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farmerman
 
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Wed 2 Jan, 2019 06:49 pm
coal is NOT cheaper by a long shot. Cooal coats ignore externalities which, according to IMF projected from a 2015 study, Will be 5.5 TRILLION annually planet wide. Coal has ignored cleanup and health effect , as well as long term care costs of mines.
Renewables hve gotten so cheap in the last 10 years that were now dealing more with NIMBY claims against it,(and many NIMBY claims are actully funded by fossil fuel interests).
Frack gas is waaay cheaper and yet, because of unknown effects, is shunned by states with known reserves.

Conservation, research in renewables, using only cleanest "bridge fuels" (nook, frack dry gas, frack wet gases). These are th way to develop an entirely renewable energy future IMHO. Trumps insistance on coal is hugely a stupid proposal based on election pandering to rust belt states , coal producing states (and like Pa, BOTH).

new generation solar collectors and transmission can increase e- production by 35% per ft square. That could almost make a country fully solar
livinglava
 
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Wed 2 Jan, 2019 07:56 pm
@Builder,
Builder wrote:

We're off grid for electricity. Our fridge/freezer has genuine spray-foam insulation, (as opposed to loose fill) and the bottom freezer section has 70 mm thick walls and door, so it is very efficient in design.
What brand/model is it?

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Uses just 4 amps at 27 volts, but only when running.

So 112 watts? Does it run on DC power? Does it have a frost-free function disable setting so you can leave the frost in it at night to save energy?

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Surprisingly easy to establish an off-grid power supply. The technology is improving bigtime. Can run air conditioning all day when the sun is shining, and set it to switch off about midnight.

How many watts is your panel array? Do you have battery storage? What do you do when it's cloudy all day? Can you run TV/computer/electronics when it's dark out?
Builder
 
  -3  
Wed 2 Jan, 2019 07:58 pm
Journalist Who Broke Story Of Mueller Deleting Text Messages Dies Mysteriously


In Brief

The Facts:

Bre Payton, the journalist who broke the story of Robert Mueller's team deleting text messages, died very suddenly of a mysterious illness.
Reflect On:

Can we look at these incidences based on the facts as well as by recognizing patterns, before we jump to either accept or reject possible explanations?

Bre Payton was a writer for the conservative online news magazine The Federalist and a guest commentator on the Fox News Channel. And she was a rising star.

“From the moment we started talking I realized she was a potential star,” Ben Domenech, the publisher of The Federalist, said in an essay on Saturday. “She was raw, yes, but that could be honed. She was eager to learn, to write, and to go places—not because of ambition, but because she wanted to change the world.”

She seemed unafraid to take on things that mattered, including breaking the hard-hitting piece DOJ Destroyed Missing Strzok/Page Text Messages Before The IG Could Review Them on December 13th, where, unlike the mainstream media who later focused on the idea that there was ‘no evidence’ that these text messages were deliberately destroyed, Payton leaned towards the conclusion that there was criminal intent in these deletions, a notion supported by Donald Trump.

And then she died suddenly on Friday in San Diego. She was 26.

I don’t have any definitive ‘proof’ for the notion that Payton was killed because she was going to disclose some type of sensitive information against the Deep State; however, it must be said that the cause and circumstances of her death are befuddling enough for one to consider such an idea. My only intention is to explain the facts and allow you to draw your own conclusions.
Timeline

Wednesday, December 26th: Bre Payton, who lives in Washington, was in San Diego to be a guest host on a show on the One America News Network. Her last tweet was announcing to followers that they could see the show broadcast ‘right now’ and responding to one follower who was watching it. So as of Wednesday night, all was well with Bre Payton.

Thursday December 27th: Bre was staying with good friend Morgan Murtaugh while in San Diego. Morgan found Payton unconscious in her bed around 8:30 am, as disclosed in this tweet:
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Friday, December 28th: By Friday morning, Bre had passed away. This web page for Bre on the Caring Bridge website, which appears to be a site that gives updated information on people who are in hospital, seems to be where Bre’s death was first announced. This was the page that Murtaugh had referred to in her tweet above, although at the time she tweeted it, it had obviously not declared that Bre had passed away. There is no way of checking what it had said at that time, because unlike Twitter, this website only shows the latest update. Currently it reads as follows:

Around 8:30, on December 27th, Bre’s friend went into her room and found her unresponsive and barely breathing. She immediately called 911 and Bre was taken to the hospital where she was admitted to the ICU, sedated & intubated, and doctors began working up a diagnosis. After a CT scan and hours of testing, they have determined she has the H1N1 flu and meningitis. George stayed at the hospital with her in San Diego for a long time, but her condition worsened and worsened.

She fought her illness with strength but, passed on December 28th, 2018. She will be survived by her four siblings and parents. She fought strong and lived a life worth noting in the books. We are so incredibly honored to have known this wonderful human being.

