Throngs of young people are telling the world, greenhouse gas pollution is not acceptable anymore!

October 31, 2021
By Karla Adam

Glasgow, Scotland - Greta Thunberg (click here) may not have been officially invited to the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, but on the first day of the conference, she was making her presence felt.

The Swedish teenager, who is something of a rock star for climate campaigners worldwide, is among thousands of activists descending on Glasgow for the 12-day U.N. Climate Change Conference, known as COP26, which kicked off Sunday. They are calling on world leaders to take bold action to prevent global temperatures from rising by more than 1.5 Celsius above preindustrial levels....

Throngs of people have come to Glasgow to see and hear Greta Thurnberg. She was escorted by police so she wasn't crushed by the crowd.

She is the one true and innocent voice that spells out the purpose to this meeting called COP 26. She is the generation that will suffer the most from the ills of capitalism and political corruption.

Greta Thurnberg (click here)

Decades of facts and records in journals and government agencies spell out the one reason Greta Thurnberg sat down outside the Swedish Parliament in 2018 when she 15 years old. That is the age when most young people are looking to the future and their place in it. What she saw was dispair and hopelessness because the future had her trapped with greenhouse gases chaing Earth on a merciless path. 

For decades, the world's governments have spents billions if not a trillion by now on learning the secrets of Earth and how to protect from natural disasters. This is not a natural disaster. If one wants to look at it that way, then realize this natural disaster is aided by human activity that produces and pollutes greenhouse gases.

She is not alone. The throngs of people that have gathered with her are in Glasgow to tell the world this is the last best chance of protecting the generations today and to come from deadly physics of excess greenhouse gases in the atmospheres of Earth.

Malala (click here)

This is the generation that has more right to be the policy makers at Glasgow than any other. They are correct and need to be heeded. This is the end of the fossil fuel use for energy. We can do better and we will do better.

Ms. Thurnberg is 18 years old and will be 19 on January 3, 2022. She needs to be a policy maker and should run for office to the Swedish Parliament. She and many other young adults need to take the power of government away from those that allowed the corruption in the belief that fossil fuels are necessary. They are not. Fossil fuels creat cash flow for Wall Street. 

The world can do better. The world has to do better. The USA has a heavy lift as it has the largest amont of historical greenhouse gases in the world. It is time to sanction countries that fail to live up to the promises they made. The fossil fuels imported by the USA should be cut year after year to end the assault on Earth's climate.

Everyone should be proud of these young women. They are accomplished and correct. We need not know anything else.

Failure is not an option.

Love life, enjoy each deay. I hope everyone has the "Happiest of Halloweens"

"Facebook" has a new parent company called "META." They forgot one thing, adding the word DATA.

Right now the data Facebook has on anyone in the world probably drawfs the META DATA at the Utah Data Center of the NSA (click here).

I find the new name of the company more parody than appropriate. I suppose Zukerberg looked at "Alphabet" and decided since he monopolizes so much information there needed to be a parent company that could jetson "Facebook" for a new name. Right now, Facebook has too many marks against it's name and a new fresh image would be appropriate. Along with a new name, of course, are better algorithms safe for the very essence of democracy.

Much of the permissiveness that fuels these elements in the USA that would see our democracy curtailed and destroyed, began the same time as Facebook. It was post 911 and personal information was flowing like water to be sure an American could get on a jet. September 11, 2001 brought with it the Patriot Act and all the invasive measures that could exist to find those secret terrorist cells.

"Meta" is yet another means to unmask every human life in the world and put it on display for a variety of reasons. Meta is destined to be another Cambridge Analytica (click here) that can get away with every unthical practice in the business because they are desired by many more people than Cambridge Analytica. Whoever heard of Cambridge Analytica?

This is the problem. The shuffle of what is private and should not be part of a general circulation of information and what is social? There has been far too many issues with preserving American's privacy. Need I bring up the name Edward Snowden?

28 October 2021

Today at Connect 2021, (click here) CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced Meta, which brings together our apps and technologies under one new company brand. Meta’s focus will be to bring the metaverse to life and help people connect, find communities and grow businesses.

The metaverse will feel like a hybrid of today’s online social experiences, sometimes expanded into three dimensions or projected into the physical world. It will let you share immersive experiences with other people even when you can’t be together — and do things together you couldn’t do in the physical world. It’s the next evolution in a long line of social technologies, and it’s ushering in a new chapter for our company. Mark shared more about this vision in a founder’s letter.

