I understand why some people might see it this way, but I don’t. Here’s a bit of my reasoning. The point of a bachelor’s degree is to fashion oneself into a reasonably well educated person. That can’t be done in …
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How Much Understanding of Physics Is Required?
I would think that if I showed this to any high school kid, regardless of his prowess in science, he would understand that this simply isn’t going to work. The energy that goes into charging the battery has to come …
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If History Is Our Guide ….
From The Hill: If history is our guide, Trump’s chances of returning to the White House are extremely low. Sorry, but I didn’t get past the headline here, because history is most certainly not our guide in any situation in …
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Climate Change Affects Those We Love Most
My wife is not handling the heat well up here at 2GreenEnergy headquarters in Santa Barbara County where the temperature topped out at 109 F this afternoon. I tried to amuse her with an excerpt of a discussion on the …
Wave Energy
We will be hearing about niche applications of renewable energy until hell freezes over, and I have no problem with that. Having said that, I do object to developers of these technologies who claim that energy that is extracted from …
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Prosecute Trump
Here’s another guy advocating for the approach that all decent Americans favor: treat Trump the same way you or I would be treated if the FBI found classified documents in our homes, i.e., we’d be immediately arrested and charged with …
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Trump’s Hypocrisy and Arrogance
From CNN: Donald Trump has repeatedly called for lengthy jail sentences for those who he claimed mishandled classified information. We recall the debates with Hillary Clinton where this was a very big deal indeed. At issue here is the fact …
Universal Healthcare
Here’s a reminder that the United States is the only country in the developed world whose citizens routinely die of treatable disease.
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More Fake News Designed to Retard the EV Adoption Curve
As anyone could have foreseen, the State of California’s ban on sales of new gas- and diesel-powered cars starting in 2035 has revved up the Big Oil machine that manufactures and disseminates malicious lies on electric transportation. The truth, which …
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Sometimes One Knows Which Side to Be On, Simply by Seeing Who’s on the Other Side
Going into the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton made a huge political mistake by referring to Trump supporters as “deplorables.” Thinking something and saying it on camera are two different things. Yet, as the late Leonard Cohen points out here, …
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