Here is another article demonstrating unequivocally how SUVs, coal fired power plants, internal combustion engines, and your normal, everyday energy wasting and consuming behavior of non-third-world people have totally F’d up the climate.
Yep, the science is settled. If not for humans, there never would be climate change.
NOT !!
Did anyone else listen to the fusion press conference? It was interesting after the politicians shut up.
Neo, here’s an article about the horrific censorship of conservatives by PayPal. You are truly dancing with the devil by your use of them for contributions for your website.
At the very least, withdraw whatever money you have with them quickly. They can arbitrarily close your account and lock up the assets for months.
Nice picture. I have two high windows in my remodeled bathroom, with blue bottles and a clear glass container filled with colored glass beads. They make wonderful rainbows on the driveway outside and in the room in the early morning when the sun shines through them.
Love the photo. That was before I noticed it was Big Sur. Great wood texture & glass colors. Are the short glass things light bulb diffusers or possibly elec. insulators?
You can kinda see the ocean out there. Probably taken from an elevation of several hundred feet or more.
Bob Wilson:
Thanks. I do withdraw my money quickly now.
TommyJay:
Thanks. Yes, it was from pretty high up. I don’t know what the short glass things are. I think I was in a restaurant or store.
At a guess, they may be high voltage insulators. They are shaped about right.
Those short glass things look like insulators, used on power lines.
My power engineer husband says those white things, and also the small blue one above and on the left, are old-fashioned power line insulators. Most of them have been changed out for newer materials, but you can still see some on electric lines. Newer ones are polymeric and less susceptible to damage, and are also cheaper.
“A “small number” of U.S. military forces are performing onsite inspections of weapons caches in Ukraine to ensure military aid to Kyiv is being properly accounted for, a senior U.S. defense official told journalists earlier this week.”
“The defense official said there have been “several” such inspections, but they did not specify how many U.S. personnel there are in Ukraine and where the inspections were performed. Similar inspections were carried out prior to the war, but they were suspended after the Russian invasion commenced on February 24.?
“It is unclear what prompted the decision to resume onsite inspections. There have been unverified reports alleging the misappropriation of Western aid, including purported black market transactions and even instances of Western-supplied arms being sold to Russian-affiliated actors by Ukrainian intermediaries.”
Well, at least we’re doing something. Next would be inspectors finding out how much of the billions of dollars sent for humanitarian aid has ended up in Swiss bank accounts/under the mattresses of corrupt Ukrainian politicians.
“In Florida, it is against the law to mislead and misrepresent the efficacy of a drug.
So, today, I’m announcing a petition to the Supreme Court of Florida to impanel a statewide grand jury to investigate any wrongdoing with respect to the COVID-19 vaccines.”
I was in the grocery yesterday when they ran a recorded announcement over the speakers about the importance of protecting health this winter by getting a booster. Boosters avail in their pharmacy. I know that the manufacturers have been given immunity (apparently even for fraudulent statements?). But does that extend to those who push the jabs like pharmacies?
I did not listen to the press conference on fusion but unfortunately, it’s a lot of hype.
If you have any kind of physics or engineering background you can see the hole in the so-called breakthrough. Here’s the key part of a good article about it
>For the first time, albeit briefly, they induced a fusion reaction that produced “net energy,” i.e., the reaction yielded more energy than contained in the laser beams used to fry the fuel pellet.
>While the “net energy” achievement is big for scientists, it’s not a “massive step” for power engineers. Why? We need to account for the grid energy required for powering those lasers. Doing so more than wipes out the net gain of 20%. Each unit of laser energy put into the fuel pellet gobbled 200 units of grid energy. A lot of work needs to be done.
>Not least, materials scientists and manufacturing engineers will have to come up with breakthroughs for fabricating the fusion fuel pellets, millions of which will be needed per year per reactor. Right now, each single jewel-like fuel pellet is hand-crafted and costs about $1 million.
Neo has proffered no opinions on the late Donna Butterworth.
Thanks all. Powerline insulators. I don’t think I’ve seen those in use since perhaps the 60’s or 70’s.
______
each single jewel-like fuel pellet is hand-crafted and costs about $1 million.
