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America and Europe get ready plenty of fuel. The polar vortex is attacking.
https://i.ibb.co/J37K0N7/gfs-z100-nh-f72.png
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Frigid east winds in England and the “lake effect.”
https://i.ibb.co/s6ykp25/Zrzut-ekranu-2024-01-08-160413.png
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5mm of wet snow and the temperature wasn’t even below 0 at night. Don’t worry, I’m surviving so far.
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It may just begin…
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Our night in Germany, near Rhine started below 0, and is still now below 0 and a very bad wind chill and blue sky.
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Here in South West England its a chilly wind but the sun has helped. No sign of snow.
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It’s interesting how the media creates a completely false picture of the UK weather. You’d think the UK was buried in snow and freezing at minus 10. There were some flurries in the SE, about an hour of very very localised heavier snow accumulating about 1cm. The media shows that snapshot and quotes Scottish Highland temperatures. Most of the UK had minimums in the 0 to -2C range, not even a hard frost.
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Remember, wind and solar plantations are NOT power stations.
Civilisation needs power stations, coal, gas, nuclear and real hydro (not SH2).
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We need all those things you write about, but unfortunately our rulers aren’t listening and want to send us down energy dead ends.
I know nothing at all of these devices-zero emission boilers- said to be better than heat pumps (not saying much). Anyone ever heard of them and their capabilities?
If energy will be rationed in future new energy efficient devices will be needed
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12938465/zero-emission-boilers-new-device-choice-homeowners-future.html
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Those “zero emission boilers” just seem to be old-fashioned heat banks. Use electricity to heat rocks (or similiar) when it’s cheap, release heat when electricity is expensive. They used to have similar things sitting in the corners of NSW class rooms, back in the day. You still need electricity to make them work, no good when the grid goes down.
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Plus I don’t see how they can be zero emissions when they need reliable off peak electricity to work which means in a vast majority of cases that comes from a coal power station. (Not that there’s any problem with CO2.)
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We don’t need base load electicity supply, solar panels and home batteries are available now, and a very cheap renewable energy RET being built.
Engineers are so yesterday.
sarc.
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We don’t need base load electicity supply, solar panels and home batteries are available now, and a very cheap renewable energy RET being built.
Engineers are so yesterday.
sarc.
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Yes, they seem very similar to the old fashioned storage heaters. These were filled with bricks or similar, heated with off peak electricity and then they radiated their heat until the bricks were cold.
Presumably there must be some tweaks as the bricks didn’t retain heat for long and were not very controllable.
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Construction of a tiled stove
I grew up with a tiled stove, great thing, long warming of the room, pleasant temperature and air quality while heating.
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But dangerous to use if you don’t know what you are doing. Carbon monoxide deaths are a well known thing in the parts of China and Russia where these things are commonly used.
A standard metal “firebox” style stove with straight up stovepipe is easier to use and more reliable … although less fuel efficient.
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I did 😀
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My Engineer father was most taken by Baronial stoves when visiting Germany in 1956.
As he told me a large amount of sandstone around a firebox. The wood for the fire was pushed in from outside the hall (one side of the stove was against a wall where servants behind could add wood without disturbing the hall occupants) and the fire was rapid combustion (reducing soot etc). The exhaust hot air went through a ‘labyrinth’ of a passages, which allowed the heat to be collected by the sandstone and any pine tar or carbon soot would be trapped and burnt.
The hottish sandstone released heat slowly and kept the room warm for hours.
Not really suitable for australian conditions and often weighing 2-3 tonnes.
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Since a nonflammable surface is required behind wood heaters I decided to simply have the bricks installed from floor to ceiling (a bit more than 10m being a big room). A bit more than a ton…. Yes you can tell when the bricks cool down
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“Presumably there must be some tweaks as the bricks didn’t retain heat for long and were not very controllable.”
Why would they bother??
‘Who the fk do the peasants think they are asking for more energy? Ve gave them fine storage heaters that worked when the wind blew and they didn’t turn the stove on, why should they vant more?? Don’t they vant to save the planet??’
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““Presumably there must be some tweaks as the bricks didn’t retain heat for long and were not very controllable.””
That is incorrect. The heaters are charged for around 8 hours while electricity is cheap and release heat for the next t6 hours. They are very efficient. And perhaps unlike many here, I’ve rented homes in the UK fitted with these heaters
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They are not boilers, they are heat storage units, like a giant hot water bottle.
They must be extremely heavy filled with brick like material I imagine.
As for their emissions, then it would depend on their energy source.
Not very clever really and I’m not impressed . .
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“Not very clever really and I’m not impressed . ”
Have you actually used them? I have, They are very efficient and inexpensive to run
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Ford Pintos of the early 1970’s in the US would burn in certain accident scenarios due to a poor fuel tank design.
That was a huge scandal in the US.
So why isnt’t the catching fire of EVs a similar scandal today, this YouTuber asks (mainly Chinese ones seemingly).
https://youtu.be/GXFPxv7LOlg (14.5 mins)
In the 1970s the media actually did its job and investigated the problem with Pintos. They don’t do that with EVs today.
