"Works perfectly" huh? That's better than most can claim before freezing! ACT NOW! for a BIG discount!
They don't talk about it a lot, but. If it looks really bad, I suspect that what the grid operators will do is disconnect and shut down as much of it as possible and wait it out. Better to have no electricity for a week than for hundreds of transformers to be ruined ...
The 2003 event produced the biggest-ever solar flare ever measured, an X45. That year, several BIG transformers exploded in South Africa. This event's biggest so is 8.7. A lot depends on where it's aimed at ... but anyway , no, we are not prepared.
It should be called C02 capture (make the CO2 part specific). The carbon which was burned was already safely captured in the ground, where it should have stayed. Then it was burned and partly turned into CO2. Lots of it. Who is being -paid- to concentrate the stuff? and bury the stuff? And keep an eye on it? Who will pay that bill?
In Satartia Mississippi on February 22 2020, a CO2 pipeline broke because of a mud slide. 45 people were hospitalized after the 21,600 barrels of liquid CO2 rolled downhill towards their town. https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/agriculture/2022/09/11/here-minute-details-2020-mississippi-co-2-pipeline-leak-rupture-denbury-gulf-coast/8015510001/
Once you've captured this particular form of carbon, you have to store it somewhere. FOREVER. Unlike nuclear waste, it's only visible when it's compressed. Does this mean you have to take someone's word that it was captured? It -does- mean you have to accept that it's safely and securely stored. FOREVER. 'We promise.'
The whole thing is at best sketchy. The same money could be invested in real, tangible generation of renewable energy. Without having to take some sketchy industry's word for it. And without potentially endangering the lives of the people who'll have to live with it next door. Would you rather live near a windmill, or a hole with 36,000 tons of CO2 in it?
Let's help the 'world's largest' banks by making the decision for them. Take 1873 for example: that was a bad year for the banks , but given time, they got better. The risks from 'clean energy', whatever they are, will include more time.
Carbon capture is a joke. It's another stall tactic. And a very dangerous one at that. Shut the damn things down instead, and watch how many things get done that -would- have taken until 2035 or 2050.
Underground CO2 is worse than nuclear waste. It isn't just (very) dangerous, and have to stay buried forever, it's also invisible. It's also a way for the lying, conniving fossils industry to keep doing what it's so good at doing. $12 billion would build A LOT of windmills, but they've got a lot of good buddies in Washington.
" We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe." — von Goethe
They're missing Uruguay ... 2023. https://www.npr.org/2023/11/10/1211922036/uruguay-is-a-renewable-energy-utopia-how-did-it-get-there
Course it's harder for countries like, the World's Policemen.
Believe I read the other day that Uruguay is now using 100% renewables. Guess they just have what it takes. Doesn't seem to have made any headlines, though. NIMBY I guess.
Powerful message. "Brought to you by DHHS, National Cigarette Foundation, Department of Education, Cigs4Kidz, and Viewers Like You."
Don't remember any PSA's like that back from when they were doing atmospheric testing of atom bombs down in Nevada for weeks on end. But they weren't planning on smoking them all the way.
Battery costs are dropping fast. And used batteries will be common, and the newer ones will keep getting better. Apart from the fumes, I like the old cars a lot, but we can't afford so many of them.
Me too. Beats a loooooong bus ride all to hell.
Yeah, it's intended to be a city car. In the city I live, a LOT of the vehicles I see going by on a 35-45 mph arterial are at or no bigger than this size. Avoid crowded, busy streets, drive safely, I'd have no worries. A LOT of the people who live here could easily commute every day a total recharge takes 6.5 hours.
I remember more than one time time when I thought I was wrong but I wasn't. ;-> Howsabout 'I thought I saw one...'. I've never seen a UFO either!
Looked up that $5000 (where?) Chinese car. Here it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuling_Hongguang_Mini_EV
As of a year ago, it'd sold 1.1 million globally; it's the most popular EV in China. Coincidentally, saw one of these rolling by the house here in the PNW (the red/black model, kind of a standout among the silver turds).
It’s manufactured by the three-way international joint venture SAIC-GM-Wuling, in the factories of Liuzhou. (Note the GM in there.) The new VW Bug.
EDIT: Wired review from 2022: https://www.wired.com/story/review-wuling-hongguang-mini-ev/
Different strokes! esp. depending on which orbit you're in.
Always have a good time when I run into this channel. Gotta be scary for drummers, but I'm not, maybe that's it!
Seems to me that 1) no one (who doesn't realize what we're up against) wants to be the one to give up anything. 2) Many are hoping that tech will come up with some magical cure. 3) Nobody has really spelled out well - for big audiences - what the benefits will be.
It could flip back to blue! it once was in my lifetime (I remember the lady democrat governor. It's as though what happened to Boeing also happened there.)
