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May 2, 2024
Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died
Source: Seattle Times
Joshua Dean, a former quality auditor at Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems and one of the first whistleblowers to allege Spirit leadership had ignored manufacturing defects on the 737 MAX, died Tuesday morning after a struggle with a sudden, fast-spreading infection.
Known as Josh, Dean lived in Wichita, Kan., where Spirit is based. He was 45, had been in good health and was noted for having a healthy lifestyle.
He died after two weeks in critical condition, his aunt Carol Parsons said.
Spirit spokesperson Joe Buccino said: “Our thoughts are with Josh Dean’s family. This sudden loss is stunning news here and for his loved ones.”
Read more: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/whistleblower-josh-dean-of-boeing-supplier-spirit-aerosystems-has-died/
Dean was represented by a law firm in South Carolina that also represented Boeing whistleblower John “Mitch” Barnett.
Barnett was found dead in an apparent suicide in March.
Barnett was found dead in an apparent suicide in March.
April 28, 2024
Tesla Cybertruck’s Battery Can Power A House. Owner Quoted $30,000 To Make That Happen
Costs vary wildly and owners have to go through Tesla-approved installers, which may make it harder for some to get the work done.
Iulian Dnistran | InsideEvs.com | Apr 26, 2024
The Cybertruck is Tesla's first consumer EV that supports bidirectional charging. The EV maker calls the feature Powershare and it basically means that the truck’s roughly 123-kilowatt-hour battery pack can be used to power tools and appliances, charge other EVs and even provide backup power to an entire house if the grid goes down.
To act as a mobile generator, though, Tesla requires Cybertruck owners to install a so-called Powershare Gateway–a hardware panel that takes power from the pickup’s battery and routes it to the house’s electrical installation. It can also route power from the grid to the car’s battery to keep it topped up. Those who ordered the top-spec Cyberbeast Foundation Series get a $4,000 installation credit included in the vehicle’s purchase, but as one owner recently found out, that amount might be extremely low...
As he explained in detail in the X post embedded below, Tegtmeyer wanted to take advantage of his truck’s power-exporting capabilities and contacted Tesla about it. The company sent a certified installer to his house to survey the electrical system which included an existing 36.6 kW roof-mounted solar system and an upgraded 250-amp main panel.
After everything was said and done, the Tesla-approved installer–Treehouse in this case–came up with an eye-watering estimate of $33,837.5. According to the company’s estimate, the biggest piece was represented by a utility upgrade to 320A amounting to $24,150. With two Tesla Powerwalls–that’s a stationary battery that also acts as a generator–the estimate went up to $64,275...more
https://insideevs.com/news/717559/tesla-cybertruck-powershare-install-estimate/
Sure electric lines are everywhere. But bandwidth is going to be a huge and expensive problem in some cases.
Tesla Cybertruck's Battery Can Power A House. Owner Quoted $30,000 To Make That Happen
Tesla Cybertruck’s Battery Can Power A House. Owner Quoted $30,000 To Make That Happen
Costs vary wildly and owners have to go through Tesla-approved installers, which may make it harder for some to get the work done.
Iulian Dnistran | InsideEvs.com | Apr 26, 2024
The Cybertruck is Tesla's first consumer EV that supports bidirectional charging. The EV maker calls the feature Powershare and it basically means that the truck’s roughly 123-kilowatt-hour battery pack can be used to power tools and appliances, charge other EVs and even provide backup power to an entire house if the grid goes down.
To act as a mobile generator, though, Tesla requires Cybertruck owners to install a so-called Powershare Gateway–a hardware panel that takes power from the pickup’s battery and routes it to the house’s electrical installation. It can also route power from the grid to the car’s battery to keep it topped up. Those who ordered the top-spec Cyberbeast Foundation Series get a $4,000 installation credit included in the vehicle’s purchase, but as one owner recently found out, that amount might be extremely low...
As he explained in detail in the X post embedded below, Tegtmeyer wanted to take advantage of his truck’s power-exporting capabilities and contacted Tesla about it. The company sent a certified installer to his house to survey the electrical system which included an existing 36.6 kW roof-mounted solar system and an upgraded 250-amp main panel.
After everything was said and done, the Tesla-approved installer–Treehouse in this case–came up with an eye-watering estimate of $33,837.5. According to the company’s estimate, the biggest piece was represented by a utility upgrade to 320A amounting to $24,150. With two Tesla Powerwalls–that’s a stationary battery that also acts as a generator–the estimate went up to $64,275...more
https://insideevs.com/news/717559/tesla-cybertruck-powershare-install-estimate/
Sure electric lines are everywhere. But bandwidth is going to be a huge and expensive problem in some cases.
April 27, 2024
Caught on Camera: Monroe County NY DA Sandra Doorley defies police orders in traffic stop
Marcia Greenwood | Rochester Democrat and Chronicle | April 27, 2024
In a story published Friday morning in the Democrat and Chronicle, Monroe County District Attorney Sandra Doorley acknowledged to D&C reporter Gary Craig that there was friction in her interaction with a Webster police officer during a Monday traffic stop for speeding.
On Friday afternoon, based on a Freedom of Information Law request, the Webster Police Department released video from the body-worn camera of the officer, Cameron Crisafulli, and of other officers who responded to the scene.
It shows a highly tense exchange with Doorley refusing to follow Officer Crisafulli’s commands and cursing at him while wandering in and out of the garage of her home and at one point entering her home on Fallen Leaf Terrace in Webster, where the stop ended.
After Doorley swears at Crisafulli, he says, “I don’t know why you’re acting like this toward me,” pointing out that she should have stopped on Phillips Road, where the officer, with his emergency lights activated, tried to pull her over after clocking her going 55 mph in a 35 mph zone around 5:30 p.m...more
https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2024/04/27/sandra-doorley-video-shows-da-refusing-to-follow-officers-commands-rochester-ny/73473451007/
"Rules" are for THEE but Not for MEE"
Caught on Camera: Monroe County NY DA Sandra Doorley defies police orders in traffic stop
Caught on Camera: Monroe County NY DA Sandra Doorley defies police orders in traffic stop
Marcia Greenwood | Rochester Democrat and Chronicle | April 27, 2024
In a story published Friday morning in the Democrat and Chronicle, Monroe County District Attorney Sandra Doorley acknowledged to D&C reporter Gary Craig that there was friction in her interaction with a Webster police officer during a Monday traffic stop for speeding.
On Friday afternoon, based on a Freedom of Information Law request, the Webster Police Department released video from the body-worn camera of the officer, Cameron Crisafulli, and of other officers who responded to the scene.
It shows a highly tense exchange with Doorley refusing to follow Officer Crisafulli’s commands and cursing at him while wandering in and out of the garage of her home and at one point entering her home on Fallen Leaf Terrace in Webster, where the stop ended.
After Doorley swears at Crisafulli, he says, “I don’t know why you’re acting like this toward me,” pointing out that she should have stopped on Phillips Road, where the officer, with his emergency lights activated, tried to pull her over after clocking her going 55 mph in a 35 mph zone around 5:30 p.m...more
https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2024/04/27/sandra-doorley-video-shows-da-refusing-to-follow-officers-commands-rochester-ny/73473451007/
"Rules" are for THEE but Not for MEE"
April 26, 2024
Great that they have noticed this in 2024. It only took 9 years. What are they going to do about it now, 9 years later? How many more will die? Who has consented to be Tesla's guinea pig?
Is NHTSA compromised??
Tesla's Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths
Source: The Verge
In March 2023, a North Carolina student was stepping off a school bus when he was struck by a Tesla Model Y traveling at “highway speeds,” according to a federal investigation that published today. The Tesla driver was using Autopilot, the automaker’s advanced driver-assist feature that Elon Musk insists will eventually lead to fully autonomous cars.
The 17-year-old student who was struck was transported to a hospital by helicopter with life-threatening injuries. But what the investigation found after examining hundreds of similar crashes was a pattern of driver inattention, combined with the shortcomings of Tesla’s technology, resulting in hundreds of injuries and dozens of deaths.
Drivers using Autopilot or the system’s more advanced sibling, Full Self-Driving, “were not sufficiently engaged in the driving task,” and Tesla’s technology “did not adequately ensure that drivers maintained their attention on the driving task,” NHTSA concluded.
In total, NHTSA investigated 956 crashes, starting in January 2018 and extending all the way until August 2023. Of those crashes, some of which involved other vehicles striking the Tesla vehicle, 29 people died. There were also 211 crashes in which “the frontal plane of the Tesla struck a vehicle or obstacle in its path.” These crashes, which were often the most severe, resulted in 14 deaths and 49
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/26/24141361/tesla-autopilot-fsd-nhtsa-investigation-report-crash-death
NHTSA: Even the brand name “Autopilot” is misleading
Great that they have noticed this in 2024. It only took 9 years. What are they going to do about it now, 9 years later? How many more will die? Who has consented to be Tesla's guinea pig?
Is NHTSA compromised??
April 21, 2024
The Fantasy of Reviving Nuclear Energy
Stephanie Cooke | New York Times | April 18, 2024
World leaders are not unaware of the nuclear industry’s long history of failing to deliver on its promises, or of its weakening vital signs. Yet many continue to act as if a “nuclear renaissance” could be around the corner even though nuclear energy’s share of global electricity generation has fallen by almost half from its high of roughly 17 percent in 1996.
In search of that revival, representatives from more than 30 countries gathered in Brussels in March at a nuclear summit hosted by the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Belgian government. Thirty-four nations, including the United States and China, agreed “to work to fully unlock the potential of nuclear energy,” including extending the lifetime of existing reactors, building new nuclear power plants and deploying advanced reactors.
Yet even as they did so, there was an acknowledgment of the difficulty of their undertaking. “Nuclear technology can play an important role in the clean energy transition,” Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, told summit attendees. But she added that “the reality today, in most markets, is a reality of a slow but steady decline in market share” for nuclear power.
The numbers underscore that downturn. Solar and wind power together began outperforming nuclear power globally in 2021, and that trend continues as nuclear staggers along. Solar alone added more than 400 gigawatts of capacity worldwide last year, two-thirds more than the previous year. That’s more than the roughly 375 gigawatts of combined capacity of the world’s 415 nuclear reactors, which remained relatively unchanged last year. At the same time, investment in energy storage technology is rapidly accelerating. In 2023, BloombergNEF reported that investors for the first time put more money into stationary energy storage than they did into nuclear...
...The Energy Department estimates the total cost of such an effort in the United States at roughly $700 billion. But David Schlissel, a director at the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, has calculated that the two new reactors at the Vogtle plant in Georgia — the only new reactors built in the United States in a generation — on average, cost $21.2 million per megawatt in today’s dollars — which translates to $21.2 billion per gigawatt. Using that figure as a yardstick, the cost of building 200 gigawatts of new capacity would be far higher: at least $4 trillion, or $6 trillion if you count the additional cost of replacing existing reactors as they age out...more
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/18/opinion/nuclear-power-fantasy-climate.html
The Fantasy of Reviving Nuclear Energy - NYT
The Fantasy of Reviving Nuclear Energy
Stephanie Cooke | New York Times | April 18, 2024
World leaders are not unaware of the nuclear industry’s long history of failing to deliver on its promises, or of its weakening vital signs. Yet many continue to act as if a “nuclear renaissance” could be around the corner even though nuclear energy’s share of global electricity generation has fallen by almost half from its high of roughly 17 percent in 1996.
In search of that revival, representatives from more than 30 countries gathered in Brussels in March at a nuclear summit hosted by the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Belgian government. Thirty-four nations, including the United States and China, agreed “to work to fully unlock the potential of nuclear energy,” including extending the lifetime of existing reactors, building new nuclear power plants and deploying advanced reactors.
Yet even as they did so, there was an acknowledgment of the difficulty of their undertaking. “Nuclear technology can play an important role in the clean energy transition,” Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, told summit attendees. But she added that “the reality today, in most markets, is a reality of a slow but steady decline in market share” for nuclear power.
The numbers underscore that downturn. Solar and wind power together began outperforming nuclear power globally in 2021, and that trend continues as nuclear staggers along. Solar alone added more than 400 gigawatts of capacity worldwide last year, two-thirds more than the previous year. That’s more than the roughly 375 gigawatts of combined capacity of the world’s 415 nuclear reactors, which remained relatively unchanged last year. At the same time, investment in energy storage technology is rapidly accelerating. In 2023, BloombergNEF reported that investors for the first time put more money into stationary energy storage than they did into nuclear...
...The Energy Department estimates the total cost of such an effort in the United States at roughly $700 billion. But David Schlissel, a director at the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, has calculated that the two new reactors at the Vogtle plant in Georgia — the only new reactors built in the United States in a generation — on average, cost $21.2 million per megawatt in today’s dollars — which translates to $21.2 billion per gigawatt. Using that figure as a yardstick, the cost of building 200 gigawatts of new capacity would be far higher: at least $4 trillion, or $6 trillion if you count the additional cost of replacing existing reactors as they age out...more
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/18/opinion/nuclear-power-fantasy-climate.html
April 18, 2024
How Cloud Seeding Boosts Rainfall — and Why That’s Controversial
A geoengineering technology that had fallen out of favor is making a comeback.
Bloomberg | Laura Millan | April 17, 2024
Humans started using chemicals to supercharge clouds’ capacity to release rain and snow decades ago, but the technology is gaining traction as climate change makes some regions hotter and drier. While popular in countries including the US and the United Arab Emirates, cloud seeding remains controversial because it can have unintended consequences such as too much rain or increased pollution.
The debate around modifying and controlling the weather, also referred to as geoengineering the planet, has intensified as clean technologies and cuts to greenhouse gas emissions prove insufficient to halt global warming. Those in favor argue that dealing with the climate crisis is so urgent that no option should be left out, while those opposed warn of a lack of regulation, unforeseen side effects and a delay to the energy transition...
What is the history of cloud seeding?
Cloud seeding was developed during the 1940s and became popular in the US during the 1950s and 1960s as farmers, hydropower companies and ski resorts benefitted from additional precipitation. But it fell out of favor over the next decades as government funding dried up following revelations the US deployed a secret military seeding program during the Vietnam War. In 1977, the US, Russia, India and some European nations signed the Environmental Modification Convention banning weather modification techniques for military purposes.
More countries are exploring cloud seeding as accelerating climate change worsens the struggle for water. It’s used in western US states and European countries including France and Spain. China uses it regularly for irrigation purposes and also to regulate rainfall in Beijing, including during the 2008 Olympics...more
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-17/how-cloud-seeding-boosts-rainfall-and-why-that-s-controversial
https://archive.is/c6C9r
World Meteorological Organization
WxMOD Peer Review Report on Global Precipitation Enhancement Activities
Tue 4 Jul 2023
https://filecloud.wmo.int/share/s/_ujeyRLhRxGYsN05nO6X_Q
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Dodging silver bullets: how cloud seeding could go wrong
Laura Kuhl | August 11, 2022
...The promise of creating rain is highly appealing in the face of increasing water shortages and disruptions to water cycles exacerbated by climate change. While cloud seeding is not a new technology—the first experiments took place in the 1940s—it fell out of favor in the 1980s for being an “unacceptable ethical and environmental hazard.” It is now back on the policy agenda as a climate adaptation strategy. Idaho, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, and California have all expanded their cloud seeding operations in the past two years in response to the worsening drought. Despite its potential, the risks associated with cloud seeding are high, and there is significant danger that cloud seeding may do more harm than good...more
https://thebulletin.org/2022/08/dodging-silver-bullets-how-cloud-seeding-could-go-wrong/
But "it's not happening here" ! ROFL
It's helpful to remember that the US Government would never lie to its citizens, isn't it. And if anyone has the audacity to question the lying, cheating and thieving gang of crooks, just label them "conspiracy theorists" - that'll shut them the F up.
How Cloud Seeding Boosts Rainfall -- and Why That's Controversial --Bloomberg
How Cloud Seeding Boosts Rainfall — and Why That’s Controversial
A geoengineering technology that had fallen out of favor is making a comeback.
Bloomberg | Laura Millan | April 17, 2024
Humans started using chemicals to supercharge clouds’ capacity to release rain and snow decades ago, but the technology is gaining traction as climate change makes some regions hotter and drier. While popular in countries including the US and the United Arab Emirates, cloud seeding remains controversial because it can have unintended consequences such as too much rain or increased pollution.
The debate around modifying and controlling the weather, also referred to as geoengineering the planet, has intensified as clean technologies and cuts to greenhouse gas emissions prove insufficient to halt global warming. Those in favor argue that dealing with the climate crisis is so urgent that no option should be left out, while those opposed warn of a lack of regulation, unforeseen side effects and a delay to the energy transition...
What is the history of cloud seeding?
Cloud seeding was developed during the 1940s and became popular in the US during the 1950s and 1960s as farmers, hydropower companies and ski resorts benefitted from additional precipitation. But it fell out of favor over the next decades as government funding dried up following revelations the US deployed a secret military seeding program during the Vietnam War. In 1977, the US, Russia, India and some European nations signed the Environmental Modification Convention banning weather modification techniques for military purposes.
the US deployed a secret military seeding program during the Vietnam War
Does anyone care what is "SECRET" anymore? Doesn't look like it.
Does anyone care what is "SECRET" anymore? Doesn't look like it.
More countries are exploring cloud seeding as accelerating climate change worsens the struggle for water. It’s used in western US states and European countries including France and Spain. China uses it regularly for irrigation purposes and also to regulate rainfall in Beijing, including during the 2008 Olympics...more
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-17/how-cloud-seeding-boosts-rainfall-and-why-that-s-controversial
https://archive.is/c6C9r
World Meteorological Organization
WxMOD Peer Review Report on Global Precipitation Enhancement Activities
Tue 4 Jul 2023
https://filecloud.wmo.int/share/s/_ujeyRLhRxGYsN05nO6X_Q
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Dodging silver bullets: how cloud seeding could go wrong
Laura Kuhl | August 11, 2022
...The promise of creating rain is highly appealing in the face of increasing water shortages and disruptions to water cycles exacerbated by climate change. While cloud seeding is not a new technology—the first experiments took place in the 1940s—it fell out of favor in the 1980s for being an “unacceptable ethical and environmental hazard.” It is now back on the policy agenda as a climate adaptation strategy. Idaho, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, and California have all expanded their cloud seeding operations in the past two years in response to the worsening drought. Despite its potential, the risks associated with cloud seeding are high, and there is significant danger that cloud seeding may do more harm than good...more
https://thebulletin.org/2022/08/dodging-silver-bullets-how-cloud-seeding-could-go-wrong/
But "it's not happening here" ! ROFL
It's helpful to remember that the US Government would never lie to its citizens, isn't it. And if anyone has the audacity to question the lying, cheating and thieving gang of crooks, just label them "conspiracy theorists" - that'll shut them the F up.
