It’s a 3800 Km Cable, and That’s No Fable
Here’s news on an ambitious plan to transmit 10.5 gigawatts of electrical power 3800 kilometers undersea from a huge solar and wind farm in Morocco to the UK. Even at the high voltages contemplated, the company building the link estimates line losses at somewhere between 10 and 12%, though they are justified given the ridiculously low LCOE (conservatively estimated at $0.013/kWh).
Next time someone tells you that renewable energy is expensive, you may want to mention this.
From this piece on 
If you’re one of the Proud Boys who stormed the Capitol on January 6th in an act of insurrection, there is no doubt that there are other right-wing extremists who think you’re pretty cool for what you did. But that admiration for seditious acts doesn’t extend too far past that.
Here’s an article in The New Yorker on 
On the surface, the meme here makes sense. Who wants to terminate a friendship based on a difference of opinion?
Well isn’t that a goddamn shame?
This is funny, of course, but the sad part is that, regardless of how totally unfounded and asinine Greene’s arguments are, there will be people who will come away from the debate claiming she won.
AOC’s point here lies at the core of our corrupt government.
Whether it’s Jean Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, or Soren Kierkegaard, someone of note has been influencing the way we park our cars.
True to form, Fox “News” anchor Tucker Carlson is bent out of shape about the guilty verdict in the Derek Chauvin case. He believes, (or at least claims to, since it’s hard to imagine that anyone actually believes this), that the jury convicted Chauvin because they feared for their lives and/or were under pressure to prevent the black community from erupting. At left is a rhetorical question on the subject. Consequently, he “believes” that this represents just another step in the destruction of our democratic society at the hands of liberals.
