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if you burn at night, they only see the flames, not the black smoke rolling

besides, not my burn hole, I just contributed the 6 tires.

Out here the kids will occasionally burn one inside of a Volcano pit, as a prank. 

https://apnews.com/article/environment-and-nature-science-985338e4396ae3e9370bb42cdf9d8c92


There’s a 40% chance that the world will get so hot in the next five years that it will temporarily push past the temperature limit the Paris climate agreement is trying to prevent, meteorologists said.

A new World Meteorological Organization forecast for the next several years also predicts a 90% chance that the world will set yet another record for the hottest year by the end of 2025 and that the Atlantic will continue to brew more potentially dangerous hurricanes than it used to.

For this year, the meteorologists say large parts of land in the Northern Hemisphere will be 1.4 degrees (0.8 degrees Celsius) warmer than recent decades and that the U.S. Southwest’s drought will continue.

The 2015 Paris climate accord set a goal of keeping warming to a few tenths of a degree warmer from now. The report said there is a 40% chance that at least one of the next five years will be 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than pre-industrial times — the more stringent of two Paris goals. The world is already 1.2 degrees Celsius (2.2 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than pre-industrial times.

I think the climate is in fact warming.  It's not as easy to measure as one might think of course.  But the odds we blow past any 1.5°C warming are nearly 100%.  The sun might enter a down cycle and attenuate that.  Measuring mean global T is not easily and reliably done.

I think a good bit of the warming is artificial.  I also think that is not certain, but probable.  And I think there is little we can do about it at this point.

For those of you new to the topic, putting a wind turbine on a platform that floats is a technologically difficult exercise, but the payoff is huge in terms of rapid decarbonization. Floating platforms can be tethered to the seabed in deeper waters and/or farther from shore, which takes advantage of prime wind speeds while minimizing opposition from coastal communities.

The green hydrogen angle comes in for squeezing the most available juice possible from wind turbines. Hydrogen is a zero emission fuel that can be combusted to run turbines, or deployed in a fuel cell to generate electricity. At the present time, though, almost all of the global hydrogen supply comes from natural gas. That’s going to change because low-cost renewable energy has upended the economics of hydrogen production, making it financially feasible to “split” hydrogen gas from water with an electrical current.


https://cleantechnica.com/2021/06/01/floating-wind-good-floating-wind-green-hydrogen-better/

“Bowling Green, Kentucky, has been the only place Corvettes have been built for more than 30 years, and they are one of our leading commercial and industrial accounts,” said Dewayne McDonald, president and CEO of Warren Rural Electric Cooperative. “So, when General Motors made a commitment to renewable power, we were happy to help make it happen.”

Many of the GM assembly plant’s nearly 1,400 employees are members of the Bowling Green-based distribution co-op. Meeting the energy needs of the 1.7 million-square-foot plant is vital to the co-op-served community. That provided ample incentive for Warren RECC to work closely with the Tennessee Valley Authority to help meet GM’s goal of going carbon-neutral by 2040.

A nearly 175-megawatt solar and storage project under development about 25 miles away from the plant has the surplus capacity to meet the automaker’s needs, and the energy produced will start flowing through the co-op’s distribution lines in 2023.


https://www.electric.coop/kentucky-co-op-solar-power-corvette-factory?utm_medium=email&utm_source=rasa_io&PostID=31080150&MessageRunDetailID=5417863976

Minnesota is supposed to be a frozen hellhole, yet 97 yesterday, 99 and counting today, and 90s through the rest of the week.

There is a strong correlation between those who like blast-furnace heat and those who have never had to do anything outside in it.