What the US needed was a pull-out-the-stops wartime operation. What we got was a lot of hot air and heel-dragging excuses. After all of these years, it’s more than clear what side our ‘leadership’ is beholding to.
The Animals record “House Of The Rising Sun” in one take at De Lane Lea Studios on Kingsway in London. The song would top the UK singles chart the following July and reach number one in America two months later. In 1999, the record was given a Grammy Hall of Fame Award
This article was written in 2012 by Boston U. geophysicist Robert M. Schoch. It’s no less true in any way today (although power companies are somewhat better prepared thanks to articles like this one - and they were nervous last week)....
They don’t talk about it a lot, but. If it looks really bad, I suspect that what the grid operators will do is disconnect and shut down as much of it as possible and wait it out. Better to have no electricity for a week than for hundreds of transformers to be ruined …
The 2003 event produced the biggest-ever solar flare ever measured, an X45. That year, several BIG transformers exploded in South Africa. This event’s biggest so is 8.7. A lot depends on where it’s aimed at … but anyway , no, we are not prepared.
Underground CO2 is worse than nuclear waste. It isn’t just (very) dangerous, and have to stay buried forever, it’s also invisible. It’s also a way for the lying, conniving fossils industry to keep doing what it’s so good at doing. $12 billion would build A LOT of windmills, but they’ve got a lot of good buddies in Washington.
Carbon capture is a joke. It’s another stall tactic. And a very dangerous one at that. Shut the damn things down instead, and watch how many things get done that -would- have taken until 2035 or 2050.
Let’s help the ‘world’s largest’ banks by making the decision for them. Take 1873 for example: that was a bad year for the banks , but given time, they got better. The risks from ‘clean energy’, whatever they are, will include more time.
It should be called C02 capture (make the CO2 part specific). The carbon which was burned was already safely captured in the ground, where it should have stayed. Then it was burned and partly turned into CO2. Lots of it. Who is being -paid- to concentrate the stuff? and bury the stuff? And keep an eye on it? Who will pay that bill?
In Satartia Mississippi on February 22 2020, a CO2 pipeline broke because of a mud slide. 45 people were hospitalized after the 21,600 barrels of liquid CO2 rolled downhill towards their town. www.desmoinesregister.com/story/…/8015510001/
Once you’ve captured this particular form of carbon, you have to store it somewhere. FOREVER. Unlike nuclear waste, it’s only visible when it’s compressed. Does this mean you have to take someone’s word that it was captured? It -does- mean you have to accept that it’s safely and securely stored. FOREVER. ‘We promise.’
The whole thing is at best sketchy. The same money could be invested in real, tangible generation of renewable energy. Without having to take some sketchy industry’s word for it. And without potentially endangering the lives of the people who’ll have to live with it next door. Would you rather live near a windmill, or a hole with 36,000 tons of CO2 in it?
Starting at just after 1 minute in the linked video, you’ll hear the sound of an early synthesizer called a ‘Musitron’. It’s the ‘bridge’ part of the new hit for Del Shannon, called ‘Runaway’. Starting on April 24, 1961 It tops the US charts for 4 weeks … and soon becomes a UK#1 as well....
Powerful message. “Brought to you by DHHS, National Cigarette Foundation, Department of Education, Cigs4Kidz, and Viewers Like You.”
Don’t remember any PSA’s like that back from when they were doing atmospheric testing of atom bombs down in Nevada for weeks on end. But they weren’t planning on smoking them all the way.
Believe I read the other day that Uruguay is now using 100% renewables. Guess they just have what it takes. Doesn’t seem to have made any headlines, though. NIMBY I guess.
New Brunswick, Canada. 2-minute video. One nterviewee and husband had just spent 11 mo. homeless. 100 homes on a few acres. Project created by -one- person and a small team of 15 carpenters. Homes built off-site and then moved into place....
I’ve seen a major city struggle with this tiny homes thing for YEARS and get a dozen out of it. Meanwhile, here’s one guy (and team) getting SO much done with MUCH less money. Leave out the politics and ‘leadership’, replace it with heart and nails, and look what we can do.
As of a year ago, it’d sold 1.1 million globally; it’s the most popular EV in China. Coincidentally, saw one of these rolling by the house here in the PNW (the red/black model, kind of a standout among the silver turds).
It’s manufactured by the three-way international joint venture SAIC-GM-Wuling, in the factories of Liuzhou. (Note the GM in there.) The new VW Bug.
Yeah, it’s intended to be a city car. In the city I live, a LOT of the vehicles I see going by on a 35-45 mph arterial are at or no bigger than this size. Avoid crowded, busy streets, drive safely, I’d have no worries. A LOT of the people who live here could easily commute every day a total recharge takes 6.5 hours.
