Interesting.
Science, unlike other explanations for the great questions, can question itself without bringing down the whole belief set like a house of cards.
You know what's funny? The big bang theory was resisted by many when it was first proposed, because of the plainly theistic implications of an absolute beginning.
I clicked through a few articles and they don't really talk about range. I've got a small popup camper, about 1300 lbs empty. Will I be able to get to the campsite (3 hour drive) on 1 charge? Will I be able to get home without charging, or do I have to get an electric site or find a charging station? Right now they are talking about the styling, but if they want to sell these things, they need to talk about the capability so that different users can determine whether or not this truck will is going to work for them.
There? I think you'll make it just fine. There and back? Not so sure. It looks like the F150 Lightning Range is about 300 miles with the larger battery pack. Towing a similar sized camper a similar distance last year (with my 3.5L Ecoboost F150), my gas mileage went down to 17 MPG (vs 19 MPG unladen).
So if the lightning's range is impacted by that load in a similar fashion, you're looking at a range closer to 268 miles. That looks about like 4 hours of driving to me, though maybe 5 or 6 on back roads.
(YMMV, literally)
Your paper proves that you can write a lot without saying much.
First, the author conflates birth defects (intersex) with willful body modification (surgery and hormone treatments). No one is complaining about intersex people. No one. To drag them in to provide cover for what amounts to accusations of cheating is disingenuous.
Second, read all his conclusions. He uses the terms 'may' and 'no evidence' a great deal. He engages in a great deal of speculation than the people who want to ban males from competing against women, but he slathers on some science-talk, which blinds some folks. The people who he argues against have common experience on their side (men are bigger, stronger, faster than women); the author has 'may' and 'no evidence' on his side.
The only actual evidence he offers up is item 51, a small study of 8 long distance runners who have had hormone injections. That's it. That's all his evidence. Everything else is either speculation or a political position.
I distinctly remember seeing private security vehicles driving around notoriously dangerous South Africa, advertising "Real Help, Real Fast.", and that was 20 years ago.
This is what happens when the publicly (de)funded police become worthless; the private sector finds a way. So yes, make all the obvious jokes of mercenaries-as-a-service, etc. It's sad commentary that there is a market for this, and even worse that our cities appear headed the same way as JoBerg.
Rich people are protected. The middle class and the poor deal with anarchy. The murder rate is currently way up in Democrat-controlled cities that have attacked the police. For the most part, it's not wealthy white liberals paying the price for their ideas.
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Evidently, claims of having "debunked" it were premature, and what was presented as a fact, was merely an opinion.
How many new gas plants has Scotland built to "back up" its wind plants?
Oh? Zero?
Sorry, read some books about the topic, idiot.
Do you believe that the favorable wind generating conditions for Scotland exist world wide? That's plainly not the case. Your 'point', such as it is, seems to rely on that sentiment.
You seem angry. That might cloud your responses, which aren't technical in the slightest. You can read the books, I'll continue to produce and distribute electricity for my day job.
If you're going to refer to a problem that's 10 years in the past, you really ought to be specific. Else it's reasonable to assume you're referring to the problem 10-ish weeks in the past.
You can add all the nukes you want. The power grid isn't going to deliver more power. It shuts down in California every time there is a windy day or is too hot, and in Texas when it gets cold. Why assume this decline will stop there? Considering there is no plan in place to improve it. And the feds haven't done much to address our grid's weakness to cyber attack.
The power lines were never the problem in Texas; unwinterized power plants were.
California is it's own kind of dumb with several layers of problems; suffice it to say the state government is an incompetent regulator, or to be kinder, has other priorities than reliable electrical supply.
If we had pursued nuclear energy decades ago we would have saved millions more from air pollution, mitigated climate change and reduced poverty.
The same is true for solar, wind and batteries.
Solar, wind & batteries can't provide the same quality of life improvement nuclear can. I'll tell you why.
You can't add enough batteries to solar and wind to make them reliable. Nuclear has the advantage of being reliable. For every huge windfarm or solar farm built, you need a large, fast-acting natural gas plant in spinning reserve ready to take up the slack. That also means that solar and wind will be limited to a small fraction of electrical generation, because all the other sources have to be ready to pick up the slack when the clouds come out and the wind dies down. Those reliable power plants still need time to ramp up and down, and if they can't ramp fast enough to account for the loss of 'green' generation, then the grid operator has to drop cities and counties off the grid. Lights out. Search for 'Duck Bill Curve.' I just refreshed myself, and besides the power generation problem, you also have a frequency control problem.
For frequency control, it turns out that several thousand tons of spinning turbine generators- in nuclear and conventional plants- stabilize the grid in ways that solar inverters & wind turbines can't. Rotational inertia matters a great deal.
