RUSSIANS ARE FREEZING! | In January 2024 The Utility Industry Collapses
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- 2 years after the start of the invasion of Ukraine, Russia starts collapsing. The utilities industry fails the first.
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Answer to your question at the end is: China.
Appreciate Konstantin's phenomenal knowledge, research, organization, and presentation.
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Hope you have an early spring.
Why has Purim’s approval rating remained high, are a lot of Russians afraid to speak their mind about Putin?
I am sorry but this comment will not be positive. I was born in Lithuania and I was 10 yrs old when Lithuania got it's independence. To punish Lithuanian people the Soviet Union cut all if the heating that very cold winter. We had no central heating and no hot water. I remember we were getting bricks, putting them on the gas stove to heat them up, then take the bricks and place them in the center of the room for some scarse radiant heat. We boiled water constantly and with the cold weather, the steam and uninsulated panelled houses, black mold grew. Both my mom and I got pneumonia from all of this. And yet, over the years, when I would meet Russian people and mention what we had to go thru, they had no idea. It honestly boggles my mind why would anybody want the USSR back. It looks like it is slowly creeping back in. It ruined the Baltics for many years and we are still fighting its nasty shadow.
I truly feel sorry for the people of Russia who have no heat because of one madman.. I feel even sorrier for Ukraine, who have no country excuse of one madman in Russia, Putin. My prayers for the ordinary people who are suffering. Thank you Konstantin, for keeping others informed.
No need to apologize. The Russian people have much to account for.
To @everything -is- blue. Well said!! Soviets were and are dangerous for democracy . I’m very happy Baltics are Independent❤❤
@@anthonybuono02809 Personally I don't think it's fair to blame an entire population for being brainwashed, frustrating as it is that so many seem blind to the blatantly obvious. Propaganda over a long duration is... unreasonably effective.
We need to keep fingers pointed at Putin, the Russian elite and the propagandists.
The same experience from Latvia, after that winter the ceiling into the kitchen and bathroom were absolutely black. But to choose between independence and russian opression is easy. Russia always says, that Moskva mother feeded all the stupid and poor republics in soviet union - if it was so, why they will all them back ??
As a retired civil engineering designer, this level of decay, bad design and abandoned maintenance is horrifying. Fourth reson is utter lack of accountability for those responsible.
You were not allowed to protest, sue or complain about ecological damages so whole areas are literally off limits or ruined today. Lack of freedom affects every aspect of our lives.
@@smb123211 Moreover, in the US in particular and in the broader 'west' there are enforceable laws, practices and principles that bind all professional engineers (PEs). There is still some corruption, but the looming threat of loss of stamping privileges and licensure alone mitigate this risk profoundly. Moreover, civil and/or criminal court penalties for malpractice and resulting damages can destroy a reputation, their practice and bankrupt the PE for life.
As Sml. Johnson is said to have said "the knowledge that one shall hang in a fortnight focuses the mind marvelously". Therefore in any legitimate practice about 50% of the effort is devoted to checking, cross checking, rechecking and generally vetting any work product prior to approval and initial construction. Having engaged in that process engraves the ethics and mindset deeply into one's neural pathways. Engineering is more than anything else a very particular way of thinking that is only acquired over time and with the aid of mentors. That is why I have such a visceral reaction to the videos in the OP.
There are many very simple universally understood standard practices capable of substantially mitigating these potentially life threatening infrastructure failures. Clearly these have not been effectively implemented, and as a result thousands of vulnerable people are suffering and many will die or be permanently affected. The rot there really is terminal.
this is 1% of russian infrastructure, the rest is exceeded expectations
Please, do you believe anyone believes your nonsense? Try again
@@T.R.A.I.N.I.N.G. That is a very low bar to cross. Whose expectations, based on what. According to public information, 36% of Russians have issues with access to the water in there households (36% to cold water and nearly a quarter to the hot water). Around 25% of the Russian population have no plumbing at all.Jun 22, 2023
Seems like slightly more than 1%. Ahhh, the beautiful russki mir.
Politicians never pay they price for their decisions in the first place. The people always pay first. Sorry for the Russians, but the Ukrainians suffer more and pay a much higher price during this terrible and brutal war. I‘ve lived in eastern European countries and know very well what are you describing. Thank you for your video.
LOL Ukraine get everything free from the rich Nato countries.While Russia lost 5 billion ever week on the army.
spare me, this is an oligarch war, those Ukraians dont want to fight Russians, if they do then why does there HAVE to be a draft, basically this is a NATO war being fought by Ukrainians
Putin is turning Russian cities into "Gulags "
District heating is widely used in Denmark also, and is regarded as a very CO2 friendly way of producing both electricity and district heating at the same time instead of releasing the heating trough cooling towers. Only problem in Russia is low tube insulation standard, and the fact that heat exchangers are not used in the houses. Instead direct supply of district heating is used inside the buildings. This creates the large water releases inside the houses, whenever tubes breaks.
