Plants have expanded across an area as big as the Amazon rainforest.
Through it all, Terra and two other satellites—Aqua, launched in 2002, and Aura, in 2004—served as the foremost sentinels of a changing planet, running far past their expected 6-year missions.
Sempra Energy recently announced very strong Q3 results and raised its FY22 guidance as well.
The
company also inked two big HOA off-take agreements with Williams and
Conoco Phillips related to its proposed Gulf Coast LNG projects (FID
expect in Q1 FY23).
That
being the case, it would appear that LNG may become the primary growth
catalyst from Sempra's regulated electric utility operations in
California & Texas.
That
said, given the Biden administration's recent Infrastructure and
Clean-Energy Acts, the outlook for Sempra's utility operations is quite
rosy as well.
Bakken, schools enrollment surge, from Geoff Simon:
Some North Dakota school
districts saw modest enrollment increases this fall, but nothing like
the surge in student numbers in the school districts in McKenzie County.
Alexander
Public School saw its enrollment jump 19 percent this fall, from 257
students last fall to 306 in the 2022-23 school year. The McKenzie
County district in Watford City also saw a big increase, from 1,778 last
fall to 2,003 this year, a 12.6 percent increase. The smallest school
district in the county - Yellowstone No. 14 (East Fairview) - also
jumped from 68 students last year to 92 this fall.
Overall,
enrollment in the state's public school districts increased about 1.3
percent this year to 115,385, up roughly 1,500 students from one year
ago. Enrollment figures in other western ND districts generally reflect
the state's modest growth:
A big surge in enrollment can put a lot of stress on school administrators to cope with the higher numbers.
"The
impact of the student growth has been primarily in staffing as we have
adequate facilities to accommodate the numbers," said McKenzie County
Superintendent Steve Holen. "However, our elementary schools are both in
the 80-to-90 percent capacity range at this point."
Holen
said districts are still addressing learning loss issues related to the
COVID-19 pandemic and use of distance learning, a task made more
difficult by the district's struggle to fill teaching positions.
"We
would take another four or five elementary teachers today as we had to
reassign other staff to teaching positions (interventionists, coaches,
etc.) due to the inability to hire additional classroom teachers," Holen
said. "Class sizes are at higher than optimal levels at the elementary
schools and they are also creating some challenges with the core
subjects at the middle school and high school."
He
said the situation puts a lot of stress on teachers, especially with
students of varying academic levels, and also creates a challenge in the
recruitment of new teaching staff for next year which has already
begun. Despite the challenges, Holen said healthy enrollment numbers are
"a very positive situation."
Click here to see a spreadsheet with North Dakota K-12 enrollment figures from the past 14 years.
US
crude oil inventories are only five percent below the five-year
average; the average -- only five percent lower; should we be worried?
Some would have us believe that we should.
It’s not easy to find out how much the Tesla Semi weighs, but it’s possible to calculate it given the stats included in Tesla’s announcement and some complicated math.
Real Engineering runs through the calculations and comes up with a value of 17,400 pounds for the empty weight of the truck.
This is actually a pretty average weight for trucks in this class.
That means the Tesla Semi is capable of hauling approximately the same amount of cargo as a standard semi truck.
However, this comes at the cost of range: a diesel semi can get upwards of 1,000 miles before refueling, while the Tesla truck only gets half that.
With regard to mileage, new US regulations on this metric now levels the playing field between diesel semis and e-semis.
Fourth link, truck sales (all truck sales, not EVs):
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