You also need to compare the pollution required during manufacture with the time required to pay for itself (before it is free and clear "non-poluting"). As far as I've read, they pay for their dirty manufacture rather quickly, at least on the massive scale in Netherlands etc.
Posts by rmt1
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9Does 100% Pollution Free electricity cost less than fossil fuel now???
by Elsewhere ini'm a bit skeptical, but i thought i would give it a shot.. i've been watching my electric bill with reliant electricity and over the last year it has gone from $0.09 per kwh to about $0.15 per kw.
i looked around and discovered that green mountain, which provides 100% wind and water electricity, is charging about $0.13 per kwh.. could it be true???
could 100% renewable and pollution free energy actually cost less than fossil fuels and nuclear energy now???
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ANOTHER 200 Scientists Document Global Climate Change - Yo Deniers!
by Seeker4 inhttp://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/07/science/earth/07climate.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin.
another international slate of scientists have released their findings regarding global climate change and human's effect on that (see the above link).. after the last major study released by several hundred scientists a few months ago, it does seem there is a serious concensus here among the leading thinkers and scientists on this issue.
i know i've banged heads with a few who disagree with this, but it does seem as though that handful of folks who disagree with the science are looking more and more like deniers, as in holocaust deniers, moon landing deniers, etc.. in other words, out there on the lunatic fringe.. so, do you folks think it might be time to reconsider?.
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Egypt was a sand lot before 8500BP, at which point there was a sudden onset of humid conditions which lasted for 3000 years until 5500BP, at which point residents of the gamey Sahara had to withdraw to the Nile valley, an ecological exodus to a land of milk and honey which the Bible writer Moses sublimates. The Sahara is right under the latitude of the high pressure component of the Hadley cell, just like the Gobi, Sonoran and Arabian deserts. Wet conditions were an exception. Ah, the Argumentum ad Crichtum. Michael Crichton was a physician and has been an entertainer. To the best of my knowledge, he has never been a meteorologist or a climatologist. While chaos theory was a useful plot driver in Jurassic Park; he redeploys it in State of Fear to obfuscate and exonerate. If he applied it in the same manner as he did in Jurassic Park, chaos theory would address unforeseen or chance runaway effects in climate change. (I also don't throw Al Gore any farther, as he carries the aroma of sensationalism.)
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If every one was an atheist they would not go to war knowing when they die
by jaguarbass inhave you ever thought one of the main reasons we have religion is so people like george bush and osama bin ladin (kings) can get young men to die in battle for them.
to furhter their economic and hedonistic pursuits.. this goes all the way back to bible times, the israelites conquering the promised land for the ruling levitical priesthood.. if every one was an atheist they would not go to war knowing when they die, that is it.
at least not in a former wealthy society like the united states.. the bible& the koran are to serve the kings, rulers to further their agendas of world domination.
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I believe you are getting at one of the fundamental truths of existence: conservative Biblically-literalist sexually-abstentionist fundamentalists perform the work of evolution better than do their liberal opposites, who outthink evolution so much that their birth rate drops. IOW, conservative Biblically-literalist sexually-abstentionist fundamentalists harness and channel the power of matrimonial sex more directly into the breeding of future soldiers and patrician wives so as to fill the earth, subdue it, abuse it, exploit it, and exhaust it, all unbeknownst and according to the god named GENE, whom they mistake for some Mesopotamian cumulonimbus herm. Such soldiers with a clearly internalized vision of their afterlife have less problem selling their current existence than would an atheist soldier (look up Hamilton's Rule); atheists who trust to no future sentient existence have only the shaky faith that they might be carried on in public memory for having lived good and meaningful lives. Nihilist anarchist atheists, I firmly suppose, are much much rarer than conservative Biblically-literalist sexually-abstentionist fundamentalists would have anyone believe. The average for atheists, I firmly suppose, would be people who seek solutions in the here and now, because they are quite certain, in an adult fashion, that help in not coming from anywhere or anywhen else. OOPs I must clarify that conservative Biblically-literalist sexually-abstentionist fundamentalists does nto exclusively refer to JWs but might conceivably include a certain cabal in Washington.
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I applied to a university yesterday.
by kwintestal inafter a few years of humming and hawing, i decided i would.
it was more of what i would take that held me back then if i should go.. i'm only 28, so i'm not too far behind.
we'll see how working full time and going to school will go.
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Good idea all around, no matter what your eventual goals. It is also worth going into debt for - it is not an object that can be stolen, although it can rust. It builds multifunctional skillsets and pathways. It's upgradable. Some discoveries/life lessons are backwards-compliant. Samuel Adams would say, 'Always a good decision.'
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Anyone from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania area?
by AuldSoul inplease pm me if you would like to meet up.. auldsoul.
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Born and raised. Harrisburg North from 73-85. Halifax @ Elizabethville KH from 85-8?. Halifax @ Halifax KH from 8?-98. Swatara from 98-99. Graduated JWs in May 1999.
Is there a protocol for asking after someone to see if they are still in or are considering leaving?
