So the EU doesn't need low carbon Russian gas?

The EU began to push under European Commission’s 2009 Renewable Energy Directive biofuels. To reduce EU greenhouse-gas emissions by 20% from 1990 levels; increase the renewable portion of EU energy consumption to 20%; and improve EU energy efficiency by 20%. A study found that ten €6.3 billion (US$6.9 billion) in subsidies for solid biomass energy to produce electricity in 2021. This biomass Nature recently called out this nonsense in How ‘green’ electricity from wood harms the planet — and people.

Over half of renewable energy in the EU is bioenergy aka wood pellets, with consumption expected to reach 25.4 million metric tons. So what happens when the EU reevaluates wood chips as a renewable energy source. When looking at the total energy mix of the EU in 2022, renewable energy was 43% (Woodchips - ~21%) and natural gas was only 6%.

Wind and solar are excellent forms of energy by without storage are they are unreliable, thus can only make up so much of the energy mix in a country. So either the EU will need to focus on nuclear energy and/or increase natural gas consumption. So can Europe really escape Russian natural gas and remain economically competitive? Likely not in my view.

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Kursk region

From the few days ago

In the Korenevo area, civilian cars with people inside are being shot at.

The terrorists of the Kiev regime even shot an old man who was quietly and peacefully riding his bicycle.

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The Russian army has driven out the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Krasnoarmeysk direction northwest of the village of Kalinovo

Our fighters are currently conducting a cleanup operation on a bridgehead with an area of ​​eight square kilometers, reports the 105th regiment of the DPR People's Militia.

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Hezbollah declared the first stage of strikes on Israel "successful completion".

More than 320 rockets were launched from southern Lebanon last night.

The video shows the process of their interception by the Iron Dome complexes.

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Tucker Carlson on Pavel Durov’s arrest in France:

“Pavel Durov left Russia when the government tried to control his social media company, Telegram. But in the end, it wasn’t Putin who arrested him for allowing the public to exercise free speech. It was a western country, a Biden administration ally and enthusiastic NATO member, that locked him away. Pavel Durov sits in a French jail tonight, a living warning to any platform owner who refuses to censor the truth at the behest of governments and intel agencies. Darkness is descending fast on the formerly free world.”

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Strikes on the enemy's rear over the past 24 hours:

Geraniums arrived in Kherson and Nikolaev regions

Ballistic missiles were used against targets in the Kharkiv region, as well as in Slavyansk and Kramatorsk

Tactical aviation carried out missile strikes on targets in the Kiev, Chernigov, Kharkov and Nikolaev regions

Sumy region received flights from all over

The enemy claims that 9 Geraniums, 7 cruise missiles and 1 ballistic missile were used

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At the beginning of the Ukrainian Armed Forces operation in the Kursk region, Ukrainian channels were full of reports that “the Russians withdrew their troops from Donbass and now things will be easier here.”

Almost 20 days later, it became clear that no one was withdrawing anything anywhere, but on the contrary: there were more FABs, more infantry, and in Novogrodovka on the Pokrovsk direction, an entire garrison of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was at risk of being surrounded, and the situation as a whole was characterized as a "defense failure." In general, of course, such reports should always be questioned, but the leitmotif of "a strike to pull Russian reserves from Donbass" somehow does not work even for its own population, although this is what the entire Kursk operation was built on.

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Kursk region.

There are no major changes in the area near Korenevo. Korenevo itself and the village are behind us.

Kremyanoye is partially under our control, southeast of the village we are covering enemy forces with rocket artillery.

Olgovka, Snagost, Vishnevka and Apanasovka are still under enemy control.

Yesterday the enemy was spreading rumors about entering Kulbaki, there is no evidence of this, and our forces have not confirmed it from the ground either.

In Malaya Loknya our forces are standing strong, fighting off enemy attacks. Drone operators are working around the area searching for and destroying the enemy's MLRS, which he is using to pound the territory of the colony.
The Marines received reinforcements, despite the enemy's attempt to encircle Malaya Loknya, all of ours are holding on, real heroes.

An enemy tank was destroyed in the area of ​​the church in Cherkassky Porechny, which indicates the presence of enemy troops in this part of the settlement.

After the liberation of Krupets and Spalnoe, our troops liberated Borki.

The enemy is not making much progress right now; they are trying to break through the defenses of the Russian Armed Forces deep into the depths, but so far they are losing more forces than they are taking territories.

They also suffer huge losses in the Sumy region during the transfer of reserves to the Kursk region.

Once again it seems that the Russian agent Syrsky clearly planned the failed operation in the Kursk region that the AFU are losing territory in the DPR and are suffering losses in the Kursk region.

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Ukrainian soldier, golden cross decorated veteran, tells journalist that everything is bad, Zelensky and his friends are lying and everyone is dying.

“We have nothing, just machine guns, grenades and RPGs”

- Lord Bebo on X

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The Israeli Air Force continues to strike southern Lebanon.

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Northerners write that the Ukrainian Armed Forces continue the tactics of rolling in mobile groups. Now tanks are joining the armored vehicles, but the outcome as a whole remains the same as on the third day of the Kursk operation.

When such a roll-up occurs, artillery destroys the first wave of the attack with a barrage of fire, then infantry and armored vehicles from the Russian side join in. This pattern has long been known and is well known to the Ukrainian Armed Forces since the battles in Mariupol.

In principle, the issue is not being resolved, since there have already been many attempts in the area of ​​Malaya Loknya and neighboring villages, but all were unsuccessful.

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