Our annual Connect conference brings together augmented and virtual reality developers, content creators, marketers and others to celebrate the industry’s momentum and growth. This year’s virtual event explored what experiences in the metaverse could feel like over the next decade — from social connection, to entertainment, gaming, fitness, work, education and commerce. We also announced new tools to help people build for the metaverse, including Presence Platform, which will enable new mixed reality experiences on Quest 2, and a $150-million investment in immersive learning to train the next generation of creators.

You can watch the full Connect keynote and learn more about how the metaverse will unlock new opportunities at meta.com. You can also learn more about our work over the past several months to develop the Meta brand on our design blog. Read all our news in the posts below:...

This was Snyder's Michigan. Few in power to control every outcome and when control was not available, then scapegoat.

Ms. Liane Shekter Smith should be a witness in any trial. She is the face of corruption by Snyder and how he manipulated every outcome in the State of Michigan.

October 20, 2021

Liane Shekter Smith, the only Michigan official fired in the Flint water disaster, was likely a "public scapegoat" who lost her job because of politics, an arbitrator said.

The only Michigan official fired (click here) in the Flint water catastrophe likely was a "public scapegoat" who lost her job because of politics, an arbitrator said in ordering $191,880 in back pay and other compensation.

It's a remarkable victory for Liane Shekter Smith, who served as head of the state's drinking water office when Flint's water system was contaminated with lead. She was removed and then fired in 2016 and subsequently faced criminal charges in one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history.

Shekter Smith was dismissed while engineers in her department — the "boots on the ground" in Flint — were suspended with pay before ultimately returning to work, the arbitrator said in a 22-page report obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press.

Sheldon Stark said the state had failed to show by a preponderance of evidence that there was "just cause" to fire Shekter Smith, who had an "exemplary" record in government.

The arbitrator noted that Keith Creagh, director of the Department of Environmental Quality, fired Shekter Smith without even speaking to her about Flint or waiting for a state police investigation that exonerated her.

"No one ever asked (Shekter Smith) for her story," Stark said....

SAVE THE SETTLEMENT IS ON!!!!

The lawyers love it!!!!  

What could be wrong?? But, Ms. Edwards, there is plenty to be said about ethical behavior, especailly where there are fiducary relationships like with lawyers. BUT. There is often nothing illegal about unethical behavior. Yes, greed is a very unethical behavior.

October 27, 2021

Connie Edwards, who has lived in Flint for 68 years, stands with a protest sign as she listens on during a news conference protesting the attorney fees of the Flint water settlement outside of the Genesee County Circuit Court on Tuesday, July 13, 2021 in downtown Flint.

Flint - Dozens of Flint residents (click here) mistakenly opted out of a $626-million partial settlement related to the Flint water crisis, and a federal court official is recommending they be allowed to withdraw their initial filings and make claims for damages.

Special master Deborah E. Greenspan filed the report in U.S. District Court this week and gave a status update on her work to Judge Judith E. Levy during a virtual hearing on Wednesday, Oct. 27....

Defining the lines of the new civil war.

The Rittenhouse judge is seeking to divide the country along race lines. He is stating minorities don’t have the same standing as Caucasian people. He is trying to create tension and not justice. 

He is setting precedent to sway the jury and legitimize the use of weapons of war on the streets of the USA against unarmed minorities.

If the deaths and injuries of the Rittenhouse vigilantism were conducted during a crime, the lives and maiming have rights. Rittenhouse has no legal standing except vigilante. There were police at the scene and were not engaged in armed assault.

Self-defense is non-sense. He doesn’t live there and was not performing a vital task to save lives and property. There were police legally hired and employed by the people.

When someone openly carries a weapon of war into a crowd of unarmed people there is only one motive, mass murder. What makes him any different from the mass murder in Las Vegas? A hotel instead of a street? A concert instead of a protest? Killing for the sake of killing is a crime. There was no self-defense.

How can a vigilante claim self-defense? He didn’t even belong there.

Rittenhouse was approached by a person with a handgun because he was killing people. The people were trying to disarm him. In doing so, the people were using self-defense to end his assault. Rittenhouse was the perpetrator and the others were attempting to disarm him and end his ability to kill.

It gets interesting with a warming planet when snow is rain instead. How many inches of snow does New Jersey get every year since the warming?

October 26, 2021
By Jeff Goodman

While there’s a lull in the nor’easter early Tuesday afternoon in New Jersey, (click here) we’re not quite finished with a storm that will end up dumping as much as 6 inches of rain on parts of the state by the time it wraps up Wednesday morning.

