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Did you not read your own article? They are ran a 12 TWH negative trade balance for energy last year. The increases in renewables came from Wind, which Germany absolutely can get from the North Sea but that leaves it open to under production in the North Sea as well.
I get that you are motivated on solar but do some thinking please.
I think the pants are designed to "breathe" more around the balls or something.
And yet, they've actually been turning them back on:
Thing about coal is it doesn't turn off and on at the flip of a switch. The plants are idled but still producing carbon during the day.
I mean, you can look at the global wind atlas. All the wind is in the Taiwan Straight. There is a little off the south side but it gets too deep for a large farm.
Also, Germany is NOT doing well with solar. It is in fact burning more and more coal all the time. I mean I have been in this for a decade now but I hate to tell the Germans this but California won: where you place solar matters.
Also, did you really just say that governments cannot make infrastructure mistakes? Because that is very verifiably not true.
Op DO NOT PUT HER ON THE DEED. Then she owns half the house! As I read this you are paying the mortgage and assuming the debt and she is not. If she is not going to be paying for the house she does NOT need to be on the deed. If she gets on the deed then if you two break up, she gets half your house.
If you were married it's different. If you were partners of many years it's different. But as it is right now if you break up and she is on the deed, she gets half the house. She could break up with you a week later and get half your home and if you want to keep it you will have to pay her to do so.
Yep. And now despite all the push for solar and wind in Germany they are having to build and run more coal plants. What many of the wind and solar advocates forget is that life is not a video game: in a video game you build a solar plant and it just runs. In real life capacity factor is an issue.
For those wondering what I am on about: go lookup the Global Solar Atlas. Anywhere on that map that is not orange to purple its generally not a good idea to put solar there, BUT even if it is orange or purple it may still not be a good idea. That is because solar is adversely affected by high ambient temperatures and humidity. You really need somewhere dry, cool, and with lots of natural sunlight and very few clouds to really maximize solar and even then you only get about 20-25% of the nameplate output of the panel.
Taiwan's only good wind is directly in the invasion path from China, and if you look at it on the Global Solar Atlas, it has absolutely NO good solar potential.
You have to remember capacity factor: solar built in places without good conditions for it (lots of sunlight, low cloud cover, low humidity, and stable temperatures above freezing but below 35 degrees celsius) generates very little power at all. Worse, it takes a LOT of carbon to make a solar panel: in a place with good solar capacity factor it may take 3-5 years for the panel to pay back its carbon cost. In a place with bad solar capacity factor it may take its entire lifetime.
I think I recognize this trail in Utah: if it's that one outside of MOAB, Subaru Outbacks do that trail all the time.
So of course, don't light fires near dry grass.
But second, if you are ever going to be doing anything with fire, keep in mind the environment. Are you indoors? Have a fire extinguisher. In your yard? Make sure your garden hose is out.
What about out in the wilderness? Carry a shovel, and if you have friends have enough for them. If a fire starts in the wilderness you can dig around it to create a fire break, plus throwing dirt on a small fire can put it out!
Okay but is the headliner of the car on the bottom coming off?
Welcome to being a millennial circa 2014 brosef!!!
Wait but Bob said something smart.
I do think it’s both though. We have this idea that the Hollywood elite and the evangelical right are two different things entirely: they honestly overlap to some degree.
One, perusing anti-left YouTube does quickly become far-right YouTube so just be careful with that.
But second, the main thing with Marxism is actually understanding it but always evaluating it from a distance. It very much plucks at what seems to be sensible ideas in isolation but from a distance you realize how silly it is. It’s like fascism: to the people living in that ideological space it seems entirely sensible and as information comes to them they interpret it through a lens of fascism so it all makes sense.
An honest evaluation of Marxism concludes that it sees society and the human condition in a deeply paranoid way and encourages this paranoia to govern policy making. Which is why communism in the 20th century always led to campaigns of state sponsored terror and oppression.
Thing is, what vegans are doing is saying the land is used for one thing or another, exclusively. The reality is that most ag land is dual use.
For instance corn: very little actual corn is in a cows diet. But corn stalks is a different story: ruminants like cows can digest plant fibers that humans cannot, including the corn stalk. So what do farmers do with otherwise inedible corn stalks? They sell them as silage for cows. Same to soybeans: soybeans are grown for soybean oil, but the soybean husks are sold for silage. Meaning, the husks end up fed to cows. So if by “land only used to feed cattle and nothing else,” it’s pretty much just grasslands and the western parts of the US that just feed cows. But if we include things like corn stalks and soybean husks and the shells from nuts, then most US land does produce something that’s fed to cows.
And the way vegans interpret that is “ most US land is ….. used to feed cows.” The part they are glossing over is “…..” which is where they would have to (if they were honest) write: “growing crops like corn, soybean, nuts, or other items that have stalks, husks, and shells high in cellulose fibers that are.”
The perpetrators are white women man. All the stops get pulled for them.
I don’t know why this is being downvoted. Karen Read is about to pull an OJ Simpson where she gets away with it because of an unfounded conspiracy theory is the only alternative and earlier this year Bryn Spejcher got away with murder because white women are the only people who are not responsible for their actions while intoxicated. If Bryn had been a black woman or a man of any stripe she would be in jail.
Face it: unless a white woman does something truly heinous, something so bad they have to throw the book at her, she isn’t going to jail.
This cannot be real. They cannot really think that amenities for prison guards were proof that the people being exterminated were treated well.
Just got banned on that sub for calling them out. What a bunch of losers.
Germany prior to 1845.
It means we may get a chance to kill Marx and save hundreds of millions of people from state enforced genocides. Which the mods on this sub are apparently very against even though Stalin was a Templar.
They always think we never read Marx. I did, that’s why I’m against him.
And they always have that lame ass excuse “but capitalism killed people.” The difference is Marxist states murdered a hundred million people as a MATTER OF STATE POLICY. The Soviets murdering the Khazaks was a matter of state policy. The murder of the Kulaks was state policy. Mao murdered tens of millions as per state policy.
Commies have to make shit up to find enough deaths under capitalism. They still say the US killed a million people in Iraq despite that number being debunked dozens of times.
BRICS is nothing: the countries that make up BRICS are currently in the process of leveling tariffs at China in order to prevent Chinese dumping on their domestic industries. Most of them trade more with the US than with each other. They have no coherent foreign policy goals that they all follow and its a mix of democracies and semi-democracies and of course in the case of China and Russia, actual authoritarian states.
Fun fact: BRICS was started by an investment banker at Goldman Sachs. This one guy in the early 2000s in GS was trying to pitch a new investment fund to customers, and he named Brazil, Russia, India, and China (circa early 2000s versions of those countries) as places he was eyeing for development. South Africa was added later.
There is no BRICS treaty. There is no binding anything between them. Its literally a group of countries some investment banker created an investment product to invest in back when Clive Owen was a up and coming movie star.
He talks like AI because he is in fact just copying Malcom X.
Tattoos: tattoo removal is a big business now.
Getting married without living together long enough first. Spend at least six months living with this person first!
Going to college without knowing why. People say to go to college and “find what you like:” that’s not how college works. No one is trying to talk you into a career path in college. If you don’t know what you to do with your life paying someone tuition to do so is absurd.
What is something the younger generation does that you know (from experience) they’ll regret later?
Millennials