Home › Blog › Page 66

by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Science

Look, if you’re going to make up complete bullshit about the science of dealing with homelessness, don’t pick Japan, as they have the lowest homelessness rate in the world at 0.003%, which is approximately 1 homeless person out of every 34,000 citizens, according to a 2022 study by the UK’s Greater Change Foundation which measures homelessness globally.

If you want to make your point, chose the U.S., where homelessness has increased from 1.75 per 1,000 people in 2022 to 2.3 per 1,000 people in 2024, a 30 percent increase, and about 77 times Japan’s rate. Of course, our government doesn’t care any more about caring for our homeless population that it does about rounding up lost canaries.

 

Tagged with:

by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

To the guy who sent me this:

He’s our savior! And just in time, too! The U.S. Constitution was approved in 1789, stipulating this law, but now Antifa wants to ensure that only registered communists may cast ballots.

You believe that, right?

Tagged with:

by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Uncategorized
This from Senior Energy Analyst Glenn Doty:
One trait that is shared among almost ALL of the *PROFESSIONS* listed here is that they are all facing a labor shortage. For nursing, PA, and therapy professions, that labor shortage is so critical that it threatens the entire health care industry over the next two decades.
But the fascist trash has chosen that all of these professions should not have access to sufficient student loans that would pay for their degree.
Note that none of these professions have significant difficulty securing work or paying for their degrees (again, there are labor shortages in these degrees).
The only possible goal for such a move is to strangle the industries at large. It’s an act of sabotage: You strangle health care, and then you can restrict access to health care. You strangle engineering, and then you can justify further offshoring of all manufacturing industry… you strangle teaching, and then you can gut access to schooling opportunity.
The only goal that one could imagine from such an effort is to engineer a systemic collapse.
Very few intelligent Americans remain who can’t see that Trump is ruining our country, economically and morally.
Now, is all this damage going to take effect while Trump is still in office? Not at all.  Take the effects of the tariffs?
The short-term effects

by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Science

LOL! Where is it going?  Mars?

One commenter said: “Why are our scientists scaring us like this?”

What do you think is more likely: a) a team of scientists actually said this, or b) some jackass who writes clickbait claims that “scientists” have made these findings?

Tagged with:

by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Electric Vehicles

There is no need to physically attach solar panels to your car’s roof to determine if it will charge your car.  Of course it will while it’s in the sun.  Let’s do some math:

If:

The area of this Tesla’s roof is 2 square meters (being generous),

The efficiency of the panels is 25%,

The capacity factor of solar (depending on your location) is 20%,

The sun’s irradiance is 1000 watts per square meter,

The Tesla’s battery capacity is 100 KWhrs,

And we neglect the increased weight and drag of the array,

We’re talking about 100 hours, more than 4 days.

Doesn’t sound like a bargain, especially considering that if you overbuild the solar array on your roof and charge your car in your garage, you’ve achieved the same goal at far less expense and inconvenience.

 

Tagged with:

by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

As we all know, there is no such organization.

This is typical of Trump and the way he appeals to his base — people who are so married to their extreme rightwing political philosophy that they’ll believe anything.

At some point, Trump will be gone.  Yet returning the ability to think critically to these people will be quite a task.

Tagged with:

by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

If you don’t care what you pay for paper, this a definite possibility.

You can make it from collecting and processing discarded pizza crusts, too.  My guess: Paper from grass: probably 1000 times the current price.  Pizza crusts: 1,000,000 times the current price.

by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Science

I’ve been to Japan. They’re sharp people.

At the very least, they don’t have people stupid enough to indiscriminately shoot water all over a village because of a kitchen fire.

Tagged with:

by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Science

I hope I never have the displeasure to meet someone stupid enough to believe that this device:

a) eliminates food waste and lowers grocery bills (unwanted food is thrown into this machine vs. the garbage), and

b) eliminates all waste. It uses a great deal of electricity.  Does your garbage can or compost pile do that?

Tagged with:

by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Climate Change

Here’s a question: Why in hell would anyone go to COP30 (climate summit) if it can’t call for the phasing out of fossil fuels?

I remember my interview with Dr. V. (“Ram”) Ramanathan in preparation for my first book: Renewable Energy–Facts and Fantasies. After our talk, he sat down with other people and discussed what actions they would take if the coming COP meeting didn’t go far enough to limit greenhouse gas emissions.  I adore the guy. A true warrior.

Tagged with: