[johnbryanpeters]

The US is likely going to face its own natural gas shortage this winter. That’s in part due to a lack of investment during the pandemic and ongoing labour shortages in the US that has made hiring workers in the oil sector more difficult.

In a report released Wednesday by the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank, 51 percent of the executives from oil and gas support service firms it surveyed said they had difficulty hiring workers. Seventy percent said a lack of qualified applicants was to blame, while 39 percent said workers were looking for more pay than they could offer.

China power cuts, UK petrol woes: Why is there an energy crunch?

Energy shortages in China, the United Kingdom and Europe are causing significant disruptions.

www.aljazeera.com

 

[jonKranked]

my firewood for the winter got delivered tuesday.

 

[SkaredShtles]

Got the fleece pants and down jackets at the ready...

 

[Jm_]

Not here and in Texas. They just flame off that shit on all the wells...

 

[4xBoy]

Not here and in Texas. They just flame off that shit on all the wells...

Lucky them Texans have big furnaces and good insulation.

 

[Westy]

The US is likely going to face its own natural gas shortage this winter. That’s in part due to a lack of investment during the pandemic and ongoing labour shortages in the US that has made hiring workers in the oil sector more difficult.

In a report released Wednesday by the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank, 51 percent of the executives from oil and gas support service firms it surveyed said they had difficulty hiring workers. Seventy percent said a lack of qualified applicants was to blame, while 39 percent said workers were looking for more pay than they could offer.

China power cuts, UK petrol woes: Why is there an energy crunch?

Energy shortages in China, the United Kingdom and Europe are causing significant disruptions.

www.aljazeera.com

One thing that is abundantly clear now that we have a labor shortage is that how companies try to hire people is completely fucking broken.

 

[SkaredShtles]

One thing that is abundantly clear now that we have a labor shortage is that how companies try to hire people is completely fucking broken.

I think that's because hiring is done by HR departments.

 

[Westy]

I think that's because hiring is done by HR departments.

Partially, they just handle the administration. It is the hiring managers who want someone with 10 years of experience that can only come from working the open position for 10 years. The invisible process that takes months. The application process that takes a significant time investment by the applicant that the company already has a person they want but has to post a job to follow the rules. The software or brainless HR rep that filters out resumes despite not having a fucking clue what they are looking at. The poorly written job requisitions that don't give you a fucking clue what the job is actually about. The lack of desire to actually invest in an employee to make them productive.

 

[4xBoy]

Everyone goes to Costco and buys toilet paper then gets made cause there is none.

Now that same scenario is happening in employment.

Then there is the employee that has been let go every time it gets slow saying, fuck it.

 

[Westy]

Everyone goes to Costco and buys toilet paper then gets made cause there is none.

Now that same scenario is happening in employment.

Then there is the employee that has been let go every time it gets slow saying, fuck it.

Whenever it will help profits: layoff employees

When there is a work shortage: there is no company loyalty anymore

When I mentioned I was looking for a new job my father questioned if I was going to lose out on benefits by not staying at the same place. I nearly shit myself laughing. With no pensions or early retirement options and companies doing little other than helping you save your own money for retirement there is literally zero benefit to staying anywhere.

 

[Changleen]

my firewood for the winter got delivered tuesday.

 

[Westy]

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As long as the trees are replanted burning wood does not add more carbon to the carbon cycle. It can be cut from already downed trees and is often the case with firewood, it isn't very profitable to have a tree harvest for firewood. Methane from decomposed wood is actually a much stronger greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, by a factor of 10 IIRC. It does fuck over air quality and causes a long list of health impacts.

 

[jonKranked]

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yes, its because of me burning locally sourced would in a effecient cast iron stove instead of refined dinosaurs that were mined and transferred from hundreds of miles away

 

[Westy]

yes, its because of me burning locally sourced would in a effecient cast iron stove instead of refined dinosaurs that were mined and transferred from hundreds of miles away

My neighbor used to heat his house with little more than deadfall from his 3/4 acre. I also used to hate that he did as his smoke would simply waft over to my house. My neighborhood had the air quality of Shanghai on a still winter days.

 

[jonKranked]

My neighbor used to heat his house with little more than deadfall from his 3/4 acre. I also used to hate that he did as his smoke would simply waft over to my house. My neighborhood had the air quality of Shanghai on a still winter days.

modern cast iron stoves (or inserts like i have) make very little smoke, you can typically only see it if using unseasoned firewood.

 

[jonKranked]

and yes, any of the trees i've taken out from my property get split and seasoned for firewood. the wood i purchase comes from a local landscaping place, my understanding is that the source it from local arborists

 

[Westy]

and yes, any of the trees i've taken out from my property get split and seasoned for firewood. the wood i purchase comes from a local landscaping place, my understanding is that the source it from local arborists

A buddy of mine who ran a tree company produced tons of firewood. I eventually convinced him to get a bandsaw and start selling rough lumber. A lot of the trees he was removing were centuries old oak trees. It was a shame to see that get burned. He ended up being very popular with furniture makers.

 

[4xBoy]

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Good news it's a steady incline not a radical uptick.

 

[jonKranked]

A buddy of mine who ran a tree company produced tons of firewood. I eventually convinced him to get a bandsaw and start selling rough lumber. A lot of the trees he was removing were centuries old oak trees. It was a shame to see that get burned. He ended up being very popular with furniture makers.

there's a local sawmill, good stuff like that goes there. although i've definitely gotten oak firewood. not all the big ones are suitable for lumber.

