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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

I don’t know the cause of the fracas in this video, but it’s certain that stuff like this puts a big smile on Trump’s face.

One of the key ingredients in any plan for him to stay in power past 2028 is an incredible volume of domestic unrest.  If all he has are peaceful “No Kings” protests, even in amazing size and number, it’s going to get increasingly difficult for him to make his point that the country is a lawless mess that needs martial law and cannot support an election.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Photovoltaics

A reader asked me about the supposed breakthrough in making PV solar panels transparent, so they can replace windows in office buildings.

I don’t believe this. PV works by absorbing photons and using them to knock loose electrons from a silicon substrate. If the photon passes through the substrate, it does no good. In fact, part of our efforts to improve the efficiency of solar are focused on allowing fewer photons to pass through.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

There may be some MAGA rhetoric on some subject that is somewhat plausible (though I can’t think of any offhand).

As I posted earlier, however, anyone who believes this particular line of crap from the White House is a total fool:

a) our cities (Democratically led cities only) are hotbeds of violent crime

b) federal troops are required to establish peace and order,

c) Once they arrive there, ICE troops are under attack by the violent criminals, and

d) these ICE troops are not permitted to defend themselves against these cruel attacks.

For the true moron.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

We all know this one:

The girls with the megaphones: “Sweet Caroline!”

Crowd: “Bom, bom, bom!”

Girls: “Good time never seemed so good.”

Not bad for a war-ravaged city whose people have taken up arms and are violently attacking federal troops. That is, when they’re not looting stores, selling hard drugs, and beating up old ladies.

One has to be stupid beyond belief to think that our cities are under siege by the radical left.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Wind Energy

Wind energy is based on removing some of the kinetic energy from a certain volume of moving wind and converting it to electricity.  Think of the volume of wind that passes through the area bound by the circular movement of our traditional three-bladed system, moving at a certain speed.  Then ask yourself: How much volume of air, traveling at the same speed, passes close to one of those poles?

It’s a tiny fraction, which is why the closest we’ve come to making this a reality is some claim that “Scientists in Timbuktu may have made current wind turbines obsolete.”

If there’s anything to this (which there isn’t) how about this: Instead of talking about it for 15 years, just pound a pole into the ground, and measure how much energy these wobbles/vibrations is generated.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Yes, that is funny.  They were chosen specifically because they were incompetent; their only qualification is their willingness to do whatever Trump asks of them.

Phew.  At least they’re not competent, honest people who are black, female, or gay; what a trainwreck that would have been.

 

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Regardless of whether we’re crybabies or so many Che Gueveras, they don’t like us too much, and they don’t see any need to be consistent in how they think of us.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

As many of us are aware, the federal government, especially the president and Attorney General Pam Bondi, are on a high-force campaign to move federal troops into states run by Democrats, despite the express refusal of state leaders to accept these troops.

Here’s a video, in which WA governor Bob Ferguson responds to AG Bondi, who has threatened to incarcerate him if he will not yield to her demands.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

The point made here is a good one. And it’s more or less true, depending on where you’re born.

Americans are lucky in that we, while we are given a name and taught English, have a great number of options (as suggested by the T-shirt at right), and most of these choices are unavailable to children born into less free circumstances. 

Here’s a song (below) on religion, specifically what happens to us when we die.  It’s written by an American. Theoretically, it could have come from an Israeli or a Palestinian, though the odds are against it.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Outside of the fact that it’s corrupt, no one except Trump knows the precise nature of America’s relationship with Qatar. And as the Qataris become the first and only sovereign nation with a military base on U.S. soil, we have to wonder why.

And Idaho? I suppose if you wanted it any more poorly located for a Mideastern country, you could put it on Guam or American Samoa, but let’s think about Idaho for a minute. What will the locals think? Outside of the Deep South, is there anywhere else in the U.S. where there are more ignorant, hateful xenophobes who detest Muslims more than Idaho?

Of all the weird crap going on in the White House, this may not be the most strategic, but it certainly is interesting.

 

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