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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Business — 1 Comment ↓

Here’s an article that outlines how the EU has lowered energy prices via its investment in renewables.

In truth, the economics of all this is complicated.  In most of the world, there are subsidies for clean energy, just as there are subsidies for Big Oil.  If you want to remove the environmental regulations of coal-fired power plants and let them make fortunes by turning our atmosphere into their own private sewers, you can probably make coal-powered energy very inexpensive.

One thing is clear though, looking through all this complexity: the countries whose people actually care about the future of life on Earth are aggressively decarbonizing their energy and transportation sectors, and there is a great deal to be said for this.

In the United States, we’re rapidly going in the other direction.  Shame on us.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Wind Energy — No Comments ↓

These guys have an innovation in small wind: their turbine “furls up” in dangerously high wind conditions, making it “perfect for your backyard.” Check out this video. The competition has to shut down to avoid having their product destroyed in such circumstances.

Think about this for a second.  How often do you have hurricane-force winds blowing through your backyard?  What if it’s a tornado?  (It’s a twister! It’s a twister!) What would be the cost to you if your mini-turbine actually did have to shut down a few hours each year?

These guys are looking for investors.  If their pitch resonates with you, jump on in, by all means.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics — No Comments ↓

The vast majority of Americans want Donald Trump removed from office but I would guess that most of us don’t really care how, or by what means, this happens.

When I see photos like the one at left here, however, I become concerned that it will be his dementia that takes him out, and that bothers me.

This country is in the process of falling apart because of one thing: its president is a criminal.  Until and unless that becomes clear to all Americans–and to everyone on this planet–the United States will remain under a black cloud of a trampled democracy.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics — No Comments ↓

Trump wants us to believe that there have been three legitimate attempts to assassinate him.  For that reason alone, it seems quite possible that he’ll die soon.

 

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics — 1 Comment ↓

There is much speculation floating around as to what lies ahead for the United States after Trump leaves office, through whatever means.

In particular, our traditional trading partners, e.g. Canada are hard at work replacing us, given that our leader is a criminal sociopath. But what if the next U.S. president is a sane human being?  Will they remain gone, or will they come back?  At what rate?

No one knows, but most of us figure that the sooner we remove Trump, the sooner normalcy returns.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Science — 2 Comments ↓

Once one understands that science is not a body of truths, but our best method of finding truth, one realizes that there is no reason to “question” it.

For a moment, think of the most rapidly evolving arenas within the totality of the domains of science.  Let’s take epidemiology and climate change.

My mother went to her grave believing that Dr. Anthony Fauci should be indicted for crimes associated with the medical advice he gave re: COVID-19.  Her sole source of (mis)information was Fox News, and, from listening to what they had to say on the subject, she’d tell me, “He’s constantly changing his mind!” as if this were evidence of incompetence, or, more dastardly, corruption.  Was he in cahoots with the communists hellbent on destroying American capitalism? If not, he must have been making himself a billionaire by selling his own remedies.

Here, we’re talking about an extremely senior medical professional who had served successfully under five presidents, working on a brand-new pandemic that very little was known about.  We’re also talking about a “news” source known for its support of conspiracy theories that support the ultra-right-wing.

In cases like these, science is constantly “changing its mind,” as new studies come in that blow apart older data, and better represent the current understanding of the problem at hand.

The situation is the same with climate science. Newer models associated with the warming of our atmosphere and oceans are constantly replacing those of previous decades.  Is that evidence that scientists are corrupt, or, rather, that we are always learning more about an extremely complex set of information?

 

 

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics — 1 Comment ↓

Yes, Trump’s a failure, but he wouldn’t be so roundly reviled by the American people if he weren’t so blatantly dishonest, and if we were following the advice of experts re: international relations, the economy/tariffs, the war in Iran, education, healthcare, etc.

 

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics — No Comments ↓

A reader sent me this, noting:  Photoshops this for Truth Social. He has nothing better to do.  

Another reader: Didn’t bother to change the clouds or the ducks.  He is so incredibly dumb.

Yes, he’s dumb, but the real problem is that he’s also incredibly dishonest.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Fossil Fuels — No Comments ↓

Is our civilization’s dependence on oil “not going to change?”

Obviously, Big Oil wants to keep the status quo in place, regardless of the environmental damage it’s doing to every living creature on this planet. And the Trump administration is doing everything in its power to make sure this assault against all life forms endures in perpetuity.

But this won’t work.  It may be true that the United States is rapidly transforming itself into a dictatorship like Russia, China, North Korea, and the other 50+ sovereign nations on this planet.  But the rest of the developed world is working hard to decarbonize its energy and transportation sectors so as to prevent environmental collapse.

 

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics — No Comments ↓
Hillsdale “College” writes:
Enroll today in Hillsdale’s most popular free online course, “Constitution 101: The Meaning and History of the Constitution.”  In this 12-lecture course, you’ll explore the design and purpose of the Constitution, the challenges it faced during the Civil War, and how it has been undermined for more than a century by progressivism and liberalism.

Do you suppose, for a minute, that I want some ultra-right-wing “college” to tell me how I should regard the Constitution? What a sick joke.

I don’t want to hear from the John Birch Society, nor the Heartland Institute, nor the KKK, to lecture me on the meaning of the Constitution.

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