Good point about the heat exchanger.
The issue I've seen with these setups (essentially combined heat and power) is obviously you only get heat when the power station operates. But thermal power station fuel has increased significantly in price so projects can end up in a situation where it's uneconomically to run the station to generate power at the time heat is required.
@@davewaterworth8846
That is not an issue, because centralized operators will always have lower cost because of higher efficiency than individual heating units (not even talking about the maintenance cost of one big vs. thousands of small units).
District heating is also available in some cities in Croatia. It's considered the second most eco-friendly way of heating because you are useing a byproduct. The first being heat pumps. And it is very reliable at the same time.
@@tennisliteActually newer houses have heat exchangers. Older don't.
I can't help but be struck by the contrast with last winter. When Putin ordered the bombing of the civilian energy grid in Ukraine, Zelenskyy sent out mobile invincibility-points: inflatable, heated cabins where Ukrainians could warm up, drink hot coffee, and charge up their devices. In Russia you see elderly people standing in the snow, huddled around bonfires outside with nowhere to sit. I am old, myself, and find standing more than fifteen minutes agonizing--I can hardly imagine having to spend hours on my feet, in the slush, with subfreezing winds all around me, only my front warmed.
I sure hope the people wake up to what their dear leader is doing to them, and maybe get a taste of the pain the Ukrainians are suffering because of him. He is the cause.
Excellent reporting, Konstantin, this is the only place I find out what’s happening within Russia.
As a retired building engineer I can't imagine how much damage is being done. I have replaced tube bundles in large boilers and it is a time consuming endeavor. No heat in boilers means no heat to all the buildings that are on central steam radiators. Which in turn means frozen and busting pipes in walls of large apartment buildings. Not to mention the radiators themselves busting. This is a cascading disaster of epic proportions. The ones who will suffer will be the common folk. I see many deaths attributed to this disaster .
Here in Denmark, we basically have the same system in our larger cities.
We have some large incineration plants where waste is burned.
It provides heat that is converted into electricity and district heating (Fjernvarme).
It actually works really well and is relatively cheap and co2 friendly.
But our district heating pipes are of course buried and highly insulated, so there is not much waste heat.
If we set the price for heating with oil to 100, I would think that natural gas costs 75 and district heating 50.
The boiler room itself is simpler with district heating. It requires, somewhat simplistically, a control unit and an exchanger.
It is cheaper to maintain than both oil and gas boilers and it works with fewer breakdowns.
I was a little skeptical when 20 - 30 years ago we were almost forced into it, because we are in principle completely in the pocket of the utility company.
But I have to say that it just worked - but ok, there are also relatively fixed rules regarding the pricing and even though of course they have to make money, after all they are not a money machine that can just be turned on
Lovely to see you Konstantin. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
💛💙
Konstantin, you truly have 'inside' knowledge. You bring a dimension to events that we would never hear about. Mainstream media does not cover things with your depth and insight.
Thanks for bringing these important things to our attention.
Slava Ukraini 🇬🇧🇺🇦💛💙
Good night
Much success in the coming year
I think that's one of the things few could have foreseen when CZcams first began: the rise of specialists who can cover subjects with a depth and focus no network of talking heads can hope to match.
@@polarvortex3294 He makes these things up, thats why its not reported in the main stream.
Slava Ukraini!
USA here. We have had bad weather. My porch was full of wood, 3 days of below freezing. The wood is all gone. It went to fast. I've just stayed under a bunch of blankets. Praying for u. Lived in a barn and an old ranch house we moved!. No utilities, water, electricity and we had 3 babies.
Sounds like you live cheaply?❤😮
USA, the greatest country in the world and you have no heat?
Whatever country we are from, people should be the priority of its leaders. I am sad to know of Russians suffering.
I call it karma, ffs
Have you seen people who moving to Russia?
Here in Sweden many cities have district heating too but the pipes are under ground to minimize losses in the winter. It's quite efficient actually.
I saw an old Swedish stove on u tube once and was quite impressed. It was ceramic and held heat for hours. I want one.
We also have in Finland, at least in some cities. We used to have natural gas heating before in my condominium, but it was changed in fall 2022 to district heating
similar in Germany as well. They're using the heat of electricity plants, which again are burning coal, gas, and garbage.
In the UK most apartments have individual boilers in each apartment fed with natural gas from a utilities supplier.
Same in Canada for the most part, but everyone is starting to switch to air / ground source heat pumps. @@philippayne8901
As a citizen of Ottawa, Canada, which is on average actually colder in winter than Moscow, I can well imagine what a living nightmare it must be to have the heat fail. Karma indeed.
