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I had the type 2 tear, and biceps tenodesis are surgery, along with decompression and general clean out of torn crap.

The wife had rotator cuff repair of the supraspinatus tendon, which is the worst thing to have.  The use screws into the bone to reattach it.

And, we're on fire again. And, we again are in the middle of Santa Ana winds pushing things towards south Orange County. Great.

So far both the mandatory and voluntary evacuation orders are still a couple miles from us. We're far enough from the hills that it's unlikely we'll even be under an order, and even more unlikely a fire would affect us (it would have to burn LOTS of neighborhoods first), but still no fun.

Damn. How is the air quality?

Right now I'm pretty much just outside the edge of the smoke zone. Directly above me is blue sky. To the south is beautiful. To the north is smoke. 

When I got up to walk the dog it was still a little dark so I couldn't see where the smoke was, but I could smell it. 

But at least for me the air quality isn't horrible, and shouldn't be unless the fire moves south or the wind direction changes.

Hope it stays away from you and yours, bwar.  Fingers crossed.

good luck

Winds have died down though, which will help tremendously. 

Renewable generation sources like wind and solar have gained significant ground in the past decade. But most experts agree that fully realizing the potential of these promising technologies will require an even greater breakthrough: economically viable, large-scale, long-term energy storage.

An experiment by Great River Energy just might make it happen.

The G&T based in Maple Grove, Minnesota, is installing an “aqueous air battery” prototype that will provide 1 MW of power for up to 150 hours, with the promise of future grid-scale deployment, at a fraction of current storage costs.

Greg Padden, GRE’s director of resource planning and markets, says the pilot project, expected to come on-line in 2023, reflects the G&T’s commitment to a “cost-competitive portfolio” for its 28 distribution co-ops across Minnesota and their 700,000 member-owners.

“We’re in a very wind-rich part of the country, and that, combined with technology advancements, has made wind power the lowest-cost option for our members,” he says. “That’s very much a driver for this project.”

Great River Energy will generate more than 25% of its power this year from renewable resources, primarily wind, he says, and has set a goal of 50% renewables by 2030.

U.S. Energy Information Administration numbers show wind and solar as the fastest expanding generation sources nationwide, and storage capacity is on a similar trajectory, set to grow from 523 MW in 2019 to 7.3 GW in 2025, according to Battery Energy Storage Overview, a report from NRECA’s Business & Technology Strategies group.


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