We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans

Telegraph;

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

“The war in Iraq has followed her to Colorado.”

A new book by SDA supporter Bill Greenwood. Check it out here.

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.”

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.

The New Fracking

Microwave technology;

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…


I’m old enough to remember when it was Trump who was going to start WWIII. Oh well! Scramble the bombers, President Obama.

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.

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