Volunteers build temp bridge that FEMA couldn't.

Or didn't, won't or chose not to. 

HERE's the video. No log or sign in required.

Toss car batteries into the ocean; help make oxygen.

The Drive: Google Tells Search Users It's a Good Idea to Throw Car Batteries Into the Ocean.

Maybe using Quora for featured answers isn't such a good idea after all! 

Quora! 🤣  

This topic still gets new mileage at Chans.

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Electric regret: Almost half of Australian and US EV owners want to go back to a combustion engine.

JoNova: Electric regret: Almost half of Australian and US EV owners want to go back to a combustion engine.

Nearly half of American owners of electric cars want to switch back to traditional cars powered by internal combustion engines, according to a consumer survey released by McKinsey and Co. earlier this month.
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How much longer can the saviours of the world keep trying to force this dead-horse “transition” upon us?

The car manufacturers surely realize they are being forced into a financial dead end.

Salting atmosphere test launched quietly.

Scientific American: Geoengineering Test Quietly Launches Salt Crystals into Atmosphere.

A solar geoengineering experiment in San Francisco could lead to brighter clouds that reflect sunlight. The risks are numerous.

The experiment, which organizers didn't widely announce to avoid public backlash, marks the acceleration of a contentious field of research known as solar radiation modification. The concept involves shooting substances such as aerosols into the sky to reflect sunlight away from the Earth.

The move led by researchers at the University of Washington has renewed questions about how to effectively and ethically study promising climate technologies that could also harm communities and ecosystems in unexpected ways. The experiment is spraying microscopic salt particles into the air, and the secrecy surrounding its timing caught even some experts off guard.
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"The idea of interfering with nature is so contentious, organizers of Tuesday's test kept the details tightly held, concerned that critics would try to stop them," the Times reported. The White House also distanced itself from the experiment, which is being conducted with the cooperation of a Smithsonian-affiliated museum.

"The White House distanced itself from this experiment." Shocker! We know if asked about it, Kareem Abdul-Jean Perrier will, "refer to the University of Washington and the Smithsonian for further details."

"The world is our guinea pig!" These kinds of experiments need to stop.

 

California's next storm may bring 'life-threatening' flooding.

LA Times (Yahoo): 'Prepare now': California's next storm may bring 'life-threatening' flooding.

Officials across Southern California are warning residents to prepare for what could be "life-threatening and damaging flooding" beginning Sunday, as a storm system fueled by a massive atmospheric river brings heavy, sustained rainfall and dangerous waves to an already soaked region.

This storm could dump more than double Thursday's rainfall, which caused significant flooding, road closures and water rescues across the region.

"This is a potentially dangerous situation, and we are urging everyone to be preparing in advance," Ariel Cohen, a National Weather Service meteorologist, said Friday.

Where are the Amish Space Lasers to dry things out?

The Guardian: Would you drink toilet water? California approves wastewater for human consumption.

No, I wouldn't. Environmentalists have fought against, and won, in court cases against the construction of desalination plants. The alternative is drinking their own filtered urine. If only Cali was near a large body of water . . . 

Thank Bill Gates for recycled water from urine and feces. He's been pushing this idea for over ten years ⏬

LifeGate (2015): Bill Gates drinks water distilled from human faeces and urine.

Illegals Complain That Winter Is Too Cold.

Twitchy: Illegals Complain That Winter Is Too Cold Here.

Hit the Twitchy link for more.

Germany blanketed in snow.

LINK

That's not really that bad. Maybe for Germany's weather?

Daily Mail: Flights are cancelled in Germany and Switzerland while avalanche warning hits Austria after snow sparks travel chaos on continent.

Burning Man attendees told to shelter in place.

CNN: Burning Man attendees told to shelter, conserve food and water.

Tens of thousands of people attending the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert are being told to conserve food, water and fuel as they shelter in place in the Black Rock Desert after a heavy rainstorm pummeled the area, festival organizers said.

Attendees were surrounded by thick, ankle-deep mud and organizers halted vehicles from traveling in or out of the festival after heavy rains started saturating the area Friday evening.

