Really? Putin held elections in the Donbass and Crimea- with his army there- and soldiers went to homes with their weapons demanding people vote- do you think they voted their conscience? If so- you are extraordinarily naive. Sure, do elections with NATO and Putin’s army out of those first. Agree to that, Ivan?
Do you own homework. Why should I do it for you? I watched stories on YouTube and even the MSM about what I said- but you dismissed it without doing your own research. The videos show soliders with guns knocking on apartment doors in those regions “suggesting” the people should go vote and suggesting how they should vote. You think such things don’t happen? By the way, aren’t you the guy who pounces on me whenever I say positive things about woody biomass? Maybe not.
I am sorry, but believe non of those storIes. If we have learned anything from 3 letter agencies is that they will leak any propaganda. My favorite was when Obama came on media and said some conflict was started by an internet video 😉
It was in the 60s, I’m pretty sure, that the then head of the CIA stated, on the record, in front of a Congressional committee, that misinformation was America’s greatest weapon against its enemies (then the Soviet Union). For that misinformation to be effective against those enemies it was necessary that American’s citizens also believe the misinformation else their enemies would not. Thus the CIA had to make sure both sides got the stories in creditable form.
Our main problem is the deep state working in cahoots with Democrats and lapdog, money and eyeball-losing, Corporate Media.
All three need to be reigned in, using license review/renewals, so they will not rear their heads to do mischief against the American people again.
We came very close to losing OUR First Amendment
Putin is the least of OUR problems. He is paraded out for the deep state to have an enemy.
I’d rather have an alpha male as the chief of the tribe than a light weight or a woman, with exceptions like Maggie Thatcher. The other tribal chiefs will show respect to an alpha male. Of course in the “progressive view”, alpha males are horrible creatures.
I don’t know what has happened here but he must have left some of that common sense at Maralago when he appointed his son in law’s father, Charles Kushner to the position of Ambassador to France.
This would be the same Charles Kushner who hired a prostitute to lure his brother-in-law, then arranged to have the encounter in a New Jersey motel room recorded with a hidden camera and the recording sent to his own sister, the man’s wife.
This would be the same Charles Kushner who pled guilty to 18 counts including tax evasion and witness tampering and was sentenced in 2005 to two years in prison.
Did I mention he was found guilty of making illegal campaign donations?
No doubt that sounds like the kinda morals Trump values and admires…. but an ambassador to a major ally?
If you mean I’m going to hold Trump to account? Yep. In my opinion he lied his way to power. He wont do a quarter of what he said. And he lives in the swamp so how can he drain it?
Oh well, at least you didn’t say “my guy won” or the funniest one you have on repeat “it was El Nino what done it.” Hint.. you are the only one in the world who thinks that’s true.
In Wokeachusetts, offshore wind is seen as the way to get to net zero by ’50. Nobody wants industrial scale wind or solar on the land anymore in this people’s republic. So, if Trump can kill offshore wind- that kills the state’s net zero plan. I hope he can do it ASAP. Resistance is also building here to industrial scale battery systems.
“Resistance is also building here to industrial scale battery systems.” Good. Recently I looked up the specifications for the Tesla Megapack 2XL unit. This module is good for about 1 MW for four hours.
Absolute best case charge/discharge for 15 years gives $0.08 per kWh, before any accounting for the cost of energy for charging, or for connection to distribution/transmission beyond the installation site. I figured $1.5M installed cost per module, just as an exercise. I figured 90% discharge/charge once per day.
People need to realize how expensive it is to charge/discharge so-called “renewable” energy from “free” wind and solar! A premium of about 8 cents per kWh AT BEST!
I think a 60% charge/discharge would be more accurate for a Li-Ion battery as it keeps you out of the voltage rise at the high end of charge and voltage drop at the low end. Operating in the >80% and <20% state of charge significantly reduces the battery life. That said, we’re now talking 12 cents per kWh at best.
Example of Turnkey Cost of Large-Scale, Megapack Battery System, 2023 pricing From: https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/battery-system-capital-costs-losses-and-aging .
The system consists of 50 Megapack 2, rated 45.3 MW/181.9 MWh, 4-h energy delivery
Power = 50 Megapacks x 0.979 MW x 0.926, Tesla design factor = 45.3 MW
Energy = 50 Megapacks x 3.916 MWh x 0.929, Tesla design factor = 181.9 MWh
Estimate of supply by Tesla, $90 million, or $495/kWh. See URL
Estimate of supply by Others, $14.5 million, or $80/kWh All-in, turnkey cost about $575/kWh; 2023 pricing https://www.tesla.com/megapack/design ?itok=lxTa2SlF https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/tesla-hikes-megapack-prices-commodity-inflation-soars
. Annual Cost of Megapack Battery Systems; 2023 pricing
Assume a system rated 45.3 MW/181.9 MWh, and an all-in turnkey cost of $104.5 million, per Example 2
Amortize bank loan for 50% of $104.5 million at 6.5%/y for 15 years, $5.484 million/y
Pay Owner return of 50% of $104.5 million at 10%/y for 15 years, $6.765 million/y (10% due to high inflation)
Lifetime (Bank + Owner) payments 15 x (5.484 + 6.765) = $183.7 million
Assume battery daily usage for 15 years at 10%, and loss factor = 1/(0.9 *0.9)
Battery lifetime output = 15 y x 365 d/y x 181.9 MWh x 0.1, usage x 1000 kWh/MWh = 99,590,250 kWh to HV grid; 122,950,926 kWh from HV grid; 233,606,676 kWh loss
(Bank + Owner) payments, $183.7 million / 99,590,250 kWh = 184.5 c/kWh
Less 50% subsidies (ITC, depreciation in 5 years, deduction of interest on borrowed funds) is 92.3c/kWh At 10% usage, (Bank + Owner) cost, 92.3 c/kWh At 40% usage, (Bank + Owner) cost, 23.1 c/kWh
Excluded costs/kWh: 1) O&M; 2) system aging, 1.5%/y, 3) 19% HV grid-to-HV grid loss, 3) grid extension/reinforcement to connect battery systems, 5) downtime of parts of the system, 6) decommissioning in year 15, i.e., disassembly, reprocessing and storing at hazardous waste sites. The excluded costs add at least 15 c/kWh
COMMENTS ON CALCULATION
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Almost all existing battery systems operate at less than 10%, per EIA annual reports i.e., new systems would operate at about 92.4 + 15 = 107.4 c/kWh. They are used to stabilize the grid, i.e., frequency control and counteracting up/down w/s outputs. If 40% throughput, 23.1 + 15 = 38.1 c/kWh.
A 4-h battery system costs 38.1 c/kWh of throughput, if operated at a duty factor of 40%.That is on top of the cost/kWh of the electricity taken from the HV grid to feed the batteries
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Up to 40% could occur by absorbing midday solar peaks and discharging during late-afternoon/early-evening, which occur every day in California and other sunny states. The more solar systems, the greater the peaks. See URL for Megapacks required for a one-day wind lull in New England
40% throughput is close to Tesla’s recommendation of 60% maximum throughput, i.e., not charging above 80% full and not discharging below 20% full, to achieve a 15-y life, with normal aging.
Tesla’s recommendation was not heeded by the Owners of the Hornsdale Power Reserve in Australia. They excessively charged/discharged the system. After a few years, they added Megapacks to offset rapid aging of the original system, and added more Megapacks to increase the rating of the expanded system. http://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/the-hornsdale-power-reserve-largest-battery-system-in-australia .
Regarding any project, the bank and Owner have to be paid, no matter what. I amortized the bank loan and Owner’s investment
Divide total payments over 15 years by the throughput during 15 years, you get c/kWh, as shown.
There is about a 20% round-trip loss, from HV grid to 1) step-down transformer, 2) front-end power electronics, 3) into battery, 4) out of battery, 5) back-end power electronics, 6) step-up transformer, to HV grid, i.e., you draw about 50 units from the HV grid to deliver about 40 units to the HV grid, because of A-to-Z system losses. That gets worse with aging.
A lot of people do not like these c/kWh numbers, because they have been repeatedly told by self-serving folks, battery Nirvana is just around the corner.
. NOTE: Aerial photos of large-scale battery systems with many Megapacks, show many items of equipment, other than the Tesla supply, such as step-down/step-up transformers, switchgear, connections to the grid, land, access roads, fencing, security, site lighting, i.e., the cost of the Tesla supply is only one part of the battery system cost at a site.
. NOTE: Battery system turnkey capital costs and electricity storage costs likely will be much higher in 2023 and future years, than in 2021 and earlier years, due to: 1) increased inflation rates, 2) increased interest rates, 3) supply chain disruptions, which delay projects and increase costs, 4) increased energy prices, such as of oil, gas, coal, electricity, etc., 5) increased materials prices, such as of tungsten, cobalt, lithium, copper, manganese, etc., 6) increased labor rates.
The irony is that the people fighting hardest against industrial scale batteries aren’t climate skeptics- no, they’re as green as a fresh picked banana. Their problem is that these are being proposed in THEIR areas- in THEIR towns.
It is an irony I hope to take advantage of. The new law mandates that 1500 MW of grid batteries be bought by July 25. A standard container sized battery is 1.5 MW so they will need 1000. Where will they go? I hope for serious resistance.
It then mandates another 1000 MW by July 2026 and again by July 2027 or an incredible 3500 MW in 2.6 years. This will really get people’s attention as will the immediate rate hikes to pay the tens of billions for them. Battery madness coming soon.
