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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #826 on: March 25, 2019, 03:28:50 PM »
Why would anyone build RR tracks under water?
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« Reply #827 on: March 25, 2019, 10:59:17 PM »
Regarding the subject of recycling, I think going away from regular plastics for bioplastics and other recyclables while advancing waste-to-energy systems, composting, and anaerobic digestion, is the only real solution. Then, electronic waste and other waste containing metals remains the big issue.

Not to beat a dead horse, but another major study released today shows that most existing coal plants are already uneconomic compared to new wind & solar, even if you have to site the wind or solar plant in the same vicinity (which does reduce the need to invest in new transmission infrastructure, to be sure). Here's one of many articles about it:  https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/25/business/coal-solar-wind-renewable-energy/index.html

Case in point - Michigan's utility that covers most of non metro Detroit is the latest utility phasing out coal for renewables: https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/consumers-energy-to-seek-5-gw-of-solar-by-2030-under-clean-energy-plan#gs.2gu3uh
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #828 on: March 25, 2019, 11:28:00 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on March 25, 2019, 03:28:50 PM
Why would anyone build RR tracks under water?
To go with the whiskey the Engineers drinking?
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #829 on: March 26, 2019, 07:49:34 AM »
Not a fan of bioplastics, at least not the current stuff.  
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #830 on: March 26, 2019, 08:25:21 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on March 26, 2019, 07:49:34 AM
Not a fan of bioplastics, at least not the current stuff.  
Nor am I. 
My household has made a fairly solid effort to not buy any plastic. "Any" is not realistic. It would be next to impossible to not buy "any" plastic. Even the paper milk containers have plastic spouts on them.
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #831 on: March 26, 2019, 09:00:27 AM »
Quote from: FearlessF on March 24, 2019, 11:04:02 AM
well, as you know the CO2 is going to get out somehow, I don't mind a little belching and farting while drinking beer.
You don't wanna drink in an enclosed space with AC.
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #832 on: March 31, 2019, 10:14:29 AM »
I've got answers for the "tough questions" that follow.


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/breaches-everywhere-midwest-levees-burst-and-tough-questions-follow/ar-BBVrOxo?li=BBnb7Kz

‘Breaches Everywhere’: Midwest Levees Burst, and Tough Questions Follow




MITCH SMITH, JOHN SCHWARTZ and TIM GRUBER
2 hrs ago


This is from the NY Times, but you can't read it there without a subscription. So, I linked the MSN feed.








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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #833 on: March 31, 2019, 10:18:40 AM »
there were a few dams that blew out as well

worst flooding in my lifetime
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #834 on: March 31, 2019, 12:25:05 PM »
Quote from: CWSooner on March 25, 2019, 02:22:17 PM
The purple area along the Missouri River extends into NW Missouri and NE Kansas.  That includes my last Army post, Fort Leavenworth.  I've been getting some pictures from a couple of former colleagues there.
Here are a few.

Here the Platte River is above the bottom of the BNSF railroad bridge.  So far not too much flotsam has piled up against the bridge.

These are RR tracks descending into the flood waters, vicinity of Waldron, MO.  Waldron is just to the north of where I-435 crosses the Missouri River from Kansas into Missouri.  The BNSF tracks go below the Interstate bridge.

There are RR tracks down there somewhere.  Under the closest stretch of water, I think.
Yep, all the RRs in Nebraska and Iowa have been hit pretty hard with the recent flooding. In one of my BNSF RR employee groups I've been privy to quite a few pics of the destruction specifically related to the RR tracks. 
Thankfully in my territory all I have to worry about is the occasional summer flash flood at a few specific bridges we go over. 
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #835 on: March 31, 2019, 12:38:40 PM »
Keep the shiny side up and the dirty side down, D-Frog!
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #836 on: March 31, 2019, 01:11:20 PM »
Got down to 26 deg last nite with 3"-4"on the car this morning.Winter has been hanging around a long damn time - Opening Day is tomorrow :D
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #837 on: March 31, 2019, 01:22:48 PM »
better you than me

50 degrees here this afternoon and sunny

snow is gone
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #838 on: March 31, 2019, 01:25:34 PM »
The rapidly dropping cost of renewable energy has upended energy economics in recent years, with new solar and wind plants now significantly cheaper than coal power.

But new research shows another major change is afoot: The cost of batteries has been declining so unexpectedly rapidly that renewables plus battery storage are now cheaper than even natural gas plants in many applications, according to a report released this week by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF).

https://thinkprogress.org/renewable-energy-coal-natural-gas-a3828fd843cb/amp/
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #839 on: March 31, 2019, 01:41:26 PM »
Not a good source there...
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