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https://www.prageru.com/video/how-much-energy-will-the-world-need?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_3965824 Interesting summary of energy trends and cost. Bottom line, we've only moved 2% of energy usage away from fossil fuels to wind and solar (over the past 20 years) in spite of governments spending more than 5 Trillion on solar and wind technology and incentives.

Now I know why everyone here is bailing from USAA...they have to put a plan in place to stop your money laundering.

Lots of new fuel sources are being tested/developed. I read this article last year on where some of the technology for nuclear power generation is heading. Substantially less initial fuel required and less waste as a result. The French (Germans were - but not sure of their current efforts) are seeking ways to recycle nuclear waste resulting in even less waste going forward. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2021/07/20/new-nuclear-fuel-can-be-here-even-faster-than-new-reactorsaneel/?sh=55792faccc19

The Chase Amazon card has 2% on certain things and 5% on anything bought from Amazon and whole foods. A great deal if you buy from Amazon, and a decent deal if you don't. No annual fee. I use it more than my USAA card.

Wind is a terrible energy source for mass production. Nuclear is the cleanest and safest energy source we have available. We even have the ability to make power from elements that can't be weaponized and can be recycled almost to zero remaining waste. Let's spend some money and energy getting that in place (to at least eliminate coal usage). There is no excuse for us to depend on coal for more than 20% of our power generation. https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3

There is truth in your words of iron ... (sorry, I just watched Outlaw Josie Wales again.)

I'm just hoping we never have all three (house, senate, potus) controlled by the same party. I absolutely love a slow cumbersome government that has to convince everyone that the cause du-jour is a good idea. It's not foolproof, as evidenced by the Patriot Act among others, but it usually works better than either party does alone.

And on a side note, a couple of the smartest guys in my UPT class washed out. Intellectually they made the rest of us (including the IPs) seem like special ed students. So even if he had washed out, it doesn't mean he doesn't have the smarts to logically crush anybody else's arguments/thoughts.

I'm wondering what rational person listened to that feces and thought "yeah, he seems to have it all under control". I get that his supporters know what he is and accept it, but how did that dumpster fire of a speech positively sway anybody's opinion??

You're shitting us right? Our energy policy is totally about politics. it shouldn't be but, in the US everything is politics now. We still have decades and decades of energy in the ground under the US. The newest Nuclear technology is the cleanest and most green energy source we have available right now, but sadly it's out of fashion.

no doubt Putin got a hold of one of Hunter's crack pipes, but there is still no fargin way he goes nuclear!

There is no way Putin drops nukes (tactical or otherwise) in Ukraine! So far the Russian troops seem to be diligently trying to minimize deaths. Putin is in the wrong to invade, but he fully outlined his reasoning and intent. goingkinetic is dropping some strong acid with the "war crimes" talk.

A couple of years ago I did an intentional search for nails made in the USA. At the time there was one remaining manufacturer that supposedly made nails in the US. I can't say my search was 100% exhaustive, but it made me do a similar search on other manufactured products and it confirmed how little we produce here at home. For many items we source the raw material and send it to China (or elsewhere) to have it fabricated and sent back. Pretty shocking how little we actually make and that it's cheaper to send product to China and back rather than make it here. I know I'm unique here in the US, but having grown up in Taiwan it worries me how serious the threat really is to one of the few young democracies in the world. Taiwanese have grown from an autocratic more or less dictatorship (KMT run and controlled) while I was there (1970-1980) into a fully functioning democracy fighting for it's very existence in a world that fails to recognize them as an independent state. General CKS basically doomed Taiwan to the current situation by being so dogmatic that he was the ruler of all of China when the UN in the early 1970s chose the CCP as the official Chinese government.

We buy and source everything consumer based from CCP controlled outlets in China. We (the USA and most of the West) don't have the resolve anymore to sacrifice personal comfort for a cause, even a major cause like basic human rights. I forecast (if CCP invades Taiwan) we pontificate a lot (and I mean a lot), we drum up a few superficial sanctions, and we lobby the UN to make a statement that China was bad in this action but.....

those pussies, the A-Team flew a tank by firing it at appropriate times

Too funny not to share!

Alright, which one of you FedEx or UPS bubbas snuck the snake on the plane? https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/pilot-calls-emergency-landing-snake-162818830.html

I might have missed it, but don't think I've seen this one here yet.

That makes sense Dirk. It just hit me wrong when I saw it and flashed back to 1990/91 with desert shield and storm.

This seems as bad as the frogs during/after Desert Storm, making us fly around their airspace going to and from the UK. https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftrib.al%2Fy0m6ImN%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0gzNjC0gURtyACR-hPUX6iYgRFXMrosbs3jZnLnksrcYVuCpsSXRWsUvk&h=AT2Qhqo47o35CuUABo1KsNd78N2q5TEB5sMKcCUSRFlh8ocau2apWj-yVGnH9F-YgLmDxumLVqk4NJ5Y1-Vh-WRF3Y83wHvbgywHX_k3nBiQO1zoEzvaWOSkko_KjtAcWai3nPI&__tn__=H-R&c[0]=AT0ZMkh8bE9MUfTFbZiEzmYyuJPja-UhnxkV0Zw3J5GJ2bgyIRiecv9boQpdxubc-EkJ0nxULP_wO-KG_xMmN9m99bzaclAjVqlKltWw6Rch4uyUYnG-k03TrNPruVSs3NhxwcpNeFu4tVZ6SxVpNIgnhjV1bQQUPYyz4CuC8-kDh13UlER_wDxRb-04mCk6ZXWJl2cMwiV1NQ

There are all kinds of idiots who claim to believe in macroevolution despite no scientific evidence to support that "theory". So I agree Prozac, just because someone has an MD or PhD label behind their name doesn't mean they critically think.

This thread makes me think of this, or like Lord Ratner wrote above ... the same meme with "compliance".

The western world has gone full retard. I didn't see this posted and sorry if it's a repost. Australia emulating the CCP.