THE MORNING RANT: Lots of Clean, Green, Sustainable Failures

“New Forms of Failures” for Wind Energy

The viability of one of the world’s largest wind turbine manufacturers is in doubt due to the crushing financial burden resulting from its persistent turbine failures.

Good. The sooner the purveyors of these destructive bird cuisinarts go out of business, the sooner we can acknowledge that wind has failed as an energy source. After which, we can then begin the process of dismantling the turbines and returning the areas despoiled by them to productive use, or to their natural state.

What is going wrong for Siemen’s Energy? Here is the money quote from Chief Executive Jochen Eickholt, The quality problems go well beyond what had been known, in particular in the onshore area. The failure rates affect certain components just like [previously], but they are also different because they are new forms of failures.”

Our ruling class has committed to replacing reliable carbon energy with wind and solar, yet the companies that manufacture the wind contraptions are encountering problems that were not previously known, resulting in “new forms of failure.”

There has been a lot of news about Siemens Energy in the past few weeks as the situation worsens.

Siemens Energy Shares Plunge After Wind Turbine Problems Deepen [Financial Times – 6/23/2023]

As a result of the mounting challenges at its wind turbine business, Siemens Energy scrapped its profit outlook for the year, alarming investors who were reassured by the company last month that the outlook for the unit would improve in the second half.
Chief executive Christian Bruch said that “even though it should be clear to everyone, I would like to emphasise again how bitter this is for all of us”. The scale of the problems at Siemens Gamesa, the group’s wind turbine business, is a blow to an industry that has been beset by rising costs and supply chain disruption over the past 18 months.

It’s not just Siemens…

Analysts at JPMorgan said the warning came at a time when “expectations were building that the worst for the wind industry is now behind us”, but added that technical problems were an issue for others, too.

Let’s hope these “technical problems” take down the rest of the industry too. Bankrupted green energy companies are a “new form of failure” that I can embrace.

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How is Scraping Undeveloped Land for Solar Farms Any Different than Strip Mining?

Beyond the fact that “green energy” cannot produce reliable baseline energy, it is heartbreaking how those calling themselves environmentalists have embraced the pointless despoilment of nature in support of their climate religion.

Georgia Couple Awarded $135.5M for Solar Project Runoff [AP – 5/08/2023]

A federal jury has awarded a Georgia couple $135.5 million for damages to their property by a Tennessee-based solar company and its contractor.
At “Lumpkin Solar,” IEA cleared and mass-graded about 1,000 acres of timberland, farmland, and land near the Harris couple that was previously used for recreational hunting and fishing — without installing adequate measures for erosion and sediment control...

Look at this picture below. This land was scraped clean of all vegetation. It’s no different than a strip mine.

“The result was what one would expect — when it rained, pollution poured downhill and downstream onto the neighbors’ property, inundating wetlands with silt and sediment, and turning a 21-acre trophy fishing lake into a mud hole,” Butler said.

God gave us the bounty of this planet to use wisely. Its oil, timber, soil, livestock, and grain were provided for us to use responsibly, and western civilization has generally done so.

Solar and wind, on the other hand, destroy the environment while providing nothing to improve the human condition. In fact, solar and wind degrade the human condition, just like they degrade the environment.

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Hail vs Solar Panels

The Great Plains has a lot of hail storms. Covering farmland in glass panels facing up to the sky, for the purpose of producing unreliable energy, seems especially stupid, given the fact that the glass is someday going to be pelted by fast moving chunks of solid ice.

Nebraska Solar Farm Crippled by Hail, Underscoring Power Source's Fragility [Fox News – 6/29/2023]

"The solar complex was destroyed by hail," Scottsbluff City Manager Kevin Spencer said in an interview. "They're assessing the damage, but it certainly looks destroyed to me."

Were any lessons learned? Of course not.

"I don't think we're ready to give up on solar power," Spencer added. "It was our understanding that these solar panels were at least hail resistant. This hail was extreme, you know, the size and probably the speed of it. So, I don't know that we would give up on it just yet."

Building a solar array in an area prone to hail is like building a house in the flood pool of a lake. It’s going to be damaged by weather eventually.

Ace has a favorite line about there being no knowledge gained in the second kick from a mule. As Scottsbluff prepares to rebuild its demolished solar array, it would be helpful if anyone there understood that they’ve already received the first kick from the mule.

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Electric Vehicle Manufacturer “Dead Pool”

The situation for every electric vehicle manufacturer in the United States not named Tesla keeps getting worse. Another one bit the dust last week, as Lordstown Motors filed for bankruptcy. As recently as 2021 its stock was trading at over $350 per share.

Who will be next to fold after Lordstown? My bet is on Nikola.

My favorite EV story in the past few weeks involves Nikola, the start-up company attempting to manufacture electric semi trucks. A fire engulfed several of its electric semis, much to the surprise of, well, no one who pays attention to the fire danger inherent in electric vehicles and their lithium ion batteries. Fortunately, no one was injured.

Nikola tried to play the event off as if the company was the victim of a crime. It tweeted out that foul play was suspected, insinuating that the trucks were set aflame by a saboteur.

Unsurprisingly, the investigation has now discovered that the fires were likely the result of problems involving the batteries.

Nikola Electric Semi Truck Fire Incident: Defective Batteries A Possibility [Inside EVs – 6/29/2023]

The team investigating the matter found that several modules faced the same cell corrosion issue. They traced the issue to laser welding, which punctured battery cells in the modules. The cells were corroding within just two test cycles, potentially generating excess heat and increasing the resistance at the joint.

While it is prudent not to believe much of anything said by people promoting EV companies, Nikola has an especially disturbing history.

Nikola Founder Trevor Milton Found Guilty of Fraud Over Statements He Made While CEO of the EV company [CNBC – 10/14/2022]

In the meanwhile, Nikola is slashing headcount and running low on money.

Nikola Cuts 270 Jobs as Cash to Survive Runs Low

Nikola said it expected its annual cash burn to fall below $400 million by 2024. The company had $208 million in cash as of March 31, $85 million of which was restricted.

The math doesn’t look good for Nikola when its cash on hand is dwarfed by its cash burn rate, and the stock price has collapsed from $65 per share to $1 per share.

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Good News! Hyundai’s EV Batteries Are Failing Without Catching Fire

One of the charming features of EVs is that their batteries may have a catastrophic failure while you’re driving on the highway. This often leads to a scary conflagration, so praise is due to Hyundai, which has found a less fiery way for its EV customers to enjoy the terror of battery failure while driving on a busy highway.

US Opens Safety Probe into Hyundai Ioniq-5 EVs Over Power Loss Reports [Reuters – 6/19/2023]

U.S. auto safety regulators are investigating nearly 40,000 Hyundai Ioniq-5 electric vehicles over reports of power loss while driving, tied to a battery charging issue.
The agency said many consumers reported a loud popping noise followed by a warning displayed on their dashboard, and immediately experienced a loss of power that ranged from a reduction in acceleration to a complete loss.
One complaint reported a driver traveling 75 miles (120 km) per hour on a highway using advanced highway assist and "the car became completely unresponsive." The driver added that there was a semi-trailer truck behind him "and one to my right in the slow lane. The car stopped accelerating, and I was unable to resume driving. I was forced to coast to a stop on the side of the highway.

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Global Cooling

Have you heard all the apocalyptic propaganda in recent days about the “hottest day EVER”?

Well, a lot of us have been enjoying the coolest year on record. In my part of Appalachia, it has been an exceptionally cool Spring and early Summer. Out west, it’s also been extraordinarily cool. Las Vegas just set a record for going 291 days in a row without hitting 100 degrees. Never before has that happened since records have been kept there.

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Some of You Will Have to Die, and That is a Sacrifice We’re Willing to Make

There are actually still a few people in the EU who have not fully embraced the “depopulation by starvation” agenda of the WEF. But not enough. A proposal to help poor nations produce their own fertilizer was shot down by the EU Commission.

EU Split Over Fertiliser Plants in Poorer Nations as Food Crisis Bites [Reuters – 6/20/2023]

But at a meeting with EU envoys last week, the EU Commission explicitly opposed the text, warning that supporting fertiliser production in developing nations would be inconsistent with the EU energy and environment policies, officials said.

White people in Western Europe affirmatively choosing to starve brown and black people in other parts of the world seems a little racist. But it’s OK because they’re leftists.

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Multiplying By Zero With Renewable Energy

Let’s finish with a math question that would stump any green energy evangelist:

If the wind is not blowing, and one wind turbine produces zero kilowatts, how many kilowatts are being produced if that wind farm has 100 turbines?

Have a great weekend.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

Comments

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1 sponge

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2023 11:00 AM (LvWU7)

2 Maybe I'm first.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 07, 2023 11:01 AM (nRMeC)

3 Let them crash and burn in the wind

Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2023 11:01 AM (ycZeb)

4 so close to first

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at July 07, 2023 11:01 AM (fbg9t)

5 SPONGE!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 07, 2023 11:01 AM (xcxpd)

6 Not coming in last

Posted by: Kratwurst at July 07, 2023 11:01 AM (nIRE6)

7 hiya

Posted by: JT at July 07, 2023 11:01 AM (T4tVD)

8 Now for the content. The art critics can find their own way here, they have clocks.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2023 11:01 AM (LvWU7)

9 Dave: I nooded so they've got notification in addition to their timekeeping devices.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 07, 2023 11:02 AM (nRMeC)

10 I don't mind wind and solar (and other more exotic energy production options) as an adjunct to proven forms like coal/gas, hydro and nuclear.

My problem is the reliance on fake-green energy. It's not scalable or reliable, as Buck is pointing out.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 07, 2023 11:02 AM (xcxpd)

11 What is going wrong for Siemen’s Energy? Here is the money quote from Chief Executive Jochen Eickholt, The quality problems go well beyond what had been known, in particular in the onshore area. The failure rates affect certain components just like [previously], but they are also different because they are new forms of failures.”
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So "all the components suck?"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 11:03 AM (t0OGg)

12 "What is going wrong for Siemen’s Energy?"

Is semen energy like tiger energy? Asking for myself.

Posted by: Mayor Alfred E. Buttplug at July 07, 2023 11:03 AM (fbg9t)

13 I sense a common theme between the Rant and the Art Thread

Turbans falling to the ground!!

Posted by: Muldoon at July 07, 2023 11:03 AM (kXYt5)

14 That top image would be great for the Art Thread sometime.

Posted by: ShainS -- Semiquincentennial or Bust! at July 07, 2023 11:03 AM (ul9wx)

15 I'm all for putting illegal aliens on treadmills to produce energy. Its renewable as well.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 07, 2023 11:03 AM (fWTJL)

16 Our ruling class has committed to replacing reliable carbon energy with wind and solar, yet the companies that manufacture the wind contraptions are encountering problems that were not previously known, resulting in “new forms of failure.”
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On the one hand, that's how we learn things. You can only model so much. Eventually, you gotta go do it for real.

On the other hand, the lunatics in charge are trying to replace the entire power infrastructure with untested trash that isn't for purpose even if it all worked as designed.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 11:04 AM (t0OGg)

17 Also, as I was driving home on I64/70, the wife and I saw a HUGE windmill. Easily 3 times larger than the average. It was so big, it looked fake. I can only imagine how had it would be to make and maintain something that big.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 07, 2023 11:04 AM (xcxpd)

18 Chief executive Christian Bruch said that “even though it should be clear to everyone, I would like to emphasise again how bitter this is for all of us”. The scale of the problems at Siemens Gamesa, the group’s wind turbine business, is a blow to an industry that has been beset by rising costs and supply chain disruption over the past 18 months.
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It's a "blow" is it? Pun intentional?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 11:04 AM (t0OGg)

19 Ho, Ho, Ho.

GREEN GRIFTERS

Posted by: XTC at July 07, 2023 11:04 AM (UnA8+)

20 Our ruling class has committed to replacing reliable carbon energy with wind and solar, yet the companies that manufacture the wind contraptions are encountering problems that were not previously known, resulting in “new forms of failure.”

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"New Forms of Failure" would be a fitting epitaph to the Biden Junta ... as well as a great band name.

Posted by: ShainS -- Semiquincentennial or Bust! at July 07, 2023 11:05 AM (ul9wx)

21 you know the environmental cases will be going to court to tie up all these projects in litigation for years once the gov't succeeds in shutting down the fossil fuel industry. won't be so bad in winter when you have ten people sharing a bed.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 07, 2023 11:06 AM (B1FKF)

22 I wonder how much a set of bearings costs for one of those windmills?

Posted by: BignJames at July 07, 2023 11:06 AM (AwYPR)

23 Yeah? Well, blotting out the sun will work!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 07, 2023 11:06 AM (FVME7)

24 Just met a guy last week who is an engineer at a battery factory.

He is a member of their Fire Brigade

Fires are a common thing at that place.

Really makes you want an EV, eh?

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 07, 2023 11:06 AM (ufFY8)

25 Yes new forms of failure but fantastically expensive forms of failure.

So are they really failure?

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 07, 2023 11:07 AM (17s+e)

26 Look at this picture below. This land was scraped clean of all vegetation. It’s no different than a strip mine.
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Yes it is, and it's significantly different.

A strip mine damages - often to the point of destruction - land in exchange for highly-reliable energy products.

These solar farms damage - often to the point of destruction - land in exchange for low-reliability energy products that are also capital sinks surviving on money extorted from taxpayers.

At least we get something for an old-fashioned coal strip mine.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 11:07 AM (t0OGg)

27 Look at this picture below. This land was scraped clean of all vegetation. It’s no different than a strip mine.

And vegetation is the ultimate solar panel. Takes all the sun and water you throw at it, provides food and shelter and lumber for animals and bugs and humans, and renews itself as it 'grows' soil.

Posted by: t-bird at July 07, 2023 11:07 AM (bt2PN)

28 Beyond the fact that “green energy” cannot produce reliable baseline energy, it is heartbreaking how those calling themselves environmentalists have embraced the pointless despoilment of nature in support of their climate religion.

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"We had to destroy dear Gaia in order to save it."

Posted by: ShainS -- Semiquincentennial or Bust! at July 07, 2023 11:07 AM (ul9wx)

29 Great Plains hail? When and if I move there, whatever house I buy needs to have a garage or a sturdy carport.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2023 11:08 AM (J2vNu)

30 re 17: " I can only imagine how had it would be to make and maintain something that big."

no problem, it'll just end up a broken down eye sore. it can be the president biden monument.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 07, 2023 11:08 AM (B1FKF)

31 ...the sooner we can acknowledge that wind has failed as an energy source. After which, we can then begin the process of dismantling the turbines and returning the areas despoiled by them to productive use, or to their natural state.

I've stated before my absolute loathing for these things. Nothing worse than cresting a hill in the beautiful Central Washington area only to see several hundred of these damn things...and three actually turning. Most stained with leaking oil and all ruining the view and landscape.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 07, 2023 11:08 AM (e4fEA)

32 "Lumpkin" Solar... the name alone screams failure.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2023 11:08 AM (Q4IgG)

33 The obvious solution to protect against hail damage is to cover those solar arrays with a roof.

And I'm not even an engineer.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 07, 2023 11:08 AM (PHmov)

34 Update to NASA [IIRC] saying July 3rd was the hottest July 3rd ever in history!!! [I assume meaning since 1980 or 1990 or similar] in...

Earth sets new record high temperature for third straight day with planetary average of 17.23°C [63°F].
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Re. Las Vegas-type situations...
And I don't know about recent months but there was widespread record-setting cold throughout Australia this spring [autumn there] too.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at July 07, 2023 11:08 AM (Vwz3I)

35 Green New Insurance Fraud

Posted by: Wierzbowski formerly QID at July 07, 2023 11:09 AM (OgrpQ)

36 29 Great Plains hail? When and if I move there, whatever house I buy needs to have a garage or a sturdy carport.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2023 11:08 AM (J2vNu)

And a basement. Tornados.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 07, 2023 11:09 AM (xcxpd)

37 yet the companies that manufacture the wind contraptions are encountering problems that were not previously known

The problems were all known to the people you refuse to listen to. But you go ahead and keep laundering money to yourselves.

Posted by: t-bird at July 07, 2023 11:09 AM (bt2PN)

38 The scale of delusion required to push for the trifucta (SWITDT?) of completely unfit-for-purpose ecological and environmental disasters is stunning. And brave. But mostly stunning.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at July 07, 2023 11:09 AM (fbg9t)

39 "I don't think we're ready to give up on solar power," Spencer added. "It was our understanding that these solar panels were at least hail resistant. This hail was extreme, you know, the size and probably the speed of it. So, I don't know that we would give up on it just yet."
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There is a concept out there of "utility-grade engineering." I have encountered in software, but I am sure it exists elsewhere. The idea is that some things (major infrastructure software, in my case) has to be "utility grade" - that is, extremely reliable and extremely robust and extremely serviceable.

PV solar farms are *not* utility grade infrastructure. Major hailstorms - and they happen every so often and aren't all that rare - don't take out power plants.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 11:09 AM (t0OGg)

40 A comment on the erosion issue.

I bet dollars to donuts was that the "grant" was for the construction of the solar farm.

Post-construction erosion control is usually considered a "maintenance" activity, and on the solar plant's owners responsibility to make sure grass regrows and doesn't let the erosion happen.

Its obvious the solar plant didn't pay its staff to make sure the grass regrew (or even had a ground keeping staff). Either with a water truck spraying water 2-3 times a week or whatever.

But i'm sure their c-suite exec's got their yearly bonus!

Posted by: Afghani Drug Lords at July 07, 2023 11:09 AM (2waQ7)

41 Heard on radio there is an estimated 92 day supply of EV's on dealer lots. Meanwhile, there is awaiting list for many ICE pick-ups. More failure. But what would the commoners know about what is good for them? The beatings will continue until morale improves.

Posted by: Ripley at July 07, 2023 11:10 AM (KrJTL)

42 Our ruling class has committed to replacing reliable carbon energy with wind and solar, yet the companies that manufacture the wind contraptions are encountering problems that were not previously known, resulting in “new forms of failure.”

And the chance that these idiots will look at the experience of companies like Siemens and stop spending hundreds of billions of our dollars on their fantasies?

Zero.Zero

Posted by: Archimedes at July 07, 2023 11:10 AM (eOEVl)

43 How could anyone foresee that there would be a hailstorm in Nebraska?

Posted by: Trust the Expets at July 07, 2023 11:11 AM (T0tUU)

44 The Left are truly psychopaths. Off the narcissistic scale. They don't view these as failures just as they don't view communism as a failure. They also reflectively take the opposite position of anyone they personally don't like. You show them that these green energy efforts such as solar panels and wind generators are boondoggles that actually do more harm to the environment that they pretend they want to save and they will just double down on their efforts.

Posted by: polynikes at July 07, 2023 11:11 AM (IivFw)

45 Old and busted: green energy

New and cool: snake oil energy

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 07, 2023 11:11 AM (FVME7)

46 Meanwhile in NJ, Gov. Chiclet Murphy and NJ legislature OK'd tax credits for Orestad, the Danish company contracted to build over 1200 industrial turbines off the NJ coast between Atlantic City and Cape May.

Posted by: DICK Levine at July 07, 2023 11:11 AM (gMRRb)

47 re 34: from cnn:

On Monday, the average global temperature reached 17.01 degrees Celsius (62.62 Fahrenheit), the highest in the US National Centers for Environmental Prediction’s data, which goes back to 1979. On Tuesday, it climbed even further, reaching 17.18 degrees Celsius and global temperature remained at this record-high on Wednesday.

[like they can determine the global temp to .01 degree]

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 07, 2023 11:11 AM (B1FKF)

48 The math doesn’t look good for Nikola when its cash on hand is dwarfed by its cash burn rate, and the stock price has collapsed from $65 per share to $1 per share.
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They have a good gimmick in semi trucks - that's an area where EVs aren't already reasonable mature - but it's also not a great idea in the first place it requires tons of capital and therefore extremely long-term investor credulity.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 11:11 AM (t0OGg)

49 There are good and reasonable spots for solar farms, but not very many and most places are not feasible. Clearing land simply to put up panels is stupid and clearly problematic.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 07, 2023 11:11 AM (0hOvj)

50 “The result was what one would expect — when it rained, pollution poured downhill and downstream onto the neighbors’ property, inundating wetlands with silt and sediment, and turning a 21-acre trophy fishing lake into a mud hole,” Butler said.

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Stage-One Thinking writ large.

[h/t Thomas Sowell]

"These nihilists are out of control. They're out of control, and we'll be lucky to live through it."

[Think Bill Gates funding a project at Harvard to throw calcium carbonate into the atmosphere to "block the sun's rays." Yeah, that'll end well ...]

Posted by: ShainS -- Semiquincentennial or Bust! at July 07, 2023 11:12 AM (ul9wx)

51 "Georgia couple awarded $135.5M for solar project runoff"

This must be a joke. The required environmental impacts study would have identified this issue and the solar panel project would have been canceled.

/sarc/

Posted by: Gref at July 07, 2023 11:12 AM (AMIL/)

52 How in the ever loving hell do these fraudster bullshit companies get handed millions and millions of dollars for their fairy dust and unicorn fart products. Of course that con artist chick Elizabeth Holmes got around a billion dollars for something she never ever actually produced at all. Makes no sense.

Posted by: Work hard, keep your head down, do a good job, and everything will fall into place! at July 07, 2023 11:12 AM (dE+9W)

53 Heard on radio there is an estimated 92 day supply of EV's on dealer lots. Meanwhile, there is awaiting list for many ICE pick-ups.

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ICE, baby, ICE!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 07, 2023 11:12 AM (FVME7)

54 "It was our understanding that these solar panels were at least hail resistant. This hail was extreme, you know, the size and probably the speed of it. So, I don't know that we would give up on it just yet."

Just wait until the global warming super-hail hits. It will be like wet bags of cement falling from the sky.

Posted by: Ripley at July 07, 2023 11:12 AM (KrJTL)

55 The agency said many consumers reported a loud popping noise followed by a warning displayed on their dashboard, and immediately experienced a loss of power that ranged from a reduction in acceleration to a complete loss.
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On the plus side, that sounds like the safety interlocks actually worked. It isn't good that something goes "pop" and then the car dies, but that is the *right* thing to do if the alternative is "it catches on fire."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 11:13 AM (t0OGg)

56 We could have abundant, cheap, sustainable, and non-polluting energy, but naaaaah. Jane Fonda did a movie that said #NukularPowerBad.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 07, 2023 11:13 AM (RIvkX)

57 ...supporting fertiliser production in developing nations would be inconsistent with the EU energy and environment policies,

In other words, buy our fertilizer, don't make your own...or else!

Posted by: Diogenes at July 07, 2023 11:13 AM (e4fEA)

58 DEAD WHALES off the East coast of US thanks to offshore wind farm construction in NJ and MA (IIRC).

Posted by: Lizzy at July 07, 2023 11:13 AM (avru5)

59 Only in Vegas is 98° considered a cold snap.

Posted by: Muldoon at July 07, 2023 11:13 AM (kXYt5)

60 Well, a lot of us have been enjoying the coolest year on record. In my part of Appalachia, it has been an exceptionally cool Spring and early Summer. Out west, it’s also been extraordinarily cool. Las Vegas just set a record for going 291 days in a row without hitting 100 degrees. Never before has that happened since records have been kept there.
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Spring was long, wet and cool here. Last spring was unusually long and cool, too.

But #globalWarming

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 11:14 AM (t0OGg)

61 And vegetation is the ultimate solar panel.

So...you're saying we should scale up the potato clock to run the entire economy?

Posted by: Archimedes at July 07, 2023 11:14 AM (eOEVl)

62 Great Plains hail? When and if I move there, whatever house I buy needs to have a garage or a sturdy carport.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2023
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And a basement. Tornados.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 07, 2023 1

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Yes indeed. People squeal at me when I suggest Kansas as a place to live: "Tornadoes!!!" My reply: "Yes, but compared to hurricanes, they travel over a narrow band as opposed to half a state, are over with fairly quickly, and while you may have terrible destruction from wind and debris, you don't have to worry about massive flooding too. Also, basements."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2023 11:14 AM (J2vNu)

63 >32 "Lumpkin" Solar... the name alone screams failure.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2023 11:08 AM (Q4IgG)

At least its not blumpkin solar...

Posted by: Heavy Meta at July 07, 2023 11:14 AM (gMRRb)

64 Just wait until the global warming super-hail hits. It will be like wet bags of cement falling from the sky.

Posted by: Ripley at July 07, 2023 11:12 AM (KrJTL)

What will they do when they use up all the wind/sunlight?

Posted by: BignJames at July 07, 2023 11:14 AM (AwYPR)

65 Clap your hand and BELIEVE!!!

Posted by: Same thing. Just way more expensive. at July 07, 2023 11:15 AM (dE+9W)

66 Just wait until the global warming super-hail hits. It will be like wet bags of cement falling from the sky.

They should do stress tests beforehand using turkeys.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 07, 2023 11:15 AM (eOEVl)

67 *hands

Posted by: Same thing. Just way more expensive. at July 07, 2023 11:15 AM (dE+9W)

68 Clap your hand and BELIEVE!!!
Posted by: Same thing. Just way more expensive. at July 07, 2023 11:15 AM (dE+9W)
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How does one clap a single hand?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 11:15 AM (t0OGg)

69 How in the ever loving hell do these fraudster bullshit companies get handed millions and millions of dollars for their fairy dust and unicorn fart products. Of course that con artist chick Elizabeth Holmes got around a billion dollars for something she never ever actually produced at all. Makes no sense.
Posted by: Work hard

When I am elected your King, there will be some changes.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 07, 2023 11:16 AM (OjHyA)

70 For some period in the last two years, the Ionic 5 was the "hot" EV to own and was in short supply. Many buyers paid a big dealer markup for the privilege of unexpected failures.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at July 07, 2023 11:16 AM (wBpKf)

71 >>the NJ coast between Atlantic City and Cape May.

Cape May is a huge bird migration stop -- this will be DISASTER for bird populations.

We've got your Silent Spring 2.0 here in the making, but suddenly none of the alleged environmental and bord protection organizations (lookin' at you, Audobon) are mum.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 07, 2023 11:16 AM (avru5)

72 Moo moo baiting, I see.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 07, 2023 11:16 AM (aD39U)

73 EV semis make no sense at all. Not only are electric vehicles significantly heavier than gassers, but they lose a lot of range when hauling freight. Add in the poor performance in cold and things get even worse. Half the hauling weight of a rig would have to be batteries, and its STILL not going to be a good long-haul vehicle.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 07, 2023 11:16 AM (0hOvj)

74 How does one clap a single hand?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023

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Robert Heinlein's Friday had the answer to the question, "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" "Turn on recorder. Clap with one hand. Play back the result."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2023 11:17 AM (J2vNu)

75 I've stated before my absolute loathing for these things. Nothing worse than cresting a hill in the beautiful Central Washington area only to see several hundred of these damn things...and three actually turning. Most stained with leaking oil and all ruining the view and landscape.
Posted by: Diogenes

Every open-world driving/racing videogame has solar and wind farms now. Serving no purpose in the games except propaganda, desensitization, and manufactured consent. Yeah, first-world problems, but it grinds my gears.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 07, 2023 11:17 AM (kjOVp)

76 >>Just wait until the global warming super-hail hits. It will be like wet bags of cement falling from the sky.

"Hiya!! Heard about our summer so far?"
-- Colorado, where hail happens regularly

Posted by: Lizzy at July 07, 2023 11:18 AM (avru5)

77 ...which goes back to 1979
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I'm thinking [from something I read at Steve Milloy's Junk Science a long while ago] that date was when temperature-reading satellites finally covered the entire globe so whenever the MFM and corrupt scientists use "in history", they mean from that date and not e.g. hundreds or thousands of years ago despite trying to give that false impression.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at July 07, 2023 11:18 AM (Vwz3I)

78 68 Clap your hand and BELIEVE!!!
Posted by: Same thing. Just way more expensive. at July 07, 2023 11:15 AM (dE+9W)
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How does one clap a single hand?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 11:15 AM (t0OGg)

Ask the zen koan guy.

Posted by: Mushin no shin at July 07, 2023 11:18 AM (dE+9W)

79 "Update to NASA [IIRC] saying July 3rd was the hottest July 3rd ever in history"

Aside from "global temperature" being a complete crock of bullshit, I wonder how many en fuego EVs boosted the average during that time...

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at July 07, 2023 11:18 AM (fbg9t)

80 How in the ever loving hell do these fraudster bullshit companies get handed millions and millions of dollars for their fairy dust and unicorn fart products. Of course that con artist chick Elizabeth Holmes got around a billion dollars for something she never ever actually produced at all. Makes no sense.
Posted by: Work hard, keep your head down, do a good job, and everything will fall into place! at July 07, 2023 11:12 AM (dE+9W)
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Investor credulity and bountiful capital.

The former is easy to come by and manias are as old as time. The latter has been in generous supply since Greenspan responded to the Tech Wreck with massive monetary stimulus and then Bernanke ran it to the limits for a decade after the Great Financial Crisis.

But the bloom will inevitable come off the mania rose (or the tulip, heh) and structurally repressed capital prices are ending under the weight of inflation.

Anything dependent on both investor credulity *and* cheap money is going to keep facing increasing headwinds.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 11:18 AM (t0OGg)

81 >71 >>the NJ coast between Atlantic City and Cape May.

Cape May is a huge bird migration stop -- this will be DISASTER for bird populations.

We've got your Silent Spring 2.0 here in the making, but suddenly none of the alleged environmental and bord protection organizations (lookin' at you, Audobon) are mum.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 07, 2023 11:16 AM (avru5)

...and humpback whale migration and monarch butterfly migration. The fact that Audubon and the Sierra Club are silent speaks volumes.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at July 07, 2023 11:19 AM (gMRRb)

82 78 68 Clap your hand and BELIEVE!!!
Posted by: Same thing. Just way more expensive. at July 07, 2023 11:15 AM (dE+9W)
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How does one clap a single hand?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 11:15 AM (t0OGg)

Ask the zen koan guy.
Posted by: Mushin no shin at July 07, 2023 11:18 AM (dE+9W)

Is he the guy who thinks it's always beginning?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 07, 2023 11:19 AM (xcxpd)

83 I remember reading that a single wind turbine requires maintenance every 16-24 months.
12,000 or so gallons (almost 300 barrels) of crude oil (FOSSIL FUEL!) synthesized down to a specialty blend and changed out to keep it running.
And that does not include the different hydraulic fluids required.
Unknown how accurate, but interesting if even remotely so.

Posted by: Andrew at July 07, 2023 11:19 AM (l3I0j)

84 A tale of three headlines, from different DU threads:

Biden touts clean energy investments in S.C. amid 'Bidenomics' push.Biden discussed jobs created by a partnership between Enphase Energy, a supplier of solar energy equipment, and Flex, a manufacturer. "I’m not here to declare victory on the economy," Biden said. "I’m here to say we have a plan that is turning things around quickly."

Private sector companies added 497,000 jobs in June, more than double expectations, ADP says. So, in reality,
it is President Biden who is making America great again. RW heads will explode if tomorrow's jobs number is 500K+.
I’m guessing it’s a 50/50 chance if that happening, depending on how school closures for summer are reported.

Payrolls rose by 209,000 in June, less than expected, as jobs growth wobbles.209,000 is still a great number! It's about wht Obama averaged in his 2nd term. Trump lost an average 62,500 jobs a mnth during his time in the White House, and in the 3 years before Covid he averaged just +190,000. Most importnantly, wage growth beat expectations. Wage growth was +4.4% over the last 12 months, which is higher than inflation was.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 07, 2023 11:19 AM (JCZqz)

85
My family traveled a few years back to NW NC to visit where my parents used to live in the day, and where my older brother was born. One of the prettiest places in the whole world. We were tooling around some of their old haunts and stumbled upon one of these solar-panel arrays just plopped down in the middle of some beautiful forested, rolling hills. Hideous.

My mom was distraught. Like on the verge of tears. "How could they do this?"

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 07, 2023 11:19 AM (oINRc)

86 One example that proves to me that the left are mentally ill idiots is the campaign for EVs to completely replace CEs . They completely ignore that this effort does more harm to the environment that they pretend they are saving. In addition they skipped over an effort and the step to EVs that would actually help their goal of a possible better environment. Hybrid vehicles.

Posted by: polynikes at July 07, 2023 11:19 AM (IivFw)

87 I'd like to say that windmills and solar panels in Nebraska are peak idiocy and wishful thinking, but...

CDC now giving tips for trans people who want to breastfeed

https://tinyurl.com/ye22jnf5

Posted by: Archimedes at July 07, 2023 11:19 AM (eOEVl)

88 When I am elected your King, there will be some changes.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 07, 2023 11:16 AM (OjHyA)

You don't vote for a king.

Posted by: Arthur, King of the Britons at July 07, 2023 11:20 AM (dE+9W)

89 You big meanies!

Ana Navarro-Cárdenas
@ananavarro
Like many, my family’s been hit by drug-addiction. So many sleepless nights fearing a call saying your loved one is jailed or dead.
@JoeBiden like any dad, keeps his son as close as he can and shows support. Attack him as POTUS, but not for being an unconditionally loving dad.

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Well, children are most difficult when they're 53.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 07, 2023 11:20 AM (FVME7)

90 Here in southern Kalifornia the temperature has not once got over 80F. If it does get over 80F I expect all the donks to yell about heat wave and AGW. We used to routinely get over 90F.

My personal theory is that the wind mills are changing the atmosphere wind patterns greatly. They suck a lot of power out even it they are not producing. Look for this theory to gain acceptance in the next 10 years when we have global cooling.... which the environmentals will blame on global warming.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 07, 2023 11:20 AM (17s+e)

91 Quick! Let's block the sun!
- Joe Biden

Posted by: Darth Randall at July 07, 2023 11:20 AM (fllPe)

92 Only in Vegas is 98° considered a cold snap.
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Immortalized by Elvis in "Freeza Las Vegas!"

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at July 07, 2023 11:20 AM (Vwz3I)

93 Biden touts clean energy investments in S.C. amid 'Bidenomics' push.Biden discussed jobs created by a partnership between Enphase Energy, a supplier of solar energy equipment, and Flex, a manufacturer. "I’m not here to declare victory on the economy," Biden said. "I’m here to say we have a plan that is turning things around quickly." ...
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 07, 2023 11:19 AM
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Hmmm.

"Shovel-ready projects."
"Green-collar jobs."

Where have I heard all this before?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 11:20 AM (t0OGg)

94 >>...and humpback whale migration and monarch butterfly migration. The fact that Audubon and the Sierra Club are silent speaks volumes.

How many dead whales have washed up on the NJ shore since they started work on the wind farm?
Last I saw it was over 40.

40 (!!) dead whales and not a peep.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 07, 2023 11:21 AM (avru5)

95 Fan in front on top pic looks like bird-chopper than bent over like a broken straw in the nearby desert a few years back, except I don't remember other bird choppers on fire at the same time. In that particular case, they modified the design and put in heavier generator elements without updating the strength of the support "straw", so enough wind and one of them bent over and broke.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 07, 2023 11:21 AM (ynpvh)

96 CBS Nightly News, last night, led off with the news that yesterday was the 'hottest day ever recorded on earth'. We are all definitely going to die.

Posted by: javems at July 07, 2023 11:21 AM (mqO7V)

97 88 When I am elected your King, there will be some changes.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 07, 2023 11:16 AM (OjHyA)

You don't vote for a king.
Posted by: Arthur, King of the Britons at July 07, 2023 11:20 AM (dE+9W)

Well how did you become king then?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 07, 2023 11:21 AM (eYoxG)

98 Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 07, 2023 11:19 AM (JCZqz)

Mentally ill useful idiots always pretend the Emperor's clothes are fabulous !

Posted by: polynikes at July 07, 2023 11:21 AM (IivFw)

99 Yes indeed. People squeal at me when I suggest Kansas as a place to live: "Tornadoes!!!" My reply: "Yes, but compared to hurricanes, they travel over a narrow band as opposed to half a state, are over with fairly quickly, and while you may have terrible destruction from wind and debris, you don't have to worry about massive flooding too. Also, basements."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2023 11:14 AM (J2vNu)

I just drove through Kansas. I liked it. It doesn't have mountains, but it has cities, towns, people, shops and attractions. Unlike the hole that is East Colorado.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 07, 2023 11:22 AM (xcxpd)

100 How does one clap a single hand?
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Let me show you, Ass-Hopper.

Bend over.

Posted by: Master Po at July 07, 2023 11:22 AM (Vwz3I)

101 Tonypete for Supreme Monarch! He may be a hack, but he's OUR hack!

Posted by: Long Live the King! at July 07, 2023 11:22 AM (T0tUU)

102 94 >>...and humpback whale migration and monarch butterfly migration. The fact that Audubon and the Sierra Club are silent speaks volumes.

How many dead whales have washed up on the NJ shore since they started work on the wind farm?
Last I saw it was over 40.

40 (!!) dead whales and not a peep.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 07, 2023 11:21 AM (avru5)

Too bad the land whales on the View aren't washing up on shores due to these...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 07, 2023 11:22 AM (ynpvh)

103 CBS Nightly News, last night, led off with the news that yesterday was the 'hottest day ever recorded on earth'. We are all definitely going to die.
Posted by: javems at July 07, 2023 11:21 AM (mqO7V)
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How?

I mean, I am legitimately confused by this. Not by the story - I have no trouble believing that - but that there are news outfits still working. I thought that Hollywood was in the midst of a writer's strike. Are journalists crossing the picket line or something?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 11:22 AM (t0OGg)

104 Normal people will surmise that because of the tremendous failures in wind energy and the blight caused by solar, that the whole Green Energy push will go back for reconsideration.

But they'd be wrong.

In tried-and-true lefty fashion, the efforts will be redoubled, tax incentives boosted, and punishments for those who would return to working solutions enhanced.

Posted by: red speck at July 07, 2023 11:22 AM (0Id0S)

105 I think one of the more stupider things about green energy is, its all 30, 40, 50 year or more older technology; solar, wind.

Always claiming just a few billion more in government money and we will surely make a technological breakthrough.

It's like claiming we can go to the moon on steam engines if we can just up the efficiency a bit by burning $1,000 bills instead of coal.

The only thing stupider, that is an article of faith among the left, is that "more money = innovation."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 07, 2023 11:22 AM (Ia8dk)

106 >>Biden touts clean energy investments in S.C. amid 'Bidenomics' push.Biden discussed jobs created by a partnership between Enphase Energy, a supplier of solar energy equipment, and Flex, a manufacturer. "I’m not here to declare victory on the economy," Biden said. "I’m here to say we have a plan that is turning things around quickly." ...

Is it me, or does this reek of China's One Belt One Road infrastructure boondogles playing out in other countries across the globe?

Posted by: Lizzy at July 07, 2023 11:22 AM (avru5)

107 I've stated before my absolute loathing for these things. Nothing worse than cresting a hill in the beautiful Central Washington area only to see several hundred of these damn things...and three actually turning. Most stained with leaking oil and all ruining the view and landscape.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 07, 2023 11:08 AM (e4fEA)

There was a wild fire started by WA DOT about 10 years the swept down from Cle Elum into the Kittitas Valley. I was at my parents' place watching the fire destroy all the turbines on Elk Heights.

Posted by: Wierzbowski formerly QID at July 07, 2023 11:22 AM (OgrpQ)

108 94 >>...and humpback whale migration and monarch butterfly migration. The fact that Audubon and the Sierra Club are silent speaks volumes.
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Both are controlled by Manhattan bankers. Does this explain why they don't speak?

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 07, 2023 11:22 AM (fWTJL)

109 Farmers have severe, heavy regulations on how they must treat and work with the land, but you know these Solyndras just can do whatever the hell they want without any concern for drainage, wetlands, erosion, etc.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 07, 2023 11:23 AM (0hOvj)

110 Hmmm.

"Shovel-ready projects."
"Green-collar jobs."

Where have I heard all this before?

And the people pushing it are always utterly technically ignorant.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 07, 2023 11:23 AM (eOEVl)

111 The obvious solution to protect against hail damage is to cover those solar arrays with a roof.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

********

And you could save wear and tear on your wind turbines by decoupling the blades from the turbine...

Duh!!

Posted by: Muldoon at July 07, 2023 11:23 AM (kXYt5)

112 I just drove through Kansas. I liked it. It doesn't have mountains, but it has cities, towns, people, shops and attractions. Unlike the hole that is East Colorado.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 07, 2023 11:22 AM (xcxpd)
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Northeastern CO up near Nebraska - is very close to "wasteland" territory.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 11:23 AM (t0OGg)

113 68 Clap your hand and BELIEVE!!!
Posted by: Same thing. Just way more expensive. at July 07, 2023 11:15 AM (dE+9W)
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How does one clap a single hand?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 11:15 AM (t0OGg)

https://youtu.be/8FU6gQWnetQ

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 07, 2023 11:23 AM (ynpvh)

114 Big Duh!

Posted by: Muldoon at July 07, 2023 11:23 AM (kXYt5)

115 I just drove through Kansas. I liked it. It doesn't have mountains, but it has cities, towns, people, shops and attractions. Unlike the hole that is East Colorado.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 07, 2023

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No mountains, but it does have at least one canyon site, Kanopolis State Park near Salina. Looks like a mini-Palo Duro Canyon in photos.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2023 11:24 AM (J2vNu)

116 Always claiming just a few billion more in government money and we will surely make a technological breakthrough. ...
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 07, 2023 11:22 AM (Ia8dk)
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It's like cold fusion. It's always just 10 years away.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 11:24 AM (t0OGg)

117 In a recent article titled "Volkswagen Scakes Back EV Production," the head if VW's Emden plant dropped this nugget:

“We are experiencing strong customer reluctance in the electric vehicle sector,” he told the North West newspaper.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at July 07, 2023 11:24 AM (wBpKf)

118 110 Hmmm.

"Shovel-ready projects."
"Green-collar jobs."

Where have I heard all this before?

And the people pushing it are always utterly technically ignorant.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 07, 2023 11:23 AM (eOEVl)

Shovels may be needed to clean up the broken glass from hail damage and the pieces of broken fan blades ...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 07, 2023 11:24 AM (ynpvh)

119 Ask the zen koan guy.
Posted by: Mushin no shin at July 07, 2023 11:18 AM (dE+9W)

Is he the guy who thinks it's always beginning?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 07, 2023 11:19 AM (xcxpd)

One thinks it's beginning but thinking may also be the ending. Three pounds of flax. I also fix transmissions.

Posted by: Zen Koan Express and Auto Repair at July 07, 2023 11:24 AM (dE+9W)

120 For some period in the last two years, the Ionic 5 was the "hot" EV to own and was in short supply. Many ~~buyers~~ suckers paid a big dealer markup for the privilege of unexpected failures

FIFY

Posted by: P.T. Barnum at July 07, 2023 11:25 AM (xttsV)

121 CBS Nightly News, last night, led off with the news that yesterday was the 'hottest day ever recorded on earth'. We are all definitely going to die.
Posted by: javems at July 07, 2023 11:21 AM (mqO7V)

It 83 degrees in Houston right now in the middle of July. ( it's raining so that helps. If they can fudge facts and context so can I)

Posted by: polynikes at July 07, 2023 11:25 AM (IivFw)

122 Strip mines are now remade into pretty nice landscapes, after the (carefully engineered) strip mining is done.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 07, 2023 11:25 AM (Cus5s)

123 "This hail was extreme, you know, the size and probably the speed of it. So, I don't know that we would give up on it just yet"

Probably the speed?

IOW: we haven't figured the speed thing out yet.

Clue: small but at smae speed will do the same thing.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at July 07, 2023 11:25 AM (FxH7T)

124 113 68 Clap your hand and BELIEVE!!!
Posted by: Same thing. Just way more expensive. at July 07, 2023 11:15 AM (dE+9W)
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How does one clap a single hand?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 11:15 AM (t0OGg)

https://youtu.be/8FU6gQWnetQ

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 07, 2023 11:23 AM (ynpvh)

Also have seen folks clap single hand on their legs. The solutions are manifold.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 07, 2023 11:25 AM (ynpvh)

125 It's like cold fusion. It's always just 10 years away.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Cold fusion? No. Regular fusion has actual physics behind it, and we are making progress. It, and space-based solar will generate most energy in 50 years.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 07, 2023 11:25 AM (eOEVl)

126 Never looked at windmills the same way once I found about bird chopping. Alaskan oil drillers get crucified for a single animal kill, but windmills can slice and dice all day

And confuse whaies.

Posted by: JM in Florida -- now in Illinois at July 07, 2023 11:25 AM (9RvnV)

127 112 I just drove through Kansas. I liked it. It doesn't have mountains, but it has cities, towns, people, shops and attractions. Unlike the hole that is East Colorado.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 07, 2023 11:22 AM (xcxpd)
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Northeastern CO up near Nebraska - is very close to "wasteland" territory.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 11:23 AM (t0OGg)

I was shocked at the difference between West Kansas and East Colorado. Kansas was alive, maintained, had people and shops. Colorado, despite having the same terrain was abandoned with horrible roads and no facilities. Colorado apparently doesn't give a shit about East Colorado. Also Denver is a hellhole now.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 07, 2023 11:25 AM (xcxpd)

128 How does one clap a single hand?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 11:15 AM (t0OGg)

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https://a.co/d/6zuPBIC

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 07, 2023 11:26 AM (RIvkX)

129 It can be lunch time

Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2023 11:26 AM (ycZeb)

130 The only "shovel-ready" projects I've seen at the government level is filling potholes. Even then, it gets done badly for some definition of done.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 07, 2023 11:27 AM (oGiDo)

131 Birds, Wales... is there anything wind turbines can't kill?

Posted by: Inogame at July 07, 2023 11:27 AM (53oGX)

132
World War I generals >>> Renewable and EV advocates

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 07, 2023 11:27 AM (MoZTd)

133 CBS Nightly News, last night, led off with the news that yesterday was the 'hottest day ever recorded on earth'. We are all definitely going to die.
Posted by: javems at July 07, 2023 11:21 AM (mqO7V)

Heh, I was in the field in 29 Palms in 94. It hit 131 and the brass forgot to black flag us. Our medic went to sick bay with heat stroke.

Posted by: Wierzbowski formerly QID at July 07, 2023 11:27 AM (OgrpQ)

134 Also have seen folks clap single hand on their legs. The solutions are manifold.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 07, 2023 11:25 AM (ynpvh)

Hamboning could save your life someday!

Posted by: Rigby at July 07, 2023 11:27 AM (dE+9W)

135 Big Duh!
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I don't think we'll ever reach Peak Duh!

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at July 07, 2023 11:28 AM (Vwz3I)

136 My question has always been, won't taking energy from the wind... which is a major driver of weather... and turning into electricity... shipping it hundreds of miles from country to city...

Then using said electricity, which almost ALWAYS has a by product of creating heat... not only change weather patterns, but create hotter cities?

Thus, changing the climate?

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 07, 2023 11:28 AM (oHd/0)

137 The obvious solution to protect against hail damage is to cover those solar arrays with a roof.

And I'm not even an engineer.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 07, 2023 11:08 AM (PHmov)
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Some German aristocrat did that once, to prove a point. He was looking at the "green" energy incentives and found that the load-shifting billing (pay less for electricity at night than during the day) was only on the consumption side of things. If you supplied solar power to the grid, you were paid at a fixed rate.

The off-peak price was so much lower than the retail solar purchase price that it created an arbitrage opportunity.

He threw up a cheap steel building on his land and filled it with solar panels and high-output lights. The lights were fed from one utility tie-in, and the solar panels were connected to another. He made bank for a couple of months until the power company caught on to what he was doing. He stopped as soon as they found it. It was never a money-making scheme, he did it to demonstrate the insane stupidity of the energy policy.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 11:28 AM (t0OGg)

138 130 The only "shovel-ready" projects I've seen at the government level is filling potholes. Even then, it gets done badly for some definition of done.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 07, 2023 11:27 AM (oGiDo)

Like my kidneys; two sit around doing nothing while the 3rd does all the work. At least the quality of the work is better.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 07, 2023 11:28 AM (ynpvh)

139 Well how did you become king then?
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy

King TB I: The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Tonypete, was to carry Excalibur. That is why I am your king.

I have to secure the okay from ZOD though.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 07, 2023 11:28 AM (OjHyA)

140 131 Birds, Wales... is there anything wind turbines can't kill?

Posted by: Inogame at July 07, 2023 11:27 AM (53oGX)

Let's see if they can work on Climate "Scientists"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 07, 2023 11:28 AM (ynpvh)

141 Regular fusion has actual physics behind it, and we are making progress. It, and space-based solar will generate most energy in 50 years.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 07, 2023 11:25 AM (eOEVl)

I am pretty sure than in 50 years we will be burning dried dung for our energy.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 07, 2023 11:28 AM (aD39U)

142 Late 70s in USAF in the Denver area and thought it wasn't a good city then. Drug addicts in the streets, Hookers all over the place

Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2023 11:29 AM (ycZeb)

143 re 110: "And the people pushing it are always utterly technically ignorant."

reminds of when we learned that ocasio-crackpot didn't know what the garbage disposal unit in her d.c. apt sink was.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 07, 2023 11:29 AM (B1FKF)

144 Trump lost an average 62,500 jobs a mnth during his time in the White House, and in the 3 years before Covid he averaged just +190,000. Most importnantly, wage growth beat expectations. Wage growth was +4.4% over the last 12 months, which is higher than inflation was.
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For the last 29 months, Biden's entire term so far, real wage growth has gone down every single month. This DUmbass DUchebag is thoroughly indoctrinated.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 07, 2023 11:29 AM (17s+e)

145 I guess we're done saving the whales.

Posted by: red speck at July 07, 2023 11:29 AM (0Id0S)

146 Heh, I was in the field in 29 Palms in 94. It hit 131 and the brass forgot to black flag us. Our medic went to sick bay with heat stroke.
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There was a Marine Bn that called liberty after a CAX in 29 Palms. Three days later they found out they left two Marines in the desert. They were dead. One was found with his head in a hole he had dug.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 07, 2023 11:29 AM (fWTJL)

147 CBS Nightly News, last night, led off with the news that yesterday was the 'hottest day ever recorded on earth'. We are all definitely going to die.
Posted by: javems at July 07, 2023 11:21 AM (mqO7V)

Funny.... yesterday was one of the coolest days on record, for the date. We are usually 10 to 15 degrees hotter.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 07, 2023 11:29 AM (oHd/0)

148 133 CBS Nightly News, last night, led off with the news that yesterday was the 'hottest day ever recorded on earth'. We are all definitely going to die.
Posted by: javems at July 07, 2023 11:21 AM (mqO7V)

Heh, I was in the field in 29 Palms in 94. It hit 131 and the brass forgot to black flag us. Our medic went to sick bay with heat stroke.

Posted by: Wierzbowski formerly QID at July 07, 2023 11:27 AM (OgrpQ)

Was so hot here in San Diego, we hit...74°F.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 07, 2023 11:29 AM (ynpvh)

149 If I wanted to cripple society and make it dependent on the State I can't think of anything I'd likely do different than what our idiot elites are doing right now.

The next big op is going to revolve around a manufactured "energy crisis."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2023 11:29 AM (Q4IgG)

150 Maybe, instead of ugly, unreliable solar and wind, Nebraska could try a NatGas or Nuclear plant. Presto! Reliable and abundant energy in constructed facilities proven weather resistant!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 07, 2023 11:29 AM (x3LaX)

151 EU plus UK weather-dependent renewables installed capacity versus output, 2021:

https://tinyurl.com/4ume98d2

It is lousy. I cannot find US installed vs output renewables data right now, but I expect it's a similar story.

Posted by: Gref at July 07, 2023 11:30 AM (AMIL/)

152 Funny.... yesterday was one of the coolest days on record, for the date. We are usually 10 to 15 degrees hotter.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 07, 2023 11:29 AM (oHd/0)

Should add here in Central Calif... YMMV.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 07, 2023 11:30 AM (oHd/0)

153 ZOD or Zoot??

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at July 07, 2023 11:30 AM (Vwz3I)

154 Also have seen folks clap single hand on their legs. The solutions are manifold.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

I've seen Lizzo clap with no hands.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 07, 2023 11:30 AM (kjOVp)

155 It was never a money-making scheme, he did it to demonstrate the insane stupidity of the energy policy.

Almost all of this kind of policy is done by people with little to no real world practical experience or engineering knowledge. They are great at being a bureaucrat or climbing the government job ladder, but that's about it. But they make the policies and write the laws that we all have to live with.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 07, 2023 11:31 AM (0hOvj)

156 131 Birds, Wales... is there anything wind turbines can't kill?
Posted by: Inogame at July 07, 2023 11:27 AM (53oGX)

Leftism.

Posted by: XTC at July 07, 2023 11:31 AM (UnA8+)

157 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 07, 2023 11:31 AM (7Q7Ca)

158 153 ZOD or Zoot??
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at July 07, 2023 11:30 AM (Vwz3I)

Zod != Zoot

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 07, 2023 11:31 AM (xcxpd)

159
Colorado apparently doesn't give a shit about East Colorado.

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Nevada, California, the CO State legislature and the City of Denver did a yuuuge, luxurious amount of damage to Eastern CO. There's a lot of detail behind how that all worked, but it boils down to disastrous water policy that caused a devastating, protracted drought that destroyed large amounts of farmland and drove many people away permanently.

They are certainly not the only region of CO to be damaged in this manner, and many others outside of water policy. The Front Range Corridor treats the rest of the State with naked contempt when they can be bothered to even acknowledge its existence, which is rarely.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 07, 2023 11:31 AM (oINRc)

160 F*ck you and f*ck your 'green' energy.

Coal and nuke or blow it out your ass.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 07, 2023 11:31 AM (7Q7Ca)

161 133 CBS Nightly News, last night, led off with the news that yesterday was the 'hottest day ever recorded on earth'. We are all definitely going to die.
Posted by: javems at July 07, 2023 11:21 AM (mqO7V)
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I'm so old I remember when they used to teach the earth is substantially cooler now than previously, and so cool that ice has formed at the poles!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 07, 2023 11:32 AM (x3LaX)

162 145 I guess we're done saving the whales.
Posted by: red speck at July 07, 2023 11:29 AM (0Id0S)

Healthy and beautiful at any size, bigot!

Posted by: Lizzo, Tess Holliday, and all the other disgusting obese pigs at July 07, 2023 11:32 AM (dE+9W)

163 Sponge is here! I can relax and post this
( . ) ( . )

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 07, 2023 11:32 AM (xcxpd)

164 I'm late because I savored the content.
We're getting a 48 unit wind farm installed on the coastal bend near me. Financed by a Portland, Oregon company. They are HUGE!!11!!
I predict they will become hurricane magnets with awesome destruction potential.

Posted by: DanMan at July 07, 2023 11:32 AM (DB6tu)

165 154 Also have seen folks clap single hand on their legs. The solutions are manifold.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

I've seen Lizzo clap with no hands.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 07, 2023 11:30 AM (kjOVp)

assless chaps vs chapped ass. Discuss.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 07, 2023 11:32 AM (ynpvh)

166 July 4 here was pretty mild, maybe mid 60s, and lots of rain in the afternoon and evening. The 5th it only reached 59, and it drizzled pretty much all day. Felt like I was in Alaska.

We've had one or two days over 90, which were then followed by cool rainy days.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Offering Lame Jokes Aplenty at July 07, 2023 11:32 AM (xPJvm)

167 152 Funny.... yesterday was one of the coolest days on record, for the date. We are usually 10 to 15 degrees hotter.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 07, 2023 11:29 AM (oHd/0)

Should add here in Central Calif... YMMV.
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This means someone has awoken Cthulhu.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 07, 2023 11:32 AM (fWTJL)

168 There was a Marine Bn that called liberty after a CAX in 29 Palms. Three days later they found out they left two Marines in the desert. They were dead. One was found with his head in a hole he had dug.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 07, 2023 11:29 AM (fWTJL)

Yep, we got that story every CAX safety brief.

Posted by: Wierzbowski formerly QID at July 07, 2023 11:33 AM (OgrpQ)

169 Did someone say Zoot?

https://youtu.be/-z19rlw9Ndk

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 07, 2023 11:33 AM (7Q7Ca)

170 Coal and nuke or blow it out your ass.
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Shit. They're even against hydro except when they want to add its figures to the "Green energy" column.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at July 07, 2023 11:33 AM (Vwz3I)

171 Those 1000 acre solar farms are causing the Earth to heat up, and the wind farms are taking the energy out of the wind, leading to more heating.

Posted by: fd at July 07, 2023 11:34 AM (iayUP)

172 163 Sponge is here! I can relax and post this
( . ) ( . )

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 07, 2023 11:32 AM (xcxpd)

or these?
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Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 07, 2023 11:34 AM (ynpvh)

173 Also have seen folks clap single hand on their legs. The solutions are manifold.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

I've seen Lizzo clap with no hands.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 07, 2023 11:30 AM (kjOVp)

The sound of one gunt flapping.

Posted by: Nauseated Zen Guy at July 07, 2023 11:34 AM (dE+9W)

174 Sponge is here! I can relax and post this
( . ) ( . )
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 07, 2023 11:32 AM (xcxpd)

THIS.....is winning.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 07, 2023 11:34 AM (7Q7Ca)

175 Yep, we got that story every CAX safety brief.
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They cashiered everyone in the chain of command that fucked up the head count. Rightly so.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 07, 2023 11:34 AM (fWTJL)

176 Shit. They're even against hydro except when they want to add its figures to the "Green energy" column.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at July 07, 2023 11:33 AM (Vwz3I)
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Hydro is awesome but you can only ever build so much of it. But they hate hydro now and it isn't considered "renewable" anymore because building reservoirs is bad.

Everything except pointless death and destruction is bad.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 11:34 AM (t0OGg)

177 I don't mind wind and solar (and other more exotic energy production options) as an adjunct to proven forms like coal/gas, hydro and nuclear.

My problem is the reliance on fake-green energy. It's not scalable or reliable, as Buck is pointing out.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 07, 2023 11:02 AM (xcxpd)

Even as an adjunct, you have to have spinning reserves to take up the slack when the wind stops blowing, or clouds shade the solar panels. Or else whole cities can go dark.

The only sensible way to market "green" energy is to put it into the grid as "interruptable" power, and sell it from the grid at a cheap rate as "interruptable power". Use it for space heating, air conditioning, or EV charging; tasks that can tolerate some interruptions. Goes through a separate meter that can be shut off in a heartbeat by the central office, in response to a lack of input from the source.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 07, 2023 11:34 AM (vuylA)

178 CBS Nightly News, last night, led off with the news that yesterday was the 'hottest day ever recorded on earth'

LOL yeah, sure. I love when they make these statements, because they are always based on:

1) erroneous data, like the BBC recording the temperature at an airport runway while jets were landing
2) cherry picked data, which avoids or "adjusts" low end data to match the sensors in hot urban settings
3) data from the northern hemisphere, since there's only a few dozen weather stations south of the equator

Its like the hockey stick graph, it gives them the data they want to show, not the actual information.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 07, 2023 11:34 AM (0hOvj)

179 What the fuck are those?!

Posted by: hillary (')(,) at July 07, 2023 11:34 AM (Vwz3I)

180 What could possibly go wrong?

The scientists behind a new drug says it could regrow missing teeth

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 07, 2023 11:34 AM (FVME7)

181 173 The sound of one gunt flapping.
Posted by: Nauseated Zen Guy at July 07, 2023 11:34 AM (dE+9W)

The sound of diabetes making them deadabetes

Posted by: XTC at July 07, 2023 11:35 AM (UnA8+)

182 saw Plunging Semen open for Cream at the Crocodile

Posted by: REDACTED at July 07, 2023 11:35 AM (us2H3)

183 You know, if we had solar panels, we could shine our lights on them when the batteries die!

Posted by: OceansGate Entertainment, Titan 2.0 Design Team at July 07, 2023 11:35 AM (08CnU)

184 the one thing you must remember about leftists is that htey will almost never admit that there ideas were wrong, only the execution was wrong

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 07, 2023 11:35 AM (B1FKF)

185 This chilly brunette in relatively little clothing is glad she doesn't live next to or downstream of a solar or wind farm:
https://is.gd/LsYzOK

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 11:36 AM (t0OGg)

186 --------
Shit. They're even against hydro except when they want to add its figures to the "Green energy" column.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at July 07, 2023 11:33 AM (Vwz3I)

Owebama shut down multiple coal plants in Texas where they were using some weird shale coal or some such. There's ACRES and ACRES of the stuff and is incredibly clean and efficient. But Owebama, so we're f*cked.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 07, 2023 11:36 AM (7Q7Ca)

187 The Fed's just ok'ed the wind farm off the coast of NJ. Apparently Biden et al hates whales and dolphins. They haven't read the stu dies or they have and they're just so corrupt they don't care

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 07, 2023 11:36 AM (PVx3i)

188 "Some of You Will Have to Die, and That is a Sacrifice We’re Willing to Make"

Fuck you. Let's see who wins a war of attrition.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 07, 2023 11:36 AM (bBdPQ)

189 185 This chilly brunette in relatively little clothing is glad she doesn't live next to or downstream of a solar or wind farm:
https://is.gd/LsYzOK
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 11:36 AM (t0OGg)

Nipples

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 07, 2023 11:36 AM (xcxpd)

190 ... and my eyes (')(,) are up here, faggot.

Posted by: hillary (')(,) at July 07, 2023 11:36 AM (Vwz3I)

191
Don't even get the Denverites started on *Northern* CO, either. That's not even contempt - it's hate. If sometime in the future, the Capitol decided to build death camps and put all those people in cattle cars, it wouldn't particularly surprise me.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 07, 2023 11:36 AM (oINRc)

192 the other great thing about hydro, carbon or nuclear energy production, versus weather-based renewables, is that there is little or no need for expensive and environmentally problematic battery storage on-site.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 07, 2023 11:36 AM (x3LaX)

193 I saw One Gunt Flapping open for GWAR at The Palisades in '98.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 07, 2023 11:36 AM (7Q7Ca)

194 I'm so old I remember when they used to teach the earth is substantially cooler now than previously, and so cool that ice has formed at the poles!

Which is also true. Because there's no baseline temperature of what the earth is supposed to be. There's no golden global average temperature that is "correct" for the planet.

There's only hacks, grifters, and crypto-communists trying to scare people into giving them more money and power.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 07, 2023 11:36 AM (0hOvj)

195 Only in Vegas is 98° considered a cold snap.

Posted by: Muldoon at July 07, 2023 11:13 AM

We were hot in the late '90s.

Posted by: Nick Lachey at July 07, 2023 11:36 AM (60h0q)

196 172 163 Sponge is here! I can relax and post this
( . ) ( . )

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 07, 2023 11:32 AM (xcxpd)

or these?
( o )( o )

( ° )( ° )
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 07, 2023 11:34 AM (ynpvh)

They're all worth looking at at least once

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 07, 2023 11:38 AM (xcxpd)

197 See you later, alligators.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at July 07, 2023 11:39 AM (Vwz3I)

198 They cashiered everyone in the chain of command that fucked up the head count. Rightly so.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 07, 2023 11:34 AM (fWTJL)

There was a mass ass chewing after our medic dropped. He had been racked out next to Humvee in the shade. The shade went away and he almost didn't wake up. Started to get cooked on the rocks. Same week we had brass show up in the field from the Joint Chiefs.

Posted by: Wierzbowski formerly QID at July 07, 2023 11:39 AM (OgrpQ)

199 They're all worth looking at at least once
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 07, 2023 11:38 AM (xcxpd)
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You got that right, tiger!
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Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at July 07, 2023 11:39 AM (t0OGg)

200 Gotta LOVE this bit:

"This hail was extreme, you know, the size and probably the speed of it."

The speed of it ? Dear moron, the "speed" of any falling object, regardless of size is determined by gravity, and is limited by the fluid flow dynamics of air. Regardless of the size of the hail, it is limited to 118 mph.

"pRoBaBLy"

Posted by: deadrody at July 07, 2023 11:40 AM (OeYsY)

201 CNN Co-Host: Biden "Regularly" Sought Censorship On Covid And That’s "Probably What We Should Do"

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Well, truth isn't going to censor itself.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 07, 2023 11:40 AM (FVME7)

202 "This hail was extreme, you know, the size and probably the speed of it."

The speed of it ? Dear moron, the "speed" of any falling object, regardless of size is determined by gravity, and is limited by the fluid flow dynamics of air. Regardless of the size of the hail, it is limited to 118 mph.

"pRoBaBLy"
Posted by: deadrody at July 07, 2023 11:40 AM (OeYsY)
++++
Terminal velocity is white supremacy.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 11:41 AM (t0OGg)

203 re 178: lots of temperature records in australia going back more than 100 years. lots of really hot days more than 100 years ago, too.

tony heller (take out spaces):

https://realclimate science. com/2022/09/hiding-aus tralias-hot-past-4/

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 07, 2023 11:41 AM (B1FKF)

204
They're all worth looking at at least once
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 07, 2023 11:38 AM (xcxpd)

Again........this. Every time.

Theme song: https://youtu.be/vG85g7DvVTs

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 07, 2023 11:41 AM (7Q7Ca)

205 They cashiered everyone in the chain of command that fucked up the head count. Rightly so.
Posted by: Pudinhead

I was going to ask . .

Posted by: Tonypete at July 07, 2023 11:41 AM (OjHyA)

206 They cashiered everyone in the chain of command that fucked up the head count. Rightly so.

I was wondering if that was the case. That was indeed f'd up. Damn.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 07, 2023 11:41 AM (Xrfse)

207 188 "Some of You Will Have to Die, and That is a Sacrifice We’re Willing to Make"

Fuck you. Let's see who wins a war of attrition.
Posted by: Marcus T at July 07, 2023 11:36 AM (bBdPQ)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 07, 2023 11:41 AM (xcxpd)

208 199 They're all worth looking at at least once
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 07, 2023 11:38 AM (xcxpd)
++++
You got that right, tiger!
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Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at July 07, 2023 11:39 AM (t0OGg)

Wow, hog tits.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 07, 2023 11:41 AM (ynpvh)

209 Gotta LOVE this bit:

"This hail was extreme, you know, the size and probably the speed of it."

Everything is "Extreme!" when you're an idiot.

Posted by: t-bird at July 07, 2023 11:41 AM (bt2PN)

210 Gotta LOVE this bit:

"This hail was extreme, you know, the size and probably the speed of it."

The speed of it ? Dear moron, the "speed" of any falling object, regardless of size is determined by gravity, and is limited by the fluid flow dynamics of air. Regardless of the size of the hail, it is limited to 118 mph.

"pRoBaBLy"

Posted by: deadrody at July 07, 2023 11:40 AM (OeYsY)

Terminal Velocity>Terminal Stupidity

Posted by: Wierzbowski formerly QID at July 07, 2023 11:42 AM (OgrpQ)

211 TuCa will be live on Rumble with Russell Brand in 20 minutes

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 07, 2023 11:42 AM (RIvkX)

212 It can be lunch time
Posted by: Skip

Eat Hardy !

(save Laurel for dessert)

Posted by: JT at July 07, 2023 11:42 AM (T4tVD)

213 Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at July 07, 2023 11:39 AM (t0OGg)

Wow, hog tits.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 07, 2023 11:41 AM (ynpvh)

Those are called "hangers" or "bowling pin tits."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 07, 2023 11:42 AM (7Q7Ca)

214 I hate driving by those solar farms where there used to be trees. There are several around here. There is even one where the house we lived in was when we first got married. They bought up all the houses and farms around there and tore them down. Now it's a huge field of black panels. My old buddy Boris the GSD is buried out there.

Posted by: fd at July 07, 2023 11:43 AM (iayUP)

215 Saifedean Amous' take on green energy:

"It's more expensive to buy electricity in California today than it was 10 years ago, and the same is true for Germany. And the more crazy green and hysterical a constituency is, the more their power bills are rising.

"And for the people who think of this as a necessary price to pay, this seems like it's not such a big deal, all right well the price of electricity is going up, that's going to motivate us to switch to pre-industrial technologies, and that's going to heal the planet if we all live like 13th century peasants. But the reality of it is, you look at places in Europe and all over the world, the rising energy means a much harder life.

"It means a much lower chance of surviving winter. It means a much lower productivity. I argue in The Fiat Standard that it really is inflation that is driving this. On the one hand inflation is increasing the nominal price of energy, and so making politicians look bad, and [ . . . ] we see the emergence of these insane pseudosciences over the last 50 years that want to tell people that consuming fossil fuels is bad because it's destroying the planet"

Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2023 11:43 AM (xhaym)

216 Those are called "hangers" or "bowling pin tits."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 07, 2023 11:42 AM (7Q7Ca)

Fried egg hung on a nail

Posted by: Wierzbowski formerly QID at July 07, 2023 11:43 AM (OgrpQ)

217 God I just want a nap. Too many days of getting up early.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2023 11:43 AM (aVq7q)

218 112 . . . Northeastern CO up near Nebraska - is very close to "wasteland" territory.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
__________

Southeastern Colorado has Springfield, where creative things happen.

https://tinyurl.com/3mcjvt6m

Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at July 07, 2023 11:44 AM (gf7Ez)

219
Fried egg hung on a nail
Posted by: Wierzbowski formerly QID at July 07, 2023 11:43 AM (OgrpQ)

I believe I learned about those last week. Otherwise known as the unfortunate 'pancake tits.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 07, 2023 11:44 AM (7Q7Ca)

220 Ever notice that no solar or wind farm ever has some protected species found on the grounds that prohibit its construction?

Ever.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2023 11:44 AM (Q4IgG)

221 The greenest energy source is Nuclear energy but the mentally ill Left won't allow it because reasons and we don't like you !

Posted by: polynikes at July 07, 2023 11:44 AM (IivFw)

222 Geez, dude, tell me something I don't know.

NY Times Spreads Misinfo About Misinfo

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 07, 2023 11:45 AM (FVME7)

223 God I just want a nap. Too many days of getting up early.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2023 11:43 AM (aVq7q)

I've been on a 'staycation' this week. Only slept in one day.....damnit....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 07, 2023 11:45 AM (7Q7Ca)

224 "This hail was extreme, you know, the size and probably the speed of it."

The speed of it ? Dear moron, the "speed" of any falling object, regardless of size is determined by gravity, and is limited by the fluid flow dynamics of air. Regardless of the size of the hail, it is limited to 118 mph.

"pRoBaBLy"
Posted by: deadrody at July 07, 2023

***
To be charitable, maybe they meant the speed at which the hailstorm swept down on them. I was caught in one on I-40 in NM back in 1992. The world went *white.* I pulled off the highway and waited it out. The hail on the car roof sounded like half a dozen drummers auditioning for Metallica. Ten minutes and it was over. I drove cautiously, crunching over ice, crossed a sharp boundary, and was back on dry ice-free pavement.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2023 11:45 AM (J2vNu)

225 How about we build a giant flywheel, maybe several stories high and weighing many tons. Put that thing a vertical mount with a very high gear ratio hooked up to hundreds of treadmills or stationary bicycles. Then we get fat people (an abundant resource), stick them on the devices, have them get the flywheel spinning. After about a week, the flywheel will be spinning nicely, enough to power a small golf cart.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 07, 2023 11:45 AM (MeG8a)

226 Ever notice that no solar or wind farm ever has some protected species found on the grounds that prohibit its construction?

Ever.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2023 11:44 AM (Q4IgG)

"We've noticed......."

-- -- Dead Humpback Whales

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 07, 2023 11:45 AM (7Q7Ca)

227 God I just want a nap. Too many days of getting up early.
Posted by: Dave in Fla

Tell me about it - I have a two yr old with me this week while his parental units are away. He's a great little boy but still . . .

Posted by: Tonypete at July 07, 2023 11:46 AM (OjHyA)

228 192 the other great thing about hydro, carbon or nuclear energy production, versus weather-based renewables, is that there is little or no need for expensive and environmentally problematic battery storage on-site.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 07, 2023 11:36 AM (x3LaX)

I have not heard any Leftists talk about batteries for renewable-generated energy storage in quite a while.

Are they intentionally not talking about these because they no longer plan to build humongous rechargeable battery banks across the country?

Or are they building some but intentionally not talking about them because the costs and the very need for huge battery banks for green energy would turn the public against green energy?

Posted by: Gref at July 07, 2023 11:46 AM (AMIL/)

229 We've just been to stingy!

Zelensky Blames Bogged Down Ukrainian Counteroffensive On Delay In Receiving Critical Weapons And Shortage Of Artillery Shells

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 07, 2023 11:46 AM (FVME7)

230 Southeastern Colorado has Springfield, where creative things happen.

******

My high school football coach hailed from there. Last name was Springer. We called him "Boing Boing". Not to his face.

Posted by: Muldoon at July 07, 2023 11:47 AM (kXYt5)

231 Peanutbutter Kandykakes

Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2023 11:47 AM (ycZeb)

232 This pretty, smiling woman in a modest swimsuit isn't chilly, and is perfectly comfortable not being a boobette or nipplette as the case may be:

https://tinyurl.com/3p2864j5

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 07, 2023 11:47 AM (Keyt1)

233 Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 07, 2023 11:45 AM (MeG8a)

Rick and Morty episode . One of my favorites.

Posted by: polynikes at July 07, 2023 11:48 AM (IivFw)

234 It's not as if Siemens is new to.lsrge scale manufacturing. If they can screw up, anybody can.
Illinois has wind farms. But it also has nukes.

Posted by: JM in Florida -- now in Illinois at July 07, 2023 11:48 AM (+ui5a)

235 Lukashenko says Prigozhin is in Russia. I doubt it, but there lots of implications.

https://tinyurl.com/musrv746

Posted by: Archimedes at July 07, 2023 11:48 AM (eOEVl)

236 Let’s finish with a math question

Where am I? I thought I was on AoSHQ ...

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 07, 2023 11:49 AM (a3Q+t)

237 I like boobs

Posted by: ballistic at July 07, 2023 11:49 AM (oXNqT)

238 Zelensky Blames Bogged Down Ukrainian Counteroffensive On Delay In Receiving Critical Weapons And Shortage Of Artillery Shells
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 07, 2023 11:46 AM (FVME7)

and the mine fields, but mostly...

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 07, 2023 11:49 AM (PY/t0)

239
"Lumpkin Solar"

Was this named after Tom Bombadil's pony, Fatty Lumpkin?

At least they're moving on from unicorns

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 07, 2023 11:49 AM (5pZqO)

240
"[W]e see the emergence of these insane pseudosciences over the last 50 years that want to tell people that consuming fossil fuels is bad because it's destroying the planet"

I'm told by my betters that religion holds back progress and by freeing ourselves of these superstitions, we can enjoy a more enlightened existence. Except that now that Europe has largely de-Christianized (and de-Judified) itself, the betters are given over to belief in climate apocalypse.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 07, 2023 11:49 AM (MoZTd)

241 I like boobs
Posted by: ballistic at July 07, 2023 11:49 AM (oXNqT)

Boobs are fun.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 07, 2023 11:50 AM (7Q7Ca)

242 And to clarify, an object dropped in air reaches terminal velocity in about 1500 feet. Minimum cloud height is normally about 6500 feet.

Ergo, regardless of the size of any particular bit of hail, it is likely hitting the ground at 118 mph.

So, there is no "probably" about it, this eXtReMe hail was falling at exactly the same speed as any other hail

Posted by: deadrody at July 07, 2023 11:50 AM (OeYsY)

243 This pretty, smiling woman in a modest swimsuit isn't chilly, and is perfectly comfortable not being a boobette or nipplette as the case may be:

https://tinyurl.com/3p2864j5
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 07, 2023

***
She looks as though she is seeing something very pleasant that she didn't expect to see. Like an ice cream truck.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2023 11:50 AM (J2vNu)

244
I like boobs
Posted by: ballistic at July 07, 2023 11:49 AM (oXNqT)

Son, every red-blooded American man likes them.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 07, 2023 11:50 AM (MoZTd)

245 Tearing my hair out for two weeks trying to get an A/C repairman to come out I gave serious thought to a window unit. If casement windows weren't scheduled to be installed next week I'd have done it.

This has been a lovely summer in OK so far.

Posted by: creeper at July 07, 2023 11:50 AM (cTCuP)

246 Posted by: ballistic at July 07, 2023 11:49 AM (oXNqT)

Well, then you're in the right place-no shortage of boobs here.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 07, 2023 11:50 AM (Keyt1)

247 237 I like boobs

Posted by: ballistic at July 07, 2023 11:49 AM (oXNqT)

Here are a couple of perfect Boobies.
https://is.gd/b3UOTg

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 07, 2023 11:50 AM (ynpvh)

248 Hamboning could save your life someday!
Posted by: Rigby
------

[ponders sending Morse via Hambone]

*hmm. could be done*

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 07, 2023 11:51 AM (1vJmm)

249 Son, every red-blooded American man likes them.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 07, 2023 11:50 AM (MoZTd)

Of course, but not every red-blooded man posts them or clicks on the links.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 07, 2023 11:51 AM (Keyt1)

250 Well, I can clap one hand, and I'll bet many of you could, too. If you have longish fingers and have done any work that involved developing hand strength, you can make yourself heard and settle the bar bets.

There is a measurable unit of electrical reluctance. Youse could look it up. Dates from the 1870's.

Dead whale carcasses are a fricking gold mine. Any intelligent NJ enterprise ought to be setting up tri-works on the shore right now. We could run the whole east coast on whale oil, and supply all those third world countries with fertilizer. You'd think Christie would be all in on the blubber market.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 07, 2023 11:51 AM (4PZHB)

251 https://tinyurl.com/3p2864j5

Why the long face ?

Posted by: polynikes at July 07, 2023 11:51 AM (IivFw)

252 Here are a couple of perfect Boobies.
https://is.gd/b3UOTg
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 07, 2023

***
Are their feet really that color naturally?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2023 11:51 AM (J2vNu)

253 ... and that's going to heal the planet if we all live like 13th century peasants. But the reality of it is, you look at places in Europe and all over the world, the rising energy means a much harder life. ...
Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2023 11:43 AM (xhaym)
++++
It also means a lot more pollution. When the little energy you have to cook or keep warm comes from "biomass" (wood, garbage, dung, etc.), your air quality goes down fairly precipitously.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 11:52 AM (t0OGg)

254 She looks as though she is seeing something very pleasant that she didn't expect to see. Like an ice cream truck.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2023 11:50 AM (J2vNu)
++++
LOL.

Great description.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 11:52 AM (t0OGg)

255 One of the charming features of EVs is that their batteries may have a catastrophic failure while you’re driving on the highway. This often leads to a scary conflagration... [Hyundai] has found a less fiery way for its EV customers to enjoy the terror of battery failure while driving on a busy highway.

I'm waiting for the Fe'ral Government DOT to mandate that all passengers riding in an EV wear Nomex suits (similar to NooseCAR)

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 07, 2023 11:52 AM (p8A+W)

256 You'd think Christie would be all in on the blubber market.

He's probably concerned that he would be mistakenly harpooned

Posted by: Chuck C at July 07, 2023 11:53 AM (xttsV)

257
***
Are their feet really that color naturally?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2023 11:51 AM (J2vNu)

THEY ARE WHAT THEY IDENTIFY TO BE!!!!!!

- - - - Blubberous Pink and Purple Haired Harpy Cow Yelling In Your Face

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 07, 2023 11:53 AM (7Q7Ca)

258 252 Here are a couple of perfect Boobies.
https://is.gd/b3UOTg
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 07, 2023

***
Are their feet really that color naturally?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2023 11:51 AM (J2vNu)

They've had some work done

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 07, 2023 11:53 AM (xcxpd)

259
Now I just got an AccuWeather alert that a massive Saharan dust cloud is approaching the US.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 07, 2023 11:54 AM (MoZTd)

260 252 Here are a couple of perfect Boobies.
https://is.gd/b3UOTg
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 07, 2023

***
Are their feet really that color naturally?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2023 11:51 AM (J2vNu)

They ain't called blue-footed boobies for nothing.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 07, 2023 11:54 AM (ynpvh)

261
dry ice-free pavement.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

I'd hazard a guess that pretty much all pavement on this planet is dry ice-free.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 07, 2023 11:54 AM (5pZqO)

262 So Biden has approved supplying Ukraine with cluster bombs and munitions. He really wants to start a war with Russia

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 07, 2023 11:55 AM (PVx3i)

263
They've had some work done
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 07, 2023 11:53 AM (xcxpd)

"She's had so much work done, she can't feel one damn thing you're doing to her."

-- - - Popped Into My Head Earlier Today For Some Reason

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 07, 2023 11:55 AM (7Q7Ca)

264 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2023 11:50 AM (J2vNu)

I'm given up clicking on the boobettes or the famed actresses who amazingly!! wear sexy stuff for film shoots, but unlike many of the modestly dressed woman, the boobettes often look like they're about to go to the electric chair or their mother just died. I guess that is the sultry look.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 07, 2023 11:55 AM (Keyt1)

265 And now a word from Gavin Newsom . . .

Gavin Newsom
@GavinNewsom
For the 4th of July, the @GOP would like to remind us all that their patriotic duty is to attempt to strip away your freedom.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 07, 2023 11:55 AM (FVME7)

266 And I'm not even an engineer.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 07, 2023 11:08 AM

We saw the picture of your shelving in the First World Problems thread, remember? ;-)

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 07, 2023 11:56 AM (a3Q+t)

267 Now I just got an AccuWeather alert that a massive Saharan dust cloud is approaching the US.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 07, 2023 11:54 AM (MoZTd)

I have read that Biden has a budget entry for "blocking the sun" so, maybe they're working on it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 07, 2023 11:56 AM (7Q7Ca)

268 261
dry ice-free pavement.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

I'd hazard a guess that pretty much all pavement on this planet is dry ice-free.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 07, 2023 11:54 AM (5pZqO)

Yeah, commas are sometimes important.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 07, 2023 11:56 AM (ynpvh)

269 The speed of it ? Dear moron, the "speed" of any falling object, regardless of size is determined by gravity, and is limited by the fluid flow dynamics of air. Regardless of the size of the hail, it is limited to 118 mph.

What about downdrafts? Those things have slammed airliners into the ground.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 07, 2023 11:56 AM (p8A+W)

270 won't be so bad in winter when you have ten people sharing a bed.
Posted by: gnats local 678

Well, as long as it's ME and nine supermodels, that would not be so intolerable....I guess.
My wife might think it totally unacceptable, though.

Posted by: Barnacle Bill the sailor at July 07, 2023 11:56 AM (vcOmj)

271 The scientists behind a new drug says it could regrow missing teeth
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

*********

*rolls the dice*

"Mama needs a new pair of chews!!!"

Posted by: Muldoon at July 07, 2023 11:56 AM (kXYt5)

272
Gavin Newsom
@GavinNewsom
For the 4th of July, the @GOP would like to remind us all that their patriotic duty is to attempt to strip away your freedom.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 07, 2023 11:55 AM (FVME7)

Because removing homo porn from elementary schools is an evil thing to do.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 07, 2023 11:56 AM (7Q7Ca)

273 271 The scientists behind a new drug says it could regrow missing teeth
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

*********

*rolls the dice*

"Mama needs a new pair of chews!!!"

Posted by: Muldoon at July 07, 2023 11:56 AM (kXYt5)

Does the report say WHERE the teeth are grown?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 07, 2023 11:57 AM (ynpvh)

274 I have read that Biden has a budget entry for "blocking the sun" so, maybe they're working on it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 07, 2023 11:56 AM (7Q7Ca)
---
I believe that plan was submitted by a "C.M. Burns."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 07, 2023 11:57 AM (YIVH2)

275 just scams like Solyndra.......wait a minute. They named their company after a stripper.

Posted by: Eromero at July 07, 2023 11:57 AM (/knpl)

276 Gavin Newsom
@GavinNewsom
For the 4th of July, the @GOP would like to remind us all that their patriotic duty is to attempt to strip away your freedom.

These people just say anything divisive and hateful no matter how much of a lie it is. No filters. Ever.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 07, 2023 11:57 AM (p8A+W)

277
I'm given up clicking on the boobettes or the famed actresses who amazingly!! wear sexy stuff for film shoots, but unlike many of the modestly dressed woman, the boobettes often look like they're about to go to the electric chair or their mother just died. I guess that is the sultry look.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 07, 2023 11:55 AM (Keyt1)

Wow. Guess I missed that run of photo links.......Phew......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 07, 2023 11:57 AM (7Q7Ca)

278 I love the failed alternative photos.

could be a band name: Failed Alternate

Posted by: sTevo at July 07, 2023 11:58 AM (8i+57)

279
These people just say anything divisive and hateful no matter how much of a lie it is. No filters. Ever.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 07, 2023 11:57 AM (p8A+W)

And they're NEVER held to account. EVER.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 07, 2023 11:58 AM (7Q7Ca)

280 They ain't called blue-footed boobies for nothing.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 07, 2023 11:54 AM (ynpvh)

They earn side money stomping grapes.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 07, 2023 11:58 AM (yFSxo)

281 How about we build a giant flywheel, maybe several stories high and weighing many tons. Put that thing a vertical mount with a very high gear ratio hooked up to hundreds of treadmills or stationary bicycles. Then we get fat people (an abundant resource), stick them on the devices, have them get the flywheel spinning. After about a week, the flywheel will be spinning nicely, enough to power a small golf cart.
Posted by: gourmand
-----------

Beacon Energy:

"Flywheels fail at energy project"
https://tinyurl.com/y5qdfh4y

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 07, 2023 11:58 AM (0v4YR)

282 I'm given up clicking on the boobettes
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 07, 2023 11:55 AM

But you still click on the boobrons, right?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 07, 2023 11:58 AM (a3Q+t)

283 Now I just got an AccuWeather alert that a massive Saharan dust cloud is approaching the US.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 07, 2023 11:54 AM (MoZTd)
---
All that dust probably won't do wind turbines any favors...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 07, 2023 11:58 AM (YIVH2)

284 You'd think Christie would be all in on the blubber market.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 07, 2023 11:51 AM (4PZHB)

No way. It's kinda like Parkinson's law. As supply rises and prices drop, consumption will rise until it finds equilibrium, and consumers seek out MOAR SUPPLY.

