Balkans Shiver Through Historic October Cold; Early Freeze Drives Record Gas Demand In Russia; Michael ‘Hockey Stick’ Mann Booted From UPenn Position; + LCOE Is a Lie
Balkans Shiver Through Historic October Cold; Early Freeze Drives Record Gas Demand In Russia; Michael ‘Hockey Stick’ Mann Booted From UPenn Position; + LCOE Is a Lie
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Good comments on the energy cost chart. A fair analysis would not be that difficult–just amortize part of the facility costs for the standby energy and there should be a calculation of the O&M for these “standby” plants when non-operating. Has no one performed that?
It should be noted that there are some countries with renewable energy that have reasonable electricity prices.
They are countries lucky enough to have pumped hydro.
That means the HYDRO is cheap not the “Renewables”. Nuclear, NATGAS and Hydro are the only RENEWABLES. Coal will last America at least 200 years at present use buy unless we have another SUPER PLANT AGE🤣no more coal after that. BUT it is and can be burned very cleanly…I know I worked in that business 45 years ago and its cleaner now.
“The U.S. saw the historic start of operations at its first ultrasupercritical coal-fired power plant last December as Southwestern Electric Power Co.’s (SWEPCO’s) 600-MW John W. Turk, Jr. Power Plant switched on in Arkansas. The much-watched $1.8 billion project operates above supercritical pressure and at advanced steam temperatures above 593C (1,100F), allowing it to employ a more efficient steam cycle that tamps down fuel consumption by 13% compared to a subcritical boiler—as well as reducing reagent consumption, solid waste, water use, and operating costs.”
–Wayegon, this article is from years ago but I have not heard of other such clean and efficient coal-fired plants.
Trump is pushing these units now. And where I live we use coal & NATGAS for extreme temp periods. Hell my County has a NATGAS generator for those times…and we are the only County in KY that has THREE NATGAS pipelines! And the Northern part of the County is a NATGAS underground reservoir for LG & E in Louisville! All land owners there get FREEE NATGAS for LIFE!
I love living in a small Town!!!😂😂😂😜😁
Lot of snow for Serbia this early – this is record breaking big time! From the looks on the video I’m watching, this easily exceeds 2 feet of snow with trees snapped in many areas there. There definitely has been a dramatic climatic cooling over land areas since 2005 and this is just one small example out of many! This of course combines with the ongoing falls in sea levels since 1992, respectively, as ice continues to grow in both poles as well as glaciers over land. The trend is very clear without ambiguity in this case, no matter how much some try to disagree with any kind of false information or pseudo science mixed in, including those from NOAA, NASA, media…..etc. Burn those newspapers and kill your television!
He never mentioned Sea Ice. He is talking about Snow/Ice on Greenland and Antarctica.
AND Kenneth is correct on everything he stated. Now when the rest of Hunga-Tonga’s water comes back down to ‘Land’ you will see more floods and MASSIVE amounts of snow just like 1978 SUPER SNOWSTORM!
Hi Wayegon.
Kenneth’s comment includes;
‘ as ice continues to grow in both poles as well as glaciers over land.’
Also, my understanding is the water blasted into the stratosphere by the Hunga Tonga eruption is depleted from the stratosphere within three years of the eruption.
This may be incorrect but would appreciate any scientific reference on this.
A curiosity on the eruption is whether the Tonga eruption caused dissociation of the sea water’s constituent parts during the eruption.
Whilst the magma temperature alone does not have high enough temperature to cause dissociation, the depth and therefore pressure (compression) may have increased explosive temperature to cause some dissociation of the hydrogen and oxygen.
Best wishes.
Matt.
!00 plus megatons of water still in the stratosphere from Tonga eruption?
Some credible scientific explanation would make your comment, eer… credible, thank you.
What you can see in the animated image and notice.
The sun’s zenith creates an area/band of warm surface water.
The Earth’s rotation causes the ocean to move in the opposite direction. Warm surface water accumulates on the coasts in the direction of ocean movement.
Cold deep water bubbles up in vortices following the ocean’s movements.
Spinky, the animation shows anomalies above and below normal.
You are describing that which is normal.
The warmer than normal Northern Pacific is called the Northern Pacific Positive Decadal Oscillation.
Hi there Spinkster.
I would agree some of the SST anomaly charts may be corrupted.
If you check out the SST anomaly chart during a strong LA Nina such as the recent 3 year one or a strong El Nino you will gain a good understanding of the SST anomalies.
“Cornwall Insight also warned on Tuesday that household energy bills will jump by £100 in April.”
–An additional 100 pounds/month will further crush already crushed households and industries, making the move toward Reform all the more dramatic. Such a groundswell for Reform will be the final death knell for UK Net Zero, imo.
When the wind is calm, the UK buys expensive electricity from Norway, Denmark, Ireland, France, Belgium and the Netherlands. The UK exports cheap wind power electricity when the wind is blowing.
