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Whatever happened to the promise of thin solar? Search Labs | AI Overview Learn more While "thin solar systems," also known as thin-film solar panels, are still being developed and used to some extent, they haven't become as dominant in the solar market as traditional crystalline silicon panels due to their lower efficiency, though research is ongoing to improve their performance and make them more cost-effective, particularly for applications where flexibility or lightweight is crucial; a notable example of a company that focused on thin-film technology, Solyndra, faced bankruptcy due to challenges related to efficiency and cost issues. Key points about thin-film solar panels: Lower efficiency: Compared to traditional silicon panels, thin-film panels generally convert a smaller percentage of sunlight into electricity, limiting their widespread adoption. Cost advantages: Although less efficient, thin-film panels can sometimes be cheaper to produce, making them attractive for certain applications. Flexibility: Due to their thinness, they can be more flexible and adaptable to different surfaces, which is a potential benefit for integrating solar power into buildings or unusual structures. Recent developments in thin-film technology: Material advancements: Researchers are exploring new materials like perovskites, which could potentially improve the efficiency of thin-film solar cells. Focus on specific applications: Thin-film technology is still being actively developed for applications where flexibility or lightweight is critical, like integrating solar panels into building facades or portable power systems. Whatever happened to thin, adhesive solar panels? Feb 6, 2009 — Yes, the exciting progress of creating thin, relatively inexpensive solar film that can be easily rolled onto a roof or... Outside Magazine End-of-Life Solar Panels: Regulations and Management | US EPA Oct 4, 2024 — When a solar panel reaches the end of its usable life or is otherwise discarded, it becomes solid waste. Solid waste is... U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (.gov) Paper-thin solar cell can turn any surface into a power source Jun 29, 2023 — But such thin, freestanding solar modules are challenging to handle and can easily tear, which would make them difficu... MIT Energy Initiative Show all Generative AI is experimental. Export Save Featured snippet from the web Still, many thin-film technologies have been found to have shorter operational lifetimes and larger degradation rates than first-generation cells in accelerated life testing, which has contributed to their somewhat limited deployment. Globally, the PV marketshare of thin-film technologies remains around 5% as of 2023. Thin-film solar cell - Wikipedia Wikipedia

The times they are a changin'...rational energy policy is back on the federal agenda. https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Trump-Freezes-Department-of-Energys-50-Billion-Budget.html "President Trump’s administration has frozen the Department of Energy's (DOE) activities pending a comprehensive review of its alignment with his priorities. According to a memo from acting Energy Secretary Ingrid Kolb, the freeze affects grants, loans, procurement, studies, and even personnel decisions, effectively bringing the agency’s $50 billion budget to a standstill. Beyond bureaucratic tinkering, the halt is a direct shot at dismantling Biden-era climate policies. The DOE’s Loan Programs Office, holding $41.2 billion in conditional commitments to energy technology companies, now finds its purse strings tightly cinched. Other critical missions, like nuclear waste cleanup and maintenance of emergency crude reserves, are similarly on pause. The order mirrors an earlier Trump directive freezing funds tied to Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act and a bipartisan infrastructure law, both of which allocated billions for clean energy initiatives. Trump, who has championed fossil fuels as a cornerstone of his energy policy, has made it clear that climate-focused spending is no longer a federal priority."

Trump claims the US does not need Canadian oil imports. For the last 15 years Republicans have pushed for the XL pipeline including Trump. A famous old song comes to mind…..”What a Difference a Day Makes”

The anti-CO2 bankers conventions are falling apart, and full financing for the oil sector should soon return. https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Banks-Ditch-Net-Zero-as-Climate-Alliances-Crumble.html "Major US and Canadian banks have withdrawn from the Net-Zero Banking Alliance following pressure from Republican-led states and the election of President Trump. BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, has also left the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative due to legal concerns and confusion surrounding its practices. European banks are reevaluating their participation in net-zero alliances, and the future of climate finance initiatives is uncertain." "Some of Europe’s biggest banks are rethinking their membership and involvement in net-zero initiatives as Donald Trump returns to office and Republican-led U.S. states are going after “woke capital.” This, they say, discriminates against America’s oil, gas, and coal industry by committing to net-zero portfolios and adopting principles that could reduce financing for fossil fuel projects. Since early December, the biggest U.S. banks – Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo, and JP Morgan – have all quit the NZBA. " "At the end of November, a group of Republican states led by Texas sued BlackRock and fellow asset managers Vanguard and State Street for alleged violation of antitrust laws. The states allege that the asset managers have been pressuring coal firms to lower output to cut emissions, thus driving up electricity prices in America. Since leaving the net-zero asset managers’ alliance, BlackRock has reached a settlement with the state of Tennessee, which had sued the world’s biggest asset manager for misleading consumers regarding the role of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors in its investment practices. The settlement concluded a lawsuit filed by the State of Tennessee under the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). "

Now that Russia can't afford it's 'influencing' campaigns in the West anymore, they've abandoned OilPrice. The US Congress will have to pass a law ordering them to divest their control of the site. Perhaps Larry Ellison of Oracle would be happy to take it over.

