| Author | Message | ||
     Aesquire |
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/06/r are_earth_minerals_and_thorium.html It's just as foolish to buy all our rare earth elements from Red China as it is to be dependent upon Arab oil. Worse, because China is going into an expansionist phase, and it will be our dollars that paid for the fighters & bombers & landing craft China will invade Taiwan with. The minute they will think they can get away with it. For example, if any of the hard left Democrat/Socialist party become President. So, unless there is a major change in political trends, it's 2-6 years away from war in the Pacific. We could cut off Iranian oil exports to China, but that's a fairly drastic move. It's a two-fer, hitting 2 enemies at one blow, and would be fairly effective, but best saved for when we need to really crank up the pressure, not for this current grade negotiation. RE: the above article, we need Congress to rewrite some environmental rules to reopen our rare earth elements mines and start really getting us less dependent on fossil fuels. If we can replace most of the electric power generation suggests clean nuclear, we reduce soit, CO2, and home heating costs for millions of Americans. I wonder if the needed regulatory changes can simply be done at the Agency level? | ||
| Aesquire |
Wuscokid, I'm still waiting to hear why you think I believe that man doesn't affect the environment? Was it ignorance of several years of examples I've already given? Reflexive parroting of the vicious lie that anyone who questions the computer models that fail to fit the actual climate, must be some kind of monster by equating them with holocaust deniers? ( you know like the Congresscritter from Minnesota ) Do you think that a trillion dollar tax on the poor and middle class will change the planet's average temperature if given to a bunch of power obsessed lawyers and a former taco waitress? Have you heard of the Sahara forest? Have you ever taken meteorology? Al Gore did. He got a D. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/06/windm ills_versus_nuclear_energy.html Chernobyl was a graphite reactor in a sheet metal warehouse type building. No stainless steel containment can/dome. Like a home heating furnace made of pine. A little foil & space for the flames to cool off, and it "works" as long as you maintain it properly. In Socialist Utopia, maintenance is fantasy, and in Russia, training... Let's just say imagine The Chicago Way with nukes. Relatives with no qualification get the best jobs. Graphite reactors are basically a pile of bricks made from coal. As you stack the bricks you place enriched Uranium lumps in a carefully planned geometric pattern with bars of special, neutron absorbing metal that keep it all from killing the builders as they stack graphite bricks. Then the operator slowly pulls the bars, control rods, out of the pile of graphite bricks until he gets a chain reaction, and keeps it limited by sliding them in & out. The original one in Chicago was run by hand. Modern reactors use powered rods, pushed/pulled with electric power and/or hydraulics. Hey, the original reactor was an experiment. Hey, bubba, watch this with Phds. It was a proof of concept, not a practical industrial power plant. Chernobyl was a budget copy of this experimental reactor. A stolen design scaled up to Soviet gigantism. Stalin had a thing for Size. It would be interesting to read the diaries of any women he "knew". Everything had to be bigger than the West had. A shrink would have a field day with that obsession.  Safety was way down on the list of priorities in Soviet designs. Ask any submarine crewman. If you can find any. | ||
| Chauly |
The first Nuclear Safety System was a large Boron rod suspended over the pile on a rope. At the other end was a man with an ax. If it went too far, his job was to chop the rope... and SCRAM! It's been called that ever since. (Message edited by Chauly on June 04, 2019) | ||
| Ebutch |
Teenage Fallout Queen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RJUYlzgQwU Crawl Out Through The fallout Baby. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XPzICHxXoQ | ||
| Ebutch |
Atomic Nightmare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RrmeJbGQqk | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.americanexperiment.org/2019/06/sam-roc kwell-clueless-cars-climate/ Love the videos! | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/06/t he_summer_of_climate_change_discontent.html | ||
| Ratbuell |
maybe a mini-ice-age is the culling we need as a society. Liberals like to "welcome" illegals and non-producers to live, shit, and drop needles all over their streets; maybe a mini-ice-age will clear out some of the liberal voting demographic due to exposure? Leaving us productive, "privileged wealthy" conservatives in our safe, climate-controlled homes to reclaim some semblance of society before it's too late... People forget - the earth is cyclical. Day/night. Monthly moon cycles. Tidal pull. Spring/summer/fall/winter. This...is just a longer-time cycle is all. Long-term summer/winter or heat/cool. It's just time for the earth to do what it does. Over, and over again, for millenia. We are nothing but passengers. The strong and prepared will survive, if the temperature swing goes that far. 'Natural selection', as opposed to 'entitlement' like the Libs would have us believe. | ||
