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December 24, 2023 2:30 am
Merry Christmas to all my WUWT friends. Also, Happy New Year. 2024 is going to be a firestorm of dishonesty and vitriol. The Left is becoming more depesperate, and the vote in my home state to keep Trump off of the ballot is yet another example. This coming year is going to drive you to the brink of insanity. Stay strong.
-Johne
Agreeing with a feel good statement on an anonymous poll is a lot different from being willing to pay any price or put up with any inconvenience. That’s a fact that you seem incapable of understanding.
As to your belief that the only source of this nonsense is rich people who own the media, I can only attribute that to your desire to deflect attention from your fellow socialists.
December 24, 2023 2:41 am
Ever heard of sustainable dressing?
“” The Princess of Wales displayed her penchant for sustainable dressing as she surprised…
… Kate, 41, wore a red £1,350 Miu Miu cardigan – and it isn’t the first time we’ve seen it – she first debuted the knitwear in the promo video for her 2021 carol concert.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12898061/kate-middleton-recycles-miu-miu-cardigan-christmas-carol-service.html
So, it’s wearing an [expensive] item more than once.
December 24, 2023 3:32 am
Greta Thunberg’s climate crusade is heading for defeat | Michael Shellenberger interview
“Greta Thunberg is an end stage product of the climate religion. As renewables come into crisis everywhere in the world because of local community opposition to the land use impacts, as well as the high associated costs, the bloom is coming off the rose for climate activists.” Michael Shellenberger is an environmentalist, author, and advocate for pragmatic solutions to climate change. He joins Steven Edginton to talk about the ‘religion’ of climate change for this week’s Off Script podcast. Watch the full interview above, or listen on your podcast app by searching “Off Script”.
December 24, 2023 3:36 am
On the first anniversary of the PJM near-blackout Christmas 2022:
Gordon Tomb and David Wojick: How PA can prevent deadly blackouts (Delaware Valley Journal)
https://delawarevalleyjournal.com/opinion-how-pa-can-prevent-deadly-blackouts/
Ours is a different approach to reliability planning. Focus on the reasonably likely worst case — deadly cold windless nights.
Excellent points in this article.
Our country’s grid and distribution systems should NEVER even be close to accepting blackouts. Blackouts should be extremely infrequent. People die, physical damage done, and jobs are lost when electric service insanely threatened. Literally, our national security is lost…or greatly abbreviated.
Electric service, a more comprehensive term, must always be available (24/7), adequate (instantly serving loads as they come on, off, change), stable (holding/providing for the necessary frequency, current, voltage, power factor, etc, at all times), reliable (on demand of customer equipment–lights, motors, cooling, heating, medical or home care oxygen,..) , and dispatchable (available to the grid or distribution modifications when needed before stability or blackouts are threatened.)
Lowest price for all of electric service should be mandated.
On-site fuel is a good point. Make all sources compatible for continued electric service described above.
Instead of “backup” provided by the grid (assumed in the promotion of “green” sources), all sources should bring to the grid all necessary equipment and on-site fuel to provide “make up” energy (MWh) and power ( MW, demand). The cost and operation of batteries, fuel oil, natural gas and all interconnection equipment should be borne by the energy/power source.
Examples of what happens abound.
The basics aren’t complex. Just need stated with examples, over and over!
This crisis must be fixed.
Thanks for your voices.
How can we help?
John Furst, BSEE, PE
December 24, 2023 5:19 am
I found this interesting, maybe you will, too.
From Astronomy magazine, January 2024, page 23:
“Dark nubulae actually consist of a combination of dust and really cold gas–material that can one day form stars.
To do so, the temperature of the hydrogen in dark nebulae must be just 18 degrees Fahrenheit (10 degrees Celcius) above absolute zero or less. If its warmer, the atoms in the cloud will be moving too fast to merge when they collide, and stars won’t form.”
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December 24, 2023 5:23 am
There’s less knowledge of the sea bottom than there is of outer space but some details are emerging in determining the siting of of offshore turbines. Of the hundreds of wind turbines planned for the offshore east coast, what is the cost for their erection? What are the financials of their present use in Europe?
December 24, 2023 7:37 am
Merry Christmas to you and your kin. Interesting story about this Christmas Day possibly being the warmest in the U.K. since 1920, so 103 years ago.
https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/local-news/christmas-day-could-hottest-1920-8996913. To be perfectly honest, most Christmas Days that I remember were mild, white Christmases were few and far between, even in 1962 the snow didn’t start until the 26th December.
December 24, 2023 7:46 am
FUNNY! The way companies make sustainability statements on their web sites, so optimistic and flowery and glowing and downright silly! Boom – Sustainability (boomsupersonic.com)
December 24, 2023 9:19 am
A story tip: Subsurface conditions have created problems for some of the Northeast US offshore wind turbines.
December 24, 2023 9:22 am
Here’s the link to Mark Hertsgaard’s Covering Climate Now list of subscribers.
Merry Christmas
December 24, 2023 12:25 pm
Just visiting Vancouver, strolling around the streets and parks, and having trouble reconciling how so-called “progressive” jurisdictions can enable the public pollution of marijuana smoking.
I mean, this stuff smoked qualifies as “pollution” in so many more ways than the dreaded CO2 ever did –
carcinogenic
particulates emissions
visual
malodorous
lingering air residency
But as with all “progressive” tolerance decisions, it provides some level of “feel-good” for those who make their lifestyle choices based predominantly upon these criteria.
December 24, 2023 12:52 pm
New topic. Hope I’m not too late.
Is Tucker Carlson off his rocker?
I like a LOT of what he says, but he keeps returning to UFOs and not just UFOs being “real”, but his latest thing is that governments are secretly working with aliens on nefarious dark secrets.
It really disappoints me. I was going to subscribe to his new TCN at $9/mo because he usually introduces topics that are off-narrative, often giving a heads up on stories that later become important such as his interview of Javier Milei.
I may still subscribe, but this alien stuff is a conspiracy too far for me. I can believe it’s at least plausible that the CIA assassinated JFK and that Lyndon Johnson was complicit. That aliens have been working secretly with our government since the 1940s and it has to be kept secret because they’re conspiring on something bad for the average citizen is just nuts, right?