The good news is that the heavy, flooding rains are over and that the precipitation expected to resume later in the day will be mainly light to moderate, forecasters say....

Wow. Talk about racism in the judiciary.

October 25, 2021

By Stacy St. Clair

Kyle Rittenhouse’s lawyers can refer to the men he shot as “rioters” and “looters,” but prosecutors still may not call them “victims” at any time during the teen’s upcoming murder trial, a judge ruled Monday.

Circuit Judge Bruce Schroeder cautioned the defense team against using pejorative terms during opening statements, but he said they could use them in their closing arguments if the evidence suggested the men engaged in criminal acts....

There is every reason to believe there will not be a fair trial for The People, Rittenhouse is doing just fine. Below is a look at the jury pool.

October 27, 2021
By John Keilman

Scott Seip, 76, and Dee Seip, 63, stand together in their yard after sharing their thoughts on the mood in town on Oct. 19, 2021, in Kenosha, Wisc. 

Kenosha - If you want to know (click here) how this city feels about the impending Kyle Rittenhouse trial, a conversation with Scott and Dee Seip is a good place to start.

One mile northwest of their house is the still-vacant commercial strip that burned during protests over the police shooting of Jacob Blake. One mile northeast is the street where Rittenhouse, a teenager from Antioch who said he came to Kenosha to provide security during the unrest, shot two men to death and wounded a third.

With Rittenhouse’s murder trial set to begin Nov. 1, the international spotlight promises to focus once more on this mid-sized, postindustrial city on the shore of Lake Michigan. Numerous opinions and concerns about the case could be heard around town last week, many of which were reflected by the Seips.

Scott Seip, 76, is a Democrat. He thinks Rittenhouse was in the wrong and needs to be held accountable for his actions. His wife Dee Seip, 63, is a Republican. She thinks Rittenhouse was defending himself and a local business and deserves to be acquitted.

But there is one thing they agree on: Trouble might flare once more after the verdict....

Interns beware.

It appears to me Wall Street is lined with savages looking for their next money fix. Basically, as evidenced by this event, they can be dressed up, but, they can't go anywhere.

October 13, 2021
By Isabella Khadem Hosseini

Patrick Blumenthal (click here) settled a proceeding filed in February 2020 against Goldman Sachs and his bank boss.

Goldman Sachs has settled a lawsuit filed by a former intern. He claimed that his boss had been so fooled that he left permanent damage to his brain.

Patrick Blumenthal interned at Goldman Sachs in San Francisco from September 2017 to February 2018.

The settlement, which Bloomberg first reported on Friday, took place a week before the hearing on the investment bank’s request to dismiss the proceedings.

The terms of the settlement were not disclosed in the submission to the San Francisco Superior Court.

“Goldman Sachs has not commented on the issue,” said Maeve Duvalley, a bank spokeswoman.

While working for the company, Blumental was assigned to “Team 007” under the leadership of Julius Elkimov, Goldman Sachs’ private financial asset adviser called “Fast Julie.”

On February 9, 2018, Blumenthal went out for a drink after working with about 12 colleagues....

Abortion is being used for large political donors.

This is an Letter to the Editor from Grand Forks, North Dakota. I was completely surprised to read such a thoughtful opinion supporting women seeking abortions from a very red state.

The abortion law in Texas is extremely radical and does not track with any other abortion provision in The West or other states of the USA. All this, no different than the judges out of The Federalist Society, is for money for politics. It is ALL quid pro quo. The Federalist Society and/or wealthy conservatives get what they paid for when promoting the election of a conservative Republican.

I sincerely believe this extremism that hurts women and removes their right to their own bodies is all about political monies from donors and the donors ambition to achieve a theocracy out of a democracy.

October 26, 2021

Women (click here) who are denied abortions are often in situations of domestic violence and having to keep the baby may force them to stay in contact with violent partners who put them and their baby at risk.

The Oct. 9 Grand Forks Herald letter to the editor, “Abortion is not a woman’s right,” discussed how women should not have the right to make decisions about carrying a fetus to term because life begins in the womb. The letter, however, made no mention of the limits already in place on abortions, such as prohibiting them after viability, or after 20-weeks, which is before the viability age.

This means that the vast majority of abortions, unless they are taking place due to circumstances that threaten the carrier’s life, happen before there is any chance that the fetus could survive birth. The argument that pregnant women are killing babies is unfounded and harmful.

