[Kzyxtalk] [MCN-Announce]- take over PG&E!!! and Good Night Radio tonight!

[Marco McClean]

On 11/1/2019 10:56 AM, Jacquelyn Cisper wrote:
 > I agree! We need a micro grid, plenty of sun and wind here we could 
use to
 > generate electricity locally.


Jacquelyn, this reminds me: waves. A few years ago a serious group 
applied to put up a test generator just off the coast, just north of 
Fort Bragg, like the ones going into the water in Europe. Waves wave 
pretty much all the time. That would replace the power plant that the 
lumber mill used to operate, that provided all of Fort Bragg's power by 
burning everything left over from the process of sawing trees into 
lumber (and also a few things that shouldn't have been burned in it but 
were). But the local boomer-age anti-technology gang rose up in their 
tie-died masses against ocean-wave electric generation, in the wake of 
the oil hearings, and that was the end of that. Apparently there was 
some concern that a tourist might be able to see something out there 
about the size of a row of fishing boats and it'd spoil the view from 
Ten Mile Beach, and also a fish might bump its nose on a float from 
underneath, being too stubborn to go around. Or the Goddess might become 
wrathful and smite a fellow.

Most of our electricity here already comes from hydroelectric 
generation. It's water falling, inland, not water sloshing, outland, so 
it'd be the same goddess to deal with, but the mob having spoken prevailed.

There are other options. There are companies that will install a solar 
electric system for your house, or houses, at little initial charge to 
you and then you pay them off like paying a regular electric bill, and 
the lights and teevee and water pump and so on are always good because 
of battery storage, even when the sky is black with alien ships, even 
when the grid goes down for a month. But you can't use that for heat; 
it's not enough. You still have to burn something somewhere. "Heating 
with electricity is like burning violins to keep warm."

I've read about new reliable safe self-contained nuclear power 
generators the size of a shipping container for remote outposts and 
islands and very little towns. If ocean wave juice is not welcome here 
then atomic juice is probably off the table.

IN OTHER NEWS: Good Night Radio tonight!

Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio, 9pm to 5am tonight on 107.7fm KNYO 
Fort Bragg (and 105.1fm KMEC Ukiah, and via KNYO.org), live from KNYO's 
still-Halloween-festooned studios at 325 N. Franklin, next door to the 
Tip Top bar.

Visit KNYO if you're in town after 9pm tonight. Bring a project or an 
idea to show off. Deadline to email your writing to be read on the air 
tonight is 6pm or so. If you're not done by then, send it whenever and 
I'll get it when I get home from the radio station tomorrow morning and 
read it on the air next week.  Or phone tonight and read your work in 
your own voice: 962-3022. (Jacquelyn Cisper, see above, among others 
such as Paul Modic and Jay Frankston, so far, sent poetry for tonight's 
show.)

Meanwhile, here are a few educational amusements for while you wait for 
night:

Gun Shop, a high-speed documentary. The flashing is sinuous and smooth, 
so it's safe for epileptics.
https://robotmafia.com/gun-shop/

Testing the new robot soldier. This sort of testing is not as cruel as 
it looks. Think of the robot as a toaster. Though that's how it starts.
http://misscellania.blogspot.com/2019/10/new-robot-makes-soldiers-obsolete.html

And the skeleton dance.
http://misscellania.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-skeleton-dance.html

--
Marco McClean, memo at mcn.org,
https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com