Battery costs are dropping fast. And used batteries will be common, and the newer ones will keep getting better. Apart from the fumes, I like the old cars a lot, but we can’t afford so many of them.
Bob Marley And The Wailers perform at the One Love Peace Concert in Jamaica. It was Marley’s first public appearance in Jamaica since being wounded in an assassination attempt a year and a half earlier.
Chris Blackwell (founder of Island Records) was inducted into the Rock Hall of Fame in 2001. He promoted Marley to the world. And Blackwell said "He trusted my instincts, which were that he should go after being a rock star, rather than a star on black American radio. "
A lot of stuff being done in earlier days (50s-60s), like ska (“My Boy Lollipop”) or rockabilly or “Doo-wop” was a foundational part of the *rock’n’roll’ era. Depends on whether you draw a hard line on when Classic began ( like Wikipedia tries to do) and leave out all the the great artists that built up the foundations.
To me ‘Classic’ would include all Buddy Holly’s stuff (died in 1959), Chuck Berry, Bill Haley (‘Rock Around the Clock’ (1954), and earlier, and a WHOLE LOT MORE great artists. Without the trunk, the branches wouldn’t reach so high.
Incredible Bicycle Cars - Human Powered Vehicles (www.youtube.com)
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/9761433...
Charging stations are failing to keep up with the EV boom | Once, America had 7 EVs for every public charger. Now, there are over 20 seeking to plug in at each charging station. (wapo.st)
https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/fcb0c9b1-0f4a-4a6d-988f-4ff575b311b0.webp
TODAY IN ROCK AND ROLL HISTORY - 05/18/1964 (youtu.be)
The Animals record “House Of The Rising Sun” in one take at De Lane Lea Studios on Kingsway in London. The song would top the UK singles chart the following July and reach number one in America two months later. In 1999, the record was given a Grammy Hall of Fame Award
Frozen human brain tissue works perfectly when thawed 18 months later (newatlas.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/15769515...
Death Star - what happens if a solar flare knocks out our power system (www.dailygrail.com)
This article was written in 2012 by Boston U. geophysicist Robert M. Schoch. It’s no less true in any way today (although power companies are somewhat better prepared thanks to articles like this one - and they were nervous last week)....
Check it out! Technology survived a Carrington Event (youtu.be)
I guess you already knew since your phone is working.
Biden and Big Oil want to put greenhouse gas underground. Locals are riled. Carbon dioxide pipelines and underground injection can cut greenhouse gas, but community opposition is fierce. (wapo.st)
UK Considers Delaying Some Carbon Capture Projects as Costs Soar (www.bloomberg.com)
Archived copies of the article: archive.today ghostarchive.org
How Climate Disasters Could Destabilize Major Banks | Both climate-driven disasters and the clean energy transition pose risks for the world’s largest financial institutions (www.scientificamerican.com)
Archived copies of the article: ghostachive.org archive.today
The world’s largest direct carbon capture plant just went online (www.engadget.com)
We're all a little crazy (mander.xyz)
Del Shannon's 1961 US song 'Runaway' tops the charts (www.youtube.com)
Starting at just after 1 minute in the linked video, you’ll hear the sound of an early synthesizer called a ‘Musitron’. It’s the ‘bridge’ part of the new hit for Del Shannon, called ‘Runaway’. Starting on April 24, 1961 It tops the US charts for 4 weeks … and soon becomes a UK#1 as well....
Anti-Marijuana PSA: "The Death Drug" (1996) (www.youtube.com)
A Golden Age of Renewables Is Beginning, and California Is Leading the Way | California has hit record-breaking milestones in renewable electricity generation, showing that wind, water and solar (www.scientificamerican.com)
https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/d23e8d23-b7ad-4e77-ac42-55f25b576961.webp...
Ten countries generate more than 97% of their electricity from renewable energies
Here is the data (pdf)....
WATCH: N.B. tiny home village complete after ‘cranking out’ a house a week for 2 years (www.cbc.ca)
New Brunswick, Canada. 2-minute video. One nterviewee and husband had just spent 11 mo. homeless. 100 homes on a few acres. Project created by -one- person and a small team of 15 carpenters. Homes built off-site and then moved into place....
Three Places Changing Quickly to Fight Climate Change | Paris is becoming a city of bikes. Across China, people are snapping up $5,000 electric cars. (www.nytimes.com)
TODAY IN ROCK AND ROLL HISTORY - 04/22/1978 (youtu.be)
Bob Marley And The Wailers perform at the One Love Peace Concert in Jamaica. It was Marley’s first public appearance in Jamaica since being wounded in an assassination attempt a year and a half earlier.
Any way to make Firefox remember what time I pause videos at after closing their tabs? (lemmy.world)
For instance, I watch a video on Shout Factory and then pause, close the tab and when I go back to the link it goes back to where I left off.