No, OP refers to Bill Clinton allegedly having been an Epstein client.

Nah, OpenOffice is close to death since about ten years and has known security issues. Go for only LibreOffice.

In a letter this month, Uthmeier warned publicly owned airports across the state that they must be in compliance with the new law, which requires public airports to report planes with weather modification devices to the state, and suggested that weather modification may have triggered the flooding in Texas.

“Because airports are most likely to catch those who seek to weaponize science in order to push their agenda, your compliance with these reporting obligations is essential to keeping our state safe from these harmful chemicals and experiments,” Uthmeier wrote this month.

So airports now have to report every fossil fuel or fuel cell* airplane and only purely battery-electric planes are allowed? Have fun shutting down every Florida airport. ;)

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It’s definitely easier to electrify maritime transport.

Long-range aviation might not be electrified at all because it’s so hard to get enough energy from batteries without making the plane unable to lift off due to weight, or enough power from fuel cells without taking too much space. Instead we might see hydrogen turbines or synthetic fuel engines.

Either way, maybe we should ask ourselves if a future society should have flight at all? Of course it’s cool that humans were able to achieve flight but right now it mostly serves an overheated capitalism and the short-lived pleasure-seeking of (globally speaking) a few fortunate people.

I disagree with the “the technology is already there” statement. Source: I was part of an aviation electrification research project.

Small regional planes are technologically possible, yes, but transatlantic or transpacific flights? We’re nowhere close to that.

Also: Nobody should be treated like that no matter if anyone depends on them like that.

I’d love to upvote, but come on, that “Master of puppets” devilish Netanyahu just screams “antisemitic clishés”. We don’t need shit like that to criticize genocide and zionist propaganda.

Where are you, a big city or a small town? In the US or elsewhere?

It may be hit or miss, but depending on where you are, there may be people willing to help without expecting monetary compensation. Charities, e.g. by religious groups, or mutual aid groups (the latter especially in big cities).

I wish you all the best, no person deserves to be abandoned like that.

We’re talking about engineers here! We’re using MATLAB or Python if we’re programming at all.

Geht um den Opa des Oberfaschos in den VSA: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Trump

Edith: vergessen, dass ich auf ich_iel bin.

Whoever wrote this has an extremely outdated technical understanding of renewables and energy storage… or wants to push this outdated understanding out of an economic interest/agenda.

Yes, a stable AC grid needs inertia, which was historically only provided by the generators in gas, coal and nuclear power plants. Yes, inverter-connected systems like batteries and PV plants don’t provide inertia naturally. But there are control algorithms out there which would enable these systems to provide inertia just as well… And they could be going into large-scale rollout at least on new batteries and wind power plants within months if it was required by grid codes or incentivized by a market.

I agree that, whatever exactly happened initially, led to a disconnect of the mostly photovoltaic generation in Spain (not yet outfitted with such synthetic inertia algorithms) and the central European grid where more natural inertia was available. The high local PV surplus no longer exported to Europe led to an enormous increase in the grid frequency. The PV plants disconnected which led to a just as quick decrease of frequency and an automatic disconnect of loads - boom, the grid is dead. So far, their analysis was also what I presented to my students on Tuesday. But drawing the conclusion that renewables are bad just reveals either incompetence or an insidious agenda.