• whenwhen Skye was a sub-tropical paradise with warm shallow seas

    From burkhard@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jul 24 21:00:25 2024
    It isn't any longer now, that much I can tell you - though we braced the
    cold and went for a swim yesterday. Not exactly Skye, though we can see
    it from where we are (Malaig)

    My next-building colleagues did some interesting stuff with mammal
    fossils from Skye that tells us new things about mammalian evolution

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0xj65nelv0o

    beannachd leis a h-uile duine!

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcsOpIEcuIElzYWFr?=@21:1/5 to burkhard on Wed Jul 24 15:35:12 2024
    On 2024-07-24 15:00, burkhard wrote:
    It isn't any longer now, that much I can tell you - though we braced the
    cold and went for a swim yesterday. Not exactly Skye, though we can see
    it from where we are (Malaig)

    I envy you. It was 37° C here yesterday.

    André

    --
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  • From Bob Casanova@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jul 24 15:52:47 2024
    On Wed, 24 Jul 2024 15:35:12 -0600, the following appeared
    in talk.origins, posted by André G. Isaak
    <agisaak@gm.invalid>:

    On 2024-07-24 15:00, burkhard wrote:
    It isn't any longer now, that much I can tell you - though we braced the
    cold and went for a swim yesterday. Not exactly Skye, though we can see
    it from where we are (Malaig)

    I envy you. It was 37° C here yesterday.

    Oooh, a low-temp sauna! ;-)

    It's varied form 42C to 47C (daytime highs) here this month,
    with dew points from -5C to 23C. A "dry heat" it's not, at
    this time of year. :-(

    --

    Bob C.

    "The most exciting phrase to hear in science,
    the one that heralds new discoveries, is not
    'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"

    - Isaac Asimov

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  • From Bob Casanova@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jul 24 21:09:04 2024
    On Wed, 24 Jul 2024 19:41:41 -0700, the following appeared
    in talk.origins, posted by John Harshman
    <john.harshman@gmail.com>:

    On 7/24/24 4:20 PM, erik simpson wrote:
    On 7/24/24 3:52 PM, Bob Casanova wrote:
    On Wed, 24 Jul 2024 15:35:12 -0600, the following appeared
    in talk.origins, posted by André G. Isaak
    <agisaak@gm.invalid>:

    On 2024-07-24 15:00, burkhard wrote:
    It isn't any longer now, that much I can tell you - though we braced >>>>> the
    cold and went for a swim yesterday. Not exactly Skye, though we can see >>>>> it from where we are (Malaig)

    I envy you. It was 37° C here yesterday.

    Oooh, a low-temp sauna! ;-)

    It's varied form 42C to 47C (daytime highs) here this month,
    with dew points from -5C to 23C. A "dry heat" it's not, at
    this time of year. :-(

    When it gets to that in Skye, global warming won't be deniable by anybody. >>
    You underestimate the abilities of some people to deny. Incidentally,
    Sunday and Monday were the two hottest days in recorded history (world >average).

    "Recorded history" dating back...200 years?

    --

    Bob C.

    "The most exciting phrase to hear in science,
    the one that heralds new discoveries, is not
    'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"

    - Isaac Asimov

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  • From Bob Casanova@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jul 24 21:12:30 2024
    On Wed, 24 Jul 2024 16:20:17 -0700, the following appeared
    in talk.origins, posted by erik simpson
    <eastside.erik@gmail.com>:

    On 7/24/24 3:52 PM, Bob Casanova wrote:
    On Wed, 24 Jul 2024 15:35:12 -0600, the following appeared
    in talk.origins, posted by André G. Isaak
    <agisaak@gm.invalid>:

    On 2024-07-24 15:00, burkhard wrote:
    It isn't any longer now, that much I can tell you - though we braced the >>>> cold and went for a swim yesterday. Not exactly Skye, though we can see >>>> it from where we are (Malaig)

    I envy you. It was 37° C here yesterday.

    Oooh, a low-temp sauna! ;-)

    It's varied form 42C to 47C (daytime highs) here this month,
    with dew points from -5C to 23C. A "dry heat" it's not, at
    this time of year. :-(

    When it gets to that in Skye, global warming won't be deniable by anybody.

    Nobody with a brain and access to data denies that the Earth
    is warming, at least WRT the 1500s. Now WRT 6000BCE, OTOH...

