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Re: The Shining City Upon a Hill
Here in California we have Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS). "A Public Safety Power Shutoff, also called a PSPS , occurs in response to severe weather. We turn off power to help prevent wildfire and keep communities safe." Regardless of the source of the power, if they determine the weather (dry, windy conditions) the power gets shutdown.Comment
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Re: The Shining City Upon a Hill
White House unveils plans for wind farms in the Pacific Ocean off California’s coast
- The Biden administration on Tuesday announced plans for offshore wind projects in the Pacific Ocean.
- The developments would be off California’s coast, with targets for 4.6 gigawatts of energy, which is enough to power around 1.6 million homes.
- The announcement comes after the White House gave the green light to the country’s first commercial-scale offshore wind project earlier in May
The Biden administration said Tuesday that it will develop offshore wind projects in the Pacific Ocean in partnership with the state of California.
The move, which is the first of its kind, is a key stepping stone toward the White House’s goal of deploying 30 gigawatts of offshore wind by 2030.
One earmarked area encompasses around 399 square miles off California’s central coast. This area is projected to support 3 GW of offshore wind. A second potential location is off the northern coast of California. In total, the administration is targeting 4.6 GW of clean energy added to the grid through these projects, which is enough to power about 1.6 million homes.
The announcement follows years of discussion between the departments of the Interior and Defense as viable locations were scouted.
“Developing offshore wind to produce clean, renewable energy could be a game changer to achieving California’s clean energy goals and addressing climate change — all while bolstering the economy and creating new jobs,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a statement.
In addition to the environmental benefits, the Biden administration also highlighted the economic impacts, especially when it comes to jobs.
“The offshore wind industry has the potential to create tens of thousands of good-paying union jobs across the nation, while combating the negative effects of climate change,” Deb Haaland, secretary of the Interior, said in a statement. “Interior is proud to be part of an all-of-government approach toward the Biden-Harris administration’s ambitious renewable energy goals,” she added.
Tuesday’s announcement comes just weeks after the White House approved the first major offshore wind project in U.S. waters. The 800-megawatt Vineyard Wind project will be located off the coast of Massachusetts, powering 400,000 homes while creating 3,600 jobs, according to projections.
Developing offshore wind in the Pacific Ocean has proved challenging in the past for a number of reasons, including that the outer continental shelf becomes deeper much closer to shore than in the Atlantic. In an effort to counter this, the federal government has invested more than $100 million in advancing developments around floating offshore wind projects.
“Today’s announcement again demonstrates that by taking a whole-of-government approach, the U.S. can smartly develop our nation’s world-class offshore wind energy resources, deploy new technologies that our government has helped to advance, and create thousands of good-paying, union jobs,” said national climate advisor Gina McCarthy.Comment
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Welcome to Joe Biden's America, where everything costs more and there's less of it.
One way companies are concealing higher prices: Smaller packages
Abha Bhattarai
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The Washington Post
June 1, 2021
Updated: June 1, 2021 6:45 a.m.
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Consumers are paying more for a growing range of household staples in ways that don't show up on receipts - thinner rolls, lighter bags, smaller cans - as companies look to offset rising labor and materials costs without scaring off customers.
It's a form of retail camouflage known as "shrinkflation," and economists and consumer advocates who track packaging expect it to become more pronounced as inflation ratchets up, taking hold of such everyday items such as paper towels, potato chips and diapers.
"Consumers check the price every time they buy, but they don't check the net weight," said Edgar Dworsky, a consumer advocate and former assistant attorney general in Massachusetts, who has been tracking product sizes for more than 30 years. "When the price of raw materials, like coffee beans or paper pulp goes up, manufacturers are faced with a choice: Do we raise the price knowing consumers will see it and grumble about it? Or do we give them a little bit less and accomplish the same thing? Often it's easier to do the latter."
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Such cutbacks, economists say, typically coincide with economic downturns, when shoppers tend to be more mindful of cost. There was similar product shrinkage during the 2008 recession, according to John Gourville, a marketing professor at Harvard Business School.
The latest round of downsizing comes as Wall Street is on high alert for signs of sustained inflation. The combination of super-low interest rates and aggressive fiscal spending under the Biden administration has led some economists, including former treasury secretary Lawrence H. Summers, to warn of possible economic overheating.
