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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Business

When we look at the corporate world around us, we see precious little effort being made to make this planet a safer, healthier, and happier place to live.

From investopedia: Those looking to launch a new McDonald’s franchise can expect to shell out between $1,314,500 and $2,306,500. Existing franchise operations can cost upwards of $1 million.

This may be not be a bad investment decision, especially considering that robotics will soon replace all those nasty employees.  But decent people don’t want to spend their careers making our children fat and sick.

 

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

There are times that I think we’ll go into the 2024 primary season with the Republicans taking a less extreme and retrogressive platform.

Then I see something like the meme here, and come immediately to my senses.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Hydrokinetics

When I entered the renewable energy beat 15 years ago, devices like the one shown here, that extract some of the kinetic energy out of ocean waves, were considered potentially feasible.

Over the years, however, we’ve both a) seen the price of energy from solar and wind plummet, and b) learned what we should have known all along, that salt water and lots of moving metal parts are not friends.

In addition, it’s become clear that, without nuclear energy to complement renewables in replacing fossil fuels, we will bake our planet.

Of course, none of this will cause purveyors of grossly unworkable energy concepts to cease their efforts to bilk investors.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Business

Here’s something that’s mildly amusing.

There are people who believe that Tucker Carlson has the insight into the economy required to inform their investment decision.  This would have been ridiculous even before he was exposed at as professional liar; now it’s completely absurd.

The current inflation rate is 6.5% in the U.S., far under the OECD average, at 9.6%.  “Inflation is proof that the people in charge are reckless?”

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

I would have my car towed to a different state as required to avoid having it repaired by people like this.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

I’m not entirely sure what to make of this.

Is Alan Dershowitz saying that AT&T, a private company, doesn’t have the right to choose what programming to offer its customers?  That seems an odd position for anyone to take, let alone an attorney.

Of course, what’s really at stake here is legitimacy (or lack thereof) of Newsmax as a trustworthy source of information.  I’m not privy to the discussions that take place in the AT&T board room, but it’s pretty clear that its participants decided that they didn’t want to be a party to sedition and treason.

A voice of reason must have said, “Look, Donald Trump obviously committed numerous felonies, including an attempt to overthrow the U.S. federal government. We can either continue to disseminate what we know goddamn well to be lies, or we can cut ties here, and put this behind us right f***ing now.”  (Pounds table.)

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

I read somewhere that the train derailment that covered a town in southeast Ohio with toxic smoke could be good for Republicans, but I’m struggling to understand how that could possibly be.

I get that people in the rural parts of the country are not known for their analytical skills, but I would think that anyone who wants to avoid a similar catastrophe in the future would realize that a) preventative measures are not coming about from unregulated activity on the part of for-profit corporations, and that means b) some level of government involvement is required to force corporate entities to adopt certain restrictions that ensure the public safety.

How these concepts jibe with the GOP is beyond me.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Science

One of the many things we admire about Albert Einstein is his deep humanitarianism.

When we think of other quotable people, perhaps Voltaire or Emerson, what we remember them for is their quotes, not their profound contribution in some other discipline, in this case theoretical physics.

Yes, we have the duty to act, to save the U.S. government from fascism, to prevent environmental collapse, and so much more.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Electric Vehicles

The world is changing in so many different ways, and several of these are in our response to COVID.  Commute into an office?  Why, when you can work from home and remain socially distanced?

Even post-COVID, we’re faced with a dilemma re: commuting. Should we get back on the freeways again and fight ourselves through horrific traffic conditions?

Here’s an alternative: fly your own drone to and from the office.  No pilot license required.  What could go wrong?

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics
“Fox News is far more powerful, far more devious, far more pernicious and has created far more damage than Alex Jones ever will.” – Jon Stewart
The point here is that most Fox News viewers don’t believe, as conspiracy theorist Alex Jones assets, that the mass shootings of our schoolchildren never happened, that the so-called “bereaved” parents of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School were paid actors.  But this same audience is eager to accept that the 2020 presidential election was rigged, and that the democratic processes of the United States are no longer valid.
Spot on.
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