Where energy is concerned, one of the most symbolic votes taken anywhere on Election Night came from California, where voters in the very liberal city of Berkeley soundly rejected Measure GG, a local law that would “impose a special tax on all buildings 15,000 square feet or larger that use natural gas.”
The energy/physics/economic/political illiterates running the clown show of the current administration might wanted to understand this before they attempted to force feed an unready energy transition on an unwilling populace. Guess that’s why Bad Angry Orange Guy won bigly last night.
The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) is an agreement among a group of U.S. states to award all their EVs to whichever presidential ticket wins the overall popular vote in the 50 states.
Will Illinois and the other Blue States honor their commitment or remove this joke requirement from the books?
As I've said several times before, I follow Mark Jacobson on LinkedIn. A few days ago he posted a study that was published in some journal (I don't recall which one off hand) that claimed that natural gas cooking causes 40,000 excess deaths per year in Europe. I don't know if that study is accurate or not, and I don't have time to investigate it, but it is a data point that got me wondering. This study may or may not be legitimate, but either way, I think someone needs to figure out if it is. As David would say, that is all.
Well even if that were true, energy starvation will cause a whole lot more excess deaths, and is causing more deaths. Certainly true that the vaccinations that the authorities are demanding are killing a whole lot more than 40k excess deaths. And that is for no value whatsoever. Costs money. Gas cooking has value.
If there is any validity to it, I'd like to know if for no other reason than that I will start turning on my stove hood fan when I cook. I never do that because it seems horribly inefficient to blow all that air out if the outside temperature is more than 10 degrees higher or lower than the indoor temp.
I feel the same way. Letting the memories percolate for a while, I'm pretty certain the "gas causes asthma" study in the US assumed a hermetically sealed kitchen and the European study almost certainly does the same or worse.
IF it's based on teh US study, or used similar methodology, it's a big lie. They did something like assuming hermetically sealed kitchens, IIRC.
But then it's Jacobson. You will not go wrong by assuming, a priori, that everything he presents is a lie with logical reasoning and evidence traps installed.
The energy/physics/economic/political illiterates running the clown show of the current administration might wanted to understand this before they attempted to force feed an unready energy transition on an unwilling populace. Guess that’s why Bad Angry Orange Guy won bigly last night.
The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) is an agreement among a group of U.S. states to award all their EVs to whichever presidential ticket wins the overall popular vote in the 50 states.
Will Illinois and the other Blue States honor their commitment or remove this joke requirement from the books?
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As I've said several times before, I follow Mark Jacobson on LinkedIn. A few days ago he posted a study that was published in some journal (I don't recall which one off hand) that claimed that natural gas cooking causes 40,000 excess deaths per year in Europe. I don't know if that study is accurate or not, and I don't have time to investigate it, but it is a data point that got me wondering. This study may or may not be legitimate, but either way, I think someone needs to figure out if it is. As David would say, that is all.
Well even if that were true, energy starvation will cause a whole lot more excess deaths, and is causing more deaths. Certainly true that the vaccinations that the authorities are demanding are killing a whole lot more than 40k excess deaths. And that is for no value whatsoever. Costs money. Gas cooking has value.
If there is any validity to it, I'd like to know if for no other reason than that I will start turning on my stove hood fan when I cook. I never do that because it seems horribly inefficient to blow all that air out if the outside temperature is more than 10 degrees higher or lower than the indoor temp.
I feel the same way. Letting the memories percolate for a while, I'm pretty certain the "gas causes asthma" study in the US assumed a hermetically sealed kitchen and the European study almost certainly does the same or worse.
IF it's based on teh US study, or used similar methodology, it's a big lie. They did something like assuming hermetically sealed kitchens, IIRC.
But then it's Jacobson. You will not go wrong by assuming, a priori, that everything he presents is a lie with logical reasoning and evidence traps installed.
I found the story.
Pollutants from gas stoves kill 40,000 Europeans each year, report finds
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/28/pollutants-from-gas-stoves-kill-40000-europeans-each-year-report-finds