If they are not allowed to talk trash about the Special Military Operation, Lots of pissed off cold people might get some traction - unless they are cancelled also.
I don't live in Canada, but it's still relatively cold. It's 10F (-12C) out and snowing. I may just hug my natural gas furnace after seeing his video. I wonder how many Russians make the connection between the war against imaginary Nazis and the disruption in their lives. Oh well - Time to scoop the driveway again.
I was born 70 miles north of Ottawa, agree completely!
WHATEVER….because of bad policy from liberal/NDP….Alberta just experienced rolling blackouts in -45C weather. I’m from ALBERTA….Ottawa DOES NOT GET THAT COLD 😂…
@@joanndeck4315 : conservative corrupt Russia and conservative corrupt Texas are without power the same day .
North Dakota has power and electricity and it’s much colder with way more snow
Hi Konstantin,
Trying to listen to you every time you post, as is almost every day, enjoying your topics.
Never posted anything before, but following your request this time.
Let's hope the madness will end, and the killing will stop. The war is a tragedy for all the world, but mostly for Ukraine and Russia of course.
Keep up the good work!
God be with you!
Slava Ukraina!
I lived in Alaska and I know! If a building loses its heat ALL the pipes freeze and break and if you ever get it thawed out there is water damage, nothing works and the building is a lose.
Copper Basin here, many in Alaska have a story of someone that went on vacation or just 2 weeks on the slope and came back to a house full of ice. Years ago I worked at a school and we had a week of -67 on a weather service thermometer, we spent the entire week trying to keep everything from freezing, it was exhausting. Very few buildings are designed to take even minus 60 , windows, doors, amount of insulation, capacity of heating unit and even resupply of fuel. I just spent 4 solid days shoveling feet of snow that just kept coming, weather is changing, praying that fish keep coming, last 3 years have been nontypical, no crab seasons, caribou died off so no season, moose scarce due to heavy snow also.
@brucegordon9007 Wouldn't leaving the snow piled around buildings actually insulate them? It helps prevent the wind chill from coming through.
Been watching you in Central Scotland since the war began, thank you for your bravery in speaking out. As a mum of a 39yr 18yr and 16yr I weep for all the Ukrainian and Russian mothers
Yes, for all that suffers, on both sides of the frontline.
Hope they don't freeze before they can vote for Vlady!@@kjellg6532
Me too.
I only feel sorry for those who are against this war, not those who support it or somehow believe that their country is doing the right thing fighting in a neighbouring land.
@@kjellg6532 Putin suffers too. Do you feel sorry for him?
Thanks for showing us real Russia, Konstantin🥰 I’m sorry it’s in such a mess. It’s mind boggling why the Russian people are still accepting it😱😁
Serfs and slaves through most of their history... Even their literature is about privations
It us putins fault as he does not understand and care what happens outside his bunker and in kremlin.
The rest if forsee ussr are going to hell😮
@@CombatMosquitoTrainera country of peasants and ollygharcs on a45:1 ratio.
They have no choice, if the people speak up they are arrested and sent to war.
The country is going back to the stone age.
The real irony is that western media touts gas price declines in Europe as being a result of shifting away to alternative sources and suppliers, while not mentioning that industrial consumption is in decline, meaning the economy is in decline too)
Thank you for keeping us informed.
Kind of strange... all my friends from Russia ask me if we all are freezing in Germany, but I don't know a single person who had to freeze here one winter and then something like that happens in Russia?
Looking back nearly 2 years to you leaving Russia, and it was the smartest life decision any Russian could have made at the time. I am glad you and your family, and other smart families got our while they could. ✌
Could have done something about it much earlier. This is the eight super special operation in pootins reign. They were all shouting urrraaa and most are doing that until now.
from now on, it will not be the case I suspect.
They think our 80-year-old president can wield a sledgehammer like that??
You can't even get the age of 80
Thanks for the information.
You are crushing it, Konstantin.
I’m just sorry all of this is necessary.
So grateful for you.
Love from Latvia
As a Norwegian, I really hope our neighbour changes trajectory and starts working on solving the real issues facing this earth... rather than building toys to destroy it faster.
Yeah! Those bloody swedes and their Volvo's
We can only hope, unfortunately , no sign of that yet...
Polarper8165. Wishful thinking
@@knusern666 and Ikea 😋
@@knusern666 unfortunately volvo belongs to china now
I am picking up what you are laying down. Great work!
Appreciate your insights.
I grow up in Romania and I really felt the comunist utilities , especially before 1989 revolution . We were enduring same problems like the russians now. Moved to Canada and having your own heating system in the house is a big win . Unfortunately , there is still same system in Romania on the big old buildings and because of old infrastructure when an pipe brakes an large number of people are left without heating. It happend to my in-laws few weeks ago , luckly it wasn't to cold outside. What I'm trying to say Konstantin , I know what are speaking about .