Didn’t think of that. Laughable.
I saw Sec. Granholm claim that fusion energy will be free from radioactivity problems. Whaddaya think physics guy? Not!
Another modest drop in the inflation rate reported this morning followed by a short lived rally in the markets.
I heard Kevin Hassett deliver a seemingly smart analysis and prognosis for the economy. He thinks inflation will drop relatively quickly into the 4 – 5% range, but that it will stick there for some time until employers stop hiring so much and some employees lose their jobs and the unemployment rate goes up.
He sees the Fed funds rate going to 6%. Ouch.
Have you seen anything that has only gone up 7%
The only reason Granholm can say that is because she knows damn well nobody is anywhere close to a commercial application, and in the meantime its a way to funnel money.
And press releases like the one for the Livermore experiment are why ‘fusion is the power source of the future… and always will be.’ We’ve been told that we’re almost there for longer than I’ve been alive. I’m convinced that the actual goal for Livermore and its ilk are farming tax dollars and academic prestige rather than producing anything beyond a headline once or twice a decade.
TommyJay. Yes fusion has a radiation problem. the excess energy of the most common reaction (deuterium-tritium) is carried away by high energy neutrons. These have the capability to transmute the materials in the surrounding structures to become radioactive and special measures have to be made to reduce this problem. Here’s what Wikipedia says
Multiple approaches have been proposed to capture the energy that fusion produces. The simplest is to heat a fluid. The commonly targeted D-T reaction releases much of its energy as fast-moving neutrons. Electrically neutral, the neutron is unaffected by the confinement scheme. In most designs, it is captured in a thick "blanket" of lithium surrounding the reactor core. When struck by a high-energy neutron, the blanket heats up. It is then actively cooled with a working fluid that drives a turbine to produce power.
Another design proposed to use the neutrons to breed fission fuel in a blanket of nuclear waste, a concept known as a fission-fusion hybrid. In these systems, the power output is enhanced by the fission events, and power is extracted using systems like those in conventional fission reactors.[9]
Kari Lake has a hearing today in her election lawsuit.
If she can convince the judge that ballots that were initially rejected for failing signature verification, but were counted anyway without going through the curing process, she should succeed in getting the judge to allow the envelopes to be examined.
An additional part of her suit alleges that ballots were added that don’t have proper chain of custody.
Notice that the Obama judge initially rejected the suit and sanctioned her lawyers for what he called a frivolous and partisan suit. The chance of justice is exceedingly small, but Lake vows to take the suit to the SC, if she can’t get relief.
Back to fusion, I find it incredibly amusing that fusion reactors, nuclear reactors, coal and oil burning power plants all generate electricity using the same technology that was developed in the late 1700’s and 1800’s. All these power sources are to produce heat to turn water into steam to push turbines to make electricity. So the modern world runs on steam and has for 200 years.
This is the level of lawfare being waged against anyone in the Trump sphere.
Headline: “N. Carolina AG to weigh charges in Meadows voter fraud case””
“The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation said it has submitted to state prosecutors the findings of its voter fraud probe into Mark Meadows, a former White House chief of staff to President Donald Trump, who was simultaneously registered to vote in North Carolina and two other states earlier this year.
It seems Mark Meadows was registered to vote and did vote in North Carolina in 2020. He moved to Virginia and registered to vote there in 2021, and then bought property in South Carolina and registered to vote there in 2022.
It seems Mark Meadows was registered to vote and did vote in North Carolina in 2020. He moved to Virginia and registered to vote there in 2021, and then bought property in South Carolina and registered to vote there in 2022.
Unless he attempted to vote in more that one state simultaneously, this is a nonsense complaint. About 5% of the population changes their state of residence in a typical year. And, of course, there are states who do not remove relict entries in their voter rolls.
Brain E:
I see you are focused on corruption in Ukraine now. How quaint. Ukraine has corruption problems no doubt as well as a slightly larger problem of Roosia actively trying to dismember it. But then Vlad has decided that Ukraine doesn’t really constitute a nation, a culture, or a people; just lapsed or debased or Satanized Russians. Or haven’t you paid attention to that either?