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Evolution and Self-Sacrifice
by IW indoes the theory of evolution supply the genetic answer to the self-sacrificing nature of many animal parents as well as that of many men and women in general?
when a man or woman risks their life to help someone in danger is their response simply a response to the natural processes at work due to evolution's effect on their dna?
if so, can this self-sacrificing gene be isolated?
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Whoever wants to: Look up Reciprocal Altruism, Tit for Tat, Social Contract Theory, and Pioneer Species/Climax Species in ecosystems. Ponder: 1) The U.S. is a pioneer species. 2) Corporations are the new evolutionarily superior being. (Per nautilus growth model of neurons:brain, citizens:nation, knowledgeworkers:multinationalcorporation)
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Evolution and Self-Sacrifice
by IW indoes the theory of evolution supply the genetic answer to the self-sacrificing nature of many animal parents as well as that of many men and women in general?
when a man or woman risks their life to help someone in danger is their response simply a response to the natural processes at work due to evolution's effect on their dna?
if so, can this self-sacrificing gene be isolated?
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Look up anything with Hamilton's Rule, such as: http://www.brembs.net/hamilton/
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A Very Convenient Liar - Al Gore
by MegaDude into counteract the hysteria which i personally believe is more al gore lying.
inconvenient truths indeed by dr. robert c. balling jr. .
al gore's "an inconvenient truth" opens around the country this week.
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I don't suppose this arctic discovery causes anyone to pause and consider: If the north pole had tropical biota, then how hot must the equator have been? Does everyone want to live in the humid and malarial Congo? The north pole discovery might be just fine for whatever biota there were at that point, but humans won't stand for any nonsense: the energy output to make 6 billion humans comfortable (present a/c standard of living) in a Congo environment would be sizable.
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Brain Science Teaches You How to Fade Away As a JW!!!!
by metatron inso, you feel trapped as jehovah's witness and want to get out, but don't know how?
you keep agonizing about your witness family.
and "friends" ( trust me, very few witnesses are really your friends, since their friendship is entirely conditional on meeting attendance.
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Cool. Do you have any sources? I've been reading up on Andrew Newberg, a neuroscientist who has done brain scans on Tibetan monks during meditation: the feeling of self-lessness, unity, oneness, ("one united shoulder"), as well as the suspension of the awareness of time ("he has put eternity in their hearts") has to do with the brain's ability to shut down the processing of incoming sensation which gives you your sense of time and bodily self, oneness, or distinction. I particularly remember the old "oneness" "moment" during the good songs at the District Assembly at Landover stadium, Maryland, where the dark distance gave the air a misty quality. That, and 10k people cannot sing on key or in time, so they slow the song waaay down into a sort of chant. This other neuroscientist, Michael (M. A.) Persinger, focuses on the right temporal lobe as a sensory processing area that is susceptible to electromagnetic disturbance of so many minimum Teslas, although every individual has a different sensitivity. The effects are too many (and too cool) to list but include the idea that the left hemisphere speech-processing center receives "voices" from the creative right hemisphere and interprets them as external to the self. The left hemisphere can also receive impressions that it interprets as a "presense" external to the self, such as in a haunting or a 'being next to God' experience.
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Fear, Complexity, & Environmental Management in the 21st Century
by MegaDude ini am going to challenge you today to revise your thinking, and to reconsider some fundamental assumptions.
assumptions so deeply embedded in our consciousness that we dont even realize they are there...
speech by michael crichton
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In a sober moment, right now, eating a carrot, it occurs to me now that what stings the most is that people who can find even the least bit of scientific absense of data, fact, consensus, truth, take that as carte blanche to utterly disregard any idea that the consideration of more long term ways of living might be of use now, before such an absense of scientific consensus were to go away. It appears to me that it kills or hurts a number of people to consider the idea of thinking deep future, which subsequently instinctively causes me to ponder whether or not they voted bush or whether or not they are NRA, or whether or (carrot done, now a beer) not from an evolutionary standpoint they represent the Darwinian instincts to take what they need from those who might now only be anticipating a democratic distribution of resources: this is what my Darwinian instincts make me wonder on an instinctual level. I do sympathize with the sensation that the media has jumped onto some kind of Gore-wagon. I don't like hype and cathexis and I can see how some are convinced that the simple concept of 'thinking about how one's consumption requires X resouces and produces Y waste' has turned into some kind of self-flagellating child-sacrificing jihad fatwa upon the last beleaguered bastions of rationality. If perchance anyone has dealt with Greek tragedy, one of the cornerstones of Western modes of performing "truth," one may have come across the idea that true knowledge is epimethean, epitaphic, hindsight, tragic, and de facto useless except for warning the next character, telling the story, foregrounding how history repeats itself. Premonition, promethean foresight, is what can get someone off the track that leads to tragedy. Those who demand a scientific consensus for even considering the utilities of changing certain aspects of lifestyle are, at least in the rubric of Greek tragedy, falling into the trap of Oedipus, and do not have the self-knowledge to evade the fall. However, in the Darwinian sense, it is entirely possible that those who cannot consider this idea of taking stock are the ones who will take stock in a far more physical way. (beer) This is what occurs to me after having run into human nature a few times.