Guest “Let’s go Mets!” by David Middleton
There are three things that I’m a bit embarrassed about:
- I’m not a native Texan… I was born in Connecticut, but I got here as fast as I could.
- I’m a lifelong New York Jets fan… I watch a recording of Super Bowl III every Super Bowl Sunday.
- I am a lifelong New York Mets fan.
One of my all time favorite books is The year when people lost their last place…
Date: 1969
After the Mets won the World Series in Game 5 on October 16, 1969, everyone wanted the story of that magical season as soon as possible. Paul Zimmerman and Dick Schaap will be the first of many to publish a comprehensive account, releasing their book on “the greatest year in baseball history” just two days after the Mets won the World Cup. Series. How did they manage that? They captured the thrills of the season as they happened. At a time when the Mets surprised the world with their sorrow over the Baltimore Orioles, Zimmerman and Schaap’s play-style prose was at hand, ready for fans to dig into and reminisce about. one of baseball’s most inspirational victories.
CARD:1960S • SEASON 1969 • DICK MAP • PAUL ZIMMERM
I was ten years old for most of 1969. The Jets won Super Bowl III in January, Neil Armstrong made the “giant leap for mankind” in July, and the Amazing Mets went from last or next, to beating the Baltimore Orioles four games to one in the World Series. 1969 will always be one of my favorite years… So I guess I shouldn’t have crawled out of the last place… But, I will.
APRIL 26, 2022
Renewables to overtake nuclear in US electricity by 2021Electricity generation in the electricity sector from renewable sources totals 795 million megawatts (MWh) in the United States in 2021, surpassing nuclear power generation, which totals 778 million MWh. The U.S. electric power sector does not include industrial, commercial, or residential generators, such as small-scale solar or wind, or some combined heat and electricity systems. Renewable production includes electricity generated from wind, hydro, solar, biomass and geothermal energy sources.
Natural gas remains the most common source of energy used in power generation in the United States, accounting for 1.474 million MWh in 2021. Although several U.S. coal-fired power plants are shut down in 2021, but coal-fired power generation rose for the first time since 2014 and is the source of more U.S. electricity than renewables or nuclear power. Total electricity production in the power sector will increase slightly in 2021, but still below the record high of 2018.
The U.S. electricity sector’s increase in renewable electricity production in 2021 will primarily come from producing more wind and solar power as a result of more wind turbines and utility-scale solar power plants. come into operation. Wind power output will grow 12% in 2021 and utility-scale solar power output will grow 28%. Hydropower production fell to its lowest level since 2015, mainly due to dry conditions in the western United States. Biomass and geothermal power output is relatively flat in 2021.
Nuclear energy production has remained relatively stable in the United States over the past decade because accelerated at existing facilities has compensated for the retirement of some reactors. Only one reactor was decommissioned in 2021: New York’s Indian Point Unit 3. Although a slight increase capacity number of the United States nuclear fleet by 2021, nuclear power generation of the United States fell to the lowest level since 2012.
Main Contributors: Syne Salem
Card: generation, coal, electricity, nature Air, Atom, recycled energy, wind, biomass, hydroelectric, sun
Renewable energy (wind + hydro + solar + biomass + geothermal) will barely surpass nuclear power (795 to 778 million MWh) in 2021. This looks believable when the team The New York Mets starting figure met more homeruns in 1969 than Hank Aaron…
Hank Aaron hit 44 homeruns in just 547 bats. The Mets starting lineup requires 3,250 bats to increase their 68 homeruns… giving us another analogy: MWh of generation per MW of installed capacity. The most recent EIA number is for 2020.
- Nuclear power: 96,501 MW
- Renewable energy (wind + hydro + solar + biomass + geothermal): 284,895 MW
Nuclear power plants generate 778 million MWh from about 96,500 MW of installed capacity. Renewable energy needs about 286,000 MW to achieve 795 million MWh. Nuclear power plants provide 92% power factor, renewables take a 2/3 year break, providing only 32% power factor. The numbers are not exact as I am using 2021 and 2020 generation installed capacity… But they are “in the ballpark”.
Continuing with the quirky analysis…
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