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     Hootowl |
Maybe they should pump in some polyurethane foam. That’ll take the weight, and they could raise the city 15 feet, if they wanted. “global warming” solved with petrochemicals. That aught to get the greenies up in arms. LOL. | ||
| Aesquire |
Italian fixes for ground settling include many tons of lead keeping the Leaning Tower from falling over. While Italian scientists and engineers have been cutting edge in many fields, the governments have been less than intelligent on many occasions. Most recently, suing geologists for not predicting an earthquake soon enough, and warning HARD enough to save lives lost. Never mind they can't accurately predict earthquakes, or have any authority to order evacuation of a town on a guess. SOMEONE had to pay, and it wasn't going to be the government. Useless trivia: In WW2, specifically the years leading up to it, Italian Navy ship designers built some amazing Battleships. Understand, until the nuclear super Carrier, a Battleship was the biggest, most technological advanced object on Earth. The biggest guns ( yeah one stupendous railway gun was bigger. Almost useless, but bigger ) the most advanced fire control, range finding, boilers, turbines, even the most powerful computers, ( with gears and cams! ) on a moving platform designed to go up against the most powerful death dealing machines ever created. The peak of engineering prowess. Even the CERN collider is just some sophisticated test equipment and a lot of electro magnets on a long pipe. Buried in a long trench. It doesn't MOVE. Not at 30 knots! And battleships take years to make, the guns even longer. So every Navy's Real Strategy is guessing what they'll need in the Next War and build it in time. Italy only needed to rule the Mediterranean, so they didn't need the range that Britain did for it's wide flung colonies, or the U.S. with it's Pacific responsibility. They thought, correctly, their enemies would be France and Britain. So their designs were " unbalanced " by British standards. Big, long range guns, state of the art armor, extremely high speed... Real winners. Except. The government specs for the ammunition for the superbly accurate long range cannon, was, a bit loose? In a gun that shoots miles, the rotation of the Earth in angular relation to the spin of the projectile, matters. Having a few dozen pounds, more or less, difference in the amount of gunpowder in each powder bag? A hundred pounds difference in the weight of the over a ton bullet? ( including variation in the bursting charge carried ) So when the best ships at Sea, ( arguably ) finally went to war, actually hitting an enemy ship other than by accident, just couldn't be counted on. So you can understand my skepticism on Venice.  | ||
| Hootowl |
“suing geologists for not predicting an earthquake” The sad part is, the scientists lost the case. | ||
| Ebutch |
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| Aesquire |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/01/gre en-weenie-of-the-week-climate-crime-wave.php | ||
| Sifo |
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| Ducbsa |
Wind only 0.16% available? Thanks, Greenies! https://www.americanexperiment.org/2020/01/on-the- one-year-anniversary-of-the-polar-vortex-wind-was- 0-16-percent-productive/ | ||
| Hootowl |
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/stacy-abrams-plan s-to-be-president-by-2040 What a moron, thinking she can be president in 20 years. The world is going to end in less than 12. She needs a science lesson from one of her fellow Democrats. Or is she a climate denier? | ||
| Ourdee |
Now I'm torn. I have watched this couple for years on youtube, "Sailing La Vagabonde". I've also made fun of Greta for a little while. Then they do this: | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/02/r enewable_energy_fairy_tales.html | ||
| Sifo |
Sailing La Vagabonde and a few other youtube channels kind of bother me. You have people who ask for patreon donations so that they can live a dream life instead of supporting themselves with a job. I'm really not surprised to see them taking part in this charade. While I've enjoyed many of their videos, there is a vibe that just rubbed me wrong after a while. | ||
| Hootowl |
Hey, if people want to live vicariously through other people, and are willing to pay for it, it’s no skin off my nose. Heck, I live vicariously through this guy. He doesn’t beg for money though, just subscribers. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIMXKin1fXXCeq2UJ ePJEog | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/02/g lobal_warmings_50_years_of_fraud.html Democrats can’t count votes in Iowa in a reasonable time but they tell us they can control temperatures, sea levels and storm activity forever if we just hand them trillions of our hard earned dollars. Why the heck would anyone believe them? | ||
| Ducbsa |
This looks like an interesting site: https://the-pipeline.org/ | ||
| Ducbsa |
Nuclear! https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/ 2018/06/19/stop-letting-your-ridiculous-fears-of-n uclear-waste-kill-the-planet/#4f295e2c562e | ||
| Hootowl |
The deaths from burning “biomass” are disingenuously lumped in with those of fossil fuels. Nearly all of those deaths are caused by burning cow dung inside homes in undeveloped parts of the world. The rest are from coal plants, mostly in China. I cannot imagine a gas fired plant producing the sort of particulate pollution that causes respiratory issues. Coal plants in the US are quite clean. | ||
