Four years ago Germany announced they were 100% renewable energy.
“Jan 5, 2018 — Germany has crossed a symbolic milestone in its energy transition by briefly covering around 100 percent of electricity use with renewables”
Now Bloomberg says “the era of cheap energy is over Germany” and Germany’s economy is at “the breaking point.”
Germany Risks Major Economic Disruption From Russia’s Gas Squeeze – Bloomberg
The press says renewable energy is less expensive than fossil fuels.
Last week :
“Drag is not dangerous: How exposing your kids to drag performance can be a good thing”
Drag is not dangerous: How exposing your kids to drag performance can be a good thing | Salon.com
This week :
“Seven people were killed in the tragedy along the Fourth of July parade route in the suburban Chicago city of Highland Park”
“The shooter who allegedly opened fire on the Highland Park Fourth of July parade was dressed in women’s clothing to disguise himself and aid his escape — then ran home to his mother, police said Tuesday.”
Highland Park parade shooting suspect Robert Crimo wore women’s clothing: cops
NPR ran this story about California energy, under the heading of “CLIMATE”
“California just ran on 100% renewable energy”
“Around 3 p.m., renewables briefly produced enough energy to supply California’s energy”
“The state is rapidly building huge battery projects for that purpose, so power generated during the day can be stored for use at sunset. But so far, it’s still a small fraction of what’s needed.”
California is breaking renewable energy records, but fossil fuels aren’t fading : NPR
California uses about 65 million gallons of liquid fuels per day for transportation. NPR somehow missed that.
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California’s battery storage can provide about 2% of their electricity needs for four hours – until the batteries go dead.
“The Rio Grande, which flows out of the Rockies and later forms the U.S.-Mexico border, has long been impacted by withdrawals for agriculture and other uses. Now, rising temperatures and an unprecedented drought pose a grave and growing peril to the river and its ecosystems.
Experts predict the Rio Grande will dry up completely all the way to Albuquerque this summer for the first time since the 1980s.”
June 2, 2022
The Vanishing Rio Grande: Warming Takes a Toll on a Legendary River – Yale E360
July 3, 2022 – Streamflow on the Rio Grande is normal from one end of New Mexico to the other.
Experts say New Mexico is having the worst drought in 1,200 years. Streamflow is at a record high on Rio Nambe, the Santa Fe River and Rio Mora. The Pecos River is much above normal as it has been for the past week.
USGS | National Water Dashboard
03 Jul 1911, 1 – The Independent-Record at Newspapers.com
MO 113 IA 110
KS 109 AZ 108 OK 108 CA 107 NE 107 IL 106 OH 106 SD 106 IN 105 MD 105 MI 105 TN 105 WI 105 NH 104 NJ 104 NY 104 TX 104 VA 104 AR 103 MS 103 DE 102 KY 102 LA 102
MA 102 PA 102 WV 102 AL 101 ME 101 VT 101
CT 99 MN 99 NM 99 SC 99 CO 98 NC 98 UT 98 GA 97 ND 97 MT 96 FL 94 WY 94 ID 93 NV 93 OR 92 WA 91 RI 90
Compare with July 3, 2021
CA 113
AZ 107 ID 107 UT 106 MT 105 SD 104 ND 103 NV 101 OR 100
CO 99 NM 98 WA 98 WY 98 NE 97 TX 96 NC 94 FL 92 KS 92 MN 92 LA 91 AL 90 IA 90
And from July 3, 1901
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The New York Times
HEAT BRINGS DEATH TO OVER 200 PERSONS.
Several Hundred Others Collapse in Stifling Atmosphere.
STORES AND OFFICES CLOSE
Foundries and Factories Shut Down, Building Operations Cease.
Street Car Service Hampered by Exhaustion of Employees — Fierce Squalls Afford Some Relief to the Suffering City.
Over 200 deaths in all the boroughs and over 300 cases of prostration in Manhattan alone, two heat records smashed to smithereens, and two furious black squalls which brought some relief was the result of yesterday’s meteorological record.
The maximum temperature came at 2:15 o’clock in the afternoon, when the mercury reached the 99- degree mark—within one degree of the highest record in the history of 1e Weather Bureau, and equal to the high- previous July record, and 5 degrees higher than the previous July 2 record om
the books of the bureau.“The heat was so0 intense that the entire city was as If paralyzed. Many big companies and wholesale houses closed their doors as early as noon, in order to give their stenographers and clerks 2 chance to flee the city. Almost all of the insurance companies closed their doors. The Metropolitan Street Railway Company was unable to run its cars on strict schedule time for want of men to take the place of those who gave out. All work on the tunnel as well as on buildings and construction work throughout the city was suspended, and even the hospitals were affected.
