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Rural electricifican

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The other day driving past the hunting camps and rural homes up on the dirt roads around Gas Springs NY, I was a bit surprised how far the electric lines extended into this area to very remote farms and camps on dirt roads. I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised – rural electricifican has extended to nearly all corners of our country – but it seems like in an era of solar power, batteries and inverters, to be incredibly expensive and wasteful to have run lines all that way out there.

Power Lines

While rural electricifican efforts got underway in the 1930s, many of the more remote farms and homes didn’t get electricity until the 1950s or even 1960s. It seems hard to imagine a modern dairy without electricity to run the pumps or coolers but many other farms certainly did. They had all kinds of belt driven equipment that often ran off of Blackstone and other primitive motors. The modern tractor PTO had yet to be standardized.

World sets all-time high temperature record 2 days in a row

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‘Unprecedented and terrifying’: World sets all-time high temperature record 2 days in a row

The Earth’s average temperature reached an all-time high on Monday, and then again on Tuesday, in what is shaping up to be a year of record-breaking heat.

Monday’s global average temperature of 62.62 degrees Fahrenheit was exceeded Tuesday when it reached 62.92?F, according to the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute.

Bill McGuire, professor emeritus of geophysical climate hazards at University College London, called the back-to-back records “totally unprecedented and terrifying.”

High Voltage Power Lines in NYS

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This interactive map shows the high-voltage lines in New York State. It is a different presentation of the map shown in EIA State Energy Profile. Data Source: Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data (HIFLD) and Energy Information Agency. Electric Substations: https://hifld-geoplatform.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/electric-substations Electric Transmission Lines: https://hifld-geoplatform.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/electric-power-transmission-lines

Final Disadvantaged Communities (DAC) 2023

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The Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) directs the Climate Justice Working Group (CJWG) to establish criteria for defining disadvantaged communities. This dataset identifies areas throughout the State that meet the final disadvantaged community definition as voted on by the Climate Justice Working Group.

The tracts will receive a minimum 35% of "overall benefits of spending" on clean energy and energy efficiency programs.

Data Source: https://data.ny.gov/Energy-Environment/Final-Disadvantaged-Communities-DAC-2023/2e6c-s6fp

NPR

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Climb aboard the Nuclear Ship Savannah in Baltimore : NPR

Deep inside the Port of Baltimore, past stacks of shipping containers and a plant that makes wallboard, sits the world's first, and only, nuclear-powered cruise ship – the NS Savannah.

The Savannah is the only nuclear-powered merchant ship the U.S. ever built, and the only nuclear vessel in the world designed with passengers in mind. As NPR's chief correspondent for all things atomic, I've wanted to see her for years.