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Recent content by Tuur

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    Winter storm begins: Millions face catastrophic ice and heavy snow

    Climate: Noun. Meteorological conditions prevalent in a particular region. Weather: Noun. Observed meteorological conditions in a particular region, especially those that disagree with climate predictions.
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    Winter storm begins: Millions face catastrophic ice and heavy snow

    Scroll down to the admission that ice is a problem. Yes, it states that some systems have heating. It doesn't say where the electricity to heat them comes from. That's not necessarily from the windmill itself, as that could be problematic should the wind speed be too low or the windmills...
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    Europe needs to calm down about Greenland

    The issue here isn't what restrictions a country puts on content made within that country; it's when it insists on its laws extending to other countries. The UK can require all women wear burkas for all I care, but the moment they say that women in the US must follow the same law, they can take...
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    Winter storm begins: Millions face catastrophic ice and heavy snow

    Don't get me started with an eyewitness account of post Helene again. Just don't. For one thing I'm weary of repeating it and for another no one seems to listen to it, anyway. When it started looking like this storm was going to miss us, we started getting up crews to send to other utilities as...
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    Winter storm begins: Millions face catastrophic ice and heavy snow

    FWIW, 1/2 inch of ice on a flat surface is 1 inch on a power line or limb.
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    Winter storm begins: Millions face catastrophic ice and heavy snow

    It used to be that installing a whole house generator cost roughly the same as retrofitting a fireplace. If you go the fireplace route one day, look at wood stoves. They're more efficient. But avoid those double-lined metal flues. There have been installation problems with them that have caused...
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    Winter storm begins: Millions face catastrophic ice and heavy snow

    Solar panels and windmills don't work very well coated with ice. You might get some output from panels if the sun's out., but windmills are out for the duration. Some references online pooh-pooh ice on panels, but freezing rain will stick on power lines and windshields, and those solar panels...
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    U.S. Armada Deployed: Trump Moves Massive Fleet Into the Gulf

    The understanding was that if NATO gets nuked, the US nukes fly. Maybe the UK nukes, too. France...well France has nukes but France is France and not part of NATO. Charles de Gaulle famously told Dean Rusk he wanted US troops off French soil and Dean Rusk asked "Including the dead ones?" Long...
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    FCC cracking down on liberal talk-shows not giving equal airtime to GOP guests

    For time. back in the day the noon news broadcasts on the radio would start with a beep at 12 noon. Then I found WWV Fort Collins, Colorado, and never really looked back. As a bonus, at a certain time after the hour during hurricane season, they gave tropical systems forecasts. Maybe they still...
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    FCC cracking down on liberal talk-shows not giving equal airtime to GOP guests

    Snerk. That's not what I've seen in the mornings while waiting to get the weather. And that's before the usually shallow network morning "news" show comes on. But all the network morning "news" shows are shallow, so...
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    Europe needs to calm down about Greenland

    OTOH, you've equated bloggers with drug lords. Tell you what: Try to enforce UK law in the US and see what happens.
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    Cow astonishes scientists with rare use of tools

    FWIW: Cows will figure out how to turn on a spigot and get water. Horses, too. Problem is that while they figure out how to turn a spigot on, they never turn it off...
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    Winter storm begins: Millions face catastrophic ice and heavy snow

    The curious thing is that I've seen more local snowfalls with measurable amounts in the latter half of my life than I have in the first half. As for ice storms, I much prefer snow to ice. My first all-nighter was getting the lights back on after an ice storm. OTOH, the last big snowfall we had...