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Also . . . The side saddle fuel tank design installed in over 10 million trucks – all 1973-87 General Motors full-size pickups …
https://www.autosafety.org/history-gm-side-saddle-gas-tank-defect/
When the news hit, the resale value plummeted and it made more sense to keep and drive them until they quit. (mine was a 1980 Chevy) (sold 2 years ago, still running)
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Pintos caught fire when they were rear-ended.
They did not burn down homes and multi-story car parks when they caught fire or release toxic fumes. The fires were easily extinguished.
Becuase EVs weigh more than ICE cars they are more dangerous if you are hit by one at the same speed as an ICE.
Kinetic energy is directly proportional to the mass of the object and to the square of its velocity: K.E. = 1/2 m v2
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Before producing the Pinto, Ford crash-tested various prototypes, in part to learn whether they met a safety standard proposed by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to reduce fires from traffic collisions. This standard would have required that by 1972 all new autos be able to withstand a rear-end impact of 20mph without fuel loss, and that by 1973 they be able to withstand an impact of 30 mph. The prototypes all failed the 20-mph test. In 1970 Ford crash-tested the Pinto itself, and the result was the same: ruptured gas tanks and dangerous leaks. The only Pintos to pass the test had been modified in some way–for example, with a rubber bladder in the gas tank or a piece of steel between the tank and the rear bumper.
Thus, Ford knew that the Pinto represented a serious fire hazard when struck from the rear, even in low-speed collisions. Ford officials faced a decision. Should they go ahead with the existing design, thereby meeting the production timetable but possibly jeopardizing consumer safety? Or should they delay production of the Pinto by redesigning the gas tank to make it safer and thus concede another year of subcompact dominance to foreign companies? Ford not only pushed ahead with the original design but stuck to it for the next six years.
What explains Ford’s decision? The evidence suggests that Ford relied, at least in part, on cost-benefit reasoning, which is an analysis in monetary terms of the expected costs and benefits of doing something. There were various ways of making the Pinto’s gas tank safer. Although the estimated price of these safety improvements ranged from only $5 to $8 per vehicle, Ford evidently reasoned that the increased cost outweighed the benefits of a new tank design.
In the “Fatalities” report, Ford engineers estimated the cost of technical improvements that would prevent gas tanks from leaking in rollover accidents to be $11 per vehicle.
Benefits
Savings: 180 burn deaths, 180 serious burn injuries, 2,100 burned vehicles
Unit cost: $200,000 per death, $67,000 per injury, $700 per vehicle
Total benefit: (180 X $200,000) + (180 X $67,000) + (2,100 X $700) = $49.5 million
Costs
Sales: 11 million cars, 1.5 million light trucks
Unit cost: $11 per car, $11 per truck
Total cost: 12.5 million X $11 = $137.5 million
Thus, the costs of the suggested safety improvements outweigh their benefits, and the “Fatalities” report accordingly recommends against any improvements–a recommendation that Ford followed.
The NHTSA investigation found that 27 deaths were found to have occurred between 1970 and mid-1977 in rear-impact crashes that resulted in a fire.
This was well below the 180 used in the cost/benefit analysis
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The Ford Pinto was the subject of a vicious attack campaign. This included a “documentary” which highlighted the “dangers” of the vehicle.
However” the Pinto blown up in the “official” footage, had been rigged for maximum “show”
This was parodied in at least one movie; the slightest “tap” on the rear causing the car to violently explode. “Top Secret”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9GGDOUDLhc
There were a LOT more VW Beetles that “self-imolated”; I personally know of two. Shock! Horror”. The air-cooled engines in these cars had to be kept CLEAN, to allow maximum air contact with the actual motor. People who “modified” these cars did so at some risk. Remove the air cowl and the air stops going where it should. They were also prone to exude oil =vapour as they aged. This built up on the engine block and heads, accumulating dust, pollen, crass clippings into a laminated, flammable paste coating, This INSULATED the motor and seriously raised operating temperatures. What could go wrong for the careless motorist? The other classic media “beat-up” was the Audi “rapid, unexplained acceleration” story.
This set out to portray mild-mannered Audi sedans as poorly-engineered killers. Allegedly, people carefully reversing from their garages would euddenly find themselves hurling across the street and into unsuspecting neighbours houses Interestingly, it only seemed to occur in cars with automatic transmissions, and therein is the clue.
The Reality is interesting. At that time US car-makers had a generous spacing between the accelerator pedal and the brake, This requires the driver to take their right foot completely off one to reach the other. The Audi (and probably every other European maker), had (and still has) the pedals closer together. The technique is that the foot never leaves the floor-mat, but simply pivots from one to the other on the heel; very “sporty”, very ergonomic.
But Audi, in particular, wwas criminally defamed for years, because of dubious driver skills and your basic churnalistic malice.
Regarding the latter: There is a LOT of it about.
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VW Beatles have the fuel tank and battery in the front.
Need I say anymore ?
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A built a VW Beetle based Dune Buggy (Myers Manx clone) in the 1970s.
The fuel tank was basically sitting just above my lap.
Never worried me though.
It was the police who kept pulling me up that woried me more!
The early VWs had a weak 6 volt battery and when a Copper pulled me up for excessive noise I was unable to start the motor.
The Copper had to give me a push start and then told me to get out of his signt!
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The 1,200 Beetle was, correctly, called Hitler’s Revenge.
