Environmental News

With both Danube and Rhine so low, some new responses are being done now

Europe drought threatens energy, shipping and growth

Unsurprisingly it is seen with a climate-change perspective. May be justified. Both these rivers have gone low before (long records exist), but not, I think, both at the same time. Canal connection allows water transfer if one is low and the other high (if countries were to agree). Not this year.

 

See US’ new 2026 >1megawatt electron pushers here:

https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia860m/

And earlier years also. Not a .gov site at risk of disappearing, as it includes COAL.

I feel communion with ancestors who burned things by necessity. Sites like this help to ground us, as Human Enterprise begins to advance beyond burning.