Something Just Doesn’t Seem Right

Trying to put some pieces together here, Morgan Murtaugh never mentioned noticing anything wrong with Bre on Wednesday night, so we are left to assume that a healthy, vibrant 26-year old girl became fully incapacitated during a nights sleep without showing any prior symptoms, and then was dead 24 hours later, with doctors saying that she had the Swine Flu (H1N1) and meningitis. Surprisingly, a New York Times obituary for Bre Payton said that ‘Ms. Payton had the H1N1 flu, also known as the swine flu, and encephalitis, according to her family.’ So, is it encephalitis or meningitis? And what is the actual cause of her death, one of these ailments or the H1N1 flu? I have not found an answer to this.

While the cause of death does not seem to have been determined, several mainstream media outlets are taking the opportunity to use this to subtly warn people that they should remember to take their flu vaccine, which includes an H1N1 component. The way mainstream media writes about this story is to ask how she died, mention and go into depth about the diagnosis and the history of the H1N1 virus, talk a little about her life, and then leave the initial question unanswered. They sway the typical mainstream reader to believe she died of the H1N1 virus without really saying it.

Some hypothesize that Bre Payton might have actually taken the flu shot and that led to her illness. But this tweet from her a few years back makes it highly unlikely that she would consent to any vaccine:

I don’t know enough to say it’s impossible that Bre Payton died so suddenly from a virus she had contracted naturally without any prior symptoms, but it just doesn’t feel right. You would expect that she would have some pretty significant symptoms in the days prior. Add that to the fact that we have covered many stories of people who have died mysterious deaths who all happened to be courageous, outspoken people who were willing to challenge the establishment, and might have had some information that was damaging to the Deep State and were willing to reveal it, as she showed in breaking the Mueller story, you can begin to understand the suspicions.

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livinglava
 
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Wed 2 Jan, 2019 08:00 pm
@farmerman,
farmerman wrote:

Conservation, research in renewables, using only cleanest "bridge fuels" (nook, frack dry gas, frack wet gases). These are th way to develop an entirely renewable energy future IMHO. Trumps insistance on coal is hugely a stupid proposal based on election pandering to rust belt states , coal producing states (and like Pa, BOTH).

new generation solar collectors and transmission can increase e- production by 35% per ft square. That could almost make a country fully solar

With adequate conservation, you really don't need a grid, at least for residential applications. Commercial buildings with industrial applications are another story, although if they only run powerful equipment during the day, they might be able to concentrate enough solar power to run their heavy equipment for a little while before the battery runs out.
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Builder
 
  0  
Wed 2 Jan, 2019 08:05 pm
@livinglava,
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So 112 watts? Does it run on DC power? Does it have a frost-free function disable setting so you can leave the frost in it at night to save energy?


Freezer section is manual defrost. It will stay frozen for days if you switch it off. It will also freeze 4 litre blocks overnight. Runs on 12 or 24 volt DC.

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How many watts is your panel array?


Two arrays (four panels per) of one kilowatt each.

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Do you have battery storage?


LiFePO4 storage. Two separate "banks" of two 100 amp hour 12 volt.

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What do you do when it's cloudy all day?


Still get amps from the sky on cloudy days. We can go three days of rain, without charging. I have a diesel generator, which I've not had to use yet.

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Can you run TV/computer/electronics when it's dark out?


We run all the usual appliances, but use propane to cook, and heat water.

My partner has an iMac 27 (5K) screen, and we watch hi-def movies on that. It uses just 130 watts at 240 volts max, and has a better sound than many televisions.

We have a limit of 2000 watts on the large inverter, so you just use things one at a time. My partner likes vegan kebabs, and the kebab cooker uses 2000 watts. Have a second inverter that is dedicated to the computer and juicer, so a total of 2600 watts available at one time.
oralloy
 
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Wed 2 Jan, 2019 08:14 pm
@farmerman,
farmerman wrote:
coal is NOT cheaper by a long shot.
So which do you prefer, fracked natural gas or nuclear power?

Something's going to need to make up the shortfall when renewables can't produce enough power to meet demand.
livinglava
 
  0  
Wed 2 Jan, 2019 08:17 pm
@oralloy,
oralloy wrote:

farmerman wrote:
coal is NOT cheaper by a long shot.
So which do you prefer, fracked natural gas or nuclear power?

Something's going to need to make up the shortfall when renewables can't produce enough power to meet demand.

Battery storage. If you keep running your battery out, you either need to buy more batteries and solar panels or figure out how to conserve better.

People have a lot of practice with this since the rise of cell phones and other battery-powered devices.
oralloy
 
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Wed 2 Jan, 2019 08:24 pm
@livinglava,
livinglava wrote:
or figure out how to conserve better.
No. Climate lunatics are not going make the American people start doing without.