It's really hard for people to imagine this who haven't experienced in themselves.
We just had rolling blackouts in Alberta, Canada and it was -45C
same story from my compatriot, i well know the communist utilities system.... the thing is this collapse is combined with the ukraine front situation, it's impossible for the russians to not make any connecion between the russian military budget surplus for 2024 and the pipes blown up under ground this winter and more importantly, what plans habve you devised, because YOU CANT LIVE LIKE THIS freezing in darkness FOR 3 MONTHS . YES YOU CAN ENDURE A LOT, but how can you be this passive to what is happening?
I am Georgian. Grew up with no Internet, Telephone, Gas or Electricity. Under Russian missiles, with AK-74 in hand. Is anyone saying that Russians will freeze? Makes me laugh. It is like if Mexicans can not survive in South Carolina because of heat there
I can't imagine how awful it is to have no heating. But worse, no hot water to wash yourself or clothes.
Waking up in the freezing cold darkness is bad enough. But then you have to dress for work in dirty clothes then come home to darkness and freezing cold and do that day after day.
I feel for anybody who has no choice or possibility of correcting the problem.
After all the threats to Europe about freezing in winter, their own utilities are falling apart while I'm still comfy here.
The irony of it is just insane.
Good of you to speak out on the subject..
I am 83. I have not been able able to have any idea of what things have been really like inside Russia until I started listening to your remarkable videos I spent two years in the US Army in Germany aware of the massive invasion force poised to overrun our relatively meager defense capabilities. The idea was to hold out at the Fulda Gap long enough for our airborne divisions to even the odds. I imagined that Russian people hated us and were anxious to destroy us. I really appreciate yourexpertise in giving a fuller, more nuanced picture of Russia, her people, and specifically their leaders.
Hello Konstantin, great channel! Here in Sweden remote heating systems are common; I think all cities have one. The pipes are very well insulated and dug down in the ground to a permanent frost-free depth. I never heard of any heating pipe burst.
In Russia those pipes appear to be above ground, and wrapped in what must surely be asbestos.
That's because you guys are sane.
I was thinking this actually seemed like a very smart system for appropriate circumstances. You don't generally have to dig that deep to get below permafrost, even in Arctic conditions, as earth is such a good insulator (can still be tens of feet in extreme conditions, but not as deep as a layperson might assume). And particularly with modern insulation technologies, it seems like this could be a very-workable system.
But such is the insidiousness of the corruption inevitably born from a neofeudalistic concentration of wealth, I suppose. There is no system it can't destroy through chosen incompetence.
Some of these cold fronts are at record levels. So previously safe depths are not safe.
Same in Finland. Good solution.
I have ground source heat pump(hope its the right word for it) in my house. Very good and reliable machine. Nibe. I think it is made in Sweden.
Love it! Thanks! I'd like to learn more!
Thank you again!
War is as much punishment for the punisher as it is for the punished.
Outstanding message today, Konstantin.
Wars and lawsuits have no winners. They are fought to determine who loses the least.
I have never read a statement that said so much in so few words. Bravo to you, sir!
@@jeffsherk7056 Thank Thomas Jefferson - it was his.
5:46 we have the same in Germany it’s called „Fernwärme“ here. The thing is the power plants are directly in the neighborhood they supply and are incredibly efficient 70%, for anyone who knows about the second law of thermodynamics, that’s huge…
The thing is those power plants are clean, don’t pollute and are well maintained. The pipes are also run under the earth lol and are of course isolated all the way to your apartment.. Centralized heating isn’t bad per definition, Russia just cheaps out at everything and ruins it.
Similar in Sweden. Just as in Germany the maintenance is very good - which of course isn't the case in Russia.
Keep it going, I’m watching from Michigan
Thank you for this report. I will keep an eye out for future news
Thank you for this, Konstantin.
The district heating thing isn't unknown in the US, but it's now rare. I suspect that at least part of the Russian problem is that maintenance suffers where corruption flourishes.
And when problems occur they're big problems simply because so much has been ignored.
New York City is a prominent example of an American city using such a system. And also an example showcasing the problems you get when you neglect maintenance on a 100 year old system. It has these yellow striped plastic chimneys the put around the leaks in their steam pipes all over the city.
We went 6 days without electricity in Jan 2006 after an ice storm (Nebraska plains) So, they went thru and buried all the lines. We’ve only lost electricity twice since then, for maybe 5 -10 min each time. Pretty good imo.
@@waigl1845that's were the steam from the manhole covers come from in american movies?
Yes
The fact that they said we was the ones in Europe and uk that was going to freeze to death in the winter is ironic when you see this 🤦🏻♂️😆
May be you see this cos you wanted to see this? Social media causes content bubble, remember?
