“Go-with-the-Flow” Wind Turbine
Here’s a concept for a new design in wind turbines. Contrary to what readers may have come to expect when they read that first sentence, this appears to make sense.
The idea is based on the fact that, although today’s three-blade turbines are highly efficient, they do not function in extremely strong winds, and are hard to build in enormous size. These folks at the University of Virginia have engineered a two-blade system that bends in high wind conditions, rather like the tallest pines trees. Thus far, their demos have performed very nicely.
I don’t know the first thing about these people, other then that they perceive a need among conservatives to look for “news” that goes beyond the stolen election, Joe Biden’s latest senior moment, and the contents of his son’s laptop.
One of the most salient features of American life today is our relentless outreach to find new levels of stupid.
The maps of the Netherlands here remind us of the triumph of science and technology. We are savages in many respects, but our “big brains” have enabled us to do great things.
This fellow’s beliefs, as presented here, were accepted by the majority of intellectuals at the turn of the 20th Century. Marx and Engels, drawing on Hegel, had forwarded the idea of the dialectic, which, in political terms, means the never-ending clashing between socio-economic classes, which enable workers to force concessions from the rich. Concurrently, we had the anarchists, those who believed that all valid government springs up spontaneously to deal with ad hoc events, and then evaporates.
I actually hadn’t considered this.
As we see at left, Trump will never let go of the Big Lie, and will continue to push the myth that the entire justice system of the U.S. has been “weaponized” against him.
Most people find it hard to believe that they live among folks who are so unprincipled that they are willing to inflict great harm on others, simply because they get fabulously rich whatever process is at stake, whether that’s selling cigarettes or incinerating the planet.
I love the sentiment here, but this is not an accurate depiction of the situation in which humankind finds itself. In particular, there never was a time at which we considered ourselves brothers and sisters, etc.
I mentioned this tweet by Sean Spicer when I came across it on December 7th, and I pointed out that he has confused Dday in 1944 with Pearl Harbor Day in 1941.