I’m watching it because I live in The People’s Republic of Wokeachusetts. Back around 2010 many solar “farms” were built in the central part of the state, mostly relatively low income areas- with relatively low cost woodlands that could be sacrificed. One was proposed behind my ‘hood. My wife and I sued the town and the solar company and got them to stay further from the modest ranch homes and they threw us some money to landscape our back yards to hide it. At the time I contacted all the major enviro groups in the state. The proposed “farm” was to be built next to a river, next to several vernal pools and on land designated as rare and endangered species. I assumed the enviros would help in some way- maybe shrink it or just stop it. But no, they said were NIMBYs and that green energy would save the planet. It got built- and I made a video of the construction- once on YouTube, but I later took it down. I should put it back up now that attention is being given to this state over the topic.
Some of the most fanatic greens in the state are in the CT River Valley, home of many colleges and most of the towns are “progressive” due to so many of those college grads sticking around the area- especially many grads and drop outs from the ’60s/70s. (heck, I was a hippy there once too but then I grew up). But, in recent years many solar farms were being built in the CT Valley and people started disliking them- being built in forests and on some of the world’s finest, richest farm land. And, of course, near THEIR homes. Resistance started to build. Also, some wind “farms” had been built in the CT Valley but many more in the high country of the Berkshires to the west of the CT Valley and up against NY, VT and CT. People in both areas didn’t seem to appreciate wind energy except in theory, if they were built far away.
Now, there is this new movement against industrial battery systems- being a big deal in the town of Wendell. They call it “No Assault & Batteries (NAB)”: https://nabunited.org/
Oh, they say, we like green energy but not these massive battery systems. Well, they are also offering resistance to some very large proposed “solar farms”. So, all these mostly elderly hippies aren’t happy that the green revolution has come to their area- but they can’t rise to the occasion to be skeptical of the entire green bullshit. They still want the revolution, but somewhere far away.
Westfieldmike
November 30, 2024 3:40 am
Arla are the company, they produce some really good lactose free cheese. However I will not buy it again. There are other alternatives.
“This parameter is one contribution to the amount of energy being converted between kinetic energy, and internal plus potential energy, for a column of air extending from the surface of the Earth to the top of the atmosphere. Negative values indicate a conversion to kinetic energy from potential plus internal energy. This parameter can be used to study the atmospheric energy budget. The circulation of the atmosphere can also be considered in terms of energy conversions.” Source: https://codes.ecmwf.int/grib/param-db/162064
Why am I posting this? To point out that it is from the modeling of the general circulation of the atmosphere – using physics and math – that it becomes clear that the minor radiative effect of incremental CO2, CH4, N2O is not capable of forcing energy to accumulate down here as sensible heat. And most certainly that the effectiveness of “climate action” based on “decarbonization” and “net zero” can never be confirmed in the real world, because the incremental radiative effect cannot be isolated for objective evaluation of any trend of any climate-related metric.
Please consider reading the full text description at this very short time-lapse video of plots using the “vertical integral of energy conversion” parameter from the ERA5 reanalysis model. https://youtu.be/hDurP-4gVrY
Thank you for your patience as I keep posting about this.
Thanks for touting the importance of the energy transformation and transportation in/by the atmosphere in any “climate” study. I am puzzled, however, by the terms “internal” and “latent” energy. are they not the same? Energy, from whatever source, that changes the temperature of a body of air is said to provide “latent energy (heat)”.
I suggest two modifications that will help describe the complex atmospheric transformation and transportation of energy: 1) be careful when describing the action within an “air column”, as air is always “spilling out” of any vertical column and being replaced by denser air in the bottom. And 2) The water cycle is an important (you might say dominant) part of the energy transport process –
For example, Helene picked up a few million tons of water from the Gulf (latent energy), lifted it a few kilometers (potential energy), moved it a thousand or so kilometers (kinetic energy), and dumped it on Appalachia, with enough kinetic energy left over to flatten buildings on the way. And surface thermometers along the route were, by themselves, inadequate to measure any of this process.
“Internal energy is the energy contained within a system i.e., the microscopic energy of the air molecules, rather than the macroscopic energy associated with, for example, wind, or gravitational potential energy.”
Mainly this is otherwise known as “sensible heat”.
Sensible heat is certainly one component, but a very large component of internal energy is the enthalpy and entropy that material crossing the boundary of a material (say evaporation from a land surface into the overlying air) brings with it. Physicists and chemists generally refer to this as the chemical potential of the added material.
This microscopic/macroscopic divide is interesting in regard to the history of thermodynamics and the pedagogy of technical education. Physicists and chemists are generally concerned with this microscopic origin of thermodynamical quantities (Kittel’s book on Thermal Physics maintains a microscopic view throughout) which as a subject is known as statistical mechanics; while engineers, mechanical engineers in particular, are generally more concerned with the thermodynamical properties of macroscopic material independently of how it is constructed — it’s a continuum for practical purposes with properties per unit mass. So, Cengel’s book on engineering thermodynamics is a good example here.
“…but a very large component of internal energy is the enthalpy and entropy that material crossing the boundary of a material (say evaporation from a land surface into the overlying air) brings with it.”
A fair point in general usage, perhaps, but as defined in meteorology, the latent heat of water vapor is treated separately from “internal energy” as the references explain. But using the psychrometric chart, a mechanical engineer doing air conditioning computations recognizes that the enthalpy includes the latent heat of water vapor.
So for consistency with the way the ERA5 reanalysis model handles it, I have made reference to the source for clarity.
“Internal energy” for a gas can be considered heat capacity at constant volume as opposed to heat capacity at constant pressure. The latter include internal energy plus the work exerted by the gas in expanding when heat is added, or put into the gas when contracting as heat is removed.
1) Internal energy has an undefined zero point (the dead state is probably best to use but is a tad complicated) and a number of such points would work just fine in specific contexts. Thus what is important are changes to internal energy.
2) Taking item 1) into account, internal energy is changed by adding/subracting sensible heat, subtracting work. Mechanical energy like for example kinetic energy is excluded from the category of internal energy. Often I read people claiming that the lapse rate results from raising/lowering air, but this is not correct. The lapse rate results from raised or lowered air doing work against or with its environmental pressure.
3) Finally, parcels of air are open systems and so air and water vapor can cross a parcel’s control volume boundary. This adds to or subtracts from internal energy through the chemical potential that this different material brings with it. This category takes into account latent heat of water vapor for example.
Please note that the terminology for internal, potential, kinetic, and latent energy (i.e., the latent heat of condensation of water vapor) comes from standard usage in meteorology. See farther below. Also, the energy transport from one place to another on the earth’s surface is indeed powerful, as you point out. But the concept of “energy conversion” describes the changing state of these properties over time at a fixed location.
“2. Energy, available potential energy, and gross static stability Of the various forms of energy present in the atmosphere, kinetic energy has often received the most attention. Often the total kinetic energy of a weather system is regarded as a measure of its intensity. The only other forms of atmospheric energy which appear to play a major role in the kinetic energy budget of the troposphere and lower stratosphere are potential energy, internal energy, and the latent energy of water vapor. Potential and internal energy may be transformed directly into kinetic energy, while latent energy may be transformed directly into internal energy, which is then transformed into kinetic energy. It is easily shown by means of the hydrostatic approximation that the changes of the potential energy P and the internal energy l of the whole atmosphere are approximately proportional, so that it is convenient to regard potential and internal energy as constituting a single form of energy. This form has been called total potential energy by Margules (1903).”
Thanks! Rather confusing, isn’t it? Let’s just simplify everything by claiming that the only thing we need to study is GAT! LOL
strativarius
November 30, 2024 4:20 am
From my vantage point it is clear to me that the UK has gone through the looking glass. We’ve just had a budget to squeeze until the pips squeak and more. Having gained the confidence of business – with its fully costed manifesto – Labour then pulled the rug from under them.
Firms forced into ‘damage control’ mode after U.K. budget CBI boss to warn Budget tax rises will ‘hit growth’
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Kemi Badenoch joined the chorus of business leaders tearing into the Reeves Budget at PMQs today, slamming it for “making things worse” and declaring “everyone is unhappy.” In a brutal swipe at Reeves’ career history, Kemi quipped:
“Isn’t it great that the Chancellor is an expert at customer complaints?”
No sooner did the farmers learn of their fate than the news broke that:
“”Foreign farmers handed £500m amid inheritance tax row at home”” – The Telegraph.
Which is roughly what the new farm tax is expected to raise. Funny that. But… yes, it’s worse than we thought.
“”UK pledges £239m to forest-rich nations to fight climate change at Cop29″” – The Independent “”Ed Miliband says Cop29 deal agreed at ’11th hour for the climate'”” – All media.
The Labour government has upped the ante when it comes to throwing [QE] money around the world. No cause is too insignificant for Britain to pay for. And yet nothing adds up…
“”Labour’s manifesto for the 2024 General Election is here, and sets out our fully-funded plan to change Britain. … It is the change the country needs.”” – Labour . org
And there is the fraud. They lied every step of the way into power.
“”Is Labour right to claim there’s a £22 billion ‘black hole’ “”
No. The Office of Budget Regulation (OBR) had all the figures as did the Treasury. That was pure invention. £22 billion they say… so they crafted a budget to raise £40 billion.
This is the gaslight party.
“”Sir Keir Starmer pledges to ‘tread more lightly’ on lives of voters”” – The Telegraph. “”Starmer says he ‘won’t tell people how to live their lives'”” – CoP 29
I sometimes wonder if Starmer has ever actually encountered the truth in any shape or form? We all [here at least] know what net zero means, but 2TK is a weaselly lawyer, and not a very good one at that, either
“”Net zero targets will force Britons to change how they live their lives, the Labour chairman of Parliament’s energy committee has said. Bill Esterson, the most senior backbencher charged with scrutinising the Government’s energy policy, said ordinary people will “absolutely” have to adjust their habits to meet the UK’s ambitious emissions goals for 2030.
I can point to systems that are very much more democratic, giving the right of recall for example. The current model (Est. 1660) whereby Parliament is supreme above monarch and people suits them all too well. An elected dictatorship with a fig leaf head of state.
