Of course, existing coal, oil and gas have enjoyed decades of subsidies. An nuclear subsidy is probably hard to calculate. The other story here is the trends. Older technologies aren’t getting much cheaper. New renewables are on a very steep price decrease curve. From Visual Capitalist.
For TLDRers: Its all about frackers, mostly here in Texas. My understanding has always been that fracking technology was never economically competitive, especially when you figure in negative methane (“natural gas”) prices. Yes, they will pay you to take natural gas in Texas these days. Predictably, it just ends up burned or “vented” into the atmosphere. From Scientific American (which somewhat cowardly lists this completely factual article as “Opinion”).
I keep wondering how such vast quantities of FPAS, “Forever Chemicals” are being found in our environment. From The Guardian.
I am technically a Baby Boomer, but just barely. I never identified with the group, being too young for Vietnam and Woodstock, though I do remember seeing them on the news as a kid. I always “passed” as Generation X, but I have learned I am part of a “microgeneration”, Generation Jones.
From the Washington Post.
Hey Texas, you paying attention to this? From the Sacramento Bee.
Thats a pretty big scam. Oh, he’s a friend of Steve Bannon? From the BBC.
Might as well add a 7 and an 8 while we are at it.
I usually have a project (or two) going that I document here. For a few months now I have been organizing old photos. First my own photos which involved scanning about 200 rolls of negatives. They were all organized and dated, so it wasn’t a hard job, just a boring time consuming one.
Earlier in the year I had scanned in a large pile of photos that belonged to my father. I recall about 5,000 in all. They were in no particular order, so I just put them in groups of a few hundred, and made them available to family on Google Photos.
There were still negatives of my father’s in a box (he was a professional photographer). Didn’t seem like much but they were about another 5,000 photos, many overlapping with the prints I had already scanned.
Recently I decided to try and date and sort these 10,000 or so semi-random photos. It’s has been a bit fun to go through all the old family photos. I have to put in an upvote for the software I have been using. I’m a Linux user but looked at Windows too. Whatever would make the job easier. I have been really impressed with the gThumb application on Linux. Great for moving and editing large groups of photos. I can’t imagine having made nearly this much progress this quickly or painlessly with any other tool I looked at. If you have a large photo organizing job to do, definitely give gThumb a look.
Few years back, when we decided to sell the house, we had a new fence put up. The old fence was 25 years old and falling apart. Our lot is an acre so it was a big expense. It came up in conversation last week, my wife mentioning it cost $30k. No, I replied it was more like $10k. My wife looked it up and the cost was actually $20k. We were both right, on average.
Steven A. Guccione 