Nobody, at least me, is saying that this is a practical solution, given sandstorms and the challenge of distributing the energy to points of load around the globe.
I post it simply to remind us of the enormous amount of power we receive from the sun–6000 times more that all 8 billion of us are using.
Right, Never Surrender.
Keep those checks and credit card payments rolling in.
Re: the piece on the left here, a reader notes: I read an article in The Atlantic and European leaders are extremely concerned about Trump winning again. Since Trump doesn’t (face up to) anything he really has absolutely no idea how the other NATO nations fear him being in office again. This especially true because he has repeatedly said he would back out of NATO.
Unfortunately, we are at a point in this country where almost half the electorate is so ignorant that they don’t understand (or care about) our position in the world and what it means for our own national security.
Carl Sagan left us 28 years ago. I don’t think he’d be too impressed with the changes this country has gone through since.
For example, in 2016, we elected Donald Trump president of the United States. Now a convicted felon, he’s facing another ~60 criminal counts–and half the country is desperate to get him back in the White House, so he can re-establish order and Make America Great Again.
The battles we’re fighting on present-day Earth include putting an end to military hostilities and preventing the spread of world fascism.
At the same time, it would be a very good thing if we could apply the brakes to global warming. The problem we’re facing here, however, is that this will require international cooperation, trust, and sacrifice. Is this something we’re capable of mustering?
Interesting thought from Max Plank here, but I wonder if it’s true.
I grant that there is no guarantee that humankind will eventually nail down the details of cosmogeny and cosmology, and come to a comprehensive understanding of our consciousness, but I wouldn’t say that it’s impossible.
As this guy points out, being a Trump supporter means accepting an endless sea of criminality–or living in a world of total delusion and denial.
On top of that you need to believe Trump’s claim that the country is falling apart and that, once again, he’s the only one who can fix it.
The speaker makes an interesting point to the effect that the country obviously isn’t falling apart, thought it actually could be doing so in “Trump-centric neighborhoods.”
I question that. Think about the reddest, most backwards regions of America, perhaps the Deep South. Neither you nor I would want to live there, but these areas are not going downhill, in terms of the most significant metrics: education, economic opportunity, healthcare outcomes, etc. They are already at the bottom, and they’ve stayed there for more than a century. These folks are totally comfortable with that. They aspire to nothing more.
Can’t be good for one’s mental health.
FWIW, I have never mentioned this subject to either of my two kids.
I figured a) my integrity forbids my teaching them something I don’t believe, and b) they’ll have ample access to religious indoctrination through friends and school, and can deal with the topic as they wish.
Here’s another example of how aggressively meat-eaters deal with vegans. Is this really necessary?
Deer-hunters who eat what they kill and thin a herd that would ultimately starve to death are 100% fine with any sane person, regardless of their dietary habits.
