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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

The answer to the question posed at left: It doesn’t matter.  The organization is, at its core, homophobic, and self-respecting people would not be associated with it regardless of how lucrative the opportunity.

I shake my head when I hear people refusing to participate in the international boycott against Chick-fil-A on the basis of how good their sandwiches supposedly are.  Truly morals from hell.

Ever wonder why our civilization can’t rid itself of the pandemic or why we’re sitting around watching our planet burn down around us?  Maybe it’s because so many people really don’t give a s*** about one another.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Wind Energy

Wind goes up in the winter to compensate for the lack of solar, which crashes due to high latitudes. The grid can only accommodate so much power from intermittent sources, so they’re able to ramp up wind.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

A reader sent me this.  I completely disagree.

Re: Trump and his enablers’ activities post the 2020 election, let me ask him to pick which of the following is more likely:

a) These people all suffer from narcissism or some related psychological disorder which blinds them from seeing the truth, i.e., that they lost, or,

b) Trump is a sociopathic criminal who had tried dozens of different tactics to overturn an election that he knows goddamn well he lost.  He loves power and will commit any conceivable atrocity to maintain it.  His enablers aren’t happy about supporting him through this crime-spree, but they see it as the only way to hold on to their seats in Congress.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics
A reader responds to the meme here: “I don’t believe King’s claims of ‘no fraud’ when there’s no way to establish the absence of fraud without a paper trail and verifiable ID!”
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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Neal Katyal tells Lawrence O’Donnell that it’s “serious” that Donald Trump’s attorneys have met in person with prosecutors in the Fulton County District Attorney’s office investigating if Trump criminally violated Georgia election law: “It’s good to see Georgia doing what the United States Justice Department should have been doing for the last year.”

If  Trump criminally violated Georgia election law?  Obviously Trump broke the law.  Browbeating and threatening Georgia’s secretary of state Brad Raffensperger to “find him 11,780 votes” is clearly itself a crime, the precise array of potential charges of which are shown at left.

The question is what’s going to happen here.  Perhaps it’s a question of timing.  As former top federal prosecutor Glenn Kirshner has suggested, “No one wants to be the first (to indict Trump on one or more felonies), but everyone wants to be second.”

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Science

Discussions like this one are at the same time both funny and sad, but, in addition, I’ve seen that they can add friction to family matters.  I’ve resigned to let the chips fall where they may with loved ones.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Most Americans over the ago of 60 remember this well.

Of course, the last 50 years have seen the volume turned up on everything in our lives, but consider how mild Nixon’s transgressions were in comparison to today’s coup attempt.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

“The election was fair, as fair as we have seen. We simply did not win the election, as Republicans, for the presidency.”
Mike Rounds, Senator, (R) South Dakota since 2015

Is this really a news story? An individual Republican senator, from a blood-red state, makes an obviously true statement and the American media goes insane?

I’d be more excited by a story detailing how some old lady’s cat got stuck up in a tree.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

This fellow’s announcement reminds us the Big lie won’t be around forever.  The percentage of Republican voters who still believe it is at 58%, but that’s down from 70% just a few months ago.  It’s possible that the number of both voters and their representatives in Congress will slowly dwindle and finally, the whole concept of a stolen election simply fades from view.

It’s also possible, and, I think, highly likely, that there will be a specific event that results in an explosion.

Keep in mind that the committee to investigate the January 6th insurrection is looking into an issue that is far larger that Trump’s alleged incitement of the riot, i.e., the entire range of activities he orchestrated in an attempt to overturn the election.  This may result in one or more felony indictments against him.

If that happens, and the world gets to watch the presentation of the evidence in the case, the Big Lie goes boom.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Hydrokinetics

OMG!  I think I interviewed this guy for a chapter in my second book, “Is Renewable Really Doable?”  He’s a college professor, overseeing a team of graduate students that is working on raising the efficiency of hydrokinetic devices.

No, on second thought, that’s not the guy.

 

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