You could construct a fairing around the blade to make the wind forces more predictable. Maybe even add wings and tow it from an airplane like a glider, and air drop the blade so you don't need a runway. Rocket boosters would help it take off.
It would also help immensely if every state had the law that the left lane is for passing, and it was enforced.
In Europe, they have a companion law that makes it illegal to pass on the right, and therefore someone driving slowly in the left lane is blocking traffic because cars can't get around them. We need that same law in the States.
Then if I work twice as hard as my boss, I should earn twice as much, right?
And a person born to a poor family has an equal chance of success as a person born to a rich family, right?
And a smart person has no better chance of success than a mentally challenged person.
And a short, homely person and a tall, attractive person have equal chances, and a man and a woman, and a black person and a white person, and so on.
When all of the above are true, then hard work really will be all it takes to get ahead, and the playing field will finally be level. But I don't think it will happen in my lifetime. It's just a fairy tale that the rich and powerful tell us minions to keep us in line so we don't start another revolution or something and take all their money.
Once the wealthy gain money it is spent twice on average before it goes into some type of tax avoidance scheme. When the working class gets their hands on it, it is on average spent five times before that happens.
This is known as, or at least related to, the marginal propensity to consume (MPC), an argument to be used against libertarian "taxation is theft" types, many of whom ironically prefer taxing to tolling as a way to pay for infrastructure!
The point of the 16th amendment was simply to create another mechanism for stealing the wealth of the people.
Specifically the wealth of rich people. Relatively speaking, it's ethically worse to steal from a poor person, that's why stealing another man's horse was often a capital offense.
Or make it permit parking only with a short grace period so it can be used as a loading zone. (Cities need more loading zones.)
And the e-mails probably linked to untrustworthy news sites.
Why does this stuff even matter anymore? Everyone's information is out there already, especially after the credit company hack (Equifax as I recall).
Because not everyone who has credit today had credit back then. It's important to fix this recurring problem today for the benefit of future generations. "A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in." (Greek proverb)
Carbon neutral fuels are, at best, EVs with extra steps and much lower efficiency every step of the way.
Less efficient in terms of converting a square meter of sunlight into kinetic energy? Show your work. Remember, fossil fuels all got their energy from photosynthesis, so you have to factor that into your calculations.
Yes, a long-period rental, paid up front but it must come with a guarantee of a prorated refund in case the title gets yanked before the rental period expires.
The global average build time for a nuclear power plant is between 7 and 8 years
Flamanville 3 took 17 years to build (2007 to 2024) and still has not reached 100% power output. This is in France which is very friendly to nuclear power. Almost no other reactors are being built or planned in Europe or North America.
And every time you hover over a link to figure out where it really goes to as IT wants you to, there's a nonzero chance that you will accidentally click it. So if you make it through life without ever clicking one of those phishing test links, it's a minor miracle.
I won't have to learn how to say "don't stop in the middle of a crowded sidewalk you shithead" in multiple languages.
This works in multiple languages. I'm tempted to bring one whenever I go shopping at Costco.
What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying. -- Nikita Khruschev
