They have been funneling water from other states for decades, and pumping the ground water to depletion in some areas to green the area so it has given a false sense of environment to some.
This poster is correct, the CALFIRES ppl had warned back in 2015 it was a disaster waiting to happen, but they were for the most part blown off.
If they had turned lose the bulldozers for firebreaks and controlled burns this could have been much less damaging.
The fires would have happened still, but they'd have been easier to fight, and less likely to spread, and access via firebreak roads would have allowed a 2nd layer of making the fires easier to fight.
In this case an ounce of prevention would have been worth a mountainside of cure.
My recommendation for recurring fires in California is a return to good firebreaks, and an incentive to build out of Adobe as it does not burn if you make sure no wood is exposed.
Seen this happen on a few occasions, a worker was undervalued was RIF'd or quit and key people in the company explained that the person was critical.
At these moments workers become aware that sometimes, some people in charge at not staying informed of the process and the people making it happen and the knowledge sets required and the fact it requires more then 1 book and a few weeks work.
Most companies do a poor job of evaluating their workers beyond a superficial level.
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small vacuum tubes are already used by banks, they work well.
add in a maglev train and this becomes worthwhile.
The hyperloop is not a cheap project, but it might be affordable
in comparison vs. a atmosphere very slowly becoming like venus.
At some point with Maglev and no friction due to it being a vacuum tube
the energy savings are going to make it worthwhile.
Research what the total cost of all the commercial airline fleets are,
adding in their fuel costs, maintenance costs, etc etc...
Robot landers have been to mars, need to make robots that can repair each other and 3d print new parts.
Once you get self repairing robots sent to mars they can mine out a radiation free tunnel system.
Once it has a underground greenhouse established, human survival is viable there long term.
I'd make separate tunnel systems to avoid the "all eggs in one basket" issue.
For power on mars I lean towards a LFTR reactor as tested at ORNL in the 1960's.
I think they proved sub surface water on mars so that solves that.
I think if we took 10% of the warfare budget it would EASILY be done.
https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nm...
Done for 4,000 times less then the F-35 funny enough.
Thru history all empires fall, it was well noted by Gore Vidal in his book
"The decline and fall of the American Empire"
https://books.google.com/books...
The book isn't perfect, but it makes some key points that are absolute gold.
I am not on blue team or red team as believe both are political theater.
Yes and No.
there will be lame passwords, but some of this might be the fact that most firmware is backdoored.
https://www.google.com/search?...
That uber kool-aid tastes so good, just can't stop drinking it.
reminds me of some of the wall street boondoogles, and the F-35 one.
$2 trillion for a plane that doesn't work right, and is outperformed by older models.
This is the fact that most ppl have a hard time accepting.
Government is the longest running conjob on the planet.
It promises many things to many ppl, but delivers on few,
and what it does deliver on usually costs more, and is
not as "marketed/propagandized".
Government is just another conjob, thou perhaps the largest and
oldest one except perhaps religion.
I think the inference of a real pile of bodies is most recently seth rich.
milking the internet herd for 100's of billions is legendary, and ongoing for decades.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com...
shingles made with oil based products, house painted with oil based products.
House made of dried firewood.
Meanwhile Adobe Ovens do not burn.
If he had built his house out of Adobe it would be about as flammable as an Adobe oven.
California was home to mexicans, native americans like myself, and a small outpost of Russians as well.
You can find some of the native american names out in the wilderness areas, and the major
cities still hold mexican names to this day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Tell me more.
https://www.realclearpolitics....
When a racket has billions backing the propaganda your fighting a losing battle.
I don't trust the fossil fuel folks, but I also don't trust the ppl caught in the hadley CRU scandal.
https://www.realclearpolitics....
The reduction in cutting of firebreaks does explain it though.
The expansion of housing into areas that are prone to wildfires and mudslides
also explains it.
If the houses were made of Adobe, and active firebreak management was
done the problem would still exist, but much less prone to major disaster.
They have been funneling water from other states for decades, and pumping the ground
water to depletion in some areas to green the area so it has given a false sense of environment to some.
This poster is correct, the CALFIRES ppl had warned back in 2015 it was a disaster
waiting to happen, but they were for the most part blown off.
If they had turned lose the bulldozers for firebreaks and controlled burns
this could have been much less damaging.
The fires would have happened still, but they'd have been easier to fight,
and less likely to spread, and access via firebreak roads would have
allowed a 2nd layer of making the fires easier to fight.
In this case an ounce of prevention would have been worth a mountainside of cure.
My recommendation for recurring fires in California is a return to good firebreaks,
and an incentive to build out of Adobe as it does not burn if you make sure no wood
is exposed.
https://www.pinterest.com/kate...
Some modern Adobe buildings look damn nice too.
http://www.builderhouseplans.c...
Yes, lightning is a huge factor.
I have hiked many miles in many forests, and I almost always see one lightning struck tree.
It has been this way for all my life, and I got a few decades behind me.
Now most of them in my area do not trigger a wildfire because we get quite a
bit of rain as this is not a desert.
As I said in my other related post the areas that get lightning but little rain
it can get ugly.
"During 2007-2011, U.S. local fire departments responded to an estimated average of 22,600 fires per year that were started by lightning. "
http://www.nfpa.org/News-and-R...
22,000 per year....yeah I knew it was high, didn't know it was THAT high.
In major fires in the rock layers you will get an Ash layer similar to the KT boundary.
Thou of course it will not be as pronounced as the KT boundary and limited in geological area.
I think lightning strike started wildfires are far more common then 1 or 2 a century.
Especially in areas that are very dry and get lightning with little to no rain, such as desert.
Sometimes its just about ppl flagrantly lying and getting caught at it.
https://www.realclearpolitics....
I believe we are polluting the planet horribly, but lying about it isn't helping.
That is funny, but not impossible.
Yeah, those lazy ppl who are liked and respected company wide who have
shown up reliably for 30 years and kept the Winblows boxes blowing.
So lazy.
Seen this happen on a few occasions, a worker was undervalued was RIF'd or quit
and key people in the company explained that the person was critical.
At these moments workers become aware that sometimes, some people
in charge at not staying informed of the process and the people making it
happen and the knowledge sets required and the fact it requires more then
1 book and a few weeks work.
Most companies do a poor job of evaluating their workers beyond a superficial level.
Einstein did some of his work with grey hair, so have a few other well known persons.
The "codger" mentality applies to some, but stupidity is not just in the realm of the aged.
I have picked up this bad habit from millenials, but sometimes it feels pretty good.
I am slowly moving away from IT into unconventional things like building underground
houses, greenhouses, adobe, wind power, solar power, etc.
I have to say I enjoy it much more and the customers ACTUALLY treat me
like a human being rather then a "HUMAN RESOURCE".