Alert and Alarmed
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Martians land on the White House Lawn. They say they have been studying our broadcasts and speak our language. They ask for a televised interview with our world leaders. The Pope takes his turn saying "Honored guests, the most important question I have is: Do you know Jesus?
Martians: Yes we know Jesus, the Son of God. He comes to see us every year.
Pope (visibly shaken): What? Every year? Well we have been waiting two thousand years for His Second Coming.
Martians: Maybe He didn't like your chocolates.
Pope (even more rattled and hardly able to speak): Chocolates? What do chocolates have to do with anything?
Martians: When He came to see us, we gave Him a giant box of our best chocolates. What did you do when He came to see you?

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Florida State Fire Marshal Jimmy Patronis on Tuesday said there have been 16 fires during and after Hurricane Helene attributed to lithium-ion batteries used in Tesla and other electric vehicles, golf carts and other vehicles and devices. //

For cultists worried about climate change, a roaring fire hitting 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit will change the local climate quickly and disastrously.

Typically, an EV fire burns at roughly 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit (2,760 Celsius), while a gasoline-powered vehicle on fire burns at 1,500 F (815 C). It takes about 2,000 gallons of water to extinguish a burning gasoline-powered vehicle; putting out an EV fire can take 10 times more. //

A tractor-trailer carrying large lithium-ion batteries overturned and caught on fire on a highway near the Port of Los Angeles on Thursday, snarling traffic and leading to road closures and the shuttering of several terminals at the port.

The Los Angeles Fire Department said in a statement Thursday night that the fire was expected to burn for at least another 24 to 48 hours and that a roughly seven-mile stretch of California State Route 47, from the Vincent Thomas Bridge to Long Beach, would be closed in that period.

The Port of Los Angeles, the busiest port in the Western Hemisphere, said that several terminals would be closed on Friday.

…The explosion caused the batteries to ignite, causing a “thermal runaway,” a chain reaction in which heat develops extremely quickly, Capt. Adam Van Gerpen of the Los Angeles Fire Department told reporters.

This is unverified, un-cross-examined hearsay from grand jury testimony, which usually isn’t revealed publicly for that reason. He went to court. He asked for special permission to file a brief that’s four times as long as a normal brief and to have it disclosed less than 30 days before the election. This is professional misconduct in all likelihood by Jack Smith and it should be investigated. //

Cotton incisively argued that Trump didn't incite violence, as Smith's filing claims, but instead told the protesters at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to “protest peacefully and patriotically," again calling Smith guilty of election interference.

This is a perfect example of actual election interference: Jack Smith violating Department of Justice regulations to try to get out as much unverified, so-called evidence as he has because he’s angry that he lost and the Democrats don’t think they can beat Donald Trump on issues like inflation and immigration. //

Finally, when Welker asked Cotton if Trump indeed lost the 2020 election, the senator deftly answered:

You had states that were changing their election practices or election laws, sometimes in violation of the Constitution. You had networks combining with big tech to suppress what we now know to be a truthful story about Hunter Biden’s laptop and the evidence that it exposed about Biden family corruption.

the Texas case will now return to the District Court for further proceedings, but for now, the Texas Human Life Protection Act remains in effect. //

Keith
2 hours ago
This frivolous appeal by Biden's admin is indicative of their contempt for legal rulings they don't like and the courts that issue them. They are tyrants just looking for the opportunity to rule us all.

SCOTUS was clear on making abortion a state, not federal issue. //

Largo Patriot
3 hours ago edited
States rights exist for a reason and do not prevail only when the federal government allows them to. That's the whole point of states rights. People in red states shouldn't have to live like the people in blue states and vice versa. Abortion advocates are hyperventilating that the federal government, at Trump's direction, will ban all abortions, but have no problem if the federal government, at a Democrat's direction, bans all restrictions on abortion, including restrictions that prevent born alive babies from being left to die. The best way to resolve this conflict is to allow state voters, not federal voters, to decide the regulation issue. We've been arguing about abortion for more than 50 years despite the fact it's been legal that entire time, but legal is never enough, safe and rare is a joke and "celebrate abortion" is the battle cry of pro-abortion advocates. Why don't they put as much time and effort into preventing unwanted pregnancies as they put into killing unwanted babies? It's cheaper, safer and no human life is lost.

The InteliNeo 5500 is a microgrid controller that offers a cost-effective solution for combining traditional grid or gen-sets with renewable energy sources to create a reliable and efficient power generation system. The panel-mount design with a 5” colour TFT display is suitable for packagers and integrators who are looking to integrate clean and sustainable energy to existing power generation sites.

Its Modbus master ensures compatibility with a large number of preconfigured devices (including those of Fronius and many more).

• Single controller for renewables power sources and battery energy storage system
• Native microgrid applications for on & off-grid systems with renewable energy and storage
• 5" TFT Colour panel-mounted display with 480 x 800 pixels
• Microgrid screen templates for quick view
• Support of up to 8* genset/mains controllers on CAN2
• Modbus master TCP & RTU support of up to 9 devices

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued a construction permit on September 16, 2024 to Abilene Christian University (ACU) to build a molten salt research reactor. This marked the first university research reactor approval in 30 years. It is the first liquid fuel reactor ever approved for construction by the NRC and only the second advanced reactor approved since the NRC was created in 1974.

Aside: The first advanced reactor construction permit was issued to Kairos for its Hermes in December 2023. End Aside

Natura Resources is the technology supplier for the important new facility. Andrew Harmon, Natura Resources Vice President of Operations and Business Development visited the Atomic Show to fill in some of the backstory about the project origins, the decision to pursue a research reactor as a step towards their ultimate goal of supplying a large number of factory-produced 100 MWe molten salt reactors, some of the major successes and challenges along the way and the level of community support that the project has attracted.

Nick Freitas

My wife and I came from broken homes and married at 19/20. We were poor, in a profession with a divorce rate much higher than the national average, which forced us to live away from family, move often, and spend half of our first ten years married apart. We literally had people at our wedding betting on how quickly we’d get divorced, and now, 25 years later, we are happily married, have raised 3 kids, and are still in love. Here’s why.

Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
01:56 - #1 Shared Values
05:22 - #2 Shared Goals & Expectations
10:53 - #3 Shared Interests
13:42 - #4 Effective Communication
20:41 - #5 Attractiveness

@arrowb.8438
2 weeks ago
In terms of women venting to men, one thing I implemented in my relationships that has drastically improved communication is this. If they are upset and start venting, ask whether they want solutions, or companionship. That helps them to also get used to clarifying for me "Hey I need solutions" or "Hey I need to just talk". Super huge boost in my dating life.

Understand how BESS can be incorporated into electrical systems, and synchronized with generators.

Battery energy storage systems (BESS) have become essential in modern energy management, effectively addressing the intermittency of renewable energy sources and enhancing grid stability. This course provides a comprehensive exploration of BESS, focusing on benefits, diverse applications and the critical parameters necessary for optimizing performance.

Additionally, the course will delve into the synchronization and load-sharing of BESS with synchronous generator sets, offering a thorough understanding of how these systems work together to maximize efficiency and reliability.

In the end, he found that Georgia statute 21-2-300(a)(2) – which states that Raffensperger must certify that machines are “safe and practicable for use” – by the letter of the law only requires that such certification be done before the machines are put into use. In this case, that was 2019. Bringing this issue up in 2024 does not change the fact that the machines were, in fact, declared safe – rightly or wrongly – by the appropriate officials in 2019. Nor does it matter that those officials were unaware of this potential vulnerability.

What is implied in this reasoning behind the dismissal? Most significantly, Judge McAfee found no reason to question the testimony offered by DeKalb’s experts (Clay Parikh and Ben Cotton). He is impliedly, in a judicial finding, saying that, yes, there is compelling, uncontroverted evidence that Dominion’s voting machines contain the master encryption key – allowing access to all functions, including vote tabulations – in plain sight within the machines.

Likely understanding the significance of his implied finding, Judge McAfee said this in his third-to-last line: “[…] this matter is currently one that must be deferred to the policymaking branches.”

Point taken, Judge McAfee. Now the question becomes: Where is the Georgia GOP legislature? Why are they not walking in to the halls of the legislature today and introducing a bill requiring the Secretary of State to certify that these machines are currently secure? Dominion is the second largest provider of machines in the United States.

Why aren’t all Republican jurisdictions rushing to get this potential security threat addressed, or at least acknowledged? Hopefully some Republicans will have to face questioning on this.

Lil Red @420lilred
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A sincere thank you to @KamalaHarris and @GovTimWalz for contributing material for one of the BEST SNL skits in recent memory

It truly brings me joy! Show more

The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox
BREAKING: SNL just went savage on Tim Walz's disastrous VP debate performance.

DOUG EMHOFF: “Tim will be fine. It's not like he's gonna say something crazy.”

TIM WALZ: “I've become friends with school shooters!”
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Trump War Room @TrumpWarRoom
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Kamala claims babies dying because lifesaving care was not provided after botched abortions is "not happening anywhere in the United States."

She's the liar — it has happened EIGHT TIMES in Tim Walz's Minnesota alone.

4:36 PM · Oct 6, 2024 //

Trump War Room @TrumpWarRoom
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Kamala on lowering costs: "It's a very real issue and we need to take it seriously, and I do take it very seriously."

THEN WHY HASN'T SHE DONE IT ALREADY?

4:46 PM · Oct 6, 2024

Doug Elston Ibendahl @DougIbendahl
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In case you missed it, Christopher Macchio closed out the Trump Rally in Butler, PA last night in spectacular fashion with Nessun Dorma, Hallelujah, How Great Thou Art, God Bless America, and more. Incredible. #BestRallyEver

1:29 PM · Oct 6, 2024

https://x.com/DougIbendahl/status/1842980566087737406

Liberty Belle
4 hours ago
I think the reason this is so heart-warming is that it feels like the true America. It feels like freedom, it feels like hope. There is enthusiasm and sincerity, that are sorely lacking from the leftist Democrats. Nobody was paid to be there, and there was just a lot of patriotic and community goodwill. That's why we have to win. That's why I believe and hope that we will.

Please donate what you can, try to find a nonprofit to donate to. Uh, church, local PD. A lot of those are taking donations, sheriff's departments. I know my department is running a bunch of stuff to the western part of the state to help donate, but please do not donate to FEMA.

They are hindering a lot of what people are trying to accomplish out in the western part of the state.

FEMA doesn't understand that these Appalachian people are built differently. I'm very familiar with them. They are not gonna stand by idly and have government officials tell them what to do. FEMA's playing a game of FAFO because free men don't ask for permission. Again, please donate and help these people out. They need us now more than ever.” //

FEMA can try their bureaucratic "We're in charge" moves to try and divert resources and true help, but these mountain folks are not going to go quietly. Posts like this one, from law enforcement no less, help to bring even more noise.

After this first video went viral, Deputy DeStefano received lots of response and requests asking where they should send their donations. So, he did a follow-up video encouraging relief organizations and churches in the western part of the state to drop their contact information in the video comments.

anon-cdoc
an hour ago
That's funny - Harris, the democrat candidate imports the high name talent to her rallies to bring in people, and Jason Aldean imports the republican candidate to his show and crowd goes wild!!!

"So what has happened," Tuberville continued, "is Mayorkas and this whole group have lied to the American people for three-and-a- half, going on four years." Is there any doubt?

He kept saying our border's closed and this and that. Now, you know, we all been looking for, where are they getting this money from to take care of these people? Other than the fact we knew they’re using the CARES money, COVID money, Inflation Reduction Act money.

Now we know that the group that has been confiscated by this regime other than the DOJ, the FBI, the CIA, everybody involved, now FEMA. They have been taking money from FEMA and paying these illegal immigrants and taking care of them. And it’s all coming out in the light.

"And people [are saying] 'Wait a minute,'" the senator said, "'This is for a natural disaster, not a manmade disaster like the border."

Tuberville then brought the hammer down:

But they’re corrupt. Every day, something comes up now that they’ve been exposed, that they’ve been doing, they shouldn’t be doing. And people should be going to jail. This is treason. And not taking care of these people up and down the East Coast because this.

We don’t have the money. We’re printing $80,000 a second right now, just to keep our country going. They have absolutely, Jeff, run us in the ditch.

National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) and Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) are jointly setting up a highly efficient 800 megawatts advance ultra supercritical (AUSC) thermal power plant. //

India’s current arsenal of thermal power plants operate at an average of 32 per cent efficiency. The AUSC technology can ramp this up to 46 per cent efficiency. In the past few decades, Indian coal fleet has gone through rapid changes in terms of technology, with the first supercritical plant launched in 2010 at Mundra Adani Plant. Following this, a total of 72 supercritical and 20 ultra supercritical units have come into operation. //

State-of-the-art ultra supercritical technology heats steam temperature at around 600 degrees Celsius and 300 Bar pressure with an optimal efficiency of 42 per cent. Increasing steam parameters is one of the best ways to achieve results in increasing efficiency.

The AUSC technology will increase the steam temperature to 710-720°C at 300 Bar pressure and achieve efficiency upwards of 46 per cent. This will decrease the coal usage and emission intensity per megawatt-hour of electricity produced.

To note that our modern society is energy-hungry is not only a massive understatement but an exercise in belaboring the obvious. Everything about our modern technological lifestyle requires energy and plenty of it, and cheap, reliable energy is one of the best (along with free markets) guarantors of a prosperous society. While "green energy" advocates still shout for the need for wind and solar power, the most reliable, efficient, and yes, cheapest energy in the United States is generated by fossil fuels - coal and natural gas - and by nuclear power. //

But given advancements in coal-burning technology, and also given that the United States is sitting on mountains of coal, there are good arguments for the continued use of coal. //

the U.S. led early with a leadoff home run. It invented, developed and perfected the first ultra-super critical (USC) coal-powered plant.

Coming online in 2012, the 600-megawatt (MW) John W. Turk Jr. Coal Plant in Arkansas employed new technology, most notably, an advance in metallurgy that allowed pipes and boilers to operate for extended periods at extremely elevated temperature and pressure.

This higher temperature allows efficiency of 40%, instead of the more usual 33%. Also, Turk had the best pollution controls, its emissions being mostly carbon dioxide and water vapor. Power Magazine was so impressed that it gave the plant its highest honor in 2013. //

Having improved on USC technology, Chinese plant efficiency is around 44%. The new 1,350 MW Pingshan Phase II plant achieves 49% efficiency! The best Chinese coal plant is now cleaner and 22 % more efficient than its American counterpart.

Since 2010, India has constructed more than 90 super critical and ultra-super critical coal plants.
https://www.downtoearth.org.in/energy/budget-2024-25-ntpc-bhel-to-set-up-a-hi-tech-coal-power-plant-how-will-it-work

mopani Ed in North Texas
6 minutes ago
The only reason I am not a fan of coal for electric power is that it takes 100 rail cars per day to feed a 1GW power plant. Half the rail traffic in the USA is coal. If we could cut half the rail traffic it would save a lot of lives lost at rail crossings. Its simple statistics: in a lot of areas in the Midwest, there's an at-grade crossing nearly every mile.

A similar size pressurized water nuclear power plant only needs 35 tons of uranium per YEAR, and requires mining about 200 tons of uranium ore to produce. And the used nuclear fuel is the only waste product that gets safer with time, unlike every other pollutant.

https://www.daretothink.org/how-big-is-that-thorium-ball/

If we would build the molten salt reactor that Jimmy "I pretend to be a nuclear engineer" Carter killed, or the breeder reactor that Bill "sold to the highest bidder" Clinton killed so thoroughly, Nuclear power would only need 1 ton of fuel per YEAR. Versus 100 rail cars per DAY for coal.

I would rather build coal than depend on "sunshine, summer breezes, fumaroles, and chicken manure" for reliable electricity (Petr Beckman), but nuclear is better.

🚨BREAKING: Hillary Clinton went to CNN to announce that they are losing control and that Social Media companies should increase their censorship on Conservative misinformation.

Hillary Clinton: "we lose total control." pic.twitter.com/k9VEhegFP7

— Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives (@dom_lucre) October 5, 2024 //

This is what the government politicians say, right before they are about to impinge on your rights. The phrase about yelling fire in a crowded theater is often used by people trying to curb speech without really understanding the context in which it was used. It was in non-binding dicta in a case that was then later overturned so it was never a binding thought on anything. So when people use it, it reveals they’re not aware of the law. //

CyberChick @warriors_mom
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Can you smell the sulphur from here? 😈

Tom Elliott @tomselliott
Hillary: “We should be in my view, repealing something called Section 230, which gave platforms on the internet immunity … Whether it‘s Facebook or Twitter or X or Instagram, or TikTok, whatever they are, if they don‘t moderate & monitor the content we lose total control”
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