We'll see what happens now that the subsidized EV sales are going the way of Biden/Harris. Afeura!

You seem to be lacking in numerical skills, old man. EV "...sales in 2023 were revised upward to 1,212,758 units, a 49% gain from 2022. Sales in 2024 (1,301,411) were higher by 7.3% and accounted for 8.1% of total sales.." World EV sales have slowed including a disastrous fall in German sales. As a percent of total vehicle sales, EV sales in the U.S. are still only 8.1% of the total, meaning that fossil fuel vehicle sales are now at about 92%of the market, so fossil fuel vehicle fleets are increasing much faster than EV contributions.This is despite the trillions of dollars wasted on subsidizing the consumer choices in favor of EVs. The American people have voted with their wallets.

EV sales have dropped precipitously over the past year in terms of market share, as the numbers make clear. https://www.coxautoinc.com/market-insights/q4-2024-ev-sales/ EV "...sales in 2023 were revised upward to 1,212,758 units, a 49% gain from 2022. Sales in 2024 (1,301,411) were higher by 7.3% and accounted for 8.1% of total sales.." World EV sales have slowed including a disastrous fall in German sales. As a percent of total vehicle sales, EV sales in the U.S. are still only 8.1% of the total, meaning that fossil fuel vehicle sales are now at about 92% of the market, so fossil fuel vehicle fleets are increasing much faster than EV contributions.This is despite the trillions of dollars wasted on subsidizing the consumer choices in favor of EVs. The American people have voted with their wallets.

Pioneering physicians are very unpopular and often fired for not going along with the false teachings that they are forced to use in large medical groups. Shawn Baker has a great book out on the Carnivore diet. He was a top practice builder for a large group before being fired. I highly recommend his book. Diabetics are being given misguided treatment by many physicians. Statin users are often suffering muscle pains needlessly. Psychiatric patients are not given the nutritional information that may be vital to recovery. Covid patients were prevented from getting proper information on many helpful supplements and helpful medications. Children should never have received any Covid MRNA shots. They were called vaccines but are not. These are just some of the faults of organized medicine brought to us by our malign medical authorities.

The cancellation of the unnecessary and foolish CO2 removal projects is a positive development in the oil sector, there is absolutely no need to reduce CO2 levels, which clearly do not contribute to global warming. https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Canadas-165B-Carbon-Capture-Project-In-Jeopardy-After-Trudeaus-Resignation.html "Exxon CEO Darren Woods told investors that the company’s low-carbon business has the potential to outperform its legacy oil and gas business within a decade and generate hundreds of billions in revenues. According to Woods, the business has the potential to hit hundreds of billions after the initial 10-year ramp-up. However, Ammann said that whether Exxon is able to actualize its dream will depend on regulatory and policy support for carbon pricing and the cost of abating greenhouse gas emissions, among other changes. Exxon believes that the Low Carbon segment will be "much more stable, or less cyclical" and also less prone to commodity price swings through predictable, long-term contracts with customers aiming to lower their own carbon footprint." Only by bankrupting national government budgets could these ideas ever be brought to fruition, and now with Trudeau out of business, there is no head of government prepared to risk this enterprise.

Oil demand remains strong in Norway despite the uptake of EVs. It makes no real difference. https://www.investing.com/news/commodities-news/norways-oil-demand-steady-despite-rise-to-ev-superpower-ubs-says-3399266 "...a record 92.1% of all new cars sold were purely electric in Norway, UBS said in Wednesday note, a trend that has been gaining momentum since the rise in EV sales in 2010. But so far, the impact on oil demand in Norway "has been negligible," UBS adds, noting the plunge gasoline demand has been more than offset by other oil products."

In the new White House, the discredited climate science based on CO2 will be exposed and the reality of factual science revived based on atmospheric H2O and solar variables. The old models which have been excluding the most important variables will be overhauled. The realities are that by excluding the most important variables, biased correlation coefficients have been falsely promoted. Any statistical model for climate change which excludes such basic variables as atmospheric H2O or solar variables is without serious merit. Any advanced undergraduate student in mathematical statistics should know that. Further, a statistical relationship is not enough, there needs to be an organic relationship detailed, which fails in the case of atmospheric CO2, due to the low levels of the gas. H2O is by far the predominant greenhouse gas. The standard CO2 model excludes atmospheric H2O and solar variables. Without a complete model the results for the correlation coefficients are biased and the model without value. Anyone who has studied university mathematical statistics knows that. https://www.scribbr.com/research-bias/omitted-variable-bias/#:~:text=Omitted variable bias occurs when,important factor in your analysis. "Omitted variable bias occurs when a statistical model fails to include one or more relevant variables. In other words, it means that you left out an important factor in your analysis." "In this case, excluding causes omitted variable bias. This may lead to an overestimation or under-estimation of the effect of your other variables.As a result, the model mistakenly attributes the effect of the missing variable to the included variables. Exclusion of important variables can limit the validity of your study findings." Climate scientists freely abandon the rules of statistical models, as if they do not exist. Apparently they believe that the rules are an inconvenience which can be blithely ignored. The models produced by this thinking produce worthless results. Specification error is the major debilitating factor for the vast majority of climate models, it appears that the difficulties of constructing a well-defined model are beyond the capacities of most climate scientists, most of whom have only a cursory training in statistical models.Most climate studies focus only on one or two variables and do not attempt to work with comprehensive models, with catastrophic results.

The EV market is still in decline, with EV manufacturers in serious trouble. https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Porsches-China-Sales-Slump-Drags-Down-Luxury-EV-Market.html "Porsche is offering significant markdowns on the Taycan EV due to a slump in demand, particularly in China. The Taycan's declining resale value and high operating costs have contributed to Porsche's sliding profitability. Volkswagen Group, Porsche's parent company, is facing challenges in the competitive EV market amid a price war with Tesla and Chinese automakers."

Search Labs | AI Overview Learn more According to current data, only a small percentage of solar panels and related equipment are made in the United States, with estimates placing it around 1-2% of the global production, meaning the vast majority of solar panels used in the US are imported, primarily from China;. Key points about US solar panel manufacturing: Low global market share: The US currently produces a very small percentage of the world's solar panels, with figures often cited around 1-2%. China dominance: China holds the majority of the global solar panel manufacturing market share. Recent growth: While still low, the US solar manufacturing capacity has been increasing due to policy changes and growing demand.

I just got a solar estimate for my home. It was going to cost over $50,000 over 20 years! They would keep all the Illinois rebates. I think that is pretty ridiculous considering all of the "decreased prices" for solar panels.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/terrifying-monterey-county-declares-emergency-023143565.html 'Terrifying': Monterey County declares emergency after massive lithium battery plant fire James Powel and Roseann Cattani, USA TODAY NETWORK Updated Fri, January 24, 2025 at 9:40 AM CST·3 min read 46 A state of emergency has been declared in Monterey County on California's scenic Central Coast over a major fire at a battery plant. The Monterey County Board of Supervisors ratified the emergency during a special session about the fire at Vistra Energy's Moss Landing Power Plant in the unincorporated community of Moss Landing. The proclamation was first issued by the county's administrative officer when the fire began one week ago and clears the way for the county to ask for state and federal assistance. The fire, which was left to burn, was out as of Tuesday, according to fire officials, and small pockets of heat at the facility would continue to be monitored using drones, according to The Californian − part of the USA TODAY Network. The fire at the plant, a 300-megawatt lithium storage facility, destroyed most of the building and its contents, according to county fire officials. The storage facility is a part of a natural gas-powered electricity plant operated by Vistra Energy, a Texas company. The facility also has a battery storage station owned by PG&E. Evacuation orders for approximately 1,200 residents near the plant were lifted Friday night, though some road closures remain in place. EPA, county says there was no risk to public health Burning fire at the site of Vistra Corp's power plant in Moss Landing, California, U.S., January 16, 2025 in this screen grab obtained from a social media video. The Environmental Protection Agency concluded supplemental air-monitoring in the vicinity of the Vistra Energy storage facility on Monday and said in a statement that there was, "no risk to public health throughout the incident." The EPA began monitoring for hydrogen fluoride, a highly toxic gas produced by lithium-ion battery fires, and for particulate matter on Saturday, according to the county’s timeline. “We remain fairly confident that there was no adverse impact associated with emissions from the plant fire, we did not do speciation of chemicals found because that would be a pretty exhaustive and expensive process to do," Richard Stedman, air pollution control officer from the Monterey Bay Air Resources District, said at the meeting. Residents near the fire and in communities just outside the evacuation zone requested further testing of soil and water on Tuesday and shared personal stories of health symptoms, including respiratory issues and a metallic taste. Community members, officials express concerns over safety At Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting, members of the public voiced their concerns and demanded answers from county officials, saying they wanted officials to ensure cleanup was done properly and hazardous chemicals were not allowed to run offsite and seep into the neighboring environment. Ed Mitchell spoke for a newly formed community group called the Moss Landing Fire Community Recovery Group, which came together after 160 residents gathered at Prunedale Grange, a volunteer organization in Monterrey County, on Monday. Mitchell told the supervisors that North County residents appreciate the actions of first responders and called lithium batteries a "thrilling" new technology but “a technology that when it goes wrong, it’s not thrilling, it’s terrifying.” Monterey County Supervisor Glenn Church said during the meeting, according to CBS News, that "this technology is ahead of the government's ability to regulate it. And the industry's ability to control it." Church called for the facility to stay closed until an independent investigation determines the cause of the incident, CBS News reported. What the wildfires mean for you: Sign up for USA TODAY's Climate Point newsletter for more weather news. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: State of emergency declared over California lithium battery plant fire I recall a lot of ballyhoo praising this plant on this site. The future of battery backup might not be all that great, it is very expensive too. More coal and natural gas plants that can fire up quickly may still be the best solution. View comments (46)

