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As difficult as carbon sequestration (aka: hiding it under the rug) may be, it's going to be a lot easier than transporting almost of the current energy transfer via the electric grid.
Cf: Ignoring Energy Transition Realities: Some Unanswered Quest…
@Crash: So what exactly is this "free" stuff"? Like the tooth fairy? Or does someone else pay for it via taxes?
Not saying that that's a bad system, at all. I really do believe that we have an obligation to help those less fortunate financially. Li…
@WABAC- I'd be surprised. Judging by his posting here for a number of years John is just a sucker for come-ons. If it's too good to be true, John will be among the first to bite.
@InformalEconomist- Good morning. No sir, I'm not familiar with Vaclav Smil, but I'll be taking a look at his work, thank you. From your note it sounds like he and I are looking at the situation from the same perspective. To be honest, I haven't tak…
@Derf- thanks for your comments. And yes sir, you are exactly right with respect to China and India. I tried to stay focused on the US, and I can't even see much that's hopeful here.
Mark Twain is reported to have observed that "you cain't squeeze …
"Think for yourself. Shut them off. Don't use them. To me it's that simple."
Never have, never will, even refuse to use Google- use DuckDuckGo instead.
"The opinions of their owners/CEO get no more weight from me than I give to any other individua…
But we're really not discussing the thing that I find most worrisome: if banks in major Western democracies have no use for cash, what does that imply about the viability of cash as a trading medium? I believe that never before in my 81 years has s…
Yes, we're looking at much the same sort of thing here in SF. Hopefully because we are a much smaller city it may not be quite as difficult to transition to whatever is coming next.
Here's hank's pic, apparently from a website called "Madness Hub". Nothing that a little superglue won't take care of.
And a shot of what's left of the engine:
Looks like the pilots earned their pay on that one.
OK, so I had to "duckduckgo" lmgtfy. Got that part.
No clue as to the "h" or the "F1:".
Standard English would be greatly appreciated here to avoid constant lmgtfy.
(He said grumpily.)
Whatever you folks are experiencing is something quite new. I've used Schwab for many years and never had any issues until recently, when logging in became flaky. It's been better, at least from here, in the last couple of weeks.
I experienced simi…
Exactly why I keep a few in the pickup. As far as airplanes, I would have been very happy to have had one to wear the last time that we flew to France. The jerk behind me coughed and hacked all over me for 5000 miles, and I spent the first two weeks…
Ignoring the representational nature of the commodity, isn't the real question the actual value of any of this stuff?
If no one other than companies of questionable value and dubious future will compensate us to borrow those small pieces of green p…
"When fiat [regular] currency has negative real interest, only a fool wouldn't look elsewhere. Bitcoin is almost as BS as fiat money. The key word is 'almost'."
From a current MFO post: "Musk trashes cash / defends bitcoin purchase"
OK, so let me see if I understand this correctly. A small piece of cardboard with the picture of a dead baseball player is believed to be worth 215,000 small pieces of green paper with the picture of a dead president. But then a few weeks later it's…
Yes, typical ultra macho right-wing crap. "Every man for himself". "No govenment interference!"
From a Texas town mayor, yesterday:
“No one owes you or your family anything; nor is it the local government’s responsibility to support you during tr…
Here's a bit of additional information excerpted from a recent article in the WSJ:
The billionaire Warren Buffett added two more big, American brands to Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s investment portfolio.
Mr. Buffett’s conglomerate has purchased $8.6 b…
Sometimes. For fifty years I've been trying to get my wife to address me as something along the lines of "lord" or "king" (not "messiah", though) and the facts have certainly countered my efforts. Then again, she's not religious either, so maybe you…
