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Hot Water In Hot Waters: German City Might Be Rationing Heating Soon
https://thedeepdive.ca/hot-water-in-hot … ting-soon/
As Germany considers all possible scenarios should Russia decide to cut off all its gas exports to the West, the city of Hamburg could be facing possible rationing of hot water and limited heater usage–according to its environment senator.
The comments come after Russia, Germany’s main source of gas, has cut down exports through the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline by 40%.
“In an acute gas shortage, warm water could only be made available at certain times of the day in an emergency,” said Hamburg Senator for the Environment Jens Kerstan in a local newspaper.
Germany preparing to ration hot water as the Russia energy crisis escalates
https://twitter.com/Hartes_Geld/status/ … 1974633472 , https://twitter.com/AMV27092014/status/ … 9901479945 , https://twitter.com/Hartes_Geld/status/ … 7049268227 , https://twitter.com/Zusatzaccount/statu … 0947619842
Hamburg faces hot water rationing as German gas crisis deepens. The German chancellor warned of “socially explosive” rises in energy bills.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0912 … 520bf43644
Ukraine-linked energy crisis reopens Germany's heated debate on nuclear power
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/artic … 23_19.html
Nuclear winter in Germany
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/20 … n-germany/
Even In Gas Crisis, Germany Refuses Nuclear Power
https://www.capitalmadrid.com/2022/7/5/ … power.html
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There are many cultures that have common baths and think nothing of it.
Bathing Culture Around the World
Finland. We all love a good sauna, and Finland was the originator of the practice, where the average Finn still saunas...
Japan. Due to volcanic activity, Japan is replete with natural hot springs, and the people there have built up thousands...
Korea. The Korean jimjilbang is the Korean version of the spa. Centered around the sauna,
https://homeforeverbaths.com/bathing-cu … -the-world
This can also be religious in nature as well.
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The smelly country. Maybe the coal smoke will cover the smell of BO in Germany? In spite of its green BS ideology, Germany burns more coal than any other country in Europe. It is the dirty man of Europe. France is the clean man of Europe. Two countries, two diametrically opposed energy strategies. One an absolute failure, the other an absokute success. Very soon, Germany may become the poor man of Europe. When factories close for lack of fuel, manufacturers go elsewhere for their components. Maybe the French will take mercy on them and send them a few thousand GWh of power this winter?
The only possible silver lining to the now inevitable crisis: If Germany gets a hard winter and gas supplies are insufficient to keep people warm, then Green politicians will be dipped in shit as far as the voting public are concerned. These flower power deep red pretenders, are long overdue a reckoning. People are happy to entertain idealistic politics so long as they are wealthy and there are no consequences for them. But the idealists have now vandalised the energy supply. That is about to have consequences that will be real for everyone.
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"Plan and prepare for every possibility, and you will never act. It is nobler to have courage as we stumble into half the things we fear than to analyse every possible obstacle and begin nothing. Great things are achieved by embracing great dangers."
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Perhaps this rationing or controlled distribution of goods might upset the Germans
However in regards to other peoples culture South Korea is close to the Asian fault zone, it can have 'hot springs' and there is tectonic relationship between Korea, China and Japanese system, Icelandic cultures and Japanese cultures have grown and evolved on the site of a natural geothermal heat pump.
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Nuclear Energy has been listed as Eco-Energy
European Parliament backs listing nuclear energy, gas as 'green' in narrow vote
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There is no 'green'. There is no energy source that is good, or pure or righteous. These idiots just don't seem to get it. These are all just banal technologies, made from steel and concrete. Everything we build displaces nature and has impacts to some degree or another. A solar farm is a monstrosity that displaces all other life on hundreds of square miles of land. The amount of materials needed to build it is obscene and the mining needed will ruin a lot of places. Wind turbines are giant bird blenders that dominate country-sized areas of land and water. Nuclear powerplants are concrete monstrosities that dominate the land that they occupy. Natural gas plants require wells that must be drilled. This poisons groundwater. They release CO2 and vent methane through pipework. Coal plants each require tens of millions of tonnes of fuel per year. They belch air pollution, the mining ruins thousands of square miles of land and combustion generates megatonnes of toxic ash, filled with heavy metals.
Nothing about any of these things is virtuous or good. It is only ever a case of some things looking relatively good compared to others. But as far as the birds, the mammals and tortoises are concerned, none of these things are 'green'. Some just happen to kill more of their furry freinds than others.
"Plan and prepare for every possibility, and you will never act. It is nobler to have courage as we stumble into half the things we fear than to analyse every possible obstacle and begin nothing. Great things are achieved by embracing great dangers."
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Calliban,
Energy sources, of all possible things, has become the new religion. I never would've guessed that, but it's pretty hard to miss these days.
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International unit to probe pipeline blasts: Germany
https://www.thelocal.de/20221001/german … -minister/
Denmark views Nord Stream pipeline leaks as 'deliberate actions'
https://www.dw.com/en/denmark-views-nor … a-63251217
Sweden sends diving vessel to probe leaking Nord Stream pipelines
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/s … es-2983311
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Germany is becoming expert at defeating itself
https://www.economist.com/europe/2023/0 … ing-itself
Bureaucracy and strategic blunders are starting to pile up
from last year
German government faces legal action over air pollution
https://www.politico.eu/article/citizen … pollution/
Berlin failed to align its air quality laws with latest science, claimants argue.
"This leaves people breathing in air that contains up to four or five times the amount of toxic pollution than scientists know is dangerous — and authorities with no mandate to change the situation," ClientEarth said in a statement.
While air pollution levels in German cities dropped in past years and now often comply with EU legislation, they exceed what is considered safe based on the WHO's latest recommendations.
The claimants — who include parents acting on behalf of their children, as well as people affected by asthma in four German cities — say that constitutes an infringement of their fundamental rights.
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'Colombians told to shower with a friend as drought hits capital water supplies'
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