Our government USED to be a creator of new wealth through investment in capitalist times (Panama Canal) socialist times (Hoover Dam) and in mixed times (the Interstate Highway System). But in this era when the right is getting fairy tales written into school textbooks and the left relentlessly hates everything that scientists and engineers produce, that avalanche of printed stimulus money is no longer being invested in anything that will pay back its value with interest in the future.
That 2008 stimulus could have been spent on something like a nationwide network of standardized, latest-tech nuclear plants that would have us cruising to carbon-free energy independence in electric cars and trains by now, but because Obama is not Franklin Roosevelt, nobody could summon the courage to tell the Luddite lobby to go piss up a rope.
Let's assume you can find enough money to make this produce usable amounts of power. How long before the flat-earth lobby starts accusing you of having started Destructive Hurricane X by "slowing down the ocean currents?" The hurricane need not be anywhere near your plant. If you innovate, it was your fault.
We make every effort to fly without killing anyone, and yet the world loses roughly one planeload of passengers a year. Yet nobody ever calls for an end to aviation, even though each one of those crashes kills more people than all the nuclear meltdowns put together.
The view from Arizona: The debate is not over the efficacy of solar, but about APS buying excess power that residential solar installations already generate. The utility wants to install smart meters, which would give them control over major appliances as well as making it easier to account for power generated by small users. If APS wants its smart meters, it should be buying our generated power as part of the bargain.
Yes, but I see an advantage to the Yellowstone scheme: when building the plant attracts the usual assortment of luddite yammerhead protesters, we could send in the bison and the grizzlies to take care of them. We could call it sustainable reuse of biological materials.
As would also be the case if you had a near miss from an asshole driver and were not carrying. It works this way: the best deterrent against bad drivers is raising the perceived statistical cost of bullying. You won't win every encounter, but the number of such encounters will go down.
And watch those equinoxes. Around Sept 21 and April 21, the rising and setting sun is shining directly down every east-west street. There is a jump in accidents due to inability to see other cars at these times of the year, so leave any smaler vehicle at home.
"The only way to make car drivers "scared shitless" is to make car-related offenses punishable by death. And that's never going to happen in this country."
It could happen here if more cyclists were to carry.
This would be a great means of execution, being easy to do and satisfying the Eighth Amendment, but the EU would immediately demand that its nitrogen be kept separate from the nitrogen that the US, China, Iran, et. al. uses. No problem: it would just impose more taxes on its sheeple to build a dome over itself, Stephen King style. The advantage for us is that we would no longer have to breathe all that new German coal smoke.
Because, of course, you are a pure moral creature not a part of the barbarian culture you criticize. So next time a thug demands your vagina, you will meekly hand it over.
So Iowa's problem has been record rains? Funny - most of the dire AGW predictions across the interwebs have been for drought, drought, drought. I'm sure that the coldest week this winter will be additional proof of carbon-belching excess.
China's booming industrial economy needs resources, while we are searching for an exit from the world-policeman role that has been ours since WW II. Now that we're on the path to fossil fuel independence, why not just quietly let it be known on high diplomatic levels that the Middle East is China's for the taking. China needs the oil and minerals, and the Middle East needs a few generations of iron-fisted colonial rule to bring civilization back to it.The Taliban, al Qaeda and the Saudi Wahhabi would simply never be seen again. This kind of arrangement could be the last chance for Islam to regain its lost scientific and technological heritage
If a connector has orientation, that orientation should be easy to see, even in bad light, without squinting carefully at both ends of the cable. USB fails this test.
For extra credit, ask an old person with deprecated vision to try the test.
"Progressives" automatically oppose any energy source that actually exists, even if it happens to be one they originally proposed. Get in line now for the T-shirt concession at your nearest fusion protest site.
