An Inventory of the Past

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1. Ondrej Mann says:

   January 8, 2025 at 1:17 pm

   This looks great. If you wanted to write a bestseller. Write a book of 100 items from the German countryside. That’s a book worth publishing.

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   1. Clarissa Schnabel says:

      January 8, 2025 at 2:57 pm

      I’ll think about it. 🙂

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2. Uncle Semantic says:

   January 8, 2025 at 2:50 pm

   I haven’t heard of Robo-Bee since Michael McShane used it stingingly to bail Richie Rich and his pals out of the subatomic molecular reorganizer. ‘Watermelon party’ is a very good witticism from Frau Schaefer I’m sure republican goofs would luv to steal for libtard ownership grandstanding. Then apologize cuz racist.

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3. Hamburger Today says:

   January 8, 2025 at 9:20 pm

   ‘Environmentalism’ became ‘left’ because the Right worships money and ‘environmentalism’ inconvenienced business.

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   1. Scott says:

      January 11, 2025 at 7:23 am

      Yes, there is a lot of truth to that.

      My Dad is a retired aerospace and nuclear engineer who put in a series of giant wind turbines in Eastern Idaho, where the wind blows without mercy. I think they look pretty graceful slowly cranking out the megawatts on the ridgeline. The farmers are not inconvenienced by them and they are like cash cows in their pocket. But a lot of people just plain don’t like them.

      Anyway, he is as ultra-Conservative as anyone ─ albeit not explicitly White Nationalist ─ and he constantly had to fight political opposition from Republicans, including Idaho’s lone billionaire, Frank Vandersloot, the multi-level marketing king who dabbles in local politics.

      Wind turbines work in places where the wind blows ─ but that is not usually where the power is consumed, so there has to be a robust electrical power grid to go along with it. And the towers don’t go up without extensive meteorological studies beforehand.

      Rooftop solar panels have promise too, at least in the Southwest where the sun shines. These provide a lot of power during the daytime, but they will not heat or cool your typical house, and they have to be connected to the utility company too, so they are going to take a very long time to pay themselves off.

      Also, the presence of solar panels can have both positive and negative outcomes for property values, so unless the panels are subsidized somehow, they are a questionable prospect for the home or business owner. The power companies want to charge you retail rates for the electricity that you consume, and then pay you wholesale rates for the power that you generate.

      That being said, the people who think that Tesla cars, windmills, and solar panels are going to replace carbon-generating fossil fuels are kidding themselves.

      The key is building sufficient cheap nuclear power, a robust and smart power grid ─ and lots of wind turbines and solar just for icing on the cake. The nuclear plants can generate massive amounts of hydrogen for fuel cells with off-peak power.

      That and replacing most liquid motor fuels for internal combustion engines with compressed methane would take care of 99 percent of the smog problem.

      I support drilling and using oil, and using rather than burning off methane as waste at the well head (allow the pipelines, Chief ─ it will add cash to your tribal coffers and help clean our environment).

      I do support banning the burning of coal, however. That will also mean less mercury in the seafood.

      Germany really got shot in the foot when Frau Kameradin Merkel decided to scrap the aging nuclear plants instead of refitting and rebuilding them with modern hardware. This means that Germans are dependent upon Russian natural gas and whether the Poles will let them pipe it over. They are also now mining and burning more coal, and that is far dirtier than those nasty nukes that Leftists are always in a tizzy over.

      🙂

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