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« Reply #9968 on: May 21, 2024, 02:02:11 PM »
I paid $2.95/gallon Sunday

not bad
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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #9969 on: May 21, 2024, 02:03:15 PM »
ALBANY, New York — Gov. Kathy Hochul has cracked the door open to the potential for new, small nuclear power plants as a way for the state to try to meet its ambitious climate goals.

The prospect was once dismissed by top officials and carries a whiff of irony after former Gov. Andrew Cuomo shuttered the state’s second-largest nuclear plant, Indian Point in Westchester County, in 2021.

But as the state’s far-reaching zero emissions electricity goal by 2040 looms, there’s more openness to the idea.


https://www.eenews.net/articles/why-new-york-may-be-warming-to-new-nuclear-power/

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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #9970 on: May 21, 2024, 02:12:42 PM »
NY state has zero chance of net zero by 2040, it's ludicrous to even have it as a "goal".  And they are supposed to be at 70% renewable by 2030.  They today are around 60% natural gas for electricity.  

Even if they went full bore to SMRs, they couldn't get there in time.

All these "mandates" are amusing to me.

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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #9971 on: May 21, 2024, 02:26:00 PM »


It hasn't changed much since 2019.  
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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #9972 on: May 21, 2024, 02:51:05 PM »
not much coal
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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #9973 on: May 21, 2024, 02:52:57 PM »
They shut down coal. It’s mostly NG. 
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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #9974 on: May 22, 2024, 03:25:00 PM »
How renewables could beat natural gas in US generating capacity within 3 years – in numbers | Electrek

The latest capacity additions have brought solar’s share of total available installed utility-scale (i.e., >1 MW) generating capacity up to 8.25%, surpassing that of hydropower (7.88%). Wind is currently at 11.77%. Solar and wind combined now account for more than a fifth (20.02%) of the US’s installed utility-scale generating capacity. With the inclusion of biomass (1.14%) and geothermal (0.33%), renewables now claim a 29.37% share of total US utility-scale generating capacity.

For perspective, a year ago, solar’s share was 6.67% while wind and hydropower were 11.51% and 7.97%, respectively. The mix of all renewables totaled 27.67%.

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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #9975 on: May 22, 2024, 06:11:06 PM »
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« Reply #9976 on: May 22, 2024, 07:12:28 PM »
they said 4 people died,what a shame,is any other country pitching in to help them out? If not screw all foreign aide take care of them
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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #9977 on: May 22, 2024, 10:59:34 PM »
Iowa news reports said people from surrounding counties were coming to assist. Greenfield is about 3.5 hours from me, so people are not coming from here. A fifth person who was on a highway (not in Greenfield) died when her car was picked up by a tornado. Scary. 
I always wondered what would happen when a twister strikes a wind turbine that is 20-stories tall. I wondered if the blades would spin faster, or whether they would be propelled into the sky. The article says those wind turbines are 400 tons and the blades can weigh 65 tons. The video answered my questions about what happens. Numerous wind turbines collapsed in Iowa during the storms.
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« Reply #9978 on: May 23, 2024, 06:37:13 AM »
Quote from: Hawkinole on May 22, 2024, 10:59:34 PM
Iowa news reports said people from surrounding counties were coming to assist. Greenfield is about 3.5 hours from me, so people are not coming from here. A fifth person who was on a highway (not in Greenfield) died when her car was picked up by a tornado. Scary.
I always wondered what would happen when a twister strikes a wind turbine that is 20-stories tall. I wondered if the blades would spin faster, or whether they would be propelled into the sky. The article says those wind turbines are 400 tons and the blades can weigh 65 tons. The video answered my questions about what happens. Numerous wind turbines collapsed in Iowa during the storms.
Renewable?
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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #9979 on: May 23, 2024, 08:55:27 AM »
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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #9980 on: May 23, 2024, 09:02:30 AM »
There isn't much built by humans that gets above ground that survives an EF 4.  EF 5?  Fuggidaboudit.

A wind turbine would be "toast", and obviously flying turbine blades would be deadly.

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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #9981 on: May 23, 2024, 09:40:40 AM »
Wind is currently at 11.77%. Solar and wind combined now account for more than a fifth (20.02%) of the US’s installed utility-scale generating capacity. With the inclusion of biomass (1.14%) and geothermal (0.33%), renewables now claim a 29.37% share of total US utility-scale generating capacity.

For perspective, a year ago, solar’s share was 6.67% while wind was 11.51%
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wind not growing...... government subsidies went away?

Older windmills end of life?
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