ILSR states community power scorecard gives a letter grade to how the states score on community power. Some states score poorly even though they have changed to renewables. Utilities are greedy and don’t the state to allow the DERs – distributed energy resources, AKA net metering. https://ilsr.org/2022-community-power-scorecard/ Also see California NEM 3.0.
Archive for the ‘Websites’ Category:
2022-02-17 Conspiracy In Online Wellness Communities
Conspiracy theories run rampant in online personal wellness communities. This PBS Newshour article (9 mins) shows how the Disinformation Dozen are corrupting the minds of the vaccine hesitant. There is hope: one of the women they interviewed was an antivaxxer but changed and got out of the cult. No more Qanon, no more conspiracy theories,
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2022-02-12 Climate Investigations Center
This website gives the news about climate change, deniers, climate change lawsuits and more. https://climateinvestigations.org/ Quote << For the past four or five decades, the science has become increasingly clear: the predictions have been borne out by the evidence. Scientists predicted that the world would warm, and it has, at the rate that most models
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2022-01-26 Blindsided By IPCC’s “Perfect Day” Problem
This says we have much shorter time period than IPCC’s “Perfect day” scenarios, which do not account for many other possible tripping points. The result is we may have only 3 to 9 years to make drastic changes or risk human extinction. https://www.joboneforhumanity.org/climate_change_and_the_perfect_day_problem
2021-12-10 Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendell_Berry quotes found in the Activism section: << Also in January 2009, Berry released a statement against the death penalty, which began, “As I am made deeply uncomfortable by the taking of a human life before birth, I am also made deeply uncomfortable by the taking of a human life after birth.”[18] And
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2021-12-08 Screwdriver Discharge Capacitor Test Question
This is one helluva test question. https://www.chegg.com/homework-help/questions-and-answers/15-end-screwdriver-used-discharge-10-microfarad-capacitor-producing-spark-large-instantane-q4497288 I don’t even want to read the answer!
2021-11-25 CNN Fake News, Echo Chambers
Reply FB group Natan Stevéns Why is it that everyone thinks I watch CNN? I don’t have cable TV! You criticize people for watching CNN. But tell us what we should be watching. Most critics are afraid to say what they use for their newsmedia. I think most of them are imprisoned in the echo
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2021-10-30 Wind Turbines And Birds, Eagles
Eagles are being protected by a camera system with artificial intelligence called Identi-Flight that spots birds such as eagles and shuts down the wind turbine until the bird has flown away. Eagles and other animals are threatened by bites from black flies called buffalo gnats. High rainfall causes the flies to hatch early. The huge
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2021-10-17 7 Reasons Why Nuclear Power Is Not The Answer…
Seven Reasons why nuclear power is not the answer https://eu.boell.org/en/2021/04/26/7-reasons-why-nuclear-energy-not-answer-solve-climate-change Quote: << Nuclear advocates claim nuclear is still needed because renewables are intermittent and need natural gas for backup. However, nuclear itself never matches power demand so it needs backup. Even in France with one of the most advanced nuclear energy programs, the maximum ramp
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2021-10-05 Elon’s Battery Con Job Exposed
Many bad accusations made against BESS systems like Tesla’s Megapacks. https://stopthesethings.com/2019/02/11/renewable-storage-myth-busted-elon-musks-great-battery-conjob-exposed/