April 18, 2024
Hygroscopic flares are released during a cloud seeding flight operated by the National Center of Meteorology, between Al Ain and Al Hayer in UAE, on August 24, 2022. (Reuters)
UAE to carry out hundreds of cloud-seeding missions in 2024 to tackle water scarcity
From shooting hygroscopic salt flares into the clouds to deploying unmanned aerial vehicles, the country uses a variety of methods to force rainfall and thereby ensure water security
Jennifer Bell | Al Arabiya English | 18 January 2024
Meteorological experts are expected to carry out as many as 300 cloud-seeding missions across the United Arab Emirates in 2024 to encourage rainfall and tackle water scarcity.
The UAE Research Program for Rain Enhancement Science – National Center of Meteorology (UAEREP-NCM) – the task force behind the country’s cloud-seeding program – told Al Arabiya English that the UAE, located in one of the hottest and most arid regions on earth, has been leading the effort to seed clouds and increase precipitation for more than 23 years.
In the UAE, the confluence of climate change impacts and a burgeoning population has intensified the pressure on water resources. This escalating demand has propelled the UAE, traditionally dependent on desalination plants utilizing seawater, into a critical juncture.
Rising global temperatures and shifting weather patterns have exacerbated water scarcity issues, placing additional strain on the UAE's already limited freshwater sources. As the population continues to grow, the urgency to address the mounting water demands has become more pronounced.
“The UAE carries out nearly 300 cloud-seeding missions each year, and the frequency can vary based on factors such as weather patterns, cloud availability, and climatic conditions,” an NCM official told Al Arabiya English, adding a “roughly” similar number of missions is likely to be carried out in 2024, depending on the availability of “amenable clouds.”...more
https://english.alarabiya.net/News/gulf/2024/01/18/UAE-to-carry-out-hundreds-of-cloud-seeding-missions-in-2024-to-tackle-water-scarcity
Related:
A man walks through floodwater in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Wednesday, April 17, 2024. The desert nation of the United Arab Emirates attempted to dry out Wednesday from the heaviest rain ever recorded there after a deluge flooded out Dubai International Airport, disrupting the world’s busiest airfield for international travel. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)
A storm dumps record rain across the desert nation of UAE and floods Dubai’s airport
JON GAMBRELL, Associated Press | Apr 17, 2024
https://www.snntv.com/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/ap-storm-dumps-heaviest-rain-ever-recorded-in-desert-nation-of-uae-flooding-roads-and-dubais-airport/
Related DU POST:
Curious to learn more about Cloud Seeding.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1127173390
1. Rwnj conspiracy theory - not being used over usa
Thu Apr 11, 2024, 06:33 PM
Has been tested, but not in use. Lots of science.
Lots of bs
2. This
Thu Apr 11, 2024, 06:45 PM
Sorry but thats as nutty as chemtrails.
Not saying it isnt worth experimenting with to slow climate change. If it hurt folksʻ breathing it would not be happening and I have no evidence it is in use.
The right embracing the idea that the govt wants to kill our own people is a mystery to me.
Collect taxes to pay for your existence.
Step 1- kill your taxpayers
Step 2-
Step 3- profit!
Hoping the PT continues to go well. They make such a positive difference!
Looks like the DU Experts on Cloud Seeding were, once again, full of S(omething).
UAE to carry out hundreds of cloud-seeding missions in 2024 to tackle water scarcity
Hygroscopic flares are released during a cloud seeding flight operated by the National Center of Meteorology, between Al Ain and Al Hayer in UAE, on August 24, 2022. (Reuters)
UAE to carry out hundreds of cloud-seeding missions in 2024 to tackle water scarcity
From shooting hygroscopic salt flares into the clouds to deploying unmanned aerial vehicles, the country uses a variety of methods to force rainfall and thereby ensure water security
Jennifer Bell | Al Arabiya English | 18 January 2024
Meteorological experts are expected to carry out as many as 300 cloud-seeding missions across the United Arab Emirates in 2024 to encourage rainfall and tackle water scarcity.
The UAE Research Program for Rain Enhancement Science – National Center of Meteorology (UAEREP-NCM) – the task force behind the country’s cloud-seeding program – told Al Arabiya English that the UAE, located in one of the hottest and most arid regions on earth, has been leading the effort to seed clouds and increase precipitation for more than 23 years.
In the UAE, the confluence of climate change impacts and a burgeoning population has intensified the pressure on water resources. This escalating demand has propelled the UAE, traditionally dependent on desalination plants utilizing seawater, into a critical juncture.
Rising global temperatures and shifting weather patterns have exacerbated water scarcity issues, placing additional strain on the UAE's already limited freshwater sources. As the population continues to grow, the urgency to address the mounting water demands has become more pronounced.
“The UAE carries out nearly 300 cloud-seeding missions each year, and the frequency can vary based on factors such as weather patterns, cloud availability, and climatic conditions,” an NCM official told Al Arabiya English, adding a “roughly” similar number of missions is likely to be carried out in 2024, depending on the availability of “amenable clouds.”...more
https://english.alarabiya.net/News/gulf/2024/01/18/UAE-to-carry-out-hundreds-of-cloud-seeding-missions-in-2024-to-tackle-water-scarcity
Related:
A man walks through floodwater in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Wednesday, April 17, 2024. The desert nation of the United Arab Emirates attempted to dry out Wednesday from the heaviest rain ever recorded there after a deluge flooded out Dubai International Airport, disrupting the world’s busiest airfield for international travel. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)
A storm dumps record rain across the desert nation of UAE and floods Dubai’s airport
JON GAMBRELL, Associated Press | Apr 17, 2024
https://www.snntv.com/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/ap-storm-dumps-heaviest-rain-ever-recorded-in-desert-nation-of-uae-flooding-roads-and-dubais-airport/
Related DU POST:
Curious to learn more about Cloud Seeding.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1127173390
1. Rwnj conspiracy theory - not being used over usa
Thu Apr 11, 2024, 06:33 PM
Has been tested, but not in use. Lots of science.
Lots of bs
2. This
Thu Apr 11, 2024, 06:45 PM
Sorry but thats as nutty as chemtrails.
Not saying it isnt worth experimenting with to slow climate change. If it hurt folksʻ breathing it would not be happening and I have no evidence it is in use.
The right embracing the idea that the govt wants to kill our own people is a mystery to me.
Collect taxes to pay for your existence.
Step 1- kill your taxpayers
Step 2-
Step 3- profit!
Hoping the PT continues to go well. They make such a positive difference!
Looks like the DU Experts on Cloud Seeding were, once again, full of S(omething).
April 16, 2024
CSX debuts its first hydrogen-fuel cell locomotive
Trains.com | Bill Stephens | April 16, 2024
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – CSX today debuted its first hydrogen fuel-cell locomotive, which was converted from a conventional four-axle unit using a conversion kit supplied by Canadian Pacific Kansas City.
The locomotive, No. 2100, was built at CSX’s Huntington Locomotive Shop in West Virginia, which will handle hydrogen fuel cell conversions under a partnership with CPKC.
“The successful debut of our first hydrogen-powered locomotive stands as a testament to the exceptional skill and dedication of our employees at the CSX Huntington locomotive shop,” CEO Joe Hinrichs said in a statement. “CSX’s commitment to sustainability in our operations is exemplified by the outstanding efforts of these employees, who, through their craftsmanship, are helping advance our collaboration with CPKC. We are proud to work with CPKC to scale this hydrogen technology and help pave the way for meaningful sustainable solutions for the future.”
The 2100 conversion reused several components, including the frame, cab, traction, motors, and trucks from the original EMD diesel-electric locomotive.
The locomotive made its debut less than 12 months after CSX and CPKC announced their collaboration last summer [see “CPKC and CSX team up …,” Trains News Wire, June 22, 2023]. CPKC has two low-horsepower hydrogen fuel cell locomotives in service, and has plans to test a high-horsepower, six-axle unit in revenue coal service this year in British Columbia. The road locomotive is currently undergoing testing, CPKC spokesman Patrick Waldron says...more
https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/csx-debuts-its-first-hydrogen-fuel-cell-locomotive/
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CSX debuts its first hydrogen-fuel cell locomotive. Switcher converted to hydrogen power at the railroad's shop in W. VA
CSX debuts its first hydrogen-fuel cell locomotive
Trains.com | Bill Stephens | April 16, 2024
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – CSX today debuted its first hydrogen fuel-cell locomotive, which was converted from a conventional four-axle unit using a conversion kit supplied by Canadian Pacific Kansas City.
The locomotive, No. 2100, was built at CSX’s Huntington Locomotive Shop in West Virginia, which will handle hydrogen fuel cell conversions under a partnership with CPKC.
“The successful debut of our first hydrogen-powered locomotive stands as a testament to the exceptional skill and dedication of our employees at the CSX Huntington locomotive shop,” CEO Joe Hinrichs said in a statement. “CSX’s commitment to sustainability in our operations is exemplified by the outstanding efforts of these employees, who, through their craftsmanship, are helping advance our collaboration with CPKC. We are proud to work with CPKC to scale this hydrogen technology and help pave the way for meaningful sustainable solutions for the future.”
The 2100 conversion reused several components, including the frame, cab, traction, motors, and trucks from the original EMD diesel-electric locomotive.
The locomotive made its debut less than 12 months after CSX and CPKC announced their collaboration last summer [see “CPKC and CSX team up …,” Trains News Wire, June 22, 2023]. CPKC has two low-horsepower hydrogen fuel cell locomotives in service, and has plans to test a high-horsepower, six-axle unit in revenue coal service this year in British Columbia. The road locomotive is currently undergoing testing, CPKC spokesman Patrick Waldron says...more
https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/csx-debuts-its-first-hydrogen-fuel-cell-locomotive/
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April 14, 2024
The Toxic Culture at Tesla
The factory floors at America’s top seller of electric vehicles are rife with racial harassment, sexual abuse, and injuries on the job.
The Nation | BRYCE COVERT | April 9, 2024
The end of 2020 was drawing near, and Andrea Turley, a 36-year-old self-employed hairdresser, had to figure out how to afford gifts not only for her two daughters’ birthdays but also for Christmas. She came up with a solution: a job working on the floor of Tesla’s auto manufacturing facility in Fremont, California. It paid about $20 an hour.
Turley’s grandparents had worked at the same plant when it made cars for General Motors. She knew what working on an assembly line would entail and hoped to stay; her grandparents had worked there for decades. “I don’t have a problem with doing hard labor,” she told me.
“The problem was the sexual harassment. It was the racism,” she said. “It’s the constant disrespect.”
On her second day of training, Turley noticed the phrase “Black bitches need to go home” written on the bathroom walls. Once she started working on the line, she heard her white male lead—the person who supervised her on the floor—use the N-word and other racial slurs like “coon,” according to a legal complaint she filed later. He also frequently used the words “bitch” and “cunt.” He “used just about every awful and offensive word I can think of,” Turley said in the filing. It wasn’t just him; other white coworkers also often used the N-word around her and her fellow Black coworkers. She frequently saw the word “bitch” written on the bathroom walls alongside the N-word and “KKK.”
Turley likes to wear layers, dressing like a “tomboy,” she said. Her lead and another coworker started making comments about her being gay, harassing her for her appearance.
Turley had never experienced anything like it at a workplace before. “Never,” she said. In her filing, she wrote: “Every day that I had to show up to work was difficult for me; it was hard to walk into the factory knowing the treatment that I was going to face.” In late December 2020, she sent Tesla’s human resources department a complaint laying out her lead’s racial and sexual harassment. The company didn’t address the issue, she said...more
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/tesla-racism-sexual-harassment/
ALT: https://archive.is/uWOuC
Exposed to the elements: In Fremont, California, Tesla has erected production tents outside of its main plant; workers say Black employees are disproportionately assigned to work there. (Bloomberg / Getty Images)
Elon, demonstrating his usual deference to Authorities, this time to the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2020
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1278764736876773383
A Clown Show! Helps to remember that this repulsive persons grandchildren's grandchildren's kids won't ever have to lift a middle finger their entire lives. 200+ BILLION $ extracted from an economy spiraling into the gutter. Yet he's somehow allowed to release something he calls "Full Self Driving" (that doesn't exist anywhere on the planet yet) into the public, while government agencies look the other way.
The Toxic Culture at Tesla -"rife with racial harassment, sexual abuse, and injuries on the job." - The Nation
The Toxic Culture at Tesla
The factory floors at America’s top seller of electric vehicles are rife with racial harassment, sexual abuse, and injuries on the job.
The Nation | BRYCE COVERT | April 9, 2024
The end of 2020 was drawing near, and Andrea Turley, a 36-year-old self-employed hairdresser, had to figure out how to afford gifts not only for her two daughters’ birthdays but also for Christmas. She came up with a solution: a job working on the floor of Tesla’s auto manufacturing facility in Fremont, California. It paid about $20 an hour.
Turley’s grandparents had worked at the same plant when it made cars for General Motors. She knew what working on an assembly line would entail and hoped to stay; her grandparents had worked there for decades. “I don’t have a problem with doing hard labor,” she told me.
“The problem was the sexual harassment. It was the racism,” she said. “It’s the constant disrespect.”
On her second day of training, Turley noticed the phrase “Black bitches need to go home” written on the bathroom walls. Once she started working on the line, she heard her white male lead—the person who supervised her on the floor—use the N-word and other racial slurs like “coon,” according to a legal complaint she filed later. He also frequently used the words “bitch” and “cunt.” He “used just about every awful and offensive word I can think of,” Turley said in the filing. It wasn’t just him; other white coworkers also often used the N-word around her and her fellow Black coworkers. She frequently saw the word “bitch” written on the bathroom walls alongside the N-word and “KKK.”
