7/16/2020 by Pushkin Industries
Web player: https://podplayer.net/?id=109770566
Episode: https://pdst.fm/e/chtbl.com/track/39E17/traffic.megaphone.fm/CAD3463123798.mp3
Basement laboratories. Mad scientists. Sticky gels, and a bake-off in the desert. The strange story behind Curtis LeMay’s weapon of choice. Part two.
The nutty and horrific story of how nepalm came to be. Unthinkable now but came out of a horrific war.
So after work today, I hiked all of Old Route 8B trying to trace all the locations in the old news reports about serial killer Robert Garrow.
Kind of a neat old road, originally a concrete road with well banked curves. Had to be a blast back in the day to drive – it’s curvey but the banked curves meant back when it wasn’t deteriorated you could fly down the road.
Austin Falls is also quite pretty as are some of the views along the Sacandaga River. Saw some tom turkeys along the way.
A peak summer day in past years, he noted, would result in a usage of about 13,000 megawatts of power in the five boroughs and Westchester. Demand for power during the current heat wave reached a peak of 11,730 megawatts on Monday afternoon.t
Still, residential demand has surged. A recent study by Columbia University’s Earth Institute reported “substantial increases” of around 23% of weekday New York City residential electricity consumption during the shutdown.
In May, Con Ed blamed a potential rate increase on increased residential demand as work-from-home becomes the norm. A typical city residential customer using 350 kilowatt hours per month could expect a 9.5% hike, from about $99 in 2019 to nearly $109 per month this summer, the utility said.