| Aesquire |
If it snows in San Francisco & LA, the "nice folk" in charge of their welfare & illegal voter registration will just commandeer the schools and the homes of you running dog capitalists. ( not their own, of course. Socialists don't do charity as a rule ) I assume they will use voter registration records to decide who to kick out of their homes to house the many, much more important, Democrat votes. If that sounds like paranoia, then maybe you missed a Congress thug "doxing" young women who disagree with him. Basically asking the Mob to assault them and attack their parent's homes. I'm thankful I have not yet been so threatened by anyone. Given a situation where an untouchable public servant ( who seriously believes he's a superior Master of us ) points the Mob at me, with no legal recourse, I fear my reaction would be somewhat old fashioned. Especially if it was an overt threat against a female relative. I'd like to think "I'm better than that". I really would. | ||
| Airbozo |
"We are nothing but passengers." More like highly annoying back seat drivers that just won't shut up. Man's impact on the planet is not insignificant and the cycle of our yearly climate is a barely measurable spike on the long term sine wave. But so is man's existence. There were some talks about how to deal with the rising oceans and the displacement of millions of people. Comments were made about people having to share their houses and property with those that have been displaced. Socialist policies to force those that didn't want to live near the water, to share their stuff. Even have it forcibly taken away for the good of the community. Eminent domain on steroids. Cities like Santa Cruz are trying to figure out whose land to steal to move their government buildings to. When cities like San Francisco or Bong Leach start thinking like this, the whole state (and possibly country) is in trouble. | ||
| Ratbuell |
I'd like to think that as well, especially if it came to siezing MY home (or that of any of my similarly-productive friends and neighbors). But...I have 19" thick stone walls, and good sightlines. Just in case. I've worked too hard to simply give my stuff away at the whim of some elected •••••• who isn't giving anything of THEIRS away. "Do as I say, not as I do" carries zero weight with me. | ||
| Ratbuell |
I have family on an island (St Augustine, FL), just inland of the Atlantic and subject to quite a few flood events, but not nearly as bad as the actual beach (and my father had the foresight to raise his lot four FEET before building the house, putting them three tiers down the flood insurance threat ladder and making the house "high ground" so mom can throw her "you ain't comin' in without wine" hurricane parties). It constantly amazes us how often insurance companies will rebuild these houses ON THE BEACH, after yet another storm wipes out the beach, the dunes, and the homes. Insurance policies should carry a "three strikes" clause - build on the sand, we'll rebuild you. Three times. After that...move, because Mother Nature is obviously smarter than you are. Or pony up your own cash to rebuild, because we want no part of it. The definition of insanity is... | ||
| Aesquire |
I understand Mammoth will have skiing until August. Flooding is the major threat for the water system in CA. Flooding in the Midwest has delayed corn planting & a LOT of land won't be dry enough to plant at all this year. Already plans are to cut back on booze for fuel corn & to plant more human and livestock corn. Expect gasoline and tortilla prices to rise. These are all short term cooling results. Sunspots are very low. Looks like Global Cooling trends for the next decade? | ||
| Airbozo |
Squaw Valley is still open. Offering $5 friday's all June. Some free tickets can be had if you know the right people. WOord is the snow pack is so dense, that when it starts thawing for real, that many of the rivers will be heavily impacted. Water restrictions are still in place in my area. Go figure. They are trying to justify charging us more money for less water use. | ||
| Aesquire |
Victor Davis Hanson http://victorhanson.com is a Californian and has written about the water system in CA. Short form. They had grand plans, most of it pretty smart. But as soon as the rich neighborhoods were assured reliable water, the politicians in Frisco & LA & San Diego, wanted that money for social programs to Bribe their voters, and didn't care about the farmers or folk who didn't live in the urban centers & wouldn't be voting for them. There was & is an element of "we don't want more people living in our recreational areas" and eco snobbery. Understandable. More than one flying site in my state has been closed because a tract of homes filled a former farm field. Ditto dirt biking, etc. But now they have a half finished system that is fragile and missing important pipelines & flood control. With no plan to ever actually fix or finish it. Because.... The Pelosi family has theirs, and to Heck with you, peasants. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/06/here_ comes_another_global_disaster.html Next month it's non salted water pouring into our oceans diluting the precarious salt balance! All rivers must be stopped immediately to prevent salt dilution! So, obviously, we must ban tap water in the United States! Wash our dishes and wipe our butts with sand & moss. Our wastes must be packaged and recycled! So mail them to Congress @ the following addresses. https://contactingcongress.org Remember to pack your waste products in plastic! Your Congresscritter will know how to recycle the plastic! Your mail person will thank you for supporting the non profit organization exploited by Congress. ( an institution older than Congress, and far more trusted and responsible. You might notice that a Postal worker who breaks the law, say, by hiding mail instead of doing their job, gets fired, prosecuted, and put in prison. While a Congresscritter that breaks the law and fails to represent the best interests of their constituents just gets richer and more arrogant. ) Next week. Why D.C. REALLY stinks! | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/06/the_f eds_tech_and_accountability.html At the jagged intersection between rights, technology, and justice. On one hand, you, a private citizen, have a reasonable expectation not to have your face and actions posted on video to the planet without permission. On the other hand, that expectation is an obsolete fantasy from an ancient history. Everyone has a video camera that can live stream to social media. Stupid or unpopular acts may be posted, your identity revealed, your home address and your children's school schedule revealed, and threats of murder, rape, and child abduction and torture/abuse made just because you expressed an unpopular opinion. For example, that criminals in the commission of a crime might be prosecuted instead of being paid with your tax dollars. If this unreasonable racist attitude is applied to illegal immigrants or Congress, protected species in the New Normal, your life may be under real threat of destruction. Fired from your job, denied loans, even mobs of thugs chanting calls for your families violent murder. Yes it does happen. Here. The entire subject of body cams as protection for the public against police abuse of us, and protection against false charges for police, is morally & logically complicated. Hey!, If it was simple and unambiguous, it would be comment sense and not the mess worth arguing it is. | ||
| Ratbuell |
From above: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/06/here_ comes_another_global_disaster.html To quote/paraphrase the late, great George Carlin - "maybe the earth created us (humans) because it wanted plastic for itself...and it didn't know how to make it. It's the answer to the age-old question "why am I here?" - PLASTIC...•••••••..." https://duckduckgo.com/?q=carlin+earth+plus+plasti c&atb=v137-1&ia=videos&iax=videos&iai=NBRquiS1pis | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2019/06/07 /jay-inslee-trumps-opinion-on-global-warming-is-tr eason/ Funny that I think Jay Inslee is a lying sack of idiot exploitation with zero science or moral credibility. I'd welcome an honest discussion about Climate Change, but know he will never allow one. First rule for evil people with a losing argument is to accuse the people that aren't dishonest of horrible characters. Lying, treadonous, neo-nazi , Jay accuses with zero evidence of justification. By their tactics you will know them. If the response to a question is to attack the other person personally, and their only defense is that the matter is settled and they won't demean themselves to answer the question.... They are lying to you. And know it. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/06/anoth er_inconvenient_truth.html A dishonest editorial. Our human energy production, from stored power like coal & Uranium that is released by our technology, is not considered a factor in greenhouse gas emissions except as a byproduct. How many megawatts you produce has zero direct effect, ( as claimed in the above article ) and is not part of the faulty computer models used by the Watermelon con men. ( or holy saviours if you drink that Kool-Aid ) It's the greenhouse gases released by burning organic carbon based stored solar energy, like oil, coal, wood, etc. that is the concern of Climate Con fans. The effects of greenhouse gases is considered a force multiplier out of proportion to energy heating the world directly. ( see Urban heat island ) How important human emitted CO2 is in Climate Change is not yet understood. Those who claim it is the primary pump are obviously wrong based on actual data before the fraud adjustments are made. Those who claim man released CO2 has no effect are also wrong. But the best long term real data available seems to indicate an effect drowned out & heavily dominated by Solar output Plus! high altitude clouds created by Cosmic rays, particles that have penetrated the radiation belts charged by Solar winds, that block more cloud seeding particles when the Sunspot activity is higher, and less in low sunspot times. This cloud variation appears to be a far more important factor than CO2, and needs better understanding to create models that actually work. The above article, as I said, is