Another winter day in Houston is about to start. Cold and wet. Place is a swamp so it’s usually wet. Cold air pushes down from the north, and we get cold. SO we get cold and wet. We did yesterday, we will today, and tomorrow is likely to be cold and wet too. Or at least cool and damp…
Very short shrift today.
Spent yesterday doing a few things. Morning was full of domestic bliss. Early afternoon too. Kid celebrated her braces removal with donuts, and I had too much sugar to stay awake.
Afternoon was taken up with the other kid.
Rainy and grey all day had me hiding in the house. Not much got done. I’m also not feeling 100%. Could be too much sugar poisoning me, or I could be getting sick. In any case I am dragging.
I did get a bit of cleaning done, but there is so much left to do.
Today I have some pickups to do. Then there will be kid taxi stuff. Not much else getting done. I guess that’s ok but it feels like slacking.
Should I be the best possible slacker I can be?? Hmm, probably not.
I will just keep on plodding along, and stacking.
nick
Mind yourself and be well, Mr Nick!
Thanks Denis. I really don’t like the grey days. I have to keep an awareness of that and consider it a factor…
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38F so the cold part was correct. Haven’t stuck my nose out, so dunno about the wet, yet.
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Coffee will be ready in a minute, and that is a good thing.
n
Blue sky, sun poking up. Chilly but without a breeze it’s tolerable.
Frost on some roofs.
n
I fully remember the predictions of the Ice Age that was going to descend upon the states. Ice dozens of feet thick as far south as the TN KY border. Anything above that line was going to be unlivable within a dozen or so years. Crops were going to fail and half the population was going to starve. Really dire predictions. We must do something. Like buying their books and paying them lots of money to speak on the topic.
I remember the predictions of Al Bore. The U.S. would be a scorched desert by the year 2010 if we did not do something. Something like buying his book. That little conceited twerp Greta Thunberg (who has no real education in anything) predicted we were going to be sweltering in caves because the earth would not be livable above ground unless we did something. Something being paying her lots of money to speak at conventions.
My biggest takeaway from all the “climate change/global warming/ice age” is that it is all about money. Transferring money from the pockets of some and into the pockets of others. Allowing some to fly around the world in private jets while the rest of us must use skateboards. Putting people in jobs for which they are unqualified in made up positions in unnecessary government agencies.
We are being scammed by multiple opportunists on climate change. Fauci made a lot of money in the Covid scam. As did a few drug companies and syringe suppliers who made billions of unearned monies that were tossed at them without any oversight. Some people are building a very lucrative career by being in a worthless position and doing basically nothing of value. We were scammed on Y2K. We are being scammed on every little virus that affects one or two people.
Climate change is the biggest scam. The sun is a giant weather machine. To think that us puny humans can effect such massive change is akin to an ant trying to move half a dozen connected locomotives. The climate changes, duh. All this cold in TN is being blamed on, you guessed it, global warming. The fires in LA are being blamed on climate change. As if building in fire prone areas, in high density flammable housing, failing to properly clear brush, and a known low moisture area, had nothing to do with the fires.
The only good thing that has come about from climate awareness is the reduction in pollutants in the air. The LA basin is a good example. Watching the Emergency shows it was readily apparent in some shots that the LA basin was cesspool of poor air quality. India is worse and little (or rather nothing) is being done there.
We should be responsible for the environment and not do things that we know are noticeably harmful, that is certain. But we should not do so by impoverishing people and making life miserable for everyone except the “climate experts”.
I do wonder about the effect of short days and lack of sunlight in our northern climes. My GP says to take a Vitamin D supplement, and I like to eat citrus fruit (fruit salad for breakfast), so Vitamin C is OK.
Does anyone have experience of solar simulators (“sunlight” lamps)? A former colleague from southern parts kept one lit on her desk through the winter, and seemed to feel it helped against the grey-day blues. Any suggestions?
>>Return To Office.
The rumors are that we will be told to go back to five days a week in February.
Maybe because I was “retired” in 2019, but before that (pre-Covid) most everybody worked full-time in the office and WFH was an occasional thing, usually if you had a doctor’s appointment.
>>Does anyone have experience of solar simulators (“sunlight” lamps)?
W2’s son has SAD (seasonal affective disorder) and finds an hour a day exposure to a sunlight lamp during the winter to help improve his mood.
