Jim Thompson wrote on 10/28/2017 4:44 PM:
Maybe we should do something to help reduce the occurrence of massive hurricanes? I can't imagine what that could be... can you?
-- Rick C Viewed the eclipse at Wintercrest Farms, on the centerline of totality since 1998
The entire MSM, though they're fond of creating stories out of whole cloth, too.
He wasn't MY president.
*YUGE* windmill? Strategically place H-Bombs? Waynack machines? More taxes? Yeah, that's it!
That doesn't mean he doesn't count. I think that means you didn't count.
-- Rick C Viewed the eclipse at Wintercrest Farms, on the centerline of totality since 1998
No category 5 hurricanes hit the USA for over ten years. And the CO2 PPM
ratio was rising. So, perhaps we need to burn MORE coal!
I don't actually believe this, coal is nasty polluting after all, just making the point that people forget that there were plenty of hurricanes
in the past.
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Well, so are Clinton, the two Bushs, and Carter. I think his point was more pointed though.
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Of course, you're forgetting Trump in your list of living Presidents. OTOH, if PR doesn't become a state (and it won't) the only President (to this point) who would break the chain would be Obummer. The others were all born before HI and AK were admitted.
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But they were born before 1959. That would make a difference.
You are aware that Puerto Rico is part of the US?
-- Rick C Viewed the eclipse at Wintercrest Farms, on the centerline of totality since 1998
Since there were people who didn't lose power, it's odd that the numbers match. Isn't it?
Does the DoE report include all the large, tractor trailer sized portable generators that were being deployed to hospitals, and other important locations?
I'm still here. :)
Assuming you are a US citizen, he was your president.
You may not have liked it, but he was your president.
Good. Now go and tell that to all the anti-Trump folks.
What on earth makes you think they don't already know it?
From all them folks that have been screaming "he's not my president" from day one. Duh.
I know you have restless leg syndrome but how did you jump to the conclusion that he thought otherwise? Oh, that's right, you're a lefty. Logic is a foreign concept.
Percentage of "normal peak load" is not the same as percentage of customers without power. However, there's a problem with the DoE estimates.
Let's pretend that there were exactly two customers in Puerto Rico who lost power. One customer is a big industrial concern that normally consumes 99% of the islands generated power. The other customer is a small residence that normally consumes the remaining 1% of the power. If the small customer had their power restored, the headlines should read: 50% of the customers had their power restored and 1% of the peak load was restored. Counting customers and kilowatt-hrs are quite different. The chances of the numbers being the same (100% - 73.8% = 26.2%) for number of customers, and 26.2% of the normal peak load to 3 significant figures is rather small.
However, that's not how the DoE conjured their estimates. Quoting the report: "Note: Estimate number of customers without power is based on percent of average peak load restored." So, in the eyes of the DoE, every customer uses the same amount of power. Sigh.
I guess I was right. The DoE is somewhat better than the news media only because the media believes the DoE numbers. Also, I missed this not so trivial detail the first 2 times I read the situation report.
I don't think so. What they're doing is assuming that everyone will be drawing the same amount of (normal) peak power as they did before the hurricane. Near as I can guess(tm), they simply measure the peak load and divide it by the pre-hurricane normal load to get the percentage of power restored. They then take that percentage and multiply it by the number of paying customers, to get the number of customers restored. Obviously, the two percentages will be equal. There's no room for generators and alternative energy when they do it that way.
-- Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558
Please forgive my hair splitting, but as an unincorporated territory, Puerto Rico is NOT a part of the US:
"Puerto Rico (Spanish for "Rich Port"), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Spanish: Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, lit. "Free Associated State of Puerto Rico") is an unincorporated territory of the United States"
"Under United States law, an unincorporated territory is an area controlled by the United States government which is not part of (i.e., "incorporated" in) the United States. In unincorporated territories, the U.S. Constitution applies only partially."
-- Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558
Hair splitting indeed. Wikipedia is not the final arbitrator. The people of Puerto Rico are US citizens. It's part of the US.
BTW, which parts of the US Constitution don't apply? 1st amendment, 2nd amendment, 18th amendment, the 21st amendment?
-- Rick C Viewed the eclipse at Wintercrest Farms, on the centerline of totality since 1998
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