The fact is, if legislatures strip women of the right to have safe abortions, then the rate of unsafe and potentially life-threatening abortions will rise (limiting abortions). Laws restricting access to safe and legal abortions disproportionately impact low-income women, women of color, and women in rural areas in incredibly harmful ways. It is a discriminatory restriction that has the worst effects on already marginalized women....

Women are receiving expanded rights for abortion everywhere else in the world, except, Texas.

October 26, 2021
By Isaac Nowroozi

The Northern Territory government (click here) has today introduced legislation to parliament to make it easier for women to access later-term abortions.

The proposed amendments would allow women to access a pregnancy termination between 14 and 24 weeks, with the support of one doctor instead of two.

They would also introduce an option for pregnant women to access termination after 24 weeks for medical reasons, with the support of two doctors.

Currently abortions after 23 weeks are prohibited in the NT, unless deemed necessary to save the pregnant person's life.

It is a move Family Planning NT has been calling for for years.

"This is similar legislation to other states and territories," Family Planning NT chief executive Robyn Wardle said.

Tom Cotton contributes to the insurrection.

An editorial in "The Epoch Times" written by Newt Gingrich, stated education from K - 12 was a Republilcan asset. In it Gingrich goes on to say that choice is a parents last hope for their child's education and it is a Republican winning asset.

Today, Tom Cotton attacked Attorney General Garland because he could but not because he should. There was no reason to attack AG Garland.

October 27, 2021
By Harper Neidig

Attorney General Merrick Garland (click here) on Wednesday clashed with Republican senators over the Justice Department's efforts to crack down on violent threats against school boards, with one GOP member telling the former judge, "Thank God you're not on the Supreme Court."

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) made the remark during a heated exchange in which the senator tried to tie the Justice Department's new school board policy to an incident in Loudoun County, Va., where a teenager was accused of sexually assaulting a fellow student in a school bathroom.

"This testimony, your directive, your performance is shameful," Cotton said. "Thank God, you're not on the Supreme Court. You should resign in disgrace, judge."...

Cotton was plugging into the fear of COVID-19 among parents. Tom Cotton, all of a sudden, doesn't believe in the Rule of Law.

AG Garland wrote a regulation stating that if School Board Members are threatened it can and should be considered a crime. The issue at hand is that School Board members are elected by the people and while a minority of people may not like the election outcome they have no right to threaten School Board members if they open schools while the virus is still a problem in the community.

The way the USA handles such issues is that elections can change the way a school board decides it's regulation of schools.

I understand that some parents want the schools open and diminishes the problem with the virus and some parents are more protective and want their children home, safe from COVID-19, and on zoom for classes. School boards have it tough. They are damned if they do and damned if they don't. So, the idea AG Garland is a crackpot of some kind in regard to protecting elected officals of School Boards is nothing but pandering to the extremist voters of the USA that receive their news through crackpot news organizations.

Attorney General Garland is doing the right thing and is upholding the Rule of Law. Lord only knows what sort of order Cotton is expecting anyone to abide by, probably anarchy. Live by the gun, die by the gun. 

What are we paying people like Cotton for anyway?

Have there been enough tears in the entertainment industry over guns in the work place?

To begin, guns are deadly and belong nowhere near human life. I don't care what kind of industry it is, there is no room for guns. There are digital enhancements that can be used without the requirements of actual guns on the set of any movie. GET IT DONE! If Star Wars and Star Trek didn't need guns then no one does.

Additionally, SOCIALIZING brings down the brevity of guns anywhere. We are all used to seeing guns hanging on the hips of movie stars as they strut into a bar scene that ultimately ends in a death of someone, usually the bad guy with a gun. But, the idea socializing is normalized with guns that are within "killing distance" is completely incorrect. 

Anyone ever attend a gun meet? A competition for shooting enthusiasts. There is no major noise at the ones I attended and everyone is aware they are in a dangerous but controlled environment. Do yourself a favor and attend one gun competition and observe the atmosphere and the SAFETY involved at these events. The competition makes it serious, but, the underlying understanding that a misfire or a wrongful handling could end up with a wound or worse is always apparent. The ones I attended didn't have children playing in the background either. The socializing that obviously exists among these competitors takes place at a restrauant afterwards and not at the tailgate of any truck, SUV or car. 

Guns and socializing is not a good thing, it is negligence.