Ottlite is a reputable brand. W2 has two of their reading lamps.
That was the general situation for white and “white adjacent” (Asian) males pre-Pandemic kabuki. Even then, the WFH numbers were limited, mostly Made Members of the Work From Home Mommy Mafia.
IBM had numbers 20 years ago that WFH didn’t work, but there wasn’t much they could do about it at the time. Now, the big employers are going to go AI in a big way and pray it works.
Ah, it’s bleed from the eyes season in Africa again.
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Surprise, it costs a lot of money to raise someone else’s kids….
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John Deere, F ing it up again.
Right to repair, DIE, and exporting jobs- not really news but all in one article…
n
>>”I am so tired of all of the failed predictions”
Going out on a limb here but I predict @Ray will fart several times today without any climate impact.
The inability to speak plainly is affecting our lives in ways we don’t even understand yet.
n
In violation of federal law and AWOL:
https://thefederalist.com/2025/01/16/report-defense-secretary-lloyd-austin-went-mia-twice-last-year-and-didnt-tell-congress/
Only two choices:
prosecute the federal law violations and court marshal
Or
don’t prosecute anyone ever again for a non’violent violation of federal law, and do not ever prosecute anyone below general for being AWOL.
“Gray” days? I’m a victim of “SAD” – “Seasonal Affective Disorder”. I treat it with BRIGHT full-spectrum light. I have a set of 4 40-watt fluorescents hanging over my computer desk. Having them OVER my head prevents most of the glare that bright lights normally cause.
A year ago, I bought a device called a “Happy Light” from Amazon which is good, but is a desk-mount and causes LOTS of glare. I need to figure out a way to hang it from the ceiling.
My Nutraceutical Stack. I eat two meals a day. Bacon/steak/eggs in the am and a steak in the afternoon. Carnivore style diet. I call it dirty carnivore because I use spices and seasonings. I try to walk in the afternoon sunshine to enhance vitamin D. I will eat off carnivore during holiday meals.
Tech nerd Bryan Johnson thinks he can live to 186 by eating vegan, exercise, meditation, and supplements. He is kidding himself on vegan, exercise, and meditation. There are plenty of people who have done this and lived no longer than anybody else. Have you ever seen someone 100+ that didn’t look like dessicated leather over a skeleton? Supplements and medical procedures ala Ray Kurzweil are the only way we will live longer and not look like living skeletons. Kurzweil has been stacking for decades. He is 76 and looks it. By the time he hits 90, he will be a prune unless there is some medical breakthrough to reverse aging. I take my stack as health insurance. I will be lucky to live to my 90’s and I don’t want to be a dried up drooling mummy (Hi, Mr. Ray).
Noted. I will make an effort to comply. It may difficult as that last expulsion did not go as planned and contained an inadvertent surprise. Any further effort today will need to be done with much caution.
Hashtag#PulitzerPrizePervie
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/01/16/wapo-anti-trump-cartoonist-exposed-as-pdo-n3798868
Agree, unless it is one of those special Mr. Ray bun-flappers. Then, all bets are off.
A year ago, I bought a device called a “Happy Light” from Amazon which is good, but is a desk-mount and causes LOTS of glare. I need to figure out a way to hang it from the ceiling.
There may be something to “red light” therapy, but I’ve not tried that. I would like to try an IR sauna for a month if I can find a reasonalbe spa to do it in. MrsAtoz is already talking about redoing the main bath in our new house. There is room for a 1-2 seat IR sauna and a wheel chair access shower (when we need a wheel chair).
Kurzweil has fantasies about living long enough to see tech which allows him to upload his mind into a computer and, down the road, into a new robot body.
The man isn’t playing with a full deck.
Assume pedo in DC unless proven otherwise.
Yummy pizza is a favorite dish inside the Beltway.
BTW, after cataloging my father in law’s porn stash for the estate after he passed, I put guys who have the Bang Bang kink into a “pedo adjacent” category.
I”m not much for supplements, but the D3 and B12 and the one for better vision seem to be working for me.
Vitamin for better vision ? Probably too late for me. My right eye just went from -6.25 to -7.00.
I fully remember the predictions of the Ice Age that was going to descend upon the states. Ice dozens of feet thick as far south as the TN KY border. Anything above that line was going to be unlivable within a dozen or so years. Crops were going to fail and half the population was going to starve. Really dire predictions. We must do something. Like buying their books and paying them lots of money to speak on the topic.
