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So, there's no hydro power? The Grand Coulee Dam is fake news?

Because oil is transportable and electricity isn't, and cannot be made transportable, right? In your mind? Probably EEE-vil Kenyan Muslim socialists. I'm sure there were many people in the kerosene lamp industry (and outside it) who were convinced electric light bulbs were a plot to hurt them.

Unless you consider the resources expended in transporting it. Yet. And that statement is becoming less true week by week. The sun never sets on the empire.

There could be a drought. A meteor strike could divert the river. A giant, 200-meter, radioactive mutant beaver could build a dam! Won't somebody PLEASE think of the poor, starving oil companies!

Trying to lead you to the concept that transportation is part of the energy system. Oil is transported from the well, to the refinery, to the generators. The resulting electricity is transported to homes, factories, &c. I understand your resistance. Because once you accept that energy can be...

I repeat, what good does it do hundreds of miles away from a generator?

What use is oil that's hundreds of miles (or even hundreds of yards) from the generating facility?

Why does renewable energy "rely on the vagaries of weather" but petroleum not rely on the vagaries of where oil deposits are?

But that's not analogous to a back-up generator. Ohhhh-KAY.

Why does it "cast a pall?" Is that not analogous to saying that the fact that hospitals and other critical infrastructure have back-up generators for power outages "casts a pall" over the electricity distribution grid?

Why?

You're mean.

“I love my previous life. I had so many things going. This is more work than in my previous life,” Trump said. “I thought it would be easier. I thought it was more of a … I’m a details-oriented person. I think you’d say that, but I do miss my old life. I like to work so that’s not a problem...

Affirmative action is pretty much the classic case of an idea that's good in theory and sucks in practice. It generally leads to tokenism, does little or nothing to benefit the communities it is intended to benefit, and creates interest groups of lefty loonies shrieking about slavery and righty...

America’s gross domestic product, a broad measure of economic growth, grew by just 0.7 percent in the first three months of the year, according to government data issued Friday morning, an estimate economists say is more likely due to measurement error than Donald Trump’s performance as...

That's what you think. Isaac Asimov is in every major division of the Dewey Decimal System. Science fiction is a minority of his writing. I learned algebra from an Asimov textbook.

To be fair, he never said WHICH globe. . .

Canada is not a great democracy, but do we care? By J.J. McCullough April 25 From a Canadian perspective, the most striking thing about the supposed anti-democratic political reforms approved by Turkish voters last week was their familiarity. The majority of powers the Turkish president...

He is one irate little dude. And probably the toughest fella on the internet. On the internet.

You do if you mean to kill me. In perfect honesty, I can't see a single thing in any of the posts I have made to you that any sane person could see as blaming "the white man" for anything. I believe the sum total of our conversations have had to do with a disagreement over whether various gases...