Go back? (you are making this just too easy)

Yesterday night the thunderstorm arrived that had been predicted for 2 days, accompanied by the most destructive and ferocious hail ever seen or heard of, defoliating many trees to near baredom, ripping most succulents to shreds... the fich-trees standing there as were it on the brink of winter, that fruit lost for this season, literally holes struck though leaves... it was over in 15 minutes.

The "climate is doing fine" we read, messaged from Odiham, UK, yet the number of extreme weather events is on the rise as many will bare witness , just as predicted for several decades... more to come, so be ready or bear the consequences! My 'cave' is ready.

astrolab:
http://tinyurl.com/yeb2uxx
and
http://tinyurl.com/3mzj29
redirect to
http://www.boincstats.com/signature/user_1820418_project15.gif
and
http://www.boincstats.com/signature/team_558_project15.gif
respectively, in a separate browser window or tab, but not in your sig.
In your sig all I see are the 'red X' placeholders.

edit1:
Sorry to throw you a curve there... I didn't think mentioning it would be too off-topic here in this forum, so I just searched for your latest post in Chat.

Now that I've skimmed, I find it incredible this thread has gone on for 26 pages. Hah!

Nice charts though.
Oh... have a look at this chart for US energy consumption:
https://publicaffairs.llnl.gov/news/energy/energy.html

I started to insert https://publicaffairs.llnl.gov/news/energy/co...008/LLNL_US_EFC_20081.png but it would have blown out the borders, I think.

Anyway... the "rejected" flow is wasted energy... e.g. inefficiencies (electric motors are at least 4x more efficient driving a car than gasoline engines... cars idling their engines while motionless send about 100% of their power to the gray pipe), transmission losses (friction of gas/oil against their delivery pipes; cost of pressurizing those pipes; voltage drop across hundreds of miles of wire between generation and use; et cetera).
Note that out of the almost 40 quadrillion BTUs of electricity generated for the USA in 2008, nearly 28 Quads (~70%) ended up in the rejected pile. If we could drop that to about 20% loss by generating our electricity locally, using wind/solar/hydro/biodiesel, we could eliminate (in the USA, anyway) using coal to make electricity (which accounts for a little under 50% of the USA's electricity generation). Not to mention making the 'grid' distributed and ergo more-robust.
Yes, I'm sure that idea will bum out a lot of coal miners... so maybe some of the solar panel and wind/hydro/biodiesel generator manufacturers could hire the laid-off coal miners (because I doubt china needs to import any coal).

How about marysduby's sig... those are tinyurl.com links too, and all I see are red X placeholders for those as well (i.e. maybe it's something on my end, or through sprint).

Still works fine on my screen. Same browser I have been using for the last 2 years. It doesn't matter.