I remember the predictions of Al Bore. The U.S. would be a scorched desert by the year 2010 if we did not do something. Something like buying his book. That little conceited twerp Greta Thunberg (who has no real education in anything) predicted we were going to be sweltering in caves because the earth would not be livable above ground unless we did something. Something being paying her lots of money to speak at conventions.
Global Ice Age, Global Warming, Silent Spring, Mass Starvations across the globe have all been pushed heavily over the last 50 years. I am waiting for the biggie, oxygen reduction in the global air supply supposedly due to reduction of the Amazon Forest.
Greta is now demonstrating and making speeches for Palestine to be a country taking over all of the Israeli land. She wears a head scarf now.
Growing up and midlife I enjoyed the grey days, as I was less anxious, for no reason I can fathom. Now, I would rather see the sun.
“Houston mayor John Whitmire orders return to office for all city employees”
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/houston-work-from-home-20036252.php
“All City of Houston employees will transition full-time to their assigned offices beginning Monday, Feb. 1, 2025. ”
I predict that many of them will retire with Houston’s overly generous pension plan.
Oh wait, there I go making predictions.
“If you own insured property anywhere in California, stand by for a very expensive surprise”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/01/if-you-own-insured-property-anywhere-in.html
“The new policy affects the backstop for California’s Fair Plan, the state’s insurer of last resort, which sells fire-damage policies to homeowners who can’t get coverage elsewhere.”
“The worry is that the Fair Plan lacks the resources to pay for the quickly escalating cost of the fires, which have destroyed tens of thousands of structures.”
“The rules change means insurance companies can bill their customers if they are forced to bail out the plan, which has an estimated $200 million in cash and $2.5 billion in reinsurance, according to data it reported last year.”
“That is likely not enough to cover the Fair Plan’s share of the losses from the fires, forecast at up to $6 billion by analysts at Evercore ISI.”
Get ready, here it comes.
All of the insurance companies in California will spread their losses across the entire nation. State Farm was smart and got out early.
The City of Houston is technically insolvent due to that plan. Whitmire‘s sister-in-law started the mess on this trajectory 40 years ago.
re: Vitamin C
There is a theory, backed up by anecdotes, that your requirement for Vitamin C is largely dependent on your diet.
The less fruits and vegetables you eat, the less Vitamin C you need.
Eskimos ( I hate calling them Inuit, even if it’s what they want) and Arctic explorers who eat mostly meat don’t suffer from scurvy. Dr. Shawn Baker has been 100% carnivore for 8 years; Dr. Ken Berry for over 5. Both have asked “When do I get the scurvy I was promised?”
Re: Vitamin advice.
“Trust in the force, young Jedi!”
Avoid Polar Bear liver.
Once I finish my Ph.d degree in Astrology I will be able to dispense nutrition advice with authority…
I save those for when I am exiting an airplane. The people behind me have no idea who fouled the air. The look on the faces as the people exit the jetway is priceless. In the confined spaces of the airplane aisle there is simply no escape.
The City of Houston is technically insolvent due to that plan. Whitmire‘s sister-in-law started the mess on this trajectory 40 years ago.
Several of the Houston city employees took lump sump distributions in the ultra low interest time period, bankrupting the plan. Lump sum distributions are no longer allowed as far as I know.
Several city employees are now taking their pensions and still continuing to work. The plan is that generous.
My Nutraceutical Stack. I eat two meals a day. Bacon/steak/eggs in the am and a steak in the afternoon. Carnivore style diet. I call it dirty carnivore because I use spices and seasonings. I try to walk in the afternoon sunshine to enhance vitamin D. I will eat off carnivore during holiday meals.
Do you cook all of those steaks inside on the stove or outside on a grill ?
Tech nerd Bryan Johnson thinks he can live to 186 by eating vegan, exercise, meditation, and supplements. He is kidding himself on vegan, exercise, and meditation. There are plenty of people who have done this and lived no longer than anybody else. Have you ever seen someone 100+ that didn’t look like dessicated leather over a skeleton? Supplements and medical procedures ala Ray Kurzweil are the only way we will live longer and not look like living skeletons. Kurzweil has been stacking for decades. He is 76 and looks it. By the time he hits 90, he will be a prune unless there is some medical breakthrough to reverse aging. I take my stack as health insurance. I will be lucky to live to my 90’s and I don’t want to be a dried up drooling mummy (Hi, Mr. Ray).
