Category Climate change

Now that China is set to eclipse the US in energy, food, and resource consumption with the inevitable huge increases in global warming, capitalists are suddenly getting real interested in being green. Y’see, not only will China coming online big…

Statewide Stage 1 Emergency Notice [200601616] The California ISO hereby issues a Statewide STAGE 1 ELECTRICAL EMERGENCY Notice, effective 07/22/2006 13:12 through 07/22/2006 20:00. Reason(s): Due to the loss of a large resource and high loads across the CAISO control…

The extreme heat blew out transformers all over the San Fernando Valley Friday at 5:45 pm. The power company said it’s a Level 2 which means at least ten hours until it’s fixed and that the outages are directly attributable…

In Britain… With the mercury expected to approach 100F (37.8C) for only the second time in Britain’s history – but also the second time in under three years – researchers said the unusual heat was entirely consistent with predictions of…

Transformer blew near where BlueHost, who hosts this site, is located. They moved everything into another building presumably on a different power line. While this is the second outage in a few days, they do everything they can to get…