Brain E:
Some more homework for you; an interview with a British volunteer who fought in Ukraine (against the Roosians) by Lindybeige, a YouTube historian:
Time period was early in the conflict. You undoubtably will relish his description of incidents of incompetence, corruption, and criminality that he describes. Which, wait for it, is a unchanging feature of war. Another thing you may not have realized.
Higher ed apparatchik writes a short piece the point of departure of which is an assertion he knows damned well is nonsense. You could call him a liar, but his reaction would likely be that you were trash talking him. The people in charge of institutions in this country lie like ordinary people breathe.
Re: Nuclear fusion
Bob Wilson:
I’m beating my own drum, but I put some effort into the comment linked below, making a similar point to yours:
At this point I’m pretty disillusioned with big budget magnets-lasers-D-T fusion reactors (Tokamaks). When the energy (and expenses, as you point out) are fully accounted for, that process needs to be improved by a factor on the order of 1000x to provide the power we need.
The current incremental improvements aren’t going to get us there. We need some fundamental breakthroughs to make the Tokamak approach work … if it can. Absent those, Tokamak is just a gravy train for some fusion researchers, which offers little benefit to the world.
Someday, somehow, we may crack fusion, but in the meantime we need better alternatives to Tokomaks — fission or fusion.
Unless the NC Attorney General has evidence that Mark Meadows voted in multiple places in a single federal election he’s got no case. I have moved a lot and have probably been registered in two states multiple times. I’ve never voted anywhere other than at my current residential address. By the way, the NC AG is a Democrat, and quite a partisan one.
the imput is greater than the output because the power it takes to fuse hydrogen atoms,
The sun and hydrogen bombs work fine.
The problem with fusion is controlling the reaction so its power can be used, as opposed to incinerating everything in the vicinity.
Well, that was why I tuned in. The news releases yesterday and the day before were pretty cryptic. I wanted to know if something fundamental/theoretical was being applied that was new. It wasn’t in case you were wondering. Better engineering is what it was. Better capsule – thicker (that was a bit of a surprise), and a bit more perfect, which is saying something. And better symmetry of the incoming energy waves. Everyone seemed a bit surprised at the output vs input, which I thought was interesting.
Interesting interview by Tulsi Gabbard with Tucker Carlson. It’s queued up to where “Tucker… outline(s) a conversation with representative Mike McCaul after the Texas republican and incoming Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee described Carlson as an agent of Russia. When Carlson got into an argument with McCaul over the accusation, McCaul went on to tell Carlson his intelligence community briefers were the ones who provided the information.”
The best posture is to disbelieve most of what the intelligence community says.
Alas…so much BETRAYAL…sigh….
So much DOUBLE- and TRIPLE- and QUADRUPLE- crossing…sigh…
So much SUBTERFUGE…sigh…
…and so much more to come…!!
“Decent Joe Biden” indeed!!
Not that BETRAYAL is anything new, mind you.
What IS new is BETRAYAL with a smiling, charming, beneficial, moralizing face!
Hold on! That’s not new, either.
Let’s rephrase, then:
What IS new is BETRAYAL as the conscious, intentional, altruistic, patriotic, over-arching POLICY of the United States Government…toward its own citizens…and—its “purported”, it must be stated—“allies”.
(And so, “Decent ‘Joe Biden’ indeed!!”…in its appropriately, if slightly, edited format…)
+ Bonus (in the spirit of the current “wise-guy” zeitgeist):
“Beware the Do-Gooders;
“How a new class of capitalists couched their profit-seeking in the language of social justice and altruism”— https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/beware-do-gooders
H/T Powerline blog.
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Here is another article demonstrating unequivocally how SUVs, coal fired power plants, internal combustion engines, and your normal, everyday energy wasting and consuming behavior of non-third-world people have totally F’d up the climate.
https://www.sciencealert.com/mysterious-patterns-span-the-arabian-desert-and-we-may-finally-know-why
Yep, the science is settled. If not for humans, there never would be climate change.
NOT !!
Did anyone else listen to the fusion press conference? It was interesting after the politicians shut up.
