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Hackers post emails proving 'global warming' is a fraud
- Note on Scientific Prostitution - The same elite scientific establishment that prostituted themselves to promote "global warming" for political reasons, disregarding science (and who support the 9/11 official story); is the same corrupted scientific establishment that has said "cold fusion is impossible." Don't buy their lies. They are liars, as now proven. Free energy is possible. The universe is full of it. -- Sterling D. Allan; November 28, 2011
by Sterling D. Allan
Pure Energy Systems News
This past weekend, a major fraud was uncovered regarding the politicizing of "global warming" for the purpose of promoting increased world government regulation such as the global carbon tax. The email database of some of the chief climatologists was hacked into and the emails posted on the web for anyone to see.
Major news organizations have confirmed that the emails are real.
In the dialogue between some of these "climatologists" are shown blatant disregard for science while employing tactics of manipulation of the media and public perceptions to believe that global warming is man-made and that drastic measures must be taken to stem this warming, when in fact the hard scientific data shows that the planet has actually been cooling in the past four years, and that the warming-cooling cycles are largely a function of the sun. These climatologists knew better and are shown scheming with each other to twist the facts, cook the data, persecute the honest scientists.
The emails expose them as saying things about their detractors like:
- how do we get this guy fired?
- how do we remove their funding?
- how do we get this journal suspended?
- how do we stop this person from being able to submit to scientific journals?
The emails have the climatologists saying things like "hide the decline".
In other words, the emails expose the key proponents of global warming as running a scam. On an interview on Coast to Coast AM, climatologist, Tim Ball, called it "perhaps the greastest scandal in world history", saying that its objective was to provide impetus for a world [socialist] government, abrogating freedom in the process. [1]
Of course this it not to say that man should not be wise stewards of the environment, but it does go to show how governments and their handlers should not be trusted to be impartial when it comes to increasing their hold over the public.
The Emails
- CRU Emails - Searchable - "On 20 November 2009, emails and other documents, apparently originating from with the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia. If real, these emails contain some quite surprising and even disappointing insights into what has been happening within the climate change scientific establishment."
- Hacked files of the Climatic Research Unit, Global Warming a deliberate fraud - You can download the climate change fraud documents here. 61.93 MB. Surely this is the death knell for the CRU, the IPCC, Kyoto and Copenhagen and the Carbon Credits shell game.
Clamategate 2.0 News Stories
- Conspiracy / Global Warming > Climategate >
IPCC Admits Its Past Reports Were Junk - On June 27, the IPCC, which is the ultimate global warming advocacy group, acknowledges the 2010 recommendations of the InterAcademy Council, which said that IPCC reports are not peer-reviewed and that IPCC authors are selected from a "club" of scientists and nonscientists who agree with the alarmist perspective favored by politicians. (AmericanThinker; July 16, 2012)
- Conspiracy / Global Warming > Climategate / Abiotic Oil / Biofuels > Cautions >
Anatomy of a Massive Con Job! - John Truman Wolf does an excellent job explaining how the 'environmental crisis machine' was constructed and the con job it is. For example, Con #2: Oil is renewable; Con #3: Global Warming on cooked data; Con #4: The biofuel push results in deforestation, oxygen depletion, and dead zones in the oceans from nitrogen and other pollutants. (AntiCorruptionSociety; July 14, 2012)
- Featured: Global Warming > Conspiracy > Climategate >
Climategate 2.0 -- Politics of Science Trumping Left and Right - The same elite scientific establishment that prostituted themselves to promote "global warming" for political reasons, disregarding science (and who support the 9/11 official story); is the same corrupted scientific establishment that has said "cold fusion is impossible." Don't buy their lies. They are liars, as proven. Free energy is possible. The universe is full of it. (PESN and BeforeItsNews; November 27, 2011)
- Global Warming > Conspiracy > Climategate >
Climategate 2.0 - A new batch of leaked emails again shows some leading scientists trying to smear opponents.. This is the real significance of the climategate emails. They show that major scientists who inform the IPCC can't be trusted to stick to the science and avoid political activism. (Wall Street Journal; November 28, 2011)
- Global Warming > Conspiracy > Climategate >
Climategate scientists DID collude with government officials to hide research that didn't fit their apocalyptic global warming - 5,000 leaked emails reveal scientists deleted evidence that cast doubt on claims climate change was man-made. Experts were under orders from US and UK officials to come up with a 'strong message'. Critics claim: 'The stink of intellectual corruption is overpowering'. (DailyMail; November 25, 2011)
- Global Warming > U.S. Government and Energy >
ClimateGate, again - "I am proud to be one of the 32,000 Scientists, PHD's, Engineers and Technicians who have signed the Petition to force the EPA into independent 3rd party review of their proposed regulation schemes which can not be supported by anything other than their "consensus" (2500 captive employees within the government). We do NOT buy into Global Warming" (Stop Agenda21 Now; November 26, 2011)
News Stories
- Google News > Hacked Climate Research Unit - 510 returns as of Nov. 23, 2009, 11:25 pm Mountain time.
Here are a few stories of relevance:
- Blood And Gore: Making A Killing On Anti-Carbon Investment Hype - hucksters pimp the hoax (Free Energy Blog; January 7, 2014)
- Global Warming Scientists Still Trapped In Record-Level Antarctic Ice - "Sea ice is disappearing due to climate change," scientists say as rescue ships fail to breach ice to save them. (Free Energy Blog; December 31, 2013)
- US Gov. / Conspiracy / Global Warming > Bad Data / Climategate >
First Climategate then WikiLeaks, Is Global Warming a Hoax? - WikiLeaks exposes the United States for manipulating the Copenhagen Climate Accord in order to expedite their climate change agenda. U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe calls global warming "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people." (Suite101; December 6, 2010)
- Global Warming > Climategate >
Climategate a Year Later - This week marks the one year anniversary of the release of emails and documents from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia that we now know as Climategate. James Corbett reviews some of the most damning emails and the supposed "clearing" of the scandal scientists who politicized and fabricated data. (Climategate.tv; Nov. 19, 2010)
- Featured: Conspiracy / Ventura's "Conspiracy Theory" / Global Warming >
Jesse Ventura takes on the Global Warming Conspiracy Theory - His group of researchers appear to start out as "believers" in man-caused global warming, but in the course of investigating the topic they come to a very different conclusion. "A lot of people who preach the global warming gospel are not out to save the world, they're out to run it." (PESWiki; Dec. 26, 2009) (Comments)
- Hackers leak e-mails, stoke climate debate - Computer hackers have broken into a server at a well-respected climate change research center in Britain and posted hundreds of private e-mails and documents online — stoking debate over whether some scientists have overstated the case for man-made climate change. (Yahoo News; Nov. 21, 2009)
- Climate-Gate' - a coordinated effort to hide information about global warming. ... emails show that scientists at the Unit created and manipulated false data to preserve the idea that global warming is real. Since 2002, global temperatures have been declining, and numbers from the past have been pushed down to make the current temps seem warmer, he argued. We're seeing climate change ideas, often based on overly simplistic computer models, used as a vehicle for political purposes, he added. (CoasttoCoastAM; Nov. 26, 2009)
- Hacked Climate Emails Stoke Debate - The Wall Street Journal is reporting that a series of [0]hacked emails and documents that were recently [1]posted on Wikileaks are causing quite a stir in the scientific community. All told, more than 1,000 emails and 2,000 documents were stolen from the Climate Research Unit in East Anglia University in the U.K. "The emails include discussions of apparent efforts to make sure that reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations group that monitors climate science, include their own views and exclude others. In addition, emails show that climate scientists declined to make their data available to scientists whose views they disagreed with. [] Phil Jones, the director of the East Anglia climate center, suggested to climate scientist Michael Mann of Penn State University that skeptics' research was unwelcome: We 'will keep them out somehow -- even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!' Neither man could be reached for comment Sunday." (Slashdot; November 23, 2009)
- Glenn Beck Skewers Scientists Involved In ClimateGate - As Beck pointed out Monday, those involved also conspired to prevent viewpoints counter to their own from getting published in scientific journals or becoming part of IPCC reports. (NewsBusters; November 23, 2009)
- http://www.examiner.com/x-29940-Long-Island-Independent-Examiner~y2009m11d22-Hacked-climate-science-emails-and-Cap-and-Trade - Since it is unconfirmed I will not talk about how the emails show scientists try to lock out anybody who disagrees with their point of view and keep dissenting opinion papers out of main stream scientific journals. Instead let's follow the money. Who benefits from "Cap and Trade" legislation? Could it be - Wall St? Could it be Al Gore? Could it be anyone from Goldman-Sachs? Yes, yes and yes!