I cannot point to a system that changes the human condition. Nobody can, can they?
127 years later, in 1787, a better system was devised by (mostly) Englishmen. Separation of powers, with checks and balances. The people can affect government policy every two years. Still it remains imperfect to be sure. But five years is a long time to endure Keir Stalin
Eight years of Obama and 4 years of Obama’s senile sock puppet! We avoided 4 more years of the Obama sock puppet, but we suffered through 8 years of the Cheney sock puppet! And never forget the 8 years when the Clinton crime syndicate came into power and we squandered the peace dividend from the fall of the USSR!
For decades now, far too many have been asleep at the wheel; and the results are going to be with the Western democracies for generations to come! Europe, Australia, the UK, and Canada are in the process of destroying the democratic institutions and economic infrastructures that gave them the wealth that they currently enjoy; and there does not seem to be anything slowing the descent into the Middle Ages 2.0 but the tentative coalition of the MAGA movement with some former Democrat leaders deemed to possess too much common sense and individualism by their party!
The U.S. is a Constitutional Republic, not a democracy. One of the problems with a pure democracy can be summed up by three wolves and a lamb voting on what’s for dinner.
As implemented, the U.S. governmental system is far from perfect but it has done at least a half ways respectable job of limiting extremists. Part of the checks and balances is requiring a consensus for major changes, such as the 3/4 states approval to amend the constitution. This is also the reason why eliminating the Filibuster in the senate is a bad idea – as the Dems found out when eliminating the filibuster for confirming judicial appointments.
Extremism would be the actual likes of the Austrian corporal with death camps etc. Closest we got to that in the last 150 years was detaining 100,000+ people for being born in an enemy country or being the first generation descendants of people born in an enemy country. Note the party of POTUS when that happened (wasn’t an R).
The Steele Dossier is why I think that prosecutors should be subject to prosecution and face long prison sentences if they base their prosecution on known false pretenses, in exactly the same way that police officers can be prosecuted.
Allowing someone whose prosecution was overturned by an unanimous decision of SCOTUS to continue to act as a prosecutor is insane. While this is pretty bad, it’s not in the same level of evil as killing millions of Armenians, Ukrainians (Holomodor), “the final solution”, “the great leap forward”, Cambodia under Pol Pot, etc.
Under current interpretations of the First Amendment, calling someone a fascist or communist is not a criminal act as long as it does invoke a call for violence, but such statements can be grounds for libel suits. I would like to say that libel laws are applied in a fair and impartial manner, but… One other thing about the First Amendment, the first two clauses are about the freedom of religion, which is largely ignored by the MSM which thinks “freedom of the press” is the only subject of the first amendment.
Democracy is the worst political system except for all the others.
Ultimately it evolved to prevent a civil war and a beheaded king again. And reflected the actual power held by those that fought in that war, and those who suffered from it. Aristocrats and merchants.
Later on it reflected artisans and the bourgeoisie
And at the height of industrial unionisation, finally the blue collar labouring classes.
Today there is a global movement to suppress hoi polloi because they are not seen as being useful or important. We have robots and computers to do that sort of work now. In Russia they are merely there to ID the machine guns and mines.
In large parts of the USA they are only there to trust the Democrats and deliver them to office.
Ultimately if the people have any power they will exercise it.
UK farmers are not happy. Neither are French and Dutch farmers.
We now have a female black leader of the opposition clearly stating ‘diversity doesn’t work’ . That is an election-winning line.
The times they are a’changin’
Again.
All systems change the human condition, or rather, all systems are a reaction to the changes in human conditions brought about by technological progress. And environmental changes.
Actually, I can. Simply elect independents. In the first instance the voters must choose for a whole lot of different reasons. They have only the personal qualities of the candidates to consider. This is important because as independents they cannot present any collective policy which is invariably geared to buying votes. In the second instance the power they have is limited in that decisions will require a majority to pass. Above all they can be free to be guided by their conscience throughout. In this way the voter can be truely represented.
There will never be such a system until WE get enough people educated on the realities of modern mind control, mass formation psychosis, and socio/psychopathy! There is no one riding to our rescue! Unless we join up with enough likeminded individuals to jam up the cogs of the corporate money laundering machine, humanity will never be free to achieve our potential!
That is why sites like WUWT, and the ascension of the Trump pirate ship in America are so promising! We have four years to break the stranglehold of the corporate media and mis-education system; best stop complaining and get to work! And don’t spend too much time arguing with idiots; it is much too similar to wrestling with pigs!
Here in U.S., FBI is looking into two threats, the first against Trump cabinet nominees, the second against democrat party officials from recent campaign. FBI reports that the first threats appear to be “coming from inside the building”, whereas the second threats are coming from some guy named “Soros” complaining that all his money was “plssed away”, not related to the threats against Trump. The FBI vowed to get to the bottom of the second threats.
I just saw a clip of a new movie “Landman” starring Billy Bob Thornton, and in this clip the hero is located on a windmill farm and is explaining to his companion about how much oil it takes to make and keep a windmill going, and he says that a windmill never reduces CO2, but rather it’s production increases CO2, and windmills wouldn’t exist without oil.
It looks like a pretty good movie to me! At least that part of it.
Should we be very afraid of the “Axis of Evil”, China, Russia, North Korea and the Mad Mullahs of Iran getting together and attacking the West?
I don’t think so.
Russia is being bogged down by the Ukraine war. It is getting so bad for the Russian side that they have to import foreign fighters to come in and help them with the fight.
North Korea could be a problem, but I don’t see Kim going all-out to help the Russians. Kim is in it for the money, and I doubt he is going to put his military readiness in jeopardy by sending it all to Russia.
The Mad Mullahs of Iran are Paper Tigers. The Israelis destroyed their air defenses in the last attack so the rest of their country is vulnerable to whatever Israel decides to do to it. I suspect that if the Mad Mullahs make another attack, then Israel will finish the job they have started and destroy the Mad Mullahs ability to make war, which means destroying their missile and drone making capabilities along with their nuclear capabilities. The Israelis have already hit some of Iran’s missle production facilities and their nuclear program. It’s time to finish the job which will take Iran out of the Axis of Evil war.
The Russians are importing Mad Mullah proxy fighters, the Houthis, to come to Russia to fight the Ukrainians. Desert people fighting in wintertime Russia. That ought to work out well.
And China is happy to sell Russia war materials and buy their oil, but they are not going to be big backers of Putin. They see the problems he is having with the Ukraine war and are not eager to associate themselves with this possibly looming failure. And now Trump is back, which is going to make all the players reassess their positions.
Ukraine is the most corrupted country in Europe, by far.
It deserves to be under the bus, but won’t be as long as it has enough people to do the dying on the front lines for their financiers and weapon suppliers
Should we be very afraid of the “Axis of Evil”, China, Russia, North Korea and the Mad Mullahs of Iran getting together and attacking the West?
Yes, if you let Russia win in Ukraine,.
They will all be emboldened.
Yes, if you withdraw from all engagement with Europe and lose all your bases in the UK and Europe from whence you can reach the Red Sea and points around.
Yes, if you withdraw from all engagement with Europe and they decide not to buy US arms but make their own.
“Yes, if you let Russia win in Ukraine,. They will all be emboldened.”
They already are, based on Biden’s gross incompetence. None of this happened when Trump was in office. But it did under Obama, then Biden.
“Yes, if you withdraw from all engagement with Europe and lose all your bases in the UK and Europe from whence you can reach the Red Sea and points around.”
Who is proposing that?
“Yes, if you withdraw from all engagement with Europe and they decide not to buy US arms but make their own.”
Again, who is proposing that? And don’t European countries already make their own weapons? I know Germany, UK, France, all make their own tanks and small arms.
20,000 of Kim’s troops are getting expressly, hands-on experience fighting, which are skills they can transfer to others, plus Kim is getting valuable experience from Russia experts for designing weapons and drones and rockets and nuclear bomb devices.
It is a win win for both sides.
I think the Mad Mullahs are very close to becoming a Great Danger to millions of people, as they work towards building nuclear weapons. They reportedly currently have about 480 pounds of enriched uranium which is enough for about four nuclear weapons.
If I were Trump, the first thing I would do with the Mad Mullahs is to demand that they hand over the 480 pounds of enriched uranium and shut down their nuclear weapons making facilites, subject to inspection, or face military action from the United States.
I know some of you reading are panicking. Remember, I’m not the president. 🙂
I don’t know that Trump will get that drastic, but the situation is getting that drastic. If the Mad Mullahs get a working nuclear weapon it’s going to be a New, Terrible Ballgame.
We can’t let that happen. We have to do what it takes to prevent it from happening.
We are going back to the 7th century – loosely tied to 0 BC
“”a Labour MP stood up in parliament demanding the introduction of Islamic blasphemy laws. Tahrir Ali, the MP for Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley, asked Keir Starmer whether he would ‘commit to introducing measures to prohibit the desecration of all religious texts and the prophets of the Abrahamic religions?’.”” https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/11/27/does-labour-back-islamic-blasphemy-laws/
A teacher has been in hiding for three years from the islamists. Nobody cares. That’s the power of the white supremacy message. The islamists were upset, so the teacher and his young family have paid the price. Nobody in authority sees anything wrong with this. The local MP threw him under the bus and applauded the school’s apology.
One has to placate the ‘voting base’. Ergo, we have a de facto blasphemy law already.
The Blasphemy Laws were repealed in England and Wales in 2008.
In multicultural Britain this could be problematic.
Behzti written by Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti. The Sikh community finding the play deeply offensive to their faith. On the opening night, 18 December 2004, at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, a protest was organised by local Sikh leaders which turned violent, with the Rep cancelling performances of the play two days later. The case became part of a wider discussion in Britain about the limits of free speech and whether this can be curtailed where it offends the faith of religious groups. Add in a large number of Hindu, Buddhist, Scientologists, Zaroastrians and any number of other religions then you couldn’t say anything without potentially breaking blasphemy laws.