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Beetles have a single 6 volt battery under the back seat.
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Battery under the back seat, at least it was in the three that I owned.
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Definitely the back seat. My 1963 beetle had a battery fire North of Cairns around 1972. Wipeout!
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Ah- Ralph Nader and the Chev Corvair… Sure, a horrible design, but no worse than the Beetle with its rear engine and swing axles. Nader made a career out of killing that car.
The Beetle was a lot of fun to drive, but the Americans had no idea of the differences in handling when you move from front engine to rear engine. The Europeans had far wider experience in cars and were much better drivers for it.
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Go dig a little further – his second target was the VW.
But by then Road and Track had awoken to the game and checked the references
“Road & Track Takes On Ralph Nader: “Nader VS. Volkswagen – A R&T Report” – A Forceful Rebuttal (and Apparent Exoneration)”
https://www.curbsideclassic.com/vintage-reviews/road-track-takes-on-ralph-nader-nader-vs-volkswagen-a-rt-report-rebuttal-is-more-like-it/
And “strange” the year Nader stood for president it wasn’t listed in his publications. You had to go to an anti-Nader site for that one.
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Many drivers died in beetles, impaled on the solid steering column. The steering rack was just behind the bumper and the other end of the column was aimed at your heart. The most gutless car I ever drove, only once though, and nearly killed myself.
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In the 1970s there were approx, 50,000 deaths each year on US roads and so around 350,000 from 1970 to 1977 – Pintos on fire accounted for only 27 or 0.01%!!!
A typical media beat-up
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Is the Boeing 737 Max another Pinto?
The Boeing 737 was designed in the 1960s and the cabin was set low to the ground for airports without skybridges so passengers did not have to climb a high flight of stairs. The original engines were of modest diameter.
Over the decades the engine diameters got larger and larger.
To allow the latest generation of high-bypass engines to fit – the engine mounting pylons were extended foward and higher which changed the cente of thrust. In some circumstances this could cause the nose to pitch up. A completely new airframe was the safest solution.
However this would have been expensive and would have given Airbus a lead while the new airframe was certified.
So a cleap software fix was implemented to automatically push the nose down, if a sensor detected too much nose up.
More cost cutting meant that only one sensor was connected when two were available.
346 people died in two similar crashes: Lion Air Flight 610 on October 29, 2018 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 on March 10, 2019 due to a faulty sensor readings.
A lot more than the 27 who died in Pinto fires.
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What is the terminal velocity of an iPhone “dropped” from 16,000 feet?
One from the Alaska Max was found in working condition with no scratches!
Lastest on the 737 Max “door”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhfK9jlZK1o
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All warming over the last 45 years is natural. See for yourself.
Big temperature spike may lead to small temperature rise
By David Wojick, Ph.D.
https://www.cfact.org/2024/01/08/big-temperature-spike-may-lead-to-small-temperature-rise/
The 1998 El Niño all over again.
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“All warming over the last 45 years is natural.”
Naturally.
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Yes, no surprise to us skeptics. BTW the alarmists standard response is that UAH is no good. Not liking the result they deny the data.
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And as a corollary , all cooling, will likewise be natural.
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BoM hasn’t called this one a super El Nino.
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The last I heard this El Nino is fairly moderate.
Wenju Cai’s forecast, given last July, seems to be on the money.
https://www.csiro.au/en/news/all/articles/2023/july/el-nino-southern-oscillation
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The UAH reading says otherwise with a full degree C of warming spike, as big as 1998.
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If you are correct and residual energy is a major player, temps should decline as El Nino breaks down, but if Hunga Tonga is involved then temps should remain relatively higher.
https://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/UAH_LT_1979_thru_December_2023_v6_20x9.jpg
Its fun to watch in real time, sorting the wheat from the chaff.
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So where does this additional energy come from? You need to find a source for the energy imbalance. It’s not solely from the ocean because ocean temperatures are also rising.
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Its the sun, stupid.
What temperature would you like the oceans, what’s the correct temperature?
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Solar irradiance varies by only 0.1% peak to peak over a sunspot cycle.
Next….
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What temperature would you like the oceans, what’s the correct temperature?
It’s still the sun.
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/OceanClimate/ocean-atmos_phys.php
The ocean has a high temperature and momentum “inertia,” or resistance to change. Relative to the atmosphere, it has a very slow circulation system, so changes in its systems generally occur over much longer timescales than in the atmosphere, where storms can form and dissipate in a single day. The ocean changes over periods from months to years to decades, whereas the atmosphere changes over periods of minutes to hours to days. The interactions between ocean and atmosphere are fully nonlinear, and occur over decades, which is why their “dialogue” is so hard to interpret.
Over time, a complex system of currents was established whereby the ocean transports a tremendous amount of heat toward the poles. Because heat escapes more readily into a cold atmosphere than a warm one, the northward flow of ocean and air currents is enhanced by the flow of heat escaping into the atmosphere and, ultimately, into outer space.
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So where does this additional energy come from?
The IPCC climate change energy equation is pretty much:
Climate change = Man’s activities + changes in TSI
As changes in TSI are essentially zero, then the equation becomes:
Climate change = Man’s activities. Simple.
The problem is that the IPCC are stuck in 1980s science and refuse to accept any inputs to the climate system other than TSI. This is in spite of Wilson from the Acrim satellite project clearly showing significant rises in TSI at the end of the 1990s. The IPCC instead chose to go with the data from the PMOD labs which was shown to be complete made-up lies. The temperature of the atmosphere of Saturn is twice what it should be if heating was only from TSI. The Cassini probe has shown that the extra heating is due to particle forcing and electrical circuits. These same forces are at work on the Earth’s climate system and, just because the IPCC refuse to acknowledge this, doesn’t mean it isn’t happening. Over the last 12 months, there have been over 400 scientific papers written, peer reviewed and published that show energy inputs such as magnetic field changes, electrical circuits and particle forcing. Don’t try an tell me that the South Atlantic magnetic anomaly doesn’t affect climate when the extra energy coming in through this magnetic field weakness is enough to nuke satellites if they are not turned off when they fly over this area. If we believe the IPCC, then the extra energy input to the climate system due to carbon dioxide over the past 20 years has been 0.4 watts per square metre. Over the same period, satellite data has shown an increase of 3.6 watts per square metre due to an increase in shortwave radiation due to changes in cloud cover- a 9 times greater increase compared to CO2. Over the period of climate change since the mid 1800’s Earth’s magnetic field strength has dropped by more than 30% and the magnetic pole movement has accelerated. Just because the sociopaths at the IPCC refuse to acknowledge this as a significant factor in climate change doesn’t mean it isn’t happening.
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UV ? 😀
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Is that at all wavelengths,
or just the one you have in mind?
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‘So where does this additional energy come from?’
Undersea volcanism, out of sight and out of mind.
This particular spike in temperature has the fingerprints of Hunga Tonga all over it. Water vapour in the stratosphere has made the world warmer.
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There is no way the volcanism could have raised surface temperaures to +1.4C above the pre-industrial average.
Water vapour from Hunga Tonga likely added +0.2C because water vapour is a greenhouse gas.
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Anyone else want to pluck some numbers out of the air?
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Marine heatwaves, caused by blocking high pressure, are pushing up SST around the world. Its patchy, but over a large area has a temporary impact, here is the Tasman Sea.
https://nespclimate.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/ESCC_Marine-heatwaves_Tasman-Sea_Factsheet.pdf
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Hunga Tonga is a natural variable with clout.
Jenkins said ‘if we’re only a quarter of a degree from 1.5°C, those four hundredths of a degree do actually make a tangible difference,” he said.
‘The planet was already 50% likely to warm past 1.5°C in the next 5 years, and the presence of HTHH’s water vapor increased the odds of temporarily exceeding that threshold to 57%, according to the simulation.’ (eos)
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The Simulation.
🙂
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Simulation in this instance is not deception, its a computer model to study the atmosphere.
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El, do you know what properly constituted model is?
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No.
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Simon, I am perplexed by your statement above.
You state: “there is no way the volcanism could have raised surface temperaures to +1.4C above the pre-industrial average”.
Then in the next line you state: “Water vapour from Hunga Tonga likely added +0.2C because water vapour is a greenhouse gas”.
Hmmm.. Sadly I report, Imho you have contradicted yourself in your own argument.
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How far back in the pre industrial age.
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It’s hot in the southern hemisphere and freezing in the northern.
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I explain where the energy comes from in the article. It comes from lack of cooling.
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El Niño is a temporary lack of cold water upwelling, part of a cycle in vertical ocean circulation. Lacking the cooling water the ocean surface layer gets warmer from the same amount of incoming solar energy. Some of this new energy then goes into the atmosphere causing the UAH spike. So the energy source is the sun and ocean circulation change is the cause. Pretty simple.
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Ocean Temperature?
Where can get I that?
I’m planning on going for a swim.
I like to swim au natural.
Is ocean temp on the same web site a global surface temp?
The upstairs of my house is two degrees warmer than the downstairs.
I’ll work out the average to see if I should be afraid.
I don’t know, but I look around the Solar System and get really worried that there is not enough ice.
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Compilation of “leaders” all saying “build back better”.
https://youtu.be/YkcaeaD45MY
It’s almost as though they’re all singing from the same song book.
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“Song Book” or “Red Book”?
The hallmark of Communism is that it is a Command economy and not a Demand economic.
The ruling elite determines what will be built and not demand of consumers (the People).
Who determines what is “better”?
Are expensive EVs that generally still required coal powered electrical generation to recharge batteries “better” than affordable petrol powered cars?
Are expensive Land Rovers “better” than affordable Jimnys for offroad driving?
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People often ask how Australia got so messed up. Part of the answer was when many Australians decided to throw away traditional family values as well as the ethics of hard work, individual responsibility and saving for the future or unexpected contingencies. Socialist politicians fully exploited these new moral failings.
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The most prosperous years, IMHO, were the 23 years from 1948 when quite correctly the traitorous ALP were firmly entrenched in opposition. The election of Australia’s very own Jaun Peron in 1972 was the start of the decline. The leftest Malcolm Fraser was little better. The current government is the worst in my memory.
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Coalition government of Malcolm Fraser made a huge mistake when it allowed Lebanese Muslims fleeing civil war to emigrate to Australia under relaxed migration provisions in the late 1970s. Out of the last thirty-three people who have been charged with terrorist-related offences in this country, twenty-two are from second- and third-generation Lebanese Muslim backgrounds.
The Christians fleeing Lebanon due to Muslim persecution pleaded with Fraser not to allow Lebanese Muslims into Australia.
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Fraser was a weasel, just like his deputy, and later PM, Howard. (No offence intended to the four legged weasel community.)
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It was Johny Howard who shut down the National Crime Authority after it went after the President of the Liberal Party John Elliott.
Australia then became a ‘paradise’ for White-Collar Criminals as confirmed by a former head of ASIC John Medcraft.
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We now have a “Labor” government whose policies actually target the working class and only appeal to “Teal” electorates!
“Labor” under Airbus Albo the Commie have completely lost the plot.
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The only thing worse than labor is the liberals, or so some here would have you believe.
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Four things:
1. The Govt and society made it easy to divorce. No longer any stigma or penalty, so let’s just bail out if the going gets tough. All of a sudden taxpayers are funding housing for families that already have a house, single mum pensions, child support etc
2. The govt decided the dole office was now the CES. Again, remove any social stigma around not having a job, and so why do hard work when the govt will feed and clothe and house you. Better still, the more kids you have the more money you get.
3. Prison stopped being a deterrent. Why struggle to afford things when you can steal other people’s stuff? If you get caught you get a minimal sentence where you get well fed, free gym, learn how not to get caught next time.
4. The media stopped seeing its role as honest reporting and started seeing its role as supporting any lefty issue- don’t mention crime in indigenous or migrant communities, don’t mention welfare rorting, don’t report on the results of lenient sentencing, don’t report on government waste etc etc
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That’s the weakness of a 50%+1 democracy. You don’t have to work if you can gather enough votes to pick the pockets, legally, of the productive members in society.
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Are you sure it was not the other way around?
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Voters , would be layabouts, fully exploited these new moral failings of the Socialist politicians.
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Like just about everything else, Trump was right to withdraw the US from the World Health Organization and put the UN on notice.
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And cut the USA’s funding of the UNRWA.
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Why SCOTUS will rule to remove DJT from the 2024 POTUS election.
It is the path of least resistance.
SCOTUS has a history of choosing that path.
They are the elite of the elite.*
The contempt the elite have for the common American , particularly MAGA culture, cannot be understated.
(Just spend a few minutes watching CNN or MSNBC. In my area, simply wearing a red baseball hat is risky.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/ex-msnbc-host-says-dealing-with-rural-americans-is-like-fighting-terrorism/ar-AA1mds7j
It is the safest path for them personally.
Federal LE has already allowed leftist protestors to besiege their homes for multiple days.
If Trump is allowed to run and wins, US cities will face George Floyd Redux, and the NYT will produce highly intellectual justifications for the fiery but mostly peaceful justifiable anger.
The Federales are already poised to round up Trump supporters.
The leftists travel to burn for recreation.
MAGA people have jobs and families.
So psychologically prepare.
The decision comes in a matter of weeks.
The impact on the March to Net Zero will be significant.
Speech gets regulated.
*(I think Pandemic phenomenon showed us how quickly social hierarchy overwhelms law and science.)
Note: The prediction track record of Honk R Smith is poor, and offered for entertainment purposes only.
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That’s not only a horrific scenario for America but Western Civilisation in general.
Without Trump, the Left will run free range over the entire Western world and will achieve what they failed to achieve under the National Socialists and Communists.
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this is quite true:
speech emits co2,
and must therefore be regulated,
if planet earth is to be saved from the menace of global warming.
this will obviously involve a carbon capture or cap and trade scheme:
i suggest that those who want more speech can buy carbon speech credits from an impoverished foreign nation,
in return for which, the seller will refrain from speaking (co2 emission),
for as much time as the carbon speech credit is worth.
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Sir or other,
you are wise in the ways of Decarbonization.
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Things your car needs –
https://redpowerphotos.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/monthly_2024_01/image.png.02fcf1d488893cb1c213d0e43f17659f.png
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There are plenty of idiots behind the wheel. Should be a market for “Fast Charging Fluid” for EVs!
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Australia’s housing crisis
In 2023 Sydney’s median asking rent increased reach $750 per week, as reported by PropTrack.
Meanwhile, Melbourne’s median advertised rent remained steady at $550 per week. Consequently, renting a house in Sydney is now 36% more expensive than in Australia’s second-largest city.
The rent for units in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane increasing by 15 to 17 per cent!
Will it be Elon Musk to the rescue?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI61VIRf0lY
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“And there’s another one”
Fake aboriginal ancestry
https://youtu.be/ChIKJS8xkuY
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Chiefio has a look –
“Oh Dear – Chinese Property Giant Bankruptcy”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2024/01/07/oh-dear-chinese-property-giant-bankruptcy/
And comments
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No comment.
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Links in well with CO2Lovers rental prices. Printing money since 2008 so you can throw it into 0% loans?? What could go wrong?
Oh, wait..
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When I mentioned this $3T contagion yesterday it was poo pooed as “nothing” by the US haters. US banks are going broke too I was told.
That is a large amount of money, 10% of US national debt that the same haters say is an amount of money the US cannot repay.
tell me, is it, or is it not, a lot of money?
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They are short $36.4 Billion and can not pay their debts. That’s loose change to Gates, Musk.
2008 came and went and yet here we are?
The 2007-2008 Global Financial Crisis. This financial crisis was the worst economic disaster since the Stock Market Crash of 1929. It started with a subprime mortgage lending crisis in 2007 and expanded into a global banking crisis with the failure of investment bank Lehman Brothers in September 2008. Huge bailouts and other measures meant to limit the spread of the damage failed and the global economy fell into recession.
This is just US bailout money.
By those calculations, the total direct cost of crisis-related bailouts on a fair value basis was about $498 billion, which amounted to 3.5 percent of gross domestic product in 2009.
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The Australian connection to Jeffrey Epstein is not limited to one of his victims – Virginia Louise Giuffre (née Roberts) who was photograghed with Prince Andrew.
Why was Katherine Keating, daughter of Paul Keating, visiting the now dead paedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s New York mansion back in December 2010?
Explosive footage, which became front page news from London to New York in 2019, showed Keating bidding Prince Andrew a fond farewell as he waved her goodbye while standing inside Epstein’s front door.
Airbus Albo might welcome a new political scandal to take the focus of his own incompetence, even if it involves a former Labor PM. Voters might forget about “cheaper electricity”!
Former US President Bill Clinton is well and truely caught up in this scandal with alleged “sex tapes” that have get to see the light of day.
A week is long time in politics.
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I would like to see the names on the full list, which is yet to be published.
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The only reason the whole Epstein saga hasn’t been buried is that they are desperately hoping to find some way of implicating Trump. They’ve been trying to find something in it that can be used against Trump for years but so far nothing has stuck. Eventually, they will fabricate something.
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They already have. It was reported, CNN I think, that Trump was mentioned in the investigation. What they didn’t say was that he was only mentioned by a witness as NOT ever being involved. Lol.
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A list without context would not be very useful, actually damaging to the innocent and I’m sure not everyone on his plane was there for debauchery.
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“Rooster today, feather duster tomorrow.”
https://www.idlehearts.com/299269/rooster-today-feather-duster-tomorrow
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A Light hearted add for EVs
a few puerile similes but nonetheless a red pil;.
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It appears that storms get names these days. Winter storm Finn is working its way northeast across the US. Central pressure 994hPa.
It is pulling cold air south from the Rockies and mixing with moist air from the Gulf to create blizzard conditions now in northern Texas but moving northeast.
A storm system also at 994hPa is off the Pacific NW. There is also a much deeper system, 971hPa south of Greenland that is bringing snow into Quebec. But it should move east and may get to Europe.
More snowfall records across USA and Europe are in the pipeline.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/weather/topstories/winter-storms-live-updates-ferocious-blizzard-conditions-and-tornado-threats-bring-travel-chaos/ar-AA1mCIBb
Texans probably have higher sensitivity to winter storms than most places. But as NutZero spreads it deadly risk, more places across the northern hemisphere will come to fear winter storms. Be prepared. Make sure you can stay warm when the power goes out. This is the message that governments need to get.
Think how bad winter storms will be when all heating, all transport, all communication – everything is being powered by solar panels and wind turbines. Currently wind in Texas is delivering 52% and gas 19%. So wind is holding up well at the present time.
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Global warmists eat your friskies before it gets too cool for cats.
Arctic Sea Ice Extent Highest In 19 Years; Europe Breaks Historic Cold Records; North America Set To Freeze; + Farmers’ Protest Arrives In Berlin
https://electroverse.info/arctic-sea-ice-europe-cold-america-to-freeze-german-farmer-protest/
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I know its O/T but it seems that AI is going to be used to check for plagiarism in all the MIT staffs dissertations after Bill Ackmans wife was censored by this. Accountability is finally going to return (or at least pretend to).See Bill Ackman on X….the swamp is starting to feed on its self .
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Blackrock Fires over 600 people as “ESG” scam Collapses! – oil and gas investment up.
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Oil and Gas Stocks Topped S&P 500 Returns This Quarter as Crude Prices Surged
Marathon Petroleum, Phillips 66, Valero Energy, and Halliburton all featured among the top 10 S&P 500 performers
Published September 29, 2023
Meanwhile, wind turbine maker GE Renewable Energy confirms $2.2 billion 2022 loss. US turbine maker GE Renewable Energy has confirmed a $2.2 billion loss for 2022, blaming warranty provisions related to its onshore wind turbines and inflation that also hit its other business units.
So Sad!
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2024 will be a year to remember and for some good reasons. Last year was peak woke and as it fades the enthusiasm for things we here hate will fade with it.
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There is some backlash and some wins, but the woke and rainbow crowds have a long way to go yet to hit peak stupidity. Years.
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Peak woke in Australia will last at least until Labor is booted out of office.
Not sure if it will fall much with the Coalition back in office.
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I think Labor are reading the runes.
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Some round numbers.
Ocean drop up to 120m during interglacials. That requires some 4E16 tonne of water to be evaporated from the surface. Each tonne evaporated requires energy equivalent of burning 100kg of coal.