£100 equals $134 dollars a month. Britain will lose thousands from Hypothermia this Winter and add the Muslim rape gang situation and Britain is ripe for a REVOLUTINONARY WAR against the same British govt…a’int karma a beatch?!!!?😂😂😂😂😁👌
“Rescue efforts were underway on Sunday to clear access to campsites on Tibet’s eastern slope of Mount Everest, where nearly 1,000 people have been trapped by a blizzard that has blocked roads, according to Chinese state media reports.”
Okay, I got the statue, but the bro? Although I am fully accustomed to being “one of the boys” having grown up with four brothers. Perhaps it’s better this way. Should I adopt a male nickname? I’m not planning on a sex change, but should Internet-only relationships follow the same rules as real world ones? How can they? If you get attached to someone, why not claim brotherhood?
I’ve decided to call myself Lewis in honor of my father, and to encourage the strictly platonic nature of Internet relationships. It’s either that or “the artist formerly known as Deb”. I’ll have think about it. I welcome your input.
Statue Bro is a little satire based on pidgen English as used by some ethnic affiliated groups in the South Pacific.
Any male gender context was merely throw away, girlie.
We , down here, are going to keep winding in your daylight time for a while, yet.
Be happy.
How can I be happy when my life is filled with fabric foot-shaped obliated figurines who continually grieve the feminine portion of my psyche? Maybe I should keep the masculine side of said psyche turned toward the Internet. After all, what does it matter, really? None of this crap is real.
Add to that the steadily dropping level of serotonin, due to shorter days… happiness is not within my grasp until the end of February.
And don’t you “girlie” me, Mister Master Manipulator! I’m on to your tricks!
We have a winner! After scrolling through about 300 androgynous names, Drew jumped out at me. I decided I didn’t want a masculine name after all, so I went in search of gender neutral ones.
Drew is perfect! It’s short, not too weird (many were!), is gender neutral and begins with ” D””.
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Good comments on the energy cost chart. A fair analysis would not be that difficult–just amortize part of the facility costs for the standby energy and there should be a calculation of the O&M for these “standby” plants when non-operating. Has no one performed that?
It should be noted that there are some countries with renewable energy that have reasonable electricity prices.
They are countries lucky enough to have pumped hydro.
That means the HYDRO is cheap not the “Renewables”. Nuclear, NATGAS and Hydro are the only RENEWABLES. Coal will last America at least 200 years at present use buy unless we have another SUPER PLANT AGE🤣no more coal after that. BUT it is and can be burned very cleanly…I know I worked in that business 45 years ago and its cleaner now.
ARTICLE
First U.S. Ultrasupercritical Power Plant in Operation
https://www.powermag.com/first-u-s-ultrasupercritical-power-plant-in-operation/
“The U.S. saw the historic start of operations at its first ultrasupercritical coal-fired power plant last December as Southwestern Electric Power Co.’s (SWEPCO’s) 600-MW John W. Turk, Jr. Power Plant switched on in Arkansas. The much-watched $1.8 billion project operates above supercritical pressure and at advanced steam temperatures above 593C (1,100F), allowing it to employ a more efficient steam cycle that tamps down fuel consumption by 13% compared to a subcritical boiler—as well as reducing reagent consumption, solid waste, water use, and operating costs.”
–Wayegon, this article is from years ago but I have not heard of other such clean and efficient coal-fired plants.
Trump is pushing these units now. And where I live we use coal & NATGAS for extreme temp periods. Hell my County has a NATGAS generator for those times…and we are the only County in KY that has THREE NATGAS pipelines! And the Northern part of the County is a NATGAS underground reservoir for LG & E in Louisville! All land owners there get FREEE NATGAS for LIFE!
I love living in a small Town!!!😂😂😂😜😁
Do you have your own Natural Gas Well that powers your Natural Gas Generator?
Geothermal electricity generation is also a true renewable.
Lot of snow for Serbia this early – this is record breaking big time! From the looks on the video I’m watching, this easily exceeds 2 feet of snow with trees snapped in many areas there. There definitely has been a dramatic climatic cooling over land areas since 2005 and this is just one small example out of many! This of course combines with the ongoing falls in sea levels since 1992, respectively, as ice continues to grow in both poles as well as glaciers over land. The trend is very clear without ambiguity in this case, no matter how much some try to disagree with any kind of false information or pseudo science mixed in, including those from NOAA, NASA, media…..etc. Burn those newspapers and kill your television!
Sea ice does not effect sea level.
He never mentioned Sea Ice. He is talking about Snow/Ice on Greenland and Antarctica.
AND Kenneth is correct on everything he stated. Now when the rest of Hunga-Tonga’s water comes back down to ‘Land’ you will see more floods and MASSIVE amounts of snow just like 1978 SUPER SNOWSTORM!
Hi Wayegon.
Kenneth’s comment includes;
‘ as ice continues to grow in both poles as well as glaciers over land.’
Also, my understanding is the water blasted into the stratosphere by the Hunga Tonga eruption is depleted from the stratosphere within three years of the eruption.
This may be incorrect but would appreciate any scientific reference on this.
A curiosity on the eruption is whether the Tonga eruption caused dissociation of the sea water’s constituent parts during the eruption.
