Hospital Hit

Yesterday I learned that a Maternity hospital was hit in a missile strike in Ukraine. At first I thought it was a missle glitch, later I learned that they were targeting the premises deliberately; the Russian military claim it was no longer an active hospital but was used as a military base. 

I'm my view, it was a very shocking thing to learn about. Infants are blameless, they don't even know what war is. The infants in the hospital are probably all new born babies. It is the last place anyone would want to be hit by missiles. 

Perhaps the people of Ukraine will teach the world a lesson. If they have guns and their mind set on remaining an independent nation, they will succeed and drive away the Russians. I wish them all good luck. It would be nice if everyone just sits down for a few days and works out a peace treaty that the two nations can sign and the war will be over. It is ordinary people that are suffering. 

Russian Invasion

During the winter months there was a build-up of Russian troops and military vehicles at the border with Ukraine. During this last third of February we learned that they weren't playing a game, they invaded the country. I believe the goal of invasion is to topple the current Ukrainian government and prop up a new government that isn't aligned to the west and NATO; a government that is more like Belarus I think. I think it will lead to civil war in the area in the future because the world view of all the people are different. 

I condemn all conflicts and military incursions in this world. I hope they can resolve their issues quickly and with very few deaths.

I saw a video of a tank running over a moving car on the road in the Ukraine, was that an accident? Was the tank deliberately trying to kill the civilian? I don't know, maybe the tank was trying to get a different target and hit the car by mistake. It was very painful to watch. 

Russian Ukrainian Operation

In recent days, the Russian government has recognised rebel held territory in East Ukraine as independent states and has sent their military in as peace keeping forces they claim. Many NATO nations have reacted by imposing economic sanctions on Russia. The problem with sanctions is you hurt yourself as well. The Russians are supplying us with a lot of oil and natural gas. We are already facing price inflation. Everything costs more at the moment. 

The only thing that is going down in price that I know of is High Capacity Batteries. The High Capacity Batteries we use today are made with Lithium and Cobolt. Lithium is a semi rare metal that floats on water and burns when it touches water. Most of the Lithium in the world is dissolved in the Ocean water. I think that Lithium isn't synthesized by the fusion in stars, instead it is created by powerful radiation hitting other elements when stars explode, I think that is why it is so rare. I think they use electrolysis on sea brime to extract it. 

When we recycle old batteries, we are increasing the Lithium supplies and bringing down the cost of producing it. The faster we make high capacity batteries the cheaper they become and eventually electric Cars will be cheaper than fuel Cars. At the moment they are a lot more expensive.