Saturday, October 22, 2022

Diogenes' Carbon-Free Lantern/Statistics


The Roman Republic failed when its government switched from managing the people in the country to managing the other people in the room.--Chris

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The WSJ reports that 75% of Americans 17 to 24 are ineligible for military service because of obesity, addiction, or criminal history.

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In the United States, 20,000 people die of heat, but 170,000 die of cold. So, could the launching of reflective devices to cool the earth be considered a crime against humanity?

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Julian Assange speaking in 2011: "The goal is to use Afghanistan to wash money out of the tax bases of the US and Europe through Afghanistan and back into the hands of a transnational security elite. The goal is an endless war, not a successful war"

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The words Black and Indigenous are both capitalized now. Is white? If not, why?

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Several research articles co-authored by Nobel-prizewinning geneticist Gregg Semenza are being investigated by publishers after internet sleuths raised concerns about the integrity of images in the papers. Journals have already retracted, corrected or expressed concerns about 17 papers over the past decade, and others are investigating image- and data-integrity issues in further studies.

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Diogenes' Carbon-Free Lantern/Statistics

Sometimes large questions are confounded by small ones. But small problems require effort and diligence. And, of course, an interest in the truth, which recently has become cultish.

The entire U.S. generated only 163,703 thousand megawatt hours of electricity from utility solar power in 2021, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, while employing 255,037 workers in the industry, according to the National Solar Jobs Census. In contrast, nuclear power generated 778,152 thousand megawatt hours of electricity while employing 66,800 workers, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.

So each solar worker generated only 640-megawatt hours of electricity (enough to power 57 homes), while each nuclear-power-industry employee generated 11,648-megawatt hours of electricity (enough to power 1,059 homes), making the average nuclear employee 18.2 times as productive at generating carbon dioxide–free electricity as the average solar employee.

There are a lot of suppositions in the climate harangue, and, sadly, there are some realities.


2 comments:

Custer said...

WSJ report is higher than I expected

jim said...

Shocking.