Britain’s increasing reliance on “intermittent” renewable energy means that the country is facing an unprecedented supply crisis, a senior Ofgem executive has warned.
Andrew Wright, a senior partner at Ofgem and former interim chief executive, warned that households could be forced to pay extra to keep their lights on while their neighbours “sit in the dark” because “not everyone will be able to use as much as electricity as they want”.
In The Mail
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“The war in Iraq has followed her to Colorado.” A new book by SDA supporter Bill Greenwood. Check it out here. |
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Update from Bill — “It won’t be on sale until some time in January. If it gets enough nominations, it will get a slot in Amazon’s promoted publications. If it doesn’t get a promo slot, it’ll still go on Amazon at the end of the nomination period.”
The Shiny Libranos
I Amuse Myself
Two solutions in one: How Saskatchewan can opt out of a Liberal #carbontax grab AND get resources to international market. pic.twitter.com/mpcv1ZcP18
— Katewerk (@katewerk) December 12, 2016
The Children Are Our Future
This is not in an elementary school, it's in my college dorm hallway. pic.twitter.com/g4Dc6jwrtv
— Tommy John (@tciccotta) December 10, 2016
More Pavilions At Volkfest
Meet Berlin’s new Senatskanzlei;
“In August she complained that in political discourse, German national law and Sharia law are always presented as contradictory to each other, and said ‘Everyone talks about Shariah, but hardly anyone knows what Sharia means.’ Remarking that Sharia exists ‘largely to govern the relationship between God and man,’ Chebli said Sharia law was ‘absolutely compatible’ with Germany.”
And if not now, then later. More here.
A Few Choice Words for Barack Obama
Baby Boomers
David Cameron’s Britain
Bless the Halls with Concrete Barriers, fa~la~la~la~la, la~la~la, Boom.
Reader Tips
He turned 100 a couple of days ago: here’s Kirk Douglas on the Dick Cavett show, in 1971, along with a shorter interview with Charlie Rose in 1994. Your tips thread’s open.
I Amuse Myself
I remember the Raging Grannies from the '80's. Shouldn't they be dead by now? https://t.co/7fwHpXKD45
— Katewerk (@katewerk) December 12, 2016
The Bald Faced Hypocrisy of Leftists
I know this is a little out of date but it’s priceless. First, in case there are any Members of the Church of Leftology reading this, a clear understanding of “hypocrisy” is required:
Now that you understand that, enjoy this epic rant by Joe Scarborough:
Related: Prior to the election . . .
The New Fracking
Developed by Qmast LLC, microwave technology is used for the extraction of oil shale, which is different from shale oil. Oil shale is found in rock formations that contain kerogen. One of the current extraction methods of kerogen has been strip mining because these are shallow formations. The extracted rock is then crushed and heated to high temperatures to liquefy the oil.
Qmast’s method concentrates a microwave beam equivalent to about 500 household microwaves to heat up an area that reaches approximately 80 feet from the wellbore. The crude oil then flows freely to the wellbore.
h/t Gagnon
4\/\/Kw4Rd!
Inside job: A cynic might conclude that all the sudden hoopla about Russian hacking is meant to distract from what DHS was doing.
DHS Says Georgia Hack May Have Been Rogue Employee: Officials tell members of Congress the attack on state firewall could have been inside job.
The Great Unhinging continues…
Shrugging off possible Russian hacking of an American election, as Trump did, is tantamount to saying "whatever" after Pearl Harbor or 9/11.
— Dan Gardner (@dgardner) December 10, 2016
I’m old enough to remember when it was Trump who was going to start WWIII. Oh well! Scramble the bombers, President Obama.
Tremble, Ye Patriarchs
On election night, like so many, 26-year-old Nicole Narvaez’s feelings “kind of exploded.” “I went to bed in tears and woke up to the final news hysterical,” Narvaez recalled. “I cried on the train to work, at work, after work and many days since.
And the obvious way to cope with this post-election trauma is to get some deeply unattractive feminist tattoos.
The Sound Of Settled Science
What? We can’t trust forensic science?
Reader Tips
For those who’ve asked, the new “family” is doing just fine. Tips thread open.

Climate Disruption: “We Were Promised There Would Be No Math”
The Trump transition team has issued a list of 74 questions for the Energy Department
The questionnaire requests a list of those individuals who have taken part in international climate talks over the past five years and “which programs within DOE are essential to meeting the goals of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan.”
[…] The document spanned a broad area of Energy Department activities, including its loan program, its technology research program, responses to Congress, estimates of offshore wind and cleanup of uranium at a site once used by the military for weapons research.
One question zeroed in on the issue of the “social cost of carbon,” a way of calculating the consequences of greenhouse gas emissions. The transition team asked for a list of department employees or contractors who attended interagency meetings, the dates of the meetings, and e-mails and other materials associated with them.
Another question appeared to delve deeply into the mechanisms behind scientific tools called “integrated assessment models,” which scientists use to forecast future changes to the climate and energy system. It also asked what the Energy Department considers to be “the proper equilibrium climate sensitivity,” which is a way researchers calculate how much the planet will eventually warm, depending upon the amount of greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere.
“My guess is that they’re trying to undermine the credibility of the science that DOE has produced, particularly in the field of climate science,” said Rob Jackson, a Stanford climate and energy researcher.
With physics.
Firewall
Mtg w/PM & Premiers on climate chg is over. SK concerns on impacts of natl carbon tax on our econ not addressed so we did not sign agreement pic.twitter.com/tv1D6Xletv
— Brad Wall (@PremierBradWall) December 10, 2016
Operation Empty Chair
Trinidad has the highest rate of Islamic State recruitment in the Western hemisphere. How did this happen?


