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Here's a closer look at that power plant on the opposite shore of Cayuga Lake, 4.2 miles north of where I was standing in Taughannock Falls State Park as the Google Earth line lies. This is a coal-fired plant built in 1955 with a 323-megawatt (MW) capacity, and it supplied a significant percentage of the electricity used in central New York for a little more than 50 years. The company that built it sold it in 1999, but the company that bought it went bankrupt 12 years later, so somebody else bought it at fire sale prices and came up with a plan to convert it from coal to natural gas.
This wasn't a unique plan. According to the internet, since 2011, about a third of the nation's 360-someodd coal-fired power plants have converted to natural gas in response to stricter environmental controls coupled with a sharp drop in natural gas prices thanks to advances in gas production technologies. (Think fracking.) The benefit to the world at large from this is that electricity is cheaper to produce with natural gas, natural gas production isn't as environmentally destructive (mostly), and natural gas power plants emit about 40% as much carbon per unit of electricity as coal.
The downside is that natural gas is still a fossil fuel, and though its impact on the environment is considerably less than coal, it's still not nothing, and in some places it can be pretty destructive. In short, the power doesn't come without consequence, and the people of New York wanted consequence-free power. The people living around the Finger Lakes protested the conversion, and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo put a stop to it. He wanted New York to be free of fossil fuels by 2050, and he thought a natural gas conversion would slow that transition down. The result of the denied permits was that the Cayuga Lake Power Plant shut down for good in 2019.
So, does this qualify as an environmental win? I wouldn't be so fast. Even if you ignore what the removal of 323 MW from New York's electricity supply does to the grid and where the state might be turning to make up for the loss, there's the question of what happens to the plant itself. The company that bought this plant in 2011 has no interest in just leaving the plant here to rot, so they decided to convert the property into a server farm devoted to mining cryptocurrencies. You know, bitcoin and ethereum and other digital Ponzi schemes. They wouldn't be producing any power here, but a server farm consumes an enormous amount of electricity, and a shuttered power plant already has all the transformers and transmission lines a server farm needs to handle all that. The internet quotes local officials as saying this server farm would use enough electricity to power 16,400 homes. I work that out to a constant draw of about 20 MW.
This has inspired the people of New York to step back and say, "No, wait ... that's not what we meant," because if there's a more pointless use of 20 MW (12 of which would be produced by a natural gas plant just like what they don't have here) than the invention of fake internet money on an increasingly overburdened grid, I can't think of what it'd be. The last report I saw in my quick internet survey about this was published in January, though, and the last eight months have seen a precipitous collapse in the price of tulips ... er, I mean cryptomoney, so I don't know if this is still a thing or not.
Your mind is a powerful thing. When you fill it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change. #changes #positivity
for the mission 24 challenge group.
I struggled to find something either different or meaningful.
If I were visiting grandkids I would have done a daiper change, but I am visiting my mother. We saw this sign as we went out for lunch.
One must aways examine the depth of change....
‘Change from eruption’
neuage.org/2020 Texts-Design-Photo: ‘Café Wha’ – Greenwich Village NYC 2019 © Neuage (26 June 2020)
#ChangeFromEruption #CaféWha #change by arbitration #OneDoorWillOpen #Neuage #ThoughtsInIsolation #TextualImagery #TerrellAdsit
My stepfather had a stroke a few months ago. He's in a nursing home now and will most likely spend the rest of his life there. I didn't grow up with him, he and my mom married years and years after my parents divorce and therefore have never been really close to him but he's a good man and I feel sad for him. He and my mom divorced a few years ago but remain friends and he's my two younger sisters' father.
When I visited home last month my mom had alot of his things in her garage as his house had to be sold. There was a box overflowing with pieces of wood from his many projects and this was one of those pieces. One of his favorite hobbies was to collect logs, branches, any piece of found wood that he could. He got them from along the Ohio River, around town and so on. He would cut the pieces into smaller pieces and sand them over and over until they were as smooth as silk. You really have to see and feel one of his pieces in person to truly appreciate it, they're just amazing. I'm so happy to have a few of these now with me. To know that something that one person loved and treasured can have a new life with someone else is a good thing I think.
Maj. Robert Rose, 55th Wing chaplain, provides an invocation during the Base leadership salutes the American Flag during the 55th Operations Group change of command ceremony at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb., July 31, 2020. The 55th OG is the largest operations group in the Air Force with 11 squadrons and two detachments around the world. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jessica Montano)
seasons change and so can I
hold on Boy
no time to cry
...
a lifetime of memories
run though my head...
Dream Theater
Tobyhanna Army Depot
June 17, 2019
Reviewing Officer: Maj. Gen. Randy S. Taylor, U.S. Army CECOM Commanding General
Outgoing Commander: Col. Nathan M. Swartz
Incoming Commander: Col. John W. McDonald
Photographer: Thomas Robbins
The Flickr Lounge-Changing Seasons-Photo #1
Happy Purple Tuesday
Fall always brings out the Morning Glories and the English Ivy Flowers. The Ivy will produce these yellow-green umbels. They are very high in sweet nectar. The insects love them. These umbels will last until late Autumn when they will turn into dark blue berries, and then the birds will have a snack. I was lucky, the flower was actually there, not Photoshopped.
