Russian icebreakers

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1. SnoopyTheGoon | September 16, 2009 at 1:16 pm |

   yeah, well, one place where Russians don’t have to save electric power 😉

2. Dick Stanley | September 16, 2009 at 3:24 pm |

   I didn’t know they had to conserve electricity. I just liked the picture. Also the ships, though I found out they are rather old. Impressive, anyhow.

3. Veeshir | September 16, 2009 at 4:52 pm |

   One benefit of climate change:
   You put that in just to mess with me, didn’t you? You read my post on this didn’t you?
   Sonomabatch.
   As per your wikipedia link, it’s “only free of ice two months a year” and later on the article we find out that it starts to be ice-free in August.
   Hmmmmm, which month is it?
   I know you did that on purpose, I tried to ignore it.
   If you had thrown in a bit about dead polar bears I could have ignored it, but you went just far enough.
   I’m really just a slave of my anti-global warmmongering impulses.
   It’s hard to find articles about Russian power shortages anymore, the press isn’t so free anymore, but when they’re talking about fixing a problem, they have to acknowledge the problem
   http://vladivostoktimes.com/show/?id=18590&search=electricity&p=
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   In this connection, the energy lack problem is becoming more urgent. The problem can be solved by building extra power plants. “Today we are choosing the site for building

4. Dick Stanley | September 16, 2009 at 5:05 pm |

   If you’d append your blog link to your name, I could read it and see what you’re talking about.

5. Veeshir | September 16, 2009 at 6:30 pm |

   Is that what that box is for?
   I pretty much said what I said above, it’s open two months a year.
   Starting in August.
   So the (relatively) high summer temps slowly warm the many, many cubic meters of ice up over the warmest months and thaw it enough to get ships through, it stays icy water throuth the warmest month, August, and then it slowly freezes over the next month.
   Let me know when it’s open in November.
   Although I bet they start having it open for more months as they get more advanced ice-breakers.
   The wikipedia link also has the claim that this is the first time in eleventy thousand years both passages have been open simultaneously.
   You know, cuz they’ve been observing them both for many tens of thousands of years.

6. Veeshir | September 16, 2009 at 6:30 pm |

   Is that what that box is for?
   I pretty much said what I said above, it’s open two months a year.
   Starting in August.
   So the (relatively) high summer temps slowly warm the many, many cubic meters of ice up over the warmest months and thaw it enough to get ships through, it stays icy water throuth the warmest month, August, and then it slowly freezes over the next month.
   Let me know when it’s open in November.
   Although I bet they start having it open for more months as they get more advanced ice-breakers.
   The wikipedia link also has the claim that this is the first time in eleventy thousand years both passages have been open simultaneously.
   You know, cuz they’ve been observing them both for many tens of thousands of years.

7. Dick Stanley | September 16, 2009 at 10:33 pm |

   I doubt the photo is current. It may be years old. Anyhow, the ice seems to be thickening again:
   http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/09/15/confirmed-arctic-sea-ice-is-now-on-the-rise/

8. Dick Stanley | September 16, 2009 at 10:33 pm |

   I doubt the photo is current. It may be years old. Anyhow, the ice seems to be thickening again:
   http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/09/15/confirmed-arctic-sea-ice-is-now-on-the-rise/