Sparky Cars Go Boom

The Telegraph- Damaged electric cars ‘quarantined’ over fears they will explode

Electric cars that sustain minor bumps are being kept 15 meters apart in repair yards over fears they might explode, adding to insurance bills.

Government guidelines recommend electric vehicles with damaged batteries should be “quarantined” from other vehicles due to the risk of battery fires. Damaged batteries pose a risk of “thermal runaway” where the energy stored in the battery releases rapidly, creating temperatures of up to 400C.
But the practice threatens to increase costs for the insurance industry by more than £600m, costs which ultimately could be passed onto drivers in increased premiums, according to a report by automotive risk firm Thatcham Research.

War Of The Worlds

In Hollywood, the writers always imagine the world coming together to fight the outside threat. It makes a better story that way and we get to hear some inspiring speeches. But the example of the Bronze Age Collapse teaches us that it’s just as likely that if aliens ever arrived and begin blowing things up, some… might see that as an opportunity.

From Paul Cooper’s Fall of Civilizations, the best channel on Youtube. (1 hour)

We Are All Treaty People

How it started.

How it’s going…

Don Stevens, chief of the Nulhegan Band of The Coosuk Abenaki Nation — one of four descended from the Abenaki that are recognized in Vermont — told Newsweek it was “always interested in reclaiming the stewardship of our lands,” but that the company had yet to approach them.

It comes after the ice cream company was questioned as to when it would give up its Burlington, Vermont, headquarters — which sits on a vast swathe of U.S. territory that was under the auspices of the Abenaki people before colonization.

And going… Thank you for supporting the shareholders and executives of Unilever, the multinational conglomerate that owns @benandjerrys. As you know, its market cap has tanked by $2-billion due to July 4 virtue signaling, so your efforts are appreciated

Related: The potted version of the nation’s history favored by the likes of Ben & Jerry’s is meant to delegitimize the United States.

Pizzagate, Come Back! All Is Forgiven.

I suppose I should be shocked that mainstream entertainment media has chosen to circle the wagons around international child trafficking, but I’m not.

 

 

 

@FiveTimesAugust – Starting to notice a pattern with the type of people defending pedophilia and child trafficking… they all seem to look like pedophiles and child traffickers…

Saturday On Turtle Island

Biden’s America:  Kamala vs English.  The reality of affirmative action.  Former MP fired for filming shoplifters.  The Missouri judge.  Your morning meme.

China Virus News:  Did Pfizer sponsor vaccine mandates?    Fascist China News:  Organ harvesting.

Today In Islam:  After the French riots.  Revenge for Quran burning in Sweden (JW).

Woke Britain:  The Trans Anglican Church.  Obviously Vegans shouldn’t have kids.  The Lord’s prayer is problematic.  And Just Stop Oil is recruiting old people.

Trudeau’s Canada:  Justin’s CBC finds some people that support Ben and Jerry’s.  Trudeau’s new feminist military has a recruitment problem.  Dear Leader is ticking off other countries again.  And Justin is still in Calgary. Today he will attend a barbecue and talk to Muslims. Are there six thousand dollar a night hotel rooms in Calgary?

Dutch Government Falls

Guardian;

Mark Rutte, the Dutch prime minister, has announced his resignation and that of his cabinet, citing irreconcilable differences within his four-party coalition about how to rein in migration.

The decision on Friday by the Netherlands’ longest-serving premier means the country will face a general election later this year for the 150-seat lower house of parliament.

“It is no secret that the coalition partners have very different views on migration policy,” Rutte told reporters in The Hague. “And today, unfortunately, we have to draw the conclusion that those differences are irreconcilable. That is why I will immediately … offer the resignation of the entire cabinet to the king in writing.”

Opposition lawmakers wasted no time in calling for fresh elections.

Geert Wilders, leader of the anti-immigration Party for Freedom, tweeted, “Quick elections now”. Jesse Klaver, leader of the Green Left party also called for elections and told Dutch broadcaster NOS: “This country needs a change of direction.” […]

During provincial elections earlier this year, a populist pro-farmer party put Rutte’s party into second place. The defeat was seen as a possible incentive for Rutte to do his utmost to hold together his coalition until its term ends in 2025.

End Of Oil

Robert Bryce;

We are inundated with claims about the “energy transition.”

In February, E&E News, reporting on the State of the Union speech said, “President Joe Biden laid out his vision for the energy transition Tuesday night.” In March, a reporter for Politico declared “The U.S. energy transition is well underway.”

Also in March, during a speech at the CERAWeek conference in Houston, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said that “As this transition progresses, our energy mix will change.” Or consider the March 9 press release from the White House, which said “The Administration is continuing to implement the Inflation Reduction Act, which is already galvanizing our clean energy transition and making clean and energy efficient technologies more affordable for American families.”

I could list many more examples like the ones above. But the hard truth is this: the energy transition isn’t. The numbers from the just-released Statistical Review of World Energy show, once again, that despite rapid growth in wind and solar, those two forms of energy are not even keeping pace with the growth in hydrocarbons. That’s true both globally and in the U.S.

Related: Where has the wind gone?

Kipling wind project gets $50 million in fed money, kinda

Photo by Brian Zinchuk

Kipling area Bekevar Yōtin Wind Facility turns sod, gets $50 million from feds, money that came from Saskatchewan businesses via output based pricing

Basically, Saskatchewan large GHG emitters are forced to pay a form of carbon tax called “Output Based Pricing”. Some of the money from that is what was provided, from the feds, to Cowessess, for their investment equity into this project which cost hundreds of millions of dollars.

Also, Enbridge doesn’t build a lot of pipelines in Canada anymore. But they are building wind turbines off the coast of France.

 

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