Easy. It’s 36% in the United States, and somewhere around 15% in the rest of the developed world. It’s slim, and it’s disintegrating fast.
The world isn’t in great shape right now, but most human beings are good people, and they abhor the crimes and the constant barrage of crimes. It’s really no more complicated than that.
What Kurt Vonnegut said here is interesting, but I doubt it’s correct.
Yes, people talk about religious people’s “imaginary friend in the sky,” which would be, of course, a remedy for loneliness. But I believe that the primary driver for religion is fear–of all things unknown, and especially of death and the afterlife.
The world population growth is 0.85%. In the developed world (OECD countries), it’s about 0.5%.
It’s not credible to me that our civilization is threatened by this. But if I were concerned, I’d ask a scientist whose life’s work is studying this phenomenon. Why anyone could possibly care what Elon Musk thinks about Earth’s population and climate change is beyond me.
Could any C- high school kid believe that there are more top wealth management firms in Montana than there are in Florida, Texas, and California combined?
At left we have something that illustrates why small wind is a concept in renewable energy that was abandoned about 15 years ago.
Germans are respected around the world for the quality of their engineering. That’s good if you’re buying a Porsche, BWM, or Mercedes for $200K, but it’s terrible if you need something that’s really inexpensive.
And small wind needs to be dirt cheap, because your cost per KWh of electricity can’t be 50 times more than what you would pay to the local power utility.
If you want it cheap, it’s going to fall apart, and that’s particularly true if you’re talking about something that’s installed outdoors and spins every second of every day for decades.
Horrible idea, Mike. There are lots of intelligent and refined people in Minnesota who will recall that you helped Trump in his effort to overthrow the U.S. federal government following his 2020 election loss. They won’t think highly of that.
If you want to run for governor, consider picking a state that ranks at or near the bottom in terms of education, and has some of the other qualities of Trump supporters, e.g., racism.
I won’t name names, but they’re not too hard to identify.
There are more than 6200 miles of the U.S. border. If a terrorist crosses at any point and kills an American citizen, who is to blame?
If you’re a garden-variety idiot, you blame the U.S. president. Can’t the occupant of the White House be held accountable for every crime committed here by someone from any country who comes here illegally?
If you’re a lying idiot, you blame Biden, even if the terrorist entered during Trump’s presidency.
When the poorest, least-educated Trump supporters are starving and dying of treatable diseases, this whole, pathetic refrain will morph into the following, and tens of millions of Americans will wear hats saying:
The need for food is a Democratic hoax.
and
The Republicans will abolish Obamacare and replace it with something much better.
Here’s a concept in small wind for readers to check out. A few points:
It’s not new. A few years ago, there was a nearly identical idea that came and went, when investors figured out that this concept, as all the others before it, was dead in the water.
They have an “axial flux generator.” Really? Haven’t we all seen “Back to the Future?” Making up technobabble like the “flux capacitor” gets laughs, but that’s about it.
The fact that climate change poses a huge threat doesn’t mean that every yo-yo idea in renewable energy makes sense.
There is a reason, based on physics, that vertical axis wind turbines are intrinsically less efficient than their horizontal axis counterparts and do not exist in the enormous industry of wind energy.
The wind conditions on our roofs are impeded by trees and neighboring buildings, and even that notwithstanding, they don’t take advantage of wind conditions 50-100 feet higher. That’s the reason that wind farms are located in remote areas with incredible wind resources. No one would like to live in a place like Tehachapi, California with gale-force winds.
The spokesperson’s idea that he’s raising investor capital to engineer the product because “you have the recipe before you bake the cookies” is catchy, but this is a recipe that clearly cannot exist.
There must be a reason that our life expectancy here in the United States is slipping, while people in other countries in the developed world are living longer, healthier lives.
Is it that, on average, 12 children get shot and killed, and another 26 are injured, each day in the United States? No, but that is a contributing factor.
It’s largely that healthcare is made available to Americans only on the basis of profitability for the insurance companies.
From Cornell University:
In an oft-cited study, as many as 66.5% of people who file for bankruptcy blame medical bills as the primary cause. As many as 550,000 people file for bankruptcy each year for this reason. This data has been known for many years and has continued even with the passage of the Affordable Care Act.
