Ukraine is famous for its incredibly fertile, dark black soil, named chornozem (чорнозем - literally “black ground”), which is why Ukraine is one of the agricultural juggernauts of the world.

However, when the frozen ground thaws and the snow of winter melts in the spring, that fertile чорнозем turns into horrific mud that is the nightmare of any heavy vehicle driver. Trying to push an offensive in Spring, especially in Ukraine, is bound to result in hundreds of armored vehicles getting stuck in the mud.

Jesus Christ, literally just yesterday they were saying that they were considering allowing Sweden to join along with Finland. It’s like they flip back and forth every day.

The most apt description that I saw in the comments of another thread was “It wouldn’t be Türkiye without the schizophrenic politics.”

The hydrogen fuel can be used for a variety of things. It can be used to power backup generators to keep the power supply from the turbines steady during periods of calm or no wind, it can be exported to the shore via pipeline to use for vehicles, making hydrogen fuel cells, use as a rocket propellant, or simply as energy storage.

Excess energy generated by the grid that doesn’t get used ends up essentially wasted; if the energy is converted to another form (say, using the electricity generated by a wind turbine in electrolysis to split water into hydrogen and oxygen), then it can be stored long-term. Thus, if power generation goes down due to weather conditions, or demand goes up due to increased energy consumption, the energy stored as hydrogen can be used to fuel generators to put it back into the grid and meet the demand.

Ah yes, because BMW and Mitsubishi are still the exact same companies that they were 80 years ago. No change whatsoever, no sir. It’s not like people, companies, and countries can have massive change over several generations.

I mean, at least they’re probably far better off in US detention centers than being thrown into a Russian prison for opposing the regime. Far less likely to “accidentally” fall out a window to their death, or be sent to a concentration camp, or be subjected to brutal torture.