A lot of that is because the EU imports gas either in liquid form or from Russia. This makes it far more costly than in the US which is experiencing a glut right now.
Because the US has so much gas, there is no demand for coal and coal prices have crashed. That crash in coal prices is causing the construction of new coal plants in Europe because their gas price is not competitive, and they have a great deal of demand to meet with the shutdown of nuclear in Germany.
European electricity costs to the end user are generally 50% higher than the US because of a 19% VAT and subsidy charges for wind and solar.
In January 2013, New York Times journalist and statistician Nate Silver composed a composite list of previous presidential rankings by scholars for the purpose of predicting incumbent President Barack Obama's ranking among presidents.
Abraham Lincoln Franklin D. Roosevelt George Washington Theodore Roosevelt Thomas Jefferson Harry Truman Woodrow Wilson Dwight D. Eisenhower John F. Kennedy Ronald Reagan James K. Polk Lyndon B. Johnson Andrew Jackson James Monroe James Madison John Adams Barack Obama Bill Clinton William McKinley John Quincy Adams Grover Cleveland George H.W. Bush Ulysses S. Grant Gerald Ford William Howard Taft Jimmy Carter Calvin Coolidge Chester A. Arthur Richard Nixon James A. Garfield Martin Van Buren Rutherford B. Hayes Zachary Taylor Benjamin Harrison Herbert Hoover John Tyler Millard Fillmore George W. Bush Andrew Johnson William Henry Harrison Warren G. Harding Franklin Pierce James Buchanan
My list was by R&D spending as % of GDP. The topic of this article.
US: 2.7 China: 1.98 EU: 1.96
We can also talk about unemployment: China: 4.1 US: 7 EU: 12
Or maybe growth rate of economy: China 6.8 US 3.5 EU 1.1
Or people who have walked on the moon US 12 China 0 EU 0
The EU Nobel Prize total is mostly before 1950. Since then the US has been winning the vast majority of Nobel Prizes. Recently US domination has been overwhelming.
The experience in California is that term limits don't work. What happens is the staff become more important, more powerful and more entrenched. And they aren't elected, even once.
Are you really that dense? Of course it's estimated gun ownership. It is IMPOSSIBLE to go out and actually enumerate the number of guns owned unless you take on an effort akin to the US Census.
DUH.
If you had read more than the first paragraph you would have found:
"State levels of gun ownership were estimated using a well-established proxy variable: the percentage of a stateâ(TM)s suicides that are committed with a firearm (FS/S). Because there is no state-level survey that measures household gun ownership, researchers have widely relied upon the FS/S proxy in injury prevention research, and this proxy has been extensively validated in past studies. The proxy correlates highly with survey measures of household firearm ownership, the authors said."
In other words the researchers used a well established statistical method to establish the level of gun ownership.
YOU on the other hand don't even provide a link to your study.
Guess what. I CALL BULLSHIT on your study. Unless you provide a reference I'm going to assume that you are just making crap up.
I would also recommend that folks with mod points treat it like the baloney it is unless you provide better evidence.
1. You listed a bunch of reasons why you believe the US is in decline.
2. I pointed out that each of your reasons was factually incorrect.
3. You claimed I am regurgitating propaganda.
It seems to me that you have not made your argument in any way. All of your facts are wrong and your rebuttal is baloney like "it's not so easy to see these changes from the inside".
Sorry, but your argument remains well short of demonstrating anything.
1. Waning economic power. 'Waning' means decreasing. Well it isn't. It's just some alarmist claim, just like when Gen LeMay was going around claiming the Russians had 1500 ICBMs. Well after the fact it was found they had 4.
2. Over-sized military spending isn't a sign of collapse.
3. Religion becoming more important than science and education. Um this is not new. Religion has always been #1 in the US. If anything religion is declining in the US.
Some other 'cool' things I've seen in very cold weather -
generally to get this kind of weather requires a very clear sky to get local radiative cooling. At night, if you are in a place that's a bit elevated and doesn't have much light pollution the 'seeing' can be spectacular. Some views of the Milky Way under those situations can be really moving.
another thing I've seen is an 'icebow'. That is a diffractive view caused by regular ice crystals in the atmosphere.
