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Ocelot II

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1. This brings to mind a TV series from a few years back, "Occupied,"
Wed Sep 3, 2025, 11:11 AM
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in which Norway had been devastated by a weather event caused by climate change, and had decided to switch from fossil fuels to a newly-developed nuclear technology based on thorium. So, not wanting to make climate change any worse, they decided to shut down their offshore oil operations, meaning they wouldn't being supplying any more oil and gas to the EU, which of course went nuts; then the Russians got involved and took over the government in a "soft" coup and restarted the oil rigs. The US had previously left NATO and refused to get involved, and the ousted PM went rogue and took on the Russians. Great series, was on Netflix, think it's on Amazon Prime. It brings up some of the messy international implications of energy productions.

I wonder if wind energy will become more or less feasible, considering that more extreme weather conditions seem to be creating more and higher winds.

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