Neo, here’s an article about the horrific censorship of conservatives by PayPal. You are truly dancing with the devil by your use of them for contributions for your website.
https://www.thefp.com/p/what-the-hell-happened-to-paypal
At the very least, withdraw whatever money you have with them quickly. They can arbitrarily close your account and lock up the assets for months.
Nice picture. I have two high windows in my remodeled bathroom, with blue bottles and a clear glass container filled with colored glass beads. They make wonderful rainbows on the driveway outside and in the room in the early morning when the sun shines through them.
Hmm
https://twitter.com/LeeSmithDC/status/1601988947839963136?cxt=HHwWgMDSobudtLssAAAA
Love the photo. That was before I noticed it was Big Sur. Great wood texture & glass colors. Are the short glass things light bulb diffusers or possibly elec. insulators?
You can kinda see the ocean out there. Probably taken from an elevation of several hundred feet or more.
Bob Wilson:
Thanks. I do withdraw my money quickly now.
TommyJay:
Thanks. Yes, it was from pretty high up. I don’t know what the short glass things are. I think I was in a restaurant or store.
At a guess, they may be high voltage insulators. They are shaped about right.
Those short glass things look like insulators, used on power lines.
My power engineer husband says those white things, and also the small blue one above and on the left, are old-fashioned power line insulators. Most of them have been changed out for newer materials, but you can still see some on electric lines. Newer ones are polymeric and less susceptible to damage, and are also cheaper.
“A “small number” of U.S. military forces are performing onsite inspections of weapons caches in Ukraine to ensure military aid to Kyiv is being properly accounted for, a senior U.S. defense official told journalists earlier this week.”
“The defense official said there have been “several” such inspections, but they did not specify how many U.S. personnel there are in Ukraine and where the inspections were performed. Similar inspections were carried out prior to the war, but they were suspended after the Russian invasion commenced on February 24.?
“It is unclear what prompted the decision to resume onsite inspections. There have been unverified reports alleging the misappropriation of Western aid, including purported black market transactions and even instances of Western-supplied arms being sold to Russian-affiliated actors by Ukrainian intermediaries.”
Well, at least we’re doing something. Next would be inspectors finding out how much of the billions of dollars sent for humanitarian aid has ended up in Swiss bank accounts/under the mattresses of corrupt Ukrainian politicians.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/us-forces-deployed-ukraine-fight-weapons-smuggling-205682
Gotta LOVE DeSantis!!
He tweeted:
“In Florida, it is against the law to mislead and misrepresent the efficacy of a drug.
So, today, I’m announcing a petition to the Supreme Court of Florida to impanel a statewide grand jury to investigate any wrongdoing with respect to the COVID-19 vaccines.”
I was in the grocery yesterday when they ran a recorded announcement over the speakers about the importance of protecting health this winter by getting a booster. Boosters avail in their pharmacy. I know that the manufacturers have been given immunity (apparently even for fraudulent statements?). But does that extend to those who push the jabs like pharmacies?
I did not listen to the press conference on fusion but unfortunately, it’s a lot of hype.
If you have any kind of physics or engineering background you can see the hole in the so-called breakthrough. Here’s the key part of a good article about it
https://nypost.com/2022/12/13/scientists-have-made-a-breakthrough-in-fusion-but-dont-get-carried-away/
>For the first time, albeit briefly, they induced a fusion reaction that produced “net energy,” i.e., the reaction yielded more energy than contained in the laser beams used to fry the fuel pellet.
>While the “net energy” achievement is big for scientists, it’s not a “massive step” for power engineers. Why? We need to account for the grid energy required for powering those lasers. Doing so more than wipes out the net gain of 20%. Each unit of laser energy put into the fuel pellet gobbled 200 units of grid energy. A lot of work needs to be done.
>Not least, materials scientists and manufacturing engineers will have to come up with breakthroughs for fabricating the fusion fuel pellets, millions of which will be needed per year per reactor. Right now, each single jewel-like fuel pellet is hand-crafted and costs about $1 million.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hleua1qYI5U
Neo has proffered no opinions on the late Donna Butterworth.
Thanks all. Powerline insulators. I don’t think I’ve seen those in use since perhaps the 60’s or 70’s.