I know there are many fine, sane people there ... with some world-class class! and Texas has also been pretty-badly beaten up by film and television ... and I wouldn't want to be a part of any Gates fantasy either.
During a visit to Texas, Bill met with some of the remarkable innovators building America’s clean energy future and fighting climate change.
"If you want to see what the cutting edge of next-gen clean energy innovation looks like, it’d be hard to find a place better than Texas. Amazing companies are breaking ground not just here in Southeast Texas but across the state. Each one represents a huge boon for the local economy," - Bill Gates
Star Trek legend Walter Koenig looks back on the good, the bad, and the hilarious after 57 years of the franchise.
“Everybody thinks if you're an actor, and certainly if you're an actor and on a television series, you must be doing very well,” Koenig said. “Well, I was barely making more than minimum the first season. The second season I was on the show … I had a contract. I was paid a week's wage whether I worked a day or a week. So I made a little bit more. Whereas I made $10,000 for the whole year in 1967, I made $11,000 in 1968. Well, that'll only go so far.”
PFAS chemicals, which contaminate water forever, can be broken down after all.
the chemicals may interfere with the body's hormones, raise cholesterol levels, affect fertility and increase the risk of certain cancers, according to the EPA."
Definitive answers to the big questions.
2021 NYTimes global warming FAQ (recommended by XKCD). "Definitive answers to the big questions." ( By Julia Rosen. Her research involved studying ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica. )
Clean energy tech has helped limit the rise but the IEA warns steep cuts in CO2 emissions to limit a global rise in temperatures. There are, however, some positive signs, especially in advanced economies.
Progress seems to be stalled. Like people at a party's last-minute guzzling?
At first glance, it looks just like another real estate pro hustling to rent homes on social media.
Adam Driver stars alongside Nathalie Emmanuel and Forest Whitaker in the sci-fi epic.
Production finished in 2023, expected release 2024. Starring Adam Driver, Nathalie Emmanuel and Forest Whitaker.
The view of biology often presented to the public is oversimplified and out of date. Scientists must set the record straight, argues a new book.
Review of 2023 book: How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology Philip Ball. ISBN9781529095999
Alan Watts, for all his faults, was a wildly imaginative and provocative thinker who reimagined religion in a secular age
"Informing them ... that the ideals into which their parents and teachers had indoctrinated them were, by comparison, empty. Life did not have to be ‘about’ something or ‘going’ somewhere, any more than the point of playing or listening to a Bach prelude was to get to the end as quickly and efficiently as possible."
Starting as a radio show in 1949 ( !! ) the BBC had guests describe what they'd want with them on a desert island. Over 2000 episodes are online, many in a nicely-sorted video format.
Just in case, the BBC site's here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qnmr
Once, drug dealers and money launderers saw cryptocurrency as perfectly untraceable. Then a grad student named Sarah Meiklejohn proved them all wrong—and set the stage for a decade-long crackdown.
"This is the story of the revelation in late 2013 that Bitcoin was, in fact, the opposite of untraceable—that its blockchain would actually allow researchers, tech companies, and law enforcement to trace and identify users with even more transparency than the existing financial system."
Electronics can generally handle cold temperatures, but just like us they have their limits. Generally, the optimum temperature for most electronics is around 70 degrees Fahrenheit (21 degrees Celsius) but there is no one definitive answer as it depends on the type of electronic. Most electronics ar...
Also discusses high temps, and any things that should NOT be stored in garages that reach temperature extremes. Details what might happen.
TLDR quotes:
At temperatures lower than 41 degrees Fahrenheit, it is likely the electronics will become unstable and display erratic behavior.
Most electronics are designed to continue operating at temperatures up to 120 degrees Fahrenheit (50 degrees Celsius). At temperatures higher than 120 degrees Fahrenheit, the electronic can reach its thermal limit, causing components to fail and degrade.
The Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction turns a century of neologisms (and neosemes!) into a redefintion of the genre.
An article about the Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction,
which lives here: https://sfdictionary.com/
Example lookup: https://sfdictionary.com/view/59/hyperspace
Designed to study Pluto, the spacecraft’s instruments are being repurposed.
Sci-fi might have spoiled us with how communication would work in space.
Subspace is the answer of course!
First, wear your dust mask. Who knows where these machines have been?
Just like the pandemic changed how people move, where and why Americans move abroad has changed in 2023. See the details in our study here.
Quitters!
The Murena 2 wants to 'deGoogle' phones and provide unprecedented privacy. It's an admirable ambition — but one that comes with caveats.
Insights into the kind of crap 78-rpm records were made of, and other scarce technical infos.
If you're not sure what 'a record' is, or haven't ever seen one, you're excused.
Oh, and by-the-way, 78 is the approximate number you get when you rotate a 46-tooth gear with a 3600 rpm motor. (60 cycles per second.)
Further wisdom such as this is found by the ton here: http://www.78rpmrecord.com/links.htm
