571–580 of 585 posts
Green energy is much harder to control because you can’t force the market into artificial scarcity and re-inflate the value of gas to drive the economy back up (and keep rich people rich).
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you honestly think federal employees are more corrupt than this administration?
Yes.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Drones are regularly intercepted in the Ukraine war. Patriot batteries have intercepted kinzhals.
Kinzhal is ballistic missile flying on high altitude trajectory, so it is easily visible and somehow interceptable. Drones and cruise missiles often fly very low, which makes them much harder to detect and intercept.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sweden is worried about a hostile neighbor. They're freaked out enough that they joined NATO after generations of non-alignment. Who are we afraid of? If ICBMs are incoming to the Continental United States the world is ending. Regardless of whether we prevent wind farms in any of the 12,000+ miles of coastline. Are we expecting missiles to come from the Gulf of Mexico? People always bend over backwards to justify thi…
> If ICBMs are incoming to the Continental United States the world is ending. its up to discussion. US has many measures which combined could give them a chance to survive nuclear war, namely: preemptive strike by tridents on enemy's silos( https://thebulletin.org/2017/03/how-us-nuclear-force-moderni... ) and anti missile defense. > Are we expecting missiles to come from the Gulf of Mexico? there is a possibility of…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> If ICBMs are incoming to the Continental United States the world is ending. its up to discussion. US has many measures which combined could give them a chance to survive nuclear war, namely: preemptive strike by tridents on enemy's silos( https://thebulletin.org/2017/03/how-us-nuclear-force-moderni... ) and anti missile defense. > Are we expecting missiles to come from the Gulf of Mexico? there is a possibility of…
Nuclear war isn't winnable. It's stupid and dangerous to pretend otherwise.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yup. And Trump very specifically has had a very irrational obsession and hatred for windmills for years now.
He has said that wind turbines cause cancer. He also said they make noise that bothers people and drives whales insane. He has also said that they kill birds, as if their spinning draws birds into the blades. But most of all, he thinks they're ugly.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Under other circumstances I might be inclined to give the benefit of the doubt. But when's the last time we saw any action from this admin that wasn't clearly self-dealing or ideologically motivated instead of science-based?
Yup. And Trump very specifically has had a very irrational obsession and hatred for windmills for years now.
Years ago, this very subject was an interview question at a national lab (at an undergrad level). The question was roughly: > the ends of windmill blades look a lot like a jet on radar. If you were assigned to this project, what would your approach be to avoiding false positives? This was in 2011/2012. I find it difficult to believe the problem is not solved.
I looked into this a little because I was curious. I guess the ostensible "national security" rationale (which clearly is not the only reason!) for this is that turbines severely degrade the utility of radar surveillance along the coastlines. This is particularly relevant for low-altitude incursions and drones. Now, other large governments (UK) have resolved this in several ways, including the deployment of additiona…
That you could come up with one reasonable-sounding explanation while they offered nothing makes me wonder if the administration is too lazy, or too inept.