Birthright citizenship is a fuondation of US. These children are becoming good, paying taxes Americans. I think the key is education. Without upward mobility in US society these children could really become a hindrance and not the future of US. I found US vey strange. In most of European countries and Asian Countries the best universities are FREE for their gifted students. Not so in USA. I , myself, finished the best business school in Poland with no money to pay tuition. And still in Poland the best universtities are free, only the minor schools you have to pay for.

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The new initiatives of the incoming Trump administration may offer the opportunity to discuss the reality of the alarmist rhetoric which has come to dominate the discussions of climate change. This will include providing a forum for a more reasoned and critical stance on the existing paradigms regarding the role of atmospheric CO2 and methane , and including atmospheric H2O and solar variables into climate models. https://www.eenews.net/articles/trump-allies-want-to-resurrect-red-teams-to-question-climate-science/ "Project 2025 — the blueprint Trump allies wrote for his second term — lays out plans to cut out entire sections of the government’s climate work, particularly at NOAA and EPA. The proposal includes offering the public incentives “to identify scientific flaws and research misconduct” in the studies backing federal regulations, which would allow industry-funded researchers to sow doubt about peer-reviewed science. The red team/blue team exercise was crafted during Trump’s first term by a group of researchers critical of climate policy. For the effort to work properly and have merit, it needs a blue team of climate scientists who argue that the established research holds up, said Steve Koonin, a New York University physicist and architect of the red team plan in Trump’s first term. Koonin said the effort would require four or five researchers on each side. Koonin, a former chief scientist at BP, argued that the case for an adversarial review has only grown in the last four years. “I think we’ve got more data, more understanding, more misrepresentation in the media,” Koonin said. “But the essential mechanism is to get a credible blue team lined up.” Koonin said he expects that climate scientists would be hesitant to participate in such an effort. That’s why he wants the Trump administration to compel the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine to put together a team of researchers. They would then have to review the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report or the National Climate Assessment. “I think the right way to do it is to take a prior document — it could be the most recent National Climate Assessment — and simply go through that point by point,” Koonin said. The National Academies did not respond to a request for comment."

It might not be the only country does so. Many countries, including Malaysia, apply that law. If the parents are citizens, then, by birth, a migrant baby is automatically a citizen. If one of them is, they need to apply to get approval. Higher chance to clear if father is an american. If none of them is a citizen, the baby born will not be considered a citizen. Many choose to go back to their country of origin to give birth or report to the embassy of country of origin for registration shall emergency child birth is happening. Otherwise, baby born would be without identity like Rohigya of bangladesh origin, children to refugees and illegal entries in many countries. They sometimes volunteer to be deported or they will dump the baby or abort it earlier. Migrants are generally not treated well everywhere. No point to let them have citizenship without giving them a fair chance nor due basic respect. There is a touching movie, based on a true story, how lives of a few migrant kids were changed by chance by a white coach. The title of the movie is "McFarland, USA". Synopsis: McFarland The film is based on the true story of a small Central California high school coach that took an unlikely group of immigrant students and transformed them into a distance-running dynasty, culminating with their team win in the 1987 CIF Cross Country Championships. (The story was initially published in the LA Times.)27 Feb 2015 https://www.outsideonline.com P/s: lives of those kids changed from no hope to have a different future with respect gained and scholarships granted. Instead of giving citizenship away but treated them with disrespect or inhumanely, might as well give selectively, invite kids like these to come over from time to time and granting their parents easy visiting pass with living expenses covered.