______
each single jewel-like fuel pellet is hand-crafted and costs about $1 million.
Didn’t think of that. Laughable.
I saw Sec. Granholm claim that fusion energy will be free from radioactivity problems. Whaddaya think physics guy? Not!
Another modest drop in the inflation rate reported this morning followed by a short lived rally in the markets.
I heard Kevin Hassett deliver a seemingly smart analysis and prognosis for the economy. He thinks inflation will drop relatively quickly into the 4 – 5% range, but that it will stick there for some time until employers stop hiring so much and some employees lose their jobs and the unemployment rate goes up.
He sees the Fed funds rate going to 6%. Ouch.
Have you seen anything that has only gone up 7%
The only reason Granholm can say that is because she knows damn well nobody is anywhere close to a commercial application, and in the meantime its a way to funnel money.
And press releases like the one for the Livermore experiment are why ‘fusion is the power source of the future… and always will be.’ We’ve been told that we’re almost there for longer than I’ve been alive. I’m convinced that the actual goal for Livermore and its ilk are farming tax dollars and academic prestige rather than producing anything beyond a headline once or twice a decade.
TommyJay. Yes fusion has a radiation problem. the excess energy of the most common reaction (deuterium-tritium) is carried away by high energy neutrons. These have the capability to transmute the materials in the surrounding structures to become radioactive and special measures have to be made to reduce this problem. Here’s what Wikipedia says
Oh
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1602744409770012673?cxt=HHwWgsCtoZHji74sAAAA
Kari Lake has a hearing today in her election lawsuit.
If she can convince the judge that ballots that were initially rejected for failing signature verification, but were counted anyway without going through the curing process, she should succeed in getting the judge to allow the envelopes to be examined.
An additional part of her suit alleges that ballots were added that don’t have proper chain of custody.
Notice that the Obama judge initially rejected the suit and sanctioned her lawyers for what he called a frivolous and partisan suit. The chance of justice is exceedingly small, but Lake vows to take the suit to the SC, if she can’t get relief.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2022/12/13/huge-development-in-kari-lakes-election-lawsuit-n1653242
Back to fusion, I find it incredibly amusing that fusion reactors, nuclear reactors, coal and oil burning power plants all generate electricity using the same technology that was developed in the late 1700’s and 1800’s. All these power sources are to produce heat to turn water into steam to push turbines to make electricity. So the modern world runs on steam and has for 200 years.
This is the level of lawfare being waged against anyone in the Trump sphere.
Headline: “N. Carolina AG to weigh charges in Meadows voter fraud case””
“The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation said it has submitted to state prosecutors the findings of its voter fraud probe into Mark Meadows, a former White House chief of staff to President Donald Trump, who was simultaneously registered to vote in North Carolina and two other states earlier this year.
It seems Mark Meadows was registered to vote and did vote in North Carolina in 2020. He moved to Virginia and registered to vote there in 2021, and then bought property in South Carolina and registered to vote there in 2022.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/n-carolina-ag-to-weigh-charges-in-meadows-voter-fraud-case/ar-AA15eGon?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=08d30abbd39541e081f222e7d4ba913b
It seems Mark Meadows was registered to vote and did vote in North Carolina in 2020. He moved to Virginia and registered to vote there in 2021, and then bought property in South Carolina and registered to vote there in 2022.
Unless he attempted to vote in more that one state simultaneously, this is a nonsense complaint. About 5% of the population changes their state of residence in a typical year. And, of course, there are states who do not remove relict entries in their voter rolls.
Brain E:
I see you are focused on corruption in Ukraine now. How quaint. Ukraine has corruption problems no doubt as well as a slightly larger problem of Roosia actively trying to dismember it. But then Vlad has decided that Ukraine doesn’t really constitute a nation, a culture, or a people; just lapsed or debased or Satanized Russians. Or haven’t you paid attention to that either?
Brain E:
Some more homework for you; an interview with a British volunteer who fought in Ukraine (against the Roosians) by Lindybeige, a YouTube historian:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TCbD4WBqPg4
Time period was early in the conflict. You undoubtably will relish his description of incidents of incompetence, corruption, and criminality that he describes. Which, wait for it, is a unchanging feature of war. Another thing you may not have realized.
