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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Our open windows in hot rooms are causing global warming.
2024-01-10
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets

In connection with the weather outside (in the morning in Minsk it was minus 20, and it’s still frosty now), I’ll remember the post of foreign agent Kirill Martynov, who tried to ridicule the presence of central heating in Russia.

In general, it turns out that I’m a super-imperial. I will explain:

- on the thermometer in the apartment, and this is during ventilation, plus 23-24.
- I turn on the light in the evening
- I shower 1-2 times a day and it’s never cold
- I cooked the jellied meat for 5 hours and didn’t even think about how much it would cost me, because it’s practically free
- and there are no bedbugs in the apartment, like enlightened Europeans - This is the genocide of unfortunate insects! Only vile imperialists like me can stoop so low!

But seriously, this Martynov does not understand that most of the central heating comes from heating plants, and this is an increase in the efficiency of burning hydrocarbons in thermal power plants, unlike wretched Europe, where the efficiency of power plants is ultimately 30-50% lower than ours. Europeans generate electricity with an efficiency of 45%, carry it along wires with losses of up to 5%, and then heat the premises by another 10-20%, despite the fact that for us this is all a plus and does not affect the generation of electricity.

But in reality, all these cozy European pictures with a fireplace, a blanket and a cup of hot cocoa are all hopelessness, the inability to turn on the central heating and chill in your underpants.

Russia is the only country in the world where, in thirty-degree frosts, people complain about utility workers because of the heat in the premises. Belarus could be the second such country, but we don’t have thirty-degree frosts.

P.S. at 20:30

How do I know if +23 degrees is already imperial or am I still in democracy? Accuracy is required in this matter!!!

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