- http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125883405294859215.html - The scientific community is buzzing over thousands of emails and documents -- posted on the Internet last week after being hacked from a prominent climate-change research center -- that some say raise ethical questions about a group of scientists who contend humans are responsible for global warming. The correspondence between dozens of climate-change researchers, including many in the U.S., illustrates bitter feelings among those who believe human activities cause global warming toward rivals who argue that the link between humans and climate change remains uncertain.
- http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/climategate.php - The recent exposures of fraud coming from the Hadley Climate Research Unit, then followed by similar exposures at New Zealand's NWIA, Australia's climate center, and NOAA have only confirmed the doubts arising from the obviously NON-scientific methods employed by the Anthropogenic Global Warming supporters, hereinafter called the "Global Warming Cult". I call them a cult because of the abandonment of scientific method by many of the acolytes, together with a recent British Court decision that declared belief in Global Warming was accorded the status of a religion.
- Featured: Global Warming / Global Cooling >
ClimateGate: Hackers post emails proving 'global warming' is a fraud - This past weekend, a major fraud was uncovered regarding the politicizing of "global warming" for the purpose of promoting increased world government regulation such as the global carbon tax. The email database of some of the chief climatologists was hacked into and the emails posted on the web for anyone to see. (PESWiki; Nov. 24, 2009) (Comments)
InfoWars Coverage
- http://www.infowars.com/hacked-emails-show-climate-science-ridden-with-rancor/ - Hacked E Mails Show Blatant Climate Change Fraud (Wall Street Journal)
- Lord Monckton: Prosecute the Climate Change Criminals - The so-called researchers colluded to modify climate data in favor of their man-made climate change fairy tale]
- "Climategate": Peer-Review System Was Hijacked By Warming Alarmists - Dissenting viewpoints on warming were shut out regardless of their scientific merit.
- Alex Runs Down Man-made Climate Change Hoax Exposed in CRU Emails - Alex Jones examines the CRU files and spells out what it means for the global elite.
- Inhofe to call for hearing into CRU, U.N. climate change research - Inhofe announced he would probe whether the U.N.'s IPCC "cooked the science to make this thing look as if the science was settled, when all the time of course we knew it was not."
- Dr. Tim Ball On the Significance of the CRU Hacked Documents - Retired climatologist Dr. Tim Ball talks about the significance of the recently leaked emails and documents from the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University.
- Alex Jones TV: Doom & Gloom Climate Fraudsters Exposed - Alex covers the hacked CRU documents and the victory this represents for the truth and the ongoing effort to defeat the New World Order.
- Call For Independent Inquiry Into Climategate as Global Warming Fraud Implodes - Hacked emails discussed manipulating data to "hide the decline" in global temperatures.
Interview with Lord Monckton
Alex welcomes Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, a British politician, business consultant, policy adviser, writer, columnist, and inventor. Monckton has been at the forefront of criticizing the CRU emails and the fraudulent climate change scam. Monckton Argues that the perpetrators should face criminal charges for international racketeering. Proposes the development of an international Freedom Party to oppose the proponents of world government. (November 27, 2009)
- Lord Christopher Monckton on Alex Jones Tv 1/5:Global Warming Hype" A Stink of Desperation!!"
- Lord Christopher Monckton on Alex Jones Tv 2/5:Global Warming Hype" A Stink of Desperation!!"
- Lord Christopher Monckton on Alex Jones Tv 3/5:Global Warming Hype" A Stink of Desperation!!"
- Lord Christopher Monckton on Alex Jones Tv 4/5:Global Warming Hype" A Stink of Desperation!!"
- Lord Christopher Monckton on Alex Jones Tv 5/5:Global Warming Hype" A Stink of Desperation!!"
Other Alex Jones Videos
- Alex Jones Tv {Sunday Edition} 1/8:Hacked Emails Show Blatant Climate Change Fraud! (November 22, 2009)
- Alex Jones Tv {Sunday Edition} 2/8:Hacked Emails Show Blatant Climate Change Fraud!
- Alex Jones Tv {Sunday Edition} 3/8:Hacked Emails Show Blatant Climate Change Fraud!
- Alex Jones Tv {Sunday Edition} 4/8:Hacked Emails Show Blatant Climate Change Fraud!
- Alex Jones Tv {Sunday Edition} 5/8:Hacked Emails Show Blatant Climate Change Fraud!
- Alex Jones Tv {Sunday Edition} 6/8:Hacked Emails Show Blatant Climate Change Fraud!
- Alex Jones Tv {Sunday Edition} 7/8:Hacked Emails Show Blatant Climate Change Fraud!
- Alex Jones Tv {Sunday Edition} 8/8:Hacked Emails Show Blatant Climate Change Fraud!
- Alex Jones Tv: Climate-Gate " THE E-MAILS ARE REAL
- Marc Morano on Alex Jones Tv 1/2:The Case For Al Gore's Climate Change is Falling Apart !!
- Marc Morano on Alex Jones Tv 2/2:The Case For Al Gore's Climate Change is Falling Apart !!
- Dr. Tim Ball on Alex Jones Tv 1/5:Myth on Global Warming
- Dr. Tim Ball on Alex Jones Tv 2/5:Myth on Global Warming
- Dr. Tim Ball on Alex Jones Tv 3/5:Myth on Global Warming
- Dr. Tim Ball on Alex Jones Tv 4/5:Myth on Global Warming
- Dr. Tim Ball on Alex Jones Tv 5/5:Myth on Global Warming
Other Links
- Site:LRP:CLIMATE-GATE: EXPOSING THE AGENDA of the NEW WORLD ORDER
- http://www.facebook.com/ClimateGate
Hide The Decline - Climategate
Specific Email References
- Have a look at email number 1048799107.txt, it confirms that the global warming scam is about creating a world government.
Feel free to view/post comments at our Examiner.com version of this story.
NOT hackers: release was from Inside
On November 24, 2009 8:43 PM; New Energy Congress member, Tai Robinson wrote:
I just saw your top story @ PESN & wanted to let u know that it was from inside, posted on a public server where anyone could get 'em. No crime was commited to get them from the outside. Start @ thenewamerican.com to find more. Will Jasper is on this story, so more good research to come...
See also
- Featured: Global Warming >
Global Cooling - New directory page addresses the recent cooling measured around the globe, some places even measuring record seasonal lows. Is this merely a short-term, saw-tooth drop in a long-term climb; or is it a disproving of predictions of meltdown? (PESWiki; Nov. 8, 2008)
- Site:LRP:CLIMATE-GATE: EXPOSING THE AGENDA of the NEW WORLD ORDER
- Directory:Solar Cycle Influence on Global Temperatures
- Directory:Global Warming
- Directory:CO2 Sequestration
- Directory:Global Warming:Government & Politics
- Directory:Environmental Impact
- Directory:Environment
- PowerPedia:Greenhouse gases
- Directory:Oxygen Depletion
- Directory:Peak Oil
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Exciting news! We've just release VMware Zimbra Collaboration Server 7.1 and I thought I'd take a few minutes to explain the details behind the release.
After 7.0.1 some may have been expecting a typical 7.0.2 maintenance release. Rest assured 7.1 is primarily comprised of the bug fixes and enhancement requests you would expect in any maintenance release from Zimbra. So why the special 7.1 version number? We've done some important plumbing to set the stage for a few new features coming later in the year, as well as added internationalization enhancements to improve localization, such as Japanese for instance.
What are these new future features you ask? Namely, steps towards S/MIME encryption (keep an eye on 9046) and support for smartcard authentication. I know many in the community have noticed the activity in Bugzilla around S/MIME, so we've reved the minor version to indicate a sign of good things to come. The release however does not include any changes in behavior or big ticket features that you need to spend weeks figuring out in a lab. So all you 6.0.x (possible 6.0.13) and 7.0.x customers, 7.1 is your next step.
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YORKVILLE - That postseason spot keeps getting closer and closer and so does a possible home field in the opener. But first Indian Creek has one more week of the regular season
With their offense churning out 412 total yards with a pair of 100-yard rushers and its defense yielding 149 yards, the Redskins moved a step closer to the playoffs with a 49-7 Buckeye 8 victory against Buckeye Local (3-6) on Friday night.
''Every game in the Buckeye 8 is a big game, but just as I told the kids before the game, this is a big game without the Buckeye 8 and playoffs thrown in,'' Indian Creek coach Andrew Connor said. ''This is a big rivalry game for us plus it was their last home game and Senior Night for them, so we couldn't take them lightly.''
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Indian Creek's Alex Young (2) stiff-arms Buckeye Local's Austin Marshall (5) during their game Friday night.
Indian Creek opened the scoring in the first quarter. Quarterback Alex Young hit Frank Kamarec for a 19-yard score then ran for the 3-pointer.
With 30 seconds left in the first, Young booted a 28-yard field goal for an 11-0 lead.
In the second quarter, the Redskins drove 81 yards on their next drive that featured a 17-yard run by Logan Woods. Two plays later, Young swept the left side for 6 yards and a score with 6:40 on the board.
Before the half ended, Creek added another score. Needing four plays and runs of 8 and 6 yards by Tran Huynh and 34 yards by Woods, the winners crossed the goal line on a 19-yard run by Woods with 2:38 on the board. Woods also ran for the 2-pointer and a 25-0 lead.
In the third quarter, Creek capitalized on a pass interception by Montel McClelland to set up another scoring drive, this one covering 31 yards. Young capped off the drive with a 26-yard pass to Roar with 6:27 on the clock. for a 31-0 lead.
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Based on the true story of the life of Jeanette Walls' grandmother, Half-broke Horses is the endearing tale of Lily Casey Smith, a woman born into poverty in the early 1900s frontier of west Texas. Intelligent, despite her spotted 8th grade education, Smith knows her purpose on earth is more than just breaking-in horses on her daddy's farm and she sets off across the desert at age 15 to teach children in Arizona. Smith is scrappy and independent, clearly a woman before her time. In her early 20s when she learns that the traveling salesman she married actually already has a wife and kids, she puts her six-shooter revolver with the pearl handle in her purse and hits him with it, giving him a good "pistol-whippin'".
Walls, the best-selling author of her own memoir The Glass Castle, tells her grandmother's story in a matter-of-fact, no-nonsense way probably much in same way as her grandmother shared these stories with her. It can be shocking that Smith speaks of her best friend's death in the same tone as she does of, say, playing a hand of poker, but it's realistic a snapshot of the era. In her narration, Walls' accent is a bit mottled a little southern, with hints of other dialects thrown in which can be distracting at times, but it also suits Smith, a girl from west Texas who had an Irish father with a speech impediment.
Smith does find true happiness with her second husband and eventually settles down (if you can call selling whiskey during Prohibition by hiding it under her baby's crib "settling down"). But this heroine's adventures racing horses, surviving flash floods and tornadoes, and playing poker will stick with you long after Walls has finished describing them. Colleen Oakley
"Those old cows knew trouble was coming before we did." So begins the story of Lily Casey Smith, Jeannette Walls's no nonsense, resourceful, and spectacularly compelling grandmother. By age six, Lily was helping her father break horses. At 15, she left home to teach in a frontier town - riding 500 miles on her pony, alone, to get to her job. She learned to drive a car ("I loved cars even more than I loved horses. They didn't need to be fed if they weren't working, and they didn't leave big piles of manure all over the place") and fly a plane. And, with her husband Jim, she ran a vast ranch in Arizona. She raised two children, one of whom is Jeannette's memorable mother, Rosemary Smith Walls, unforgettably portrayed in The Glass Castle.
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Half Broke Horses is Laura Ingalls Wilder for adults, as riveting and dramatic as Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa or Beryl Markham's West with the Night. Destined to become a classic, it will transfix audiences everywhere.
©2009 Jeanette Walls; (P)2009 Simon & Schuster
"Lily Casey Smith is one astonishing woman...a half-broke horse herself who's clearly passed on her best traits to her granddaughter. Told in a natural, offhand voice that is utterly enthralling, this is essential reading for anyone who loves good fiction." (Library Journal)
This book was quite enjoyable, especially if you like memoirs or ranch life. It is a gritty and realistic story, with foreshadowing for "The Glass Castle." I wish I had been able to read this book first. The protagonist is self-sufficient, resilient and competent against all odds. It is a pleasure to read a book about a successful woman, without a political agenda taking it over.
"Good story about a fascinating character"
This story is inspiring, and well-written, about a strong, independent woman who had a very interesting life. I wish I had bought the book to read instead of the audio version, though, because I did not enjoy the author's narration of her own work. She claims to have found her "grandmother's voice", but her too-perfect diction just didn't sound like a woman from Texas to me. However, I was able to enjoy the story on its own merits. It was almost as good as her previous work, "The Glass Castle".
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"Gentle Portrait of Hard Life - Arizona 1900/50s"
The story is taken from the life of the author's grandmother, great grandparents, and mother and is largely non-fiction, although called a real life novel by Ms. Walls. The telling of the story, which begins in the early 1900s in a dugout home in the bank of a draw in Western Texas, is gentle and loving. The grandmother become a teacher in one-room school houses in the most remote portions of Northern Arizona but she and her family are also farmers, ranchers, artists, policemen, and Army flyers. The grandmother's strong character, her husband's kinship with a well-known Mormon figure, and the slow sweep of history - through the 1st WW, the depresion, and the 2nd WW is very engaging. Ms. Walls is both the author and the narrator and has the advantage of knowing her grandmother's speech patterns and character. A very enjoyable read.
"Loved Ms. Walls Memoir So Much More"
This book was an interesting read (or listen) because of the fortitude of the main character. It was also historically interesting, in terms of the dynamic of the TX, AZ and NM land over the last century or so. I just couldn't help to compare it to the real, heart-wrenching story of the author and her own memoirs. They were so real, so sad, and so loving. I yearned for more detail about Jeanette's mother, Rosemary, and an explanation of how her childhood formulated her into the kind of drifting mother she was. I never quite found it. Also, would have really enjoyed another narrator. Ms. Walls read more with factually than perhaps someone who was reading the text to whom it was more novel.
Huntress of Dirty Socks
"Loved it loved it loved it."
Jeannette Walls did an incredible job preserving not only her grandmother's memory, but making the times and places in which Lilly lived as fascinating as Lilly was. (Walls is an excellent narrator, too.)
I couldn't stop listening -- this was a very enjoyable book, reminding me of Ralph Moody's stories about growing up in the west.
"Poor Recording"
This might be a good story, but I was very distracted by the poor narration. The Narrator talks too fast, and sounds like she has marbles in her mouth. Very disappointing.
"Every Bit As Good As The Glass Castle"
I loved Jeanette's voice in telling this tale and am so delighted she chose to do it herself. That twangy and fiesty tone really set the pace to portray her dear old Grandma.
This book is every bit as good as The Glass Castle and is written so well, with such insight and detail and feeling, I, at times, felt as though I were right there at the kitchen table, having a cup of tea and a chat with the family as Lily waves her choppers around to show them off.
Jeanette, I really love your writing and truely admire how you turned your life around and became the successful writer you are today. It's all very amazing and profoundly inspiring.
"Not sure that I would like this, but it was great!"
At first, I wasn't sure I liked the reading pattern of Jeannette Walls, but soon it became apparent that it contributed to defining the main character of Lily. I soon felt swept up in the story and couldn't wait to listen to more. The American southwest and an era I knew little about came alive in vivid color, smells, and so much more. This was a great listen.
"Very Engaging"
This is very much worth a listen. I recently finished "Glass Castle" and wanted more. Although not an immediate tie in with GC, this story seems to easily relate to GC since you know you are finding out about Wall's grandmother - and the prime influence on her mother. Helps to make sense out of GC if that is of interest to you. If not, it is still an interesting story of a tough and self-reliant woman making a go of it in the early 1900's in Arizona and New Mexico.
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May 25, 2016
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of the State of Florida in a case deciding that police dog Aldo's sniff constituted probable cause for Liberty County K-9 Officer William Wheetley to search Clayton's Harris's vehicle for illegal drugs.
The decision is important to law enforcement officers throughout the nation because it clarifies the legal standards governing their reliance on drug detection dogs.
The Supreme Court reversed the Florida Supreme Court's judgment and declared that because training records established Aldo's reliability in detecting drugs and Harris failed to undermine that showing, they agreed with the trial court that Wheetley had probable cause to search Harris's truck.
Attorney General Pam Bondi says this victory is paramount to preserving Florida's law enforcement officers' ability to use police dogs.
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Engelbert Humperdinck
It was over four decades ago that Engelbert Humperdinck – music's "King of Romance" – emerged as one of the foremost entertainers in the world. Once called "the premiere voice of the 20th century" by The London Times, the multiple Grammy nominee with the ultra-smooth three-and-one-half octave range and natural charisma has sold over 150 million records worldwide including sixty-four Gold albums and twenty-four Platinum albums.
Engelbert first hit the charts with his smash hit, "Release Me" in 1967. He went on to record numerous hits including "After the Lovin'", "Winter World Of Love", "Am I That Easy To Forget", "The Last Waltz", "There Goes My Everything", "Les Bicyclettes De Belsize", "This Moment In Time", "Till You And Your Lover Are Lovers Again" and "A Man Without Love". His popularity continues to cross every generation and gender while his fan club remains one of the largest in the world with over 250 chapters.


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BRADENTON, Florida -- December 22, 2012
Manatee County Sheriff's detectives are investigating a break-in at the home of baseball Hall of Fame catcher Carlton "Pudge" Fisk.
Officials say thousands of dollars in collectible silver coins were stolen.
The Sarasota Herald-Tribune reports that it's unclear exactly when Fisk's home was burglarized. Detectives say Fiske was out of town when a pool serviceman arrived Thursday and noticed the break-in.
Investigators say it doesn't appear anything else was stolen.
Fisk was a catcher for the Boston Red Sox and the Chicago White Sox for years, and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2000. His dramatic, often-replayed home run clinched Game 6 of the 1975 World Series for the Boston Red Sox against the Cincinnati Reds, although the Reds ultimately won the Series.
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landing spot. will be interesting to see how he does.
#1 jersey
Mailbag: Slowing Down Offenses, Henry At NT, Smith Vs Green, #1 Jersey, Onside Piracy
As I sit here watching Missouri and Auburn roll up and down the field, with the only defense being turnovers, I'm wondering what can be done to curtail the wave of offense in football so that defenses have a chance again. Maybe people are fine with all of the offense, but it seems like it is so tough to play defense (get held on nearly every play, called one in 30 times) that I would love to see something to help even things up without drastically changing the game (such as 3 downs instead of 4 or having to go 15 yards for a first down instead of 10, etc.). I think I figured out a simple change that may help: with offenses spread out to make one on one match-ups all over the place, what if there is a rule that all of the offensive players have to line up between the numbers? This wouldn't be such a drastic change and it would allow defenses to be a little less spread out at the snap.
What do you think?
A loyal reader,
Despite the attempt to not seem drastic, that seems kind of drastic. That would affect a lot of teams from spread to, uh, concentrate. And I'm not even sure what the impact would be. If teams just stack two guys up at the numbers is that better or worse? It doesn't seem to have a huge impact. Apologies, but thumbs down.
