Ukraine - Russia Conflict
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On the morning of July 30, an attempt by Ukrainian UAVs to attack objects in the city of Moscow was thwarted. One of the Ukrainian UAVs was reportedly destroyed in the air by air defense systems over the territory of the Odintsovo district of the Moscow region. Two more drones were suppressed by electronic warfare and, having lost control, crashed on the territory of the Moscow City office building complex.
Footage of a night battle between a Russian and Ukrainian tank in April near Kremennaya has been published, the models of both tanks are unknown. A Ukrainian tank reportedly drove into position and was spotted by a Russian tank crew. The Russian tank fired the first shot, first with a guided missile, then the second shot was fired with HEAT ammunition. It was not possible to find out the model of the affected tank, since by the morning it was evacuated by Ukrainian units.
Footage of a night battle between a Russian and Ukrainian tank in April near Kremennaya has been published, the models of both tanks are unknown. A Ukrainian tank reportedly drove into position and was spotted by a Russian tank crew. The Russian tank fired the first shot, first with a guided missile, then the second shot was fired with HEAT ammunition. It was not possible to find out the model of the affected tank, since by the morning it was evacuated by Ukrainian units.
It's a protectionist measure that shuts off their market to foreign competition.
The EU is yet to create a similar subsidy system.
It has nothing to do with contraceptives, it has more to do with access to advanced healthcare. India's TFR was high in the past, but it fell to 2-3 in the 90s and 2.1 in the 2010s and today it's less than 2m, ie, below replaceable rate.
It was an asset price bubble within Japan.
Than due to currency devaluation, which they use to boost car and electronics exports. GDP/Capita PPP:
Japan GDP per capita PPP
The Gross Domestic Product per capita in Japan was last recorded at 46268.42 US dollars in 2023, when adjusted by purchasing power parity (PPP). The GDP per Capita, in Japan, when adjusted by Purchasing Power Parity is equivalent to 260 percent of the world's average. This page provides - Japan...tradingeconomics.com
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The US upset their applecart, that's how trade wars work. And the Japanese screwed themselves up even more because they didn't have the level of sovereignty necessary to deal with it in other ways. So they decided to explode instead.
Yes, this part was useless to them. But it still killed the Japanese.
A combination of creating IP of its own and checking the growth of others.
You think India and China cannot create such things in the future? Hell, China's already done it.
For the first time, energy will be created in a lab, and that's the gameplan for energy-independence for many countries, hydrogen. It's gonna take until 2030-35 to bear fruit.
Take India's case, because of energy imports, our currency is always under pressure. In 2010 or so Citibank predicted that India will be a $6T economy in 2020. And their prediction turned out to be right, except a weak currency killed it. India's exchange rate back then was Rs 45 vs 82 today. Based on IMF data, we are at $3.75T, assuming Rs 80, in INR our economy is worth Rs 300T today. Had the rupee been stable at 45, our GDP today would have been $6.7T. That's how much of an impact energy has on India.
So we have no leeway to make bad decisions. And the US has the ability to upset the applecart, enough to further weaken our economy and delay our growth by a decade or more. Since we are completely dependent on energy imports, our economy can be destroyed overnight if necessary.
It's also why we buy a lot of oil from American enemies. Our biggest suppliers back then were Iran/Iraq, even Venezuela, and now Russia. It's to counterbalance American influence in the OPEC.
There's no such thing as free energy. To create energy, you need to use even more energy.
Germany in WW2 could create synthetic fuel (Fischer–Tropsch process). They still had fuel shortages.
Agree.
What do you mean? That would be unsustainable.
What are you talking about? Explain.
Thermodynamics. On the very long scale, the universe is unsustainable.
Hydrogen is abundant, but it's mixed in with other things, such as oxygen in water (H2O). To get pure hydrogen that can be used as fuel, you need to extract it, for example from water, by electrolysis, a process that is quite energy hungry.
