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Post by Cornflake on Oct 26, 2020 20:23:29 GMT -5
For many years, lots of immigrants have Americanized their names for many reasons. This is not a characteristic of either party.
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Post by james on Oct 26, 2020 20:50:57 GMT -5
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Post by epaul on Oct 26, 2020 21:13:41 GMT -5
... I will admit, that of the two, Joe's platform scared me more than Donald's. The fact the Joe is an old school politician gives me some relief as I know he doesn't mean any of it. He just is saying the things he thinks will get him elected. Kamala? I'm not sure I trust her at all. What city is this? This isn't far from my sentiments. I am not at all worried about Joe and energy (or Joe and much of anything else). Joe is, despite the picked and sifted words opponents have selected from over a half-dozen campaigns, a pragmatic fellow. The guy drives a Corvette. He likes boats and planes. And cigars and good whiskey. He isn't a nut nor will he go nuts. I do worry that Kamala is a different deal. Her well-articulated positions on energy are sincere... and as far as I'm concerned, worrisome. I know why Joe picked her but I wish he hadn't. But, my Harris concerns are tempered by what I think I know. And while I personally don't know shit, I do know some folks who are neck deep in energy production, from all sides of it, including green and renewable. And regardless of what Harris has advocated as an outsider, if by some chance she ever ends up being in charge, there are energy realities that are stark and rock hard. Fossil fuels, particularly natural gas and the fracking that is needed to produce it, will be the necessary and needed baseline of electrical power generation for the next thirty years. And if the use of electric cars increases to the degree many expect it will (by legislation, if not choice alone), the need for electricity will grow incredibly. Wind, solar, and "mystery energy" will continue to grow and may come to supply 50% of our growing electrical generational needs over the next 10-20 years. And maybe something wonderful will happen and they (and the mystery source) can even grow beyond that. But, wind, solar and mystery are intermittent and require a reliable and proven baseline backup, and that backup will be fossil fuel (could be nuke, but it won't be). More critically, if and when renewable reaches 50%, and maybe someday, 60%, understand that that still leaves a huge and very significant energy gap that needs to be filled. So, (if you are still reading), if, per chance, Harris ever finds herself in the driver's seat, her perspective will grow beyond her California sandbox. And it will. Harris is plenty smart and she will get serious advice from serious people. The recognition that renewable alone won't cut it is growing even in green circles. And I can speak personally to one avenue this recognition has begun to invest in, the sequestration of the CO2 produced by fossil-fueled power plants either by injection or conversion. This sequestration process, by whatever means a particular plant is suited for, will increase the cost of electricity, but that's the future folks. Every process that has been undertaken to clean up energy has added cost to energy production. But, good news, somehow or other, despite legislated stack scrubbers and burner filters and energy cleaning this and that, somehow, the cost of energy as a percent of all the shit we have to pay for has shrunk. So, it will cost more to sequester by whatever means the CO2 produced by fossil fuel powered energy plants, but somehow, once all is said and done in the future, the cost of energy will still be a bargain. -interesting tidbit. It is currently not cost competitive, but work has begun in North Dakota on the feasibility of extracting precious metals from lignite coal. All (many) of the metals and minerals we need can be found in various coals. The stuff is veritable history of the planet. Make that, a library.
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Post by epaul on Oct 27, 2020 10:39:26 GMT -5
One way this would work: the coal is burned for energy, CO2 is separated from the gas stream and either sequestered or converted to a solid, the remaining ash is treated to separate the inorganic (various marketable elements) from the organic (soil amendments).
(currently, sulfur is being separated from the coal burn and marketed for agricultural and industrial purposes)
((waste not, want not))
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Post by james on Oct 27, 2020 14:47:25 GMT -5
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Post by fauxmaha on Oct 29, 2020 16:44:23 GMT -5
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Post by jdd2 on Oct 29, 2020 17:41:55 GMT -5
On the other hand, it would be hard to explain to aliens why tucker carlson has a show.
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Post by james on Oct 29, 2020 18:51:50 GMT -5
Glenn Greenwald - "But his emails!"
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Post by aquaduct on Oct 29, 2020 20:01:56 GMT -5
On the other hand, it would be hard to explain to aliens why tucker carlson has a show. No. Pretty easy actually. 8 million viewers. Duh.
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Post by Village Idiot on Oct 29, 2020 20:26:28 GMT -5
Who is Tucker Carlson?
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Post by james on Oct 29, 2020 20:52:51 GMT -5
www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlsonETA for context. A Facebook post from Alexandra Chalupa on the occasion of Glenn Greenwald's umpteenth appearance on Tucker Carlson's White Power Hour on Fox News.
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Post by Marshall on Oct 29, 2020 22:38:04 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2020 5:40:40 GMT -5
Boy howdy, ain’t that the truth. Fox could stick a chimpanzee in that time slot and it would get ratings. Carlson’s record for accuracy is abysmal. If you were wrong as often as he is at your own job, you’d be fired. Fortunately, he picked conservative punditry as a career path, and it is an avocation that requires neither accuracy nor consistency. Nor does it require intellectual honesty. For that matter, it requires no intellect at all. (See Limbaugh, Rush, and Beck, Glenn.) This latest bit of performance art with the “missing” records is hilarious. Surely someone made photocopies, right? Where are the copies? Then again, it is hard to photocopy something that never existed.
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Post by theevan on Oct 30, 2020 7:09:16 GMT -5
Saw him for the first time ever last night. (Our b&b has cable). I mostly like him. I understand his popularity.
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Post by fauxmaha on Oct 30, 2020 7:47:15 GMT -5
Saw him for the first time ever last night. (Our b&b has cable). I mostly like him. I understand his popularity. He's a good guy. I don't know him personally, but someone I do know and trust (fellow Nebraskan and all around good guy Sean Malone) used to work for him and has nothing but good things to say.
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Post by theevan on Oct 30, 2020 8:06:29 GMT -5
Saw him for the first time ever last night. (Our b&b has cable). I mostly like him. I understand his popularity. He's a good guy. I don't know him personally, but someone I do know and trust (fellow Nebraskan and all around good guy Sean Malone) used to work for him and has nothing but good things to say. Last night he mentioned the mystery of Biden documents overnights via UPS. He emphasized 1. Not interested in Hunter Biden except when it relates to Joe. Private citizen, leave him alone. 2. He has quite a few documents, will only make public what can be confirmed and is newsworthy. I appreciate that.
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Post by fauxmaha on Oct 30, 2020 8:25:17 GMT -5
If you've got half an hour, Rudy goes through the documents in detail.
"10 held by H for the Big Guy"
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Post by fauxmaha on Oct 30, 2020 9:23:03 GMT -5
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Post by theevan on Oct 30, 2020 18:25:50 GMT -5
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Post by james on Oct 30, 2020 18:39:17 GMT -5
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