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Nice range.  Our house has a separate cooktop and wall oven, and when we upgraded the cooktop a few years back we went with one of these:

Nice sure but not nearly as mobile/flexible as my Coleman and cans of Sterno

A new ocean is being formed in Africa. Geologists have confirmed that a new ocean is being created as the African continent is split in half. An international effort has revealed that a 35 miles long rift appeared in the Ethiopian deserts of the Far region in 2005 and is probably the start of a brand-new sea.

The recent study, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, combines seismic data from the rift formation to demonstrate that it is driven by processes similar to those at the ocean's bottom. The tectonic plates of Africa and Arabia collide in the desert and have been gradually separating for about 30 million years. The same motion has also split the Red Sea, but this is only happening at a rate of a fraction of an inch per year.

Soon humanity might have two motherlands. Africa's 54 nations are being divided according to geologists researching the continent's plate tectonics. The East African Rift, which separates eastern coastal countries like Kenya and Tanzania from most of the continent, passes across Mozambique from the Afar area of northern Ethiopia.


A new study in the journal Nature found that the two pieces of land are separating at a rate of 7 millimeters per year. Nations like Zambia and Uganda will have their own coastlines. Scientists claim that several currently active volcanoes along the river, including the Aloo Dalapila in Ethiopia and the Old wenyolangai in Tanzania, provide new insights into the process. In particular, the Erta Ale volcano in Ethiopia has been erupting nonstop for more than 50 years. The Victoria microplate, the biggest of its kind on Earth and tucked between each side of the rift, has been rotating against the clock for the past two years.


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renting a slip or two at the marina?

Natural gas prices were lower on Monday amid forecasts for mild winter weather and a report that a Freeport LNG export hub in Texas asked federal regulators for permission to resume operations.

Prices dropped as much as 5% then pared losses to trade down 3.3% at $2.43 per million British thermal units, nearing the lowest level since December 2020.


So far this year, natural gas prices have shed more than 30% and nearly 80% from an all-time high hit in August 2022, after Russia cut off gas flows to Europe and sparked an energy crisis there.

The Freeport liquefied natural gas plant first went offline in June of last year due to a fire. That has prevented more domestic supplies from being available for export, weighing down on US prices.

Resuming full operations and exports would help bolster prices as more US supplies would likely be shipped overseas.

But the Freeport facility, the second-biggest US LNG export plant, isn't expected to fully resume operations for months, according to regulators and analysts cited by Reuters. And the Monday filing with the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission only laid out a so-called Phase 1 for a plan to resume commercial activities.

Meanwhile, forecasts for mild winter weather continued to weigh on natural gas prices as demand for the heating fuel lags. 

For now, natural gas is flowing to the Freeport plant even as exports have yet to resume. On Monday, the amount of the super-cooled fuel at the facility touched the highest level since the export hub shut down. Flows were nearing 500 million cubic feet per day, a sharp increase from the average 43 million bcfpd since January.

But the increase is still only a small portion of Freeport's full capability, which can turn 2.1 billion cubic feet per day of gas into LNG when operating at full capacity.