CitizenK

Bots do a lot o things not just propaganda. Bots for Google, bots for Amazon and the list goes on and on.

I defer to McBeth as this is what he does not some tranny on Reddit

No, Russian propaganda bots not stopped.

SS was a ponzi scheme from day 1. It was initially a lottery won by the minority of the public who lived to see 65. It wasn't the boomers who put an IOU into the SS fund, but previous generations.

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ammonium nitrate

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Most of the plants making it are gone over the last 3 decades. Everything is 304L, glass lined or titanium.

UAN is liquid. There is no ammonium urea, its urea ammonium nitrate.

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Contrary to earlier reports, it turns out that this ship was not carrying diesel fuel, but ammonium urea.

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Urea is shipped as a solid, usually prilled.. I'm not sure what ammonium urea is. Urea is ammonia with CO2 reacted in high pressure laminated steel reactors required for such high pressures. Minerva Zen is a chemical/products tanker so wouldn't be carrying urea.

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Lower fuel prices are more important to Americans than Ukraine. That is a fact

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The remaining undamaged Nordstream pipeline needs one of those off the shelf compressors of yours.

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This deal is simple theater for morons. And worse.

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It's election season!!!

3 million metric tons is a little over 21 million barrels. I don't see this as likely even if Russia is refining is back to 100% with catalysts supplied by US and European manufacturing for hydrocrackers, cat crackers and distillate hydrotreaters. Like 99.9% of the public, Trump doesn't understand refining. Neither do Wright and Burgum. Wright was head of a ESG fracking company before becoming a member of the administration. It's niche was with pumper trucks not using diesel for their trucks or pump drivers. Perry was the only cabinet level official who understood refining in my memory

Off topic as an example of clueless reporters, there was a recent article by a graduate from Columbia's school of Journalism now for the Current, a Laffy based outlet. She questioned whether the area had the skilled labor high tech enough, She had no clue that the several top contractors in the nation were all based in Louisiana, whether building lines in Silicon Valley or installing equipment in data centers. It has been that way since the early 1980s. Louisiana is the top provider of I&E labor there is.

The journalism grads there from ULL (aka Oo La La) just as far leftist and clueless. Laffy is where geosteerable drilling was developed.

Simple searches show that assets owned by Lukoil OUTSIDE of Russia are being sold off, not those in Russia. That was a half truth fake news report. There are a number of entities interested in them, mostly out of the Middle East.

One of Enron's worst deals was in India where their transmission line was controlled by government sources. Those Harvard MBAs celebrated how they made a great deal (on paper), They were then squeezed by the government and lost the entire asset they purchased from the Indian government.

The compressors supplying Nordstream (1) crashed from hydrates forming in the feeder pipeline and hitting the rotor like gravel would. Nothing was flowing before blowing up the lines. As Penrod noted, automatic shutdown with check valves closing maintained the existing pressure in the pipes and a lot of natural gas to flow when pressure relieved. Clueless journalists all reported it was the turbines. These are gas turbine driven centrifugal compressors, and I suspect vertical spit case axial compressor.

This is no different than the clueless politicians in NOLA and the former PhD (in Public Policy) who always blamed pump failures on (steam) turbines when they were shorted out generators. They used the pronunciation of TURBYNE when every swinging dick in engineering, maintenance, and operations in the US uses the pronunciation of TURBIN since pre WWII.

In large, journalists are morons when it comes to anything above good writing and speaking skills. Geoanalysts like Peter Zeihan don't know shiite from shinola about crude oil/refining, and natural gas/processing which he shows every single video he expounds on the subject. On these subjects he is clueless, as is my personal friend Ariel Cohen or our mutual friend Jack Wheeler (an aide to Reagan for the small wars strategy against the USSR). Ariel has learned some on these topics but still lacking. Jack actually believed that Louisiana could shut THE valve and turn off 1/3 of oil and gas for the US.