Turley likes to wear layers, dressing like a “tomboy,” she said. Her lead and another coworker started making comments about her being gay, harassing her for her appearance.
Turley had never experienced anything like it at a workplace before. “Never,” she said. In her filing, she wrote: “Every day that I had to show up to work was difficult for me; it was hard to walk into the factory knowing the treatment that I was going to face.” In late December 2020, she sent Tesla’s human resources department a complaint laying out her lead’s racial and sexual harassment. The company didn’t address the issue, she said...more
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/tesla-racism-sexual-harassment/
ALT: https://archive.is/uWOuC
Exposed to the elements: In Fremont, California, Tesla has erected production tents outside of its main plant; workers say Black employees are disproportionately assigned to work there. (Bloomberg / Getty Images)
Elon, demonstrating his usual deference to Authorities, this time to the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2020
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1278764736876773383
A Clown Show!
Helps to remember that this repulsive persons grandchildren's grandchildren's kids won't ever have to lift a middle finger their entire lives. 200+ BILLION $ extracted from an economy spiraling into the gutter. Yet he's somehow allowed to release something he calls "Full Self Driving" (that doesn't exist anywhere on the planet yet) into the public, while government agencies look the other way.
April 10, 2024
Yellen Junks 200 Years of Economics to Block China Clean Tech
The Treasury secretary’s plan is a protectionist disaster that will impede the path to net zero.
David Fickling | Bloomberg | April 8, 2024
Imagine if a Chinese company announced plans to build the biggest electric-vehicle battery factory the world had ever seen.
Up to $5 billion would be spent on a single plant to manufacture more power packs every 12 months than the world produced last year. The sprawling facility might cover 1.5 square miles (4 square kilometers), employ an army of 6,500 people, and drive costs down 30%, devastating any competitors that failed to keep pace. The company in question, furthermore, had racked up more than $1 billion of losses over the past seven years, and would post another $5 billion over the coming seven.
Does that sound like the definition of predatory overcapacity, hollowing out the world’s manufacturing sector in the service of aggressive Chinese mercantilism? If so, it’s worth considering that the facility we’re talking about is how Elon Musk pitched Tesla Inc.’s Gigafactory One, a half-hour drive east of Reno, Nevada, when he first announced it 10 years ago.
That should be a consideration for Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who is visiting China in an attempt to persuade the government and companies that their investments in clean technology are excessive and damaging.
“Government support is currently leading to production capacity that significantly exceeds China’s domestic demand, as well as what the global market can bear,” Yellen said in a speech to the American Chamber of Commerce in Guangzhou. That excess is building in “solar, EVs, and lithium-ion batteries,” she said last month at a US solar plant...more
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-04-08/yellen-junks-200-years-of-economics-to-block-china-clean-tech
alt: https://archive.ph/rNjfZ
"Free Trade" For ME but NONE for THEE!
Yellen:
But we were all told that we MUST give our jobs to China!
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Yellen Junks 200 Years of Economics to Block China Clean Tech - "a protectionist disaster" - Bloomberg
Yellen Junks 200 Years of Economics to Block China Clean Tech
The Treasury secretary’s plan is a protectionist disaster that will impede the path to net zero.
David Fickling | Bloomberg | April 8, 2024
Imagine if a Chinese company announced plans to build the biggest electric-vehicle battery factory the world had ever seen.
Up to $5 billion would be spent on a single plant to manufacture more power packs every 12 months than the world produced last year. The sprawling facility might cover 1.5 square miles (4 square kilometers), employ an army of 6,500 people, and drive costs down 30%, devastating any competitors that failed to keep pace. The company in question, furthermore, had racked up more than $1 billion of losses over the past seven years, and would post another $5 billion over the coming seven.
Does that sound like the definition of predatory overcapacity, hollowing out the world’s manufacturing sector in the service of aggressive Chinese mercantilism? If so, it’s worth considering that the facility we’re talking about is how Elon Musk pitched Tesla Inc.’s Gigafactory One, a half-hour drive east of Reno, Nevada, when he first announced it 10 years ago.
That should be a consideration for Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who is visiting China in an attempt to persuade the government and companies that their investments in clean technology are excessive and damaging.
“Government support is currently leading to production capacity that significantly exceeds China’s domestic demand, as well as what the global market can bear,” Yellen said in a speech to the American Chamber of Commerce in Guangzhou. That excess is building in “solar, EVs, and lithium-ion batteries,” she said last month at a US solar plant...more
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-04-08/yellen-junks-200-years-of-economics-to-block-china-clean-tech
alt: https://archive.ph/rNjfZ
"Free Trade" For ME but NONE for THEE!
Yellen:
But we were all told that we MUST give our jobs to China!
RELATED:
Janet Yellen has told Sky News the United States can "certainly" afford to support wars on two fronts
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