Good afternoon. I’m Steve Milloy. I going to briefly discuss why we can’t build more nuclear power, store spent nuclear fuel, clean up nuclear waste sites and why everyone is so freaked out about harmless exposures to radiation. Here’s my background. In summary, I have worked for more than 33 years to fix the abuses … Continue reading Fixing Radiation Hysteria
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October 21, 2024 at 03:54AM
Washington State electricity users are in the complete dark about the oncoming avalanche of what is bound to be expensive power.
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October 21, 2024 at 02:18AM
This new report says there have been a number of plausible explanations given for the recent temperature spike, with attention focused on the massive Hunga Tonga submarine volcano adding 13% extra water vapour to the stratosphere, a strong El Niño and even the reduction in atmospheric particulates caused by recent changes in shipping vessel fuel. Several “changepoints” were used by the mathematicians and it was found that “a warming surge could not be reliably detected any time after 1970”.
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October 21, 2024 at 01:49AM
Leave intellectual pygmies in charge, and weather-dependent wind and solar is what you get. However, not only does their output depend entirely on the weather and/or where the Sun sits in the sky, wind and solar’s capacity to (occasionally) generate power can be eradicated in a matter of minutes.
A few hailstones from the heavens make short work of solar panels. Typhoons, cyclones, hurricanes and tornadoes readily wipe out both solar panels and wind turbines, leaving nothing but expensive wreckage in their path.
In the latter case, twisters will strip the 20 tonne blades from a turbine as if plucking the leaves from a flower and/or flatten the whole shebang in seconds (see the video above).
Proving, once again, how utterly ridiculous solar power is, the twisters that followed in the wake of Hurricane Milton have pounded large-scale solar plants across Florida, including this one.
Drone footage shows destruction left by tornado ripping through Florida solar farm before Milton
USA Today
Mary Walrath-Holdridge
15 October 2024
Drone footage taken after tornados spawned by Hurricane Milton hit the U.S. last week captured a prime example of just how destructive a twister can be.
The footage, shared by North Carolina-based power and gas company Duke Energy, showed the damage left behind in a field of Florida solar panels. In the video, taken Oct. 10 at the Lake Placid Solar Power Plant in Sylvan Shores, a clear path of destruction can be seen snaking through the middle of the field where the twister passed over.
Amid the thousands of still-standing panels, which generate enough energy to power 12,000 households [except at night and during cloudy and inclement weather], , a diagonal line of metal debris can be seen stretching almost completely across one plot of the facility, leaving behind empty rows of scrap.
Highlands County, where the solar farm is located, reported at least one person injured after the tornado severely damaged the Tropical Harbor Mobile Home Park on Wednesday ahead of Milton, reported Fox 13 News.
As of Tuesday, Duke Energy’s outage map reported 46,809 Florida customers still without power.
In total, more than 400,000 people in the state are still in the dark as emergency responders grapple with widespread outages and gas shortages.
USA Today
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October 21, 2024 at 01:31AM
