He added it suggests all power - including backup - may have been cut, which is rare.
which is rare.
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Senator Collins: Well there are a lot of these ships planes going around the world all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen. I just don’t want people thinking that tankers planes aren’t safe.
Interviewer: Was this tanker plane safe?
Senator Collins: Well, I was thinking more about the other ones.
No. If a watt worth of sunlight hits the earth, it's transformed into a watt of heat. If it hits a solar panel, it's transformed into some heat and some electricity, which is then used to power something that then transformed it into heat. The only solar energy that doesn't heat up the planet is the one that is reflected back into space, which, however, isn't much for solar panels.
However, if you use a watt of sunlight to power your phone instead of a watt of energy you got from burning coal, this watt of energy instead stays below earth and therefore doesn't heat up the planet. It also doesn't release co2, which would otherwise reduce the atmosphere's reflectivity, trapping even more sun heat on the planet.
So solar panels don't reduce the temperature by not allowing sunlight to heat up the planet, they decrease the temperature by replacing other stuff that would otherwise heat up the planet.
Like... Fire things, green things, bed things, playing things and hundreds of other things. Love it almost as much as animals that are just something-animal. Like bag-animal (marsupial), beak-animal (platypus) or belt-animal (armadillo).
This already looks terrific. I'm deeply in love with Hilda and Pantheon is already on my list, so this seems to be like a great list for me to explore. Thank you so much.
So glad I could pick up some discounted stuff as well... Not in this picture: the Stargazer, which is gift wrapped and will be handed over to my son later today. These will serve as presents over the next year or two.
Ah, yes, nothing counters bad luck like