Updates for the Week of 2/3/19

Energy Lecture for the Week: Wind Power And Electricity

Near the end of the video Dr. Wysession made a good point in regards to wind turbines and their affect on birds. We often hear that wind turbines kill birds, and it is often used as an excuse not to use wind power and/or as a contradiction between the supposed environmentalist policies implied by support of wind power and it's negative effect on animals in their habitat. Well, very rarely do we hear of the number of birds that cats kill every year and about the number of birds killed by cell phone towers every year.

So, those who point out the number of bird deaths due to wind turbines and yet ignore bird deaths by cats and cell towers could be indicating that what is most important isn't bird deaths but, rather, something else, possibly their support for the current fossil fuel energy industry. Not to mention how many birds die from smokestack pollution, heavy metal toxicity due to geoengineering stratospheric aerosol injection, starvation due to lack of prey due to changing climate and heavy metal toxicity, and many other factors caused by modern human civilization?

This isn't to imply that bird deaths aren't important but, rather their deaths should be placed in context with other far greater threats.

It may be possible to keep birds away from wind turbines by using methods similar to those used to keep birds away from airports:

http://icwdm.org/handbook/birds/birdAirport.asp

Due to the naturally occurring high pressure systems in Arizona and New Mexico there is less cloud cover. I wonder why Arizona wasn't mentioned, the region in and around Yuma Arizona receives the most amount of sunlight hours compared to anywhere else in the U.S. Too much "influence" from Mormon Uranium Interests? Or what is the problem, oil companies, SRP, APS, did you eat too much of the "real" baby back ribs in a secret ritual? What's the problem?
Cloud cover can now be controlled by using geoengineering. Moisture laden air masses can be dried up by over spraying them with condensation forming particulates. Hence, intermittent solar energy production due to passing clouds isn't as big a problem as we thought.

In regards to passive house design. Vacuum panel insulation could be used in the construction of houses, thereby bringing down the amount of heat loss to or heat entry from the environment. This isn't as difficult as it appears, many modern homes already make extensive use of vacuum panels in the form of double pane windows:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulated_glazing

Vacuum panels are already used as insulation. They have a much lower thermal conductivity when compared to traditional insulation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_insulated_panel#Thermal_performance

We could further lower the thermal conductivity by covering the surfaces of the panel with materials similar to those used in the former space shuttle:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_thermal_protection_system

There is another more hypothetical way to build an insulated housing structure.We could construct a building made of two shells, an outer shell and and inner shell. The two shells would be constructed as to not touch. The inner shell would be supported by making contact with the outer shell at the door and window frames.

Another idea would be to support the inner shell using cone shaped supports. The base of the cone could be attached to the surface of the inner shell and the tip of the cone would make contact with the outer shell. The tip of the cones could be rounded so as to the reduce the pressure exerted on the outer shell. Since the area that would be in contact with the outer shell would be small the heat transfer would also be small.

Once the inner shell is supported most of the air between the shells could be pumped out. To insure the outer or inner shells don't crack or break due to the massive amount of force from the air pushing on their surfaces, the surfaces of the shells could have I-beams continuously welded around their surfaces.

By doing this we greatly restrict the surfaces through which heat could flow into the residence or out of the residence thereby providing nearly perfect insulation.

There is another possibly more practical way to use vacuum insulation, as structural components. So, instead of using wooden structural frame members like wooden 2 by 4s to support a structure, instead a large vacuum panel, would be used. Different sized vacuum panels, ranging from 10 feet by 20 feet and smaller could be used to construct the complete structural support of a dwelling. The edges that could allow heat transfer could be buried into the foundation, walls, and floors.

Yet another way would be to create vacuum panels with vertical edges open to the atmosphere. When the building is constructed all the vertical edges are joined together. The horizontal edges are buried in the ground or in the space between two floors for maximum insulation. Then all the open vertical edges are welded together so as to create strong structural members AND and an air tight seal. Then all the air is pumped out of the welded and sealed vacuum panels.

If vacuum panels could be constructed into the shapes with holes to allow for windows and doors, then the edges that allow heat transfer would be smaller than using vacuum panels of a standard size and shape.

All this and more can be done,.............it can all be done,.............amigo.

Climate Engineering Lecture for the Week: (Nothing's Gonna Be Alright)

A possible reason why extreme cold weather is artificially manipulated in the Midwest (and to a lesser extent the east coast) could be because the regional culture in that area is less prone to questioning the major media and/or looking deeply into the actual causes of events which may be different from the official explanations.

Hence, it is easier to convince people in that area that Global Warming doesn't exist or that somehow we are approaching a new Ice Age, by artificially inducing a cold weather event.

 Capitalism vs. Socialism Lecture for the Week:

Meteorology Lecture for the Week: Tropical Cyclones

Ecology Lecture for the Week: Rain and Heat—Forces That Shape Climate

Mae Brussell Archive for the Week: Mae Brussell Archive for the week of 9/22/71

http://www.worldwatchers.info/shows/dialogue-assassination-71-09-22/

Phil Hendrie Show for the Week: Dec 26, 2001

https://www.philhendrieshow.com/ph_episode/wednesday-december-26-2001-2/

Hour 1: Emmy Awards anthrax.

Hour 2: Guns and werewolves. (I've caught possum, occasionally a duck, NEVER a werewolf!!)

Hour 3: Empowering the flight attendants.

It's Such a Wonderful Lie with Dave2D