A friend of mine is turning 100 in February. He has not been able to walk for about five years now (neuropathy) and has a little bit of dementia. His four kids are keeping him in a nursing home in Kerrville, Texas against his wishes.
He was a copilot on a B-24 in the Pacific in WWII. He has had many problems over the years with blood clots in his lungs and strokes from flying too high to get away from the Japanese Zeros. His chest looks like somebody played tic tac toe all over it from all the lung blood clot removals. He also was called up for the Korean war and missed flying on the day the Russian MIGs showed up and shot down half of the B-24s. He retired from the Air Force as a Lt Colonel after being XO of Kelly AFB in San Antonio. He has buried two wives.
Life is unpredictable. Make the best of it you can.
Just watched the Starship 7 test flight. Good launch, booster catch went well, Ship lost contact just after separation, and declared lost.
“Models S-1 through S-7 were not entirely successful.” – R. Daystrom
scroll down for Dean Olson video:
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2025/01/16/starship-test-flight-7-n3798892
Blacula!
Megyn Kelly Reveals Stunning Comment From CA ‘Woke’ Friend Who Lost Home in Fires
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2025/01/16/megyn-kelly-comments-on-la-fires-and-woke-friend-n2184415
Could have applied some thought before November 7. Now it’s too much like “better suck up to the republicans who can send us money so we don’t have to be responsible for our years of bad choices.”
So, yeah, welcome if you’ve finally seen the light, but after four years of Biden there is no money left. None. Nada. Zip.
Cali has the biggest economy of all the United States, and if it were a country it would rank fifth. The voters and the pols have spent years pizzing it down the drain. Listen closely and you can hear me playing the world’s smallest violin.
My immediate “member manager” at CGI was what I call “Cop Army” – think KISS Army but with less emphasis on music and more on the fascism.
20 years Army. 10 years city cop. Pensions from both. Then he went to work at CGI to pour as much money as he could into the ESOP plan, which sold employees the stock at a discount without any restriction on resale timing.
He was clueless when it came to the tech work. I believe he took Java classes at night at the local community college, but he wasn’t even in the same league as the new grad CS hires.
Your retirement money is invested in the California economy.
Even Musk still has a huge stake in California despite relocation of HQ operations to Texas for his various grifts.
Vitamin for better vision ?
– lutein and something with a z I get at costco. My GP actually recommended it. It supposedly softens the eye, helping with age related farsightedness…
n
https://www.costco.com/trunature-vision-complex-lutein–zeaxanthin-140-softgels.product.100003048.html
“Your retirement money is invested in the California economy.”
Not so much.
– now they will just close stores.
n
We stopped at the Walgreens closest to the Oak Alley plantation outside New Orleans around a year ago. Half of the store was locked up in a glass case, and, as far as I could tell, there were only two employees in the entire store, not counting the pharmacist.
The point of the trip was to get zinc oxide cream, something a Walgreens should have, and we came away empty handed.
Again, however, Walgreens bit hard on the agenda four years ago so I’m not feeling bad for the chain or the employees. Their Subcontinent pharmacists in particular seemed to delight in denying prescriptions for that “I” word medicine once they got the word that they could be rough on the customers over that purchase.
re: locking stuff up
My GF, who is a lib, won’t buy cosmetics and beauty supplies at Walmart any more, since they make you shop in a fenced-off portion of the store, and check out separately. It’s just too much trouble.
She’s incapable of connecting the dots as to WHY it’s this way.
I love her anyway, but jeez sometimes it’s hard to remain quiet.
Partly because thieves keep thievin’, but become more creative. E.g. if you add security wires, they will first steal pliers, then cut the wires. If you insert security tabs they will take the product out of the box, and if you put it on a secured peg, they will find a way to cut / break the packaging around the peg. If it’s in a locked cabinet, it becomes a social engineering attack, or a product return scam. And all of that will happen because you don’t have enough employees to open the cabinets or watch for the other thefts, and the ones you have are not paid enough to care.
“Tax Burden By State”
https://areaocho.com/from-mrs-medic/
“The lowest 5 are:
I am surprised. I thought Texas would have been in the lowest five. I guess that our property taxes are too high (they are !)