Hannah Burhorn, a first-time attendee at the festival, told CNN in a phone interview Saturday the desert sand has turned into thick clay and puddles and mud are everywhere. People are wrapping trash bags and Ziploc bags around their shoes to avoid getting stuck, while others are walking around barefoot.

ABC News: Entrance to Burning Man in Nevada closed due to flooding. Festivalgoers urged to shelter in place.

The entrance will be closed for the remainder of the event, which began on Aug. 27 and was scheduled to end on Monday, according to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, which oversees the Black Rock Desert where the festival is being held.

More than one-half inch of rain is believed to have fallen on Friday at the festival site, located about 110 miles (177 kilometers) north of Reno, the National Weather Service in Reno said. At least another quarter of an inch of rain is expected Sunday.

Organizers urged festivalgoers to conserve their food, water and fuel.

Officials haven’t yet said when the entrance was expected to be opened again.

Conserve fuel? Aren't these the granola-headed, vegan, no fossil-fuels, solar/wind power, anti-establishment crowd?

Oh, not the Burning Man Festival! How Sad! Let's hope they're not trapped there forever 'n ever!

Too Cold, Too Snowy Meme-A-Thon!

How's the weather in your area? Drop a comment!

YES! Bring the pets inside!

Oh noez! Europe is having a Wind Drought. So much for turbine power.

Green Matters: European Wind Turbines at a Standstill Amid an Ongoing "Wind Drought".

But as of recently, barely even a breeze has made its way through the through the winter air.
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"Britain is in the middle of a wind drought — and the timing couldn't have been worse. For several days now, the U.K. and western Europe have been calm, with barely a breeze," Thomas Moore writes for Sky News.

"It is not until Wednesday, or even Thursday, that speeds pick up in Scotland and the North Sea, where most of our wind farms are. That shows in the mix of energy being used in the freezing conditions."

"The risks could increase with global warming," [🤣 - DD] he continues. "Scientists working for the United Nations' intergovernmental panel on climate change have looked at what could happen to wind speeds in future. Even if the world reaches net zero soon after 2050, limiting the rise in temperature, winds will weaken significantly in the northern hemisphere." ["Even if." FFS. Retardicus Maximus. - DD]
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According to Yale Environment 360, the phrase "wind drought" is exactly what it sounds like — it refers to an extended period of time that an area lacks wind, or experiences slower-than-usual wind speeds. In 2021, wind speeds were 15 percent slower than in previous years, making for one of the least windy periods in the U.K. in nearly 60 years.

What are "usual wind speeds"?

Git yer fans out folks, them turbhans ain't gonna spin themselves!

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Biden’s Secret Service rental vehicles burst into flames after he left Nantucket vacation.

FOX News: Biden’s Secret Service rental vehicles burst into flames after he left Nantucket vacation.

President Biden's rented Secret Service vehicles burst into flames in a parking lot Monday, just one day after he left his Nantucket vacation.
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The Secret Service rented five vehicles from Hertz to carry the president and his family, and all five of them caught fire in the parking lot, according to footage first obtained by the Nantucket Current.

Footage shows firefighters spraying down the smoldering remains of one vehicle's engine block. The five vehicles included a Chevy Suburban, Ford Explorer, Infiniti QX80, Ford Expedition, and a Jeep Gladiator.

The vehicles were parked at the Nantucket airport and the blaze reportedly spread to just 40 feet away from the facility's jet fuel tanks. It is currently unknown what caused the fire. Fox News reached out to the  White House for information, but they did not immediately respond.

Biden will blame these fires on his usual go-to perps: Trump, Putin or Climate Change. The truth is probably these vehicles did a self-sacrifice and self-combusted to cleanse themselves of Biden Cooties.

Here's a speculative response from an anonymous message board: 

Biden molested three children in Nantucket over Thanksgiving.

Then the secret service torched Biden's cards [sic] (meant "cars") to hide the DNA evidence.

You can't make this stuff up.

Start looking at missing persons reports in the Nantucket area.

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November 30, 2022 UPDATE:

UK's National Grid retracts panic alert on blackouts and running out of energy.

The Mirror (November 22): National Grid sparks panic after warning of blackouts in alert before cancelling.

National Grid sparked panic this evening after an automated alert said the firm's capacity was "tight" and warned of blackouts - before cancelling it.

The firm put out a warning that homes could experience power issues tonight causing panic at 7pm this evening.

The alert was later cancelled.. [sic] It had originally said there was would be a tight margin when consumption would naturally increase as people come home from work and school.

On Twitter National Grid ESO wrote: "The ESO has now withdrawn the Capacity Market Notice issued at 2:33pm today."

Earlier it wrote: "The ESO is confident that electricity margins are sufficient for this evening. However, a capacity market notice (CMN) has been triggered by the automated system.
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The National Grid issues warnings when supplies are likely to be under pressure. This comes when insufficient power is being generated to supply the demand across the country.

The National Grid website says: "The notices are intended to be a signal that the risk of a System Stress Event in the GB electricity network is higher than under normal circumstances."

One worried person on Twitter wrote: "National grid has apparently announced that its struggling to cope with the amount of energy being used in the UK and we could have a blackout from 7pm tonight. Let’s hope it’s a bunch of b****t and doesn’t happen."

Another added: "So, the National Grid warns about possible blackouts tonight and then cancels the alert...we haven't even had a frost yet."

It comes as National Grid had previously issued a warning to UK households that blackouts could become a reality as winter hits its peak and icy weather bites.

A Panic Test Run? World Governments and Agencies have learned to push that panic button and watch too many freak out and it doesn't take much. "A respiratory virus that has a 99.8% change of survival? Shut down the world, wear a mask, stay six-feet apart from other and WARSHHHHA YOUR HANDS!"

Who Is The National Grid: 

We move electricity round Great Britain’s system to keep homes and businesses supplied with the energy they need 24/7, 365 days a year.

Everything wrong that's happening everywhere is all by design. No one person and no group of people could possibly be so grossly incompetent.

A Constant State of Panic. Not playing along.

Death of the PetroDollar?

Energy Intelligence: Oil Pricing Without Dollars: Is It Possible?

How much does it matter whether oil is priced in dollars? What are the alternatives, and how vulnerable is dollar pricing?  Who would suffer — or gain — most if dollars ceased to be the automatic medium for oil exchange? Those aren’t questions people have thought about much since the so-called “petrodollar” agreements of the mid-1970s. But with Russia already off dollar pricing and relations strained between Washington and Riyadh, they now demand consideration. Such “de-dollarization” of oil may never happen; the world may abandon oil before oil abandons the dollar. But then again it may. A unified replacement, such as the Chinese yuan, isn’t feasible. [OH, I'm not so sure about that! See the RT story at the end of this post. - DD] Market fragmentation — another assault on the globalized world oil did so much to help create — is a more likely result.

Market fragmentation? Maybe. Or maybe, instead, an intentional plan by globalists to destabilize and crush the dollar? They've been working on this for decades. What better commodity to leverage and accomplish this? Petrol, of course! The only other would be the food supply, but the Elites don't care if others starve as long as their HVAC works, they have food and their private jets run.

Trusted Broker: Why is the U.S. Dollar being the world currency?

China and Russia requested a new world currency in March 2009.

RT: Russia and China to abandon dollar in energy trade – Moscow.

The two nations have been promoting settlements in their national currencies.

Energy trade between Russia and China has been steadily growing and is up 64% in monetary terms so far this year, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandr Novak told the Rossiya 24 TV channel on Friday.

His comments followed a meeting of the intergovernmental Russian-Chinese commission on energy cooperation.

“China is our strategic partner in the Asia-Pacific region and generally in trade,” he said, noting that in physical terms the increase was about 10% in supplies of oil, gas, coal, and electricity.

The deputy PM explained that the two countries aim to further develop trade relations, and in particular are working on expanding the share of national currencies in energy transactions.

“We are switching to settlements in rubles and yuan for the energy resources supplied,” Novak said.

