Singularity

If SpaceTime is not continuous inside a black hole, then the concept of a singularity inside a black hole goes away.

What is "in" a black hole? Not SpaceTime. Nothing. Less than nothing. No movement of time. No space. No light. No energy. Physics deals with what goes on in SpaceTime. So it can say nothing about what is  "inside" a black hole. All it can say is what it can't say.

Everything that "makes up" a black hole is gathered at the circumference; at the event horizon. All those things that are gathered at the event horizon tear a hole in SpaceTime. SpaceTime is not  strong enough to keep from being torn.

To the extent that Swiss cheese is not continuous, it is a nice model for SpaceTime. Of course, it is hard to grock that SpaceTime is not continuous, but --- it's not.

Science has no data past the event horizon. Past that is all conjecture.

Heating the ocean

7. Heating the ocean
1.35 billion cu.kilometers is the volume of the ocean (wikipedia)
1 billion metric tones is the weight of 1 cu.kilometer
Weight of the ocean is:
[1.35 x 1000**3] cu.km x [1000**3] m.tons
is [1.35 x 1000**6] metric tons, 1.35 quintillion metric tons
heating the ocean 1C
specific heat of water is 1 calorie per gram C
1000 calories (kilocalorie) per kilogram C
1000 kilocaloriws per metric ton (1000 kilograms)
[1.35 x 1000**6] metric tons x 1000 kilocalories/m.ton
[1.35 x 1000**7] kilocalories / degree C
Each hour the earth receives 430 quintillion joules from the sun
1 joule =.239 calorie
multiplying is 102 quintillion calories, about 100 quadrillion kilocalories (per hour)

Guantanamo and the blockade

The Guantanamo Lease is invalid

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Climate change

1. A local Metric for Climate Change.
https://bit.ly/2024PlayTarget
2. Making more of The Transmission Grid
https://bit.ly/2024PlayTransmission
3. The Mechanism of Climate Change.
https://bit.ly/2024PlayMechanism
4. Cleaning China
https://bit.ly/2024PlayChina

Daily Load Curve, suggestion

Level the load on the transmission grid. Every year, require that the elctrical distribution company offer a new ten year tariff that has the goal and the effect of lowering the peak load on the transmission grid by 10%. This headroom will serve to delay the need for any new peaker (gas) plants, or new tranmission lines and encourage occasionally connected micro grids. A market based solution.

The Elephant in the climate change story. CCS

1. The ocean exchanges CO2 with the atmosphere
2. As he ocean warms, it gives off more CO2 to the atmosphere.
3. Take CO2 out of the ocean and the ocean will take CO2 out of the air.
4. Getting CO2 out of the ocean is easy to do on a small scale.
Doing it on a relevant scale is another story.