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Our government USED to be a creator of new wealth through investment in capitalist times (Panama Canal) socialist times (Hoover Dam) and in mixed times (the Interstate Highway System). But in this era when the right is getting fairy tales written into school textbooks and the left relentlessly hates everything that scientists and engineers produce, that avalanche of printed stimulus money is no longer being invested in anything that will pay back its value with interest in the future. That 2008 stimulus could have been spent on something like a nationwide network of standardized, latest-tech nuclear plants that would have us cruising to carbon-free energy independence in electric cars and trains by now, but because Obama is not Franklin Roosevelt, nobody could summon the courage to tell the Luddite lobby to go piss up a rope.
"I was so tired of having to vacuum around Howard's RAID drives. Now we just keep them on the ceiling!"
Let's assume you can find enough money to make this produce usable amounts of power. How long before the flat-earth lobby starts accusing you of having started Destructive Hurricane X by "slowing down the ocean currents?" The hurricane need not be anywhere near your plant. If you innovate, it was your fault.
We make every effort to fly without killing anyone, and yet the world loses roughly one planeload of passengers a year. Yet nobody ever calls for an end to aviation, even though each one of those crashes kills more people than all the nuclear meltdowns put together.
The view from Arizona: The debate is not over the efficacy of solar, but about APS buying excess power that residential solar installations already generate. The utility wants to install smart meters, which would give them control over major appliances as well as making it easier to account for power generated by small users. If APS wants its smart meters, it should be buying our generated power as part of the bargain.
I have a remote farm too. We refer to it as the coffee table.
Yes, but I see an advantage to the Yellowstone scheme: when building the plant attracts the usual assortment of luddite yammerhead protesters, we could send in the bison and the grizzlies to take care of them. We could call it sustainable reuse of biological materials.
* EU: Ryan Air.
But how would we know if we won't at some time pass a point of "peak committee"? Better appoint a new committee to determine that.
As would also be the case if you had a near miss from an asshole driver and were not carrying. It works this way: the best deterrent against bad drivers is raising the perceived statistical cost of bullying. You won't win every encounter, but the number of such encounters will go down.
Oops - March 21....
And watch those equinoxes. Around Sept 21 and April 21, the rising and setting sun is shining directly down every east-west street. There is a jump in accidents due to inability to see other cars at these times of the year, so leave any smaler vehicle at home.
Bay Area cyclists in general tend to be this way, but for true hardcore cyclist arrogance you need to go to Portland.
"The only way to make car drivers "scared shitless" is to make car-related offenses punishable by death. And that's never going to happen in this country." It could happen here if more cyclists were to carry.
This would be a great means of execution, being easy to do and satisfying the Eighth Amendment, but the EU would immediately demand that its nitrogen be kept separate from the nitrogen that the US, China, Iran, et. al. uses. No problem: it would just impose more taxes on its sheeple to build a dome over itself, Stephen King style. The advantage for us is that we would no longer have to breathe all that new German coal smoke.
That's why no doctor can perform an execution. They use prison staff who are trained in that specific procedure.
Because, of course, you are a pure moral creature not a part of the barbarian culture you criticize. So next time a thug demands your vagina, you will meekly hand it over.
So Iowa's problem has been record rains? Funny - most of the dire AGW predictions across the interwebs have been for drought, drought, drought. I'm sure that the coldest week this winter will be additional proof of carbon-belching excess.
China's booming industrial economy needs resources, while we are searching for an exit from the world-policeman role that has been ours since WW II. Now that we're on the path to fossil fuel independence, why not just quietly let it be known on high diplomatic levels that the Middle East is China's for the taking. China needs the oil and minerals, and the Middle East needs a few generations of iron-fisted colonial rule to bring civilization back to it.The Taliban, al Qaeda and the Saudi Wahhabi would simply never be seen again. This kind of arrangement could be the last chance for Islam to regain its lost scientific and technological heritage
For extra credit, ask an old person with deprecated vision to try the test.
But if Mongols attacked this one, no problem - just revoke their H-1Bs. (Bada...ling!)
IOC headquarters!
A high-speed channel for delivering sweets! I predict instant popularity for this concept.
"Progressives" automatically oppose any energy source that actually exists, even if it happens to be one they originally proposed. Get in line now for the T-shirt concession at your nearest fusion protest site.
...I would observe how New York rules on a given issue, so I would know how NOT to do it.