Considering I (pensioner, UK) had to spend all day in bed yesterday because I couldn't afford to put the heating on, I think that's a bit of a generalisation.
@@annalieff-saxby568that’s terrible! Ring you’re local council and tell them you can’t afford heat they will get you some for “free today”
I am from wales 🏴
And I meant no offence to my uk people 🇬🇧💙
Please ring them today it’s -3 here now as of 10.31am.
There are people that can help you.
I remember the winter of 2010 I was homeless and I was sleeping in someone house but it had no heating as a pipe burst so I had to live upstairs in the bedroom with just a little fan heater my sheets felt wet! It was so so cold.
Coldest winter for 60 years or something back then It was like -13 at night was ridiculously cold.
I will never forget those cold depressing days and nights for as long as I live.
Life is good these days but I never forget how it was 14 years ago…
Please ring you’re local council I promise they can help you for free (fuel vouchers) and if you’re smart meters just ring you’re energy provider mine is (edf) and just say you can’t afford gas and they have to give you some for free!!
Now I understand why Russia was targeting these central heating plants all over Ukraine. In a way, it forced the Ukrainians to start modernizing their heating infrastructure to decentralize it, like over here.
Your thoughtful insights are greatly appreciated!
I love the irony Putin said Europe would freeze.😂
Karma.
Meanwhile men are under fire ….
Technicly moscow is europe.
Putin is not freezing, the people in Ukraine and Russia suffer ...
@@stacyclarkson6202
Only YOU seem confuse EUROPE with Putin
Hi Konstantin! Greetings from Porvoo, Finland! It's VERY cold but toasty inside, to be without heat in this weather... NOT FUN. btw, me and my colleagues always watch your videos and then discuss them, we call you "our Russian friend" 😊. It's good to be reminded that there are good Russians too, especially as we are so close to the border. Thank you for everything you do Konstantin! ❤️ Slava Ukraini! ❤️🇺🇦
Hey Finland! Greetings from western Oregon, West Coast of the United States in the southern Willamette Valley. We don’t have near the cold temperatures that you guys get, it but we do get one fun little thing just about once every winter: freezing rain. Sounds innocent doesn’t it?😂 Day before yesterday it started snowing at the valley floor (500’ elevation or less) in the night which changed to freezing rain. Makes a sickeningly sweet tinkling sound as it falls. Sounds so innocent. Hahaha! Nope.
So basically we have about 3 inches of snow in encased in about 3/4 to 1/2 of an inch of beautiful glistening ice. Everything as far as the eye can see is a sheet of rock hard frozen ice. We’re not getting subzero weather but it’s going down to as low as 18°F at night. I have a wood-burning stove to keep my house warm but we did lose power for about 30 hours. That means I can’t run my electric pump to pump water out of my rural well… so no water. We keep bottled water around so we have drinking water. Anyway, our power company… The one that services my area, immediately sends crews out in the dark, slogging through the sheets of ice on the road, repairing lines and getting them back up and running. God bless those men! Whatever they’re paying them it’s not enough!
We got power back on yesterday afternoon at around 3 PM. That right there is a difference between a strictly regulated independently managed electrical grid and a corrupt centralized government run system. Our power company is actually owned by the people it services… It’s an electrical cooperative. Rates are reasonable and they do their best in our heavily forested area to keep lines from coming down… but when every stick, every pine-needle, blade of grass, every power line- every conceivable exposed surface is encased in a thick coat of ice… Well lines break and trees come down. Service gets interrupted. Just walking around outside trying to get chores done I fell down on that ice a total of five times In less than 15 minutes. 😂 It was super fun. Even the power maintenance guy knocked on my door to tell me power was restored admitted he fell down on the way up my long rural driveway.
Thankfully we’re supposed to get back to our normal average winter temperatures by Wednesday… A low of 41°F and a high in the 50s. It’s going to be a big melting muddy mess but we’ll get through it.
Wow! Freezing rain is scary. I'm in Wisconsin where we get snow, sometimes a lot, but very, very seldom freezing rain. Stay safe!@@maryvalentine9090
@@maryvalentine9090 Hi neighbor, an Idahoan here. Its pretty cold here too, but no nasty freezing rain :)
@@maryvalentine9090 Where my dacha is located, work on repairing power lines is carried out only during the day. Sometimes there is no electricity for three days. To pump water we use a gasoline generator. To provide lighting at home, we have a car battery and 12-volt light bulbs.
I have been supporting the IT infrastructure of Siemens Energy but as soon as the war broke out, the contract got cancelled. Siemens Energy had huge projects in Russia and those are now (pun intended) all frozen.
Very insightful . Thx
Thank you for all you do to keep us informed. If only more of the russian population thought like you. Stay safe.