Cheers, Brain E.
https://www.educationaladvisors.com/higher-ed-is-a-public-good-lets-fund-it-like-one/
Higher ed apparatchik writes a short piece the point of departure of which is an assertion he knows damned well is nonsense. You could call him a liar, but his reaction would likely be that you were trash talking him. The people in charge of institutions in this country lie like ordinary people breathe.
Re: Nuclear fusion
Bob Wilson:
I’m beating my own drum, but I put some effort into the comment linked below, making a similar point to yours:
https://www.thenewneo.com/2022/12/12/open-thread-12-12-22/#comment-2657211
At this point I’m pretty disillusioned with big budget magnets-lasers-D-T fusion reactors (Tokamaks). When the energy (and expenses, as you point out) are fully accounted for, that process needs to be improved by a factor on the order of 1000x to provide the power we need.
The current incremental improvements aren’t going to get us there. We need some fundamental breakthroughs to make the Tokamak approach work … if it can. Absent those, Tokamak is just a gravy train for some fusion researchers, which offers little benefit to the world.
Someday, somehow, we may crack fusion, but in the meantime we need better alternatives to Tokomaks — fission or fusion.
Unless the NC Attorney General has evidence that Mark Meadows voted in multiple places in a single federal election he’s got no case. I have moved a lot and have probably been registered in two states multiple times. I’ve never voted anywhere other than at my current residential address. By the way, the NC AG is a Democrat, and quite a partisan one.
the imput is greater than the output because the power it takes to fuse hydrogen atoms,
The sun and hydrogen bombs work fine.
The problem with fusion is controlling the reaction so its power can be used, as opposed to incinerating everything in the vicinity.
Well, that was why I tuned in. The news releases yesterday and the day before were pretty cryptic. I wanted to know if something fundamental/theoretical was being applied that was new. It wasn’t in case you were wondering. Better engineering is what it was. Better capsule – thicker (that was a bit of a surprise), and a bit more perfect, which is saying something. And better symmetry of the incoming energy waves. Everyone seemed a bit surprised at the output vs input, which I thought was interesting.
Interesting interview by Tulsi Gabbard with Tucker Carlson. It’s queued up to where “Tucker… outline(s) a conversation with representative Mike McCaul after the Texas republican and incoming Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee described Carlson as an agent of Russia. When Carlson got into an argument with McCaul over the accusation, McCaul went on to tell Carlson his intelligence community briefers were the ones who provided the information.”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/12/13/incoming-republican-house-foreign-affairs-chairman-calls-tucker-carlson-an-agent-of-russia-based-on-dc-intel-briefing/
The best posture is to disbelieve most of what the intelligence community says.
Alas…so much BETRAYAL…sigh….
So much DOUBLE- and TRIPLE- and QUADRUPLE- crossing…sigh…
So much SUBTERFUGE…sigh…
…and so much more to come…!!
“Decent Joe Biden” indeed!!
Not that BETRAYAL is anything new, mind you.
What IS new is BETRAYAL with a smiling, charming, beneficial, moralizing face!
Hold on! That’s not new, either.
Let’s rephrase, then:
What IS new is BETRAYAL as the conscious, intentional, altruistic, patriotic, over-arching POLICY of the United States Government…toward its own citizens…and—its “purported”, it must be stated—“allies”.
(And so, “Decent ‘Joe Biden’ indeed!!”…in its appropriately, if slightly, edited format…)
So where were we? Oh yes, BETRAYAL (our old friend; our dear nemesis!)…
Here’s an—almost unbelievable—article on how Nasser (of all people), by, um, trodding on British—and CIA—toes, saved the Jewish State!
“The Failed British Double-Cross of Israel”—
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/failed-british-double-cross-israel
(Read it to the end…)
+ Bonus (in the spirit of the current “wise-guy” zeitgeist):
“Beware the Do-Gooders;
“How a new class of capitalists couched their profit-seeking in the language of social justice and altruism”—
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/beware-do-gooders
H/T Powerline blog.