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  1. I would trust the Washington Post's evaluation of the bona fides of this reporter over yours.
  2. It already being done. So what's your point? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590198221000373#:~:text=Hobbyists and some small businesses,controller%2C battery packs and inverter.
  3. Apparently you think you know the "truth": namely, that none of us know the truth. None of us may know the whole truth, but plenty of us know what's false.
  4. IMO should be revised to IMUO namely "In My Uninformed Opinion." Or maybe I've got that wrong. Maybe you can share with me the reason why you think batteries are a dead end. What evidence have you got to offer? As for hydrogen, transport is a huge problem. Current pipelines that transport gas aren't suitable to transport hydrogen. Last time I looked it would take 14 tanker trucks to transfer the equivalent amount of hydrogen. Ammonia has been proposed as a way to transport the stuff, but ammonia is highly toxic. Some chemical powders also show promise but that's still tentative Not just that, but using hydrogen will most likely contribute to global warming. Not because it, in itself, is a greenhouse gas, but because it will outcompete methane for oxygen in the atmosphere. So methane will degrade more slowly. And methane is a far more potent greenhouse gas than CO2 even though its lifespan is a lot shorter. And because hydrogen is the smallest molecule, it escaped easily from even the cracks and imperfections. I doubt that automobiles will be burning 100% of the hydrogen they consume.
  5. Actually, if you had read just the opening paragraph of the article you would have noted that a Washington Post reporter found fragments of white phosphorous casings at the site which were traced back to shells supplied to Israel by the USA. And, of course, on top of that, it's The Washington Post scrutinizing those claims. Ya think they rushed into publishing this article? That they didn't scrutinize the evidence? "Israel used U.S.-supplied white phosphorus munitions in an October attack in southern Lebanon that injured at least nine civilians in what a rights group says should be investigated as a war crime, according to a Washington Post analysis of shell fragments found in a small village. A journalist working for The Post found remnants of three 155mm artillery rounds fired into Dheira, near the border of Israel, which incinerated at least four homes, residents said. " https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/12/11/israel-us-white-phosphorus-lebanon/ .
  6. I should have noted that this graph also includes a projection of how the population will age. Which actually makes immigration more of an imperative.
  7. Not only have the wages of the bottom 10% in America increased the fastest, but Obamacare benefits have been strengthened to cover more working Americans and Medicaid has been expanded to cover more of the working poor. Voters in several Republicans states have voted to expand Medicaid despite the opposition of Republican governors and legislatures. You've got nothing but falsehoods.
  8. Well, you might ask yourself about the demographics of Britain back then. What percentage of the population was pensioners back in the 90s compared to now. How many older people are there in the UK? It is well known that the UK population is ageing, with more people living longer lives than previously. There are now over 15.5 million people aged 60 or over, making up 23% of the UK population. The number of “older” old people is also rising. There are now 3.2 million people aged 80 or over, and almost 600,000 of these are aged 90 or over. https://www.mha.org.uk/get-involved/policy-influencing/facts-stats/ Here's how much the median age has risen since 1950 https://www.statista.com/statistics/275394/median-age-of-the-population-in-the-united-kingdom/
  9. Could be that there are lots of fools in Argentina who think this is noteworthy.
  10. Once again, the lying liars at Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have been proven to be lying about Israeli use of white phosphorus. A report...oh wait a minute: Israel used U.S.-supplied white phosphorus in Lebanon attack Israel used U.S.-supplied white phosphorus munitions in an October attack in southern Lebanon that injured at least nine civilians in what a rights group says should be investigated as a war crime, according to a Washington Post analysis of shell fragments found in a small village. A journalist working for The Post found remnants of three 155-millimeter artillery rounds fired into Dheira, near the border of Israel, which incinerated at least four homes, residents said. The rounds, which eject felt wedges saturated with white phosphorous that burns at high temperatures, produce billowing smoke to obscure troop movements as it falls haphazardly over a wide area. https://archive.ph/vuhWJ https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/12/11/israel-us-white-phosphorus-lebanon/ The article goes on to note that using the highly poisonous white phosphorus as a weapon, as opposed to using it as a smokescreen, is a war crime.
  11. Actually, this politician made replacing Argentinian currency for the American dollar a centerpiece of his campaign. That has since evaporated.
  12. You mean based on the investigations that, as far as being revealed, have turned up nothing to indicate that they've been anyway profited from their brothers business dealings. You'v got less than nothing
  13. Fox Anchor, Through Gritted Teeth, Admits Biden’s Economy “Is a Lot Stronger Than Anybody Understands” Responding to the jobs report Friday morning, Fox’s Maria Bartiromo told viewers, in moment that seemed to pain her: “Overall, you’ve got to look at this report as a big positive. We’ve got more jobs created than expected.” Turning to panelist Joseph Lavorgna, the former chief economist of the National Economic Council under Trump, she remarked, “Joe Lavorgna, you’ve been saying this for a long time, saying that the economy is a lot stronger than anybody understands.” He responded: “The numbers are good numbers, no question. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/fox-anchor-biden-economy-stronger-than-anybody-understands
  14. Well. good on you for providing a link. Did you read the entire article? "Balancing the books may prove to be a bigger obstacle for nuclear power than splitting the atom. A new report from the National Academy of Engineering says the economics of nuclear power “is perhaps the largest challenge to the commercial success of advanced reactors.” Advanced nuclear reactors are especially tricky to game out. “Let me just say that anyone making estimates of what it will cost to produce electricity from these power plants has got to have a whole series of embedded assumptions, there’s a lot of uncertainty,” said Richard Meserve, a former chair of the nuclear regulatory commission and a co-author of the report, during a briefing about the report." https://www.vox.com/science/23702686/nuclear-power-small-modular-reactor-energy-climate-change And there's this: Deal to build pint-size nuclear reactors canceled A plan to build a novel nuclear power plant comprising six small modular reactors (SMRs) fell apart this week when prospective customers for its electricity backed out. Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS), a coalition of community-owned power systems in seven western states, withdrew from a deal to build the plant, designed by NuScale Power, because too few members agreed to buy into it. The project, subsidized by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), sought to revive the moribund U.S. nuclear industry, but its cost had more than doubled to $9.3 billion. “We still see a future for new nuclear,” says Mason Baker, CEO and general manager of UAMPS, which planned to build the plant in Idaho. “But in the near term, we’re going to focus on … expanding our wind capacity, doing more utility-scale solar, [and] batteries.” https://archive.ph/hsGlU There's a saying that the Brazilians have about their nation that I'm going to alter to apply here: Nuclear energy is the power of the future and always will be.
  15. As for missing things, it wasn't known how intimately Israel was involved in the funding of Hamas back then. So it's not a issue of just vague "support for Hamas" anymore, but the fact that among other things, Israel enabled Hamas to be funded to the tune of 30 million dollars per month.
  16. Participation is not compulsory. You jumped in and then asked me to ask someone else. When I hadn't addressed you in the first place.
  17. Yet you seem to have no problem with comments criticizing Joe Biden and other family members. Selectively blind, much?
  18. I wasn't aware that when I posted this again, I was asking you. You jumped in.
  19. The surest sign that someone has no cogent argument or information to offer is that they make it personal. You've got nothing.
  20. I'm sure you think that's some kind of rational reply. Let me explain to you the difference between my comment and yours. You insinuated that all of Biden's children benefited from Hunter's business dealings based on nothing. I pointed out that your insinuations were base on nothing. In other words your insinuation was irrational.
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