I live in a place that's a bit warmer now. I don't miss the extreme weather, but I'm glad I had a chance to have these experiences.
Yes, I've experienced nostril freezing many times. Typically happens below -10F. The snow also makes strange sounds when you walk on it under those conditions.
I once lived in a place where the frost line was 48" down. Even then we had a period of weather (3 weeks below 0 F) that was freezing some of the water mains.
The lowest temperature I've personally experienced was below -20 F.
How much below I don't know because the lowest temperature marking on the thermometer I had was -20, and all the alcohol was below that. In fact it was all in the bulb. Huddled. I think if you listened carefully you could maybe hear it chattering.
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A lot of that is because the EU imports gas either in liquid form or from Russia. This makes it far more costly than in the US which is experiencing a glut right now.
Because the US has so much gas, there is no demand for coal and coal prices have crashed. That crash in coal prices is causing the construction of new coal plants in Europe because their gas price is not competitive, and they have a great deal of demand to meet with the shutdown of nuclear in Germany.
European electricity costs to the end user are generally 50% higher than the US because of a 19% VAT and subsidy charges for wind and solar.
These are wholesale prices. Once you add in VAT and the EU's subsidy taxes the actual retail prices are quite a bit higher.
The prices also vary quite a bit from country to country, and within countries.
http://energy.globaldata.com/media-center/press-releases/power-and-resources/europe-paying-more-for-electricity-than-us-states-globaldata-consultant-with-dramatic-differences-seen-between-countries
http://www.forbes.com/sites/williampentland/2013/10/27/berlins-ballooning-electricity-rates-become-highest-in-europe/
Isn't anyone concerned that one of the reactants is a halogen?
Bzzzzrrrt.
75% of Russia is in Asia.
The actual launches and landings occur in Khazakstan which is not part of either Russia or Europe.
NASA gets to orbit a number of different ways, including some private companies nowadays.
In January 2013, New York Times journalist and statistician Nate Silver composed a composite list of previous presidential rankings by scholars for the purpose of predicting incumbent President Barack Obama's ranking among presidents.
Abraham Lincoln
Franklin D. Roosevelt
George Washington
Theodore Roosevelt
Thomas Jefferson
Harry Truman
Woodrow Wilson
Dwight D. Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
Ronald Reagan
James K. Polk
Lyndon B. Johnson
Andrew Jackson
James Monroe
James Madison
John Adams
Barack Obama
Bill Clinton
William McKinley
John Quincy Adams
Grover Cleveland
George H.W. Bush
Ulysses S. Grant
Gerald Ford
William Howard Taft
Jimmy Carter
Calvin Coolidge
Chester A. Arthur
Richard Nixon
James A. Garfield
Martin Van Buren
Rutherford B. Hayes
Zachary Taylor
Benjamin Harrison
Herbert Hoover
John Tyler
Millard Fillmore
George W. Bush
Andrew Johnson
William Henry Harrison
Warren G. Harding
Franklin Pierce
James Buchanan
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Albert Einstein
Which is why the campaign against landmines.
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1997/icbl-facts.html
Can't wait until the DHS no fly list gets integrated with the ok-kill software.
In this case it would be the blue screen of life.
My list was by R&D spending as % of GDP. The topic of this article.
US: 2.7
China: 1.98
EU: 1.96
We can also talk about unemployment:
China: 4.1
US: 7
EU: 12
Or maybe growth rate of economy:
China 6.8
US 3.5
EU 1.1
Or people who have walked on the moon
US 12
China 0
EU 0
The EU Nobel Prize total is mostly before 1950. Since then the US has been winning the vast majority of Nobel Prizes. Recently US domination has been overwhelming.
http://blogs-images.forbes.com/jonbruner/files/2011/10/nobel_graphic_small.png
Nobel Prizes 1950-2012 (approx)
US 60% (67 after 2000)
EU 30%
China 0
The experience in California is that term limits don't work. What happens is the staff become more important, more powerful and more entrenched. And they aren't elected, even once.
When is the last time Europe put a rover on another world?
Face it, there are 3 major world players. US, China, Europe.
Right - but that's rate of attempted suicides. Most are not successful unless guns are used, which causes the success rate to increase quite a bit.