The problem with Russian utilities is that the bulk of the people who would normally maintain the utilities in Russia either got conscripted and sent to Ukraine to die or fled the country to avoid being sent to Ukraine
It's not like a utility worker makes enough money to pay the bribes to avoid conscription
You forgot to mention the rest of them as being drunk.
And maybe yet another part of them is being incarcerated for opposing to what is happening....
@@renater.540 considering that Russia is turning off the heat in the prisons to force people to sign up to go to Ukraine to get out of prison that is a whole other conversation
Good to hear what's happening.
I have only recently discovered your channel and what a find!! Many thanks for this info, I'm still playing catch up but every report I am viewing is altering my overview and educating my historical understanding. Much respect due and given 👍
How does the Russian media report on the power outages, if they’re even allowed? It’s incomprehensible that a country so rich in energy has such antiquated heating systems. It really shows how Putin really feels about the citizens. Keep up the good work and please stay safe.
They're allowed and a lot of people here is aware about the cyber warfare.
One word corruption
Distant heating systems are also being build in Norway. Normally in dense populated areas with relatively short distribution pipes. Mostly burning waste from the timber industry and garbage.
Putin signed a decree that made investigative journalism a felony so all they can do is to parrot what Putin says.
In Finland district heating/teleheating (re-use leftover heat from power plant) whatever it's called is the quite common way to heat up buildings in cities. In difference pipes run always underground.
In general 46% of buildings in Finland are heated by previous mentioned district heating, in cities 90%.
Thanks for showing these videos.
this is my favorite of all your video's Constantine.
It's very noble of Russia to try and defeat the harsh winter by warming the whole country instead of just the homes. I'm sure wildlife appreciates the effort.
The wonderful thing about wildlife is that they are adapted to accept the challenge.
You are Spot on! 😂
That's what those who are trying to affect climate change have endeavored to do for real, except the opposite: lower the temperature of the entire world instead of just the buildings where people work and live. Let the arrogance and foolishness of that sink in.
@@polarvortex3294 your solution is interesting. You propose to mitigate outside temperatures by removing warm air from inside buildings to outside buildings. Not sure that does what you think it does.
Climate change mitigation is about producing less greenhouse gasses so the temperature rise wont be as much as its predicted to be, so we hit a lower maximum and get off a bit better compared to just pumping those gasses into the atmosphere and hoping something else will fix the driving.
😂
I can't even imagine such scenes in the EU. This is crazy. I imagined Russia's invasion backfiring in the long run especially with the sanctions and all, but I didn't expect basic infrastructure and utilities going down that quickly. I hope the people of Russia find a way to get rid of their current government somehow and slowly start fixing the country. Hopefully one day I can travel Russia, would really love to.
Electricity is a stabilizing influence. When it's gone too long, there's trouble.
Corruption of an kleptocratic dictatorship...is an helluva thing for basic infrastructure
@@AquaticAbomination The way I was thinking (perhaps this is wrong) but it made sense to assume that the oligarch class (kleptocrats) would be extracting a whole lot more excess income (out of enterprises and organizations) than did their Soviet-era counterparts, and quickly running those enterprises into the ground. Look at the difference between the Soviet military and the current Russian military. In one of those, it's common for officers to sell off the night-vision gear to make money on the side, whereas in the other they would have shot the offenders.
Technically it's no longer part of the EU, but the UK's feces-covered rivers and shorelines seem like a similar large-scale failure.
In both cases, it's a neofeudalistic concentration of wealth allowing a kleptocracy to take hold and squeeze every drop of blood possible from the commonwealth for the connected few, at the cost of gradually killing the host on which the wealthy parasites depend.
Thank you for your insights
Thank you for the information.
I saw a tweet from early 2023 where someone predicted this mess and noted how Russia kept sending key workers like electrical technicians and plumbers to the frontlines, how this would eventually bite them in the ass.
This is heartbreaking & shows Americans what life is really like with a dictator. Just know you are doing good work! I appreciate your channel so much.
The population should get off their arses and rise up against this Thug ,if not they will be in poverty for the rest of their lives
to think the americans have a presidential candidate who wants to be a dictator (ho but just for a day, surely he can be trusted)
No heartbreaking on my part. Remember Ukraine?
Ummm. I suggest that environmentalists in German and the United States are busily engineering frequent and extensive power outages for utility customers as the consequences of their policies and ideologies. Wont even take a WAR to accomplish that.
Thanks for your response. What's happening in Ukraine is like a genocide. The cruelty and brutality of it is horrendous. I respect your opinion. I don't care at all about the suffering of Putin, because I hold him far more responsible for Ukraine than the ordinary people of Russia, who are so politically manipulated and so powerless to change anything.
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Keep up the detailed reporting!
Great report. Thank you
My number 1 source of Russian truth. Thanks for your work Konstantin
In Sweden district heating is the overwhelmingly most common way to heat any type of buildings in cities.