The amount of electricity flowing through the grid is so mind-bogglingly high that electricity must be produced at the same rate it is consumed. Batteries and other storage methods can smooth out short-term problems, but building enough energy storage to make wind and solar significant energy sources is an economic and physical non- starter.
Some folks might be fine with that because they bought expensive, automatic backup generators, but I ask all of you to think of other folks might be out of luck for longer than 20 seconds. (Not to mention that backup generator operation cancels out any theoretical environmental gains.)
On a side note: The resulting claim with my insurance company was a huge pain in the ass. They wanted me to hire a third party to assess the damage THEN they complained about the third party as if that was my idea. I like the concept of insurance but I feel like here in the USA it's just a layer of complication that allows middlemen to get rich at the expense of us too busy to dedicate hours of time to maintaining the claim.
Insurance companies have a good faith obligation to carry out their contractual obligations in a decent and professional manner.
If you ever feel like you're getting the run-around from an insurer when making a claim, ask them if they feel like they're living up to the highest standards of good faith dealing and if they think your state's insurance board would agree.
And if they don't clean up their act, said insurance commission and any number of lawyers would be happy to help them 'move in the right direction.'
...that "Ever Given" will soon be renamed to "Ever Gift". I have consulted with a medium and that person assures me that on the vessel's next trip from the orient to europe she will be laden with containers full of christmas/holiday toys and will once again become wedged in the Suez Canal. Said containers will fall off the bow and, when asked to explain how that could happen yet again, the Suez pilot will state, "well, this is the Gift that keeps on Given"
Turns out the Ever Given has a sister ship named the Ever Gifted , and it's steaming from Rotterdam to Sri Lanka at 20 km/hr.
What is it with strong, powerful women that brings out al the internet troll trash? Every post is either spam or veiled white suprematism?
Trump got voted out and smart, powerful women got voted in.
If you had anything of substance to say to defend Warren, you would have said it. Since you don't, you cry "RACIST" and "SEXIST!."
Nuclear power is abundant and reliable, but cheap it is not. If it were, you'd see nuclear plants being built left and right. But a new nuke is a $10 billion proposition that produces power at a higher cost than wind and solar. If you are a business in it to make money, you aren't building nuclear.
Nuclear construction in the US right now is an absolute boondoggle. I'm glad they're sticking it out at Vogtle, because we need to essentially restart the nuclear construction industry in the US and re-develop the institutional knowledge necessary to build on-time and on-schedule. We build big, complicated projects on-time and on-budget all the time in the US; we just need to re-learn how to do it with that that "N" quality stamp.
That being said, there are a number of companies that are getting very efficient at running nuclear power plants, and the O&M costs are frequently very competitive with other sources of power. The fuel costs are so phenomenally cheap that the extra personnel costs aren't deal-breakers.
Well said! You reminded me of a passage from de Tocqueville's Democracy in America
In ages of fervent devotion men sometimes abandon their religion, but they only shake one off in order to adopt another. Their faith changes its objects, but suffers no decline.
That's the most famous bit; the rest of the paragraph is rather relevant as well:
The old religion then excites enthusiastic attachment or bitter enmity in either party; some leave it with anger, others cling to it with increased devotedness, and although persuasions differ, irreligion is unknown. Such, however, is not the case when a religious belief is secretly undermined by doctrines which may be termed negative, since they deny the truth of one religion without affirming that of any other. Prodigious revolutions then take place in the human mind, without the apparent co-operation of the passions of man, and almost without his knowledge. Men lose the objects of their fondest hopes as if through forgetfulness. They are carried away by an imperceptible current, which they have not the courage to stem, but which they follow with regret, since it bears them away from a faith they love to a skepticism that plunges them into despair.
If there's any happiness among the Woke faithful, I have yet to see it.
Q: Who is susceptible to deception? A: Everyone.
Deceivers don't appeal to logic.
I've been using this site for over twenty years, and it's a been most of a decade since I've commented. This is the best thing I've seen on here since then. Whatever you do, keep drumming up the fight against ignorance and propaganda, and the people who've fallen victims of it. I don't want to get personal, but lets just say that I know from intimate experience what brainwashing does to a person, and the tremendous cost of clawing one's way out of it. Division in modern society is inevitable--and we must fight against those who seek to destroy rational thought!--but without empathy for those infected by bad ideas, shortchanged by their personal experiences, we'll end up punishing and alientating those victimized by bad actors exploiting cognitive vulnerabilities that every one of us has, we will push them out of sheer self-defense into voting in the people who will undo us.
Kleeneness is next to Godelness.
