Bladeless Wind Turbines?
Wind turbines work by extracting some of the kinetic energy from moving air and transferring it to the blades that move in a circle.
No moving parts means no kinetic energy.
Sorry.
Geothermal in Iceland
Iceland is lucky enough to have incredible geothermal resources. And while it’s not alone in that regard, most parts of the world require drilling through some of the toughest rock on the planet.
That’s the reason that solar and wind have come to dominate the landscape of renewables; their costs have plummeted in recent years, making things like geothermal noncompetitive in most regions.
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Things Have Changed
To the author of the meme here, I respond:
Yes, all this is true. But we must never forget that we voted for this, not once but twice.
Still, a full 30% of us support the lies, the stupidity, and the criminality, while our enemies are popping the tops off of champagne bottles. Russia took us down without firing a shot. China is making its way toward world domination, largely because the United States committed suicide.
Fifty years ago, we were a reasonably well-educated and principled people.
Now, we’re a blend of greedy pigs and hateful imbeciles.
We have no one to blame for the implosion of America but ourselves.
It would be incorrect to say that literally no one saw this coming, but it took the overwhelming majority of the world by complete surprise.
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America’s Cultural, Moral, and Spiritual Decay
Former Republican strategist Steve Schmidt makes an important point here, one that makes us wonder exactly how long it’s going to take to repair the damage that Trump has inflicted on our country.
Let’s say that the midterm elections shift the balance of power in congress and Trump is removed from power in the first half of 2027. Perhaps this will happen on the basis of his senility, using the 25th Amendment. Or better, he’ll be impeached and convicted for any of dozens of the crimes he’s committed.
As much of the physical damage as possible will be undone, almost overnight. No Trump names on public buildings. Tariffs removed. Science re-instated as the pillar of policy making and public health. No more idiot sycophants in key positions. Iran and the U.S. (somehow) move back into the relationship we had before Trump’s asinine and illegal war.
The vast majority of Americans and virtually everyone else on Earth will breathe a huge sigh of relief.
But even if this happens swiftly, it will most certainly not make the “Trump phenomenon” vanish into the mist. People all around the globe will continue to regard the former envy of the world as a nation of hateful idiots, and it’s likely that this perception, as many have suggested, will take a generation or so to lift.
Canadian PM Mark Carney is predicting that, given the implosion of the U.S., that a new world order is forming with Europe as its center. Maybe “a generation or so” won’t get the job done. Maybe American dominance is gone forever.
And maybe that’s not such a bad thing. Imagine for a moment that billionaires didn’t control every facet of life here, and that our nation morphs into one that resembles the more enlightened places on this planet, where its people are well-educated and feel a distinct level of compassion for one another.
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Rejection of Science Comes at a Cost
As the U.S. crawls further into the woods of anti-vaxxers and other conspiracy theorists, everyone living here encounters a variety of threats.
What Are We Willing to Believe?
There is a mountain of physical evidence that the Earth is far more than 6000 years old, despite what we’re told in the bible. For one, we have the carbon-dating of dinosaur bones that have been around for hundreds of millions of years.
Some people invoke the theory of “satanic interference” to explain this. That is, the devil himself plants these fossils for us to find, in an attempt to discredit the true word of God.
To me, that’s a stretch, but it’s not too different from what Mike Johnson says here about voter fraud. He even uses the word “diabolical.”
Understanding the First Amendment’s Guarantee of Free Speech
Lev Parnas is Soviet-born, and thus he may not know that we can’t disallow Trump’s lifelong degradation of women.
But we can stop electing the most disgusting human beings on the planet to lead the United States of America.
It’s also worth mentioning that, astonishingly, many American women don’t have a problem being kicked in the teeth by Trump; he got 45% of the female vote in 2024.
Trump on Voter Fraud in California
I’ve thought about joining the morons who believe whatever comes out of the pathological liar’s mouth, but I simply can’t get there.
Maybe the nonprofit organizations and their thousands of employees that reported that the rate of 2024 voter fraud was .0000845% are all dishonest woke communist sissies, but I just can’t seem to get onboard.
The True Reason for Negative Growth in U.S. Tourism
Is the reason for the evaporation of tourist dollars, as suggested at left, that the U.S. has long wait times for visas? “Border friction, whatever exactly that means?
How about this? Our country is among the most reviled on Earth.
I’m reminded of a Canadian woman I met a few days ago who was in town for a wedding, who told me that she never would have considered for a second stepping foot in the United States were it not to be a part of her cousin’s daughter’s marriage service.
“I’m leaving on the first plane tomorrow morning, and I hope never to return.”
ICE in Minneapolis
I met a woman from Minneapolis this morning, appeared to be in her 70s, grandmother of six, who was in town for an annual family gathering. I mentioned that I thought it was a shame that such a productive, peace-loving and beautiful city as hers had been through such intense violence.
She replied that ICE is essentially a terrorist organization. “They’ll grab some random protestor, throw him into a snowbank and publicly spit on him, just to show the crowd who’s in charge.”
Trump’s America.
“They’re gone now, but there’s no guarantee that they won’t come back,” she said.
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