Slimmed-down product sizes are reflected in government inflation data to some extent, according to Jonathan Church, an economist with the consumer price index program at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Though the bureau's ability to weigh items has been limited during the pandemic because of restrictions on in-person data collection, he said there has been a marked shift toward smaller packages of chips and other snack foods.
For Michael Jewsbury, shrinkflation arrived in the form of cat food. Without warning late last year, his standard order for Royal Canin was filled with 5.1-ounce cans instead of the usual 5.9. But Chewy.com, his provider, continued to charge him the same $81 for his biweekly order.
Both he and his 16-year-old cat Maurice immediately noticed.
"It just showed up at my doorstop in a smaller size," said Jewsbury, 44, of Collingswood, N.J., who estimated the change would set him back more than $240 a year. "There was no explanation, no notification. It really bugged me."
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... wind turbines have the ability to adjust the angle of their wings. If there is too much wind, the wings narrow edge faces the wind, greatly reducing rotations.
... what is special about this new wind turbine farm is that it will not sit on the seabed because the continental shelf off California drops off quickly. Instead the wind turbines will float and be tethered at anchor points.Comment
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Liberals have been played for a fool once again. Seriously, most liberals are just dumb.
Former BLM leader sounds off on group's 'ugly truth'
'I learned they had little concern for rebuilding Black families,' said Rashad Turner
The founder of Black Lives Matter (BLM) in St. Paul, Minnesota, recently released a video in which he called out the group's "ugly truth," by which he meant their positions on family and education.
"In 2015, I was the founder of Black Lives Matter in St. Paul," said Rashad Turner, who now leads the pro-school choice group Minnesota Parent Union.
Turner's video, published to YouTube last week, highlighted how the group's website stated that it wanted to "disrupt the nuclear family structure."
"And they cared even less," Turner added, "about improving the quality of education for students in Minneapolis. That was made clear when they publicly denounced charter schools alongside the teachers' union."
BLM did not respond to Fox News' request for comment.
BLACK LIVES MATTER CO-FOUNDER PATRISSE CULLORS TO STEP DOWN AMID QUESTIONS ABOUT FINANCES
The group has acquired heightened popularity in the wake of prominent police encounters that sparked ongoing protests in recent years. Politicians and other leading figures have adopted the slogan as well.
Recent events, however, have intensified scrutiny of its leader and her ideas. Co-founder Patrisse Cullors came under fire after it was revealed she bought four homes for more than $3 million. The self-described "Marxist" was also seen in a resurfaced video favorably comparing a book to the "Little Red Book" propagated under Chinese dictator Mao Zedong.
The BLM curriculum also engendered controversy over ideas the organization was promoting in schools.
She told the Associated Press on Thursday that she was leaving the position to focus on other projects, including the release of her second book and a television deal with Warner Bros. She held the top post at Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation for more than five years.
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Re: The Shining City Upon a Hill
There are numerous wind farms in Tehachapi Pass, less than an hour drive from where I live. According to KOMPULSA "The wind turbines are designed to run when wind speeds range between nine and 56 miles per hour and are able to withstand wind speeds of up to 133 mph. Optimal output is achieved by the turbines during wind speeds of 31.3 mph, a speed that will rotate the blades on each turbine 16.8 times per minute."https://www.kompulsa.com/factors-affecting-wind-turbine-performance/#:~:text=Average%20wind%20speed%20varies%20with%20 geographic%20location%2C%20wind,generate.%20Effect %20of%20Winter%20on%20Wind%20Power%20Generation#:~ :text=Average%20wind%20speed%20varies%20with%20geo graphic%20location%2C%20wind,generate.%20Effect%20 of%20Winter%20on%20Wind%20Power%20Generation
The problem at higher wind speeds is gusts that can be 30 to 40 mph than the sustained speed. The internal safety controls are nt ale to respond quickly enough. "In 2011, a video surfaced on the internet of a wind turbine in the UK exploding from the inside due to extremely fast winds. This happened due to a combination of brake failure and continuously strong gusts of wind that caused the turbine to lose control of itself." https://dbldkr.com/exploding-wind-tu...wind-turbines/Comment
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