Thursday, January 31, 2019

Did Michigan's Consumers Energy lose 50 billion cf in the compressor fire this week?

On Wednesday the utility was reported to have 350 billion cubic feet of natural gas in storage. Tonight it is reported that the utility has 300 billion cubic feet, 50 billion cubic feet less than a day before. That would mean 14% of its storage went up in flames in the fire in Macomb County.

No one was bright enough at today's press briefing to ask about this.

This was a catastrophic loss of capacity during the most severe cold snap in twenty-five years, rescued only by the efforts of consumers and businesses who voluntarily cut their consumption while the utility scrambled to bring reserve fields on line.

You can turn your heat back up after midnight, Consumers Energy says:

The Jackson-based utility has 300 billion cubic feet of natural gas in storage across Michigan. On Wednesday, the company broke a record, needing 3.3 billion cubic feet of natural gas.

Laugh of the Day: Reddit spelling flash mob

The number one thing holding back American cities?

I'll see your $100 billion and raise you $100 billion, you desperate, clawing grifter

No more goat-f*cking sand refugees

The New Republic attacks The Jew Howard Schultz for getting The Protestant debt religion

Which teaches that real capitalism is about risking savings, not about leveraging debt.

It's The New Republic which has learned nothing, not Howard Schultz. As usual the liberals engage in projection of their own failings onto their enemies.

Howard Schultz Learned All the Wrong Lessons From His Childhood:

Without savings—and with his mother seven months’ pregnant—the family was forced to rely on Jewish Family Services. Later, when debt collectors called their home, Schultz’s parents would put him on the phone to turn them away; when the family ran out of money, they sent him out to family and friends to ask for loans.

NeverTrump Ben Shapiro reassures America today about Howard Schultz

BS: Howard Schultz is Jewish, not white. And he'll siphon votes from Trump, not the Democrat candidate.

Thank you, BS. Finally one of you admits you are not white.

Go Howard!

Heh.

Trump threatens to take down border wall in California, reinstall it in Arizona and Texas

Haha.

Trump: "Nancy Pelosi Will Be Begging For A Wall"

How much natural gas does Consumers Energy have for its customers in west Michigan?

Fire out at Consumers station, company relying on gas reserves, decreased usage:

Consumers has 15 storage fields with 350 billion cubic feet of natural gas storage, [Consumers Vice President Garrick] Rochow said.

"There's not only a large supply to meet our customers' needs for the entire winter, but there's the ability to pull even more gas into state through the pipeline system," Rochow said. "So there is no risk from a long-term reserve perspective."

The utility has 1.8 million business and residential natural gas customers.

Here's the math (I think):

350 billion cubic feet of natural gas = 350 trillion btu (1 billion cf = 1 trillion btu);

I use roughly 156 million natural gas btu per year, on average, in my single family household (approximately 150,000 cf X 1.037 million btu per 1000 cf.);

If all Consumers' customers were like me, which they aren't, Consumers Energy could supply 2.24 million such households for one year before needing to resupply the storage fields, or 59% of Michigan's households.

Michigan has roughly 3.8 million households X 2.55 people per household = 9.7 million. Estimated population in 2017 was just under 10 million.

Supplying electricity is a completely separate issue.

Michigan residents asked to keep thermostats no higher than 65F through Friday evening during cold snap

No heat interruptions yet, but Consumers Energy still asks Michigan to keep thermostats at 65:

A Wednesday night plea for customers to turn their heat down made an impact, [Consumers Energy spokesman Brian] Wheeler said.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer took to Facebook to ask Michiganders to reduce usage and an emergency alert was sent to cellphones.

Residents should keep thermostats down through the end of the day Friday, officials said, to avoid the possibility of service interruptions.

I went out in the subzero temperatures to grocery shop yesterday, and it was chilly in the store: Now I know why

The natural gas company had a fire at a compressor station and basically had to burn off an entire natural gas storage field yesterday in a controlled manner in order to prevent an explosion. It was their main field supplying us here in Michigan for the winter. Now they'll have to tap reserves.

They're asking everyone to reduce thermostats to 65F to conserve gas in the meantime.

It's -11F this morning.

Now ain't that a kick in the head.

Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Learn to code: Diversity is just code for . . .

. . . nonwhite.

