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Total Members Voted: 11

Voting closed: February 15, 2022, 10:51:36 AM

[kidcarter8]

Freezer option idea could work, I guess.

-2 is the normal on a food freezer.  That would fluctuate under your proposal.  But better than food wasting.  Some food saved better than none.

Re:  freezer temps on the vaccines - interesting that they now want to get it approved that the Pfizer doesnt need to be kept at such a low temp.

[josh]

Turns out that Senator Ted Cruz really *does* understand why desperate men leave home with their families, and cross the Mexican border to escape from inhospitable and intolerable living conditions.

Love it!

[Kam]

What did Biden send to Texas to help when wind turbines threw the power grid out of whack?

This post contains factual inaccuracies.

[bambu.]

Bambi, solar is good enough for the roof of your van, but not your house? You’re a little weird about that it seems.

Solar is great for houses, and some people in my retirement complex have solar panels on their rooves.
Why don't I have solar panels on my roof?
1. I would have to install them at my expense, and replace them at my expense. I would have to insure them (our monthly fees include house insurance for the house the way it is without the panels.)
2. I don't own the villa, the complex does.
3. To have solar panels I have to get involved with tradespeople and solar companies. How do I guarantee that I won't get "dodgy bros" co and get ripped off?
Also, if the installation causes any damage to the roof etc, I would have to pay for it.
4. We use minimal electricity now, and the price charged has dropped basically by govt mandate...and I complained to the electricity company about the "usage" amount after I discovered "Estimated" in a small box on the bill.
My bills now have "actual" in that box, and someone is actually reading the meter now, supposedly. I can't get to the meter to read it myself as it's in a special building. I can read the gas hot water meter attached to the house though...same thing was happening with the gas bill..."estimated".
I ran the "elderly pensioner" line by them and told them both that guessing my bills was not acceptable.
They don't want
anyone contacting the Ombudsman.
Both my bills dropped about 20% each...lower rates and lower usage amount-no guessing.

$9,000 loan for the panels, supposedly a zero bill for electricity from then on, ...I'm Trump's age, no ambitions to be "president", just want to live a stress free simple life...buying a ticket to ride the solar express is not for me.
Think solar is a younger person's game.

Solar on van roof...would be a totally different scenario.
I would buy a new van.
If I lived in America I would have Alex & Sarah James build a van conversion for me... on YouTube they are...very experienced in van building...they are friends of Trent & Allie in Utah.
Trent grew up in Utah, Allie in Washington DC.

Alex James is your solar Man!
Their van designs are lovely...just like a small home.

[facilitatorn]

People are scooping snow up in pots, melting it and hopefully boiling it before use, and cursing their state government for allowing their infrastructure to fall into such a deplorable condition.

Watch out where the huskies go...    

Maybe all this anger will transform into a political shakeup and revamp of ERCOT.   I think this is one fuckup people are going to remember for a while.   Speaking as a Dakotan,  I'll say that freezing your tits off focuses the mind wonderfully.

Yup. One winter in Mt. Tremper in a rickety A frame (with a kick as stove and hearth setup) and I made a b-line to San Diego where the sun is warming my face.

Municipal battery breakthroughs are the game changer especially now that it looks like the feds are providing funds to scale them.

Red will remind us that Solyndra has already killed the clean energy sector and any growth there since is, like the US Constitution, an overly elaborate hoax.

[Hamilton Samuels]

https://www.syracuse.com/business/2021/02/why-wind-turbines-in-new-york-state-keep-working-in-bitter-cold-weather-unlike-the-ones-in-texas.html

But we couldn’t help but wonder why wind turbines in cold-weather states like New York can operate in the winter with seemingly little trouble when their counterparts in Texas can’t.

The huge Maple Ridge Wind Farm, in fact, operates year-round in the Tug Hill north of Syracuse, an area famous for its bitter cold winters that often pile up 200 inches or more of snow.

So we went to the experts — EDP Renewables, which operates Maple Ridge and other wind farms.

EDPR is the largest owner and operator of wind power in New York and the fourth-largest in the United States. Locally, in addition to Maple Ridge, it operates the Madison Wind Farm in Madison County. EDPR’s New York wind farms produce enough clean electricity to power more than 298,000 New York homes.

Amy Kurt, senior manager of regional government affairs for EDP, said EDP and other wind power operators in this neck of the woods equip their turbines to handle the cold and, even more importantly, the ice that often comes with the cold.

“There are a variety of cold weather and anti-icing technologies that are used on wind turbines in the coldest regions,” she said. “These technologies help prevent the buildup of ice on turbine blades, detect ice when it cannot be prevented, and remove ice safely when it is detected.”

[bodiddley]

It's like imagining that when your car windshield ices up, you can't drive your car.

[Kam]

[Kam]

Lauren Boebert
@laurenboebert
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Feb 19
I'm calling on Joe Biden to order flags to be flown at half-staff in honor of Rush Limbaugh.


Lauren Boebert
@laurenboebert
·
Feb 19
Protecting and defending the Constitution doesn’t mean trying to rewrite the parts you don’t like.

[bankshot1]

Why the fuck would decent Americans honor the memory of a racist who promoted hate for profit and until his dieing day promoted insane treasonous conspiracy theories?

Fuck Limbaugh, the SOB should burn in Hell

[kidcarter8]

heh

Your anger, your hatred knows no bounds.

[facilitatorn]

Pissing on the grave of Limbaugh is an even more patriotic act than pissing on the graves of Ronald Reagan or Robert E Lee.

In this time of restricted travel, some have chosen to demonstrate their patriotism and appreciation of the blight lifted through Limbaugh’s demise by doing this instead,

http://www.vice.com/en/article/v7m87m/leftist-scum-memer-raised-dollar400000-for-planned-parenthood-as-a-special-tribute-to-rush-limbaugh

[bankshot1]

heh

Your anger, your hatred knows no bounds.

Of course they do.

Limbaugh was a cancer on America, and promoted racism and hate and got rich from it. He did a lot of damage to this country. And I understand you're either too stupid or trolling to care, but why the fuck should any decent patriotic American tolerate or honor a piece of shit like that?

Kid-as you're neither, no need to answer.

[josh]

heh

Your anger, your hatred knows no bounds.

Sure it does.

Hear him call for pissing on the grave of George HW Bush?!

No.

JFK?

No.

Nelson Mandela?

No.

Rush Limbaugh?

Absolutely.

Bound, asshole.

[facilitatorn]

Rush Limbaugh helped suck the brains out of conservative politics. It is why he died so fat and riddled with cancer.