gotta attack solar and wind...

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  1. soccernutter

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    Tottenham Hotspur
    Aug 22, 2001
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    some highlights from the memo:
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/interactive/2012/may/09/wind-power-memo

    That is just a small bit.
     
  2. tomwilhelm

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    Dec 14, 2005
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    This is pretty much the blueprint for how the right works now.
     
  3. HouseHead78

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    Oct 17, 2006
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    Just turn our country into a white people's christian KSA and get it over with.
     
  4. tomwilhelm

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    Dec 14, 2005
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    You're in Austin. I'm sure we'd accept your asylum application here in Commieland.
     
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  5. cleansheetbsc

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    It's like Berlin. He'll need an airlift to escape.
     
  6. HouseHead78

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    Oct 17, 2006
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    Well my partner and I are going for a 10-day vacation to Boston, P-Town, Bar Harbor, and Bretton Woods this summer - I may end up staying :D
     
  7. tomwilhelm

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    Dec 14, 2005
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    Have a great trip! It's really wonderful up here in the Summer, particularly along the coast and on the Cape.

    (Though to be honest, I abhor the Cape.)
     
  8. soccernutter

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    I've been telling my wife she shouldn't be allowed drive.
     
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  9. JohnR

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    Jun 23, 2000
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    Yep. Decry the opposition press, then have trusted sources dole out manufactured talking points. The Russkies did the same, and they convinced half their audience too.
     
  10. Chris M.

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    Jan 18, 2002
    Chicago
    It's too bad this didn't play out a bit longer before this was leaked. It would have been fun to watch vfish using terms like "puff power" and "breeze energy" and then read this ;)
     
  11. American Brummie

    Jun 19, 2009
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    Here's my problem with their plan: What scientific support could possibly come of this plan? Wind power isn't exactly an unknown quantity at this point. It'd be like trying to reframe the effects of CFCs in the atmosphere...we already know what's gonna happen.
     
  12. Nettle

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  13. JohnR

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    Jun 23, 2000
    Chicago, IL
    Hmmm I'm not buying Mead's argument. Are trees a carbon-neutral resource over the long term? Yeah they are. So they are not carbon-neutral over the short term. So, big deal. Coal and oil and gas are not carbon-neutral under any time frame. Plus the long term is ultimately what counts, after all the whole issue of planet health is about the long term.

    This reads to me like a cranky anti-green bashing greens.
     
  14. msilverstein47

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  15. Auriaprottu

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  16. VFish

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    Tarrifs are dumb, those that cheer them are dumber.
     
  17. Auriaprottu

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    Truth gotta hit everybody. Everybody.
     
  18. Funkfoot

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    May 18, 2002
    New Orleans, LA
    Yes, and I cheer only because the stupid decision will have a bigger impact on the stupid states that voted for the stupid decision maker.
     
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  19. raza_rebel

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  20. ceezmad

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    This is kind of cool if it does end up coming to market.

    Having windows that can meet your energy needs (not industrial), would be pretty cool.

    https://www.economist.com/news/scie...ential-outshine-silicon-solar-panels-new-type
     

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