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it’s toe and general appendage shrinking cold in my US mid Atlantic global co-ordinate.
Lingering weeks long sustaining everything icing over type cold.
I understand that Climate Change causes fire and unrelenting cold.
I miss Global Warming.
Good times.
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We had another storm late yesterday, with about an inch of rain, lightning a d thunder. Not unusual. Daughter about 1 km away had a blackout for at least four hours. That was an unusual length of time. But what was unusual was a lot of smoke, which alarmed people in our street.
Sirens were heard upwind.
My guess is that the lightning blew a transformer. I dareay we’ll get the truth later today.
But for me it raised a question. what happens when you get a flash of lightning above a “solar farm”?
Does it send an almighty pulse through the system? Which could do damage?
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Here in Austria we drove a very excitable hire car to a resort at 1500 metres.
There were a couple of electric chargers there.
At the general city area it’s been around minus one during the day and minus 10 centigrade at night.
At the 1500 metres resort with the charger it was minus 15 at night and minus 6 during the day.
Any idea what real world range an electric vehicle would have in those conditions,assuming a 100 mile round trip with roughly half each undertaken at the lower and upper heights assuming a theoretical lab tested range of 250 miles?
The car hire guy at Salzburg airport said there was no demand for electric car hire although they are listed as available.
In these punishing temperatures the locals do like to eat their burgers outside in the evening bathed in numerous radiant heat lamps
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World’s biggest drone? 85′ submarine minelayer, etc.
https://www.twz.com/news-features/what-the-navys-massive-orca-submarine-drone-is-actually-capable-of?utm_term=The%20War%20Zone_Wire_01.14.25&utm_campaign=The%20War%20Zone_Dedicated/Sales&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email
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