Quote:" Windmills can be unsightly but so are oil wells, and oil spills, explosions, and all that. Wildfires are not something I can directly control. They will also probably get worse due to - you guessed climate change from fossil fuels!......" 1. Windmills and their experiment on sonic wave might have changed patterns of wind, direction, etc while sonic wave experiment is killing aquatic lives. - imagine when wind flowing through modern windmill, how would the direction be? Side way, where wind touches the pointy blades and move turbine? Perpendicular , where wind hits turbine directly from the front and somehow turns it? Either way, circular motion of wind forms around turbines. Could this form resistant to wind flow? Consequently, changing climate and wild lives near wind farm and beyond? - although oilspill is disastrous, most might be caused by natural calamity, minority on human sabotaging act. 2. The new culprit of climate change has been identified. German-german jews who declare themselves master of all races, who have plan for all mankind, and who promote helenic spirit of uniformity through imitating and worshipping their culture are to be blamed. Germany has 10-12% of green or forest coverage before decades of reforestation. Promotion of copying or imitating them, 70-90% of the world has 0 to 20+% of green or forest coverage. To support it, why was climate change not obvious until industrial revolution? Answer: buffer was available to neutralize the usages of fossil fuel until massive industrialization and social development or expansion were happening after WWII. What buffer? Forest! Trees! Gone! Therefore, german master race thingy, german-german jews conspiracy and their third, fourth, fifth reich who conspire to this uniform copying ideology should be made to pay the world for remediation with all they have, underground and above ground. Who is ruthless to competitors? Jews. Who was inhumane towards their own kind during WWII? Jewish doctors, german jews, german. After 6 millions of killing of own, other numbers with other races would be shrugged with a reply:" what about 6 million of lives compared to those?" Who forces companies to adopt net zero programme and go green with half baked technologies? Jewish owned banks or initiatives, master race colony and followers. The right way is to build a working example. Examine the outcome and shortfall for a 10 years. Shall working well, promote it to encourage uptakers. Not by force. When offsprings of rich are deprived off their birth right to inheritable wealth, they are probably just arrogant imbeciles who believe they are higher than thou and born to be god-like, but actually could function worse than a human beggar or a male/ female pushie seller, is it not?? Nutshell, why should you follow their order or instruction??! Stand up for yourself as human beings with clear sense of right and wrong, courage to do the right things, bravery to resist the wrong and return justice where it is due... When these restored, you will have plenty of rightful money to be earned or shared, wrongful intention and wealth crushed to bits.

Putin is making Trump look like a fool..............Which emboldens Putin to make demands from Trump......... Now Trump has to pick one side and stick with them.....and he of course cannot pick Russia...Unless he wants to be impeached by his own party..... The Great Deal Maker is a fraud that sells snake oil....Have you bought a pair of Trump sneakers ?????? On sale today Trump pissing on NATO is making him a laughingstock amongst our NATO allies with his failure to end the war within 24 hours I smell that Congress is going to have to make a 50 Billion aid package to Ukraine in the near future...... The Upside down Trump Administration is now backtracking on Tariffs....Ukraine.......next up ?????

$60 oil on the horizon???????? Love Trumps war on US companies.......let the good times roll yeah the oilmans dream come true............layoffs in the oil patch 2025 and 2026 bankruptcies in the oil patch coal is already there global oil price war heading into the toilet Crude Oil Prices Today | OilPrice.com Oil Prices Fall Ahead Of Trump Inauguration Oil prices fell as traders await clarity on President-elect Donald Trump's policy agenda, while banks predict prices will fall below $60 per... . 6 hours ago Wyoming News Now Peabody, largest US coal miner, seeks bankruptcy protection Peabody Energy is now the fifth big coal operator to file for bankruptcy. . Sep 27, 2024 WCYB Coal mining company with operations in Southwest Virginia files for bankruptcy A coal mining company with operations in Southwest Virginia has closed down, which could mean dozens of people are now out of work. . 6 days ago Daily American Coal company files bankruptcy protection. What to know The coal mining corporation board of directors began discussing the possibility of bankruptcy to survive in early 2024. . 2 weeks ago Appalachian Voices Coal bankruptcies continue to put a strain on communities The mining industry has put a severe financial and environmental burden on the people of Appalachia and their home. . May 14, 2024