RIP Deputy Director Cole.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/david-lynch-dies-director-twin-peaks-blue-velvet-age-78/
Here come the hard freeze to South Texas ! 28 F Monday morning with a snow mix starting at 2pm. Then 20 F on Wednesday morning. That is a hard freeze for us.
https://www.wunderground.com/forecast/us/tx/richmond?cm_ven=localwx_10day
And it has not been a decade since the last hard freeze in Feb 2021. Calling Mr. Sol, Mr. Sol to the white phone !
Again, however, Walgreens bit hard on the agenda four years ago so I’m not feeling bad for the chain or the employees. Their Subcontinent pharmacists in particular seemed to delight in denying prescriptions for that “I” word medicine once they got the word that they could be rough on the customers over that purchase.
You gotta spell it out of me, I am just a dumb old Aggie. What is “I” word medicine ?
Partly because thieves keep thievin’, but become more creative. E.g. if you add security wires, they will first steal pliers, then cut the wires. If you insert security tabs they will take the product out of the box, and if you put it on a secured peg, they will find a way to cut / break the packaging around the peg. If it’s in a locked cabinet, it becomes a social engineering attack, or a product return scam. And all of that will happen because you don’t have enough employees to open the cabinets or watch for the other thefts, and the ones you have are not paid enough to care.
There is a video of a guy in a Walgreens / CVS setting the display case locking mechanism on fire to get it open.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dI1bJmqsz8E
Florida has a homestead exemption which limits the growth of the property tax assessment to a low single digit percentage every year and features a questionably Constitutional “portability” clause, allowing a homeowner to transfer their exemption value to another property.
Ok. Ivermectin.
This isn’t Facecrack or Twitter/X.
“Catapult Launch Blows Open Cockpit Door”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZIMut7qt08
Hah ! Looks like a blast. That is a Navy C-2 Greyhound.
My uncle used to say it was the greatest thrill ride on the planet, 0 to 120 mph in 100 feet.
Do you cook all of those steaks inside on the stove or outside on a grill ?
Most steaks are made in an air fryer. Eggs/bacon in a pan on the stove. I will make small steaks in a pan with butter sautee.
Most of that has to do with the high sales tax on everything, even groceries. I even pay tax on my water, but not the sewer. Water because it is something I am purchasing; sewer is a service. The state tax rate is 7.75%, the county adds another 2%, which is the maximum allowed by law, for a total of 9.75%.
There is a movement arising to no longer tax groceries. I don’t think it will pass.
Starship explosion: https://x.com/evenstar7479/status/1880027994548498608
Disney Treasure location at that time https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-78.3/centery:20.0/zoom:7
Wow. I figured someone must have had eyes and a camera on it, but was thinking military, not Disney…
Military imagery wouldn’t be released on Twitter, or within weeks of the explosion. And it’s clearly a cruise ship passenger, not a Disney employee shooting the video. Either she knew when & where to look, or she’s incredibly lucky.
But with almost everybody having a cell phone with photo/video camera, and willing to post it on X/Fakebook/TikTok, I suspect that very few things are NOT recorded these days. Which mostly falsifies UFO and Bigfoot and Nessie sighting reports. If they existed, they’d be on video.
I’ve bought cook books, watched a hundred or more videos on YouTube, and I’m still a terrible cook. Never been successful at following a recipe with three exceptions.
I’ve never gotten anything tasty out of the air frier. I burn most things I cook on the stove. If I can’t grill it or thaw it in the microwave, I don’t fix it. The toaster oven was a waste of money; haven’t plugged it in in a couple of years. Haven’t used the oven since I moved in as I can’t figure out how to get it to work and I no longer care. I even screw up hamburgers to the point that I don’t even try fixing them anymore, they taste so bad my dog won’t eat them.
I hate cooking. It is something I really hate doing.
Please don’t make suggestions, I won’t reply and I won’t try them.
A major part of the problem is that my taste buds didn’t die they are just so screwed up they make things I use to like taste bad and the food at restaurants I loved, now tastes bad also.
@Bob Sprowl
It might be worthwhile to look up “burning mouth syndrome”.
One or a few batteries at the Moss Landing power plant are on fire again. It doesn’t look like it will spread. The learning curve for managing those batteries should be shorter than this.
