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No, it was not "Jews that invented the nuclear bomb". It was a whole team of scientists. Yes, there were Jews on that team, Do you remember Feynman whom I mentioned earlier? He was one of them. I am not going to go over all of the scientists involved, right now I can only think of Oppenheimer, also Jewish, and Fermi, definitely not Jewish. In fact he is Roman Catholic. You are sounding as silly as Christian creationists that try to claim that science is a Christian invention. The sciences do not care about religious beliefs at all. Yes, at one point there was a very high percentage of the top scientists of the world that were Jewish. Now most of the top scientists of the world are atheists. That does not mean that science now belongs to the atheists.You can believe what you want. The Jewsare God's chosen people. It was Jew that invented the nuclear bomb. It was also a Jew that invented a vaccine against polio. Jews owned most if not all of Hollywood in the 1930s and the 1940s. Jews owned the largest investment banking firm in America and probably in the world. The world's wealthiest investment banking family at one time was the Jewish Rothchilds
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Storing it is one matter, but securing it is another. There are people who would like to get their hands on it to do bad things.
Wow your a strange one. Goods and services do not appear out of thin air. Free market capitalism makes it possible. If you want more of something you subsidize it. And if you want less of something you tax it.
Do immigrants not have a right to life? Do you value only your own tribe?
I understand your point, but aren't we destroying the goose that lays the golden eggs? Overused resources create a momentary prosperity, but a crash follows. They also create a population boom, which accelerates the resource depletion.
It seems an expensive, difficult to implement and potentially hazardous energy source, given the currently developing alternatives.
Unregulated, "free" capitalism exploits, and sees 'services' as unproductive costs.
It is amazing that there is so much of an irrational negative reaction to solar and wind. The levelized cost of those two sources make them the two cheapest sources of energy out there. All I see are petty or rather ignorant objections. The one problem with them is the time that it takes to set up the various wind farms or solar power plants. That is the main reason that Texas's instant reaction to their Ted Cruz I am going to Cabo power crisis was of building more gas powered plants. One can build those rather quickly. But their power is at least twice that of green alternatives. They needed a solution "now".
It's the term for those forced to flee impossible circumstances, usually through no fault of their own; circumstances often created by the exploitative prosperity and industry of the 'developed' countries that are now trying to keep them out.
You're in good company as there are a lot of "running out of oil" folks around. Somehow, the idea sounds pretty goofy given that we've gone so long (going on two centuries now) w/ oil getting easier and easier to mine, and we still got no shortages/pricehikes.
--and shortages/pricehikes haven't happened yet and they show no sign of beginning. I'm just not seeing the "supply dwindles, more difficult sources" any where near to be happening yet.
That is because it is a slow process. If you are old enough you will remember gas wars. Where rivaling gas stations would see which one could have the lowest price. Oil prices are often a leading cause of inflation. That means that in the period between where they raised their prices and everything else climbs up to that level they made extra profits for a while.
Reserves are proven to run out in 50 years.
Our home is air conditioned from the power we harvest from our roof.
Global warming is here already. Turn on the news some time if extreme weather hasn't already arrived where you live. It hit us for the first time this year with a six- or eight-week heat wave (mid- to high nineties Fahrenheit) that just ended. Fortunately, we had air conditioning, which we ran for free.
My understanding is that much of the southern border problem is due to both political and climate refugees coming north through Mexico: https://www.caf.com/en/currently/news/2023/12/climate-change-worsens-the-migration-crisis-in-latin-america-and-the-caribbean/#:~:text=By 2050, the most pessimistic,Caribbean, according to the WMO.
And now they've been proven to contribute to AGW.
As @Subduction Zone mentioned, that's a different problem. We can divide pollutants into two categories. First, we have the pollutants that make the air unhealthy to breath, the water unhealthy to drink and for aquatic life to thrive, and those that pollute the soil. Call them dirty pollutants. Smog in big cities falls here. So did atmospheric lead before unleaded gasoline
You're referring to fossil fuels now, but one of the predictions with global warming is war and other violence: https://www.npr.org/2021/10/26/1049...-having-a-negative-impact-on-national-securit
Our home has been mostly powered by the sun for thirteen years now. We still burn some propane, but no longer use it to heat water (showers, dishwasher, clothes washer), just to cook (stovetop and barbecue grills). All of that paid for itself after 6-7 years, and our electricity has been free since. Even a climate denier might like free power.
Not here they don't. Your only credentials on RF are your posts. You've already demonstrated your level of understanding about global warming. I guess that you're probably not also a flat earther giving your rotating marshmallow comment, so you've got that going for you. But will you come over sooner or later? It will be one of those.
Do you disagree that there is a limited amount
Right on my friend. Let the fracking begin!
Two good sources of renewable energy are tides and the electrochemical potential between fresh and salt water or where rivers meet the oceans. Tides are very reliable. One passive way to tap into this power source is to have floating islands, that passively rise with the tides, and as the tide goes out, the weight of the island turns a number of pillar generators to make electricity. As the tide comes in, the lifting of the island can also make electricity and store the extra potential energy in the lift.
Hydrogen is extremely explosive. I think Toyota has given up on their hydrogen fuel cell venture. EV's are another black hole for money with no up side. I think the public has figured that out.Two good sources of renewable energy are tides and the electrochemical potential between fresh and salt water or where rivers meet the oceans. Tides are very reliable. One passive way to tap into this power source is to have floating islands, that passively rise with the tides, and as the tide goes out, the weight of the island turns a number of pillar generators to make electricity. As the tide comes in, the lifting of the island can also make electricity and store the extra potential energy in the lift.
The other; using salt and fresh water, is already in development using a battery that you flush with the two water streams to generate electricity.
River water and salty ocean water used to generate electricity.
Solar is good, but it does not work everywhere as well. It tends to be seasonal; best in summer, and day but not night dependent, with home size batteries still too expensive to store the extra from peak times to be used in needy times. One still needs supplemental electricity that comes from fossil fuels, each night and other times of the year.
I remember, I did some energy research projects, as a Graduate Student, for the DOE, at one of the National Labs. One of the way discussed was to store the extra electricity from peak solar and green energy, into a large heavy spinning fly wheel. We can get the electricity back, when needed; night, by using the energy in the angular momentum. That idea was in the 1980's. Today there is a 20 megawatt system in operation.
World's Largest Flywheel Energy Storage System
A more modern approach would be to use excess solar and green energy to generate hydrogen gas. Hydrogen gas is portable and has very long term storage ability, that can be used for heat or in fuel cells to generate electricity; winter time. Hydrogen is the future. it allows us to replace batteries with hydrogen powered fuel cells that are smaller and pack more punch; best weight to energy ratio. One prototype hydrogen fuel cell electric car has a top speed of 220 mph, but can get 1000 miles per refill on eco-mode.