In fact, in many places wood or coal burning heaters are banned completely within the city borders.
District heating is not ineffient as long as you do it right.
In fact, the total efficiency can actually be far more better than gas boilers in every single house.
First of all, district heating needs a well designed boiler (Russias 1950's design boilers are not well designed or efficient).
To get the absolute most out of the system you need to have combined electrical and heat power plant (the hot steam drives a turbine and generator, the unusable waste heat (lower than around 120˚C) from the turbine oulet is used for district heating).
This way you can easily reach 90% and in some cases 95% efficiency.
Next thing is that the higher temp of the district heating water, the more losses you have.
If you reduce the temp to 75-80˚C (instead of 120˚C) you will reduce the distribution losses by half (of course you will need higher flow rates to distribute the same amount of heat energy).
You will also need properly insulated pipelines.
In Sweden we use at least 50mm insulation on the small pipes (main pipes 100-150mm).
Lastly, in Sweden all heating pipelines are duged down to frost free depth (buried so deep so the soil temperature never drops below 0˚C).
If you have the pipeline in the open air at temp of -40˚C, of course you will lose a lot more heat energy than if you bury the pipline to a depth where it never goes below 0˚C.
By burying the pipelines you will have two more benefits, they are more protected from wear and they will never freeze and crack from ice in case of powerrplant failure.
Thank you for the intresting facts corroborating my own theory.
All the best from Poland.
Thank you for your indepth information!
Please keep posting, I really enjoy the information.
I listen to your videos all the time but i can never get it in my head, why have russians accepted such living conditions. We had similar conditions, when the soviet union fell, but we did not have that huge industry or any natural resources but somehow our towns do not look like that. Those living conditions, if found here, would be a national scandal. This is insane. Greetings from Estonia, love the channel!
They never stopped being slaves :) thats why
support from friendly nations, the EU, open market, etc.
The heating system is also what we have here in China, but we don't see as much heat loss because much higher population density means the water doesn't have to travel as far to reach the residential units, and almost all of the piping is underground.
Konstantin - thanks for all the work you do to keep us informed!!
First time seeing your video. Informative. Thank you.
The heating systems in Russia work like the steam distribution system in NYC, which runs predominantly off of heat that would otherwise go to cooling towers and sends it to various different types of buildings for hot water and space heating. The difference is that said system is reliable and has a strictly regulated company in charge of maintaining the system.
My guess is the guys who would have being doing the maintainance have either been sent to the war in Ukraine or got out whilst they could add in the fact that the Kremlin only wants to focus on the optics of its huge but largely incompetent and largely military efforts.
Lol hes just said it all..
They sent their expert infrastructure maintenance workers to the front .
and doesnt have the distances involved, nyc is all close in comparison
Dear Konstantin. Great video! I would like to point out that district heating in general isn't very inefficient and it is not only found in Russia and eastern Europe. In fact it can be a very efficient way of distributing heat. In my country Denmark 66% of households get their heat through district heating by local not-for-profit corporations. In most cases the cost for the household is significantly lower than having gas or other heating. We use good insulation and have the pipes underground. The problem in Russia is that system is very old, probably poorly built and for sure poorly maintained.
Russian electricity: 5.380 roubles kWh .
Denmark electricity 21.680 roubles kWh
Glad you are keeping your presentation shot.
Wow.Finally I can watch your videos. Not too much coffee drinking and straight to the point of your topic. your previous videos were too drawn out. I don't think I got to the end of any of them. Today you get a thumbs up!
Usually larger apartment complexes in Germany are heated with central heating, with a large boiler in the basement or using heating from a distant heating plant (called "Fernwärme"). The pipes are usually underground and well insulated. The system is not inefficient by itself but it of course needs maintenance like all utilities.
In Finland we too have those pipes insulated and underground. My apartment building changed from it to using electricity and drilled holes and it is called maalämpö (ground source heat pump) . It should consume less energy, time will tell.
Same in Denmark
Actually central heating is very efficient, as it uses the leftover from the inefficient electricity-creation going from fossil fuel to electricity. By combining heating and electricity generation you can have efficiency of the powerplant to be 80-90%, much better than the 40-60% efficiency when only providing electricity.
"Fjärrvärme" in Sweden. Works great!
You mean district heating not central heating.@@michaelmoldrup1339
So much pain and suffering because of Putin's ego
And people's indifference.
Thank you for your service
great stuff Konstantin
Laughter and applause to Putin from Europe 😀
We should start an international aid package for them. I think we could all pitch in and get them a single book of matches.
send them free smokes 😂😂
Send in the clowns !
@@dennisschwartzentruber3204Barnum&Baileys used to be but now Moscow is worlds biggest Circus
@@smoking_monk3257 The problem is he will just will put that into as he did recently, into bombing ukraine. So if ther need to be conditions that it cant be used that way, or even better , get out of ukraine to get that aid.