I guess this is what the future would look like with an EV fleet, a man-made self-inflicted disaster. https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Fire-at-Huge-California-Battery-Storage-Plant-Forces-Evacuations.html "A fire at the Vistra battery storage plant in California, one of the largest in the world, has prompted evacuations for hundreds of people, and part of a highway was closed early on Friday. The plant contains tens of thousands of lithium batteries, which could be difficult to put out once they catch fire." "“There’s no way to sugar coat it. This is a disaster, is what it is,” Monterey County Supervisor Glenn Church told KSBW-TV." Brave new world.

I'd guesstimate that the fires in California put out more pollution than all ICE vehicles for the next 5 years minimum. And it's still burning. Try understanding China and India are consuming more coal than ever in history. You need to get a f**kin' life dude. Seriously! China Extends Its Lead Over India as the World’s Biggest Importer of Coal | OilPrice.com

You seem to lack understanding of what "percentage" means, as in 92% of the current new U.S. vehicle market now fossil fuel, and nearly all of the used market. That is the same as two years ago, which you seem to be unable to grasp. Nothing has happened in terms of Amercian vehicle transition to EV. Complete failure. And huge additions to the American fossil fuel fleet. Demand for oil and gasoline increase. Perhaps a primer in mathematics and economics would help you.

You seem to be having trouble with those numbers, old boy. Actually, about 92% of American production is fossil fuel vehicles, so nothing has changed, still a huge number of fossil fuel cars being added to the overall fleet. With Trump's changes to the rules, expect consumer supports to be withdrawn and EV sales fall further. German demand for EVs is in freefall, so the prospects are not good.

The information is widely available for free on YouTube.com Many true pioneering experts give pioneering information on most medical subjects if not all. Medicine has to become democratized. Not just run by Big Pharma, and federal or state governments. Every person should learn all they can and teach what they have learned. Having maladies yourself may help you to do so. I am nearing eighty and have lived well through a hip replacement, an aortic valve replacement, back pain that I got physical therapy for to avoid surgery, atrial fibrillation, and continue to learn about all aspects of health and longevity. I work out twice a week at the gym and at home. The food industry has been teaching us to eat the wrong foods, so that we can become addicted to sugar and cheap starches from childhood. We use cooking oils that are dangerous and most grew up with hydrogenated margarine and peanut butter and Crisco instead of bacon grease and lard which are healthful. Highly processed foods is a generic term for industrialized food processes and additives that are not good for us. These foods have led us into metabolic syndrome, obesity, and shorter life spans. I think that RFK will be approved for HHS Secretary and will guide some great changes but it will be a never ending struggle to educate people about health issues.

Well, no, the governments and universities are currently trying their best to suppress real climate science, and with Trump just opening a window on actual research will bring about a revelation of new insights.

so you are going to rejoin the labor force and work for $4 an hour (the wheels of change making...who needs a lving wage anyways) to MAGA with American made goods like washing machines so they are the same price as Made in Mexico machines ?????? . Please step up and do your part to tame inflation... I bet instead you have been cheering on ......Creating psychological tension. Reality ....the only thing that will come out of all of the BS that the senile convicted boss that you report to is he will cause a recession in the US ...... Stock market is now frozen looking for direction......and when the senile old man starts babbling about the use of force to take over Greenland.. or beating on our allies and trading partners to the North and South with your so called Grease........good lord.......and this is good for the US?????? and you think this is part of "Creating psychological tension" Let the senile old man, that you love so much, unleash Tarriffs on everything that is imported...............you think that he is going to back down on his BS??????????? Creating psychological tension?????? Enjoy the Recession .....

Judging from choices of consultants suggested to him and a few more jokers buying their way into top few posts, do not be too trusting things will change... In addition, climate change is not a field Trump familiar with. And, People who live in places that use air-con all the time are in no way suitable to help him. As mentioned, if Trump still has not found his aim and guts, and whatever announced during his term before is being reannounced, then, it would be pretty sure, those few german-german jews founders &/or offsprings -relatives of G7, saudi, indians/ africans & in- law of williams etc will make him and america a laughing stock. Do not like to be the one pouring cold water over your excitement, but it has to be done so that we will stick to "what is real" , not 'what we think is real'.

