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  Grist can do better than this kind of divisive, childish crap. What is the point of claiming that "everyone hates" certain people that were elected to Congress? Is the point to make yourself look like a fool?

  Meanwhile, perhaps you should look more deeply into the responses of the Obama administration to the financial crisis. Ask yourself how you would respond to these programs if Bush had put them in place. You would probably be outraged. And you should be. But since so many people are busy patting themselves on the back for his election, his handlers are creating by far the most massive transfer of wealth from taxpayers to bank shareholders and bondholders that the world has ever seen. And there are much better alternatives. They're getting away with it because so many folks are smugly wagging their fingers at Republicans.On Quit arguing with douchebags that everyone hates, part two posted 6 months, 4 weeks ago 12 Responses

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  Growth is great. It just depends on how one defines "growth". If it is simply producing more for more and more people, then it is ultimately unsustainable. If it is about producing higher and higher quality goods and services for a sustainable level of population, then this can be done sustainably, profitably, and with little need for coercion.On Quit arguing with douchebags that everyone hates posted 6 months, 4 weeks ago 8 Responses

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  As long as you make sweeping negative statements about people with opposing views - especially using racial terms - you lose the respect of many thinking people. Perhaps the characterization of many Republicans as a "hardcore, angry-white-man demographic" says more about the anger and hatred of some so-called "progressives" than it does about the Republicans.

  Take your own advice and stay on message. Such venom may resonate with the ultra-orthodox left, but many of us find it unproductive.On Quit arguing with douchebags that everyone hates posted 6 months, 4 weeks ago 8 Responses

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  Folly of Hydrogen

  jabailo,

  Hydrogen is not a fuel source, it's an energy storage medium.

  Fuel --> Transformation 1 --> Distribution --> Transformation 2

  For example, for solar:
  Fuel = sunlight
  Transformation 1 = solar PV or solar therm technolgy electricity generation
  Distribution = grid or on-site use
  Transformation 2 = utlimate usage such as lighting, motion, heating, etc.

  For hydrogen the Fuel is hydrocarbons or perhaps the combination of electricity + water. Transformation 1 converts the fuel to hydrogen, which is then distributed.On Tesla ousts second CEO in two years and plans to cut staff posted 1 year, 1 month ago 5 Responses

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  not worth saving

  It is true that natural systems should be reestablished to add protection.  However, even with these intact, New Orleans is low and sinking.  The U.S. is large and there are many competing funding needs.  It is unwise to spend hundreds of billions in an effort that could ultimately prove futile and lead to greater disasters.  (Sound familiar)  New Orleans will remain a very easy terrorist target when water levels are high.

  Most of the low parts of the city should not be rebuilt or protected.  Funds should be used to help dislocated folks instead.

  Side note:  Water topping over levies for a long period of time is not a disaster.  The problem is when the flow of water into the city exceeds pumping capabilities.  Then you get flooding if that condition lasts long enough.On How did so much water get into a New Orleans canal? posted 1 year, 2 months ago 1 Response