I used to be so optimistic. I couldn't imagine a person who didn't believe in Good over Evil. I thought of America as a big tent. Now I'm political Parallelist.
Most updated version I have of this chart: last 18,000 years of geomagnetic strength. Clearly visible (from left to right) is the Younger Dryas low, Noah event low (7 ka min), and the modern decline.
Chart two shows the modern decline itself and the free-fall we have been in for the past couple hundred years. We are on the doorstep of rapid climatic changes not seen in thousands of years
26 hours to go... After 30 years and 3 months it's so humbling, and astonishing when you realize there are fewer hours left in your career than the years it covered.
Enlarge to read, or go to the link.
https://t.co/lnZvrjgS7M
It's all about "flash to bang" when it comes to the consequences of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. We have seen the flash, but have yet to feel the bang.
Struggling to wrap my head around this. Tim Tebow gave Congress a map with 338,000+ unique IP addresses in the United States that have traded/shared images of children being sexually abused in the past 6 months and NOBODY is talking about it.
@NickJFreitas@ksorbs I will not only volunteer, I will buy my own wood chipper and pay it's gas and maintenance. Ive got almost 100 vacation days banked.
@grayzoneintel I've lost my Dad and my younger brother in the past 3 months. You never know what each day brings. Call them, Text Them, Hug them every chance you get.
My brother's big thing was to ALWAYS say he loved you at the end of every call... He was wise beyond his years.
Wind and solar look cheap on paper, but only because their true costs are hidden.
Power grids must balance supply and demand every second. Wind and solar cannot do that. Their output follows the weather, which is variable. So every megawatt of wind or solar requires a matching megawatt of reliable backup.
A 100 megawatt wind farm does not replace a 100 megawatt gas plant. The gas plant still has to be built, staffed, fueled, and kept ready at all times.
Consumers are effectively paying for two systems.
But only one is accounted for.
Think of it like hiring a worker who only shows up 30% of the time. The hourly wage looks cheap, but you still need a fully trained backup worker available 24-7 to fill in for the other 70%.
That backup is required and still costs money even when sitting idle. But the extra cost is ignored.
This accounting trick explains why renewables look inexpensive in charts, while electricity prices soar in grids that rely heavily on them.
Globally, the renewable failure is clear.
In 2024, solar supplied just 1.4% of global primary energy. Wind supplied about 1.5%. Fossil fuels still provided around 87%.
This is not a global energy transition. It is a costly experiment played by a handful of Western economies.