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  1. tochatihu

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    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.
     
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    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.
     
    #3162 tochatihu, Aug 15, 2026 at 10:16 PM
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    How about an ocean cruise?
     
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    We went on a cruise out of SoCal some 15 or so years ago. Now, the bunker fuel used by the many cruise lines produced locally (Phillips 66 Wilmington refinery) has been shut down by Gavin newsom's onerous Environmental restrictions. Nothing wrong with environmental restrictions but his actions show how the over-the-top restrictions can be detrimental to the local community.
     
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    #3165 tochatihu, Aug 16, 2026 at 6:50 PM
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    Good to see not so many like he thinks are listening to the blabbering, stupid beyond stupid, fool in the wh.
     
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    Curious how long ago - as even by mid late August - isn't it already getting cool that far north? We cruised the college Fjord & even early early August it was a bit Frosty
     
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    2025 August fine weather and calm seas. That ship has twirly propeller mounts and was extremely manueverable.

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    Iceland was cool and damp, which is pretty much high summer there.
     
    #3169 tochatihu, Aug 16, 2026 at 7:21 PM
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    I must say that it is already getting cooler here at 47-48°N.

    Cool is a relative term. These pictures from last month were during what they would call high summer, north of Svalbard, above latitude 80°N.

    Stockholm and Helsinki in mid-August last year were considerably warmer (I rode a similar overnight ferry to a slightly different destination than tochatihu). Though note that they should be warmer than the Alaska fjords you visited, due to heat transport by the Atlantic Gulf Stream,


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    The azimuth thrusters, which can rotate to point in any direction?
     
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