The utility companies in Minnesota wouldn't have to say this if natural gas were reserved for residential heating and coal for electricity

“We need those in Becker, Big Lake, Chisago City, Lindstrom, Princeton, and Isanti to reduce use of natural gas. Until further notice, you are urged to turn down your thermostat to 60 degrees or lower and avoid the use of other natural gas appliances including hot water,” Xcel Energy said. WCCO’s Reg Chapman said shortly before noon Wednesday that Xcel Energy is asking customers to lower thermostat to 55 degrees. Xcel Energy says residents’ cooperation is critical to prevent widespread natural gas outages. The company also suggests using electric space heaters.

About 39% of utility-scale electricity generation in Minnesota came from coal-fired electric power plants in 2017, down from 49% in 2014.

Increasing amounts of natural gas are fueling electricity generation in the state. In 2016, about one-seventh of the natural gas consumed in Minnesota went to the electric power sector, more than double the amount of natural gas used for electricity generation in 2011.

Why were the Tiananmen Square protests so Asian?

No diversity for Asia: China für chinesische, Ausländer raus!

Hey Donald Trump next time let them eat road kill

I wonder if Ron Fliegelman has been to Oregon lately

Weather Underground bomber unmasked — as city schoolteacher

Antifa member gunned down in Eugene, OR, explosives suddenly turn up at police station

Explosives found outside Eugene police station

Obama beat Romney but never got the House back, best case scenario now for Trump

No, until Hillary Clinton the GOP had no path.

Six more years of gridlock is the future, at best.

And to think, he coulda been a contenda.

"I used to love her, but it's all over now."

Trump never got that separation of powers thingy, didn't realize even a Republican legislative is his enemy

Separate! Separate! Dance to the music . . .

Saving feral cats is a fool's errand: Cats account for 90 percent of the domestic animal cases of rabies in New Jersey since 1989

Midland Park allows residents to have more dogs, raises household limit:

According to the New Jersey Department of Health, between January and September there have been 142 cases statewide of animal rabies, including five in Bergen County. Cats account for 90 percent of the domestic animal cases in the state since 1989.

Here's what's wrong with Chicago: 1,745 people there are trying to save feral cats from the cold

Memo to you lunatics: God sends cold weather like this to cleanse the earth of vermin. Don't get in His way. You are not doing His work. You are mentally ill. Shelter in place and seek medical attention as soon as it's safe to go outside.

Climate reality check: It's only -3.8F on my electronic weather station this morning in Grand Rapids

The record low for this date was -22F, January 30, 1951. That record was matched as recently as January 19, 1994.

The coldest reading ever in Grand Rapids was -24F, a twofer on February 13-14, 1899.

Meanwhile, Chicago's coldest temperature EVER was as recently as 1985, at -27F. It's -20F there at this hour, which will put this in the top ten lowest lows ever in Chicago.

It could be a lot worse, and has been in my lifetime.

Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Rashida Tlaib closely linked to Palestinian American Congress and Maher Abdel-qader

RASHIDA TLAIB’S TIES TO ANTI-SEMITISM RUN DEEPER THAN PREVIOUSLY KNOWN

DC Antifa leader Joseph Alcoff arrested on multiple felonies for November attack on US Marines

DC ANTIFA LEADER CHARGED WITH ‘ETHNIC INTIMIDATION’ RELATED TO ATTACK ON MARINES

True believers are piling on Cernovich in defense of Christianity much like defenders of socialism pile on its critics

True believers say Catholic pedophile priests, Catholic betrayals of its own supporters, and legalized licentiousness everywhere are not representative of Christian civilization, much in the same way that the left has said perennially that Stalin's crimes in Russia and Maduro's in Venezuela, et cetera, do not represent real socialism.

The true believer dies hard because ideology, whether it's religious or not, is the opiate of the people, blinding it to the reality staring it in the face.

And the reality of Islam is that it exalts servility to a religious principle.

George Washington, dear friends, would not take the Lord's Supper, nor kneel in church. The father of our country, first in the hearts of his countrymen for many reasons, including those.

How about DC agree to stop trying for statehood . . .

. . . and we agree not to burn the place down.

How About a 'Grand Compromise' on D.C. Statehood?

Monday, January 28, 2019

Kamala Harris must be on Trump's payroll

She'll have to pry my '97 Olds from my cold dead fingers.

Even President Norman Vincent Peale says you can do it, fired journalists!

Stephen Miller: Dear teenage self

The new warden says, grinning: Kamala's gonna put you and me in jail!

Here.

She can't wait to get the power. Everything's a nail, and she's the hammer.

