Until about 15 years ago, before the levelized cost of energy (LCOE) associated with solar and wind began to plummet, the world had high hopes for the renewable energy technologies collectively knows as hydrokinetics, i.e., extracting the kinetic energy out of moving water. Nowadays, however, at least as far as I’m aware, no one other than hobbyists are working in this area.
Of course, there is no rule that says you can’t spend your own money in any way you wish. However, what you’re going to run into in ocean current or any of the other flavors of hydrokinetics, e.g., wave, tidal, or run-of-river, is the old adage, “If you don’t care how you pay per kilowatt of electricity, I’ll get you all renewable energy you could possibly imagine.”
I’m fairly certain that the story here about the Japanese is false. Either that or it’s 15 years old.
Schopenhauer’s pessimism is essentially everything he left us, and his quote here is representative of that.
We can’t change our birthplace, but does anyone want to do that anyway? We can change anything else about us that we choose, and we certainly don’t spend the rest of our lives defending anything.
The meme here covers yet another horrible feature of life in today’s America, i.e., all of a sudden we hate our jobs.
I’ll admit that I was lucky enough to find work that was lucrative and rewarding (most of the time), but I don’t recall my employees hating coming into the office every morning. I had clients that were mainly mid-level corporate executives in Fortune 100 firms, and they didn’t strike me as unhappy either.
I’m wondering if this isn’t the product of social media, where most of what gets shared is misery.
I just met a guy who was headed for the beach to take a swim in the ocean, which I found impressive, given that the water in Santa Barbara is 59 degrees F.
“My ocean-swimming days are over,” I told him.
“Oh, it gets worse,” he relied. “Because of climate change, the waters south of here are too hot for the sharks, so they’re moving north.”
Holy crap.
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