Hempy McNoodle
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So, now we are sending our natural gas to Germany... because "fuck America!," right? Our energy costs weren't high enough for Biden and the Deep State.
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So, now we are sending our natural gas to Germany... because "fuck America!," right? Our energy costs weren't high enough for Biden and the Deep State.
Montuno
...como el Son...
What is your opinion about this article? In my opinion, the great dependence on Russian gas has been the main reason for the concessions that Germany seemed willing to make at first, and for its "timid" position until the Russian invasion was a fact.:
¿Hasta qué punto depende Alemania del gas ruso?
24/02/2022
FRANKFURT/BRUSELAS, 24 feb (Reuters) – Las fuerzas rusas invadieron Ucrania el jueves, haciendo subir los precios del gas en Europa y aumentando la atención sobre el suministro de gas en países como Alemania, que es la mayor economía de Europa y que importa la mayor parte del gas que consume.Read full story
Los precios del gas holandés TRGBNBPWKD subieron entre un 30% y un 40% el jueves en medio de la preocupación por las interrupciones del suministro, aunque los flujos de exportación de gas, petróleo y otras materias primas rusas a Occidente se mantuvieron estables en las horas posteriores al inicio de la invasión.
Rusia suministra más de un tercio del gas de Europa.
El canciller alemán, Olaf Scholz, detuvo el martes el nuevo gasoducto Nord Stream 2, diseñado para llevar más gas natural ruso a Alemania, después de que Moscú reconociera formalmente dos regiones escindidas en el este de Ucrania.
Esta es la situación actual del sector del gas en Alemania.
¿CUÁLES SON LAS CIFRAS?
En 2021, Alemania importó 142.000 millones de metros cúbicos (bcm) de gas, un 6,4% menos que en 2020, según la oficina de estadísticas de comercio exterior BAFA, que no identifica el origen de las importaciones.
El uso doméstico de gas fue de 100 bcm en 2021, dijo el grupo de la industria de servicios públicos BDEW.
Alemania cuenta con 24 bcm de cavernas subterráneas de almacenamiento de gas. Una quinta parte de esa cantidad corresponde a Rehden, una unidad propiedad de la empresa de almacenamiento Astora, que a su vez es propiedad de la empresa rusa Gazprom GAZP.MM. Así, la capacidad total de almacenamiento podría satisfacer una cuarta parte del consumo anual de gas de Alemania.
Las cavernas de almacenamiento alemanas están actualmente llenas en un 30%, según datos del grupo industrial Gas Infrastructure Europe.
La producción nacional de gas alcanzó su punto máximo en los años 90 y ahora sólo cubre el 5% del consumo anual.
El mes pasado, el director general de la empresa alemana de servicios públicos Uniper UN01.DE cifró en la mitad la cuota de Rusia en el suministro de gas de Alemania, aunque esta cifra puede fluctuar de un mes a otro.
Los datos del análisis de ICIS sobre el suministro alemán mostraron que en diciembre de 2021 el gas ruso por gasoducto representaba el 32%, el gas noruego el 20% y el holandés el 12%, con un almacenamiento del 22% y el resto de otras fuentes menores, incluida la producción nacional.
“Rusia en su papel (de proveedor de gas) no puede ser sustituida durante los próximos años”, dijo Maubach.
¿POR QUÉ NECESITA ALEMANIA EL GAS?
La quema de gas representó el 15,3% de la generación de electricidad alemana el año pasado, según el BDEW.
La pérdida de una gran parte de las importaciones de gas – de cualquier fuente – podría requerir un aumento a corto plazo de la generación con carbón en el país o la importación de energía de los vecinos para llenar el vacío.
La situación es más grave en la calefacción de los hogares, donde el gas mantiene caliente a la mitad de los 41,5 millones de hogares alemanes, y en la industria manufacturera, donde sectores como el de la cerámica no pueden producir sin el combustible.
¿QUÉ OTROS LAZOS TIENE ALEMANIA CON RUSIA?
Alemania y Rusia mantienen desde hace décadas una sólida asociación para el suministro de energía. Se estableció durante la Guerra Fría y se mantuvo fuerte a pesar de los altibajos en las relaciones bilaterales.