The world currently burns 8Gt of coal a year. If all that energy went into evaporating water rom oceans, it would take a MILLION years to do what the sun does over 3 or 4 10,000 year cycles.
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The Death of Manufacturing in Australia to reach “Climate Targets”
Aluminium smelters will be the next to go – they use 10% of the electricity generated in Australia
Alcoa Kwinana closure: Hundreds of jobs axed just weeks after Christmas as Australia manufacturing sector takes another hit
Aluminium giant Alcoa has axed its WA refinery
Move will cost 750 out of 800 staff jobs by 2025
China will take up the loss of Australian manufacturing.
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Yet; None will call it TREASON?
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And WA is not on the grid!
How long before they all close?
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The refinery is on the SWIS grid, a reasonably efficient grid, powered mostly by gas and coal.
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Aluminium giant Alcoa has axed its WA refinery
No it hasn’t.
It’s axed its Kwinana refinery.
It’ still operating Pinjarra and Wagerup.
https://news.alcoa.com/press-releases/press-release-details/2024/Alcoa-announces-curtailment-of-Kwinana-Alumina-Refinery-in-Western-Australia/default.aspx
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Gen Z grads are tanking job interviews, struggling to find full time positions
In a Dec. 2023 study, the New Jersey-based research group Intelligent surveyed 800 U.S. managers, directors and executives who are involved in hiring.
The respondents reported that Gen Z candidates struggle to pick up professional cues, causing 39% of employers to favor hiring older candidates.
About 60% of employers said they are willing to offer more benefits and pay higher salaries to attract older workers rather than recent grads.
For that same reason, 48% of employers are offering remote or hybrid positions to older employees and 46% are willing to hire overqualified candidates, according to the new study.
One in five employers reported that recent college grads are generally unprepared when it comes to interviewing for a job.
More than half of employers surveyed said Gen Z candidates struggle the most with eye contact during interviews.
Candidates in this age group also ask for unreasonable salaries and have dressed inappropriately for in-person interviews, according to about half of the study respondents.
Even virtual interviews have posed issues, with 21% of employers reporting that some candidates refuse to turn on their cameras for the interview.
https://nypost.com/2024/01/06/lifestyle/gen-z-grads-are-tanking-job-interviews-struggling-to-find-full-time-positions-study/
You can’t blame it on Covid because they were this bad before it.
Time for “Ask Siri” from 5 years ago again:
https://youtu.be/0h8UR60dk4c?si=o67oGZhbzP0vY9FK
Satire becomes reality. Technically competent (until Siri doesn’t work, or something goes wrong) and socially incompetent. That’s what dumphones have turned them into.
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Get a load of this, WHO says farmers are killing 8 Million people a year because they are warming the planet:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/uBEdIhTgYa5J/
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A warmer planet with higher levels of CO2 will increase crop yields and feed billions more people.
Farmers boost CO2 levels in Green Houses up to 1200 to 1400 ppm to boost the growth rate by 200%
Ideally, anywhere between , 80-85°F (26-29°C) is the golden standard throughout the spring and summer months for a Greenhouse.
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Farmers use the greenhouse to effectively feed more people.
Alarmists fear a greenhouse effect will kill more people
The irony!!!
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ANOTHER Oz business hacked: ‘Irresponsible’: The Iconic slammed for security lapse which saw customer robbed of $700
A major online retailer has been slammed online for apparent lack of security measures, causing customers to lose their hard earned cash.
“Recently, my wife’s account was fraudulently accessed. Without any notification, warning, or confirmation, the email address associated with her account was changed,” the author of the post claimed.
“No steps were taken to verify this change, leaving her account completely compromised.”
“The intruder went on to purchase a $700 watch using the credit card linked to the account.”
He went on to claim The Iconic had “literally zero measures to guard, verify or even notify you of account changes.”
Several customers took to the retailer’s recent Facebook posts to complain about being left out of pocket, with some claiming more than $1000 had been taken out of their bank accounts.
The business is urging customers to change their passwords and said affected customers would be offered full refunds.
“We encourage all Iconic customers to be vigilant when it comes to proactively managing their account security by regularly changing their passwords,” the company said.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/the-iconic-promises-to-issue-refunds-to-hacked-customers-20240109-p5ew1c.html
https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/retail/irresponsible-the-iconic-slammed-for-security-lapse-which-saw-customer-robbed-of-700/news-story/76aacbca34f51c7e2e266858c7bcabfd
Like I said on Sunday:
“Or pi$$ poor security for decades by companies that should have known better and had way better security in place?”
How dare they blame their customers!
THEY need to have systems in place to AUTHENTICATE changes to primary customer data like phone numbers and emails, like MY financial institution has had for a decade. What’s their excuse? I don’t know – ask them!
I’d suggest people get security policies in writing before signing up with anyone. Vague PR waffle replies promising “everything’s sweet, we take every precaution” don’t count.
Ask specific tough questions.
Is customer data encrypted?
Do you authenticate account changes?
What is your liability for fraud?
What is your dedicated fraud line contact information?
Wake up, businesses, wake up!! This is only going to get worse, way worse.
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Illegal Levels Of Whale-Killing Pile-Driving Noise By Wind Industry Documented
New documentary, “Thrown To The Wind, Part 2,” provides more hard evidence that the wind industry is harming whales
The wind industry is not killing endangered whales off the East Coast, say government agencies and the news media.
