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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Wind Energy

Here are people who want $200 from you.  They say:

For years, people accepted that small wind turbines did not work.

Too loud. Too fragile. Too unreliable.
The problem was never the wind.
It was the Design.
We stopped trying to fight nature and started working with it.
That is why our turbine survives storms and fits everyday homes.
Invest from $200 and help bring energy independence to more homes. 

Three-bladed wind turbines capture ~90% of the theoretically available kinetic energy in wind, and there are numerous reasons based in physics and economics as to why small wind failed about 15 years ago.

Scam.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

To the point being made at left, I’m a progressive, but I honestly couldn’t care less if white people of the American south want to wallow in incest, disease, poverty, and ignorance.

On the other hand, I am concerned about the plight of hungry children, homeless veterans, the collapse of the environment, the destruction of the educational system, and the criminal psychosis of the U.S. president.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

I had a friend who co-coached my son’s all-star soccer team with me 20+ years ago who told me, when I told him that I was an environmentalist, “Oh no, Craig, we must hasten to destroy the Earth, so as to welcome the return of Jesus Christ,” by which, of course, he meant the rapture, the apocalypse as discussed at length in Revelation.

I have heard some twisted s*** in my time, but this stands at or near the top.

 

by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Science

Plenty of people say that religion and science are mutually compatible.

Some believe that life couldn’t have come from non-life.

Of course, there are other, perhaps less thoughtful believers, who say that God and His son Jesus Christ are the only path to heaven, because the Bible tells us so.

Most scientists, like neuroscientist and public intellectual Sam Harris says that religion is to the human mind what a virus is to a computer.

 

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Here’s a short video that addresses the assault that the U.S. federal government is conducting on the health of people in red states and counties.

Of course, this is another fine example of what Lyndon Johnson said: “If you can convince the lowest white man that he’s better than the finest black man, he’ll open up his wallet to you.”

In this case, uneducated white people don’t care about their own ignorance or poverty or disease, as long as their president is vigorously punishing non-whites.

 

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

At left is a question typical of a Republican moron.  Might someone say, “No, taxes don’t need to be spent on things that serve our interests?”

The question, of course, is what actually does serve our interests.

Believe it or not, there are people in countries on this planet who think that tax money serves their interest if it goes to creating a healthier, happier, better educated, more humane society.

These are the same countries that tax rich people heavily, where attaining a net worth of hundreds of billions of dollars is extremely difficult–probably impossible. But those nations don’t have homeless veterans living in the street and presidents who are rapists and convicted felons.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

Unfortunately, there are tens of millions of morons who believe hateful garbage like this.

The average 10-year-old can understand that we can BOTH protect our citizens while obeying the U.S. Constitution and international law when it comes to treating the undocumented legally and humanely.

Again, this is what is called the logical fallacy of the “false dichotomy.”  Only idiots believe we have to choose one over the other.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Climate Change

I would say that the regulations on energy (and transportation) companies should be sufficient to put pressure on them to phase out fossil fuels and decarbonize in favor of renewables and nuclear.

 

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Business

As I’m sure the idiot/liar who wrote this meme knows, California’s economy is by far the largest in the country, and, if it were a country unto itself, it would be the 4th largest in the world.

We have quality education, and we make money growing out of our ears.

There’s something to be said for great schools and colleges that crank out affluent, innovative people who kick ass in IT, agriculture, entertainment, and all the rest.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

In 2001, I remembered being deeply disappointed that G.W. Bush had become our 43rd U.S president, on the basis that he was clearly unintelligent, and that the Republicans were already climate deniers.

That said, Bush was not criminally insane, and about half of all American voters would not support a psychotic in the White House.

Now, the vast majority of U.S. voters would be thrilled to trade out Donald Trump for the good old days of being led by a sane imbecile.

 

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