Alemania no sólo necesita el gas de Rusia. Según la BAFA, el 34% del crudo alemán procedió de Rusia en 2021, y el grupo del carbón VDKi dijo que el 53% de la hulla que recibieron los generadores de electricidad y las siderúrgicas alemanas procedió de Rusia el año pasado.
¿CAERÁ LA DEMANDA DE GAS?
Al final debería hacerlo, para cumplir los compromisos de Alemania de reducir las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero. La calefacción con gas se irá eliminando a largo plazo en favor de las bombas de calor y otras alternativas.
Pero en la generación de energía, se espera que el uso del gas aumente durante un periodo de transición en virtud de los planes de eliminación del carbón y la energía nuclear.
El consumo futuro dependerá de la velocidad de implantación de las energías renovables en Alemania y de si se puede aprovechar el hidrógeno de bajas emisiones producido a partir de fuentes renovables como la eólica y la solar para sustituir al gas fósil.
La Agencia Internacional de la Energía ha señalado que los compromisos climáticos de los países reducirán la demanda europea de gas a 504 bcm en 2030, frente a los 596 bcm de 2020, aunque, atendiendo a las “políticas declaradas” de los gobiernos, sólo disminuirá ligeramente hasta los 587 bcm. La AIE no presenta un desglose por países.
¿QUÉ ALTERNATIVAS TIENE ALEMANIA?
En los últimos meses, los funcionarios de la UE han buscado suministros de gas alternativos en países como Estados Unidos, Qatar, Azerbaiyán y Japón, en medio de la escalada de tensiones con Rusia, el mayor proveedor de gas de la UE.
Las importaciones europeas de gas natural licuado (GNL) alcanzaron un récord de casi 11.000 millones de metros cúbicos en enero, y casi la mitad proceden de Estados Unidos.
En Europa, el GNL se recibe en Gran Bretaña, a lo largo de la costa noroccidental europea y en el Mediterráneo, una industria aún joven y en crecimiento. Alemania no cuenta con una infraestructura nacional de GNL, pero la terminal de desembarco holandesa Gate, con una capacidad de manipulación de 12 bcm, abastece a los clientes del oeste de Alemania.
Europa compite con los compradores asiáticos para conseguir cargamentos en los mercados mundiales de GNL, donde las oscilaciones de la demanda pueden provocar precios volátiles y elevados.
En cuanto al gas por gasoducto, las empresas europeas tienen acuerdos de compra renovados con Rusia de hasta 30 años de duración, con opciones de compra y vinculados a puntos de referencia acordados, como el petróleo o los precios al contado en los centros virtuales de comercio de gas europeos.
El conocimiento de cuándo se renuevan los contratos y en qué condiciones depende de las contrapartes, y la transparencia puede ser mínima.
(Información de Vera Eckert y Kate Abnett; edición de Alexander Smith)
Montuno
...como el Son...
We will have to see if China is interested in abandoning its commercial strategy, which has already almost predestined it to be the 1st World Power, to move on to military adventures for "small" islands or historical/nationalist discourses...
Montuno
...como el Son...
Ukraine may not be a utopian paradise of democracy, but it is far less fascist than Putin and his Russia.
The party that governs Ukraine, I believe, would be Center or Center-Right in the E.U.
Its president is Jewish, I believe.
And the ultra-right and neo-Nazi groups do not have institutional representation in Ukraine, I believe; which is the case in E.U. countries.
(But I am not quite sure about the last I am telling you).
Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
Montuno
...como el Son...
You don't understand me... The USA is interested in this: the gas that it used to EQUALLY sell in other markets further away (Asia), can now be sold closer (Europe) and at a higher price.
Up to 40 percent extra profit, selling gas to Europe=.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ele...caro-que-Rusia
The gas issue is key here: there was not only the big difference in positions between Germany and Spain. There are also different interests in being an alternative to Russian gas: Spain have a project with Africa that could make it independent from Russia and the USA in gas supply: this also probably explains why Biden, in spite of thanking the risky and continuous interceptions of Russian fighter-bombers on the eastern European border of the NATO with Russia by the Spanish Air Force, did not want to meet privately with the Spanish President.
https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medgaz
Wrong. You just think up weird crap like that because you think everything has something to do with your conspiracy theories.
