Help thy neighbor
“Also Michigan.. and we have the snow melting into webs that feels like plastic.. when I looked up why it smelled like smoke this morning it said because the snow melt was releasing pollutants.. wish i could share a picture of the snow melt.. it’s bizarre.. never in my 56 years in Michigan have i … Read more
Lock 20 is expected to fail next. “Infrastructure Debt” – accumulation of deferred maintenance and replacement that falls upon the future sooner than expected. 2026: Each lock has 7% probability of catastrophic failure. With 29 locks on the Mississippi River, the cumulative probability is 40 to 60% likelihood of at least one lock failiing catastrophically. … Read more
“We are [and have been] eating our seed-corn” — Electricity, Water and Food costs will rise abruptly, noticeably. Living will become that much harder. Unless the USAF steps in to “own the weather by 2025” as it boasted back in 1996. Current yearly demand 16.5 million acre-feet. Annual inflow 11.1 million acre-feet. Comments to these … Read more
PEPCO Maryland “variable raters” suffer 10x higher electricity cost since 2010 – What the heck – How to escape – How to reduce Pepco’s “variable rate” refers to the Standard Offer Service (SOS) supply rate for customers who do not have a third-party electricity supplier contract. It’s called “variable” because it fluctuates periodically based on … Read more
90% of trees all around Wash DC area dead or dying-in-place. EVERY patch of forest / woods appears afflicted; trees losing bark, drying out internally, snapping off a few feet about ground or toppling over altogether in the lightest wind or rain. It is very hard on the trees for decades now and must in … Read more
Mycotoxin testing kits fall into 3 practical categories (your body, your building, or your food). Here are solid, widely used options in each category. 1) Human exposure (urine mycotoxin panels) Mosaic Diagnostics (formerly Great Plains) — MycoTOX Profile RealTime Labs — Mycotoxin Panel 2) Environmental (home/building) mycotoxins — dust-based testing EnviroBiomics — Mycotoxins (50+ mycotoxins) … Read more
This is the single most-important thing you can do to extend the life of your water heater. Standard “sacrificial” anodes (aluminum, zinc) are designed to deteriorate before the steel tank. Powered anodes (titanium) do not deteriorate and instead supply small electrical current that prevents the steel tank from rusting, leaking, bursting. It replaces the standard … Read more
Of course not one peep about this in the owned/controlled Mass Media Ellendale, North Dakota Polaris Forge (near Haywood), North Dakota NVIDIA GPU chips (FPGA) for synchronous math, can consume 1kW per chip. AppliedDigital has method to use little to no water in DataCenter. CoreWeave major customer in AI.
