I live near Hamilton Park in Jersey City. Once in a while, there is a smell outside of window like burning woods or leaves, and it always happens in the midnight. Same thing happened today around 1AM -3AM. So strange…. Does anyone live around also notice this? I wonder where the smell came from?

One person was wounded early this evening in a shooting near Triangle Park in Greenville.

https://jcitytimes.com/one-injured-in- ... r-triangle-park-shooting/

A Jersey City man has pleaded guilty to a gun charge and is now facing a potential sentence of ten years imprisonment.

https://jcitytimes.com/jersey-city-man ... ble-10-years-in-gun-case/

A toxicology report indicates that State Sen. Sandra B. Cunningham did not have alcohol in her system after her arrest on suspicion of driving while intoxicated earlier this year.

https://jcitytimes.com/no-alcohol-but- ... ham-following-dwi-arrest/

Jersey City Board of Education President Mussab Ali, Trustees Joan Terrell-Paige and Marilyn Roman, as well as retiring Schools Superintendent Franklin Walker were quite literally given their flowers at Thursday’s Board of Education meeting.

https://jcitytimes.com/tributes-for-ou ... mbers-and-superintendent/

Gunshots have rung out from Greenville to Downtown today.

https://jcitytimes.com/bullets-riddle- ... -shots-ring-out-downtown/

The 2021 holiday season just might be the best time to shop locally. Here are a few ideas for the procrastinators among us.

https://jcitytimes.com/need-a-last-min ... ft-try-these-local-shops/

In the 1960s, activists complained that the forests are being destroyed in making paper bags and we should use plastic bags. I remember those discussions. Now, the same thing is happening now, except, those batteries from electric vehicles will pile up like plastic water bottles today. Those batteries are supposed to last 100,000 miles but most likely, it is probably less than that. Those batteries are not recyclable, and graveyards of dead batteries will line urban areas.

Our cleaning woman is wonderful. We have been using her for several years and couldn’t be happier. Lovely person and great work. She is looking to pick up a few more houses downtown. If you have any interest, please let me know and I’m happy to provide contact info. For reference, she charges $110 for 1350 sq ft.

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The issues are that the vehicles were unable to complete their routes due to battery life issues. In one case, the buses were equipped with diesel fired heaters as running the heat off battery drained it.

Stalls, stops and breakdowns: Problems plague push for electric buses



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You misread the data on the link you sent. "Renewables" are about 4% with about 1/4th coming from burning trash. EIA counts the bio portion of waste (paper, linen, food waste, sewage sludge) as part of the renewable pool.

Here is a breakout of the 2020 energy mix (data from EIA):




Here is the power mix over the past decade. You can see that solar hasn't risen much and wind is still basically a rounding error:





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Doing a thought experiment here: How much solar or wind would it take to replace natural gas, coal, and oil, based on 2020 EIA data?

For both solar and wind I am going to assume we have batteries available with infinite storage and a 100% efficiency. So there will be no need for 'buffering' (standby natural gas fired generators). I am also going to ignore the rest of the major issues with wind and solar such as: asynchronous generation (doesn't maintain frequency), lack of grid inertia, lack of reactive power, formation of destructive resonance, et.

Solar

The theoretical limit for silicon based solar PV panels is 32%. The best panels available hit 22%. In the real world, the panels operate at about 15% on average. I will assume 22% efficiency with no degradation over time or at high temperatures. NJ receives on average about 4.3 kWh/m2/day (0.935 kWh/ft2/day) in solar energy.

Using the above, you would need about 358 square miles of solar panels to replace fossil fuels.

Off-Shore Wind

The off-shore wind density per NYSERDA is 0.1 MW/acre. The capacity factor is 44% (per EIA). Turbines can't be packed densly or layered because the leading turbines will rob power from the aft turbines. So you are going to create a long line of these things.

How many? Well, the biggest ones deployed are rated at 6 MW. This means you will need over 600 turbines covering an area in excess of 128 square miles.

