Wow! I wonder how much time they have allotted to get all the guns. I always thought it would be a food for guns program to get all the guns. That goes to show how many guns some people must have because most guns are worth 8-10 times that amount of value :unsure: Most of those guns are old and don't work. Criminals are not turning their guns in for gas because many don't even have a car. No red blooded Americans is turning in his gun for a few gallons of gas. "Build Blackouts Better": Half Of America Faces Power Blackouts This Summer, Regulator Warns: Tens of millions of Americans could be thrown into a summer of hell as a megadrought, heatwaves, and reduced power generation could trigger widespread rolling electricity blackouts from the Great Lakes to the West Coast, according to Bloomberg, citing a new report from the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), a regulatory body that manages grid stability. NERC warned power supplies in the Western US could be strained this summer as a historic drought reduces hydroelectric power generation due to falling reservoir levels and what's expected to be an unseasonably hot summer. Compound the hellacious weather backdrop with grids decommissioning fossil fuel power plants to fight climate change and their inability to bring on new green power generation, such as solar, wind, and batteries, in time, is a perfect storm waiting to happen that will produce electricity deficits that may force power companies into rolling blackouts for stability purposes. The regulatory body pointed out that supply-chain woes are delaying major Southwest solar projects, while some coal plants have trouble procuring supplies because of increased exports. They said there's also an increasing threat of cyberattacks from Russia. By region, the Midwest power grid will be extremely tight. Across the Western US, power generation capacity has declined 2.3% since last summer, even as demand is expected to increase. Grids in the region may have to source power from neighboring grids as extreme heat will cause people to crank up their air conditioners. . . . America is slipping into the abyss as households get a taste of what it's like to live in Venezuela. https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/us-west-risk-power-blackouts-summer-regulator-warns Swarm mission discovers interannual waves in Earth’s core: Using information from ESA’s Swarm satellite mission, scientists have discovered a completely new type of magnetic wave that sweeps across the outermost part of Earth’s outer core every seven years [every 7 years!] and propagates westward at up to 1500 km (932 miles) a year. The discovery offers a way to probe the cylindrical radial component of the magnetic field inside Earth’s core. “Measurements of the magnetic field from instruments based on the surface of Earth suggested that there was some kind of wave action, but we needed the global coverage offered by measurements from space to reveal what is actually going on. Owing to Earth’s rotation, these waves align in columns along the axis of rotation. The motion and magnetic field changes associated with these waves are strongest near the equatorial region of the core. “Magnetic waves are likely to be triggered by disturbances deep within the Earth’s fluid core, possibly related to buoyancy plumes. Each wave is specified by its period and typical length-scale, and the period depends on characteristics of the forces at play. For magneto-Coriolis waves, the period is indicative of the intensity of the magnetic field within the core,” Gillet added. https://watchers.news/2022/05/23/swarm-mission-discovers-interannual-waves-in-earths-core/ 
