Electric blankets are 0.5-1.5 kW I believe. That's going to absolutely destroy the EU power grid if everyone uses it for 8 hours a day.
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No need for blankets, they can just use the latest nvidia rtx4090 graphics card to keep warm... its the size, weight, and power consumption of a personal heater... plus they can render a virtual fireplace in 8k with ray tracing, and its only $1600, which is cheap these days given the natural gas prices in the EU
A good thought provoking article on the tragedy that's unfolding between Russia and Ukraine and how, according to this British Academic/strategist (Dr. Mike Martin) that for all the wishing of people that war being reinvented the basic 3 tenets to be successful in War remains the same: that is Strategy, Logistics, and Morale.
I find the passage on his article particularly insightful:
"There is a deeper question about why we constantly seek to reimagine war – to say that it has changed, or that it is something that it is not. It is a very difficult question to answer, but as humans we like to imagine that new technology will help us win wars, or will help us avoid wars. Perhaps we want to avoid the brutally chaotic nature of war, or ignore the reality that it is a fight to the death. Perhaps it is something particular to democracies, whose populations like to imagine that technology can help us fight wars at arm’s length, so that they will not touch our lives.
Paradoxically, this thinking makes us more likely to fight wars, rather than less."
Please read the rest on this link:
I find the passage on his article particularly insightful:
"There is a deeper question about why we constantly seek to reimagine war – to say that it has changed, or that it is something that it is not. It is a very difficult question to answer, but as humans we like to imagine that new technology will help us win wars, or will help us avoid wars. Perhaps we want to avoid the brutally chaotic nature of war, or ignore the reality that it is a fight to the death. Perhaps it is something particular to democracies, whose populations like to imagine that technology can help us fight wars at arm’s length, so that they will not touch our lives.
Paradoxically, this thinking makes us more likely to fight wars, rather than less."
Please read the rest on this link:
solarz
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War... War never changes.
Nah, they're around 100W, very energy efficient.
It is Middleast that is pushing Europe towards China.
Saudi FM speech at UN about fossil fuel investment. The main source of energy.
if this trend continue i will not be surprised these Arabs give ultimatum to Europe chose between Lithium and Gas. This one tanker for Scholz is to show to him that Oil/Gas can become special order item . I am sure Scholz may have seen Saudi flags on UAE police cars.
The public mobilization is to find the elements in society that need to dumped. where ever they go expensive food will follow it.
It's exactly the last point about fighting wars at arms length is what would make wars more likely, because it creates the perception of a 'no cost' war for a country or political group that only needs to spend money on arms to attack someone unable to fight back, while avoiding having to shoulder serious economic or political costs for that. This however falls apart against someone with the means and will to fully reciprocate en mass.
Except the US.