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AKgringo
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An interesting news bit about panels and blades...
I saw this on a CBS news feed; https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/wind-blades-and-so...
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
"Could do better if he tried!" Report card comments from most of my grade school teachers. Sadly, still true!
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JDCanuck
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Thanks AKGringo...like pretty much everything else we manufacture, it eventually goes to waste. My pet peeve is the amount of waste that politicians
have regulated into existence with laws regarding maximum allowable use periods.
My generation sought to recycle, repair and reuse everything we could, now the trend is pass regulations to disallow that and force us to trash it.
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Cliffy
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Used to be we have small businesses called TV REPAIR SHOPS but what do we do today?
How many millions of flat panel TVs today are just dumped into the trash can each and every day?
No different than solar panels. No plans on what to do with the waste generated after the hype of Climate Change.
Before something is mandated the problems the mandate cause need to be solved. Then public acceptance will be a chinch.
Why not get people to buy in by choice rather than force?
Let the market decide what it wants
Or do you feel the public hasn't the brains to make that decision?
If the majority really stood behind their decision to mandate electric cars then why don't we see half of all new car sales going electric?
Here's another challenge- Someone needs to track all politicians who vote for EV mandates to see if THEY put their money where their mouth is and buy
EVs themselves!
Are they committed to the cause or just blowhards?
I've got $100 that says less than 10% do!
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Cliffy
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H.A.L. ?
Paging H.A.L.?
Telegram for H.A.L.
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Paco Facullo
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I think I'll just find myself a sweet young woman and a secluded island in the Philippines to live my days out sipping on cold San Miguel's , eating
fresh fish and enjoying beach life....
Since I've given up all hope, I feel much better
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AKgringo
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Or possibly someone who "identifies" as a sweet young woman?
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
"Could do better if he tried!" Report card comments from most of my grade school teachers. Sadly, still true!
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mtgoat666
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Scientists Are Alarmed as Sea Surface Temperatures Hit Uncharted Territory
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-are-alarmed-as-sea-s...
Woke!
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will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”
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RFClark
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Goat,
Perhaps someone will get serious about stoping those who burn coal and practice agricultural burning. They might even get serious about controling
wildfires! But probably not! It’s not “sexy enough”!
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Cliffy
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So I read the article "Scientists are Alarmed"
OK so its getting warmer- so what?
The earth has been even warmer in its past and it still survived.
Plants grew, fauna flourished, the world went on.
All I see is predictions of warming earth and even that article didn't hold any proven cause/response to warming of the planet.
All it said was that the earth was warming and nothing else.
Are the seas going to rise in 10 years and wipe out the low lands ? Hardly!
The fact is no one can predict just what the response of the earth will be to warming.
We're coming out of La Nina and going into El Nino What if it reverses again in 5 years? Has it ever done that before? Which it could very well do.
The earth's response all just a big guess with no facts to back it up.
Its more climate hysteria than climate science beyond a warming cycle.
And I never said we didn't have a warming cycle. My question is just what the earths response to that might be AND NO ONE KNOWS and no one can predict
it beyond a plain guess.
So why get hysterical about something we might no even see.
Wait for some hard data to appear rather than try a scare the world into submission.
If there were more verifiable facts to just what would happen maybe the majority of folks would support all that is proposed to save mankind and the
planet.
Let the people decide on their own with accurate honest provable facts rather than just guesses.
There ARE two sides to this question
Listen to both and make your own choice.
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surabi
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Cliffy, you keep repeating the same dumb-azz comments over and over. No one is predicting that the planet itself won't "survive", it's about how long
it can continue to support life as we know it. You apparently have no kids or grandkids you care about.
And believe it or not, there are educated scientists who actually spend their lives studying this stuff- they aren't "guessing"- much of the effects
of climate change are measureable. Species of flora and fauna dying out because the warmer water or air, droughts and other disasters caused by human
activity affects them or their food sources- this stuff is studied and known, regardless if whether you are aware of it or not.
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mtgoat666
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A message from the nomad demographic…
Old People Don’t Care About Climate Change
[Edited on 5-4-2023 by mtgoat666]
Woke!
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will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”
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RFClark
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Goat,
Really! How many KW of solar do you own? Drive a hybrid? Take public transportation?
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mtgoat666
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I really like my induction cooktop! 
Soon new home residents in NY state will be feeling the love too 
New York becomes the first state to ban natural gas stoves and furnaces in most new buildings
CNN — New York is the first state in the country to ban natural gas and other fossil fuels in most new buildings – a major win for climate
advocates, but a move that could spark pushback from fossil fuel interests.
Facing mounting pressure from environmental advocates and climate-minded voters, Gov. Kathy Hochul and Democratic lawmakers, who control the New York
Senate and Assembly, approved the new $229 billion state budget containing the provision late Tuesday night.
The law bans gas-powered stoves, furnaces and propane heating and effectively encourages the use of climate-friendly appliances such as heat pumps and
induction stoves in most new residential buildings across the state. It requires all-electric heating and cooking in new buildings shorter than seven
stories by 2026, and for taller buildings by 2029.
Woke!
“...ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.” “My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America
will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”
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JDCanuck
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I really like my induction cooktop!
We do too! A bit more expensive initially with the full convection oven, but boils water in a 2 qt pot in 1 1/2 to 2 minutes, rather than the 4 or 5
minutes on gas or ceramic electrics. Spills clean up extremely easily as they don't bake in. Very little excess heat thrown off so far more efficient
and doesnt tend to heat up the kitchen. Shuts down automatically as soon as you remove the pot or pan for safety with elderly, and autosenses the size
of whatever pot is put on it Best thing to come around since microwaves for saving energy.
[Edited on 5-5-2023 by JDCanuck]
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RFClark
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Goat,
You’re late to the party. We’ve used induction cooking in addition to propane for 10 years. Yes it’s great especially when it’s hot!
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AKgringo
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Thanks for the clean up!
A lot of finger pointers just got deleted from this off-topic light thread. I appreciate it!
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
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I'm really going to miss those backyard wiener and marshmallow roasts over a waste wood fire with the grandkids tho. And whats a camping trip without
the campfire to sit around and share stories? It was hard enough adjusting to the fake propane fire pits....but electric?
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JDCanuck
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Private jet use, however continues to soar. 2022 set yet new records with the 2021 year growing by 20 percent plus. I wonder if the government has
plans on limiting this extremely high increase in contribution to global warming
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-61391638
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AKgringo
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Come burn with me!
Quote: Originally posted by JDCanuck  | | I'm really going to miss those backyard wiener and marshmallow roasts over a waste wood fire with the grandkids tho. And whats a camping trip without
the campfire to sit around and share stories? It was hard enough adjusting to the fake propane fire pits....but electric? |
You will have to use real long sticks to roast anything though. I build my piles with an excavator, and when they get going good you could singe your
eyebrows getting too close!
I was already looking at a heavy workload trying to manage a bunch of bug killed trees, then the late heavy snow we had took down a bunch more!
Nature is turning a page on my forest, and I hope to keep burning the waste wood a pile at a time instead of fifty acres all at once!
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