The Ukraine War Will Go On Forever...

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In article <t3n22a$5dq$2@dont-email.me>, wmartin <wwm@wwmartin.net> wrote:

On 4/19/22 10:47, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
On Tue, 19 Apr 2022 05:21:20 -0000 (UTC), Mike Monett <spamme@not.com
wrote:

The Ukraine war is a spiritual war. Spiritual wars are the most dangerous.
It will go on forever.

Nope. Methinks it\'s an economic war. Russia just finished building
an $11 billion offshore natural gas pipeline to Germany primarily to
bypass transit charges for the existing pipelines crossing Ukraine.

\"The Engineering Behind Russia\'s Deadlocked Pipeline: Nord Stream 2\"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzibtVSamrY

As the process of certifying the pipeline blundered forward, the
stumbling block seemed to be getting approval by various countries
which stood to lose transit revenue for existing pipelines:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord_Stream#Regulatory_clearance

\"Russia-Ukraine gas disputes\"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia%E2%80%93Ukraine_gas_disputes

It seems to be an amazing coincidence that Russia would invade Ukraine
just after certification negotiations were going too slow. Just
connect the (pipeline) dots and follow the money:
https://mondediplo.com/IMG/jpg/lmd_0521_13_gazoducs_rgb.jpg
Maps with much more detail:
http://www.entsog.eu/maps#transmission-capacity-map-2021

\"When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.\"
H. L. Mencken


Isn\'t there supposed to be a huge natural gas reservoir under Eastern
Ukraine? Another amazing coincidence!

Sure enough, but I find it entirely believable that religion is
used to \"inspire\" soldiers to fight.

Groetjes Albert
--
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alive and in the western country like US, people are free to
die from Covid 19 lol\" duc ha
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[Phil Hobbs]

albert wrote:

Vanadium flow batteries seem to be correct choice on technical grounds.


Yes, except that vanadium is poisonous and expensive, and there is
significant energy inefficiency in the charge/discharge cycle. If
someone figured out a good basis for flow batteries that avoid these
problems, that would be good news.

Beryllium is proposed to use in modern reactor design.
It is likewise extremely toxic, not on a par with lead or cadmium.

Heavy metal ions have the very comforting feature that they bind
strongly to clay minerals, and so don\'t go anywhere in ground water.
The Oklo natural reactor in Gabon went critical (iirc) 1.5E9 years ago,
and its fission products have travelled about a mile in that time.

Dunno about Be.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

--
Dr Philip C D Hobbs
Principal Consultant
ElectroOptical Innovations LLC / Hobbs ElectroOptics
Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics
Briarcliff Manor NY 10510

http://electrooptical.net
http://hobbs-eo.com

 

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On Tue, 26 Apr 2022 10:20:07 -0400, Phil Hobbs
<pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:

albert wrote:

Vanadium flow batteries seem to be correct choice on technical grounds.


Yes, except that vanadium is poisonous and expensive, and there is
significant energy inefficiency in the charge/discharge cycle. If
someone figured out a good basis for flow batteries that avoid these
problems, that would be good news.

Beryllium is proposed to use in modern reactor design.
It is likewise extremely toxic, not on a par with lead or cadmium.


Heavy metal ions have the very comforting feature that they bind
strongly to clay minerals, and so don\'t go anywhere in ground water.
The Oklo natural reactor in Gabon went critical (iirc) 1.5E9 years ago,
and its fission products have travelled about a mile in that time.

Dunno about Be.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

BeO is an even better heat conductor than AlN, but is deprecated
because its dust may be toxic. That\'s not a serious real-world issue.

I visited a test site (DHART, a giant linear-induction accelerator
x-ray machine) at Los Alamos. There were Be bits everywhere so we had
to wear booties and stuff to go outside.



--

Anybody can count to one.

- Robert Widlar

 

[Anthony William Sloman]

On Wednesday, April 27, 2022 at 2:03:37 AM UTC+10, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:

On Tue, 26 Apr 2022 10:20:07 -0400, Phil Hobbs
pcdhSpamM...@electrooptical.net> wrote:

albert wrote:

Vanadium flow batteries seem to be correct choice on technical grounds.


Yes, except that vanadium is poisonous and expensive, and there is
significant energy inefficiency in the charge/discharge cycle. If
someone figured out a good basis for flow batteries that avoid these
problems, that would be good news.

Beryllium is proposed to use in modern reactor design.
It is likewise extremely toxic, not on a par with lead or cadmium.


Heavy metal ions have the very comforting feature that they bind
strongly to clay minerals, and so don\'t go anywhere in ground water.
The Oklo natural reactor in Gabon went critical (iirc) 1.5E9 years ago,
and its fission products have travelled about a mile in that time.

Dunno about Be.

BeO is an even better heat conductor than AlN, but is deprecated because its dust may be toxic. That\'s not a serious real-world issue.

Beryllia dust is seriously toxic. You\'ve got to screw up to spread it around - beryllia is about as tough as alumina - but if you do you can kill people. slowly and nastily. That is a serious real-world issue even if John Larkin skipped the relevant chemistry lecture. Very fine silica and asbestos dusts present the same kinds of hazards.

https://materion.com/-/media/files/corporate/besafetyfacts/sf300-potentialhealtheffectsfromexposuretobeo.pdf

I visited a test site (DHART, a giant linear-induction accelerator x-ray machine) at Los Alamos. There were Be bits everywhere so we had to wear booties and stuff to go outside.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney