Severe Weather Thread

There is no type that efficiently stands on its own. A mix is the most efficient way forward because different sources excel in different circumstances

 

I’m sure they have a long term goal on replacing them but haven’t currently been replaced.

Solar is really energy intensive and dirty on the creation side that’s hidden by being produced in China and in most of the northern portions of the country will never get back to break even on energy input.

Wind is a way better option but solar seems king with the hippie types and gets the most attention.

 

Bro, don't talk about solar being dirty when talking about continuing coal. That's not a logical set of positions and generally a talking point of the fossil fuel industry. Mine once to build panels that last 20 years and can be recycled, or continuously mine to produce fuel that is single use and then is pollution for a century.

Only in a vacuum is solar "dirty." Harmonized lifetime emissions and environmental analyses across generation types show this unequivocally. If solar is dirty, coal is sticky human shit.

 

I remember that big toxic solar ash spill that has never happened.

 

Roads are a sheet of snow and ice here. Always fun.

 

I guess I just wasn’t paying attention because I never saw it coming today.

 

Drove 6 hours from Charleston WV to avoid the snow tomorrow but got surprise snow today. Traversible but hairy.

 

How about a 5 minute hail storm and major temp drop. Wasn’t the biggest hail but some were bigger than others and coming down with intent.

 

Brutal. Daylight savings time kills me getting dark at 4:30. I’ll look up ready to go to sleep and it’s 6 pm. Can’t imagine dark all the time. Unless they have some special sunlight glasses you could wear half the day.
Sunlight contacts. Hmmm.

 

That's not daylight savings time, that is the absence of it. We are in standard now. Daylight savings starts in March.

 

semantics. Point is when it’s dark early, it sucks.

 

Imagine going 2 whole months not being able to see smiff

 

not sure I could do it

 

It's more than semantics, Congress almost passed a law to make daylight savings permanent, which would have meant it would not get light until like 9 or 10 am for much of the country in the winter. Because they didn't understand it.

 

Move to the real Tennessee. We are on the western side of the time zone and it never gets dark here before 5:15, even in mid December.

 

I used to hate afternoon classes in college and getting out of class when it was already dark, so depressing.

 

School cancelled due to wind

 

Cancelled here due to the possibility of wind.

 

My father would have laughed in your face if you asked him if he would cancel school for wind.