LibertyBell

No because they are turned into compost: https://www.westsuburbanliving.net/perspectives/smash-don-t-trash/article_32053aec-1626-11eb-882e-eb78ef440ff2.html Smashing pumpkins is neither just the name of a band or just for quirky enjoyment — these squashes are being squashed for a serious reason. When millions of pounds of post-Halloween pumpkins land in landfills nationwide, they release harmful methane gas. But thanks to SCARCE, in the past six years about 380 tons of pumpkins have instead been composted. “This is an opportunity to reduce our impact on climate change,’ notes McKeen, particularly since Illinois is the number one producer of the orange gourds nationwide. Pumpkins are largely comprised of water, which can leech methane gas into landfills and then to rivers and streams. On the other hand, composted pumpkins create a positive result: they improve soil for planting. “Pumpkins are in the top 50 most nutrient-rich vegetables in the world. When they’re composted into the soil, you don’t need as many synthetic herbicides or fertilizers that flow into our streams,” says McKeen. “It’s a win, win, win, win, win.”

yep, it's basically a form of brainwashing when you hear something enough times you tend to believe it, no matter how irrational it is.

it doesn't feel that cold this week thanks to the sun

I'd hope the newer technology would last longer. It's sort of like LCD panels, I was an early adopter and bought one in 2000 and it only lasted like 3 years lol. The tech improved and the ones I bought in 2010 are still going strong (knock on wood lol) I've even read that there is new tech in the works which can have solar panel tech embedded directly into paint! So basically all you would have to do if you ever needed it to be redone, is just put a new coat of this paint on your house. That tech is just in early development right now, but it's the kind of thing we could see in the future.

Thats a good point. I actually used to buy a lot of peat moss. Another thing that has a negative impact is leaving pumpkins around after Halloween. I read that pumpkins release a high amount of methane so we need to smash them so that doesn't happen after we're done with them.

Looks like Canada has agreed not to dig up this carbon https://twitter.com/i/events/1458571860183064576 Beneath Canada’s wilderness is a massive carbon reservoir that’s been accumulating for some 10,000 years – what happens if it’s disturbed? New research reveals what scientists have learned about the scale and distribution of a massive carbon reservoir lying just below the surface in wilderness areas across the country — and what’s at stake for the planet if it’s disturbed

and it's weird how people forget it was even warmer than this last year around this time.

wow really? I've always lived on the south shore and as far back as I can remember, Thanksgiving marks the time when all the leaves have fallen

two seasons now.....wet season and wetter season.....so these dry interludes are nice to have

sunny and no humidity is just fine by me.

someone needs to delete all the yucky pictures of bugs in this thread. I saw a video of one of those giant monster centipedes killing and eating a mouse in a jar, I'm scarred for life. Why do we need tropical rain forests again? lol

I think you guys are forgetting last November, now that was a torch. And it was quite nice. November weather has zero connection to the winter and if anything a mild November more often leads to a snowy winter.

So in NJ the governor is going to override locals and put them there anyway.....maybe that sets a precedent? Also, in the article they mentioned the Koch family....what are the Koch people doing on Cape Cod? They need to stay in flyover country, where they belong.

Wow these guys are like the antivaxxers..... The slow death of Cape Wind, a wind farm planned for five miles off Cape Cod that drew the ire of the Kennedy and Koch families, taught wind developers that projects needed to be much farther offshore to avoid local opposition. But recent fights from New York to Norfolk show that even out-of-sight turbines can rouse local residents against a project. “It overrides any ability we have to protect our property,” said Michael DeVlieger, another Ocean City councilman. He said his constituents are worried about the disruption to their town, the potential use of eminent domain and even whether the power lines could affect their health. “I’ve got a guy with a pacemaker on 34th street who’s scared to death they’re going to put this thing in.”

Except there are really good reasons to reject fracking. In eastern PA, where my other house is, fracking is banned there too. It causes noise and light pollution, pollutes the water and reduces property values, not to mention the methane release it causes and the risk of earthquakes resulting from wastewater injection. It's banned in the entire Delaware Valley region too. But being worried about wind turbines makes zero sense when they are offshore, they cause none of those issues and might even weaken hurricanes as they approach......thats a win/win to me.

Do you have info on the New Jersey ones, because I thought that project had already started?

Why dont fishermen and locals try to block the oil leases given out in the Gulf of Mexico which clearly cause much more harm and there was a leak from Hurricane Ivan in 2004 that still hasn't been cleaned up, 17 years later!

No one cares about a cold November, we didn't have one last year either dude. November is a pretty meaningless month for cold and snow.

Meanwhile China is having problems with coal (GOOD) https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/china-coals-last-hurrah-comes-too-late-old-mining-towns-2021-11-11/ Back in 2019, government researchers were already debating whether production should be expanded and more coal power plants built in order to alleviate potential shortages over 2021-2025. But experts say this year's shortages prove China needs to accelerate its transition to renewables, and speed up reforms to allow electricity users to switch more easily to cleaner power sources and end their dependence on coal. "I'm puzzled as to why there is not a campaign-style push to ramp up renewable energy like we have seen with coal," said Alex Wang, co-director at UCLA's Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. "Coal reliance makes China vulnerable," he added. "It's an energy security problem."

there is such a thing as storage of energy you know? we can store solar and wind energy in chemical batteries to use later

it did until Munchkin got ahold of it.

they cant claim economic hardship because renewables are price competitive with fossil fuels and dont kill you or destroy the planet

we're building a huge wind farm offshore, I dont see anyone complaining about that it's 300 miles wide

Thorium dude, the answer is always Thorium

whats the least snowiest? neutral?