They way I read (into) it, Abram passively passed his wife off as his sister, and when the inevitable happened, he became indignant and demanded reparations.
He ran this con a few times too many and had to change his name to be able to keep carrying on with con.
I did a course about nuclear physics and for some reason I remember that a minimum of 23 lbs was necessary for a nuclear device, But the biggest bugaboo was the timing explosion. Without proper timing you get a dirty bomb not a nuclear explosion. Dirty bomb is bad but not as bad.
I generally agree with your post but my worries are about UK, France, Pakistan. If UK falls (which it appears to be doing) the folks that hate US and Israel have nuclear armed navy, air force, missiles, army, etc. Iran is one dimensional as of now.
They reportedly currently have about 480 pounds of enriched uranium which is enough for about four nuclear weapons.
What “reports” are you looking at, and “enriched” to what level ?
The IAEA’s set of “Verification and monitoring in the Islamic Republic of Iran in light of United Nations Security Council resolution 2231 (2015)” reports are available at the following link.
From the latest report, dated the 19th of November :
24. As of 26 October 2024, the Agency has estimated that the total enriched uranium stockpile in the form of UF6 of 5807.2 kg comprised:
– 2190.9 kg of uranium enriched up to 2% U-235 (+539.9 kg since the previous quarterly report);
– 2594.8 kg of uranium enriched up to 5% U-235 (+273.3 kg);
– 839.2 kg of uranium enriched up to 20% U-235 (+25.3 kg); and
– 182.3 kg of uranium enriched up to 60% U-235 (+17.6 kg).
Your “480 pounds” is just under 218 kg. Where did you get that specific number from ?
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If the Mad Mullahs get a working nuclear weapon …
… Mossad will find out before it’s assembled and Benjamin Netanyahu will order some of Israel’s reported 90 to 300 nuclear warheads fitted onto Jericho-III missiles, which will result in Iran suddenly possessing what has been poetically described as “a sprinkling of small circular mirrors visible from space”.
The Mullahs may well be “Mad”, but they aren’t “Suicidal”.
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PS : As a closing “early Xmas present”, my JCPOA spreadsheet graph updated to 26/10/2024.
“Mossad will find out before it’s assembled and Benjamin Netanyahu will order some of Israel’s reported 90 to 300 nuclear warheads fitted onto Jericho-III missiles, which will result in Iran suddenly possessing what has been poetically described as “a sprinkling of small circular mirrors visible from space”.”
I seriously doubt the Israelis would use nukes. They don’t need to.
“If the Mad Mullahs get a working nuclear weapon it’s going to be a New, Terrible Ballgame.”
I’m sure the Israelis are watching that more closely than anyone else. And I’m sure they already have a plan to take care of it. They’ve already scared their enemies into not using modern communications devices.
Scissor
November 30, 2024 7:10 am
Any guess what kind of car exploded at Port of Miami yesterday? China has a lot of these incidences.
Jeff Alberts
November 30, 2024 7:55 am
So. “AI”.
Not long ago, I posted a comment in an “AI” related thread (sorry, don’t have it handy), about a discussion I had with ChatGPT and Claude2.
I asked them both a non-controversial question “Were any production German tanks of WWII powered by Diesel engines?” I already knew the answer, based on many books I’ve collected since I was a teenager (50 years or so). The answer is no, none of them were.
Both “AI”s told me that yes, some of them were, and gave specific examples (one of them even said it was a “widely known fact”). I pointed out that all references, including Wikipedia, contradicted that answer. They immediately retracted and said I was right.
My question at the time was, where did they get this obviously incorrect information, unsupported by any references? Neither would give me any references or citations. They just essentially said “oops, my bad”, and moved on.
Just went on to ChatGPT this morning, and it gave a mostly right answer but cited the Maus super-heavy tank as one powered by diesel. I pointed out that the Maus was never a production tank. So it still tried to insert bogus information. Seems it does learn to some extent.
Then I asked some unrelated questions, such as: “Can men get pregnant”. It said no. But when I went into trans ideology, it changed its tune, and refused to say that a man believing he was a woman was delusional.
So I really have no confidence that any of these “AI” systems will be without a leftist bias.
Here’s the beginning of if the link doesn’t work. I recently subscribed for the digital version for a buck/day for the first year.
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WASHINGTON—Donald Trump’s campaign-trail vow to end President Biden’s signature climate law is running into a cold reality: Too many Republican lawmakers want to keep it.
The Inflation Reduction Act has channeled billions of dollars to renewable-energy projects across the country, with Republican-led states getting the lion’s share of the funding. Even though not a single Republican in the House or Senate backed the Democratic package, today there likely isn’t enough support in Congress to pass a repeal, according to Capitol Hill watchers and former Trump administration officials who worked on energy policy.
“There are too many things in there that are too important to too many constituencies” to throw out the law, said Sen. Kevin Cramer (R., N.D.).
A clash between Trump and congressional Republicans over the fate of the IRA would mark a high-stakes showdown determining the fate of hundreds of projects, billions of dollars and tens of thousands of jobs. It would pit Trump against some of his staunchest oil-and-gas supporters, who have plowed money into projects funded by the climate law, while presenting another test of how hard GOP lawmakers are willing to push back against the president-elect.
With a majority of just about a half dozen seats in next year’s House and a 53-47 margin in the Senate, the IRA repeal is one of a number of Trump pledges that might fizzle out. Already, his attempt to strong-arm the Senate into confirming some cabinet picks without a vote got the brushoff from lawmakers.
Trump pledged on the campaign trail to terminate the 2022 law, which he called the “green new scam.” He has repeatedly railed against clean-energy technologies such as wind power and electric vehicles and the subsidies that fund them. Trump also has said climate change is a hoax. Ending the law would stall or halt a raft of clean-energy projects that would benefit from tax credits, grants and loans.
We still have the Obama ethanol subsidies because the YIMBY Corn Belt states want to keep eating at the trough it created for them. Never mind the food-price effects on the rest of the nation.
We need Billboards explaining why there is no climate Emergency, that there is no increase in extreme weather, climate models produce useless results, it was warmer in the Roman Period and the Middle Ages than now, etc.
Oregon’s long-time senator, Wyden wants to know why energy company prices are rising so dramatically over the past 5 years. Gee, I wonder why? Lawsuits, “clean” energy requirements, an incoherent energy plan. Maybe, Mr. Wyden, you should look in the mirror for answers.
Adam Schiff lied in front of the whole world about Trump and Ukraine. The Clueless people of California chose to elect this Liar to the U.S. Senate in the last election.
2 big NY offshore wind projects on hold to see what Trump does
https://renews.biz/97333/attentive-energy-array-paused-after-trump-election/
The industry is holding its breath. Maybe it will pass out.
Yes, things are looking a lot better now that Trump, common sense, and reality are on the horizon.
Too bad ‘Trumpian’ common sense isn’t extended to foreign policy.
It does. Peace through strength works.
What strength would that be, then?
Head in the sand hands over ears and saying ‘it’s not our problem’?
We must stop Putin, but it’s time for Europe to do much more- Ukraine is more their problem than ours. It looks like they get it too.
Stopping Putin is easy. NATO out of Ukraine and hold elections once again.
Really? Putin held elections in the Donbass and Crimea- with his army there- and soldiers went to homes with their weapons demanding people vote- do you think they voted their conscience? If so- you are extraordinarily naive. Sure, do elections with NATO and Putin’s army out of those first. Agree to that, Ivan?
Post photos and videos of this.
If you do not, you are just spouting nonsense, that is no better than the Corporate Media
There are many YouTube videos showing this- go find them yourself, wise ass. I saw them when it happened.
I was asking for information, not to be called names
Do you own homework. Why should I do it for you? I watched stories on YouTube and even the MSM about what I said- but you dismissed it without doing your own research. The videos show soliders with guns knocking on apartment doors in those regions “suggesting” the people should go vote and suggesting how they should vote. You think such things don’t happen? By the way, aren’t you the guy who pounces on me whenever I say positive things about woody biomass? Maybe not.
I am sorry, but believe non of those storIes. If we have learned anything from 3 letter agencies is that they will leak any propaganda. My favorite was when Obama came on media and said some conflict was started by an internet video 😉
I’m happy for you. Believe whatever you like. Free country.
It was in the 60s, I’m pretty sure, that the then head of the CIA stated, on the record, in front of a Congressional committee, that misinformation was America’s greatest weapon against its enemies (then the Soviet Union). For that misinformation to be effective against those enemies it was necessary that American’s citizens also believe the misinformation else their enemies would not. Thus the CIA had to make sure both sides got the stories in creditable form.
Indeed. Russia colluuuusion was another
Our main problem is the deep state working in cahoots with Democrats and lapdog, money and eyeball-losing, Corporate Media.
All three need to be reigned in, using license review/renewals, so they will not rear their heads to do mischief against the American people again.
We came very close to losing OUR First Amendment
Putin is the least of OUR problems. He is paraded out for the deep state to have an enemy.
The strength whereby there were no new wars started when Trump was in power.
The only person behaving that way who would have made a difference the last 4 years is Biden.
Got any specifics?
Do you think US foreign policy was better under Biden/Harris?
You are still under Biden/Harris
Fundamentally timid really. Trump wont be timid. But will he be right?
I’d rather have an alpha male as the chief of the tribe than a light weight or a woman, with exceptions like Maggie Thatcher. The other tribal chiefs will show respect to an alpha male. Of course in the “progressive view”, alpha males are horrible creatures.
Their alpha males are trans
Do you think the world is better now under Biden/Harris/Blinken?
We agree you like war.
What a stupid comment.
No wars started during Trumps first term.