Wont happen, but i can dream.
It's unbelievable that they are able to wage war at all, with all that incompetence.
They are not. Their leaders just don't care. So what if a few million of them die. They still have millions more. Thats their beliefs.
it is smart enough t defeat napeleon to hitler to the British to japan and even china.
Maybe because there is no incompetence?..........
Thanks for the insides! Very interesting
I love most these Friday videos. 🤗 Thank you!
Hey Konstantine, I love your posts, I don't comment often but I've watched most of your posts. I'm a 74 yo Brit and so worried for Ukraine. Slava Ukraini❤
I THINK I WAS THE FIRST TO LIKE ... YIPPEE. ARE RUSSIANS GOING TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT THIS OR ARE THEY GOING TO KEEP ON BLAMING THE WEST ? THANKS FOR YOUR HARD WORK K❤️👍
Thanks for your news.
Thank you!
There’s incredible irony that a country hugely wealthy in natural resources is freezing, and many of its citizens live in dirt poor poverty - and all thanks to Putin. How he gets support from anyone in Russia is staggering.
But the West is freezing and germany is heating with candles as we know from russia 🤦♀️😒
Zombies.
A brain washed dictatorship.
It helps to control the media, so people don't get right... I mean wrong ideas.
We are experiencing extreme cold here in the Chicago area, and I cannot imagine not having heat!!
It’s just so nice to hear the truth for a change.
Texas of all places had a major utility breakdown during winter a while ago. Houses went without heat, plumbing froze and burst. As soon as everything thawed up places started flooding from these broken water mains. Having no heat will become the smaller problem.
Thank you from a Canadian of Ukrainian heritage. I also know how cold winters can get. We just had a week of -48C temperatures. I truly can’t imagine how difficult it must be to not have heat, water & electricity, both in Russia & in the bombed out Ukrainian cities & villages. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge so honestly. I listen to you everyday, and wish you & your family all the best! Thank you for your daily information.
Greetings from Melbourne, Australia. I am Russian, but my family lives in Kherson. Slava to Ukraine!
God bless YOU too. 🙌 ❤. What a lovely message.
I'm sitting here right now, having a full-on hissy fit cause my boiler broke at 3am UK 🇬🇧 time . I've been without heat or hot 🔥 🥵 water 💧 . For 9 hours now , there is still no sign of the cavalry arriving. & in the north of England 🏴 . We really dont get winters like we used to . Like ice on the insides of every window in the house and snow up to our front doors . Like I say, I'm feeling quite bad now , cause as a country , the UK 🇬🇧 winters are nothing compared to what you guys from both the Very Northern far east, & the far west have to deal with . 😢 .
I'm still freezing 🥶 right now , so I empathise with everyone who's feeling the cold 🥶 today & every day you are without . 😢
I am so sorry for what you all are going through.
Hope the people get tired of Putin!
they'll just blame the West somehow
Why should they? He will just steal heat in Europe and bring it to his people 😂
Yeah, they have blamed since imperial Russian times. One must remember, that regardless of red terror, Stalin remained in power
@@friedrichjunzt Putin has " no people" he cares about noons
@@friedrichjunzthis people? Who is that? The oligarchs? Certainly not the regular population.
Thank you. My prayers go out to you all.This is heartbreaking.
brilliant video!
Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands were the largest suppliers in the field of pumps, transformers, heat exchangers and the like. In August, most energy companies decided to no longer supply parts. with a number of countries such as Sweden and Norway. It's called the Russian Energy Pact. Oil companies also decided not to supply heating parts for the oil industry. This means that oil wells will soon freeze again, just like in the nineties
General Electric in the US also pulled out of Russia a few Months back. They were maintaining the turbines installed in most of Russia's coal-fired energy plants.
No longer. Plus, those parts are not going to get to Russia. They're going to have to 3D print them or something, but they're not going to get them from us. The US tracks some of the larger parts by serial number. Sneaking something like a main bearing cassette into Russia could probably be done, but how long can they do that with any cost efficiency?
As others have noted, central, or community heating, is not limited to Russia. Both Denmark and Germany use it too. I have it right here. It's the most common form of heating in all towns and cities. All tubes are under ground and with proper maintenance, it's the preferred and cheapest heating here.
And the byword is regular maintenance! When you send all your mechanics to war, then fix the engine yourself,ha ha ha!
Between the corruption and infrastructure failing it is like comparing oranges to apples.
New York City also provides steam as a public utility but for the most part it always works.
Do some people get small window mounted heat pumps with emergency heating strips for backup?
@@timtrewyn453with an average sallary of 300 eur a month?
Great work being done here. Must viewing for everyone!
Very informative, well said.