🤔....... Things might not be what you have written. 1. Practising specialists - they learn from a) text books and lectures when they are in first year ( basic medical sc) b) personal experience of lecturers when they are in second and third year ( specific fields of medical sc) c) when they are interning in the wad, they learn from lecturer or doctor leading the group by watching ( too many intake of students from too many universities to allow hands on). Fourth year, fifth year would be more specialized medical subjects e.g. surgery, gyne & child labouring, endocrine, ear & throat, guts, bones etc. d) upon graduation, they have 2 years of housemanship ( government here prolongs it from one year because the quality of graduates has been consistently very poor. It will increase to 3 years soon). This period, they learn from senior doctors assigned to them. Hence, we could deduce that their primary sources of info are a) text book and b) lecturers & supervisors. If supervisors learn no special experience or outside textbook knowledge from their lecturers, senior doctors, heads of division and personal handling, they will have no additional info on field. Consequently nothing new to teach to their juniors and every new badge thereafter. In addition, in a competitive world for progress and arrogant of some young doctors, seniors likely won't say anything unless relevant or similar condition of case emerge. Or they might be labelled as lengthy or talking too much by juniors. Yet face competition from some smarter juniors for permanent placement or job. 2. Doctors undertake master, phD or fellow in research after graduation or practising medical doctors who supervise research students from another course e.g. biomed, bioscience etc. ( As mentioned, tuition fees they pay would suffice for few badges of rats etc, or private fund secured or government allowance when application is submitted) - if not mistaken, doctors used to be very busy ( now, they have overstaff until they want to make themselves look busy or pretend to be, if they are not. E.g. in the old days, when doctors were real busy, they would find out your history of visit, treatment done, diagnosis and current situation before prescribing. They hoped to heal you completely so that you need not return. Nowadays, those young genious never need patients history, past treatment, diagnosis etc. They don't even interested to know what's wrong with you before they prescribe the same medication, sometimes overdoze, sometimes for 3 months, on every similar symptoms. And request you to go back every week or month... @#$_&-?!*) - owing to their busy schedule, they rarely have time for research. How do they have new discovery? a) clinical phase of drug testing ( not their research, they just watch and confirm it. Results owned and published by related pharma firm under a name in the research lab they established) b) hear about it from presentors of other countries in conferences and ask research students to try it back home. c) from research students they supervise... - new surgeons learned by working on dummies until they sweat no more... Therefore, permanent contract issuance rate is very low nowadays. Conclusion: cutting this automatic payout for a few years would be alright.

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Well, there aren't alot of EV's here in Central Illinois, so about 99% on the lots are ICE vehicles. While some infrastructure is being put in at places like WalMart and Larger grocery chains, not so much as cost to install them in an area that's already built. Charging times are still a big issue with EV's. And range anxiety. The guy who blew up the Tesla Truck in front of Trumps Hotel in Vegas, did you happen to see his route? 4 stops for sure, might have been a 5th but he had to go way out of his way because of Charging Stations! My point being is if on a long trip you best plan it well, or you may need get towed to a charging station.

Not sure if anyone notices there is a consultant for energy is an ceo of oil company..... Saw a chart yesterday regarding how fuel price is calculated in the UK or what consumers are paying for. The whole sale fuel price is about 50 pences. Fuel duty ~ 53 pences. And there are other miscellaneous charges. This means, government of UK is taxing oil companies > 50% per litre of fuel. Is this percentage true to all governments?? 1. Who drive up inflation? Ans: The governments 2. Who do nothing, expect hand out from oil companies yet give them a lot of problems? Ans: The governments 3. Who spend lavishly on unurgent or useless things and transfer the costs to everyone? Ans: The governments Why do we need the governments for?? Good for nothing, yes? AI era is coming... Sooner than expected.

There will be ongoing challenges in the energy landscape due to the current anti-energy policies of many governments, partially reversed by the incoming Trump administration. https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-End-of-Economic-Growth-Energy-Shortages-Drive-Global-Downturn.html "In the past, adding debt was found to be effective way of stimulating the world economy because energy supplies supporting the world economy were not seriously constrained. It was possible to add new energy supplies, quite inexpensively. The combination of additional inexpensive energy supplies and additional “demand” (provided by the added debt) allowed the total quantity of goods and services produced to be increased. Once energy supplies started to become seriously constrained (about 2023), this technique started to work far less well. If energy production is constrained, the likely impact of added debt will be added inflation."