And so long as Biden doesn’t start WWIII before he leaves orifice, the current wars will likely ceases fairly quickly.
Yep, Trump’s common sense. A wondrous thing.
I don’t know what has happened here but he must have left some of that common sense at Maralago when he appointed his son in law’s father, Charles Kushner to the position of Ambassador to France.
This would be the same Charles Kushner who hired a prostitute to lure his brother-in-law, then arranged to have the encounter in a New Jersey motel room recorded with a hidden camera and the recording sent to his own sister, the man’s wife.
This would be the same Charles Kushner who pled guilty to 18 counts including tax evasion and witness tampering and was sentenced in 2005 to two years in prison.
Did I mention he was found guilty of making illegal campaign donations?
No doubt that sounds like the kinda morals Trump values and admires…. but an ambassador to a major ally?
Bad luck simpleton
TRUMP WON EVER PART OF THE ELECTION.
F*S GET OVER IT !!!
With his past, Kushner will get on famously with the Macaroon !
Biden won the last election. Didn’t stop you complaining. No, I think I’m going to enjoy pointing out how Trump is filling the swamp.
Mr. Simon: So you are gonna enjoy and wallow in the your perceived misery of others? Wonder if there is a word for such low thinking?
If you mean I’m going to hold Trump to account? Yep. In my opinion he lied his way to power. He wont do a quarter of what he said. And he lives in the swamp so how can he drain it?
You have absolutely ZERO possibility of holding anyone to account.
You are a simpleton with no brains and nothing but a yapping ignorant mouth that regurgitates fake lies and fabrications.
Your opinion is absolutely MEANINGLESS to anyone.
LOSER. !!!
Trump will be draining all the far-left ooze and pestilence that you so love to wallow in.
Dems won the vote rigging in 2020, no doubt.
All those massive extra mail-in unidentifiable ballots. !
Margin this time was TOO BIG TO RIG. !
Did you find your pee pee tape?
Yo really are a simple fool aren’t you.
lol you are the one who believes in Colluuuusion 😉
now find that pee pee tape moron
You really are a simple fool aren’t you
lol…hello kettle.
find the pee pee tape moron.
You really are a simple fool aren’t you
The simpleton is ADMITTING that he just constantly regurgitating far-left rubbish that doesn’t actually exists.
Hint simpleton.. EVERYONE except you knows that. !
It is remarkable that any human being can be so gullible and ignorant.
Moron indeed.
I’m not the one who keeps going back to a point I never made. Now that is moronic and the sign of a boring man who has nothing to say.
So the simpleton ADMITS that he is constantly regurgitating far-left rubbish that doesn’t actually exists.
Hint simpleton.. EVERYONE except you knows that. !
Oh well, at least you didn’t say “my guy won” or the funniest one you have on repeat “it was El Nino what done it.” Hint.. you are the only one in the world who thinks that’s true.
In Wokeachusetts, offshore wind is seen as the way to get to net zero by ’50. Nobody wants industrial scale wind or solar on the land anymore in this people’s republic. So, if Trump can kill offshore wind- that kills the state’s net zero plan. I hope he can do it ASAP. Resistance is also building here to industrial scale battery systems.
“Resistance is also building here to industrial scale battery systems.”
Good. Recently I looked up the specifications for the Tesla Megapack 2XL unit.
This module is good for about 1 MW for four hours.
Absolute best case charge/discharge for 15 years gives $0.08 per kWh, before any accounting for the cost of energy for charging, or for connection to distribution/transmission beyond the installation site. I figured $1.5M installed cost per module, just as an exercise. I figured 90% discharge/charge once per day.
People need to realize how expensive it is to charge/discharge so-called “renewable” energy from “free” wind and solar! A premium of about 8 cents per kWh AT BEST!
Add the fire risk, and it makes no sense at all.
I think a 60% charge/discharge would be more accurate for a Li-Ion battery as it keeps you out of the voltage rise at the high end of charge and voltage drop at the low end. Operating in the >80% and <20% state of charge significantly reduces the battery life. That said, we’re now talking 12 cents per kWh at best.
See my above comment
Example of Turnkey Cost of Large-Scale, Megapack Battery System, 2023 pricing
From:
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/battery-system-capital-costs-losses-and-aging
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The system consists of 50 Megapack 2, rated 45.3 MW/181.9 MWh, 4-h energy delivery
Power = 50 Megapacks x 0.979 MW x 0.926, Tesla design factor = 45.3 MW
Energy = 50 Megapacks x 3.916 MWh x 0.929, Tesla design factor = 181.9 MWh
Estimate of supply by Tesla, $90 million, or $495/kWh. See URL
Estimate of supply by Others, $14.5 million, or $80/kWh
All-in, turnkey cost about $575/kWh; 2023 pricing
https://www.tesla.com/megapack/design
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/tesla-hikes-megapack-prices-commodity-inflation-soars
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Annual Cost of Megapack Battery Systems; 2023 pricing
Assume a system rated 45.3 MW/181.9 MWh, and an all-in turnkey cost of $104.5 million, per Example 2
Amortize bank loan for 50% of $104.5 million at 6.5%/y for 15 years, $5.484 million/y
Pay Owner return of 50% of $104.5 million at 10%/y for 15 years, $6.765 million/y (10% due to high inflation)
Lifetime (Bank + Owner) payments 15 x (5.484 + 6.765) = $183.7 million
Assume battery daily usage for 15 years at 10%, and loss factor = 1/(0.9 *0.9)
Battery lifetime output = 15 y x 365 d/y x 181.9 MWh x 0.1, usage x 1000 kWh/MWh = 99,590,250 kWh to HV grid; 122,950,926 kWh from HV grid; 233,606,676 kWh loss
(Bank + Owner) payments, $183.7 million / 99,590,250 kWh = 184.5 c/kWh
Less 50% subsidies (ITC, depreciation in 5 years, deduction of interest on borrowed funds) is 92.3c/kWh
At 10% usage, (Bank + Owner) cost, 92.3 c/kWh
At 40% usage, (Bank + Owner) cost, 23.1 c/kWh
Excluded costs/kWh: 1) O&M; 2) system aging, 1.5%/y, 3) 19% HV grid-to-HV grid loss, 3) grid extension/reinforcement to connect battery systems, 5) downtime of parts of the system, 6) decommissioning in year 15, i.e., disassembly, reprocessing and storing at hazardous waste sites. The excluded costs add at least 15 c/kWh
COMMENTS ON CALCULATION
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Almost all existing battery systems operate at less than 10%, per EIA annual reports i.e., new systems would operate at about 92.4 + 15 = 107.4 c/kWh. They are used to stabilize the grid, i.e., frequency control and counteracting up/down w/s outputs. If 40% throughput, 23.1 + 15 = 38.1 c/kWh.
A 4-h battery system costs 38.1 c/kWh of throughput, if operated at a duty factor of 40%.That is on top of the cost/kWh of the electricity taken from the HV grid to feed the batteries
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Up to 40% could occur by absorbing midday solar peaks and discharging during late-afternoon/early-evening, which occur every day in California and other sunny states. The more solar systems, the greater the peaks.
See URL for Megapacks required for a one-day wind lull in New England
40% throughput is close to Tesla’s recommendation of 60% maximum throughput, i.e., not charging above 80% full and not discharging below 20% full, to achieve a 15-y life, with normal aging.
Tesla’s recommendation was not heeded by the Owners of the Hornsdale Power Reserve in Australia. They excessively charged/discharged the system. After a few years, they added Megapacks to offset rapid aging of the original system, and added more Megapacks to increase the rating of the expanded system.
http://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/the-hornsdale-power-reserve-largest-battery-system-in-australia
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Regarding any project, the bank and Owner have to be paid, no matter what. I amortized the bank loan and Owner’s investment
Divide total payments over 15 years by the throughput during 15 years, you get c/kWh, as shown.
There is about a 20% round-trip loss, from HV grid to 1) step-down transformer, 2) front-end power electronics, 3) into battery, 4) out of battery, 5) back-end power electronics, 6) step-up transformer, to HV grid, i.e., you draw about 50 units from the HV grid to deliver about 40 units to the HV grid, because of A-to-Z system losses. That gets worse with aging.
A lot of people do not like these c/kWh numbers, because they have been repeatedly told by self-serving folks, battery Nirvana is just around the corner.
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NOTE: Aerial photos of large-scale battery systems with many Megapacks, show many items of equipment, other than the Tesla supply, such as step-down/step-up transformers, switchgear, connections to the grid, land, access roads, fencing, security, site lighting, i.e., the cost of the Tesla supply is only one part of the battery system cost at a site.
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NOTE: Battery system turnkey capital costs and electricity storage costs likely will be much higher in 2023 and future years, than in 2021 and earlier years, due to: 1) increased inflation rates, 2) increased interest rates, 3) supply chain disruptions, which delay projects and increase costs, 4) increased energy prices, such as of oil, gas, coal, electricity, etc., 5) increased materials prices, such as of tungsten, cobalt, lithium, copper, manganese, etc., 6) increased labor rates.
$500,000 per MWh is the going rate so $2M.
The irony is that the people fighting hardest against industrial scale batteries aren’t climate skeptics- no, they’re as green as a fresh picked banana. Their problem is that these are being proposed in THEIR areas- in THEIR towns.
It is an irony I hope to take advantage of. The new law mandates that 1500 MW of grid batteries be bought by July 25. A standard container sized battery is 1.5 MW so they will need 1000. Where will they go? I hope for serious resistance.
It then mandates another 1000 MW by July 2026 and again by July 2027 or an incredible 3500 MW in 2.6 years. This will really get people’s attention as will the immediate rate hikes to pay the tens of billions for them. Battery madness coming soon.
Yikes!
Sorry to disturb your dream numbers
Absolutely best case is 0.35 $/delivered kWh as AC, in case of 40% throughput.
