Carole King – It’s Too Late (BBC In Concert, February 10, 1971)
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The disastrous redesign of Pakistan’s rivers
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Blackout Transition: Intermittent Wind & Solar Power Surge Wrecking California’s Grid
05 Mar 2023 Leave a comment
Rocketing power prices and routine blackouts are the inevitable consequence of the ‘inevitable’ wind and solar ‘transition’ – California is no exception.
Indeed, thanks to their deranged leaders’ obsession with chaotically intermittent wind and solar, Californians will be lucky to have power, at all. Putting aside the question of whether all but the elite will be able to pay their bills, as and when power might be delivered.
Notwithstanding the evidence that’s well and truly stacked against their utopian belief that all you need are sunshine and breezes, their Governor, Gavin Newsom is determined to wreck what’s left of his state’s power supply, as Thomas Calenacci details below.
California’s grid faces collapse as leaders push renewables, electric vehicles, experts say
Fox News
Thomas Calenacci
14 February 2023
California’s electric grid faces years of potential blackouts and failure as state leaders continue pushing aggressive measures to transition to renewable energy sources
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Review of “A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy” by David Oshinsky
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A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy
by David M. Oshinsky
597 pages
Free Press (Macmillan)
Published: January 1983
“A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy” was published in 1983 and is widely considered to be the definitive biography of McCarthy. Oshinsky is a professor of history at NYU, a director at the NYU School of Medicine and the author of nearly two-dozen books including the 2005 Pulitzer Prize winning “Polio: An American Story.”
Joseph R. McCarthy (1908-1957) is infamous as the most prominent face of America’s anti-communist “Red Scare” movement in the early 1950s. His actions were so conspicuous and controversial that the term “McCarthyism” was coined early in his rise to notoriety.
Oshinsky’s biography of McCarthy is almost exactly what sophisticated readers expect from a serious political biography: a sober, reflective, dispassionate and interesting exploration of the facts…
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Iron Felix Dzerzhinsky – Head of the CheKa, Architect of the Red Terror
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Russia Just Took a Big Dam Risk. Is Moscow Running out of Soldiers
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The US Arms Industry – The Fight for Douaumont I THE GREAT WAR – Week 84
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Britons paying hundreds of millions to turn off wind turbines as network can’t handle the power they make on the windiest days
02 Mar 2023 Leave a comment
Electricity transmission [credit: green lantern electric]
Not a new story, but problems are getting worse thanks to net zero obsessions. Why authorise new capacity in areas where transmission lines are known to be inadequate?
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UK consumers are paying hundreds of millions of pounds to turn wind turbines off because the grid cannot deal with how much electricity they make on the windiest days, says Sky News.
The energy regulator Ofgem has told Sky News it is because the grid is “not yet fit for purpose” as the country transitions to a clean power system by 2035.
The National Grid Electricity System Operator (ESO), which is responsible for keeping the lights on, has forecast that these “constraint costs”, as they are known, may rise to as much as £2.5bn per year by the middle of this decade before the necessary upgrades are made.
The problem has arisen…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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