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Daily newspaper reporter for 44 years & counting. Concord Monitor (New Hampshire, the Granite State). Sci/tech, business, energy, environment. Granite Geek blog & newsletter since 2006: granitegeek.org. [email protected]. he/him
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That's from one of his relatively early comics - back when many of us were just finding XKCD and realizing it wasn't just obvious geek jokes.
You just know the comic writers/artists chuckle like 7-year-olds at all these double entendres
Sort of like those "fog sails" that gather moisture from inland fogs in coastal desert lands.
"The share of coal in electricity generation dropped as renewable energy surged ahead. But the general increase in power demand meant that more coal was used overall"
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Amazon controls over a third of the global cloud computing market.

Its customers include Capital One, United Airlines, and the US Army.

Today's outage should be a wakeup call: Dependence on a handful of powerful corporations is a threat to economic and national security.
BREAKING: Amazon Web Services

A massive AWS outage early this morning sent major websites and apps down for several hours

Tracking site Downdetector has received over 8 million reports around the globe
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They'll block solar panels on a '50s era house but not this?!?!?
“The insurance crisis in the U.S. is the canary in the coal mine, and the canary is dead,”
I saw that. I am skeptical but just because I've been disappointed so many times not because of any nowledge
Compelling slideshow about the "electrotech revolution" (that America is falling behind on)
@ember-energy.org

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Shades of Reagan's debate joke against Mondale that "I am not going to exploit ... my opponent's youth and inexperience" which effectively killed all concern about his age.
Not quite. He said he can't see the front of his truck because of the design - not that he can't see out of the windshield.

That's still a terrible design; if you can't see the front of your massive vehicle you are more likely to hit something.
"We have met the enemy and he is us" as Pogo said (concerning pollution but it fits in so many circumstances, alas)
yeah but thinking that somebody wrote about enjoying a nice, long, hot douche in their hotel room can give you a, shall we say, skewed impression of them
Vermont and Maine (but not NH, alas) are part of a vaccine group with other Northeast states - why aren't they part of this, I wonder?
15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.

Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.
until you hit a false friend that changes the meaning, unbeknownst to you

"douche" which means shower being a classic example.
I've heard the actual carving is long gone - is that right?
It's only a record by 17 MW, and less than 100 MW over a record that we set 16 months ago. So we're barely budging.
New England just set a new record for wind power. 1,332 MW. That's almost 10% of the total system load at the moment.

If we'd been building offshore wind for a decade, as was planned, it would be so much more. .... sigh ...