Month: March 2019

Earth hour becomes the Power Hour tonight at 8:30

Tonight celebrate the Power Hour and your incredible good luck

Photo: | Centenial light bulb, Livermore, CA.

In the hundred thousand years since homo sapiens came to be, people have fled bondage, wars, small-pox, dysentery, died from minor scratches, starved to death, been ravaged by lions, stricken by cholera, and survived ninety thousand year stretches of abysmal ice age.  We lived in the darkness for 99,900 years.

It’s your chance to show your commitment to fighting the forces of darkness.

Some of those fossil fuels have been waiting for 100 million years to return to the sky. This is a lot of fun to do with kids.

From past years festivals of light:

Things you can do at 8.30 on Saturday:

Turn on all the lights you can find (bonus points for incandescents from the stash.) Put on the party lights, the patio light, the pool light, the mozzie zappers, unpack those Christmas decorations. Get out your torches. Switch the movement detector spotlights to continuous operation. (Involve the kids — they love to help). Light your backyard with the landcruiser headlights! (Don’t flatten the battery, make sure you keep that engine running.) Don’t forget those bar radiators — revel in […]

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March 30, 2019 at 03:05AM

Pathetically Pointless: Massive Increase in German Wind Power Capacity Adds Nothing to Power Output

Adding wind power generating capacity is one occasion when ‘more’, truly means ‘less’. No matter how much of other people’s money gets spent spearing wind turbines all over the countryside, the result is the same: whether it’s 10,000 or 100,000 MW of available wind power capacity, when calm weather sets in, the combined output adds … Continue reading Pathetically Pointless: Massive Increase in German Wind Power Capacity Adds Nothing to Power Output

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March 30, 2019 at 01:31AM

Indications Point To Upcoming Solar Cycle 25 Being Among The Weakest In 200 Years

H/T to P Gosselin at No Trickszone. The Sun In February 2019. By Frank Bosse and Fritz Vahrenholt (Translated/edited by P Gosselin)The sun was also very sub-normally active in February. Although we are in the middle of the minimum, the sunspot…

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March 30, 2019 at 12:32AM

US Journalist Lays Out His Vision of Climate Change Totalitarianism

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Another green sneer at Democracy; According to US Journalist David Wallace-Wells, author of The Uninhabitable Earth, future systems of government will replace concern for human rights, peace and prosperity with a focus on CO2 emissions. Can liberal democracy survive climate change?  Mar 29th 2019by N.B. A book excerpt and interview with…

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March 30, 2019 at 12:09AM