dishonest. http://utminers.utep.edu/omwilliamson/engl1311/fal lacies.htm It uses a false analogy. Heat production is not considered a Global issue, only local, for example a stream warmed by a power plant may have altered ecology, different fish and plants than a colder stream nearby. Somewhat ironically, some excellent science fiction, example Larry Niven's Known World series, has a massively overpopulated Earth with strict birth control laws, that actually is warmer than today, in spite of a Solar cooling trend, because of the many fusion power plants waste heat. ( also the oceans are inches lower because of deuterium extraction from the Seas to feed the power plants ) As Niven had his assumptions checked for that "prediction", it's a reasonable expectation albeit pushed to the edge of the envelope. | ||
| Ducbsa |
https://issuesinsights.com/2019/06/09/great-lakes- reveal-the-fatal-flaw-in-global-warming-science/ | ||
| Ducbsa |
https://www.americanexperiment.org/2019/06/energy- industry-produce-energy-not-jobs/ | ||
| Ratbuell |
That covers the labor expense side. How about the chemical/manufacturing side of things like solar (panels, batteries)? Not just on the construction side, but how about on the worn-out/disposal side? Battery acid, in the mass quantities required by "expanding green energy", isn't going to be a good thing when it comes disposal time... | ||
| Aesquire |
Acid? Not any more. It's poisonous metals now. Sulfuric acid is easy to get rid off. Buffer and bury. The lead is more of a problem but we recycle it. But lead acid isn't used anywhere but vehicle starters, trolling motors,and backup sump pumps. No real change in use for decades. ( I exaggerate, but not much ) Hybrid and electric vehicles, portable devices, that's mostly lithium or other metal chemistry. A whole different level of bad waste product. | ||
| Zac4mac |
Lead is used in bullets. Along with copper. Why do you think 1943-45 pennies were steel. Pb is pretty steady at a dollar a pound. Z In 2014, Chris Everrett said - According to Small arms survey figures and estimates, about 12 billion rounds of ammunition are produced per year. I would guess that most of this (10 billion rounds, at least) is fired. <edit> surprised nobody called me on this, the only year pennies were steel was 1943, with a couple dozen accidentally struck in 1944. (Message edited by zac4mac on June 12, 2019) | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/06/cycle s_not_carbon_dioxide_control_climate.html Well written. There was a study of extinction events cycles. Some mass extinction events are periodic. Ice ages, for example. Asteroid impacts are another, as statistics show a big hit every x years, on average, with corrections for the earlier years with more rocks and less later. But still certain as the gravity wells of Jupiter & the other gas giants constantly pump rocks and comets from the outer cloud ( asteroid belt ) to plummet down the Solar gravity well. Where we live and have & will get hit. Statistics can be misleading. We are "overdue" for a big hit ( civilization wrecker, ice age trigger, even Dino killer level ) but the numbers are averages, not predicting. Could be next year or ten thousand. And there could have been civilization wrecker events on a fairly small scale thousands of years ago. A rock that ocean impacts and super tsunami wipes out a nation the size of, say The British Isles, may not have left a trace. Today, with global communications and tech civilization all over the world, we'd know about it. But if our hypothetical "Atlantis" grew in, say, Indonesia or Florida, soon after the last Ice age cycle, before Egypt or Ur, it could be wiped out without any traces found yet today . Is that likely? You tell me. So.... Cycles. 70,000 year super volcano cycle. X year asteroid cycle. Various magnetic field cycles. Solar cycles. All overlapping and repeating. And the computers found another, really long one. A cycle that didn't have any known solar or solar system match for timing. And it's a "everything not living in ocean floor mud died" extinction event cycle. The only tempo in this heart beat of doom they could figure out is Galactic. If you assume a thing closer to the galactic core, roughly half way in from us, then we sweep by this thing at the right frequency to match the mass deaths. We now know that neutron stars and black holes can create beams of radiation from infalling matter. We don't know how long such a phenomenon lasts. But if you assume a natural, gravity pumped gamma ray laser that sweeps the galaxy of life as it circles the core with the other stars in It's orbit, you get a rational , if terrifying, explanation for this apparent cycle. Is it real? I don't know. We'll need interstellar probes to find out, and there's no apparent hurry, ( iirc the cycle won't repeat for millions of years ) but it's an interesting result of trying to figure out why our planet gets clobbered back to primitive life again & again. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/06/elect ric_vehicles_are_overhyped.html | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/06/ano ther-pane-of-glass.php | ||
| Ducbsa |
Alert! Taqiyya in action ! https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/13/un-chief-time-m agazine-cover/ |