Checked on that bill, it was proposed and didn't pass evidently. Dealership had the Stihl rep call, So no ban on blowers in Illinois. The dealership has about 30 gas blower and 3 battery ones. HB4805 - 2 - LRB103 36336 AWJ 66435 b 1 such as pollen and mold. 2 Section 10. Definition. In this Act, "gas-powered leaf 3 blower" means a leaf blower that has a 2-stroke or 4-stroke 4 engine using gasoline or a gasoline and oil blend as fuel. 5 Section 15. Use or sale of gas-powered leaf blowers. On 6 and after January 1, 2025, a person may not operate or sell at 7 retail a gas-powered leaf blower in this State. 8 Section 20. Violation; enforcement. 9 (a) A person who violates Section 15 is subject to a civil 10 penalty not to exceed $500. 11 (b) A county or municipality may impose a penalty under 12 subsection (a) by citation or ticket. The county or 13 municipality may bring an action in the circuit court to 14 enforce the collection of any monetary penalty imposed in the 15 citation or ticket. 16 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 17 becoming law. <------------IT isn't LAW

That may be true but in this case isn't relevant. She's debunking hydrogen's use in power as someone with a technical background and saying pretty much the same things I have been for years now, and I don't wear a pink shirt. Time to forget about H2 and move on.

oh my no more burning of Coal in Illinois in 2030 how times are changing In Midwest first, Illinois bans fossil fuel electricity sources Reuters https://www.reuters.com › legal › litigation › midwest-fi... Sep 15, 2021 —Illinois became on Wednesday the first Midwest state to adopt a law that sets a roadmap to ban coal in

Just bought a Stihl blower brand new !!!

What they say and what they do after they leave, I suspect will be quite a different story. The Biden policies will wither away slowly. And the Climate Change folks will cry some more.

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A Chevrolet Camaro (3.6 litre V6) is over 156,000 dollars here in Norway (if I were to import). Why? Value-added tax = 9,000 dollars Tax for the weight of the car = 15,000 dollars Engine tax (horepowers mostly) = 27,000 dollars CO2 tax = 72,000 dollars N0x-tax (nitrogen oxide) = 1000 dollars First-time registration (to get license plates, don't know what this is called in us) = 115,000 dollars In case you want-to-scrap-your-car-tax = 400 dollars Total taxes for a Chevrolet Camarao V6? 125,000 dollars. This does not, of course, include shipping, insurance, gas, so on. EV's are exempt from taxes, except for the weight tax. I think EV sales would explode in the USA if the government put a $110,000 tax on ICE vehicles.

Here in the Midwest, we are starting a 7 day period of daily highs from 10 - 20 degrees Farenheit. EV owners who don't have home charging should have a lot of fun.

Reality is beginning to break through with the expectations of the incoming Trump administration's policies. Several banks are abandoning the foolish anti-carbon coalition and returning to sanity. https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Morgan-Stanley-Joins-US-Bank-Exodus-from-Climate-Coalition.html "Yesterday evening, Morgan Stanley became the latest US bank to depart from the Net Zero Banking Alliance, as pressure increasingly mounted on financial institutions from Republican lawmakers. Despite leaving the alliance, Morgan Stanley said in a statement that the bank’s commitment to meeting its carbon targets “remains unchanged”. Citigroup and Bank of America also left the group earlier this week, while Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs departed earlier in December."

Price of oil is soaring, partly due to the implemention of existing policies. This trend should continue and be increased under the incoming Trump administration. https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Middle-East-Crude-Prices-Surge-as-Supply-From-Iran-and-Russia-Falls.html "In October, the United States began ratcheting up sanctions on entities and vessels transporting Iranian oil. Two months ago, the U.S. Treasury and State Department designated several companies, based in Suriname, India, Malaysia, and China, for “knowingly engaging in a significant transaction for the purchase, acquisition, sale, transport, or marketing of petroleum or petroleum products from Iran.” The new U.S. sanctions on Iran “include measures against the “Ghost Fleet” that carries Iran’s illicit oil to buyers around the world,” National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said."

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I agree that nat gas can fuel a boiler. If you don't have the pipeline available, and also need to spend millions to retrofit/modify the boiler system, coal still remains attractive. Plus, you can store quite a lot of it on site. Note that I said WORLD demand. Replacing all the coal BTU's with nat gas BTU's is gonna require a whole lotta nat gas. It can be done, but certainly not overnight. A decade or two? Sure! Crying toddlers are the customer. Who's gonna tell the customer to stop bawling? As I have said, electric power is HIGHLY addictive.

In my opinion move is also aimed at weakening Russia’s influence in the region.