If we're going to change football to slow down the offenses, my suggestion is to simplify and liberalize pass interference by making it a (nearly) arms-only offense. I can't stand it when a defender gets nailed for the WR trying to run through him; some of these back shoulder things are basically prayer ducks relying on the fact that the DB isn't looking and hoping he'll run over the DB. In the hypothetical world where I am king, whiskey is free and pass interference is a thing that can only happen when a defensive back uses his arms in an unfair fashion or blows a guy up early. No more of this stuff where the DB is running in a direction and the WR changes his path such that the DB is now impeding the WR. You have a right to your momentum. In exchange, offenses can have full NFL penalties for flagrant you-tackled-that-guy offenses.
Not that any of this will do much to slow down Auburn, which just runs and runs and runs and runs. They beat Alabama and their QB threw for 97 yards. They got outgained by 100 yards, but they also ran for 5.7 yards a carry against Alabama. It boggles the mind.
Moving Willie Henry?
OK, there are many candidates to play the DT next year, but few candidates to play NT if Pipkins doesn't come back strong after injury. You and others are very high on Henry at DT, but I haven't seen him mentioned at a possible NT. His weight and height look fine, but is there something about his build that makes him not well suited to play the nose?
Henry is a very plausible NT with his size and strength. Michigan lists him at 6'2", 306, which is about ideal NT size, and we've seen him throw away more than one OL this year. In an ideal world, Pipkins is full-go by late spring and playing well in fall camp, allowing Henry to continue doing his thing at three-tech.
But if that's not happening I bet we do see Henry slide over to the nose. Michigan's other options there are Richard Ash and redshirt freshman Maurice Hurst Jr, which doesn't sound too appealing. At three tech, Strobel, Poggi, and Glasgow are returning and Michigan has the option of bumping either Godin or Wormley down from SDE with Beyer the projected starter there.
A Henry move is 50/50 right now.
[After the JUMP: Smith vs Green, annual #1 jersey speculation, and evaluating a potential onside kick in The Game.]
Green was getting more PT for a reason. Was that recruiting hype? [Fuller]
Dear Diary Remembers Dennis Bergkamp
Don't listen to anyone in the Netherlands who says otherwise: "Dennis Bergkamp neemt de bal aan" is Dutch for "Denard Robinson picks up a block!"
Between the WMU run and this week's bitterly unsatisfying conclusion we coined and created new uses for words like "Shoelace", and "Dilithium", and "ERMAGHERD", and "Eating" and "Robinson to Roundtree." Every sharp cut and rocket acceleration by his gangly, graceful legs created another moment pregnant with so much meaning you could utter gibberish about it in another language and the guy next to you would understand exactly what you're trying to say.
Think back on the Michigan you knew the moment before the camera first panned to 'Lace's shoes. Think how utterly un-Michigan it all looked: a Floridian freshman who couldn't throw the ball stepping into a role occupied by artillery pieces and disciplined option men since as far back as any reader of this site can remember, dropping the snap, wandering over toward the sideline, then hyperdriving through a field full of men bigger than he is. It used to be other teams' little jet mites doing that to our colossuses.* It was too astounding to be repeatable. How are we to crush souls if every few plays this sprite is jetting off to the end zone, then smiling at everybody? Doesn't he realize scoring touchdowns is just giving the other team more time of possession?
Here at the end we're all not sure what it is we just saw. The thing that turned some practice observers in 2010 into raving lunatics on these boards never stopped being a source of some sort of controversy, from spreadvocates who'd rather Borges run an offense he doesn't know than see him waste such a talent, to insufferable puritans who called him a running back.
To those last to whom circumstances and mankind's ill-planned brachial nervous system ultimately gave them their wish, I give you 100-ish yards on 23 carries, and a ho, and a hum, and a little secret…gonna have to lean closer…a bit closer…I need to whisper…DENNIS BERGKAMP! DENNIS BERGKAMP! DENNIS BERGKAMP! AAAAAAAHHHHH!
*If I'd said "it used to be other teams' Vins doing that to our army of Koloss" would anyone have gotten the reference?
CHRISTMAS IS STILL RELEVANT. Enough so at least that there remains much to be gained in mistersuits's X-mas Eve basketball roundup, which does things like compare this team to last's, and compare this team to the Fab Five, and publishes the schedule reorganized by expected KenPom difficulty, and lots of analysis and good formatting and stuff. I was out on holiday (and watching SEC football) and missed the chance to bump it—even now it's front page material by a good margin, just a little bit outdated. The diary describes an SEC-like gauntlet of Top 15-ish teams that Michigan and Indiana will both have to navigate.
FILE UNDER NO FRIKKIN WAY: TSS has found an NCAA rushing stat that Michigan leads the country in. Seriously. He calls the statistic "open field rushing yards" and it tracks how many yards you got on top of every rush of 10 positive or more yards. Indeed when Michigan managed to get the ballcarrier into the secondary this year, more often than not he'd be going full DENNIS BERGKAMP! Or losing a shoe. Minnesota was second-to-last.
Actually that stat is just a byproduct of his real effort, which removes the Bergkamping after 5 and 10 yards and gives credit for the first bits back to the O-lines. Relevant results cropped:
Note Michigan's the huge outlier in "AOFY" which is "adjusted open field yards" to the OP, yet still hanging at the bottom of the conference with "AALY" which is basically how many yards per play the offensive line might take credit for. Of course they're also hindered by RBs missing cuts or being too small to carry momentum through a linebacker. Yeoman's work here, with scatterplots and a lot more than the above. Diary of the Week(s). Read it.
[The Jump: lots more diaries, and stuff, and stuff, and by now you should realize I always leave something nice for my clickers-through.]
Unverified Voracity Is Awake, For Now
Me-date. If you're thinking about tearing your ACL, let me give you some advice: skip it and have some ice cream instead. I'm limping around vaguely now and gingerly moving my leg back and forth so that it doesn't get stuck in one position forever*, taking serious painkillers, and falling asleep all the damn time.
That's the main problem. Large parts of the past week that I thought I'd be working have been spent either asleep or doing this:
no srs I'm awake
I thought I was fine when I posted that UV a day after the surgery and then was somewhere between asleep and falling asleep for the next two days straight. Add in two to three hours of gingerly moving the leg around per day and despite things getting better productivity is still low. Bear with me. In my stead Ace and Seth and the Mathlete have been putting in yeoman work.
I'm experimenting with a prescription-painkiller-free day as we speak and it hasn't been too bad. Productivity can only increase from here.
*[That thing your mom said about your face? Yeah, that's apparently true for knees.]
Something something bride before the mall /BOOM SINGIN' MATT MILLEN'D. The Great Dantonio's latest dig:
Up the road in East Lansing, however, Michigan State shrugs off talk about the Wolverines regaining their super power status under Brady Hoke. The Spartans are confident of their own standing and future prospects.
"We're laying in the weeds," Michigan State head coach Mark Dantonio says with a half smile. "We've beat Michigan the last four years. So where's the threat?"
This proves Dantonio is either A) the boss of this town and isn't afraid to let people know it or B) has passed the denial phase of his Kubler-Ross acceptance that the new boss is the same as the old boss and is settling into anger, with bargaining to come in a year or two. Hopefully this works out as well as The Hecklinski Incident—good name for a sci-fi novel there—did for him. The days where Michigan and Michigan State have anywhere near the same talent level are in the process of ending. Might take another year or two, but if I was MSU I'd make hay now.
How the sausage is made. ESPN has released three videos detailing their rankings process. Given the Mathlete's post earlier today, the fourth one will be entitled "…and then we all ignore all that and pile everyone from the SEC footprint into the top 50" but I appreciate the transparency. ESPN is planning on releasing a 2014 150 in… August. Yeesh.
ESPN says they have no regional dudes at all and farms out a particular set of position groups to scouts who do rankings for everyone at that spot, which does sound good. The Mathlete's methodology is suggestive but could have a systematic issue: since it relies extensively on all-conference teams and there's always an all-conference team even if you suck, ESPN cramming all those players from one region who go to one conference into the top end of their rankings would make them look worse even if they were right. The recent SEC-SEC-SEC business makes it at least plausible that ESPN is right. Adding another level of detail with NFL draft results would help sanity check that.
Poking around 2013 kids. Basketball is, that is. But apparently not Bo Ziegler, who told Inside The Hall that Michigan had not been much of a factor:
On other schools recruiting him hard:
"Pretty much the same schools that you heard about. Providence, Iowa State, Michigan State. Michigan was coming for a minute but I guess they've backed off. I'll probably get a few more looks once we hit the AAU circuit."
That is probably not a momentary oversight; Michigan has had a lot of time to think about this stuff. John Beilien, Y NO LIKE ZIEGLERS?
Instead, meet two new prospects:
- NJ combo guard Jaren Sina, a consensus four star who ranks in the bottom half of the top 100 everywhere. Sina committed to Alabama a while back before reconsidering. Beilein went out to watch him and the kid seems extremely interested. Pitt, Villanova, and Alabama are his biggest offers at the moment.
- NJ PF/SF Reggie Cameron. You know a guy is a Beilein recruit when he's listed at 6'7" and starts his lists of strengths off with "my jump shot." Other evaluations list him at 6'5" so it's up for debate as to whether he can be a stretch four to give Michigan that Smotrycz option or if he's pretty much a wing and wing only. Dave Telep called him a "hybrid 4-man"($) who plays small forward on offense and guards bigs on D; his stroke was praised. I hope Michigan's done with 6'5" power forwards, but maybe he grows some. Cameron is usually in the 100-150 range on recruiting sites.
Michigan could take both these guys as long as someone goes to the NBA next year, which is a near-certainty. Sina could provide minutes at the one and two, Cameron the three and maybe the four or two.
Meanwhile in the class of 2013, Rivals revamped its basketball rankings for that year. Irvin slid a little to #63; Walton and Donnal rose a little to #72 and #116. Irvin's down six spots, Walton up 15, Donnal up 8.
Ahem. Just going to leave this here.
It's in the store. Consume!
Whoah, whoa-oh oh oh oh. We own Penn State. The halycon era:
Via WH.
You know this already but I was asleep so my tab is still open. ND's Aaron Lynch, who you may remember being terrifying last year, is leaving ND. Bwahaha. Unfortunately, Brian Kelly recruited his balls off on the DL in that class so there's plenty of talent left behind. None of them were quite Lynch, who I remember coming in to the ND-MSU game and running around MSU OL like they were not there. Not having to face him the next three years is a lot like seeing Michael Floyd transfer after his freshman year. Which would have been cool.
Also old: this. Mary Sue Coleman said Michigan wouldn't be putting the Fab Five banners up, causing a twitter hissy from Jalen Rose I can't be bothered to go find again. No school is ever going to put up a banner for a game the NCAA made them vacate. That is a banner that says "congratulations: you technically weren't at the Final Four!"
Surely no one can be surprised by this. The only topic more tired than Fab Five banners is the #1 jersey, and no one's—oh hell, we're talking about this again. For the love of cripes, just offer it to LaQuon Treadwell and let's be done with this. The only thing this Braylon scholarship thing has done is made it so no one wears the number.
Etc.: Freshman RB TJ Yeldon goes ham at Alabama spring game (against the second team D). Denardfluff. I'll probably write more about this at a later juncture, but here's a Smart Football post on the future of the NFL being more shotgun high-tempo stuff. I don't mind a pro-style offense if it's actually a pro-style offense and not what a pro-style offense used to be in 1970. More Smart Football: the monster defense of old and its resurgence.
McGary. McGary DROP. MCGARY MAD. MCGARY SMASH. MCGARY SAY THINGS ABOUT HATERZ THAT IGNORE THE USEFUL SOCIETAL EFFECTS THAT RESULT FROM DISAPPROVING THINGS THAT ARE WACK. BUT THAT OKAY IF MCGARY SMASH.


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Texas Military Bases Could Offer Timely Energy Relief to ERCOT's Power Grid as EPA Rulings May Force Shutdown of 1,300 MW's by Early 2012.
With record temperatures scorching Texas in July and August, there was yet more extreme heat in early September with the battling of wildfires as the total 100 degree days in 2011 went over the 100 day mark setting the new all time Texas heat record. The Texas grid operator ERCOT, (Electric Reliability Council of Texas) worked to maintain power stability across the large grid system to millions of electric consumers as ERCOT staffers worked diligently with generation supplier resources, while pulling MW's from DR (Demand Response) program load shedding customers, and calling up cogeneration, self generation units and juggling generation demand to meet the needs of electric consumers.
As if ERCOT's situation wasn't challenging enough, a press release on Tuesday 9/13/11 announced that EPA rules will force future shutdown of 1,300 mw's of ERCOT capacity as early as January 2012 from units operated by Luminant Company's Monticello plant, along with the loss of 500 jobs. As the seasonal shift in generation demand is slowly arriving, there is truly little rest for ERCOT operators. The 2011 winter impacts to power plants are recent reminders that ERCOT cannot rely on the fall or winter for relief to make up retirement of 1,300 mw's adding no comfort to grid management and planning.
ERCOT may find some relief however from the Department of Defense as most Texas military bases and installation's are ramping up their ability to self provide, and perhaps offer excess energy resources to the grid. The DoD is marching ahead in Texas with a wide range of research and solicitations for sources and ideas to implement onsite secure and renewable power and clean energy sources of all types, including wind, solar, clean energy combustion generation plus variable forms of WTE (waste to energy). These initiatives are already underway at numerous Texas military installations.
The military usage in ERCOT is estimated in excess of 400 mw's not counting other Federal energy users. Assuming if only the DoD among Federal users in the state were self providers or a DR energy partner, the ERCOT system could realize benefit and relief to the public power system. A Demand Response program of this size could add significant MW's to the local public's electric capacity in Texas and provide the ERCOT grid with a significant DR partner.
A major announcement was made by John M. McHugh, secretary of the army on August 10, 2011 of the establishment of the Energy Initiatives Office (EIO) Task Force at the GovEnergy conference last month in Cincinnati, Ohio. The EIO Task Force is part of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations, Energy and Environment, and will serve as the central managing office for the development of large-scale Army renewable energy projects. The EIO Task Force will be fully operational by Sept. 15, 2011.
"The Energy Initiatives Office Task Force will help the Army build resilience through renewable energy sources while streamlining our business practices so developers can invest in and build an economically viable, large-scale renewable energy infrastructure," said McHugh, "To meet a goal of 25 percent renewable energy by 2025, the Army must use every opportunity to be energy efficient and draw power from alternative and or renewable energy sources."
The Army's scale of renewable energy production in order to provide enhanced energy security is estimated to require investment up to $7.1 billion over the next 10 years. This level of investment is expected to generate 2.1 million megawatt hours of power annually for the Army, as reported by the DoD on August 10, 2011.
The EIO Task Force will work within the Army to streamline existing acquisition processes and leverage industry for the execution of large-scale renewable and alternative energy projects on Army installations. Army installations currently are pursuing renewable energy infrastructure, but they often lack needed expertise. The EIO Task Force will fill this expertise gap and provide resources focused on working with the private sector to execute large-scale renewable energy projects. This is expected to result in increased interest by project developers and improved financial options for the Army.
As this infrastructure is built out, there will be a sizable amount of onsite generation capability and significant enough where the nation's military bases, and in the case of Texas, could have real world DR capability to interact with local grid systems and communities. A true "Smart Base or .... Micro Grid" if developed with state of the art digital technology would provide a functional benefit by supporting power needs through relief, curtailment or becoming self powered if needed locally . The open market rules that work in industry can be implemented through the contracting industry partners with the military. These strategies can work as non commercial tools to provide secure energy resources at the local military bases and around the nation, if pursued.
"Addressing our energy security needs is operationally necessary, fiscally prudent and vital to mission accomplishment," McHugh said at DOE.GovEnergy. Katherine Hammack, assistant secretary of the Army for installations, energy and environment added, "The Army must leverage opportunities in renewable energy, which will enhance energy security."
On the record, ERCOT benefited this summer from every renewable energy resource, wind, solar, biomass, and clean gas burning CHP plants during this year's long peak summer. All resource types were on daily call from the grid operator during this time, and without exception the US Military could very well become a best neighbor to the utility and great local citizen with a DR capability to reduce energy or self provide with onsite renewable resources. The ERCOT market at present operates a Demand Response program that is 1,063 MW in size of "load resource program" which is equal to three major power plants.
CHP Combined Heat and Power Growth -- Gaining Rapidly by Shale Gas Boost
Recent analysis from the state suggests the potential for CHP in Texas by 2023 could be roughly an additional 13,400 MW of economical CHP opportunities. The Federal Government and the DoD have numerous CHP contracts and operations with CHP projects. Within the state of Texas, a special CHP initiative in 2009 helped to advance rule making that passed legislation and was signed into law on June 17 of this year. The purpose of this legislation is to encourage the development and use of natural gas in CHP as clean energy.
Through the EIO Task Force, the Army is planning to conduct an aggressive outreach effort to attract and engage private industry to foster strategic and financial collaboration in support of the Army's installation energy needs. Officials say these projects could lead to the production of over 140 Megawatts of renewable energy, reclamation of over 500 million gallons of water per year, elimination of a million tons per year of landfill deposition of solid waste, and creation of nested micro-grids to enhance energy security on the installation.
Fort Bliss, Texas has reached out to industry in its effort to become the first large scale Net Zero military installation. Citing a $1.5 billion investment potential, Fort Bliss is looking to industry to obtain their knowledge of technologies and processes for sustainable and renewable alternatives for energy, water and waste reduction. Designated by the Army as a Pilot Integrated Net Zero Installation to achieve net zero status in Energy, Water, and Waste by 2020, Fort Bliss aims to achieve Net Zero Energy by 2015 to be followed by Net Zero Water and Waste by 2018. But with budget challenges, Hammack said the Army doesn't have the funds available to pursue the things it needs to increase energy security.
"What we are doing is leveraging the authorities given by Congress, and have identified that the Army is looking for about $7 billion of private sector investment on Army installations," Hammack said.
With that kind of investment, the Army hopes to get about 2.1 million MWh of energy. The Army seeks "utility scale" energy production, Hammack said, something she said amounts to 10MW or larger. She also said it is "unreasonable" to ask an installation to put the level of focus necessary into such projects.
"It'll take an effort above and beyond the daily activities at our installations and garrisons," she said. The energy initiatives task force will bear most of the burden of enticing industry to get on board with Army energy goals, Hammack said. The team is made up of "focused individuals whose primary task is to work with the private sector to develop these kind of renewable and alternative energy projects. To attract the private investments, we need to have biddable projects -- we have to do our homework," Hammack said. "We have to do our due diligence to make sure these projects have the appropriate information, facts and background that is necessary for a developer and for the finance community to invest in."
The industry is responding as seen by a number of recent strategic alliances across industry partners and joint developments, acquisitions and strengthening in marketing efforts such as:
- Boeing and Siemens: announced formation of an alliance to support DoD microgrid management with collaboration centered on secure solutions, lower operational costs, energy efficiency and energy security.
- Schneider Electric: acquired Summit Energy the largest energy management services firm to manage future technology, foreseeing obvious long term industry growth in smart grid management and real time energy information between grid and customers. Schneider's acquisition can include large experienced global staff to support Schneider's government contract services.
- PEPCO Energy Services: is expanding their management presence and technical focuses to new regions of the country supported by the proven business capabilities and record of success in DoD and Federal project delivery and long term operation and maintenance. Companies such as Chevron Energy Solutions, Constellation New Energy and others are aggressively pursuing large scale projects in solar, wind and expanding with personnel hires also.
Industry collaboration will make a real difference in improving the DoD's contracting for renewable sources, and the network systems that are vital to the nation's protection. The ability to develop and deliver energy security strategies and the use of efficiency is vital for the military's future and important to the DoD's impact to being a good energy neighbor to local communities.
With energy-efficient technologies that enable 'smart' production, transmission and consumption, the military can achieve unprecedented levels of power reliability, quality, efficiency and energy independence, according to the DoD. The state of Texas alone is ahead of other grid operators with a nearly completed Smart Meter installation schedule. With pilot tests already being conducted at residential and commercial customer levels, the focuses are on everything from time of use, real time pricing, and to tailored or structured usage schedules.
As DR programs mature and create commercially useful deployment histories, the grid operators and utilities, along with power suppliers will then have detailed information on metered consumption, load patterns for a better understanding where generation resources can best respond to loads, demand, or both. The management of grid stability and reliable delivery in peak times as ERCOT have experienced can indeed come from the new growth in renewable energy resources, wind, solar, biomass, and clean CHP plants. Grid operators and the US Military could become strong utility neighbors with this relationship model in Texas and work with private industry and communities.
For the "Grid" record book, ERCOT reported an all time high load demand of 68,294 MW's on 8.24.2011 at 15:57 and declared Level 2A (electric emergency alert) warnings which is one call away from rotating outages. Power costs in real time or LMP (locational margin pricing) in economic terms was selling at $3000/mWh commercially, as ERCOT regularly ran through their bid stack of resources and ancillaries. Calls to the summer demand response program participants began numerous times in the afternoon, with 50% of those resources often deployed. The grid reported stressed system conditions often, regularly reaching the max load for the current day and 3 day forecast plans.
