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Here’s a new concept in electric transportation that I don’t expect to catch on.  Imagine you park your car somewhere on a sunny day, you unlock a roof-mounted container, and pull out an array of solar PV that you then unfold and drape over your car.  You plug the array into your car’s charge pot.  When you’re ready to leave, you reverse the process.

While the car is parked, you get a maximum of 1200 Watts, meaning that you’ll need about 30 hours of sunshine to charge your base-model Tesla Series 3 from 20% SoC to 80%.

Aside from the issues of cost, added weight, wind-resistance, theft, and vandalism, how long will it take the average driver to conclude that this is a royal pain in the ass?

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We Have Plenty of Problems that Actually DO Exist

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The Trump administration and congressional Republicans are exceptionally good at focusing the MAGA base on problems that don’t exist.

What bathrooms should trans people use?  Well, before we work ourselves into a frenzy, let’s ask ourselves if this is an issue that is really harming the good people of this nation.

Keep in mind that 60% of Americans live paycheck-to-paycheck and are struggling to afford groceries.

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The Next U.S. President

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I would say that the meme here is “semi-true.”

It’s certainly true that he/she will be repairing broken relationships with our historical allies, but I don’t think that will be too terribly difficult.  The rest of the world will be popping champagne corks the second Trump’s gone.

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How Did This Happen?

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The simple answer to the question here is that we’ve become a nation many of whose people think, “I got mine. Go die.”

Now, how did this happen? That’s more complicated, but I suggest that, as I’ve believed since I was in my teens, we’re living through the endgame of free market capitalism.

The rich have gotten richer and have taken an ownership position in our lawmaking processes, so as to take them from millionaires to billionaires.  At the same time, the rest of the U.S citizenry has become so poorly educated and desperate that they’ll believe that the people who harvest our fruits and vegetables are stealing our jobs and driving up the cost of housing.

Just a generation ago, Americans were proud that their country led the world in promoting democracy and moral fortitude.  Now, we stand for racial hate, greed, cruelty, and war criminality.

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