And when the price is right, Christie becomes about ten thousand nite-lites.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 07, 2023 11:59 AM (oINRc)

285 I'm given up clicking on the boobettes or the famed actresses who amazingly!! wear sexy stuff for film shoots, but unlike many of the modestly dressed woman, the boobettes often look like they're about to go to the electric chair or their mother just died. I guess that is the sultry look.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 07, 2023 11:55 AM (Keyt1)
++++
For some reason, models are usually told to scowl or sneer instead of smile.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 11:59 AM (t0OGg)

286 Solar and wind have been replacing farmland along the Carolina coast. The biggest wind farm in my district was installed around a prison. As far as I know none of the prisoners have managed to file a lawsuit.

Yet.

Posted by: Nearsighted Cyclopes at July 07, 2023 11:59 AM (am630)

287 For civilization survival in the electronic age, nuclear is the way to go. The most dangerous scheme is to eliminate powered personal transportation. People are lot easier to "control" when they're fixed in one place with no effective means of escape. And if they are stone-cold broke.

Posted by: mrp at July 07, 2023 11:59 AM (rj6Yv)

288 Gavin Newsom
@GavinNewsom
For the 4th of July, the @GOP would like to remind us all that their patriotic duty is to attempt to strip away your freedom.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 07, 2023 11:55 AM (FVME7)

Keep in mind, he posted a pic of himself standing in front of a display in a book store that had books he claimed were 'banned' so.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 07, 2023 11:59 AM (7Q7Ca)

289 >Tearing my hair out for two weeks trying to get an A/C repairman to come out I gave serious thought to a window unit. If casement windows weren't scheduled to be installed next week I'd have done it.

Drop $500 for a portable unit.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 07, 2023 11:59 AM (44ww/)

290 She looks as though she is seeing something very pleasant that she didn't expect to see. Like an ice cream truck.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Or Mike Lindell inside her bathroom cabinet.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 07, 2023 11:59 AM (kjOVp)

291 So Biden has approved supplying Ukraine with cluster bombs and munitions. He really wants to start a war with Russia
Posted by: Smell the Glove

I did indeed see this somewhere...

"A Small Nuclear War might slow down Global Warming"

Posted by: Barnacle Bill the sailor at July 07, 2023 11:59 AM (vcOmj)

292 I've seen Lizzo clap with no hands.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus

Wrong kind of clap. And my prayers if you've seen hers.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at July 07, 2023 11:59 AM (FxH7T)

293 “We are experiencing strong customer reluctance in the electric vehicle sector,” he told the North West newspaper.

That's some authentic corporate gibberish right there.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 07, 2023 12:00 PM (nfrXX)

294 Meanwhile... as they know we don't have the ammunition to do anything...

Iran is getting froggy in the Gulf. They have taken at least one merchant ship in international waters, and a Navy Destroyer fired warning shots to warn them off from 2 others.

If the Gulf goes hot, expect oil prices to skyrocket...

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 07, 2023 12:00 PM (oHd/0)

295 Keep in mind, he posted a pic of himself standing in front of a display in a book store that had books he claimed were 'banned' so.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 07, 2023 11:59 AM (7Q7Ca)
++++
Any book not in an elementary school library is "banned."

I am pretty sure that the bible is a "banned book" by their standards...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 12:01 PM (t0OGg)

296 *rolls the dice*

"Mama needs a new pair of chews!!!"
Posted by: Muldoon at July 07, 2023 11:56 AM

Technically, Las Vegas craps protocol is you proclaim that *before* you roll the dice.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at July 07, 2023 12:01 PM (a3Q+t)

297
Zelensky Blames Bogged Down Ukrainian Counteroffensive On Delay In Receiving Critical Weapons And Shortage Of Artillery Shells
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 07, 2023 11:46 AM (FVME7)

The longer it goes, the longer everybody gets their 10%, including him.

That's the play. Even if Ukraine possessed a secret superweapon that could end the war in an instant, it wouldn't get used til the last nickel was squeezed out.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 07, 2023 12:01 PM (oINRc)

298 I've seen Lizzo clap with no hands.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus

Did someone say clap?

Posted by: Bill Clinton at July 07, 2023 12:01 PM (7Q7Ca)

299 English born Douglas Murray-who now lives in America castigates the leftist dolts who p*** on the 4th of July.

https://nypost.com/author/douglas-murray/

I like Douglas Murray. He doesn't see being gay -and he is gay-as a reason for pride and coined a wonderful expression, "I'm so over rainbow."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 07, 2023 12:01 PM (Keyt1)

300
Snood

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 07, 2023 12:01 PM (MoZTd)

301 Wrong kind of clap. And my prayers if you've seen hers.
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at July 07, 2023 11:59 AM (FxH7T)

When her hams clap together, they play "Stormy Weather", and lightning shoots out of her ass.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 07, 2023 12:02 PM (yFSxo)

302 Coke head nood

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2023 12:02 PM (zNt41)

303
I am pretty sure that the bible is a "banned book" by their standards...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 12:01 PM (t0OGg)

They DO want it removed from schools.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 07, 2023 12:02 PM (7Q7Ca)

304 customer reluctance... could be another band name.

Posted by: sTevo at July 07, 2023 12:02 PM (8i+57)

305 272
Gavin Newsom
@GavinNewsom
For the 4th of July, the @GOP would like to remind us all that their patriotic duty is to attempt to strip away your freedom.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 07, 2023 11:55 AM (FVME7)

Because removing homo porn from elementary schools is an evil thing to do.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 07, 2023 11:56 AM (7Q7Ca)

Says the guy who stripped Californians of their civil rights for 2 years.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 07, 2023 12:02 PM (oHd/0)

306 This is great. At the DM:

A wannabe robber had an awkward encounter when he tried to hold up an Atlanta nail salon, but failed miserably as the staff and customers ignored his pleas to get on the floor and give him all their money.
The defeated robber decided to abort mission when he realized his hopes of walking out with cash were fruitless.
He then stood in the middle of the store looking hopeless as he took one last look around before giving up and walking out empty-handed.

Posted by: fd at July 07, 2023 12:02 PM (iayUP)

307 GavinNewsom
For the 4th of July, the @GOP would like to remind us all that their patriotic duty is to attempt to strip away your freedom.

Says the guy who locked down his state tighter than Fort Knox. And then went out to fancy dinners with his friends.

Posted by: polynikes at July 07, 2023 12:03 PM (FO8S3)

308
strong customer reluctance

"Hey! Us, too!"

-- Tranhauser-Busch, proud brewer of Tranhauser Lite, the Champagne of Bothered Beers

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 07, 2023 12:03 PM (5pZqO)

309 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 11:59 AM (t0OGg)

It seems to convey-"I don't need to be with you, you dolt." which doesn't seen like an appealing way to advertise.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 07, 2023 12:03 PM (Keyt1)

310 Consumer-scale solar generators are very useful and storage batteries are getting cheaper. The CIGS solar panels are becoming mainstream and that's a good thing. I'm installing a DC-DC battery charging system for my truck, so I'll have some sun-independence while I'm driving from point A to point B.

Posted by: mrp at July 07, 2023 12:04 PM (rj6Yv)

311 Terminal velocity is white supremacy.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 11:41 AM (t0OGg)

Terminal velocity is zero.

Posted by: BignJames at July 07, 2023 12:04 PM (AwYPR)

312 Zelensky Blames Bogged Down Ukrainian Counteroffensive On Delay In Receiving Critical Weapons And Shortage Of Artillery Shells

You don't go to war with the weapons you have, you go to war and then hope that someone gives you hand-me-downs.

Posted by: t-bird at July 07, 2023 12:04 PM (08CnU)

313 I can think of three TV series with an exclamation point in the title. Emergency!, Get Christie Love!, and Sledge Hammer! Any others?

Posted by: !!! at July 07, 2023 12:04 PM (T0tUU)

314
Gavin Newsom
@GavinNewsom
For the 4th of July, the @GOP would like to remind us all that their patriotic duty is to attempt to strip away your freedom.

These people just say anything divisive and hateful no matter how much of a lie it is. No filters. Ever.
Posted by: Reuben Hick

In Soviet America the filter is on YOU!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 07, 2023 12:09 PM (63Dwl)

315 [ponders sending Morse via Hambone]

*hmm. could be done*
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 07, 2023 11:51 AM (1vJmm)

Did you do know that the term Ham in Ham radio comes from someone sending morse like they were hamboning?

Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2023 12:14 PM (xhaym)

316 dry ice-free pavement.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
*
I'd hazard a guess that pretty much all pavement on this planet is dry ice-free.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 07, 2023

***
Pavement can be wet and still be ice-free, say after a rain.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2023 12:16 PM (J2vNu)

317 @313 Combat!

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 07, 2023 12:20 PM (4PZHB)

318 Ow, My Balls!

Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2023 12:22 PM (xhaym)

319 228 192 the other great thing about hydro, carbon or nuclear energy production, versus weather-based renewables, is that there is little or no need for expensive and environmentally problematic battery storage on-site.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 07, 2023 11:36 AM (x3LaX)

I have not heard any Leftists talk about batteries for renewable-generated energy storage in quite a while.

Are they intentionally not talking about these because they no longer plan to build humongous rechargeable battery banks across the country?

Or are they building some but intentionally not talking about them because the costs and the very need for huge battery banks for green energy would turn the public against green energy?
Posted by: Gref at July 07, 2023 11:46 AM (AMIL/)

I remember some buzz a few years ago about using hydro as an energy storage means for "renewables".

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf A2E6, Easy 6 Titanium Enhanced at July 07, 2023 12:37 PM (xX1Pc)

320 I shake my head at the projections / prospects of developing offshore wind farms. I know there are some turbines out there, but the prognosticators for offshore wind do not seem to realize how vicious and rough and destructive the marine environment is.

As a construction cost manager, my adage was "when you say 'offshore' you need to add three zeros to your cost estimates."

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at July 07, 2023 12:42 PM (K58O6)

321 Most of the issues revolve around Siemens Gamesa's (SGREN.MX) 108 gigawatt (GW) onshore turbine fleet, where the group has discovered quality issues in certain components, including rotor blades and bearings.

Siemens Energy said that 15%-30% of the fleet could be affected by the problems, which were exposed during a review which noted "abnormal vibration behaviour of some components" and unspecified problems around product design.

Posted by: SMOD at July 07, 2023 01:15 PM (RHGPo)

322
That part of kNebraska is Hail Central. It's almost as if the builders didn't consult a hail atlas...oh, they didn't? that's on brand.

Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie at July 07, 2023 01:21 PM (1hM1d)

323 How does one clap a single hand?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023

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Robert Heinlein's Friday had the answer to the question, "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" "Turn on recorder. Clap with one hand. Play back the result."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2023 11:17 AM (J2vNu)

There's a famous Rockford Files episode where he teams up with a new age girl who keeps spouting stuff like that and when they find the Guru who ran off with the funds she keeps defending the Guru slaps her in the face. Rockford says "that's the sound of one hand clapping"

Posted by: Oldcat at July 07, 2023 02:34 PM (eoQWY)

324 won't be so bad in winter when you have ten people sharing a bed.
Posted by: gnats local 678

Well, as long as it's ME and nine supermodels, that would not be so intolerable....I guess.
My wife might think it totally unacceptable, though.
Posted by: Barnacle Bill the sailor at July 07, 2023 11:56 AM (vcOmj)

You might find it unacceptable yourself if she rallies all 9 supermodels onto her side.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 07, 2023 02:38 PM (eoQWY)

325 Regular fusion has actual physics behind it, and we are making progress. It, and space-based solar will generate most energy in 50 years.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 07, 2023 11:25 AM (eOEVl)

I am pretty sure than in 50 years we will be burning dried dung for our energy.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 07, 2023 11:28 AM (aD39U)

Lots of progress burning through big grants, zero progress in producing energy. The estimates that they "nearly break even" for a few microseconds or whatever these days don't include the power needed to run the lasers and magnets and to heat up the medium beforehand.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 07, 2023 02:41 PM (eoQWY)

326 Here are a couple of perfect Boobies.
https://is.gd/b3UOTg
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 07, 2023

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Are their feet really that color naturally?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2023 11:51 AM (J2vNu)

They tend to name them after feet color "blue footed booby" so probably yes.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 07, 2023 02:45 PM (eoQWY)

327 White people in Western Europe affirmatively choosing to starve brown and black people in other parts of the world seems a little racist.

Precisely the MO with DDT. White people banned it, brown people died of malaria.

Nothing new under the sun.

Posted by: dad29 at July 07, 2023 04:44 PM (dPePg)

328 “New forms of failure” is an apt tagline for the entire Biden Administration.

Posted by: Dodd at July 07, 2023 04:54 PM (3MHsC)

329 BIRDS YES WINDTURBINES NO

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