
Good news: hybrid wind farm, incorporating large-scale power storage capability with our almost ever-present wind, to be built in neighboring Stillwater County…
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Of course, rooftop solar with a battery array is a viable option for a decentralized power source. What could be more decentralized and reliable for your own power source than solar? A close second choice is community solar. Even without local power production, with increasingly cheap and robust storage options and the increasing flexibility of the grid wind and solar are great options. Somewhere the sun is shining and/or the wind is blowing! From Montana Free Press:
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In a comical LTE to the Carbon County News, a member of the right-wing extremist group Carbon County Republican Women mentions “soft spoken, conciliatory” and “respect each others ideas,” as though the MAGA cult is familiar with those concepts…
She also, quixotically, airs divisiveness within the group in public, not knowing that most of us don't care and/or believe...
The U.S. has more guns per capita than any other country (our nearest “competitor” has half as many per capita). So, please, tell us again how guns are not a problem?
Thanks to Nick Anderson. real Christians would not tolerate a gun violence epidemic and mass shootings, spineless politicians, NRA is...
From our Lifestyle section: plastic is killing the planet, and there are many reasons why you should especially avoid single-use plastics unless absolutely necessary (particularly since great options are available)…
plastic doesn't recycle, chemicals, fracking, hormone disrupters
Nice to have an administration (federal, obviously) that puts science ahead of politics…
From the Union of Concerned Scientists: https://www.ucsusa.org/about/news/new-federal-scientific-integrity-framework-can-protect-public-health-restore-trust? Biden, man-caused climate change, freedom of speech, reality-based
From our Carbon County News section: an article in the most recent CCN reminds us that one of the anti-democracy “election integrity” activists who sued Carbon County is actually from Flathead County, and more…
The current issue also includes an informative article on the local Amish community. Lisa Bennett, Roy McKenzie, interfering with elections,...
Good news: coal continues its decline in U.S. electricity generation, and renewables will provide 1/4 of our electricity next year…
Of course, if you have your own solar panels you will be producing most or all of your own electricity...