Whilst the magma temperature alone does not have high enough temperature to cause dissociation, the depth and therefore pressure (compression) may have increased explosive temperature to cause some dissociation of the hydrogen and oxygen.
Best wishes.
Matt.
Nope. 25-35 CUBIC MILES has not yet fallen out to normalize the levels.
!00 plus megatons of water still in the stratosphere from Tonga eruption?
Some credible scientific explanation would make your comment, eer… credible, thank you.
And further Wayegon.
Every I degree C increase in temperature increases water evaporation by 10 to 25 %.
The Northern Pacific ocean is in some areas more than 5 degrees warmer than normal.
This warm water pool emanates from the east coast of Japan where 4 tectonic plates meet.
https://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/data_current/5km/v3.1_op/animation/gif/ssta_animation_90day_large.gif
What you can see in the animated image and notice.
The sun’s zenith creates an area/band of warm surface water.
The Earth’s rotation causes the ocean to move in the opposite direction. Warm surface water accumulates on the coasts in the direction of ocean movement.
Cold deep water bubbles up in vortices following the ocean’s movements.
Spinky, the animation shows anomalies above and below normal.
You are describing that which is normal.
The warmer than normal Northern Pacific is called the Northern Pacific Positive Decadal Oscillation.
It’s about how normal is calculated.
Do you think the areas and bands of warmer water moving around are shown in normal?
You can see the zenith from the sun creating warm areas/bands in both the anomaly map and temperature map.
https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/?dm_id=natlsp
Hi there Spinkster.
I would agree some of the SST anomaly charts may be corrupted.
If you check out the SST anomaly chart during a strong LA Nina such as the recent 3 year one or a strong El Nino you will gain a good understanding of the SST anomalies.
Cheers, big fulluh.
63 dead in Monsoon rains in Nepal and India.
Over 1000 people trapped on Mount Everest after heavy snowfall.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20251005-landslides-and-floods-kill-63-in-nepal-india
ARTICLE
In The UK The Net Zero Consensus Has Crumbled
October 03, 2025/ Francis Menton
https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2025-10-3-in-the-uk-the-net-zero-consensus-is-crumbling
“Cornwall Insight also warned on Tuesday that household energy bills will jump by £100 in April.”
–An additional 100 pounds/month will further crush already crushed households and industries, making the move toward Reform all the more dramatic. Such a groundswell for Reform will be the final death knell for UK Net Zero, imo.
When the wind is calm, the UK buys expensive electricity from Norway, Denmark, Ireland, France, Belgium and the Netherlands. The UK exports cheap wind power electricity when the wind is blowing.
£100 equals $134 dollars a month. Britain will lose thousands from Hypothermia this Winter and add the Muslim rape gang situation and Britain is ripe for a REVOLUTINONARY WAR against the same British govt…a’int karma a beatch?!!!?😂😂😂😂😁👌
ARTICLE
Almost 1,000 trapped on Tibetan side of Mount Everest by blizzard
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/almost-1-000-trapped-tibetan-100923084.html
“Rescue efforts were underway on Sunday to clear access to campsites on Tibet’s eastern slope of Mount Everest, where nearly 1,000 people have been trapped by a blizzard that has blocked roads, according to Chinese state media reports.”
–Everest – not a good place to FAFO.
Has anybody seen our friend Deb.
Deb, please come home, all is forgiven.
Can’t you just let me run away in peace?
I miss you too.
Statue Bro?
(Is that you Deb?)
You know who!!!
Who else, O Thief of Time!
Statue Bro? What is that about?
Okay, I got the statue, but the bro? Although I am fully accustomed to being “one of the boys” having grown up with four brothers. Perhaps it’s better this way. Should I adopt a male nickname? I’m not planning on a sex change, but should Internet-only relationships follow the same rules as real world ones? How can they? If you get attached to someone, why not claim brotherhood?
I’ve decided to call myself Lewis in honor of my father, and to encourage the strictly platonic nature of Internet relationships. It’s either that or “the artist formerly known as Deb”. I’ll have think about it. I welcome your input.
Hi Deblingtonhead.
Statue Bro is a little satire based on pidgen English as used by some ethnic affiliated groups in the South Pacific.
Any male gender context was merely throw away, girlie.
We , down here, are going to keep winding in your daylight time for a while, yet.
Be happy.
How can I be happy when my life is filled with fabric foot-shaped obliated figurines who continually grieve the feminine portion of my psyche? Maybe I should keep the masculine side of said psyche turned toward the Internet. After all, what does it matter, really? None of this crap is real.
Add to that the steadily dropping level of serotonin, due to shorter days… happiness is not within my grasp until the end of February.
And don’t you “girlie” me, Mister Master Manipulator! I’m on to your tricks!
Moffin, Bud and bro-
We have a winner! After scrolling through about 300 androgynous names, Drew jumped out at me. I decided I didn’t want a masculine name after all, so I went in search of gender neutral ones.
Drew is perfect! It’s short, not too weird (many were!), is gender neutral and begins with ” D””.
Now I guess we’ll find out what’s in a name.