For illustration, here are the required areas put on a map. The big red circle is solar. The green off-shore is wind. The small red circle is the area required for a Generation 3+ nuclear plant (about 2,500 acres). The nuke has the additional advantage is that it avoids all the other issues with renewables listed earlier (i.e. grid inertia) and has no need for buffering or batteries.





Planning on running the world on wind and solar is magical thinking. It isn't going to happen. Trying to do so will only lead us to a life of energy poverty. See Europe as an unfolding example. Due to a persistent high pressure system (no wind) natural gas supplies were depleted to keep the lights on. Now there isn't enough gas in storage for winter and the forecast is for a colder than average winter.

The German government is posting PSAs on how to stay warm with clay pots and candles because they are facing rolling blackout (not enough gas to keep the light on). This is our future as well if we keep up with this "electrification" fantasy.

https://rmx.news/germany/heating-crisi ... blankets-and-tea-candles/

The Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit has arrested a woman on charges that she falsely reported a sexual assault.

https://jcitytimes.com/woman-arrested- ... reporting-sexual-assault/

Here's the professor who formulated the concept in a very revealing interview:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLDpZ8daIVM

Worth your time.

A fascinating discussion of what motivates people's behavior and actions in times such as these:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLDpZ8daIVM

Definitley worth the time to view it.

People forgot that former Mayor Schundler told the county to cut their taxes, so then the County Executive Bobby J. got rid of the Hudson County police. The County Executive said those county cops made traffic arrests and the funds went to the local municipalites not the county budget. Since Schundler is saying to cut taxes, he decided to cut the county cops which did an amazing job of stopping cars on the JFK and Tonnelle Avenue. That had an affect on slowing down the traffic on municipal streets, too. Once they were disbanned, car accidents went up.

https://zero-sum.org/mass-formation-ps ... irus-narrative/#CloseToMe



ass phenomenon to solve the problems.

(00:09:57): Mass formation is actually a symptomatic solution for a real psychological problem. In my opinion, this crisis in the first place is a large societal and psychological crisis much more than a biological crisis, let’s say. From this state of mental intoxication you can explain all the rest of the phenomenon of totalitarianism. The mental intoxication leads to a narrowing of the field of attention. It makes people only see what is indicated by the narrative.

(00:10:41): For instance, people see the victims of the Corona virus, but they don’t seem to see at the cognitive level, the collateral damage of the lockdowns and all the victims that are claimed by the lockdowns. They are also not able, at an emotional level, to really feel empathy for the victims of the lockdowns. That is not because they are very egoistic. No, it’s just an effect of this psychological phenomenon. And it’s definitely—even as a consequence of mass formation, people do not get egoistic at all. But rather, to the contrary, mass formation focuses your attention so much on one point that you can take everything away of people—their psychological and physical wellbeing, their material wellbeing—you can take it away and they will not even notice it.

(00:11:41): That’s one of the major consequences of mass formation. It’s exactly the same as hypnosis, as classical hypnosis. When a hypnotist—during hypnosis someone’s attention is focused on one point, you can cut in his flesh, the person will not notice it. That is what happens all the time. When a hypnosis is used as a kind of an anesthesia during a surgical operation, a rather simple hypnotic procedure is sufficient to make people completely insensitive to pain. You can, without any problem, cut in their flesh. Even under some circumstances you can perform an open heart operation in which the surgeon cuts straight through the breastbone and the patient will not notice this. That shows us that the focusing of attention is so strong, both in mass formation or in hypnosis, that people are really insensitive to all the personal losses they experience as a consequence.

(00:12:51): Another consequence, that is very typical for totalitarian states, is that people become radically intolerant for dissonant voices. Because if someone tells another story, if someone claims that the official story is wrong, then this person threatens to wake the people up and they will get angry because they’re confronted with the initial anxiety and the initial psychological discontent. So they direct all that aggression at these dissonant voices, at the other voices. And at the same time, they are radically tolerant for their leaders, for the people who pronounce the mainstream narrative. These people can actually cheat and lie and manipulate and do everything they want, but they will always be forgiven by the crowd because the crowd seems to think that they do it for their own sake. That’s also part of the mechanism of mass formation.