Campaign slogan: Free coffee for everyone

Tragedy: Father of the First Shiksa

LOL Arianna Huffington, founder of HuffPo and 4chan plant: Learn to code

code.org/quotes:

I know, I use code while I'm cleaning the toilet. Just seems cleaner.

Trump 4/2011: If there is a shutdown I think it would be a tremendously negative mark on the president of the United States

Here:

VIEIRA: So if there were a partial shutdown of the government come Friday, that would be OK with you.

TRUMP: In my opinion--you know, I hear the Democrats are going to be blamed and the Republicans are going to be blamed. I actually think the president would be blamed. If there is a shutdown, and it's not going to be a horrible shutdown because, as you know, things will sort of keep going.

VIEIRA: Well, it's a partial shutdown, right.

TRUMP: But if there is a shutdown I think it would be a tremendously negative mark on the president of the United States. He's the one that has to get people together.

VIEIRA: Right.

TRUMP: I'm a deal man. I've made hundreds and hundreds of deals and transactions. He never did deals before. How can you expect a man that's not a deal man that never did a deal, other than frankly becoming president of the United States, he never did a deal, how's he going to corral all these people to get them to do a deal?

VIEIRA: So how would you do it now? Now you're in the Oval office right now, it's Wednesday.

TRUMP: I would get everybody together and we'd have a budget and it would get done.

VIEIRA: They've all gotten together.

TRUMP: Well, that's because they don't have the right leader. You don't have the right leader. This is the President of the United States has to get this done, and I think he probably will. Now, I don't say "he." But I think he and the group probably will get it done, but it's pretty sad because the whole world is looking at us and laughing at us.

Ha ha.

Finally, one for our side: Armed Antifa pulls gun on middle school cop, patriarchy shoots him dead

Video here.

Landeros was also connected with an Antifa-related group called United Front: Families Resisting & Organizing Nonviolently Together.

Drudge drunk-tweets after date with Rashida Tlaib

Forget the MAGA hats, are we sure the Covington Catholic teens weren't wearing Canada Goose jackets?

NYT Publishes Puff Piece On Hate Group That Harassed Covington Boys For Over An Hour:

A small group of Black Hebrew Israelites harassed and verbally assaulted a larger group of Catholic students at the March for Life in Washington, D.C. last Friday, slinging racial epithets at both the students and a nearby group of Native Americans for nearly two hours. The media’s coverage of the Black Hebrew Israelites group, however, has all but ignored its role in the confrontation that occurred over the weekend.

Evidently they also believe the answer to everything is "42"

For a second there I thought Steve Bannon was aging badly and had lost a lot of weight

Robert Redford

Steve Bannon

3 black robbers in a stolen blue Audi target "people" wearing Canada Goose jackets

WGN:

The suspects were described as three African American males, 18-26 years of age wearing dark hoodies and ski masks and riding in a stolen dark blue Audi A5 with license plate No. X562250

Video shows blacks targeting whites wearing Canada Goose coats, headline says "people"

People robbed of Canada Goose coats at gunpoint in Chicago

But we're repeatedly told in the video that the (black) men were in a "white" Mercedes.

"Be on the lookout for a white Mercedes."

LOL laid off HuffPo opinion girls' time has finally come: HuffPo 2016 Video "Girls Need To Learn To Code"

3dits 4dits 2dits dah, 4chan 4chan rah rah rah!

Why We Need To Encourage Girls To Learn How To Code

Trump is practically run by Jews but French Jew Bernard-Henri Levy says Trump is bad, bad, bad for Jews

Well, Trump's bad for any Jew who isn't orthodox, maybe, like Levy.

Orthodox Jews absolutely love, love, love Donald Judas Trump, and are at the right hand of power in the White House, while Levy is not, which is his real complaint.

Meanwhile Levy has championed perverts like pedophile rapist Roman Polanski, but America First members John F. Kennedy, Gerald R. Ford, William Buckley, Walt Disney, Sargent Shriver, Gore Vidal, Frank Lloyd Wright and a host of others are somehow beyond the pale.

Levy isn't just Exhibit A for the self-hating Jew, but also for the America-hating variety. We are ALL Nazis to them.

Wake Up, American Jews: Donald Trump Is A Huge Threat:

Since his arrival on the scene, Trump has championed the legacy of Charles Lindbergh, the first architect of “America First” and a known anti-Semite. But this was only the first in what has become a long list of signs signifying how bad the President of the United States is for the Jews. ... the radiation given off by the words “America First” are on the Nazi spectrum.