The DoD may uncover audit opportunities around the corner as the Texas bases may have consumed peak levels of power during the Coincidental Peak Measurement snapshots. On days when significant strain was on the system many marketers and suppliers were watching conditions and alerting their customers to consume less or manually conserve through the peak hours. Utility review audits will help to establish any merits for a DR program review.
The big picture opportunity for industry from the DoD is an ambitious industry contracting initiative to be delivered on a major scale of implementation, capturing energy conservation & efficiency technologies and installing renewable energy systems at large capital project levels with energy savings to the DoD. This is an exciting level for business development if you are an equipment and technology participant or an ESCO and EPC serving Federal participants.
The Army's scaled estimate of $7.1 billion over 10 years is a good starting place. The targets for the Air Force, Navy, and Marines are high too.
References ** Katherine Hammack, John McHugh quotes and information taken from Army.mil publications.
** Katherine Hammack, John McHugh quotes and information taken from Army.mil publications.
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Len is correct here. What I have learned though when it comes to demand management, our utility companies do not care which of their customers load shift as long as they achieve their load reduction targets. Indeed, they and our governments have historically put far more resources into industrial demand management because they get greater load reductions with fewer customers participating i.e. a bigger bang for their DM dollar. So in essence it is cheaper as Len says to foster industrial DM than residential.
It may be cheaper for the utility companies and for our governments but not for the economy in the long run, but I suppose you might say what else is new – shorter term gains always tend to be favored over longer term pain when it comes to investing tax payer's money or our utility company's money.
The "net zero" program looks like another hair-brained scheme hatched by the current regime.
As far as Texas is concerned, perhaps if they had concentrated on building natural gas fired power plants instead of renewable energy (and wind in particular), they would not have gotten in trouble in the first place. Also, might not be a bad idea to build transmission lines to obtain more power from the Midwest. we would be happy to sell them excess power from our coal power plants.
I am calling BS flyash and bottom ash are inert unlike garbage or other waste that contains carbon and hydrocarbon sources. Petroleum waste is almost pure carbon and can be readily burned to produce energy to processing it is not a feat. However, any carbon left in flyash is unburned coal from incomplete burning. Even if a third of the flyash will burn out that leaves two thirds of inert material that is already oxidized. I do not believe you have a process that will further reduce the ash and produce additional energy beyond burning out the remaining carbon. If so just set it up and start processing dirt it should be easier.
Also 1300 mw should not break ERCOTS back it is not that much in such a large system.
While the article pounds the drum about multiple sources of alternate generation, little was said about efficiency. Even less (effectively nothing) was said about permanent load shift opportunities. With thousands of schools, hundreds of hospitals, thousands of large office buildings and hundreds of governmental buildings, the opportunity for thermal load shifting is enormous. It is not unreasonable that this alone could represent several GW of capacity. Better still, it can be implemented quickly and cost effectively, with a rapid payback. This should be a prime target. There are other technologies that have the potential for similar benefit.
While "alternate energy" is inevitable, it would be more economic to place an emphasis in load shift and efficiency first.
Michael Keller...Although the military should have an initial emphasis on energy efficiency, renewables are hardly "another hair-brained scheme hatched by the current regime". The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan finally drove home to senior military that the existing use of energy is a severe vulnerability, tactically, strategically, financially. The efforts to improve energy use at domestic facilities serve multiple purposes, including facilitating the development of improved energy use "in the field".
Regarding, construction of transmission lines from Texas to the Midwest: 1) If constructed, the Tres Amigas facility would largely accomplish this goal, and more, without the need for extensive new transmission. 2) The Midwest itself may have some energy challenges if EPA rules are enacted that cause shut down of the most polluting (and generally least efficient) coal burners in the Midwest.
Lastly, although it may not be the most cost effective solution, with $3000 MWh energy prices for extended periods even solar PV (when used in a distributed fashion on "mid-sized" installations) may be cost justifiable. This is particularly true given the generally contemporary nature of PV generation with peak load.
In the interim, lots of alternate actions could be taken. I offered the example of thermal storage. With an attractive subsidy from the utility, I would expect good acceptance by the market. Although I haven't done the detailed calcs for this in Texas, based on prior work for a different State and the horrendous costs the utilities in Texas paid last summer for peak energy (and appear likely to pay next summer) I would not be surprised at simple payback for both, the customer and the utility, on the order of 3 to 4 years, maybe less. The real challenge will be getting the utilities to recognize the cost x probability of ongoing extreme peak loads and high bulk energy costs.
Other target applications could include, for example: low efficiency lighting used during the day; electric hot water heaters (shouldn't all residential units be DR?); etc.
In an informal study I performed using data for another State, I easily identified more than 5% of the combined overall residential & commercial load that could be cost effectively reduced (efficiency) or shifted from the afternoon peak period. Applied to Texas, that could be about 5 GW, huge. (I stopped at 5% but could have gone higher.) More important, not only could it be accomplished cost effectively, it can be done quickly, with no new technology to invent and a straightforward consumer education effort.
Once again, the mission of the military is to defend the country. That role does not include participating in grossly ineffective wastes of money involving "crony" green energy. The military using energy more efficiently frees up money for the their primary mission and that makes sense.
Michael...You ask, "How does renewable energy power a main battle tank?" Your self response, "It doesn't", may be broadly correct today, but only in a very limited context. The reality is that "renewables" have a very real potential to power such a vehicle, directly and/or indirectly. "Renewable" technology could be used to power such equipment directly by establishing bioreactors or waste to liquid fuels conversion plants near areas of operations. Such technology is still relatively immature, but it is progressing. A critical drawback is that the fuel such facilities presently produce is relatively expensive. However, while it is expensive to buy algal "biofuel" at $20 (or more) a gallon in the States, that same fuel would be considered very cost attractive at a FOB in Iraq.
A more nuanced, but much more near term, example is the indirect use of "renewables" to provide liquid fuel. Again lets use the example of a FOB in Iraq. These facilities must be supplied by fuel truck caravans. These are risky, and expensive events that occur regularly. The fuel they carry can be used to operate electric generators at the FOB or HUMVEEs (or main battle tanks). If solar PV is used to provide a portion of the electric energy used by the FOB, the fuel not used by the generators can be used to power other equipment, reducing the need for resupply. This may seem insignificant. But, if you consider that in extreme cases, fuel delivered to combat zones can cost upwards of $400 / gallon and lives, PV becomes a very cheap alternative. Add in the lives lost delivering the fuel and the substantial tactical and strategic issues and "renewables" cen become very attractive.
I am far from suggesting that "renewable energy" is the solution to all issues. Clearly substantial further development s needed. However, developing, qualifying, improving and helping to cost reduce such technologies by using them on domestic military facilities can be a very reasonable approach. Energy is an extremely complex aspect of our military and economic environment. Simply declaring "renewables" to be "grossly ineffective wastes of money" is far too sweeping a generalization.
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