The basic idea is to use renewable, but intermittent energy sources like wind and solar to power hydrogen extraction, because hydrogen once obtained can be stored and consumed at leisure. So hydrogen should not be seen as an energy source, but as an energy storage medium. Like batteries. Or other forms of synthetic fuels. One thing is sure, you'll never get as much energy back. 100% efficiency is physically impossible, at all steps of the process: the generation of electricity from solar or wind is not 100% efficient, the transmission of electricity to the hydrogen plant is not 100% efficient, the water splitting is not 100% efficient, the capture of emitted hydrogen gas is not 100% efficient, the retention of stored hydrogen is not 100% efficient, the burning of hydrogen fuel to power a machine to generate mechanical movement is not 100% efficient, and the conversion of mechanical movement back to electricity is not 100% efficient. When you factor all these percentages together, you're lucky if you end up with something like 10% efficiency overall; I'd expect low single digit efficiency.
As long as you control the production across the chain, it's free energy from the perspective of the country.
It's not a problem for you, your currency is in demand, you can just print more. But we have to earn your currency to pay. We can't print it.
If countries are insividuals, India lives paycheck to paycheck whereas the West is a thriving businessman.
The EU ETS.
Everything to do with contraceptives but it hasn't been beneficial, China's population has grown half as fast and their economy is many times larger.
When India's doing as well as Japan let us know.
Second largest car exporters and 3rd largest electronics exporters.
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China copied a whole lot before it did anything for itself. And it's always the first to invent something that has the most benefit.
In 2035 we'll still be having this conversation.
Everything exists in a vacuum in your world doesn't it. A weaker currency has made your exports stronger.
You've made yourself dependent on lunatics is all I see.
Disagree. As explained in #19251.
You as an individual has to pay, but the country isn't footing the bill, only you are. Right now, the country is footing the bill. The govt has to sacrifice sovereignty, balance trade and current account in order to afford your lifestyle. When the country is not footing the bill, ie, not forced to conform to international standards to sustain its own economy, then that's free for the country. In fact, if you as an individual produce and export energy, then it's not just free, but the country even earns money from it.
We don't have to dig it out of the ground, like oil, coal and uranium. We can produce energy in a factory.
Solar plants produce the electricity for electrolysis of water in a device called an electrolyser. The hydrogen from it can power gas turbines and fuel cells, which can take over electricity generation and power vehicles, even aircraft. This will cut out the need to import oil, and this way the country will become energy-independent and free from sanctions.
It's estimated that green hydrogen will become affordable before 2030, $2 per Kg. Once that happens, it's gonna scale up very quickly.
In concept cars today, 5Kg of hydrogen can power a sedan up to 800Km. And this is gonna improve. And at $2 per Kg, that's $10 for 800Km. You can imagine what distance you get for petrol cars at that rate. Both Ambani and Adani claim they will achieve a kilogram at $1.
If they achieve that, then India will most likely become the cheapest producer of hydrogen in the world.
While Ambani is difficult to touch, Adani was attacked by the US via Hindenburg in order to delay their hydrogen projects. Luckily it failed.
Solar panels aren't that much cheap, and the most efficient Panels are Produced in China.
Panels---->Hydrogen generation--->Energy generation.
How Efficient this whole process is going to be?
I hope this becomes true...
Let's assume H2 as an ideal gas and apply P*V=n*R*T.
5kg of H2 = 2500 Moles, T = 300k( Ambient temperature of a Car) V=33 litre
Then pressure comes at 186.4 atm... That's Bonkers....Do we have any material hoop stress is going to sustain this amount of pressure?
Another Conspiracy Theory by Desi John Nash....
Social networks publish photos and videos of documents of the Ministry of Digital Transformation of the Russian Federation (located in the building of the IQ quarter in Moscow City), which were blown out of the office by a blast wave after the attack by Ukrainian UAVs.
I think nuclear-electric is the way to go. Producing hydrogen involves a lot of energy transfers and waste.Solar panels aren't that much cheap, and the most efficient Panels are Produced in China.
Panels---->Hydrogen generation--->Energy generation.
How Efficient this whole process is going to be?
I hope this becomes true...
Let's assume H2 as an ideal gas and apply P*V=n*R*T.
5kg of H2 = 2500 Moles, T = 300k( Ambient temperature of a Car) V=33 litre
Then pressure comes at 186.4 atm... That's Bonkers....Do we have any material hoop stress is going to sustain this amount of pressure?
Another Conspiracy Theory by Desi John Nash....
Hydrogen cars won’t overtake electric vehicles because they’re hampered by the laws of science
Everyone loves the idea of H2 cars, but they come with a huge disadvantage.
theconversation.com
Hydrogen ICE