OR it could be that no matter what you do, some of them will catch on fire.
n
Here come the hard freeze to South Texas ! 28 F Monday morning with a snow mix starting at 2pm. Then 20 F on Wednesday morning. That is a hard freeze for us.
https://www.wunderground.com/forecast/us/tx/richmond?cm_ven=localwx_10day
And it has not been a decade since the last hard freeze in Feb 2021. Calling Mr. Sol, Mr. Sol to the white phone !
They just changed the 20 F on Wednesday morning to 19 F and a high of 31 F. This keeps on getting better and better.
When I was at TXU, we hated days where the temperature was below freezing the entire day. That meant that the electric strip heaters in the apartments would be on all day long and our 125 generating power plants would be running at 105% power all day long. We would even start our blackout diesel generators, mostly supercharged locomotive motors.
They have been running coal trains past my house for 24 hours per day for the last week. Looks like they are getting ready. I think all four coal plants are online now at the plant five miles away from my house (Parrish).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WA_Parish_Generating_Station
I’m taking extra fuel to the BOL this weekend. Hope I don’t need the gennie up there, or the supplemental heat. I guess the propane heat in the garage will be a priority… so much for getting networking and cams up.
I also hope we don’t lose power here while I’m gone, or I’ll be back to baby sit while the wife and kids are at the BOL.
Got plenty of food…
n
Four really bad things happened in the Feb 2021 freeze. One, the wind turbines accumulated ice on their blades to the pressure drop across the blade. Wind turbines north of the Mason-Dixon generally have heater strips in their blades to melt the ice. But the heater strips take half of the power generated so they are a compromise. Here in the South, our wind turbines do not have heaters. So the wind turbines trip offline due to vibration caused by the unequal weight of the ice. That was 20,000 MW.
Two, the falling ice coated the solar farm panels. There are no heaters in the solar panels. That was 3,000 MW.
Then ERCOT shut off the power to the Permian Basin gas fields. The wellheads started freezing up as their ethylene glycol systems failed due to the loss of power to their electric circulation pumps. So the natural gas system in Texas failed. About a quarter of the natural gas power plants in Texas do not have fuel oil backup due to EPA restrictions so they all tripped offline Sunday night. Many of the chemical plants and refineries tripped offline also due to the lack of natural gas and triggered their emergency systems that had to have outside power to keep from blowing up.
Then the inlet cooling water channel at STP nuclear power plant (Bay City) froze over. One of the 1150 MW nukes survived, the other one tripped Sunday night at the exact wrong moment. They did not get the tripped nuke back online until Thursday.
ERCOT then managed to catch a falling knife as they lost 40,000 MW of power generation in less than two hours. They rapidly cut power all over the place and managed to catch the system demand at 45,000 MW. ERCOT stayed at that 45,000 MW continuously for the next four days.
Hopefully things go better this time. We have more gas turbines that have a week’s worth of diesel fuel on site now. Maybe 5,000 MW. And we have more solar panels, about 17,000 MW more.
>>I hate cooking. It is something I really hate doing.
Please don’t make suggestions, I won’t reply and I won’t try them.
@Bob, as you asked, no suggestions, just a reminder that you’ve got people here ready to listen if you change your mind.
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Good night all…
Latest from Google: They are going to pay mega-millions to some Indian company that promises to take a bunch of invasive trees and turn them into charcoal. Supposedly 100,000 tons of charcoal. Whether there are 100,000 tons of such trees, and where they pull the energy to toast them, and how the transport works (surely not…diesel?). All those questions remain unanswered. But it’s green!
I wonder who is really getting the money, and why.
Yes, but the thing I do believe: we impact way too much of the surface area. Not enough left for bugs and wildlife and such, especially not in fertile regions.
Dunno about arctic explorers, but Eskimos (Inuit) eat the whole animal. Lots of organs contain Vitamin C. Also, they have adapted over many generations, for example, their livers are apparently pretty different from ours.
The trade school where I teach the occasional course, has five “integration” classes for immigrants. The goal is to get their education to the point that they can actually take trade-school classes. Apparently, the most challenging classes are the ones with immigrants who cannot read and write, not in any language.
Of course, it’s mostly young, healthy males, often having “lost” their papers, who think milk and honey flow down European streets. WTF are we doing, allowing them in, in such huge numbers?
I like the once-planned-now-on-ice plan of sending them to Rwanda, while their asylum applications are processed. If economic migrants didn’t get to stay here while the bureacracy grinds along, a lot fewer of them would make the trip. The ones who genuinely need asylum could then be processed a lot faster.