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by barney54 10y ago
For another view of this issue: https://climateaudit.org/tag/gergis/
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by barney54 10y ago
I agree 100% that a history major should important critical thinking skills, but how often does that happen in the real world? My concern is that critical thinking is frequently not taught in college.
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by barney54 10y ago
The kids (at least teenagers) dig Tesla. A friend of mine owns one and the teenagers are church are always wrangling for rides.
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by barney54 10y ago
I see I have been downvoted a few times. What's your argument? Where do you disagree? I'd like to hear an alternative viewpoint.
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by barney54 10y ago
I used to think the US would go metric, but more recently I'm not sure. The biggest question is what is the advantage for every day purposes? For example, a foot is a more useful measurement than the meter. Fahrenheit is more useful th
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by barney54 10y ago
With coast-to-coast travel, time spent in the airport is a much lower fraction of travel time. That's why the coast-to-coast flights make sense for supersonic travel. We don't know if the cost/benefit math works out until peo
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by barney54 10y ago
The slower speeds waste a non-renewable resource--time. Extra time spent travelling is time that we can't get back.
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by barney54 10y ago
Read Ronald Coase's Nature of the Firm: http://www3.nccu.edu.tw/~jsfeng/CPEC11.pdf It isn't really that firms are communist internally, but that firms exist to reduce transactions costs. Such as contracting f
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by barney54 10y ago
The Clean Air Act allows the federal government to give CA the ability to set alternative standards for car emission controls, but it isn't likely it allows CA to ban all fueled vehicles.
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by barney54 10y ago
This is one reason I refuse to use Facebook's messaging app. There are plenty of ways to contact me on my phone. My friends know what they are. I don't see some Facebook messages, but that's just too bad.
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by barney54 10y ago
And hopefully there will be more people who refuse to instal another messaging app.
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by barney54 10y ago
The LA Times' title for this article is wrong. California does not generate electricity from coal, however, California uses a lot of electricity generated from coal. As the article notes near the end, California uses electricity from c
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by barney54 10y ago
As tosseraccount wrote, "Temperature changes that are accurately predicted by models..."
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by barney54 10y ago
Do you share you honey with your neighbors as a way of encouraging them to not use chemicals on their lawns and yards?
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by barney54 10y ago
Electric cars still use a lot of copper... http://jalopnik.com/ever-wondered-how-much-copper-goes-into-...
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by barney54 10y ago
I think the reason has to do with the perception that ridership should be rapidly increasing and it isn't. Population is up, urbanization, is up, but public transit isn't keeping pace. That's an interesting story because it i
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by barney54 10y ago
The peak demand in California yesterday was at 8:15 pm and solar produced zero electricity at 8:00 pm. http://content.caiso.com/green/renewrpt/20160503_DailyRenewa... But that's that the biggest problem. The
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by barney54 10y ago
No. According to the US Energy Information Administration, coal is dispatchable. https://www.eia.gov/forecasts/aeo/electricity_generation.cfm It is correct that coal does not ramp up or down quickly, but that is n
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by barney54 10y ago
No. They discontinued the larger battery and it isn't designed to operate at grid scale. http://gizmodo.com/tesla-is-discontinuing-its-10-kilowatt-po...
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by barney54 10y ago
One very important thing missing is that solar is not dispatchable. It does not serve the same purpose as coal and it is an apples to oranges comparison between solar and coal. Coal provides baseless power--coal plants are designed to run a
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by barney54 10y ago
They will is they get subsidies to do so.
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by barney54 11y ago
But the vested interests(teacher's unions) aren't vested to protect educational outcomes, but the teachers. I don't see why we should trust them more than large donors to charter school campaigns.
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by barney54 11y ago
How do people overuse Excel?
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by barney54 11y ago
I'm a bit skeptical of scaling up Solar Impulse. The plane only has room for one person. If the plane could care another 250 pounds for another person and gear, I'm sure they would have done it. And Solar Impulse has a 200 foot wi
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by barney54 11y ago
The Solar Impulse is really cool technology. It also shows why oil use has been so prolific. the energy-to-weight ratio of jet fuel is a marvel when you consider the size of today's jet aircraft and the distances they fly with hundreds
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Ad blockers are breaking the internet, study finds(telegraph.co.uk)
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by barney54 11y ago
The need for reliable energy or energy when the sun is not shining is critical important--according to the people of India. For example, according to this article in ClimateWire (a trade pub) http://www.eenews.net/climatewir
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by barney54 11y ago
If these are good actions, then do more. What's the point of half measures?
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by barney54 11y ago
I would rather they focus on making money for Norwegians and making the lives of people in other country better.
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by barney54 11y ago
Along with a heaping dose of hypocrisy. If the co2 from coal is bad, then the same is true for the coal from oil and natural gas.

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