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Tuesday, November 8, 2022

Storm Safe



It looks like an interesting week as far as weather is concerned here in the US. Florida will take a hit from either a Subtropical storm or maybe even a low end hurricane. Expect the usual mix of rain, flooding, storm surge and tornadoes. 


It’s not just Florida. That storm could affect a good portion of the east coast. Other parts of the country are looking at snow and other harsh weather. 


That’s in the short term: the next few days.


New England is looking at an interesting winter. Heating oil stocks are low and expensive. Natural gas shortages may cause heating and electricity issues. I’m personally in pretty good shape due to having a good woodstove and solar electric. Most of my neighbors have wood backup, but that’s because we live out in the woods. If you don’t have that option better get some warm quilts, clothes, and sleeping bags. 


Releasing oil from national stockpiles or “drill baby drill” won’t help. Refinery capacity is maxed out. There are no incentives for oil companies to increase output. They make more money when there are shortages. Right now oil companies are trying to extract as much profit as they can. Fossil fuels will eventually run out -or get to expensive and energy intensive to recover. They are milking profits from a dying industry. It won’t go overnight, but you don’t have to be Nostradamus to see where it’s heading. 


To sum up: in the short term we get some interesting weather. Mid term -this winter, much will depend on the harshness or mildness of the weather. Long term, it’s renewables or nothing. 


-Sixbears

6 comments:

  1. Renewables = solar/wind. And there simply is NOT enough energy recoverable from renewables to run the country without MASSIVE cuts in most functions and services. That leaves either oil or nuclear. Wishful thinking is irrelevant. Renewables can include hydroelectric but the greenies are busy getting dams taken DOWN to "save the fish". That means hydroelectric, which was never more than 10-20% of our grid is diminishing also. Sounds like a perfect recipe to exterminate vast quantities of people. Which in reality is what the criminals in power are trying to do.

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    1. Well Dan. There better be a way to make renewables work or we'll all freeze in the dark. Oil and nuclear will run out.

      Also, I like to fish.

      Anyway, we have more renewables here in northern NH than we actually use. Solar, hydro, lots of wind, and some biomass.

      Not everything is a conspiracy.

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  2. Right now renewable resources account for about 20% of all our electricity. And that number is growing. I can foresee that sometime in the future we won't need to rely on Dead things to fuel us. However, part of that process has to be the death of certain Dinosaurs.

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    1. Yes, it's the dinosaur issue that's holding us back.

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  3. Well we got the eye again. Max winds were mid seventies. Amazingly only 2 1/2 inches of rain.
    Last hurricane took a tree down, narrowly missing the hen house. This storm dropped several tree limbs in a stacked layer on top of the coop area. Gonna be a mess cleaning up the tangle.
    Other than that , just the usual palm frond cleanup ....

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    1. Glad to hear you didn't get it too bad. Guess the walls by Datona Beach got hit pretty hard. It got to 68 here in New Hampshire today, thanks to the storm left overs.

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