    Not really a good idea to use the Little Ice Age as a
    baseline.

    --

    Bob C.

    "The most exciting phrase to hear in science,
    the one that heralds new discoveries, is not
    'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"

    - Isaac Asimov

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  • From Athel Cornish-Bowden@21:1/5 to Bob Casanova on Thu Jul 25 11:06:56 2024
    On 2024-07-24 22:52:47 +0000, Bob Casanova said:

    On Wed, 24 Jul 2024 15:35:12 -0600, the following appeared
    in talk.origins, posted by André G. Isaak
    <agisaak@gm.invalid>:

    On 2024-07-24 15:00, burkhard wrote:
    It isn't any longer now, that much I can tell you - though we braced the >>> cold and went for a swim yesterday. Not exactly Skye, though we can see
    it from where we are (Malaig)

    I envy you. It was 37° C here yesterday.

    Oooh, a low-temp sauna! ;-)

    It's varied form 42C to 47C (daytime highs) here this month,
    with dew points from -5C to 23C. A "dry heat" it's not, at
    this time of year. :-(

    They've been predicting 33-35° for us for days, but it's never been
    that hot on our balcony -- maybe 31° maximum.


    --
    athel cb : Biochemical Evolution, Garland Science, 2016

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  • From J. J. Lodder@21:1/5 to erik simpson on Thu Jul 25 15:47:03 2024
    erik simpson <eastside.erik@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 7/24/24 3:52 PM, Bob Casanova wrote:
    On Wed, 24 Jul 2024 15:35:12 -0600, the following appeared
    in talk.origins, posted by André G. Isaak
    <agisaak@gm.invalid>:

    On 2024-07-24 15:00, burkhard wrote:
    It isn't any longer now, that much I can tell you - though we braced the >>> cold and went for a swim yesterday. Not exactly Skye, though we can see >>> it from where we are (Malaig)

    I envy you. It was 37° C here yesterday.

    Oooh, a low-temp sauna! ;-)

    It's varied form 42C to 47C (daytime highs) here this month,
    with dew points from -5C to 23C. A "dry heat" it's not, at
    this time of year. :-(

    When it gets to that in Skye, global warming won't be deniable by anybody.

    It may well get much colder than that, with the Gulf Stream stopping.
    Since the warming farther south won't stop the weather will get fiercer.
    You'll be getting cold and tropical storms...

    Jan

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  • From J. J. Lodder@21:1/5 to erik simpson on Fri Jul 26 12:56:57 2024
    erik simpson <eastside.erik@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 7/25/24 6:47 AM, J. J. Lodder wrote:
    erik simpson <eastside.erik@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 7/24/24 3:52 PM, Bob Casanova wrote:
    On Wed, 24 Jul 2024 15:35:12 -0600, the following appeared
    in talk.origins, posted by André G. Isaak
    <agisaak@gm.invalid>:

    On 2024-07-24 15:00, burkhard wrote:
    It isn't any longer now, that much I can tell you - though we braced the
    cold and went for a swim yesterday. Not exactly Skye, though we can see >>>>> it from where we are (Malaig)

    I envy you. It was 37° C here yesterday.

    Oooh, a low-temp sauna! ;-)

    It's varied form 42C to 47C (daytime highs) here this month,
    with dew points from -5C to 23C. A "dry heat" it's not, at
    this time of year. :-(

    When it gets to that in Skye, global warming won't be deniable by anybody.

    It may well get much colder than that, with the Gulf Stream stopping.
    Since the warming farther south won't stop the weather will get fiercer. You'll be getting cold and tropical storms...

    Jan


    "World averages" require some work and thought. Almost any local
    changes could be greater or less, depending on many things. The
    collapse of circulation patterns in the north Atlantic would probably
    make things in northern Europe cooler.

    Certainly, but that makes all gradients steeper.
    So the weather will probably get a lot fiercer,
    in a wide band of latitudes,

    Jan

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcsOpIEcuIElzYWFr?=@21:1/5 to William Hyde on Fri Jul 26 15:22:11 2024
    On 2024-07-26 15:08, William Hyde wrote:

    I live in Toronto, where the smoke was nowhere near as bad as in, say,
    NY or DC.

    But I coughed a lot that summer, and so far not this summer.

    The only compensation was a beautiful blood-red moon.

    And in the past 24hourse we've lost most of another town, the resort of Jasper.

