Surprising Stuff
The movie just out called “Digger,” featuring Tom Cruise and being badly panned by the normal media outlets.
This feature film is anything but a bad movie, but it is not going to make it in theaters because it primarily deals with global warming and its potentially deadly effects. This is a subject most Americans deny, even when experiencing the effects, or simply don’t want to know about them. But, and it’s a big but, this movie is going to blow everyone away when it begins streaming soon. It will become vitally popular down south, in the west, and even the mid-country regions of Iowa and even higher up towards the north.
You see, El Niño is coming. The early effects have been witnessed out in the Hawaiian Islands and along the coast of Mexico. Multiple, unheard-of hurricanes, one after another or all at once. The undersea ‘escalator of the lower Atlantic Ocean is warming. This warming effect is El Niño, as it is called. The temperature is 3.05 degrees Celsius, higher than it has ever been measured in 130 years…and that’s just the start. The temperature is predicted to rise 6.24 degrees before the ‘winter’ is over. North America, a good part of it, is in for quite a ride, and the effects cannot properly or accurately be predicted because this has never happened before. See the movie and begin to get interested in that global effect nobody wants to really be serious about…yet.
State utility regulators have signed off on an energy developer’s proposal to build a pair of new natural gas power plants in southern Wisconsin tied to rapidly growing electricity demand from data centers.
The Foundry Ridge Energy Center is a proposed 324-megawatt natural gas peaking power plant developed by Invenergy in the Town of Darien. Major components of the project will include three 108-MW gas turbines and air-cooled generators, and a 138 kV generator transmission tie lie. The point of interconnection would be the North Creek Substation, located directly adjacent to the Darien Solar Substation. Project facilities would also include on-site wells, electrical interconnection, stormwater and wastewater management systems, and other support functions. We Energies-Gas Operations (WE-GO) would be responsible for constructing, operating, and owning a natural gas pipeline lateral to connect to the project.
The applicant provided two possible locations for the proposed project – the Proposed Site and the Alternative Site. The Proposed Site would be located at the Darien Solar site on the corner of North Road and Creek Road. The permanent footprint for this site would be 16 acres and would impact another two acres for the gen-tie right-of-way (ROW). An additional 16 acres would be temporarily impacted during construction. The Alternative Site would be located about two miles east of the Proposed Site, on Creek Road. The permanent footprint for this site would be 15 acres and would impact another 22 acres for the gen-tie right-of-way (ROW). An additional nine acres would be temporarily impacted during construction. The project faced opposition from environmental groups, who expressed concern about the potential climate and health impacts of building more fossil fuel generation in Wisconsin.
It also faced pushback from some locals. Although the project’s supporters argue the gas plants will help ensure reliability and meet growing demand from data centers, opponents pointed to potential health harms tied to natural gas. State regulators approved the project in October 2026, with an expected completion and service target by March 2028.