"...and the Yuan." Uh-huh. There it is and here we are. But - hey, look over there! Russia and Ukraine! "We" have to stop Russian aggression and give Billions to Ukraine Nazis because..."reasons..."

77" of snow since Thursday and more on the way.

Lake effect snow storm, Western, NY.

Accuweather.

I feel for them.

Climate Expert asked, what should we do with petrochemicals. Expert can't answer so... "You Racist!"

LINK and Thread

He's Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA). She's Raya Salter, a clean energy advocate.

Higgins asked her a perfectly reasonable question. She didn't have an answer. What's the usual response when Liberals can't answer a question? Accuse the other person of being racist, sexist, misogynistic...they default to their favorite "ist", "ism" or "tic".

 

There are no answers because we haven't yet reached technology, with something economical and viable, that allows us to replace petro-based products. Some day, maybe, but not now or in the foreseeable future.

The Former Bronx Bartender and rooftop dancer who pretends she's a relevant member of Congress chimed in with her grandstanding response. She's part of the same committee. When it was her time, she REE'ed about Higgins because she too can't answer his question so..."He Racist! And a Big Meanie!" Scroll down the Twitter link under the above video and somewhere you'll find her "I'm ready for my close-up,"  moment.

The Left conveniently forgets Liberal Senators condescending behavior and derisive treatment when they questioned Amy Coney Barrett.

This cautionary tale from 1978's Teh Science aged badly.

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Lightning strikes near White House. At least 4 in "critical condition."

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BNO News: 4 people in critical condition after apparent lightning strike near White House.

Las Vegas, NM delcares emergency! Less than 50 days of clean water supply. Reason? The fires Biden started.

ABC News (Yahoo Archived): Las Vegas, NM declares emergency, with less than 50 days of clean water supply left.

The city of Las Vegas has declared an emergency over its water supply after the Calf Canyon-Hermits Peak Fire, the largest wildfire in New Mexico  (Oh...the fires started by Biden? - DD)  history, contaminated the Gallinas River. The city relies solely on water from the river, which has been tainted with large amounts of fire-related debris and ash, according to city officials.
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The city is currently relying on reservoirs which, at the current consumption rate, contain less than 50 days worth of stored water, according to Las Vegas Mayor Louie Trujillo.

Ah, those New Mexico fires. Another accomplishment from the Biden Cabal.

Sounds like LV, NM should be buying LOTS of bottled water!

Well, New Mexico, your cosmopolitan Blue counties voted for Biden over Trump by over ten percent. Biden owns those fires and consequently, your lack of water problems. They're his, they're on his watch - no, sadly they are yours, NM. Neither Biden or his Handlers care about you or what you're going through.

Elections have consequences. Maybe keep this in mind in the upcoming 2022 and 2024 elections. Just a suggestion.

UK heatwave triggers national emergency.

The National News (July 16, 2022): Second Cobra meeting called as UK heatwave triggers national emergency.

Londoners urged not travel on Monday and Tuesday with 80 per cent chance record temperature could be set and warning lives are at risk.

BBC (January 28, 2021): Renewable energy overtakes fossil fuels for first time as UK's biggest source of electricity in 2020.

For the first time, renewable energy overtook fossil fuels to be the biggest source of electricity in the UK in 2020.

Wind, solar, bio-energy and hydro (water) power generated a record 42% of UK power last year, while fossil fuels - mostly gas - produced 41%, according to a report by energy experts Ember and Agora Energiewende.

In 2019, renewables generated 37% of the UK's electricity, compared with 45% for fossil fuels.

How's that green, renewable energy working? The AC running good? Better get those child laborers in third-world countries to hurry up and increase their lithium and cobalt production. The Stiff-Upper-Lippers are having a heatwave.

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Update/Addition: Ooof ..hit the BBC link and scroll all the way to the bottom (which I didn't do the first time) and READ THE COMMENTS. They kind of all read like this:

"This is awesome, great news."

"The world will live longer." 🤣🤣🤣

"This is awesome."

"This is great news that renewable energy overtakes fossil fuels."

 I hope these same commenters enjoy their heatwave.

Newest species of fish defined in California.

CNN: California bees can legally be fish.