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It is nearing 11:00 AM in Washinton DC. I have not seen a Pete Hegseth appearance in the news. Has anyone seen a comment?
Yes, he had some statement the helicopter pilots were fairly experienced. Bigger unresolved question…
"A journalist asked: "Is there an acting FFA director?" They were met with silent backs as the officials turned away, ignoring the question"
https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/elon-musk-pressured-faa-boss-34584192
I heard Hegseth on NPR this morning, commenting on the planned rehab of Guantanemo naval base to house 30,000 deported people.
Hint: He's all in.
Daily Kos article reminded us
Sean Duffy:
Pete Hegseth:
Meanwhile, the titular head of government said DEI could have been to blame.
And I'm sure Duffy's statement above was one line out of many, but to say aircrafts colliding is "not standard" takes passive-voice language to new heights!
First concentration camp Guantanamo Bay 30,000 humans
“Biden crime family & ballot fraud co-conspirators (elected officials, bureaucrats, social media censorship mongers, fake stream media reporters, etc) are being arrested & detained for ballot fraud right now & over coming days, & will be living in barges off GITMO to face military tribunals for sedition,”
Ginni Thomas Nov 5th 2020 –
(prior to the election)
Do you believe Trump’s “they say 20 million some say no it’s more like 25 million really!” illegal migrants exist? What do you think they will do when they run out of easy raids?
Not at all saying having an actual FAA director would've prevented yesterday's crash, but Il Presidente musk apparently pushed the old one into resignation:
I want to say I expect an investigation to provide comprehensive information as to what went wrong yesterday, but I'm not sure enough anymore.
Good to see a picture of the gipper, knowing that he is thankfully dead.
I reviewed the info Will Toor gave me determining if Wind + backup emits less CO2 than a CCGT.
David, post it HERE, not at your clickbait Substack. I refuse to give you a single hit.
Yeah….I agree. Besides …there is no guarantee what David has said will be interesting.
Your basic premise is that Wind requires backup, therefore the full-system needs to be analyzed. And your observation is that this is both more expensive in money and CO2 generation than expected.
You acknowledge that it is very difficult to model the backups/full-system, and of course it will depend on the kind of backup. Here are several backup candidates, some of which fulfill your position, and some of which don't:
Also, the most bang for the buck in renewables ( for buildings) is conservation, efficiency and passive solar design. Make building envelopes that don't leak energy, and half the battle is won.
Rocky Mountain Institute has some energy myth-busting articles here – assuming that you're interested in actual scientific data, rather than Putin- and fossil fuel industry-serving propaganda. They're not purists – they recognize that fossil fuels have a role in the transition to "a clean, prosperous, and carbon-free future for all
I agree totally. We have a large underappreciated victory in how much the first world has reduced their energy needs. And yes, there's a lot more that can be done. The easiest way in the world to not emit CO2 is to reduce our energy consumption.
And I totally agree with the N2N approach to first reduce CO2 and then eliminate it.
In the U.S. the vast majority of the time unscheduled peaker power is handled by SCGT (gas). And a far distant second is coal (which is much worse). Nuclear is pretty much always base load so it's already at 100%. Solar is actually a reliable intermittent source in that they have a good estimation of what it's going to provide every day. As such it's scheduled in. Same for pumped hydro. As for batteries, horribly expensive (blog post I have written going up M/T). And demand shifting – there are very few commercial customers willing to do it. In one of the RSOs, can't remember which, when they asked the response they got was so small they didn't implement it.
"Price-Signaling". Demand Shifting is already happening – at least at my house.
For me, off-peak electricity is 7.5cents per KWh, and on-peak is at 21cents. As electric vehicles take over, something lke 100 billion (I just made that up), batteries will come on-line for load-balancing the system.
Yes, smart electric management systems need to be developed and implemented. Also, we'll see micro, mini & macro distribution systems for resiliency, fire mitigation, safety.
Yes and that will help. But most of the batteries will be used with solar to handle the duck curve. That makes solar a big win – but will likely take up all these available batteries.
have you thought about tracking down the NREL / U of Colorado gurus on power generation emissions and interviewing them?
Yep. I have asked a contact I have at NREL – no response. And I have an upcoming interview with a professor at C.U.
In addition, as you can see from the interview I posted, I interviewed Will Toor who's the Executive Director of the Colorado Energy Office. He's the one who provided 2 studies purpoting to show that Wind + backup is less CO2.
And I post each of them to the subreddits energy and windturbine. I have gotten constructive critism on both of those, including one time I had a mistake in my math (which I immediatly acknowledged and corrected in the post).
And same offer to everyone here – if you see a mistake in the assumptions or math, please let me know.
Mistakes in the assumptions:

You do not account for social costs of LNG extraction. You do not account for the extra damage that methane, released in the generation of natural gas fuel, does to biological life including humans, nor as a potent greenhouse gas.
Instead, you insist on promoting nuclear power, as though it has zero social cost and the waste just magically disappears. You live in a fantasy world of propaganda spread by Nazis and the extraction industries. I would put up more links to sources, but why bother?
You never read anything that contradicts your own prior bias
"basic premise is that wind requires backup…………"
I was one of the original 30,000 subscribers to what was then called Xcel Energy's Windsource program.
Wind should be listed as a backup power source for wind. The wind is always blowing somewhere in eastern Colorado; if not at one grouping of wind farms, then at another. It's the downsloping winds coming off the mountains.
Actually no. There are several 2 – 3 day periods where the wind across Colorado is minimal. Not 0 but pretty close to it. PSCO is the region that was the old Public Service Company – so most of Colorado.
Looks like decent wind coverage to me.