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Rebound

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  1. If you’re so confident and satisfied with your sex life, then why are you so uptight about the sex lives of gay people?
  2. In the United States, we are free to live wherever we wish. We are free to travel. A pregnant woman is free to travel to a state which permits abortions. But, if a woman is in the military, she can be moved to a state or foreign country in which abortion is illegal. She has now lost a freedom which all Americans have. Nobody here is pro-abortion. I don’t want anyone to have an abortion, but it is their legal right.
  3. Internal Revenue Code § 48A (Active) and 48B (Inactive). These subsidies create a series of tax credits for energy investments, particularly for coal. In 2005, Congress authorized $1.5 billion in credits for integrated gasification combined cycle properties, with $800 million of this amount reserved specifically for coal projects. In 2008, additional incentives for carbon sequestration were added toIRC § 48B and 48A. These included 30 percent investment credits, which were made available for gasification projects that sequester 75 percent of carbon emissions, as well as advanced coal projects that sequester 65 percent of carbon emissions. Eliminating credits for investment in these projects would save $1 billion between 2017 and 2026.
  4. You think the US Federal government hasn’t subsidized coal and petroleum, build dams, transmission lines, and fought wars over oil?
  5. Your article is an OPINION piece.
  6. You’re just making things up. You don’t know the answer. So, you’re wrong: New Wind and Solar Are Cheaper Than the Costs to Operate All But One Coal-Fired Power Plant in the United States New analysis shows that renewables beat existing coal plants 99 percent of the time https://insideclimatenews.org/news/30012023/wind-solar-coal-power-plant-costs/#:~:text=The authors illustrate this point,from new wind and solar.
  7. That is not evidence.
  8. Can you show us evidence that electricity from coal costs less to produce than electricity generated from wind or solar?
  9. Oh, I forgot: Every dam thing with you needs to be re-directed into something else. Jesus man, surely you have no friends in this world. When you flip a light switch, does it matter whether the electricity came from the wind or coal? Does the switch behave differently? Does the light shine differently? Do the electrons flow slower?
  10. Good parenting means raising your children so they aren’t sexist, racist, bigoted jerks. Because intolerance is one of the worst things happening in our world today. If it is healthy for a child to see a man kissing a woman, then it’s just as healthy for a child to see a man kissing another man.
  11. Do you think the homeless are happy that they're homeless? Do you think they became homeless in order to personally torment you? If so, there's a solution: Prozac.
  12. Maybe try Prozac?
  13. You have a lot of difficulty digesting facts. What I said is precisely true. When you flip a light switch, why do you care how the electricity was generated? You just want the light to go on.
  14. That is precisely what I said, yes. I have not changed what I said. The thing is, you people aren’t capable of data that’s more complicated than a simple percentage. If there’s algebra or a graph, your eyes glaze over. You need it fed to you through a spoon. For a better picture of renewables, look at the trends. Coal is falling off like a rock, and wind is going gangbusters.
  15. I did not doxx anyone. You simply lack any sense of morality. If a man with a gun murders 50 children, you are not actually capable of comprehending the meaning of it. You just think about it as a political attack on your gun rights. You’ve said as much: If your own mother or child isn’t murdered by a gun, then there’s simply no such thing as gun violence. If you don’t get cancer, there is no such thing as cancer. It’s really quite shocking to see how your thinking is always to redirect every conversation into something else.
  16. And??? Coal: 19.5% Nuclear: 18.2% Renewables: 21.5% Yes, of course there is SOME consumption at night. But it falls 35-50%. Solar provides power when it’s needed most. We’re not going to shut down all the billion dollar natural gas plants. They aren’t going away for the foreseeable future.
  17. Trump releases Obama’s address on Truth Social Same day, a Trump supporter drives a van with explosives and rifles to that address, and livestreams his attempt to get an optimal sight line with his rifle. So, yeah. Trump really did trigger this guy to make an attempt on Obama.
  18. Gee, great question!!! Who does use electricity at night? Answer? Nobody. If you knew how electrical systems operate, you’d know that nighttime is a huge problem in electrical distribution. Because electricity cannot be stored in the grid. It must be consumed as it is generated, and consumption plummets at night. Nuclear plants and coal plants are especially problematic because operators cannot slow down their output sufficiently at night. Natural gas turbines are excellent because they are highly variable. So are windmills; operators can feather and disable individual windmills to meet consumption demands. You truly, honestly do not understand what you’re talking about. You ought to educate yourself and not from the oil industry funded nonsense.
  19. So if it’s cloudy over your house, it must be cloudy everywhere!!! Right? When it rains at your house, it must be raining everywhere all at once. FACT: US renewable electrical energy generation. out-produces both nuclear and coal, today. Right now. So only a dope would say that it doesn’t work, when it’s more productive than both coal and nuclear.
  20. Really? The sun is not reliable? So, tomorrow, you might wake up and the sun won’t be there? Do you have any actual documented evidence that solar and wind energy are proven unreliable? Cause here’s what I think: I think you’re actually so dumb, that you think that, since wind sometimes doesn’t blow, and the sun is sometimes covered by clouds, that distributing energy collection over hundreds of miles cannot remedy that. if we use your measure of “unreliable,” then there is no reliable form of electrical generation, because all forms of generation need to go offline for maintenance. These oil and coal companies… they give you NOTHING. They’re laughing their butts off at you for being dumb enough to be their cheerleader. You are so fooled by them that even the most basic facts can’t get past your biases. Oh, and Denmark? Their electricity is expensive right now because of the other 50%. Gas prices are super high in Denmark. So they’re building even more windmills.
  21. National Ocean Service says 10 to 12 inches of sea level rise over the next 30 years: https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/hazards/sealevelrise/sealevelrise-tech-report.html#:~:text=Sea level along the U.S.,years (1920 - 2020). NASA says ocean levels have risen 98mm since 1993: https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/sea-level/#:~:text=Sea level rise is caused,of seawater as it warms. "Sea level rise will create a profound shift in coastal flooding over the next 30 years by causing tide and storm surge heights to increase and reach further inland. By 2050, “moderate” (typically damaging) flooding is expected to occur, on average, more than 10 times as often as it does today, and can be intensified by local factors." NASA reports that Arctic Sea ice has been measured as reduced 12.6% per decade, because of global warming: https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/arctic-sea-ice/ "Summer Arctic sea ice extent is shrinking by 12.6% per decade as a result of global warming." What's NASA know? I mean, all the did was invent the weather satellite, put a them into orbit and changed the accuracy of weather forecasting by about fifty fold.
  22. Could you please tell us, what is your problem? Is it ADHD? Is it OCD? Illiteracy? Opioids? Meth? You try to change the subject of every single thread. No matter what the topic, your answer is something entirely unrelated. Clinton and Schiff have utterly, absolutely, completely, nothing whatsoever to do with Donald Trump doxxing Obama. They didn't make him do it. You need help, dude.
  23. Building windmills and solar farms does not make Democrats more powerful.
  24. Race has been considered in prison sentencing since the United States was founded.
  25. Stop cursing. Calm down. Geez. First, the world will burn fossil fuels for a long time to come. There is no target of zero petroleum consumption. And nuclear isn’t being prevented by “greenies.” It simply isn’t economically feasible any longer, and local communities everywhere won’t accept a nuke plant in their backyard. The entire state of Nevada refused to permit the Yucca Mountain storage site, and that was only a storage site buried beneath a mountain!!! Second, we have many alternatives. For starters, industry has already transitioned rapidly from coal to natural gas, which is now the #1 source of electricity in the US. While not ideal, it is far superior to coal. Besides that, operators can increase/decrease electrical generation dynamically with natural gas, just as they can with wind. Today, US electricity production from renewable energy exceeds that of both nuclear and coal; it has been growing dramatically and it can continue to grow, because it is the cheapest means of electrical production. The gas and coal industries don't want you to know that! Third, we already know that we can transition a substantial amount of our electrical generation to wind and solar, and that it works reliably and affordably on industrial scales. The only thing holding wind back is the buildout of more transmission towers. In Canada, obviously, wind is a limitless and free energy source. I’ve mentioned countless times that half the electricity generated in Iowa and Denmark — 50% — is from wind, while the remainder is legacy generation. The oil companies are lying to us through very sophisticated campaigns. The truth is obvious to you: If Canada and the US becomes 80% wind and solar reliant, we can have unlimited and cheap electricity production. This means cheaper factories and businesses. Who loses? The oil and coal companies!!! Everybody else wins. Our economies will be far stronger if we transition to a mostly renewable energy profile. https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/electricity-in-the-us.php
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