Video on Hydrokinetics
Here’s a video showing how a water wheel can generate electricity from a fast-running river.
Is this BS? It depends on how you define “BS.” It will generate electricity to be sure.
Will it do so cost-effectively? Not in a million years, and that’s clear from the video itself. It claims 7.5 KW at 50 RPM, but the wheel in the video (in this incredibly high velocity river) is doing about 12 RPM. Since power and speed are proportional, that means less than 2 KW, a fraction of that of a solar PV array on the typical American house.
Other issues include high maintenance costs and fish strikes.
There is a philosophical conversation that is prominent in present-day America re: liberalism and its strong correlation to higher education. In particular, do universities manufacture liberals, or are better educated people naturally liberal in their belief systems?
There are a great number of theories as to why human civilization has as yet been unable to make contact with other forms of intelligent life.
As illustrated in the meme here, one never knows what news revelations are going to make a real impact on the American people, and which will be forgotten at once, if not entirely overlooked.
Comedian and social critic George Carlin nailed an important point here: very few of us have the resources (even if we have the inclination) to devote any major portion of our lives towards making improvements in human civilization.
Thom: What you say here is fine, but keep in mind that virtually none of the Americans who admire today’s GOP has lived a year in Germany. Most of them couldn’t find Germany on a map.
I note all the “amens” in response to this post on social media.
This certification should be provided for: rejecting science, and, in so doing, raising hospitalization rates, while lowering one’s life expectancies and that of everyone coming into contact.
….Isn’t a multibillionaire who hates wokeism and wants to return Donald Trump to the White House.
