youtube-dl – A python script for downloading Youtube videos
Increasingly my favorite way to watch Youtube videos is to use the youtube-dl python script to download a large batch of interesting videos, for watching at home where I lack internet. It works really well, and I have a wireless keyboard and bluetooth headphones so I can watch/listen to the video while in bed reading a book or working on my phone.
Proposed 2.2 GW storage project plans to use Navajo coal station power-lines | Utility Dive
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A proposal to build a 2.2 GW pumped hydro storage facility in Arizona moved one step closer to reality last week, after the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) accepted its application for a preliminary permit.
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The $3.6 billion project would be built at a U.S. Bureau of Reclamation reservoir on the Colorado River, and rely on transmission infrastructure that was part of the retired Navajo Generating Station coal facility. It would deliver power to Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Phoenix.
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The acceptance is an "important early milestone," developer Daybreak Power said in a press release. If the project receives the required regulatory approvals, it could come online around 2030, aligning with ambitious renewables targets in Western states — "That is right, we believe, as the need for this sort of bulk storage is coming into full focus," Daybreak CEO Jim Day told Utility Dive.
Agriculture accounts for roughly $5
Agriculture accounts for roughly $5.2 billion of New York’s economy. The state’s budget deficit is $6.1 billion.
While neither factor is related, and agriculture is a tiny portion of the state’s gross state product, it demonstrates how truly large the deficit really is within the state budget (and the massive size of the state budget).
Samuel D Champlain Monument
Sunoco Fined $2 Million for Mariner East Spills in Raystown Lake – The Allegheny Front
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has fined Sunoco Pipeline almost $2 million for pollution releases into Raystown Lake during the construction of the Mariner East pipeline.
Between April and December 2017, Sunoco spilled more than 200,000 gallons of drilling mud into the lake while building a section of the Mariner East pipeline beneath it.
Sunoco didn’t immediately report the spills, which it found had coated 8-acres of the lakebed.
The Monster Ships That Changed How We Travel
The beauty salons, swimming pools and even wireless communications of today’s huge cruise ships all got their start with the “floating palaces” of a century ago.