Well that wasn’t what I expected to hear. I’m curious why their heating supplies are falling/failing. Isn’t oil the one thing they actually have an excess of?
They may have the resources, but getting them where they’re needed can be a challenge. Russia has demonstrated multiple times it’s lacking in terms of logistics capabilities, but I think it could happen to any country, even the best organized.
That, and they might be selling the oil and gas abroad to finance the war.
These are just conjectures. I don’t have any proof.
Oil gets too viscose if it gets too cold. It turns into syrup. The other thing is that city central heating is a great system, if it is well maintained. If you lack the ressources and oversight and the system fails it is difficult to get back on track. Worst risk is the pipes in the houses or to the houses freezing. The expanding water will burst them and you need to redo the whole piping.
Normally for ground laid pipes in moderate climates it os not an issues as they are laid below the level until which the ground may freezes. But god knows if that was done properly and how deep that needs to be in Siberia.
To roughly paraphrase Bill Whittle: Equal shares of the commune’s cows are the answer, until someone has to get up to milk at 4 am in the winter in Wisconsin.
Please, apply this aphorism to the communal boilers in Moscow’s suburbs. The Telegraph pod says that as of 1-11-24, the heat has been down for about a week and the boilers are “inaccessible”, in the basement of an long-closed arms factory. No one is taking responsibility.
Well that wasn’t what I expected to hear. I’m curious why their heating supplies are falling/failing. Isn’t oil the one thing they actually have an excess of?
That’s the problem with an economy that depends on energy exports when you’re being sanctioned and have a war to fund.
They may have the resources, but getting them where they’re needed can be a challenge. Russia has demonstrated multiple times it’s lacking in terms of logistics capabilities, but I think it could happen to any country, even the best organized.
That, and they might be selling the oil and gas abroad to finance the war.
These are just conjectures. I don’t have any proof.
Oil gets too viscose if it gets too cold. It turns into syrup. The other thing is that city central heating is a great system, if it is well maintained. If you lack the ressources and oversight and the system fails it is difficult to get back on track. Worst risk is the pipes in the houses or to the houses freezing. The expanding water will burst them and you need to redo the whole piping. Normally for ground laid pipes in moderate climates it os not an issues as they are laid below the level until which the ground may freezes. But god knows if that was done properly and how deep that needs to be in Siberia.
To roughly paraphrase Bill Whittle: Equal shares of the commune’s cows are the answer, until someone has to get up to milk at 4 am in the winter in Wisconsin.
Please, apply this aphorism to the communal boilers in Moscow’s suburbs. The Telegraph pod says that as of 1-11-24, the heat has been down for about a week and the boilers are “inaccessible”, in the basement of an long-closed arms factory. No one is taking responsibility.