gravitas Plus: Did NATO push Ukraine into war?

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Stalingrad, "the gap", Ukraine

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NATO, Russia, ambiguity #aljazeera

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The Independent: "German Embassy tweets Russia to slap down claim its troops are fighting Nazism in Ukraine.. ‘Shame on anyone who’s falling for this,’ embassy says"

We were joking abt this before but now US politics truly became Russia Russia Russia.

Zelensky might have been had by that drone help by Anatolian gov, which itself might have been spurred by Brits. They weren't helping you out of the goodness of their hearts.. If shit hit the fan over there that would be good for them bcz that would mean less pressure on Idlib (which Russia/Assad want to take back). Then there is the energy ploy.. Your war was someone else's gain.

Nooo.. losing the consultants.. What will Russia do?

Reuters: "Accounting firms KPMG and PwC to exit Russia"

Legendary investor.. who likes battery-electric cars by the way 🤨 Some legend you are

Secular peak? Going back to $12.. ?

Note: Even before Feb invasion crude was over $80

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"U.S. crude oil briefly tops $130 a barrel, a 13-year high"

I will turn Gotham into an icy graveyard make it cool

Mr Freeze in a future Batman??

H2 View: "[Washington state launched].. a new association dedicated to reducing air and water pollution, creating clean energy jobs and growing the US state into a major hydrogen producer... [The] Board [has] Tacoma Power, the Douglas County Public Utility District, Toyota Motor North America, and the Bonneville Environmental Foundation"

H2 View: "‘President Ursula von der Leyen of the European Commission, spoke of the role hydrogen can have in displacing Russian gas dependency"

H2 View: "New breakthrough catalyst-coated membrane to reduce electrolyser costs by 25%... Within lab testing, [Honeywell] has found that the technology enables higher electrolyser efficiency and higher electric current density which is estimated to also provide a 25% reduction in electrolyser stack costs"

H2 View: "Finnish start-up commits to 50 hydrogen station developments by 2030"

H2 View: "Indonesia has set its sights on the hydrogen opportunity with the country ready to utilise green hydrogen, ammonia and carbon capture and storage to reduce its carbon footprint.. This is according to Antara News, who reported that a value chain for each of these technologies will be explored in Indonesia in order to create a hub for clean energy and operations"

Different core energy sources all generating H2 fuel will automatically ensure supply availability. Most cars use gasoline -from crude oil-, much of heating uses natural gas.. But if crude oil and natural gas both generate H2, and cars and heating both use H2, then supply problems with either NG, or crude will be less important. Not to mention solar, hydro which can be used to generate clean fuel as well, adding to the supply, increasing the overall resillience of the energy system. H2/NH3 will be the "molecular lingua franca" of energy transmission, allowing all kinds of raw energy source to be used by varied types of consumption.

WION, Sharma Upadhyay, they have some interesting angles. Boy can she monologue..

Haha "We are running out of toiler paper -- maybe we should stop writing on it"

"In November of 1973, The Tonight Show host Johnny Carson made a joke about a toilet paper shortage, prompting a run on toilet paper as Americans rushed to buy every roll they could find"

♪♬ Bombs blow, let the Benjamins flow ♪♬

Jane's Defense: "Russian invasion of Ukraine to impact Pentagon budget"

The American Prospect: "The Biden Education Department Drags a Bankrupt Cancer Patient Into Court.. Despite vowing to change the way student loans are treated in bankruptcy, the administration is still using its discretion to limit payouts"

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Now Trump is going gung-ho in the other direction to offset this narrative

"@NBCNews

Former Vice President Pence to tell GOP donors in a speech Friday there 'is no room in this party for apologists for Putin,'"

"@sheslostheplot

My apartment has an app to use the washing machines and now my washing machine is sending me marketing emails"

Foolio - List Of Dead Opps - "that boy was a fighter, but, he got lit likе a lighter". The full lyrics are hard core

Yes

"@AdamSerwer

I don’t think Russian artists should be forced to take public disloyalty oaths"

Asia has huge landmass compared to Europe.. US/Canada are far from the West direction, but if RU becomes Asia/Pacific oriented, both sides can go on bickering over there.. Could be good for my native hood; Just get the f--k out, do your shit elsewhere

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Extreme case for RU, if UKR is "pacified", it will be a true buffer with the West, and RU will "decouple", the mega-sanctions will ensure that, Russia lean towards Asia.

Need that IRN gas output in case RU becomes unavailable, or at least to bring the current prices down. Crude oil too. IRN has vast NG reserves.

"Iran, IAEA hold talks as nuclear negotiations near finish line"

US stawk trouble..? Due to people or companies having investments in RU.

"Moscow to ban foreign investors from selling Russian assets"

#Mearsheimer

"Now [some are] talking about a situation where you defeat the Russians in Ukraine. This is a much worse outcome for the Russians than what happened in April 2008, and a much worse outcome .. [than] in February 2014... [The R]ussians are not going to roll over and play dead,.. they're going to crush the Ukrainians, they're going to bring out the big guns, .. to turn places like [Kyiv] and other cities in Ukraine into rubble. They're going to do Fallujas, they're going to do Mosuls, they're going to do Groznies.

[Remember] what happened in [WWII] when the United States was faced with the possibility of having to invade the Japanese home islands in early 1945. The idea of invading the Japanese home islands after what happened at Iwo Jima and then later what happened in Okinawa really spooked us, so.. we decided to burn Japanese cities to the ground starting on March 10th 1945. We killed more people the first night, we firebombed Tokyo, than we killed at either Hiroshima or Nagasaki, and we were systematically burning Japanese cities to the ground. Why? Because we did not want to invade the Japanese main islands. [This is what happens w]hen a great power feels threatened"

Mearsheimer, on Ukraine, Russia, NATO expansion

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UKR is fighting at home turf, other side will not shy away from turning all cities to rubble until it gets its 'buffer'.

News media likes stories like "Ukranian moms making molotof cocktails in their kitchen" but cant win modern wars through "moms making molotof cocktails in the kitchen".

WSJ: "Refugees Fleeing Ukraine Now Represent Biggest Movement of People in Europe Since World War II"

That's funny #batman

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Chizzle that shizzle

"@MartinNobel_

Microsoft cancelling HoloLens 3 means they know there's no actual future for a Metaverse"

The Independent: "France accuses UK of ‘lack of humanity’ after 150 Ukraine refugees turned away at Calais"

I wouldn't read too much into that

Politico: "Putin blows up Brexit.. While the EU-UK relationship has been acrimonious since the latter left the bloc, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has seen a rapprochement"