    I'm in Calgary, so much closer to Jasper. For the past several days the
    smoke here has been extremely bad, but it now seems to have abated.

    André

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  • From Chris Thompson@21:1/5 to J. J. Lodder on Fri Jul 26 19:53:47 2024
    J. J. Lodder wrote:
    erik simpson <eastside.erik@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 7/24/24 3:52 PM, Bob Casanova wrote:
    On Wed, 24 Jul 2024 15:35:12 -0600, the following appeared
    in talk.origins, posted by André G. Isaak
    <agisaak@gm.invalid>:

    On 2024-07-24 15:00, burkhard wrote:
    It isn't any longer now, that much I can tell you - though we braced the >>>>> cold and went for a swim yesterday. Not exactly Skye, though we can see >>>>> it from where we are (Malaig)

    I envy you. It was 37° C here yesterday.

    Oooh, a low-temp sauna! ;-)

    It's varied form 42C to 47C (daytime highs) here this month,
    with dew points from -5C to 23C. A "dry heat" it's not, at
    this time of year. :-(

    When it gets to that in Skye, global warming won't be deniable by anybody.

    It may well get much colder than that, with the Gulf Stream stopping.
    Since the warming farther south won't stop the weather will get fiercer. You'll be getting cold and tropical storms...

    Jan



    Here's what seems to be a good read (I'm not a climatologist so I can't
    vouch for it in toto). It's not a pleasant read, mind you, but this is
    one of those rare articles that go on long enough for you to get a real
    sense of what they're talking about.

    https://www.wired.com/story/amoc-collapse-atlantic-ocean/

    Chris
    PS And yes, here in NYC last year the smoke was awful. Everything
    closed- businesses, schools, you name it. Visibility was down to maybe
    500 meters. And I saw parents wheeling their kids around in strollers
    with no masks.

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  • From J. J. Lodder@21:1/5 to erik simpson on Sat Jul 27 11:44:14 2024
    erik simpson <eastside.erik@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 7/25/24 2:06 AM, Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote:
    On 2024-07-24 22:52:47 +0000, Bob Casanova said:

    On Wed, 24 Jul 2024 15:35:12 -0600, the following appeared
    in talk.origins, posted by André G. Isaak
    <agisaak@gm.invalid>:

    On 2024-07-24 15:00, burkhard wrote:
    It isn't any longer now, that much I can tell you - though we braced >>>> the
    cold and went for a swim yesterday. Not exactly Skye, though we can see >>>> it from where we are (Malaig)

    I envy you. It was 37° C here yesterday.

    Oooh, a low-temp sauna! ;-)

    It's varied form 42C to 47C (daytime highs) here this month,
    with dew points from -5C to 23C. A "dry heat" it's not, at
    this time of year. :-(

    They've been predicting 33-35° for us for days, but it's never been that hot on our balcony -- maybe 31° maximum.


    A friend of mine was injured in Italy and spend more time the he wanted
    in a hospital there. He complained about the lack of air conditioning
    even there. I've heard that France is also air conditioner deficient.
    Is that your experience?

    Softies, you Americans,

    Jan

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  • From Bob Casanova@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jul 27 09:49:53 2024
    On Sat, 27 Jul 2024 11:44:14 +0200, the following appeared
    in talk.origins, posted by nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J.
    Lodder):

    erik simpson <eastside.erik@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 7/25/24 2:06 AM, Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote:
    On 2024-07-24 22:52:47 +0000, Bob Casanova said:

    On Wed, 24 Jul 2024 15:35:12 -0600, the following appeared
    in talk.origins, posted by André G. Isaak
    <agisaak@gm.invalid>:

    On 2024-07-24 15:00, burkhard wrote:
    It isn't any longer now, that much I can tell you - though we braced
    the
    cold and went for a swim yesterday. Not exactly Skye, though we can see >> >>>> it from where we are (Malaig)

    I envy you. It was 37° C here yesterday.

    Oooh, a low-temp sauna! ;-)

    It's varied form 42C to 47C (daytime highs) here this month,
    with dew points from -5C to 23C. A "dry heat" it's not, at
    this time of year. :-(

    They've been predicting 33-35° for us for days, but it's never been that >> > hot on our balcony -- maybe 31° maximum.


    A friend of mine was injured in Italy and spend more time the he wanted
    in a hospital there. He complained about the lack of air conditioning
    even there. I've heard that France is also air conditioner deficient.
    Is that your experience?

    Softies, you Americans,

    I suspect that if the Netherlands had the climate which is
    normal here in many places you'd be a "softy" too. Come to
    Phoenix in July and go without AC for a few weeks, then
    repeat that.

    Why be intentionally uncomfortable?

    --

    Bob C.

    "The most exciting phrase to hear in science,
    the one that heralds new discoveries, is not
    'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"

    - Isaac Asimov

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  • From Bob Casanova@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jul 27 09:44:49 2024
    On Thu, 25 Jul 2024 13:56:02 -0400, the following appeared
    in talk.origins, posted by William Hyde
    <wthyde1953@gmail.com>:

    Bob Casanova wrote:
    On Wed, 24 Jul 2024 19:41:41 -0700, the following appeared
    in talk.origins, posted by John Harshman
    <john.harshman@gmail.com>:

    On 7/24/24 4:20 PM, erik simpson wrote:
    On 7/24/24 3:52 PM, Bob Casanova wrote:
    On Wed, 24 Jul 2024 15:35:12 -0600, the following appeared
    in talk.origins, posted by André G. Isaak
    <agisaak@gm.invalid>:

    On 2024-07-24 15:00, burkhard wrote:
    It isn't any longer now, that much I can tell you - though we braced >>>>>>> the
    cold and went for a swim yesterday. Not exactly Skye, though we can see >>>>>>> it from where we are (Malaig)

    I envy you. It was 37° C here yesterday.

    Oooh, a low-temp sauna! ;-)

    It's varied form 42C to 47C (daytime highs) here this month,
    with dew points from -5C to 23C. A "dry heat" it's not, at
    this time of year. :-(

    When it gets to that in Skye, global warming won't be deniable by anybody. >>>>
    You underestimate the abilities of some people to deny. Incidentally,
    Sunday and Monday were the two hottest days in recorded history (world
    average).

    "Recorded history" dating back...200 years?

    The instrumental record does not go back that far in the sense of global >coverage, though isolated areas do have longer records - but there is
    then the question of accuracy, reliability, and so forth.

    We know the world is much warmer than in 1824 from a mass of data, but >temperature records form a small part of this.

    In later times when we have more measurements, but still not global
    coverage, a lot can be done with statistical methods, but the fewer and
    worse distributed the observations, the larger the error bars.

    How far in the past we have a global temperature estimate accurate to
    within .2C is a question to which I don't have an answer. I would
    suspect no less than 50 years or so, and possibly a hundred.

    That was pretty much my point, that to say something is the
    highest in recorded history is a bit disingenuous when
    recorded history of temperatures goes back no further than,
    at most, the invention of the thermometer, and until the
    past few decades it's far from "global". Yes, we can glean
    some information from such things as ice cores and tree
    rings, but neither is so fine-grained as to allow the sort
    of daily measurements we see today. And the further back we
    go, the more coarse the measurements temporally; at 1Mya
    it's probably no finer than a thousand-year interval, if
    that.

    The good news for me is that this summer I'm not coughing up bits of
    tree. Of course, that is largely because so much of the susceptible
    area is still ash from last year. But I'll take all the small victories
    I can get.

    Where are you (in general)? I'm in the desert below Phoenix,
    and while we get frequent dust storms, even when there are
    wildfires nearby say within 100 miles or so) we hardly ever
    get smoke; wind patterns, I suppose.

    --

    Bob C.

    "The most exciting phrase to hear in science,
    the one that heralds new discoveries, is not
    'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"

    - Isaac Asimov

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  • From J. J. Lodder@21:1/5 to Bob Casanova on Sat Jul 27 23:11:56 2024
    Bob Casanova <nospam@buzz.off> wrote:

    On Sat, 27 Jul 2024 11:44:14 +0200, the following appeared
    in talk.origins, posted by nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J.
    Lodder):

    erik simpson <eastside.erik@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 7/25/24 2:06 AM, Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote:
    On 2024-07-24 22:52:47 +0000, Bob Casanova said:

    On Wed, 24 Jul 2024 15:35:12 -0600, the following appeared
    in talk.origins, posted by André G. Isaak
    <agisaak@gm.invalid>:

    On 2024-07-24 15:00, burkhard wrote:
    It isn't any longer now, that much I can tell you - though we braced >> >>>> the
    cold and went for a swim yesterday. Not exactly Skye, though we
    can see it from where we are (Malaig)

    I envy you. It was 37° C here yesterday.

    Oooh, a low-temp sauna! ;-)

    It's varied form 42C to 47C (daytime highs) here this month,
    with dew points from -5C to 23C. A "dry heat" it's not, at
    this time of year. :-(

    They've been predicting 33-35° for us for days, but it's never been
    that > hot on our balcony -- maybe 31° maximum. > > A friend of mine
    was injured in Italy and spend more time the he wanted in a hospital
    there. He complained about the lack of air conditioning even there.
    I've heard that France is also air conditioner deficient.
    Is that your experience?

    Softies, you Americans,

    I suspect that if the Netherlands had the climate which is
    normal here in many places you'd be a "softy" too. Come to
    Phoenix in July and go without AC for a few weeks, then
    repeat that.

    There you go again. It was Italy and France that we were talking about.

    Why be intentionally uncomfortable?

    Burning coal to feed air conditioners to combat global warming
    is of course the way to go,

    Jan

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  • From Bob Casanova@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jul 27 16:17:18 2024
    On Sat, 27 Jul 2024 23:11:56 +0200, the following appeared
    in talk.origins, posted by nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J.
    Lodder):

    Bob Casanova <nospam@buzz.off> wrote:

    On Sat, 27 Jul 2024 11:44:14 +0200, the following appeared
    in talk.origins, posted by nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J.
    Lodder):

    erik simpson <eastside.erik@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 7/25/24 2:06 AM, Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote:
    On 2024-07-24 22:52:47 +0000, Bob Casanova said:

    On Wed, 24 Jul 2024 15:35:12 -0600, the following appeared
    in talk.origins, posted by André G. Isaak
    <agisaak@gm.invalid>:

    On 2024-07-24 15:00, burkhard wrote:
    It isn't any longer now, that much I can tell you - though we braced >> >> >>>> the
    cold and went for a swim yesterday. Not exactly Skye, though we
    can see it from where we are (Malaig)

    I envy you. It was 37° C here yesterday.

    Oooh, a low-temp sauna! ;-)

    It's varied form 42C to 47C (daytime highs) here this month,
    with dew points from -5C to 23C. A "dry heat" it's not, at
    this time of year. :-(

    They've been predicting 33-35° for us for days, but it's never been
    that > hot on our balcony -- maybe 31° maximum. > > A friend of mine
    was injured in Italy and spend more time the he wanted in a hospital
    there. He complained about the lack of air conditioning even there.
    I've heard that France is also air conditioner deficient.
    Is that your experience?

    Softies, you Americans,

    I suspect that if the Netherlands had the climate which is
    normal here in many places you'd be a "softy" too. Come to
    Phoenix in July and go without AC for a few weeks, then
    repeat that.

    There you go again. It was Italy and France that we were talking about.

    So your comment, "Softies, you Americans," was about Italy
    and France? We must have admitted them to the Union when I
    wasn't looking...

    Why be intentionally uncomfortable?

    Burning coal to feed air conditioners to combat global warming
    is of course the way to go,

    So all electricity is produced by coal? That would be news
    to the operators of nuclear, hydro and gas-fired plants.

    Granted, if you're referring to China it *is* mostly
    coal-powered generation, with AIUI dozens more plants added
    every year. And the US is reducing the use of coal, while
    China is increasing it. So I don't think that if I do
    without AC it will offset the huge amount of CO2 generated
    in China.

    --

    Bob C.

    "The most exciting phrase to hear in science,
    the one that heralds new discoveries, is not
    'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"

    - Isaac Asimov

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  • From J. J. Lodder@21:1/5 to Athel Cornish-Bowden on Sun Jul 28 21:33:01 2024
    Athel Cornish-Bowden <me@yahoo.com> wrote:

    On 2024-07-27 21:11:56 +0000, J. J. Lodder said:

    Bob Casanova <nospam@buzz.off> wrote:

    On Sat, 27 Jul 2024 11:44:14 +0200, the following appeared
    in talk.origins, posted by nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J.
    Lodder):

    erik simpson <eastside.erik@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 7/25/24 2:06 AM, Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote:
    On 2024-07-24 22:52:47 +0000, Bob Casanova said:

    On Wed, 24 Jul 2024 15:35:12 -0600, the following appeared
    in talk.origins, posted by André G. Isaak
    <agisaak@gm.invalid>:

    On 2024-07-24 15:00, burkhard wrote:
    It isn't any longer now, that much I can tell you - though we braced >>>>>>>> the
    cold and went for a swim yesterday. Not exactly Skye, though we >>>>>>>> can see it from where we are (Malaig)

    I envy you. It was 37° C here yesterday.

    Oooh, a low-temp sauna! ;-)

    It's varied form 42C to 47C (daytime highs) here this month,
    with dew points from -5C to 23C. A "dry heat" it's not, at
    this time of year. :-(

    They've been predicting 33-35° for us for days, but it's never been >>>> that > hot on our balcony -- maybe 31° maximum. > > A friend of mine >>>> was injured in Italy and spend more time the he wanted in a hospital >>>> there. He complained about the lack of air conditioning even there. >>>> I've heard that France is also air conditioner deficient.
    Is that your experience?

    Softies, you Americans,

    I suspect that if the Netherlands had the climate which is
    normal here in many places you'd be a "softy" too. Come to
    Phoenix in July and go without AC for a few weeks, then
    repeat that.

    There you go again. It was Italy and France that we were talking about.

    Why be intentionally uncomfortable?

    Burning coal to feed air conditioners to combat global warming
    is of course the way to go,

    I can't find a reference to it now, but my recollection (possibly quite wrong) is that in the 1930s there was a major exhibition in London
    where the buildings were heated with a giant heat exhanger driven by
    the flow of the Thames: no burning involved, even indirectly.

    Quite possible in theory, and perhaps possibly practical,
    in those long past days when grids hardly existed.
    (each power station kept its own frequency and time, then)

    These days it is more practical to derive power from the river current,
    and to feed it into the grid, (if economical) [1]
    and to drive a heat pump between Thames water and heating equipment,
    with power taken from the grid.

    Jan

    [1] FYA, in the news recently, there is a highly original pilot project
    to derive power from tidal currents using underwater 'kites'.
    The kites are programmed to execute figure-8 motions,
    and power is generated by reeling them in and out.

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  • From Athel Cornish-Bowden@21:1/5 to J. J. Lodder on Sun Jul 28 11:25:43 2024
    On 2024-07-27 21:11:56 +0000, J. J. Lodder said:

    Bob Casanova <nospam@buzz.off> wrote:

    On Sat, 27 Jul 2024 11:44:14 +0200, the following appeared
    in talk.origins, posted by nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J.
    Lodder):

    erik simpson <eastside.erik@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 7/25/24 2:06 AM, Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote:
    On 2024-07-24 22:52:47 +0000, Bob Casanova said:

    On Wed, 24 Jul 2024 15:35:12 -0600, the following appeared
    in talk.origins, posted by André G. Isaak
    <agisaak@gm.invalid>:

    On 2024-07-24 15:00, burkhard wrote:
    It isn't any longer now, that much I can tell you - though we braced >>>>>>>> the
    cold and went for a swim yesterday. Not exactly Skye, though we >>>>>>>> can see it from where we are (Malaig)

    I envy you. It was 37° C here yesterday.

    Oooh, a low-temp sauna! ;-)

    It's varied form 42C to 47C (daytime highs) here this month,
    with dew points from -5C to 23C. A "dry heat" it's not, at
    this time of year. :-(

    They've been predicting 33-35° for us for days, but it's never been
    that > hot on our balcony -- maybe 31° maximum. > > A friend of mine
    was injured in Italy and spend more time the he wanted in a hospital
    there. He complained about the lack of air conditioning even there.
    I've heard that France is also air conditioner deficient.
    Is that your experience?

    Softies, you Americans,

    I suspect that if the Netherlands had the climate which is
    normal here in many places you'd be a "softy" too. Come to
    Phoenix in July and go without AC for a few weeks, then
    repeat that.

    There you go again. It was Italy and France that we were talking about.

    Why be intentionally uncomfortable?

    Burning coal to feed air conditioners to combat global warming
    is of course the way to go,

    I can't find a reference to it now, but my recollection (possibly quite
    wrong) is that in the 1930s there was a major exhibition in London
    where the buildings were heated with a giant heat exhanger driven by
    the flow of the Thames: no burning involved, even indirectly.

    --
    athel cb : Biochemical Evolution, Garland Science, 2016

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