 

[4xBoy]

and yes, any of the trees i've taken out from my property get split and seasoned for firewood. the wood i purchase comes from a local landscaping place, my understanding is that the source it from local arborists

 

[Changleen]

yes, its because of me burning locally sourced would in a effecient cast iron stove instead of refined dinosaurs that were mined and transferred from hundreds of miles away

As relatively rich, educated first worlders who are aware of the issues and are capable of change, can we just fucking stop burning shit? It’s not very hard.

 

[jonKranked]

As relatively rich, educated first worlders who are aware of the issues and are capable of change, can we just fucking stop burning shit? It’s not very hard.

geothermal isn't an option where i live.

 

[Changleen]

As long as the trees are replanted burning wood does not add more carbon to the carbon cycle. It can be cut from already downed trees and is often the case with firewood, it isn't very profitable to have a tree harvest for firewood. Methane from decomposed wood is actually a much stronger greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, by a factor of 10 IIRC. It does fuck over air quality and causes a long list of health impacts.

Sorry but in practice it just isn’t true that it’s carbon neutral. It’s normally pretty terrible. Locally, hand processed, naturally downed trees burned in an efficient stove is ‘less bad’ and avoids the methane as you say but most managed forests where the vast majority of firewood comes from are harvested on a 20 year cycle and most serious estimates say you need 40 years growth of an equivalent tree to sequester the equivalent carbon. This is not including the damage to soil (significant carbon release), transport and processing, etc.
You are completely right about the air quality issues too, recent research suggests this is probably more of a health impact than previously recognised, especially the pm2.5 type stuff which appears to be a strong antagonist of many conditions. Ironically efficient burning can actually make this even worse.

 

[Jm_]

Whenever it will help profits: layoff employees

When there is a work shortage: there is no company loyalty anymore

When I mentioned I was looking for a new job my father questioned if I was going to lose out on benefits by not staying at the same place. I nearly shit myself laughing. With no pensions or early retirement options and companies doing little other than helping you save your own money for retirement there is literally zero benefit to staying anywhere.

It's always "employee shortage".

Why isn't it a "business surplus"?

 

[Changleen]

geothermal isn't an option where i live.

Solar, wind, hydro, nuclear…

 

[jonKranked]

Solar, wind, hydro, nuclear…

say no more fam

Amazon.com: Uranium Ore : Industrial & Scientific

Amazon.com: Uranium Ore : Industrial & Scientific

www.amazon.com

 

[Changleen]

say no more fam

Amazon.com: Uranium Ore : Industrial & Scientific

Amazon.com: Uranium Ore : Industrial & Scientific

www.amazon.com

You don’t have to do it yourself.

 

[jonKranked]

You don’t have to do it yourself.

that's not the american way. boostrapped uranium.

 

[Changleen]

US Federal Regulations do not require any special requirements to dispose of NORM material,

Nice. Holy shit.

 

[jonKranked]

Nice. Holy shit.

look at the customer questions

 

[jonKranked]

5 star customer review:

"What can I say. It's uranium. It's radioactive. It's... legal? As far as I know, lol. Great specimen, high geiger count. Very happy. I'll keep an eye out for the black helicopters. "

 

[Changleen]

look at the customer questions

I’ll laugh or I’ll cry.

 

[johnbryanpeters]

5 star customer review:

"What can I say. It's uranium. It's radioactive. It's... legal? As far as I know, lol. Great specimen, high geiger count. Very happy. I'll keep an eye out for the black helicopters. "

If you wanted some here, you'd just need to go down to Ludlow, get up on Okemo, and poke about some.

 

[Westy]

Solar, wind, hydro, nuclear…

Jon should build his own hydro plant

Hydro power is also really bad as it interrupts fish spawing and destroys whole ecosystems on land an in the ocean. It is where the majority of power come from around here and is helping to drive wild salmon to extinction.

 

[johnbryanpeters]

Jon should build his own hydro plant

Hydro power is also really bad as it interrupts fish spawing and destroys whole ecosystems on land an in the ocean. It is where the majority of power come from around here and is helping to drive wild salmon to extinction.

Were I to start fiddling with the world, one of the activities would be dam removal in general, starting where rivers run into oceans and moving upstream until none were left. Beavers would be exempt.

 

[Changleen]

Jon should build his own hydro plant

Hydro power is also really bad as it interrupts fish spawing and destroys whole ecosystems on land an in the ocean. It is where the majority of power come from around here and is helping to drive wild salmon to extinction.

Yup, downsides to everything I’m afraid.

(Sidenote: Micro-hydro is interesting for offgrid types and can have very low impact, basically you take a small channel off a running watercourse and use it and gravity to spin things fast, the geometry/hydrodynamics of the spinning is interesting too).

Best low impact atm is fields of solar and offshore wind, with some sort of storage for off peak power capture.

 

[Westy]

A lot easier said than done. Perhaps on the east coast where there are a lot of old unused mill dams. But on the West coast dams not only produce electricity but enable irrigation responsible for more than half of food production. Pretty sure the majority of drinking water comes from dammed resevoirs. I'm OK with cutting the population in half, but not by starvation/thirst. I suggest the method be based on three simple questions...

 

[johnbryanpeters]

A lot easier said than done. Perhaps on the east coast where there are a lot of old unused mill dams. But on the West coast dams not only produce electricity but enable irrigation responsible for more than half of food production. Pretty sure the majority of drinking water comes from dammed resevoirs. I'm OK with cutting the population in half, but not by starvation/thirst. I suggest the method be based on three simple questions...

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I'm OK with the starvation and thirst. We imposed that and worse on the native populations when we stole their lands and murdered their people.

 

[Westy]

I'm OK with the starvation and thirst. We imposed that and worse on the native populations when we stole their lands and murdered their people.

The questions would be more fun and humane.