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Sept 4, 1948: the first annual Atomic Frontier Days kicked off in Richland, Washington. The last one was in "about 1960" according to the Tri-City Herald. And of course, there were beauty pageants... Shots from subsequent Atomic Frontier Days in Richland, Washington...

Parade, ’40s music and food. Go back in time at Richland’s Atomic Frontier Day

Events include a parade, with entries ranging from vintage military vehicles to Kadlec nurses and Girl Scouts wearing vintage uniforms. Then participants can head to Howard Amon Park to walk through the steps of getting a “security badge,” see historical exhibits, watch ‘40s-themed entertainment, eat a traditional Hanford mess hall dinner and then dance to a swing band.

Coleen Varvel, 95, of Richland was there for the first Richland Atomic Frontier Days in 1948, collecting the programs until the last one in about 1960, and may be back on Saturday, she said. “It was a big deal, because nothing else was a big deal,” she said laughing, about the event in the early days of Richland when it was a government-owned town. “It was fun. Everybody was involved.”

John Wayne came to Richland The 1948 event lasted three days and included visits from Hollywood stars John Wayne, Cisco Kid, Chil Wills, Roddy MacDowell, Monte Hale, Ella Raines and Ray Whitley, according to souvenir programs. People said that Wayne “drank the city of Richland out of alcohol,” said Jillian Gardner-Andrews, the Washington State University Tri-Cities Hanford History Project coordinator.

Sharon Tate, Miss Richland during the 1959 Atomic Frontier Days. She also had been named Miss Autorama of 1958-59. Tate had to abdicate two weeks later when her father, Maj. Paul J. Tate was assigned to Italy.



The first annual Atomic Frontier Days was merely incidental in this 1948 local news story...




The local civil defense TV special TARGET: AUSTIN, TEXAS aired Sept 4, 1960 on KTBC - Channel 7 in Austin, TX. Project shock doctrine...



Watch the 20 min film here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey__Z2PY6xM




Way to go Elon!

The Harris Ranch Tesla Supercharger has a couple of things going for it that have made it a part of Tesla enthusiasts’ lore: It’s one of the electric car giant’s first Supercharger stations, and with 98 charging bays, it’s also the biggest in the world.

The Central California charging station is such a big deal that Tesla clubs even make it an appointment destination. Yes, they’ll rally-style drive to it just to honor its lineage and size. 

But as with many Tesla-related things, there is a secret, thinly obscured by an Oz-like curtain, at the Harris Ranch Supercharger. Hidden in plain sight across the way from the Harris Ranch Supercharger’s main stations, behind a Shell station, is a small diesel plant that has helped power Tesla’s footprint.

‘A far darker reality’

The news was first broken by investigative journalist Edward Niedermeyer. In May 2015, Niedermeyer drove from his Oregon home to Harris Ranch to see whether “Musk’s latest bit of dream weaving could stand up to reality.”

What Niedermeyer reportedly found was a little different from the company’s clean energy claims.

“I discovered that Tesla’s battery swap station was not in fact being made available to owners who regularly drove between California’s two largest cities,” Niedermeyer wrote in a May 2022 exposé for Slate. “Instead, the company was running diesel generators to power additional Superchargers (the kind that take 30 to 60 minutes to recharge a battery) to handle the holiday rush, their exhaust mingling with the unmistakable smell of bulls—t.”

The fact that a small diesel plant was helping power the additional chargers kicked off a series of events that unraveled the myth of Elon Musk for Niedermeyer: “Once you stop taking Musk at his word,” he wrote, “his heroic popular image evaporates, and a far darker reality begins to reveal itself.”

It seems that tracking Musk’s unsubstantiated claims has become a hobby for some. There’s even a handy website dedicated to things Musk has proclaimed that haven’t come true, along with the number of days that have passed since specific claims have been made.

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The journalist, who wrote a in-depth investigation of Tesla, pointed to Tesla’s latest impact report, in which the company criticized current measurements of greenhouse gas emissions for failing to factor in “the impact of emissions that are avoided through the sale of zero-emission or clean-tech products.”

“But when you get all the way to the actual explanation for their emission reduction claims (page 204) you get only the vaguest explanation, based on a generous baseline comparison of 24 mpg,” Niedermeyer continued, noting that the national average is dragged down by trucks.

Story continues: Tesla’s dirty little secret on California's I-5 or the Archived link.




Elon Musk Today


What a strange account & X ads with Elon taking Raelian money, LOL!


X, the Cult Accelerator!


In 1964, a geothermal company drilled a second test well in Washoe County, Nevada near the first well drilled in 1916. The water they found was not hot enough to use so they plugged up the well, but the seal didn’t hold and water began seaping. Over the years, it led to the creation of Fly Geyser, with the colors coming from thermophilic (heat-loving) algae that thrive off the mineral-rich water.



Fly Geyser, also known as Fly Ranch Geyser is a small geothermal geyser located on private land in Washoe County, Nevada, about 20 miles (32 km) north of Gerlach. Fly Geyser is located near the edge of Fly Reservoir in the Hualapai Geothermal Flats and is approximately 5 feet (1.5 m) high by 12 feet (3.7 m) wide, counting the mound on which it sits.

In June 2016, the non-profit Burning Man Project purchased the 3,800 acres  Fly Ranch, including the geyser, for $6.5 million. The Burning Man Project began offering limited public access to the property in May 2018.