Substack Daily Updates – 3-7-25

Today I published the following on Chemical Facility Security News:

• Transportation Chemical Incidents – Week of Week of 2-1-25 – 462 incidents (410 highway, 48 air, 4 rail) – 8 serious incidents (8 Bulk release, 2 fire/explosion, 23 no release) – https://chemical-facility-security-news.blogspot.com/2025/03/transportation-chemical-incidents-week.html

• Review – Bills Introduced – 3-6-25 – 120 bills – HR 1907, cUAS actions – S 908, vaccination strategy for poultry – Short version of article published here (premium content) – https://chemical-facility-security-news.blogspot.com/2025/03/review-bills-introduced-3-6-25.html

• Review – HR 1709 Introduced – Mobile Cybersecurity Report – Would require a DOC report to Congress on the cybersecurity of mobile service networks – No new funding – Short version of article published here (premium content) – https://chemical-facility-security-news.blogspot.com/2025/03/review-hr-1709-introduced-mobile.html

• Short Takes – 3-7-25 – Starship flight 8 problems – Spending bill problems – Athena lunar lander status – RFK measles misinformation – EF5 tornado draught – Bird Flu pandemic prep – DETRA cuts – GPS on the Moon – https://chemical-facility-security-news.blogspot.com/2025/03/short-takes-3-7-25.html

NOTE: Yesterday’s Substack Daily Update was incorrectly marked as a paid post. That has been corrected and the post is now publicly available.

I posted the following to my social media feeds (X, Mastodon, Substack, and LinkedIn):

I left the following comment on a LinkedIn discussion about downwind wake losses in wind farms:

“Someone does not understand conservation of energy. If a wind turbine is rotated by the energy in the wind, that energy is consumed (partially converted to electric energy with some level of loss to heating the turbine system, thus reducing the amount of energy available downwind of that turbine. Theoretically, with a high enough turbine density, there will be no wind felt 'downwind' of the turbine farm.”