October 26, 2021

By Andy Rose and Susannah Cullinane

The shot that killed a cinematographer (click here) on a New Mexico film set last week was fired as actor Alec Baldwin was practicing drawing his gun, according to the director who was injured in the shooting, an affidavit for a search warrant shows.

Joel Souza, director of the film "Rust," was shot in the shoulder and director of photography Halyna Hutchins, 42, was killed when the prop gun went off during a rehearsal at the Bonanza Creek Ranch in Santa Fe on Thursday....

Would the USA exist without Bob Woodward and his influence and examples?

It is obvious that Steve Bannon was the driving force behind the overturn of the USA Constitution. Interestingly and rarely said, is the fact Trump was Bannon's puppet.

I think the USA media needs to police it's members. Facebook is part of that. The players of the One America media and all the right wing extremist sites need to be held responsible for carrying Bannon's messages to the world as well as the American people. Is Bannon's aspirations any different than that of China in controlling the content of the media on a daily basis? Is China and Russia, Bannon's models for media? I think so. 

Bannon is a power player. He has been since his entrance into media services. He needs puppets. I can honestly say he has assaulted the US Constitution and the social freedoms of this country to remove "the norms." There is absolutely nothing wrong with "the norms" of the USA. It is a great society as well as a great country. Family focused, freedom of expression in enthusiasm of rights including that of children. Children and the natural world are eliminated in Bannon's rhetoric and power struggles.

The USA and The West are the few societies that value and elevate children as important to a stable and prosperous future. The idea of diversity will die with Bannon and his aspirations. He has to be recognized as a danger to democracy and made part of the record of this country.

 

US Rep. Elizabeth Cheney is the ONLY voice the Republican Party should embrace.

There are vast numbers of people behind her. The media does not reflect that. She is so powerful in her analysis that the extremists fear her and are working overtime to defame her and bring her power to an end. Her voice is vital to our Constitution and she is the ONLY voice that should be speaking for the Republican Party.

October 22, 2021 

By Victoria Eavis

An unprecedented amount of out-of-state money (click here) is pouring into Rep. Liz Cheney’s reelection effort, as she campaigns in one of the nation’s highest-profile congressional races.

The third quarter was the second-biggest fundraising period ever for Cheney, who is facing a tough reelection fight after her vote to impeach former President Donald Trump. She raised just over $1.7 million during that period, which runs from July to September.

These hefty donations came on the heels of Cheney’s all-time fundraising record, $1.9 million, which occurred one cycle earlier....

 

"Good night, Moon"

The waning gibbous

18.8 day old moon

84.4 percent lit

These coming weeks are about Earth. The moon has it's place in the sky.

We have our common home to save.

There is no greater concern for any country than to rise to this priority. I mean it. Without a planet we are nowhere.

Scienfitic meetings can be so bland and boring. There is a lot going on, but, the average person doesn't necessarily appreciate all that is going on.

Ever been to a convention? There are always halls of vendors of one type or another. I think that is what is missing at these climate meetings. Vendors bring good ideas to the world to contain greenhouse gases and begin a new era of energy and protection of our planet.

That's all for tonight. Be ready for some excitment because we are launching into a profoundly brave new world. We must make this work. There is no option. Any country that rather hate others instead of doing the work is wrong. We are a common world with common problems and we must work together to solve them.

There is no greater war than the one we are waging to protect our Earth and the future.

Young scientists have a lot on the ball. This was a delightful article to realize they harnessed the power of olivine.

I think olivnine rocks; as a geological rock that is.

(Mg,Fe)₂SiO₄

October 20, 2021
By Phillip Palmer

Olivine (click here)

San Francisco - In the battle against climate change, (click here) a San Francisco nonprofit has developed a cutting-edge technology that uses olivine sand to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Carbon dioxide emissions of all human activity around the world has surpassed 40 billion tons per year.

Governments are now encouraging, and in some cases, requiring improvements, but those efforts are about reduction. What about removing excess carbon dioxide?

"The problem that we've caused here is we've taken carbon out of geological storage in the form of fossil fuels and put it in the atmosphere, so we need geological ways to put it back and do so permanently," said Tom Green, the executive director of Project Vesta, a San Francisco-based nonprofit that hopes to further the science of coastal carbon capture.

The group hopes to use Earth's natural process for keeping carbon dioxide in balance as a permanent, scalable solution for climate change.

How exactly does this work?

