Comments by "David Himmelsbach" (@davidhimmelsbach557) on "Gazprom to cut gas deliveries to Bulgaria and Poland | Ukraine latest" video.
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The Soviets were Big into central planning -- and central heating.
After WWII, they pushed the Soviet bloc towards a single heating solution for all urban areas: a socialist heating plant -- usually near the center of town.
Nearby because, like Con Ed in New York City, these plants pumped steam and hot water to high rise buildings nearby, which didn't have their own boilers.
The original fuel was coal, later oil -- and still later natural gas.
These utilities are still in use. They are still multi-fuel -- usually. Natural gas was finally adopted because Putin made it cheap.
Middle distillate oil (heating fuel oil) had become rather pricey.
This scheme runs through Poland, Bulgaria - and I suspect - even Romania. It has a lot of advantages -- especially social control.
Uppity citizens can have their heat cut off PDQ. You can see it's appeal to Moscow.
What all of this means: a tremendous amount of Putin's lost gas can be replaced at a stroke by middle distillate imports. (Yanbu, KSA?)
It's the price that's a pain. The West should pitch in with some subsidies for front-line eastern NATO nations.
Next, Poland needs to start fracking natural gas from its own massive deposits.
Britain, France, Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Belarus all sit atop a massive continental scale tight sand, frackable, seam.
Where ancient geology permitted, (Holland) this gas accumulated into a plain vanilla natural gas deposit.
Putin's cash has gone to various Green factions to stop European fracking. Now you know why. Europe doesn't ultimately need American nat gas.
And natural gas is as green as a fossil fuel can get. BTW, it was not created from fossils, usually.
Methane was trapped during Earth's birth. It's everywhere in the outer planets. So there's no surprise about where it came from.
Methane with absolutely no C14 = non-biological origin. Most methane has this character. Didn't you know that?
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