Zombie Squad

Weather has been weird this year up this way. The early snow isn't so unusual (definitely a lot for this time of year), but we've had very unsettled weather in general. One of the coldest Februaries on record, a very cold and wet June, big swings in temp all summer (100 f high one day, 50 the next),...

There was a second case in Goma this week, and it looks like his wife and one of his children have it too. I'm betting it spreads pretty quick in Goma now... https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-ebola-congo/congo-races-to-contain-ebola-after-gold-miner-contaminates-several-in-goma-idUSKCN1US0XP...

I'm going to go with an advanced case of teenage angst rather than any real political motivation. Woke kid reads anarchist book and decries popular culture isn't exactly new, and the vast majority of the time they grow out of it. Add a bit of mental illness and an SKS though, and that edge gets a li...

BTW when a person dies federal student loans are automatically forgiven. That was kind of what I was thinking. But hey, who knows? Maybe they are just such good citizens that they will insist upon paying back the student loan even when they don't have to. Not saying it was the case here, but genera...

Welcome to Kansas :awesome: It's ok. If a tornado approaches, just climb the nearest mountain . :clownshoes: I see a tornado warning southwest of you and east of you. Were you there last night when they had multiple tornados? Nah, driving into town, drove right between the two storms. Was a lovely ...

Sitting in a hotel in Grear Bend right now. Got some awful big thunderstorms rolling on by out the window. Other than a bit of decent hail, nothing to report just yet. Area is under a tornado watch though. Fingers crossed I don't get to experience my first tornado tonight...

Kinda scary looking until you read the description: ... Though the doctors, on the basis of the symptoms, suspect the outbreak to be seasonal common cold and cough, they said they couldn't say anything for sure until the test report. "We can say for sure what the cause of deaths is only after we re...

I have been spending time in my Wyoming office and as result have been talking to some local ranchers as well as a couple of Nebraska ranchers. They were all lamenting the higher winter mortality of their cattle herds this winter. Yeah, was a hard winter for calving here in Montana too. Second cold...

I have this cut away slope on my property. https://i.imgur.com/rLqL7cz.jpg As you can see, the bottom few feet of it are wet, and they stay that way all through the heat of summer. Was wondering if anyone had any ideas on how to best get at that water? Not that I'd trust it to drink as is, but it wo...

Another thing is figuring out how to erect a PV canopy over strip mall and big box store parking lots. SoCal drivers will hunt down the tiniest scrap of shade to park under. This canopy would create shade and generate power. Always thought it would be good to cover the water project aqueducts with ...

There's parts of Montana that hit all those bulletpoints. Good hunting and fishing all over the place, some good lakes, a surprisingly active hot-rodding community and hospitals that are desperately trying to recruit people...

So, an eruption doesn't have to be a massive "supervolcano" type eruption. Much more likely is a smaller eruption or lava flow like the one that formed the west thumb of Yellowstone lake 174,000 years ago. It's a highly active region, smallish steam explosions are highly likely too. https://en.m.wik...

June 18th? Where's it starting? Getting married on the 24th and I'd hate to lose the deposit...

I melt together coconut oil, lanolin and beeswax and carry it in a little tin. Use it for lips, inner thighs, between toes... any place that needs a bit of moisture and lubrication.

Lose the last ten pounds (down 30 since last september!) Start lifting more (tentatively want to get my bench to my bodyweight) Increase emergency savings at least 10k Get a redundant heat source for the house (thinking a wood stove, all on gas heat now) Teach fiancee (wife in June) at least basic g...

I change my answer https://i.imgur.com/tzdRAHB.jpg Just made green soup for the first time. Loved the shit out of it. Carmelized an onion in a bit of butter, threw in a couple cloves of garlic, two potatoes, two stalks of celery and about six cups of vegetable broth. Boiled until the potatoes were s...

I hate to say it, but the idea isn't entirely infeasible. Provided you don't actually bore into the magma chamber, there are cobalt and nickle superalloys that could take the pressure and temperatures necessary for it to work. Just don't ask what it will cost to make a downhole heat exchanger out o...

The steam isn't hotter, they're the same temperature. Kind of the whole point of boiling...

I would have zero issue with that. The whole point is to bring them up to temperature long enough to kill the baddies. So long as the water didn't evaporate, should be good to go...

Fingers crossed for a light show here in Montana tonight...

Well, other than fire.

Montana is burning bad right now too, almost 600,000 acres up in smoke since July.

https://www.nifc.gov/fireInfo/nfn.htm

Sunrise a few days back was truly apocalyptic. Ash drifting down, a hideous green orange cast to everything.


I'm ready for snow...

My forester is still serving me well. Got me through my first real winter no problem...



That said, I do have real tires and skid plates on it...

Course, they never drilled into a volcano..... Geothermal power is a bit different since what you do there is to tap into an existing heat source to generate either hot water or steam. It is not designed to cool off that heat source. Technically it isn't. It is expending the heat source and removin...