At 10% throughput, THE COMMON MODE OF BATTERY OPERATION, the cost is at least 1.20 $/kWh
The new Mass energy bill mandates a huge rapid battery buy that could cost $20 billion or so.
see https://commonwealthbeacon.org/energy/whats-the-pending-climate-bill-going-to-cost-us/
Should be fun to watch this hit the fan.
I’m watching it because I live in The People’s Republic of Wokeachusetts. Back around 2010 many solar “farms” were built in the central part of the state, mostly relatively low income areas- with relatively low cost woodlands that could be sacrificed. One was proposed behind my ‘hood. My wife and I sued the town and the solar company and got them to stay further from the modest ranch homes and they threw us some money to landscape our back yards to hide it. At the time I contacted all the major enviro groups in the state. The proposed “farm” was to be built next to a river, next to several vernal pools and on land designated as rare and endangered species. I assumed the enviros would help in some way- maybe shrink it or just stop it. But no, they said were NIMBYs and that green energy would save the planet. It got built- and I made a video of the construction- once on YouTube, but I later took it down. I should put it back up now that attention is being given to this state over the topic.
Some of the most fanatic greens in the state are in the CT River Valley, home of many colleges and most of the towns are “progressive” due to so many of those college grads sticking around the area- especially many grads and drop outs from the ’60s/70s. (heck, I was a hippy there once too but then I grew up). But, in recent years many solar farms were being built in the CT Valley and people started disliking them- being built in forests and on some of the world’s finest, richest farm land. And, of course, near THEIR homes. Resistance started to build. Also, some wind “farms” had been built in the CT Valley but many more in the high country of the Berkshires to the west of the CT Valley and up against NY, VT and CT. People in both areas didn’t seem to appreciate wind energy except in theory, if they were built far away.
Now, there is this new movement against industrial battery systems- being a big deal in the town of Wendell. They call it “No Assault & Batteries (NAB)”: https://nabunited.org/
Oh, they say, we like green energy but not these massive battery systems. Well, they are also offering resistance to some very large proposed “solar farms”. So, all these mostly elderly hippies aren’t happy that the green revolution has come to their area- but they can’t rise to the occasion to be skeptical of the entire green bullshit. They still want the revolution, but somewhere far away.
Arla are the company, they produce some really good lactose free cheese. However I will not buy it again. There are other alternatives.
Will the milkless cheese follows soon ? 😀
Ugh.
Physics and math. It’s important.
“Total atmospheric energy is made up of internal, potential, kinetic and latent energy.”
Source: https://codes.ecmwf.int/grib/param-db/162061
“This parameter is one contribution to the amount of energy being converted between kinetic energy, and internal plus potential energy, for a column of air extending from the surface of the Earth to the top of the atmosphere. Negative values indicate a conversion to kinetic energy from potential plus internal energy. This parameter can be used to study the atmospheric energy budget. The circulation of the atmosphere can also be considered in terms of energy conversions.”
Source: https://codes.ecmwf.int/grib/param-db/162064
Why am I posting this? To point out that it is from the modeling of the general circulation of the atmosphere – using physics and math – that it becomes clear that the minor radiative effect of incremental CO2, CH4, N2O is not capable of forcing energy to accumulate down here as sensible heat. And most certainly that the effectiveness of “climate action” based on “decarbonization” and “net zero” can never be confirmed in the real world, because the incremental radiative effect cannot be isolated for objective evaluation of any trend of any climate-related metric.
Please consider reading the full text description at this very short time-lapse video of plots using the “vertical integral of energy conversion” parameter from the ERA5 reanalysis model.
https://youtu.be/hDurP-4gVrY
Thank you for your patience as I keep posting about this.
Thanks for touting the importance of the energy transformation and transportation in/by the atmosphere in any “climate” study. I am puzzled, however, by the terms “internal” and “latent” energy. are they not the same? Energy, from whatever source, that changes the temperature of a body of air is said to provide “latent energy (heat)”.
I suggest two modifications that will help describe the complex atmospheric transformation and transportation of energy: 1) be careful when describing the action within an “air column”, as air is always “spilling out” of any vertical column and being replaced by denser air in the bottom. And 2) The water cycle is an important (you might say dominant) part of the energy transport process –
For example, Helene picked up a few million tons of water from the Gulf (latent energy), lifted it a few kilometers (potential energy), moved it a thousand or so kilometers (kinetic energy), and dumped it on Appalachia, with enough kinetic energy left over to flatten buildings on the way. And surface thermometers along the route were, by themselves, inadequate to measure any of this process.
Latent energy is the energy needed to do a phase change – i.e. from solid to liquid or liquid to gas.
One of the reasons why you can take air temps above freezing but you still need enormous amounts of energy to thaw polar ice.
I dunno what ‘internal’ energy is,
Copied and pasted from the first link I gave:
“Internal energy is the energy contained within a system i.e., the microscopic energy of the air molecules, rather than the macroscopic energy associated with, for example, wind, or gravitational potential energy.”
Mainly this is otherwise known as “sensible heat”.
Sensible heat is certainly one component, but a very large component of internal energy is the enthalpy and entropy that material crossing the boundary of a material (say evaporation from a land surface into the overlying air) brings with it. Physicists and chemists generally refer to this as the chemical potential of the added material.
This microscopic/macroscopic divide is interesting in regard to the history of thermodynamics and the pedagogy of technical education. Physicists and chemists are generally concerned with this microscopic origin of thermodynamical quantities (Kittel’s book on Thermal Physics maintains a microscopic view throughout) which as a subject is known as statistical mechanics; while engineers, mechanical engineers in particular, are generally more concerned with the thermodynamical properties of macroscopic material independently of how it is constructed — it’s a continuum for practical purposes with properties per unit mass. So, Cengel’s book on engineering thermodynamics is a good example here.
Post says:”…Cengel’s book on engineering thermodynamics…”
Cengel and Boles is the one I have and quote from to ensure clarity.
“…but a very large component of internal energy is the enthalpy and entropy that material crossing the boundary of a material (say evaporation from a land surface into the overlying air) brings with it.”
A fair point in general usage, perhaps, but as defined in meteorology, the latent heat of water vapor is treated separately from “internal energy” as the references explain. But using the psychrometric chart, a mechanical engineer doing air conditioning computations recognizes that the enthalpy includes the latent heat of water vapor.
So for consistency with the way the ERA5 reanalysis model handles it, I have made reference to the source for clarity.
“Internal energy” for a gas can be considered heat capacity at constant volume as opposed to heat capacity at constant pressure. The latter include internal energy plus the work exerted by the gas in expanding when heat is added, or put into the gas when contracting as heat is removed.
1) Internal energy has an undefined zero point (the dead state is probably best to use but is a tad complicated) and a number of such points would work just fine in specific contexts. Thus what is important are changes to internal energy.
2) Taking item 1) into account, internal energy is changed by adding/subracting sensible heat, subtracting work. Mechanical energy like for example kinetic energy is excluded from the category of internal energy. Often I read people claiming that the lapse rate results from raising/lowering air, but this is not correct. The lapse rate results from raised or lowered air doing work against or with its environmental pressure.
3) Finally, parcels of air are open systems and so air and water vapor can cross a parcel’s control volume boundary. This adds to or subtracts from internal energy through the chemical potential that this different material brings with it. This category takes into account latent heat of water vapor for example.
Please note that the terminology for internal, potential, kinetic, and latent energy (i.e., the latent heat of condensation of water vapor) comes from standard usage in meteorology. See farther below. Also, the energy transport from one place to another on the earth’s surface is indeed powerful, as you point out. But the concept of “energy conversion” describes the changing state of these properties over time at a fixed location.
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From Edward N. Lorenz (1960) “Energy and Numerical Weather Prediction”
https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v12i4.9420
“2. Energy, available potential energy, and
gross static stability
Of the various forms of energy present in
the atmosphere, kinetic energy has often
received the most attention. Often the total
kinetic energy of a weather system is regarded
as a measure of its intensity. The only other
forms of atmospheric energy which appear
to play a major role in the kinetic energy
budget of the troposphere and lower stratosphere
are potential energy, internal energy, and the
latent energy of water vapor. Potential and
internal energy may be transformed directly
into kinetic energy, while latent energy may
be transformed directly into internal energy,
which is then transformed into kinetic energy.
It is easily shown by means of the hydrostatic
approximation that the changes of the
potential energy P and the internal energy l of
the whole atmosphere are approximately proportional,
so that it is convenient to regard
potential and internal energy as constituting
a single form of energy. This form has been
called total potential energy by Margules (1903).”
Thanks! Rather confusing, isn’t it? Let’s just simplify everything by claiming that the only thing we need to study is GAT! LOL
From my vantage point it is clear to me that the UK has gone through the looking glass. We’ve just had a budget to squeeze until the pips squeak and more. Having gained the confidence of business – with its fully costed manifesto – Labour then pulled the rug from under them.
Firms forced into ‘damage control’ mode after U.K. budget
CBI boss to warn Budget tax rises will ‘hit growth’
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Kemi Badenoch joined the chorus of business leaders tearing into the Reeves Budget at PMQs today, slamming it for “making things worse” and declaring “everyone is unhappy.” In a brutal swipe at Reeves’ career history, Kemi quipped:
“Isn’t it great that the Chancellor is an expert at customer complaints?”
Ouch…
https://order-order.com/people/rachel-reeves/
No sooner did the farmers learn of their fate than the news broke that:
“”Foreign farmers handed £500m amid inheritance tax row at home”” – The Telegraph.
Which is roughly what the new farm tax is expected to raise. Funny that. But… yes, it’s worse than we thought.
“”UK pledges £239m to forest-rich nations to fight climate change at Cop29″” – The Independent
“”Ed Miliband says Cop29 deal agreed at ’11th hour for the climate'”” – All media.
