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we could use some rain and warm temps

followed by sunny daze with little wind

hell, it's golf season!

I'll take the latter down here.

Shutting down the Monticello nuclear power plant to fix a new leak of radioactive water resulted in a cooldown of the Mississippi River that killed hundreds of fish, Xcel Energy said on Monday.

Xcel spokesman Theo Keith said when active, the nuclear plant draws water from the river for cooling steam and equipment and returns it at a warmer temperature.

The warm water allows fish to stay active in the area, but when the plant powers down, that warming effect is gone, affecting the fish. Keith said they’ve found 230 dead fish so far, even though Xcel “powered down the plant slowly to mitigate the impacts.”

Keith said Xcel is working with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency to address the situation.

Shutting down the Monticello nuclear power plant to fix a new leak of radioactive water resulted in a cooldown of the Mississippi River that killed hundreds of fish, Xcel Energy said on Monday.

Xcel spokesman Theo Keith said when active, the nuclear plant draws water from the river for cooling steam and equipment and returns it at a warmer temperature.

The warm water allows fish to stay active in the area, but when the plant powers down, that warming effect is gone, affecting the fish. Keith said they’ve found 230 dead fish so far, even though Xcel “powered down the plant slowly to mitigate the impacts.”

Keith said Xcel is working with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency to address the situation.

See?  Human impacts are GOOD for the ecosystem.

Just imagine how much more arable and livable land there will be once the Earth warms up a few degrees?

Success!

The big news in my company these days is circularity. There’s a lot of talk too about burning hydrogen, and converting methane to hydrogen. Putting carbon underground is coming as well. 

Hydrogen is neat if you can make it somehow without using too much energy produced by something else.

Or....you're already making a crap ton of H2 from the rest of your process (like propane dehydrogenation) and there is already an abundant supply.  

at 2:30 this afternoon it was sunny and 52 deg.It is 36 deg now with snow/sleet mixture