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Comment on Can cows help save the planet? by captdallas2 0.8 +/- 0.2
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Comment on Can cows help save the planet? by RiHo08
jim2
Talking about batteries two points:
1) The lead-acid battery was developed @ 1859 by a Frenchman. Today we still use the lead-acid battery because nothing better has come along.
2) To land on a comet, the Europeans spent $ 1.75 Billion, it took 10 years traveling 3.5 billion miles and the battery lasted… 40 hours. Kerplop. Dead was a door-nail. That was the best battery technology available.
Does anyone really think that another battery will be developed in the next dozen years or so that will be substantively better than the current lead-acid battery? Look at the milage a $100,000 Tesla gets with the very latest battery technology. Its not lead-acid I know.
Just saying that the so called renewable energy story, at least the intermittent kind, is but a pipe dream until energy storage technology catches up.
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Comment on Climate/Energy Policy and the GOP Congress by AK
I guess you don’t understand what terms like “prototype” and “proof-of-concept” mean. I wonder how much the first prototype refinery cost, and how much it produced?
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Comment on Can cows help save the planet? by Danny Thomas
R. Gates,
How long will it take to reach that 2000ppm or 4000ppm?
By my admittedly elementary analysis. I came up with about 240 years to reach 800ppm based on the average annual contribution (appox. 1.65ppm) from Mauma Loa (55 years of data). When I looked at the yearly numbers I noticed that there was an increasing rate of increase in the last decade so using just that decade (appox. 2.05ppm) I came up with about 190 years. Did I miss something?
My expectation is that via further determinant study we’ll get a better handle on this. That, plus implementation of what seems to me mutually beneficial common sense programs such as “Cows saving the planet” NOW as a form of insurance against the risk of CO2 being causative of warming (which I get the impression more folks than not here, perceive) lets me sleep well.
This is in part why I’m not fearful at this point, as the CO2 conversation as the predominant cause of GW is still in question. Keep in mind that I’m subject to change my mind.
I just don’t see where the fire is.
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Comment on Can cows help save the planet? by JustinWonder
Well, that is to compensate for all the times I read and enjoyed one of your posts but was too lazy to give you a +1.
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Comment on Can cows help save the planet? by jim2
They need to replace all “temporary” welfare with a negative income tax and lump disability, obamacare, and social security into one program that is means tested and scrupulously monitored for fraud and offenders prosecuted to the max.
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Comment on Can cows help save the planet? by jim2
The EU should have chosen a radioisotope generator instead of any kind of chemical battery. All that money down the drain.
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Comment on Climate/Energy Policy and the GOP Congress by jim2
AK – I do understand it’s a prototype, but eventually, it will have to produce much, much more than 1 bbl/d. Just sayin’.
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Comment on Can cows help save the planet? by captdallas2 0.8 +/- 0.2
“scrupulously monitored for fraud and offenders prosecuted to the max.”
That can cost more than it is worth. There are ways to set of benefits as a loan program, basically borrowing mainly off your own account, to reduce administrative cost. Then add some mandatory community service to get people out and about with of course job fairs and technical education programs. There are plenty of the unemployed and physically limited that can serve their own “community” while earning “benefits”.
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Comment on Can cows help save the planet? by Danny Thomas
Joshua & CaptDallas,
Stumbled across this one a while back and figured you guys might be interested. It’s a study on Cable media from 2011 on : The Nature and Impact of Global Warming Coverage on Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC. http://climateshiftproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/FeldmanStudy.pdf
It discusses tone only on this topic. Still haven’t found one on tone in general.
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Comment on Can cows help save the planet? by jim2
Only the disability, medicare, and social security lumped-part would have to be monitored closely. That’s where the big bucks go.
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Comment on Can cows help save the planet? by jim2
BTW – companies are audited continually for cheating on employment status of workers to avoid UI tax. It can be done.
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Comment on Can cows help save the planet? by captdallas2 0.8 +/- 0.2
jim2, monitoring is not the same a “scrupulously monitoring with intent to prosecute”. A large portion of the medicare/cade and unemployment/disability expense is in the legal side. Simplify the system enough that lawyers cannot make enough money and they will find somewhere else to play.
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Comment on Can cows help save the planet? by Danny Thomas
CaptD,
Man, we align well on thoughts on these social issues. Sounds like you’ve found some resources on the benefits side in an individualized program. Would appreciate if you’d share those with me. I support “lift up” programs, but effort and payback are a strong aspect of my thinking.
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Comment on Can cows help save the planet? by tonyb
Joshua
I guess your 1.42 is your post that went into moderation?. I had replied to your one confirming this moderation in which you gave some details of it.
My reply to this is here and as far as I can see it answers your one that went into moderation.
http://judithcurry.com/2014/11/19/can-cows-help-save-the-planet/#comment-649293
Lots of other examples if you want them of this parsing, but those quoted should keep you busy for now. In particular Camuffo’s 700 page book detailing his attempts to precisely identify temperatures to fractions of a degree ( I never said one tenth) is a heavy read but worth doing.
tonyb
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Comment on Can cows help save the planet? by captdallas2 0.8 +/- 0.2
Danny, “Man, we align well on thoughts on these social issues. Sounds like you’ve found some resources on the benefits side in an individualized program.”
Since I got a DVT while between health insurance plans I have pretty much lived in the system, which is if you have something it gets taken.
There are a lot of resources with just enough strings attached to keep you hopping. Being a vet and having paid into “health” insurance plans most of my life, it isn’t really a comfort finding out that none of of that really counts. Oddly when I was a VP of a small company I tried to set up a health insurance annuity which would take care of coverage lapses and take the sting out of copay. That got nixed by the company accountant that didn’t “see” a large enough tax deduction and an owner that was stoked on tech stocks.
So having been on both sides, less is definitely more.
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Comment on Can cows help save the planet? by Joshua
tonyb -
Geebus – another comment stuck in moderation!!
Since it didn’t work last time anyway, I’m not going to bother with my moderation bubble sort game to try to find it. Hopefully, Judith will get around to clearing it out of the moderation bin (is the moderation filter here perhaps the worst one in the blogosphere?)
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Comment on Can cows help save the planet? by Danny Thomas
Ah. The resources of “life experience”. Nothing quite like it. Was hoping it was a more “academic paper” reference than that. Maybe you cut put one together? From your summary, I was liking what I was reading.
Thank you for your service! Hope all is well now.
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Comment on Can cows help save the planet? by Danny Thomas
Not even close to the worst. Every comment of mine went to mod and they processed when they got around to it as they have “lives” and are purportedly all volunteer at RealClimate. Killed anything like conversation.
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Comment on Can cows help save the planet? by beththeserf
I attended a Lecture by Robert Bryce in September this year in Melbourne on ‘The Energy of Human Flourishing, Liberty,
Innovation and Progress.’ )
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