Here’s a great illustration of the horrific effects social media can have on ignorant minds.
My wife and I walk about three miles each morning, far enough for us to pass at least a dozen houses in our neighborhood with solar installations. I sometimes comment: “That guy’s roof doesn’t have the right exposure,” or “During winter, those trees in the south part of his yard are going to cast shadows on the array.”
Yes, shadows are a real pain in the neck, and need to be considered before the final decision is made.
As shown above, ground-mount installations face an additional challenge in this arena, one that could be called the “dog effect,” or its scientific equivalent, the “canis effectus.”
Supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump gather
Apparently, Trump’s attorneys are going to present last summer’s violence in Portland, Oregon as defense in the Senate Impeachment trial. What could possibly be the relevance, given that:
• Rioting in the streets and breaking into the U.S. Capitol building seem quite different. (more…)
Robert Reich comments on a late-January 2021 survey of 2016 American adults as follows:
The annual celebration of Earth Day in Santa Barbara is held in a large, beautiful park, with perhaps 100 booths featuring ideas that promote a better planet. Many concern themselves directly with cleantech: water savings, electrical efficiency, EVs, renewable energy and the like. While it’s great to see all this, and watch little kids get all excited about learning about ways to be kind to our home planet, it’s even cooler to check out concepts that reach far from the mainstream. (more…)
Perhaps the most disgusting part of everything we’ve seen and been through as a nation over these last four years is that Trump will ultimately be acquitted in the Senate, since only a few Republicans have any personal integrity whatsoever. The cowards sold any claim they may have had to decency for Trump’s support in coming elections. (more…)
It’s starting to look like the United States will never get to see the Trump administration’s healthcare plans, not a single one of the many, so as to evaluate their merits in detail vis-à-vis Obamacare.
Damn!
And we were soooo close.
One of my snide and ignorant readers sent me the meme here, to which I respond:
Yes. The world is reducing plastic pollution as fast as possible, because every decent person on Earth finds what we’ve done to our oceans to be unconscionable.
In some cases that means banning single use items. In others it means developing plastic that biodegrades at the rate appropriate to what it contains.
There are currently 4 trillion pieces of plastic in our oceans. If the photo below doesn’t upset you, that says something about your character as a human being.
My post “Investigating” Trump concerned Georgia’s “investigation” into Trump’s attempt to coerce the Secretary of State into manufacturing the precise number of voted required for the president’s re-election. In it I asked, “You have the recording of the call. Outside of listening to it, what is there to investigate?” and then continued, “I would think you either bring charges or you don’t.”
In response, frequent commenter Gary Tulie offers this: (more…)
I don’t really get all these “investigations.” You have the recording of the call. Outside of listening to it, what is there to investigate?
There are statutes in Georgia that criminalize election tampering, and they’re not written in Old Norse or some secret code.
I would think you either bring charges or you don’t.
What am I missing here?