“”The UK government spent approximately 7.2 billion British pounds on foreign economic aid in 2023/24, compared with five billion pounds in the previous financial year.””
https://www.statista.com/statistics/298584/united-kingdom-uk-public-sector-expenditure-foreign-economic-aid/
The Labour government has upped the ante when it comes to throwing [QE] money around the world. No cause is too insignificant for Britain to pay for. And yet nothing adds up…
“”Labour’s manifesto for the 2024 General Election is here, and sets out our fully-funded plan to change Britain.
…
It is the change the country needs.”” – Labour . org
And there is the fraud. They lied every step of the way into power.
“”Is Labour right to claim there’s a £22 billion ‘black hole’ “”
No. The Office of Budget Regulation (OBR) had all the figures as did the Treasury. That was pure invention. £22 billion they say… so they crafted a budget to raise £40 billion.
This is the gaslight party.
“”Sir Keir Starmer pledges to ‘tread more lightly’ on lives of voters”” – The Telegraph.
“”Starmer says he ‘won’t tell people how to live their lives'”” – CoP 29
I sometimes wonder if Starmer has ever actually encountered the truth in any shape or form? We all [here at least] know what net zero means, but 2TK is a weaselly lawyer, and not a very good one at that, either
“”Net zero targets will force Britons to change how they live their lives, the Labour chairman of Parliament’s energy committee has said. Bill Esterson, the most senior backbencher charged with scrutinising the Government’s energy policy, said ordinary people will “absolutely” have to adjust their habits to meet the UK’s ambitious emissions goals for 2030.
His remarks directly contradict Sir Keir Starmer’s claim earlier in November that the Government can hit its climate targets without telling people “how to behave”.””
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/11/24/net-zero-targets-force-people-change-lives-labour-energy/
Petition update:
2,913,808 signatures – so far and still going up
Parliament will debate this petition on 6 January 2025.
You’ll be able to watch online on the UK Parliament YouTube channel.
Parliament is a very bad mediaeval joke.
If you can point to a system that can reliably exclude liars, imbeciles, and the innumerate, I shall be very glad to hear about it.
I can point to systems that are very much more democratic, giving the right of recall for example. The current model (Est. 1660) whereby Parliament is supreme above monarch and people suits them all too well. An elected dictatorship with a fig leaf head of state.
I cannot point to a system that changes the human condition. Nobody can, can they?
127 years later, in 1787, a better system was devised by (mostly) Englishmen. Separation of powers, with checks and balances. The people can affect government policy every two years. Still it remains imperfect to be sure. But five years is a long time to endure Keir Stalin
The US had twelve years of Obama and 4 years of Obama’s senile sock puppet.
It was 8 years of Obama. It just felt like 12.
Well, twelve years counting the past four where he controlled the current meat puppet.
Eight years of Obama and 4 years of Obama’s senile sock puppet! We avoided 4 more years of the Obama sock puppet, but we suffered through 8 years of the Cheney sock puppet! And never forget the 8 years when the Clinton crime syndicate came into power and we squandered the peace dividend from the fall of the USSR!
For decades now, far too many have been asleep at the wheel; and the results are going to be with the Western democracies for generations to come! Europe, Australia, the UK, and Canada are in the process of destroying the democratic institutions and economic infrastructures that gave them the wealth that they currently enjoy; and there does not seem to be anything slowing the descent into the Middle Ages 2.0 but the tentative coalition of the MAGA movement with some former Democrat leaders deemed to possess too much common sense and individualism by their party!
The U.S. is a Constitutional Republic, not a democracy. One of the problems with a pure democracy can be summed up by three wolves and a lamb voting on what’s for dinner.
As implemented, the U.S. governmental system is far from perfect but it has done at least a half ways respectable job of limiting extremists. Part of the checks and balances is requiring a consensus for major changes, such as the 3/4 states approval to amend the constitution. This is also the reason why eliminating the Filibuster in the senate is a bad idea – as the Dems found out when eliminating the filibuster for confirming judicial appointments.
It is still a democracy but not of the Westminster style. Democracy is simply majority rule.
Oh, Gee.
DOJ Law-fare on Trump was not extremism?
Almost all cases finally thrown out.
Calling Trump Hitler, nazi, Mussolini, Stalin, Putin’s patsy, without any proof, is not extremism?
Purposely opening the borders to the Third World unskilled, and criminals is not extremism?
The list is long
All that in the last 4 years since 1776
Extremism would be the actual likes of the Austrian corporal with death camps etc. Closest we got to that in the last 150 years was detaining 100,000+ people for being born in an enemy country or being the first generation descendants of people born in an enemy country. Note the party of POTUS when that happened (wasn’t an R).
The Steele Dossier is why I think that prosecutors should be subject to prosecution and face long prison sentences if they base their prosecution on known false pretenses, in exactly the same way that police officers can be prosecuted.
Allowing someone whose prosecution was overturned by an unanimous decision of SCOTUS to continue to act as a prosecutor is insane. While this is pretty bad, it’s not in the same level of evil as killing millions of Armenians, Ukrainians (Holomodor), “the final solution”, “the great leap forward”, Cambodia under Pol Pot, etc.
Under current interpretations of the First Amendment, calling someone a fascist or communist is not a criminal act as long as it does invoke a call for violence, but such statements can be grounds for libel suits. I would like to say that libel laws are applied in a fair and impartial manner, but… One other thing about the First Amendment, the first two clauses are about the freedom of religion, which is largely ignored by the MSM which thinks “freedom of the press” is the only subject of the first amendment.
Democracy is the worst political system except for all the others.
Ultimately it evolved to prevent a civil war and a beheaded king again. And reflected the actual power held by those that fought in that war, and those who suffered from it. Aristocrats and merchants.
Later on it reflected artisans and the bourgeoisie
And at the height of industrial unionisation, finally the blue collar labouring classes.
Today there is a global movement to suppress hoi polloi because they are not seen as being useful or important. We have robots and computers to do that sort of work now. In Russia they are merely there to ID the machine guns and mines.
In large parts of the USA they are only there to trust the Democrats and deliver them to office.
Ultimately if the people have any power they will exercise it.
UK farmers are not happy. Neither are French and Dutch farmers.
We now have a female black leader of the opposition clearly stating ‘diversity doesn’t work’ . That is an election-winning line.
The times they are a’changin’
Again.
All systems change the human condition, or rather, all systems are a reaction to the changes in human conditions brought about by technological progress. And environmental changes.
Actually, I can. Simply elect independents. In the first instance the voters must choose for a whole lot of different reasons. They have only the personal qualities of the candidates to consider. This is important because as independents they cannot present any collective policy which is invariably geared to buying votes. In the second instance the power they have is limited in that decisions will require a majority to pass. Above all they can be free to be guided by their conscience throughout. In this way the voter can be truely represented.
There will never be such a system until WE get enough people educated on the realities of modern mind control, mass formation psychosis, and socio/psychopathy! There is no one riding to our rescue! Unless we join up with enough likeminded individuals to jam up the cogs of the corporate money laundering machine, humanity will never be free to achieve our potential!
That is why sites like WUWT, and the ascension of the Trump pirate ship in America are so promising! We have four years to break the stranglehold of the corporate media and mis-education system; best stop complaining and get to work! And don’t spend too much time arguing with idiots; it is much too similar to wrestling with pigs!
The total onslaught of marketing and propaganda via the mass media is teaching people how to ignore it. Or laugh at it.
Have you seen the new Jaguar advert?
Makes Bud Lite look like genius..
Everybody is laughing, except people who kinds liked Jaguar cars, who now realise the brand has jumped the shark so to speak and it’s finished.
LOL…you need this image
Sorry, I prefer that picture:
Here in U.S., FBI is looking into two threats, the first against Trump cabinet nominees, the second against democrat party officials from recent campaign. FBI reports that the first threats appear to be “coming from inside the building”, whereas the second threats are coming from some guy named “Soros” complaining that all his money was “plssed away”, not related to the threats against Trump. The FBI vowed to get to the bottom of the second threats.
You made me laugh! 🙂
I just saw a clip of a new movie “Landman” starring Billy Bob Thornton, and in this clip the hero is located on a windmill farm and is explaining to his companion about how much oil it takes to make and keep a windmill going, and he says that a windmill never reduces CO2, but rather it’s production increases CO2, and windmills wouldn’t exist without oil.
It looks like a pretty good movie to me! At least that part of it.
Landman is a series streaming on Paramount+.
I was quite surprised to see that in a modern Hollywood production.
Should we be very afraid of the “Axis of Evil”, China, Russia, North Korea and the Mad Mullahs of Iran getting together and attacking the West?
I don’t think so.
Russia is being bogged down by the Ukraine war. It is getting so bad for the Russian side that they have to import foreign fighters to come in and help them with the fight.
North Korea could be a problem, but I don’t see Kim going all-out to help the Russians. Kim is in it for the money, and I doubt he is going to put his military readiness in jeopardy by sending it all to Russia.
The Mad Mullahs of Iran are Paper Tigers. The Israelis destroyed their air defenses in the last attack so the rest of their country is vulnerable to whatever Israel decides to do to it. I suspect that if the Mad Mullahs make another attack, then Israel will finish the job they have started and destroy the Mad Mullahs ability to make war, which means destroying their missile and drone making capabilities along with their nuclear capabilities. The Israelis have already hit some of Iran’s missle production facilities and their nuclear program. It’s time to finish the job which will take Iran out of the Axis of Evil war.
The Russians are importing Mad Mullah proxy fighters, the Houthis, to come to Russia to fight the Ukrainians. Desert people fighting in wintertime Russia. That ought to work out well.
And China is happy to sell Russia war materials and buy their oil, but they are not going to be big backers of Putin. They see the problems he is having with the Ukraine war and are not eager to associate themselves with this possibly looming failure. And now Trump is back, which is going to make all the players reassess their positions.
The Axis of Evil is not all its cracked up to be.
Trump knows how to handle the Axis of Evil.
It depends if Trump wants to throw Ukraine under the bus or not.
Ukraine is the most corrupted country in Europe, by far.
It deserves to be under the bus, but won’t be as long as it has enough people to do the dying on the front lines for their financiers and weapon suppliers
Oh no. Russia is in Europe, too.
Yes, if you let Russia win in Ukraine,.
They will all be emboldened.
Yes, if you withdraw from all engagement with Europe and lose all your bases in the UK and Europe from whence you can reach the Red Sea and points around.
Yes, if you withdraw from all engagement with Europe and they decide not to buy US arms but make their own.
“Yes, if you let Russia win in Ukraine,.
They will all be emboldened.”
They already are, based on Biden’s gross incompetence. None of this happened when Trump was in office. But it did under Obama, then Biden.
“Yes, if you withdraw from all engagement with Europe and lose all your bases in the UK and Europe from whence you can reach the Red Sea and points around.”
Who is proposing that?
“Yes, if you withdraw from all engagement with Europe and they decide not to buy US arms but make their own.”
Again, who is proposing that? And don’t European countries already make their own weapons? I know Germany, UK, France, all make their own tanks and small arms.
20,000 of Kim’s troops are getting expressly, hands-on experience fighting, which are skills they can transfer to others, plus Kim is getting valuable experience from Russia experts for designing weapons and drones and rockets and nuclear bomb devices.
It is a win win for both sides.
Crikey, do you want to sound like a IRA trollbot, or what?
North Koreans in Ukraine is a made up story
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/07/europe/zelensky-north-korean-troops-russia-putin-intl-hnk/index.html
Zielinsky confirms 😉
I think the Mad Mullahs are very close to becoming a Great Danger to millions of people, as they work towards building nuclear weapons. They reportedly currently have about 480 pounds of enriched uranium which is enough for about four nuclear weapons.
If I were Trump, the first thing I would do with the Mad Mullahs is to demand that they hand over the 480 pounds of enriched uranium and shut down their nuclear weapons making facilites, subject to inspection, or face military action from the United States.
I know some of you reading are panicking. Remember, I’m not the president. 🙂
I don’t know that Trump will get that drastic, but the situation is getting that drastic. If the Mad Mullahs get a working nuclear weapon it’s going to be a New, Terrible Ballgame.
We can’t let that happen. We have to do what it takes to prevent it from happening.
“”Mad Mullahs are very close “”
We are going back to the 7th century – loosely tied to 0 BC
“”a Labour MP stood up in parliament demanding the introduction of Islamic blasphemy laws. Tahrir Ali, the MP for Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley, asked Keir Starmer whether he would ‘commit to introducing measures to prohibit the desecration of all religious texts and the prophets of the Abrahamic religions?’.””
https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/11/27/does-labour-back-islamic-blasphemy-laws/
A teacher has been in hiding for three years from the islamists. Nobody cares. That’s the power of the white supremacy message. The islamists were upset, so the teacher and his young family have paid the price. Nobody in authority sees anything wrong with this. The local MP threw him under the bus and applauded the school’s apology.
One has to placate the ‘voting base’. Ergo, we have a de facto blasphemy law already.
The Blasphemy Laws were repealed in England and Wales in 2008.
In multicultural Britain this could be problematic.
Behzti written by Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti. The Sikh community finding the play deeply offensive to their faith. On the opening night, 18 December 2004, at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, a protest was organised by local Sikh leaders which turned violent, with the Rep cancelling performances of the play two days later. The case became part of a wider discussion in Britain about the limits of free speech and whether this can be curtailed where it offends the faith of religious groups.
Add in a large number of Hindu, Buddhist, Scientologists, Zaroastrians and any number of other religions then you couldn’t say anything without potentially breaking blasphemy laws.
Yet they are totally unconcerned about offending Jews and Christians.
They way I read (into) it, Abram passively passed his wife off as his sister, and when the inevitable happened, he became indignant and demanded reparations.
He ran this con a few times too many and had to change his name to be able to keep carrying on with con.
(Is this blasphemy if I say it out loud?)
Post says:”… four nuclear weapons.”
I did a course about nuclear physics and for some reason I remember that a minimum of 23 lbs was necessary for a nuclear device, But the biggest bugaboo was the timing explosion. Without proper timing you get a dirty bomb not a nuclear explosion. Dirty bomb is bad but not as bad.
I generally agree with your post but my worries are about UK, France, Pakistan. If UK falls (which it appears to be doing) the folks that hate US and Israel have nuclear armed navy, air force, missiles, army, etc. Iran is one dimensional as of now.
They were able to get the timing right in the 1940s, I’m sure Iran can get it right today, even if they’re stuck with 1990s tech.
Little Boy had 140 pounds of HEU. That was for a crude shotgun design. An implosion design would require about 5x less uranium.
6 kg for a tactical nuke, which puts out up to about 5000 metric ton TNT, this compares to Hiroshima at 16000 ton TNT
36 kg for a 6-MIRV nuke missile, which Russia recently used as a demonstration; there were no detonations!!
Some MIRVs can each be 100,000 ton TNT, which would turn to ashes six large cities.
Anyone still wants war?
What “reports” are you looking at, and “enriched” to what level ?
The IAEA’s set of “Verification and monitoring in the Islamic Republic of Iran in light of United Nations Security Council resolution 2231 (2015)” reports are available at the following link.
IAEA URL : https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/focus/iran/iaea-and-iran-iaea-board-reports
From the latest report, dated the 19th of November :
Your “480 pounds” is just under 218 kg. Where did you get that specific number from ?
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… Mossad will find out before it’s assembled and Benjamin Netanyahu will order some of Israel’s reported 90 to 300 nuclear warheads fitted onto Jericho-III missiles, which will result in Iran suddenly possessing what has been poetically described as “a sprinkling of small circular mirrors visible from space”.
The Mullahs may well be “Mad”, but they aren’t “Suicidal”.
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PS : As a closing “early Xmas present”, my JCPOA spreadsheet graph updated to 26/10/2024.
“Mossad will find out before it’s assembled and Benjamin Netanyahu will order some of Israel’s reported 90 to 300 nuclear warheads fitted onto Jericho-III missiles, which will result in Iran suddenly possessing what has been poetically described as “a sprinkling of small circular mirrors visible from space”.”
I seriously doubt the Israelis would use nukes. They don’t need to.
How good is the estimate?
“If the Mad Mullahs get a working nuclear weapon it’s going to be a New, Terrible Ballgame.”
I’m sure the Israelis are watching that more closely than anyone else. And I’m sure they already have a plan to take care of it. They’ve already scared their enemies into not using modern communications devices.
Any guess what kind of car exploded at Port of Miami yesterday? China has a lot of these incidences.
So. “AI”.
Not long ago, I posted a comment in an “AI” related thread (sorry, don’t have it handy), about a discussion I had with ChatGPT and Claude2.
I asked them both a non-controversial question “Were any production German tanks of WWII powered by Diesel engines?” I already knew the answer, based on many books I’ve collected since I was a teenager (50 years or so). The answer is no, none of them were.
Both “AI”s told me that yes, some of them were, and gave specific examples (one of them even said it was a “widely known fact”). I pointed out that all references, including Wikipedia, contradicted that answer. They immediately retracted and said I was right.
My question at the time was, where did they get this obviously incorrect information, unsupported by any references? Neither would give me any references or citations. They just essentially said “oops, my bad”, and moved on.
Just went on to ChatGPT this morning, and it gave a mostly right answer but cited the Maus super-heavy tank as one powered by diesel. I pointed out that the Maus was never a production tank. So it still tried to insert bogus information. Seems it does learn to some extent.
Then I asked some unrelated questions, such as: “Can men get pregnant”. It said no. But when I went into trans ideology, it changed its tune, and refused to say that a man believing he was a woman was delusional.
So I really have no confidence that any of these “AI” systems will be without a leftist bias.
“leftist bias” = tautology.
Yesterday, I asked ChatGPT about my own business. The answer it provided was almost all false. Made up, as far as I could tell.
Trump Vowed to Kill Biden’s Climate Law. Republicans Say Not So Fast.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-biden-climate-bill-renewable-energy-b3e5fe03?mod=hp_lead_pos2
Here’s the beginning of if the link doesn’t work. I recently subscribed for the digital version for a buck/day for the first year.
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We still have the Obama ethanol subsidies because the YIMBY Corn Belt states want to keep eating at the trough it created for them. Never mind the food-price effects on the rest of the nation.
I meant a buck/week. It’s probably a buck/day without the special deal- just for the digital version.
https://www.gavi.org/fr/vaccineswork/cinq-facons-dont-vaccins-peuvent-nous-proteger-face-changement-climatique
Five ways vaccines protect from globul warmin
We need Billboards explaining why there is no climate Emergency, that there is no increase in extreme weather, climate models produce useless results, it was warmer in the Roman Period and the Middle Ages than now, etc.
There have been. I believe CFACT had some in various places. Problem us, most advertisers won’t run them.
Oregon’s long-time senator, Wyden wants to know why energy company prices are rising so dramatically over the past 5 years. Gee, I wonder why? Lawsuits, “clean” energy requirements, an incoherent energy plan. Maybe, Mr. Wyden, you should look in the mirror for answers.
Adam Schiff lied in front of the whole world about Trump and Ukraine. The Clueless people of California chose to elect this Liar to the U.S. Senate in the last election.
The truth is not in Adam Schiff
https://www.congress.gov/118/crec/2023/06/21/169/108/CREC-2023-06-21-pt1-PgH3013.pdf
Results of the wind turbine demonstration project are in.
https://pipelineonline.ca/what-did-1722-wind-turbines-have-in-common/#/?playlistId=0&videoId=0