Shortfalls in renewables will be made up with either coal, fracked natural gas, or nuclear power.
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Builder
 
  -1  
Wed 2 Jan, 2019 10:40 pm
@livinglava,
Elon Musk organised the installation of the world's largest storage battery in South Australia. Tesla will be building the world’s largest lithium-ion battery, which is 60 per cent bigger than

any other large-scale battery energy storage system on Earth.

The 100MW battery will provide the region with 129 megawatt-hours of energy to be paired with Neoen’s 99-turbine wind farm at Hornsdale, near Jamestown, South Australia.

Tesla PowerPack’s will charge using renewable energy then deliver electricity during peak hours to help maintain the reliable operation of South Australia’s electrical infrastructure.

In addition to load balancing the state’s renewable energy generation, the batteries will provide emergency back-up power in the case of a blackout.

In a blog post, Tesla said the project in South Australia “will provide enough power for more than 30,000 homes”, or reportedly a total of about 1 hour and 18 minutes of power going at full capacity.

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glitterbag
 
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Wed 2 Jan, 2019 10:48 pm
@Builder,
Yeah, and P.T. Barnum said there was a sucker born every minute.
Builder
 
  -1  
Wed 2 Jan, 2019 11:45 pm
@glitterbag,
October 8th, 2018 by Kyle Field

The massive 129 MWh Tesla Powerpack installation in South Australia has already been having a strong impact on the region’s electricity markets, saving grid operator Neoen and customers an estimated $25 million, or just over ⅓ of the purchase price, in its first year of operation.

As the regional grid continues to adjust to the impact of a new energy storage block of this size, we are already starting to see some of the side effects of the world’s largest lithium-ion grid-scale battery. Namely, the battery, called the Hornsdale Power Reserve, is putting the squeeze on natural gas peaker plants in the region.

Peaker plants are smaller natural gas–fired electricity generating units (EGUs) that are idled for the vast majority of their lives. For those rare periods when the grid needs a bit of extra juice to meet customer demand, the peakers are fired up. That’s all fine and good, but their intermittent nature makes peaker plants extremely inefficient to operate and extremely polluting, as the startup and shutdown segments of a natural gas turbine’s operation (when the engine gets warmed up or idles down) are by far the dirtiest.

After watching the operation of the battery closely for its first year in operation, the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) informed operators in the regional energy market that it would be putting an end to “the three-year-old requirement for 35MW of local regulation frequency and ancillary services to be provided in South Australia when there was risk of the state’s grid separating from the rest of the national grid,” according to Renew Economy.

“The operation of SA has changed significantly over the past 12 months,” AEMO shared in a written statement. “Synchronous unit requirements (for SA system strength) and the installation of the Hornsdale battery have ensured regulation FCAS is more readily available post-islanding of SA. Hence this requirement is no longer considered necessary.”

https://c1cleantechnicacom-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/files/2018/10/SA-Powerpack-1.jpg
glitterbag
 
  2  
Wed 2 Jan, 2019 11:49 pm
like anybody cares.
Builder
 
  -1  
Thu 3 Jan, 2019 12:11 am
@glitterbag,
Poor kid. The adults are having a conversation, and you're feeling all left out and stuff?
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farmerman
 
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Thu 3 Jan, 2019 12:59 am
@oralloy,
Quote:
So which do you prefer, fracked natural gas or nuclear power?
Im pretty much a wet fracker. I have a 2K gal propane tank to run my backup system at 16Kw . I am still on the grid but since I only use it when Im having my Generac system serviced Im barely ever using it .Im now 90% solar except for AC which, on this 240 yer old Colonial farm building .We had low profileAC ductwork installed 25 yers ago. I guess Im just waiting for the AC to die and Ill get the Euro AC where the reefrigerent I piped to baseboard units for room cooling
farmerman
 
  2  
Thu 3 Jan, 2019 01:00 am
@Builder,
tell me abvout the Li Phosphate batteries. They are kinda next generation over here (Youre in Oz right)?
Builder
 
  -1  
Thu 3 Jan, 2019 01:57 am
@farmerman,
Quote:
tell me abvout the Li Phosphate batteries.


We're in a THOWs (tiny house on wheels) and I allowed for battery storage, but when I started researching the project, I found that the safest, and lightest (one third the weight of AGM) was LiFePO4.

Just happened to drop into the local Allstar battery place on another errand, and they had these 100 amp hour LiFePO4 batteries marked down for clearance, because they'd been on the shelf for 12 months. Seriously expensive at 1640 each, but marked down to 1000, I bit the bullet and bought two of them.

Apart from the weight (I've had a hernia patch job) and the safety (can't make 'em explode) they have built-in cell protection, so you can't physically overcharge them, reverse polarity protection, so short circuits don't result in welding size flashes, and discharge protection, so you can't suck too many amps out of them (the leading cause of fire in battery storage).

You can also mount them directly under an inverter or solar controller, because they don't outgas anything. That means shorter cable runs, and everything can live in the same compartment, which is important in a THOWs.

Lastly, they can last for ten thousand cycles, so the purchase price is fully justified. At that time, they will still hold up to 80% of their original capacity.

Walter Hinteler
 
  4  
Thu 3 Jan, 2019 02:59 am
Many observers had warned that the Chinese government could take revenge on Apple after the trade war instigated by Trump - but now it appears that the US president himself has done the work of the opponent.

Apple's China struggles highlight US companies' trade war vulnerabilities
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· Weak Apple iPhone sales in China highlight how closely the U.S. and Chinese economies are intertwined, analysts said Thursday.
· Data from China shows the economy slowing recently, with the impact potentially spilling over to the consumer sector.
· American companies doing business in Asia's largest economy could take a hit from a Chinese slowdown.
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Region Philbis
 
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Thu 3 Jan, 2019 03:24 am
@Builder,

my company is designing one of these battery farms for Tesla.

interesting concept...
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hightor
 
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Thu 3 Jan, 2019 03:40 am
Trump Mocks Indian PM for Library in Afghanistan

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WASHINGTON —
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday mocked Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for funding a library in Afghanistan, suggesting it was of no use.

Trump brought up India's aid during a rambling press appearance at a Cabinet meeting as he defended his push for the United States to invest less overseas.

While stating that he got along with Modi, Trump said the Indian leader was "constantly telling me he built a library in Afghanistan."

"You know what that is? That's like five hours of what we spend," Trump said.

"And we're supposed to say, 'Oh, thank you for the library.' I don't know who's using it in Afghanistan," Trump said.

voanews
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izzythepush
 
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Thu 3 Jan, 2019 04:39 am
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South Korea's spy agency has told officials that North Korea's ambassador to Italy has disappeared.

The announcement follows unconfirmed reports that Pyongyang's top diplomat in Italy had sought asylum from an unidentified Western country.

Jo Song-gil, the acting North Korean ambassador to Rome, is believed to be the son or son-in-law of one of the highest level officials in North Korea.

The last senior diplomat to defect was the deputy ambassador in London.

Thae Yong-ho abandoned his post in 2016, along with his wife and children. He defected to South Korea.

As one of the highest-ranking officials to ever defect from the North, his move was seen as a blow to Kim Jong-un's regime. He would go on to urge the world to spread information in North Korea to undermine Mr Kim's status among his people.

Speaking after a briefing from the spy agency on Thursday, Kim Min-ki, a government MP, told reporters that Mr Jo fled the Rome embassy more than a month ago.

"Acting ambassador Jo Song-gil's term was ending in late November last year and he escaped the diplomatic compound in early November," the MP said.

South Korean's National Intelligence Service told lawmakers they had not had any contact from him since then. The agency would not confirm that he is trying to defect to another country.

Italy's foreign ministry has told the BBC that it has no record of an asylum request made by Mr Jo.

Diplomatic sources said the last Italy heard of him was when officials received a note last year from the North Korean government saying that Mr Jo was being replaced.

South Korean newspaper JoongAng Ilbo has reported that Mr Jo is in a "safe place" with his family, citing a diplomatic source.

High-profile defections by one of North Korea's elite are rare and would be a huge embarrassment for leader Kim Jong-un. State media has often insisted that any defections by diplomats are part of a plot by South Korea or the United States to undermine its government.

Pyongyang considers them traitors to the country and its people, and defectors say there can be severe consequences for any family members left behind.

The last senior diplomat to defect, Thae Yong-ho, once said that he made his decision as he wanted to give his two sons an education outside the impoverished state.

He has told reporters in South Korea that he worked with Jo Song-gil. He claimed that Mr Jo was responsible for delivering luxury goods to North Korea via an Italian company and that he may know more about Pyongyang's nuclear plans.

This is the kind of information US intelligence services would be keen to get their hands on.

But where is the 48-year-old envoy? Has he asked for asylum? It is unlikely any country will confirm Jo Song-gil's whereabouts until it is clear he and his family are safe.

Mr Jo, 48, has been acting ambassador in Rome since October 2017 after Italy expelled then-ambassador Mun Jong-nam in protest over a North Korean nuclear test a month earlier.

North Korea's diplomatic mission in Italy is important for Pyongyang as the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization is based in Rome and North Korea often suffers from chronic food shortages.

North Korean diplomats stationed abroad usually have to leave several family members behind in Pyongyang to prevent their defection.

But Mr Jo is thought to have been in Rome with his wife and children, suggesting he may be from a privileged or influential family.

North Korean representatives overseas are said to be closely watched by their fellow diplomats for any sign of disloyalty to the regime.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-46744459
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