Let's start with a recent lava flow in Spain. As it cools, volcanic rock forms. When it comes in contact with rain, it removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

"If it weren't for this process, the long-term carbon cycle or the weathering process, Earth would look and feel like Venus," explained Kelly Erhart, the co-founder and director of development for Project Vesta. "So this process has regulated carbon levels on planet Earth for billions of years, and what we're trying to do is accelerate it."...

Warmer, wetter than average winter ahead for Michigan, NOAA predicts

October 21, 2021
By Hani Barghouthi

Michigan and the Great Lakes region (click here) is expected to have a warmer but wetter than average winter, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Southeast Michigan is predicted to have an almost 50% chance of above-normal temperatures in some areas, according to NOAA's 2021 Winter Outlook report, but predictions in a small part of the Upper Peninsula find "equal chances for below-, near- or above-average temperatures."

The report shows more certainty for Michigan than the 2020 edition, when the entire state's winter weather patterns were a "toss-up," according to Mike Halpert, deputy director of the NOAA's Climate Prediction Center....

I have been observing the climate of Michigan since 2012 and the winter of 12-13 when the temperatures went to subzero as if on an icefield in winter. That was the year the polar vortex displaced for the first time to lower latitudes due to the climate crisis. Very few days were greeted wtihout snow and the temperatures on northwest Michigan dropped to -60 F at it's worse.

The northern peninsula of Michigan will probably remain the same for some time yet because it is above 45 degree north latitude, but, it won't last forever if the people of the USA can't address the abusive petroleum industry and end their dependence on fossil fuels.

The USA has a challenge before it. Can it return to moral content in it's society reflected by politics that addresses the human condition more than it addresses Wall Street. I don't know if anyone else noticed, but, Wall Street abandoned the people and rocketed their profits during the global pandemic by playing up cryptocurrency. 

It is time the USA return to moral content and strong demands in their govenrment to change the path to benevolence from self-destruction of democracy.

Innovation after innovation comes with practicing the physics over time. On the should of giants come new methods.

October 21, 2021
By Chris Young

Norwegian company Wind Catching Systems (click here) developed a floating offshore wind power system that generates energy at a much more affordable rate than traditional wind turbines, thanks to efficiency gains built-in through clever engineering.

The system, dubbed the Windcatcher, can truly "unleash the power of offshore wind," Daniel Engelhart-Willoch, VP of Industry and Government Affairs at Wind Catching tells us over an email exchange.

Describing the benefits of the Windcatcher, Engelhart-Willoch says "the main highlights are that we aim to dramatically slash costs for floating wind, and that we use about 20 percent of the ocean acreage for the same electricity generation as a single-turbine 15 MW floater."...

Let is be said that Scotland inspired these massive changes to energy.

October 21, 2021
By Michelle Lewis

The UK’s Hornsea Two offshore wind farm, (click here) soon to be the world’s largest when it’s completed next year, just achieved a couple of major construction milestones.

The first wind turbine was installed in May at Hornsea Two, which is 55 miles (89 kilometers) northeast of Grimsby, in Yorkshire.

Danish wind giant Ørsted’s 1.3 gigawatt (GW) offshore wind farm will feature 165 Siemens Gamesa 8.4 megawatt (MW) wind turbines, an offshore substation, and a reactive compensation station.

Now Hornsea Two has achieved two major milestones. First, all of the wind turbine foundations are now installed, which means it’s ready for the final third of wind turbines to be put in place. Most of the blades were manufactured at the Siemens Gamesa factory in Hull.

Also, the offshore substation is complete:

What is now the world’s largest AC offshore substation weighs around 8,000 metric tons.

The Reactive Compensation Station (RCS) will also be lifted into place soon. An RCS is required because of cable length, so it will compensate for reactive power losses in order to ensure power transmission efficiency. Both the offshore substation and the RCS were built in and transported by sea from the Sembcorp Marine facility in Singapore.

Once Hornsea Two becomes fully operational in 2022, it will be the largest operating wind farm in the world, outsizing its sister project, the 1.2 GW Hornsea One. It will supply power to more than 1.3 million homes in the UK.

But its superlative status will be temporary, because it will be dethroned by the 4.8 GW Dogger Bank, also off Yorkshire in the UK, once it’s completed in 2026, as well as other global projects in the pipeline....

Oh, it can't be done without fossil fuels still playing a big part? "W"RONG!

All the experiments are in and human beings win when they abandon fossil fuels and embrace alternative energies.

Renewables met 97% of Scotland's electricity demand in 2020

...Onshore wind delivers about 70% of capacity, (click here) followed by hydro and offshore wind as Scotland's main sources of renewable power....