But it is. Before 2016, when the wind industry’s increased boat traffic, sonar mapping, and construction began, eight humpback whales were found dead per year between Virginia and Maine. Since 2016, an average of 25 humpbacks were found dead annually. And last year, there were a record 83 whales found dead.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1744432358202425619.html
Part 1 is now free to watch:
https://public.substack.com/p/the-film-that-could-save-an-entire
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“New Zealand Fudged The Data On How Kidneys Fare After COVID Vaccines”
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/new-zealand-fudged-data-how-kidneys-fare-after-covid-vaccines
Ooh! The fiddle after the things that you don’t know!
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FWIW
“Claim: Climate Activist Tourists are Helping to Save Fijian Mangroves”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/01/08/claim-fiji-fly-in-tourists-helping-to-save-mangrove-swamps/
Like a friend saying to the bloke in charge of a similar group diligently chipping buffel grass around the base of Ayer’s Rock “I’ll wish you luck”. Boss bloke not impressed.
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Ukraine releasing more realistic data than usual-
“The Ukrainian Air Force says it shot down 18 of 51 missiles launched by Russia last night.
All 8 Shahed drones and 18 of 24 Kh-101 / Kh-555 / Kh-55, but none of the 4 Kinzhal, 7 S-300 / S-400, 8 Kh-22, 6 Iskander-M 9M723, or 2 Kh-31P missiles launched overnight.
0/4 or (0%) of Kinzhal Missiles
18/24 or (75%) of X-101 Missiles
0/8 or (0%) of Kh-22 Missiles
0/6 or (0%) of Iskander-M Missiles
0/2 or (0%) of Kh-31P Missiles
8/8 or (100%) of Shahed
— Ukraine Battle Map (@ukraine_map) January 8, 2024”
https://warnews247-gr.translate.goog/maziki-rosiki-epithesi-me-iskander-m-kai-kinzhal-stin-oukrania-gia-proti-fora-to-kievo-paradechetai-35-pososto-katarripsis/?_x_tr_sl=el&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB
The face of missile warfare is becoming clearer, some rapid development by the defending nations will be needed.
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Another coulda woulda … ?
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-discover-an-amazing-practical-use-for-leftover-coffee-grounds
Ten billion kilos per year, globally … Right!
“We could be producing concrete that’s 30 percent stronger by processing and adding charred coffee grounds to the mix, researchers in Australia discovered.
“Their clever recipe could solve multiple problems at the same time.”
The global built-up area – so ignoring farms, isolated communities, etc. – is a coupke of million square miles, maximum.
10 billion kilos, is 10 million tonnes. Per year. So five tonnes per year, per square mile.
So a bit over 100 kilos per wek, perhaps more realistically 500 kilos per month per built up square mile.
Costs, and e nergy use to collect.
Even if folk walk and/or cycle to a central neighbourhood point with their half kilo of grounds ….
Before transport to a smallish number of processing sites.
Before the energy needed to pyrolize the grounds.
Ingenious, and perhaps good for grants and citations.
Not sure it has any practicality …
Oh, and
“The researchers cautioned that they still need to assess the long term durability of their cement product. They’re now working on testing how the hybrid coffee-cement performs under freeze/thaw cycles, water absorption, abrasions and many more stressors.
“The team is also working on creating biochars from other organic waste sources, including wood, food waste and agricultural waste.
“”Our research is in the early stages, but these exciting findings offer an innovative way to greatly reduce the amount of organic waste that goes to landfill,” said RMIT engineer Shannon Kilmartin-Lynch.”
Not yet ready for prime time …
Auto
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You can stuff just about anything into concrete blocks. Not everything works out!
Some argument if mica or pyrrhotite is the problem, but you get the idea.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/07/blocks-like-weetabix-how-mica-scandal-upended-lives-in-ireland
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we use it the one or other way in our garden.
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Seems coffee grounds work in industrial hand cleaners too if you brew your own
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“Y2Kyoto: Dry Ice”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/boilingplanet.jpg
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2024/01/08/y2kyoto-dry-ice/
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“Lessons to the left of them
Lessons to the right of them
Lessons in front of them”
“In a recent article from Hot Air, titled “Note to Self: ‘Flying Canadian Blades’ Is Not a Hockey Team, But Do Wear a Helmet,” we are given a front-row seat to the spectacular failure of green energy initiatives, specifically a wind farm project on Prince Edward Island (PEI), Canada. This debacle serves as a stark reminder of the pitfalls of blindly embracing renewable energy without considering practical realities and economic viability.”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/01/08/a-cautionary-tale-from-prince-edward-island/
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What a delusional article! The only rights that government ever “give us”, are ones that we first take for ourselves and that government have no choice but to accept.
GET UP OFF YOUR KNEES … STOP IMAGININGG THAT RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES ARE SOCIAL SECURITY DOLED OUT WITHOUT EFFORT!
No one ever got “given” any rights … they always had to be fought for, tooth and nail against the most extreme resistance by those in power. And, they are constantly trying to curtail our rights by whatever means possible.
Anyone who imagines our “rights” are doled out to us by a willing elite, is living in cloud cuckoo land.
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