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Brother Nature
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I hope Biden knows about Russias cobalt bomb defense strategy...
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I think everybody knows that if Russia gets attacked there's a guaranteed mutual destruction for the rest of us (or most of us).
Bulletface
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Well there are a few points worth making about your "evidence" first of all it relies heavily on tactics used in more recent times to make the inference of "If we did it now then surely we must have done it then". Second the main accuser making the strongest case was Senator Joseph McCarthy who has his own rather questionable an unethical history and third and perhaps most importantly the source comes from a blog that is currently inaccessible due to: "This blog is under review due to possible Blogger Terms of Service violations and is open to authors only" Now granted since neither myself nor most likely you were authors of that blog we can't look and find out what the issue is exactly. It could be that there were blatant misrepresentations of facts or it could be due to inappropriate reactions to what was posted as facts. Given that we can't determine which is which the only fair and logical thing to do is rule this reporting as highly suspect and not worthy of being represented as fact. Especially in light of the fact that your other example of such brutal mistreatment of prisoners by the British and Polish in your post about Rudolf Höss came decades after the fact based on the opinion developed by a well known Holocaust denier (Robert Faurisson). Then again I'm guessing you don't anticipate people scrutinizing your "evidence" that carefully.
Bonaparte & Hitler were the only two i can come up with at the moment that actually ATTACKED Russia. Japan & Russia had a bit of a tiff way back, but i'm not up to date on who started it. but you can't let them just "annex" whatever the fuck they want for fear they won't like it when you say "no"....their economy is knee-deep in shit except for oil & gas exports, so economic sanctions may work...eventually. the prices for those commodities is rising, but who is going to want to buy from them since THEY are the reason the price is going up? they don't have the money for a long war, nor can they afford prolonged sanctions. they obviously don't care to lose soldiers, but their wallet is their weak spot. like in boxing, you don't have to knock them out to win, enough hard body shots & they just quit. JMHO
i believe (and may well be wrong) that China is going to watch from the sidelines how Russian aggression is handled by the democracies, and how Russia fares with the sanctions coming. China is just now stepping firmly onto the world stage. it would be a huge step backwards for them politically(and economically) in the eyes of the world to go into Taiwan. letting them be is the smart move. invading them would only prove what many countries think & say quietly already. they don't NEED Taiwan after all, and the "long game" strategy they have followed (so far) says "if we NEED to...we can, and easily. but we don't..." if China had been more flexible in their dealings with Hong Kong, and allowed them most of the freedoms they already enjoyed, Taiwan might have rejoined China of their own free will. we'll never know now, though.
I'm pretty sure he was being sarcastic Russia has long been trying to frame Ukraine as a Nazi influenced nation even though they've never been able to produce evidence of such claims and it ignores the fact that Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky is Jewish. Seems a bit of a stretch to paint a country run by a President that is Jewish would engage in Nazi like behavior. It's also worth noting that the USSR had no problem with the Nazi's until Hitler broke the secret treaty they had with Hitler to split up Czechoslovakia and Poland, later after he felt the USSR was no longer a threat. It was only after that betrayal that the USSR went on the offensive against Hitler's Nazi forces. It's also interesting to note that Putin more recently made it a jailable offense for anyone in Russia to research or report this less then appealing aspect of Russia's role in WWII or to mention any of the many other less then admirable behaviors the Soviet forces engaged in while cooperating with Germany.
desperate for attention. if he was North Korea, he would be launching missiles into the Sea of Japan...
that fat little fuck's people are starving, and he's launching multi-million dollar "look at me!" signs out into the sea...i'm surprised one of his bodyguards hasn't shot him yet, myself.
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In fact, @armedolhippy , there is a black humour joke circulating in Spain that says that if the Ukrainian population wants to protect themselves from the Russian bombardment, don't run to basements, subways or bomb shelters = it's much safer and more comfortable to stay in a Chinese restaurant...
