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What Ben Franklin says here makes sense. In particular:
We don’t want to live among hateful morons, not only because they’re repulsive, but because such people, when given the right to vote, tend to elect demagogues, aka criminal sociopaths. If you look around America in the year 2025, you’ll see what I mean.
Ignorance is more explicitly expensive when it comes to the costs imposed on a society of under- and unemployable people, associated with the prosecution and warehousing of criminals.
Well, first let’s answer a vitally important question: What is it? What exactly do these people do?
To find the answer requires some work; it’s not revealed anywhere close to the top of their website.
It it turns out, it’s solar PV on the roof and a battery in the garage. Yes, like Tesla’s Powerwall and dozens upon dozens of competitors.
If you’re convinced that there is something–anything–unique about this approach, jump on in. I won’t be following you.
Btw, I don’t think it was an accident that it took me a good 5 – 10 to find what these people actually do, and I resent efforts to deceive me.
The answer to the question above seems to reside in the things that do and do not impress us.
We’re not impressed with intelligence, intellectual accomplishment, science, truth or the maintenance of good relationships with our allies.
We are impressed with riches (regardless of how immorally the wealth was acquired), the strength of bullies and cruelty to people who are too weak to defend themselves, the wanton destruction of international relationship, lavish promises that are impossible to keep and easily debunked, and bald-faced lies.
If you’re look for examples of the pure stupidity of Americans to discuss with your friends, you may have hit pay-dirt here.
Think for a moment about truck drivers in Europe, who travel across 44 countries and 24 languages. Are Europeans unsafe because their drivers can’t speak all these languages?
They don’t seem to think so, and they don’t need a sociopathic conman in the United States to protect them from the way they’ve been conducting commerce forever.
Well, let’s be fair and honest here.
Yes, Trump and his vice president ranted about the Haitians’ eating Ohioans’ dogs and cats, but the reason they did wasn’t because they were insane; it was a) their understanding that truth is irrelevant today, and b) that their supporters are stupid enough to believe anything that comes out of their mouths.
It’s disgusting, but it’s not entirely Trump’s fault.
Well, it’s real. It’s call piezoelectricity.
It’s the phenomenon where certain materials generate an electric charge when subjected to mechanical stress. Now, of course, the stress caused by falling raindrops is extremely small, so we’re talking about amounts of electrical energy that are of very little practical consequence when significant amounts of power are required.
But consider the microphone, whose duty is to turn sound vibrations into a few milliwatts. That’s where this excels, and it’s been in use for many decades.
So, is the claim here a lie? No. Is it misleading? Of course.
My son noticed that our neighborhood has fewer Trump signs than it did a few months ago.
I explained that it’s because the election is over, but that his supporters are just as hateful and ignorant as they were when they had Trump banners all over their front yards. I went on to observe that none of this stupidity would have happened when I was a little boy.
I’m trying to remember when, in elementary school, we learned about the three co-equal branches of the U.S. government, and I’m going to say it was somewhere around 5th grade.
The meme here is total BS. How do I know?
CO2 is one of the products (stuff on the right side of the arrow) in CH4 + O2 -> CO2 + H2O + energy, the combustion of methane, which is what happens on your gas stovetop. You get energy out of this process, in order to, say, boil water to make tea, which means you’re going to have to add energy if you want to have any chance of reversing it.
Coincidentally, a lady asked me just yesterday if, in our lifetimes, we’ll be able to use water as a fuel for cars. I said no, not in ours nor in anyone else’s lifetime, because water is a chemical that is the product of hydrogen coming into contact with oxygen.
This is what happens in a hydrogen fuel cell: you use energy to separate the hydrogen from the oxygen in water in a process called electrolysis. Then, the hydrogen atoms want to join the oxygen atoms to make water, so the hydrogen atoms spit out their electrons, which go through an electrical circuit, doing work of some kind, e.g. powering a car. The product is water, which drips out of the back of the car.
Think of fireplace logs and the ashes they leave. You burn logs, which contain chemical energy to, say, warm your home. You can’t burn ashes, since the energy has already been removed from them.
It’s so hard to be a self-respecting American with garbage like this happening on a day-to-day basis.
