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[Dunamisdeos]

Rumors you may or may not have heard that the space ponies were comprised of post-it notes are unsubstantiated at best, and also total lies.

[Trekkin]

To borrow a quote from Putin, anyone who wasn't a libertarian when they were 14 has no heart. Anyone who's a libertarian long after has no brain.

Putin, of course, having borrowed it indirectly from Anselme Polycarpe Batbie, who credited Edmund Burke with it.

[MrRoboto75]

To borrow a quote from Putin, anyone who wasn't a libertarian when they were 14 has no heart. Anyone who's a libertarian long after has no brain.

Putin, of course, having borrowed it indirectly from Anselme Polycarpe Batbie, who credited Edmund Burke with it.

France is bacon

[Hanslanda]

To borrow a quote from Putin, anyone who wasn't a libertarian when they were 14 has no heart. Anyone who's a libertarian long after has no brain.

Putin, of course, having borrowed it indirectly from Anselme Polycarpe Batbie, who credited Edmund Burke with it.

France is bacon

*nods thoughtfully*

[Dunamisdeos]

To borrow a quote from Putin, anyone who wasn't a libertarian when they were 14 has no heart. Anyone who's a libertarian long after has no brain.

Putin, of course, having borrowed it indirectly from Anselme Polycarpe Batbie, who credited Edmund Burke with it.

France is bacon

*nods thoughtfully*

Anything or Anyone can be bacon. Energy and perseverance conquer all things.

[PTTG??]

Spoiler: More Horsebeating (click to show/hide)

I do enjoy the answer to politicians who say the green new deal is impractical: "What 'practical' solutions to these problems have you enacted?"

[Kagus]

I do enjoy the answer to politicians who say the green new deal is impractical: "What 'practical' solutions to these problems have you enacted?"

Maybe y'all should take a page out of Norway's book and open some new copper mines with ocean dumping rights so you can get the necessary copper to build an entirely insufficient number of wind turbines in the most difficult and mountainous terrain around, requiring vastly more explosives and asphalt to set up than on flat countryside.

That's a practical solution. It gets results.

[scriver]

I wonder if one could not use already established oil rig structures to base off-sea windmills on?

[Reelya]

I wonder if one could not use already established oil rig structures to base off-sea windmills on?

They're probably not in the right places, not placed close together. Plus, the engineering costs to retrofit the oil rigs would probably be greater than just dropping in a new wind turbine somewhere else.

[wierd]

wave powered generators might work though.  Off-shore oil rigs are just that-- off shore.  This means normal wave dynamics will be magnified as those waves get herded into shallower water. 

Say, something like what wave star has in its proposal literature.
http://wavestarenergy.com/concept

Since the design criteria for the stresses involved would be different (part of the process of converting the wave energy into electrical energy is exploitation of the DIFFERENCE in potentials between the platform and the waves bobbing around it--- meaning there would be transient stretch and torque forces being exerted on the support struts greater than what was allowed for in the design of an oil rig..) the struts would need to be reinforced and such.

However, if the cost of such reinforcement is less than the cost of demolition, it would be an attractive proposal.

[hector13]

Don’t be silly. That just makes too much sense for a politician to truly consider it reasonable.

No, abetted idea would be to put solar panels in the Arctic part of Norway, so it gets no sunlight in Winter, but all the sunlight in Summer.

[wierd]

Don’t be silly. That just makes too much sense for a politician to truly consider it reasonable.

No, abetted idea would be to put solar panels in the Arctic part of Norway, so it gets no sunlight in Winter, but all the sunlight in Summer.

No No No.

Harvesting energy from ocean waves as they wash up into shallower water near the shore will be stonewalled by angry surfers and oceanologists, who will assert that it "totally ruins the waves, man-- they hardly rise at all when they hit the beach. Total bummer bro." and "the reduction of wave height will drastically impact ocean pool based ecosystems on the sea edge. In light of the already intense strain on ocean lifeforms from anthropogenic climate change, this increased stress, however well intentioned, is not something we feel is helpful to the current situation."

This will be the ONE, TOKEN moment that the conservatives in government will all band together and shout "SEE! Scientists think it's a bad idea, and it lacks regional support!"

Rest assured though, they will continue to ignore mountains of reports and data about the use of fossil fuels.

[wierd]

In happier news.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vdwnc-zBJ4U

[da_nang]

It's times like this we wish Q could just give muons a slightly longer half-life so we can have muon-powered cold fusion.

[wierd]

That would have drastic consequences on the equilibrium of the sun.  Bad idea to ask for that.

However, in light of government people not understanding the concepts of oversight, environmentalism, nor science in general, I leave you with this tidbit.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/02/montana-legislator-introduces-bills-to-give-his-state-its-own-science/