| Ducbsa |
Plastic bags https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4711 | ||
| Aesquire |
Just heard that plastic load on the garbage stream, and Carbon footprint, and plastic company profits to up where there is a "single use" bag ban. Makes me wonder how big the bribes were to NY legislators were. Or just how much to the Governor. He's many things, but not cheap. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/02/11/france-f ines-apple-41-million-for-slowing-down-old-iphones / Of course Apple slows it's old phones down to protect the consumer from old batteries! In other news, I have a bridge for sale. | ||
| Ratbuell |
...another reason I got away from Apple and went back to Android. Still miss my Blackberry, though. | ||
| Ducbsa |
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/02/r enewable_power_theatre_of_the_absurd.html | ||
| Aesquire |
https://babylonbee.com/news/woman-achieves-immorta lity-after-falling-into-vat-of-essential-oils | ||
| Ducbsa |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/02/glo bal-warming-in-a-few-charts.php | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/02/g lobal_warmings_50_years_of_fraud.html | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/02/progr essives_are_told_that_they_might_be_allowed_to_hav e_children_after_all.html? Just a few less trips to Amsterdam on your private jet to buy Edibles, and you can justify to yourself having a child! It's not the same as killing all the cows to prevent "meat is murder", but just as self indulgently delusional. https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/02/hydro gen_hyped_as_a_new_greenie_energy_panacea_in_austr alia.html For the nth time. Hydrogen is a battery. Used as an alternative to gasoline or natural gas, it is made by burning a Lot of energy to make a portable form you can temporarily store. You either turn fossil fuel into H2, at a big loss, or turn electricity into H2, at a big loss. Technically you could use hypersonic ramships to scoop H2 out of the atmosphere of Gas Giants, needing an extensive space industry, making fuel tanks in the Belt, and shuttling them to Saturn to be filled, then back to Earth to be emptied in the cars and trucks. ( Jupiter's radiation belts make it too expensive to mine with today's technology ) I'll bet just building solar panels on the Moon to install in orbit to supply the 140% of the planet's electrical needs is cheaper. ( The extra 40% is to make Hydrogen from water ) But it's best to assume we won't be smart enough to exploit the Solar System for our needs and instead turn inward to be more like California. Power rationed and poverty around the walled compounds of the Elite. Then there's the problems of shipping Hydrogen, storing it, loading it into your car ( while vaping ) and of course, building more power generation plants to make the Hydrogen in the first place. Sorry, but I loved the idea when it was revived in the 1970s from schemes from the 1950s, and was disappointed over the next half century that few of the problems were solved. The good news is, I understand they can now make fuel cells that are not so dangerous that it takes someone with the engineering skill and bravery of an Astronaut to run. That's not insignificant! There's just no infrastructure of pipes, tanks, technicians, and filling stations on the planet to use them. Or factories to make them. | ||
| Ducbsa |
Hydrogen is a dangerous commodity. The safe retail systems haven’t been developed yet. | ||
| Aesquire |
Not to mention burning Hydrogen in air produces a terrifyingly potent greenhouse gas! Thank Saint Greta of Thunburg we no longer have to worry about crisis change! | ||
| Ducbsa |
Is that dangerous gas the one that causes flooding if it condenses? | ||
| Aesquire |
I was all in favor of the Hydrogen Economy. Cheap, clean, nuclear power and the end to burning fossil fuels. Oil could be used to make plastic instead. McDonald's had just cut pollution by going from cardboard to foam plastic containers, less trees cut down! Food stays warm longer! Ah! A Golden Age! Unfortunately, the darn stuff leaks through steel. It's explosive in a scary wide range of mixture with air. Luckily, it escapes up when spilled. We still had an explosion at the Airport when the tank leaked a few years ago. Don't get me going on liquid Hydrogen. It exists in ortho & para forms, spontaneously decays from one to the other, which is an exothermic process, boiling the deadly cold stuff faster. And it has to be kept cold enough to make ordinary stainless steel brittle. Shatter like glass. I wouldn't trust most idiots to deal with cryogenic Nitrogen, and that's nearly room temperature. ( half the people are below average ) If they ever get metal hydride matrix storage safe enough to be practical, then it's still a viable long term replacement, but the next generation of batteries is getting closer to the energy density of compressed hydrogen gas. ( which utterly sucks compared to a plastic tank of alcohol ) | ||
| Ducbsa |
New Yorkers are suffering by banning fracking https://pennbizreport.com/news/15482-study-funded- in-part-by-pa-dep-finds-no-evidence-fracking-waste -harming-pennsylvania-streams/ |