Even if we would succeed in waking up the masses now, they would fall prey to a different story in a few years. And they would be hypnotized again, IF, IF we do not succeed in solving the real problem of this crisis. Namely the question: Why did we as a society get in this state in which a large part of the population feels anxious, depressed, experiences a lack of sense, feels socially isolated? That is the real problem. And if we do not succeed in finding out where this problem comes from then the masses will always be susceptible to leaders who try to lure them into a mass formation. So I think the real question in this crisis is: What is there in our view of man and of the world in the way in which we look at life that makes us experience lack of sense-making? In my opinion we must conclude that it is something in our materialistic mechanistic view of man in the world that leads up to a radical destruction of the real social structures and social bonds and of the feeling that life makes sense.

Throngs of Jersey City residents filled the reception room at the Hank Gallo Recreation Center in Lincoln Park Dec. 14 to press city and county government for reforms to prevent the seemingly endless incidents of traffic-related violence.

https://jcitytimes.com/residents-call- ... ey-city-traffic-violence/

In the first piece of a two part series, critic Tris McCall looks back at Jersey arts, the PAD, 14C, the Arts Trust Fund and the Pompidou.

https://jcitytimes.com/jersey-city-arts-2021-what-happened/

The Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office has released the name of the victim in yesterday’s Bergen-Lafayette shooting.

https://jcitytimes.com/young-man-shot- ... tte-yesterday-identified/

The Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office announced the arrest today of a man in the October strangulation death of his girlfriend.

https://jcitytimes.com/man-charged-in- ... tion-death-of-girlfriend/

A man was shot and killed this morning in Bergen-Lafayette.

https://jcitytimes.com/developing-stor ... dead-in-bergen-lafayette/

Gunfire rang out in several Jersey City neighborhoods over the last 48 hours.

https://jcitytimes.com/gunfire-reporte ... city-over-two-day-period/

Councilman Lavarro like the rest of the JC council and silent on the homes that go into tax lien paying for affordable housing. Rent control does not receive a tax increase, it is under Consumer Price Index which has nothing to do with increase mandated cost he votes for in the budget. Affordable housing pays nothing to the board of ed and only 5% to the county. So the cost of affordable housing is transferred on to the small homeowner. This year, 4,200 people are in tax lien. They pay the taxes for people who demand services but are exempt if they live in affordable housing and rent control buildings. As long as JC accepts immigrants into the city, residents must compete for whatever housing is available. JC has between 40,000 to 50,000 more residents from the last census. The census was incomplete due to covid. When Fulop became mayor the budget was $485 million, it is now over $600 million, all of those costs have been transferred to the small homeowner.

I’m writing to get your input on an important vote coming before the City Council tonight.

https://jcitytimes.com/letter-your-voi ... tonights-council-meeting/

A man injured in last week’s apartment fire at the Berry Gardens Apartments has succumbed to his injuries.

https://jcitytimes.com/man-succumbs-to ... reenville-apartment-fire/

The mother of a Dickinson High School student, told the Jersey City Board of Education that her daughter is one of the many who has been afraid to attend school due to a threat of mass violence.

https://jcitytimes.com/parents-and-adm ... with-threats-of-violence/

Let's remove Jersey City Times from being able to post here.

How's that for an idea?

Let's remove Jersey City Times from being able to post here.

How's that for an idea?

Specifically, this happened on MLK Drive. We don't want to cause false alarm in the nice section of Bergen Layfayette.

Mayor Fulop has announced that a controversial solid waste fee that was tied to a property’s water usage, also known as the “water tax,” will be replaced with a flat monthly fee.

https://jcitytimes.com/fulop-rolls-out ... fee-to-replace-water-tax/

Absolutely not, it was not non-citizens whose ancestors fought for this country. Any rights should be given to citizens. There is a process for non-citizens to become citizens. So, why live here if you don't care to be a citizen?