A change of command ceremony for the 1st Cavalry Division was conducted Oct. 3 on Cooper Field. The division said farewell to Maj. Gen. John C. Thomson, III and Command Sgt. Maj. Maurice Jackson, while welcoming Maj. Gen. Paul T. Calvert and Command Sgt. Maj. Shane E. Pospisil.
Chen Zheng-Zong's wife the family has lived in a house here for 100 years and are to be evicted. Xiang Si a farming community is under threat from destruction by a new LCD screen factory. 08/12/2010, Chang Hua, Taiwan.
I just felt like some things had to change.
1) I want to take more photos and I want to take more creative photos. For this purpose, I´ll carry a notebook with me all the time where I´ll note down my picture ideas. (I know, that´s not a quite new thing to do but I just recently thought about it.)
2) I want to clean my room and sort out my old clothes, my old books and all the other old stuff.
3) I want to be nicer. To others, to me, just in general. I don´t know yet, what I´ll exactly do, we´ll see. I want to treat others like I´d like to be treated.
(This resolution also refers to the internal monologue in 178/365.)
4) I don´t want to spend so much time doing nothing.
photo attribution: sean dreilinger durak.org
Matt D?Arrigo: Art: a force for change
Matt D?Arrigo is CEO and founder of A Reason to Survive (ARTS), a nationally recognized San Diego organization providing arts programs and career preparation for youth facing adversity. His belief in the power of the arts stems from the year he spent caring for his mother and sister as they both battled cancer, during which he relied heavily on his art and love of music to help him face an extraordinary life challenge. A student in the ARTS Empower program was the subject of Inocente, winner of the 2012 Oscar© for best short documentary.
Oslo, Norway, activists spell out the number 350 on the opera house located in Oslo harbour calling on awareness that the world needs to return to co-2 levels below 350 ppm to avoid catastrophic climate change.
Boonen & Friends cyclocross race - 2nd edition. 04.12.2010, Zilvermeer, Belgium.
Van de Weg naar ‘t Veld - From the road to the field - second edition of Tom Boones' and friends' cyclocross race.
HHBN conducts deactivation, change of leadership ceremony
Photo by Staff Sgt. Jonathan Lloyd, operations NCO, Signal Intelligence and Sustainment Company
War Child's Busking for CHANGE, Toronto.
The Apollo Effect
Command of the new Fort Belvoir Community Hospital changed hands for the first time since its Aug. 31, 2011, opening during a ceremony in front of the facility Tuesday, July 10, 2012. Col. Susan Annicelli relinquished command of the award-winning hospital to Col. Charles Callahan as hundreds of medical staff, patients, friends and Family observed.
Vietnamese youth climate leaders, after coming back from the Vietnam
Climate Leadership Camp (VCLC) 2018, organized many activities for #RISE in
different provinces and cities of Vietnam. Activities range from social
media campaigning, to climate and energy workshops, to flashmob dancing.
One of the highlights of RISE Vietnam is flashmob performances that these
community groups are coordinating in Can Tho, An Giang and Ho Chi Minh
City, between September 5-8, 2018, where participants wear the traditional
hats (nón lá) hand painted by themselves, carrying #Rise and #fossilfree
messages.
This is the flashmob in Can Tho in the Mekong Delta, at Ninh Kieu Bridge.
(c) CHANGE/350Vietnam
Immature cicadas shed their shells as they mature or change into adults. The abandoned exoskeleton is left behind, still clinging to the bark of the tree. A bit creepy huh?
In the summer of 2014, nearly 300 students from 40 countries, representing 71 disciplines, take part in Europe’s largest climate change education programme – Climate-KIC summer school The Journey.
Over 10 weeks, students take part in five-week long courses offering a unique combination of academic study and real-world business experience with the aim of creating the climate change leaders of tomorrow.
www.climate-kic.org/Journey2014
Photo by Flora Rosenow
Ballycastle, Northern Ireland, Oct 10 2010
In Ballycastle, Northern Ireland, a multi-cultural group of families came together for the weekend to build raised permaculture beds at a community peace and reconciliation site to demonstrate a solution to climate change and to urge politicians to pass clean energy policies.
This was one of over 7,000 climate action events taking place in in 188 countries around the world on 10/10/10 as part of “The Global Work Party.” This synchronized international event is organized by 350.org, and is expected to be the largest day of environmental activism in history.
Photo credit: 350.org
Copyright info: This photo is freely available for editorial use and may be reproduced under an Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 3.0 license.
FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa. -- Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Gundrum takes responsibility for the Pennsylvania National Guard's entire enlisted force during a change of responsibility ceremony held at the installation July 15, 2012. Gundrum takes over the Pennsylvania National Guard's top enlisted position from Command Sgt. Maj. Nicholas Gilliland who has served in the position since late 2009. Gilliland will be deploying overseas to Afghanistan with the Pennsylvania National Guard's Company B, 2nd Battalion, 104th Aviation Regiment. Prior to this new assignment, Gundrum served as Command Sgt. Maj. of the Pennsylvania National Guard's 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team. (Pennsylvania National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Ted Nichols/Released)
Stockholm, 2007
The Changing of the Guard ceremony at the Royal Palace.
Much of the ceremony included music from the military band -- but all I heard in my head were ABBA songs. =)
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