The DOE intends to help struggling nuclear power plants to stay online by helping with $6 billion. The utilities want to avoid further costs by shutting down the unprofitable NPPs, often replacing them with gas turbines spewing more CO2. https://www.utilitydive.com/news/doe-to-offer-6-billion-to-keep-struggling-nuclear-reactors-online/618919/
Archive for February, 2022:
2022-02-19 Blinking LEDs Can Look Like They’re On Steady
Blinking LEDs are usually reset by the voltage dropping to zero then coming back on. So if one LED, probably the fastest one, blinks first, all the rest in the series string will be reset, then comeback on again when the fastest one comes back on. So you have essentially a single blinking LED and
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2022-02-18 NOAA: Sea Level Rising 1 Foot By 2050
The NOAA Report says the sea level may rise up to a foot or more by 2050. This will cause serious flooding in many areas. Populations will have to relocate to higher ground. << …NASA administrator Bill Nelson, who says, “Sea levels are continuing to rise at an alarming rate, endangering communities around the world.
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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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2022-02-16 Opinion Re: VAERS, Covid-19, Vaccines, Vaccination And Hesitancy, Skepticism
This Guardian opinion article is harshly critical of just about everything and everyone having to do with Covid-19, vaccines and their approvals, the pharmaceutical companies, the CDC, and vaccinations, antivaxxers, and official policies. The one item I believe is the most misleading is the paragraph about VAERS, the vaccine adverse event reporting list. The author
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2022-02-16 Solar Desalinator
This low-cost solar desalinator does not have salt build-up. Gives a link to downloadable .PDF research paper. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-28457-8
2022-02-16 Western US Megadrought Worst In 1200 Years
The 22 year long Megadrought that has been plaguing the western US is the worst in 1200 years. It has been made much worse by climate change. << Human-caused climate change is responsible for about 42% of the soil moisture deficit since 2000, according to the study. >> https://6abc.com/worst-megadrought-in-1200-years-caused-by-climate-change-study/11564048/ US drought monitor: https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?west
2022-02-15 Trump’s Dubious Financial Statements
The Mazars accounting firm is cutting ties with Trump Organization. They say his financial statements are dubious. https://youtu.be/csAS4WLvMao I have to feel a bit of satisfaction that Trump’s crooked past is catching up with him.
2022-02-14 Reasons For Musk, Legal, Regulatory Troubles
The headline clickbait says “… Tesla’s current legal and regulatory troubles…” This is nothing out of the ordinary for a company the size of Tesla. The author, and Electrek as a whole, are as much of the problem as “conspiracy theories”. The media draws undue attention to Tesla without drawing attention to the same issues
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2022-02-12 If It’s Too Good To Be True, It Is
Last year I saw an ad on Facebook for 100 USPS Xmas ‘forever’ postage stamps (normally cost 58 cents each) for $39.90. I needed Xmas stamps and yes, I know that the USPS doesn’t sell stamps at discount, but I wanted to take the risk and see if they were selling counterfeit stamps. So I
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