Month: July 2023

I almost don’t know where to begin.

Environmental Concerns Surround Biden’s Hydrogen Energy Plan
A component of President Joe Biden’s green energy campaign has caught a snag from an unlikely place, environmentalist groups concerned that a series of new green energy plants will exacerbate a local water shortage and threaten the coastal ecosystem.
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If approved, the IIJA funds would go toward creating a regional hub to produce hydrogen fuel, a low-emission energy source created by electrolyzing water.

So the port city of Corpus Christi is afraid they’ll run out of water if it’s used up electrolyzing water for hydrogen. I dunno… maybe use sea water instead of your municipal drinking water supply?

I see someone did consider that option, but…

Local officials in favor of the hydrogen fuel production hub have favored creating desalination sites throughout the Gulf Coast port city to provide the necessary water supply.

That’s a start, but why in the ever-loving f**k desalinate the water you want to electrolyze? You need an electrolyte in the water to conduct electricity for electrolysis to happen at anything like efficient. You’re gonna purify it through desalinization — removing the electrolyte — just so you can add an electrolyte back again?

Of course, there’s a reason electrolysis isn’t a major industrial source of hydrogen: it’s costly and inefficient. Much better to get the hydrogen from petroleum or natural gas surely Texas can find some of those.

Scary stuff here. Or, rather, it’s meant to be.

Alert: Damaged DNA and Increased Cancer Risk Linked to Common Grooming Tool, Study Warns
A new study has revealed that the ultraviolet light from UV nail dryers may increase the risk of developing cancer-causing mutations and can damage DNA.
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However, the researchers found that human and mouse cells died when exposed to the typical amount of radiation used in UV nail dryers.
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“Once I saw the effect of radiation emitted by the gel polish drying device on cell death and that it actually mutates cells even after just one 20-minute session, I was surprised,” she said in the news release.

“I found this to be very alarming, and decided to stop using it.”

Hmm. As always, let’s go to the actual study and see what they did.

Based on the manufacturer’s specifications, the UV nail drying machine emits ultraviolet A light in wavelengths between 365 and 395 nm.

That would be what we call UVB. That’s important.

Primary mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) were purchased from Lonza (M-FB-481).

There’s a big red flag. Embryonic fibroblasts. Not skin cells, which evolved to deal with UV. When you take that with the UVB exposure… Consider what WHO has to say about UVB.

Medium-wavelength UVB is very biologically active but cannot penetrate beyond the superficial skin layers.

So right off, our trusty researchers are exposing sensitive internal tissues to UV that normally, they’d never see. But it gets better worse.

Cells were irradiated with a UV nail polish dryer, acutely (i.e., twice a day, with 60 minutes break between each of the 2 sessions) as well as chronically (i.e., once every day for up to 3 consecutive days).

Show of… um, hands: How many of my readers get their nails done twice a freaking day, and then get them completely re-done daily after that?

What these clowns discovered is that sterilizing UV radiation will sterilize UV sensitive cultures — i.e.- not skin — when seriously over-exposed for days. Looking at UV levels in my area, and what their experiment used, I can approach that same level of exposure in a day at the beach; and without sunscreen, I’d be pretty sun-burned. Let’s see them try setting their cultures out in direct sunlight.

I’m gonna guess that the ladies aren’t going to be killing themselves by getting their nails done once every month or two.

 

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The Secretary of Energy is doing a multi-state tour to promote electric vehicles. She’s traveling in an electric Cadillac that I’ll never be able to afford short of winning a lottery jackpot. But the kicker?

She’s apparently sending gas-powered vehicles ahead to hold spots for her at charging stations, blocking out the little people actually trying to charge.

Biden’s Energy Sec Runs Into EV Charger Shortage on Tour Touting ‘Green’ Energy
Granholm drove through the southeastern U.S. in her electric vehicle, media in tow, showing people how a road trip in an EV works.
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“Yesterday, we stopped at a fast charger where one of the chargers was broken, right? … There were more people who wanted to charge than there were chargers.

“And one person who was waiting actually called the cops about a non-electric vehicle that was trying to hold a spot for the secretary of energy. Turns out that’s not a crime, the cops said who showed up.

And “battery belt”? I live here, and I’ve never heard it called that before.

 

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