RUSSIANS ARE FREEZING! | In January 2024 The Utility Industry Collapses 

Answer to your question at the end is: China.

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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 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 ??

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.

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 "

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.

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

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

Good night

Much success in the coming year

I think that's one of the things few could have foreseen when RU-vid 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!

Sounds like you live cheaply?❤😮

USA, the greatest country in the world and you have no heat?

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

I call it karma, ffs

Have you seen people who moving to Russia?

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.

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?

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.

Do you want to know who knows very well what Russian needs? Gennady Nikolaevich Zaitsev. He prevented Russia from falling into civil war once, and he chose to stand with what is right. Go read about him.

leaders in every country could solve the peoples problems if they didnt create the problems in the first place! incompetence,war,greed and corruption but to name a few.

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.

💛💙

We westerners are soo ungrateful sadly we take things for granted like heating, food, clean water etc while at the same time poor Russians are suffering in the winter

If putin stops his invasion, goes home and tends to Russian needs, they could improve their lives.

Yes, as soon as Russia withdraws from _ALL_ of Ukraine and agrees to pay for the rebuilding of Ukraine during the next 40 years, we can start helping. That can only happen if the Russian people topples its government and i don't think they want to do that. Sadly it appears that the Russian people in general are pretty much onboard with the invasion and destruction of Ukraine.

Propaganda

​@@jeffsteven8613you're probably right. It's the only thing that explains the madness that is the first two posts in this thread.

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.

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

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

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.

😂

You can't even get the age of 80

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!!

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

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 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.

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.

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.

Similar in Sweden. Just as in Germany the maintenance is very good - which of course isn't the case in Russia.

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.

Thank you, Friend! Much needed and very appreciated! ❤️

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 the intresting facts corroborating my own theory. All the best from Poland.

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. @@williamferri3982

They never stopped being slaves :) thats why

support from friendly nations, the EU, open market, etc.

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

Russian electricity: 5.380 roubles kWh . Denmark electricity 21.680 roubles kWh

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

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.

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?

And people's indifference.

And cockroaches 🪳

@@johnmuirhead7855 Cockroaches would need Parkas and warm Boots. We do not see cockroaches in our Australian Winter of 20 C.

Was thinking the same. Those buildings are no longer suitable for use by humans even when the ice melts.

@@onerva0001 no problem, its orcs who live there ;o)

Good news indeed....

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?..........

Unfortunately, they themselves are to blame for this.

@@user-bf5fg2pl3wExactly, and the older the citizen, the longer they have spent under an authoritarian leader, the more they believe the propaganda and the more they support Putin.

Don't suffer for the russians, they are doing much better than we do.

"My heart goes out to all Russians who suffer from the cold" That's a bit like feeling sorry for someone who has shot themselves in the foot.

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?

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.

Russian electricity: 5.380 roubles kWh. German electricity: 36.856 roubles kWh.