Are you really that dense? Of course it's estimated gun ownership. It is IMPOSSIBLE to go out and actually enumerate the number of guns owned unless you take on an effort akin to the US Census.
DUH.
If you had read more than the first paragraph you would have found:
"State levels of gun ownership were estimated using a well-established proxy variable: the percentage of a stateâ(TM)s suicides that are committed with a firearm (FS/S). Because there is no state-level survey that measures household gun ownership, researchers have widely relied upon the FS/S proxy in injury prevention research, and this proxy has been extensively validated in past studies. The proxy correlates highly with survey measures of household firearm ownership, the authors said."
In other words the researchers used a well established statistical method to establish the level of gun ownership.
YOU on the other hand don't even provide a link to your study.
Guess what. I CALL BULLSHIT on your study. Unless you provide a reference I'm going to assume that you are just making crap up.
I would also recommend that folks with mod points treat it like the baloney it is unless you provide better evidence.
We would like to know what study this is. Previous work shows the opposite.
http://www.bu.edu/news/2013/09/13/new-research-shows-link-between-rates-of-gun-ownership-and-homicides/
http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/higher-rates-of-gun-ownership-dont-correlate-to-less-crime
Now there IS evidence that gun bans are ineffective, which is a different proposition.
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2013/08/30/harvard-gun-study-no-decrease-in-violence-with-ban/
Just write in railroad everywhere you see internet.
It's pretty idiotic. The internet led to a massive economic boom in the 1990's. 10's of millions of new jobs created.
What we are suffering from now is the aftermath of a debt collapse that has nothing to do with the internet.
Argument summary so far.
1. You listed a bunch of reasons why you believe the US is in decline.
2. I pointed out that each of your reasons was factually incorrect.
3. You claimed I am regurgitating propaganda.
It seems to me that you have not made your argument in any way. All of your facts are wrong and your rebuttal is baloney like "it's not so easy to see these changes from the inside".
Sorry, but your argument remains well short of demonstrating anything.
I've never had an engine fail due to piston ring wear.
Seems to me this may be an idea looking for a problem.
We did. It's called the DHS which the FBI is not part of.
The FBI sees all the shiny over there and wants in.
Ugh.
Interesting thesis but facts don't back it up.
1. Waning economic power. 'Waning' means decreasing. Well it isn't. It's just some alarmist claim, just like when Gen LeMay was going around claiming the Russians had 1500 ICBMs. Well after the fact it was found they had 4.
2. Over-sized military spending isn't a sign of collapse.
3. Religion becoming more important than science and education. Um this is not new. Religion has always been #1 in the US. If anything religion is declining in the US.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/michael-gerson-an-america-that-is-losing-faith-with-religion/2013/03/25/10d9fcb8-9582-11e2-bc8a-934ce979aa74_story.html
In fact 2012 was the year in which Protestants became a minority in America.
Some other 'cool' things I've seen in very cold weather -
generally to get this kind of weather requires a very clear sky to get local radiative cooling. At night, if you are in a place that's a bit elevated and doesn't have much light pollution the 'seeing' can be spectacular. Some views of the Milky Way under those situations can be really moving.
another thing I've seen is an 'icebow'. That is a diffractive view caused by regular ice crystals in the atmosphere.
I live in a place that's a bit warmer now. I don't miss the extreme weather, but I'm glad I had a chance to have these experiences.
Yes, I've experienced nostril freezing many times. Typically happens below -10F. The snow also makes strange sounds when you walk on it under those conditions.
I once lived in a place where the frost line was 48" down. Even then we had a period of weather (3 weeks below 0 F) that was freezing some of the water mains.
The lowest temperature I've personally experienced was below -20 F.
How much below I don't know because the lowest temperature marking on the thermometer I had was -20, and all the alcohol was below that. In fact it was all in the bulb. Huddled. I think if you listened carefully you could maybe hear it chattering.
You will just have a different kind of transcription error rot your mind.
Well, if that were the case we would have drugs that arrested the progress of cancer, but didn't cure it.
But we don't.
The Indiana State legislature proposes bill that defines pi to be 3.2 and a procedure to square a circle with compass and straightedge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill