12/2/23 - Meals & News
By LindaOH
@LindaOHio (188028)
United States
December 3, 2023 6:25am CST
Just under 20% of US electricity is powered by coal. The US is joining 56 other nations in "kicking the coal habit". The Powering Past Coal Alliance is committed to building no new coal plants and phasing out existing ones. Climate analyst Alden Meyer of the European think-tank E3G says that "we were heading to replacing coal by the end of the decade anyway". Natural gas and renewable energy are cheaper and coal plants have already been shutting down due to economics. China and India are building new coal plants left and right; and the US has been pushing them to get rid of coal.
50 oil companies representing nearly half of global production are pledging to reach near zero methane emissions and end routine flaring (burning of excess methane) and venting of gas by 2030. This could help slow down the temperature rise. It could trim 1/10 of a degree Celsius (0.18 degree Fahrenheit) which is about how much the Earth is currently warming every 5 years. This is only a portion of what needs to be done. The world needs to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 40% and methane by about 60% by 2050.
107 days until spring.
Breakfast - Protein bar
Lunch - Macaroni bean soup
Dessert/Snack - Blueberry muffin
Dinner - Peanut butter & jelly sandwich
What did you eat yesterday?
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@FourWalls (74424)
• United States
3 Dec 23
Yesterday was chicken and cheese burrito and baked potato for lunch, and another Jimmy Dean turkey sausage wrap and hash browns for dinner. And pears!!!!!!
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@FourWalls (74424)
• United States
4 Dec 23
@LindaOHio — I eat a salad with double the tomatoes nearly every day!
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@LindaOHio (188028)
• United States
4 Dec 23
You need more fruit and veggies in your life!
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@LindaOHio (188028)
• United States
5 Dec 23
@FourWalls Such a good girl. (hands her a cookie)
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@MommyOfEli2013 (84897)
• Rupert, Idaho
4 Dec 23
Your dinner sounds good. I don't know what to say about the news though
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@MommyOfEli2013 (84897)
• Rupert, Idaho
4 Dec 23
@LindaOHio never tried peanut butter and nutella.
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@AmbiePam (97894)
• United States
3 Dec 23
We know China is never going to cooperate with getting rid of coal, but I feel eventually India might. That’s just my opinion though.
Yesterday, I had chicken korma, popcorn (again), an egg muffin with sausage and cheddar cheese, and a little bit of chili on a flour tortilla. I really need to stop the flour tortillas.
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@LindaOHio (188028)
• United States
3 Dec 23
I hope you're right about India. Have a great day.
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@LindaOHio (188028)
• United States
4 Dec 23
You're right. I won't be here either.
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@LadyDuck (473819)
• Switzerland
5 Dec 23
@LindaOHio Considering how bad things are going around the world now, I am not unhappy thinking that by 2050 I will not be here... may be not even by 2030.
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@LindaOHio (188028)
• United States
5 Dec 23
@LadyDuck I hope we are all still here in 2030 even though the Earth will be in worse shape by then.
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@Tampa_girl7 (52305)
• United States
3 Dec 23
We had hamburger steak and a baked potato.
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@porwest (99574)
• United States
3 Dec 23
The problem with renewables is that it is inefficient, and that truth doesn't seem to be getting any better. The only solution is more nuclear, but there's a lot of opposition to that as well. And as California has shown, as we push more EV, the grids just can't handle the loads and so at some point we have to produce more energy or the whole system collapses.
The problem with the left's green agenda is this. It wants its cake and to eat it too. It wants less energy production from fossil fuels and other sources, but at the same time wants more electric powered vehicles, lawn mowers and other things. It can't have it both ways, and at some point they have to realize this and compromise.
The cheapest and most efficient and most reliable source of energy comes from fossil fuels—aside from nuclear. Really, right now there IS no other viable source. And until we find it, we pretty much have to accept what we have now.
For dinner I made up a delicious batch of chili mac.
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@LindaOHio (188028)
• United States
4 Dec 23
Chili mac sounds good. Hubby likes that.
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@porwest (99574)
• United States
7 Dec 23
@LindaOHio I always make the mac version since my wife prefers it. And well, if the wife ain't happy...ain't nobody happy. lol
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@LindaOHio (188028)
• United States
3 Dec 23
Yes ma'am. I try to give hubby easy things to make for me....and it was good.
