I remember reading that in the Gulf War in the 90s burning oil wells were bombed in order to seal them and stop the fires. Wonder if that would help here? Maybe Ukraine could send a few more bombs for humanitarian reasons.
The road condition says it all about Russia’s priorities as well.
Is that plume large enough to be seen from the ISS with the naked eye?
Fun fact: this refinery was hit last only on April 16 - the fire, to which 150 firemen responded, raged for 3 days and was just put out HOURS before this strike.
To the firemen I recommend to just say fuck it and let it burn to the ground.
Probably, here is a satellite image.
Well, it would have been burnt anyways. Somehow i would prefer if they hit oil pumps instead, but that’s probably a logistical nightmare.
From what I understand, this is the next best thing. If the refineries cannot accept the raw because of the damage, the pumps cannot just keep pumping, they have to be stopped and reactivating them is expensive both in time and money.
there’s a lot of complicated tubes in refinery, each with hideous lead time
The environment hates this trick!
unfortunally most of it would have ended up in the environment either way. just not that localized. it’s best to keep this shit in the ground, where it was for millions of years.
Yeah, but there’s a huge difference between burning it in a motor with particle filters and catalytic converters and uncontrolled combustion creating literal tons of soot, uncombusted aerosols, NOx and SOx.
