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How many seas must the white dove sail before she sleeps in the sand?

How may ventures in small, rooftop wind must fail before we learn that this entire concept is doomed?

The answer is blowin’ in the wind.

Seriously, we’ve seen precisely zero of these essentially identical concepts succeed.  Maybe there’s a reason? Or three?

1) Lower power generation due to the formula for the area of a circle? (Doubling the radius generates four times the energy.)

2) Lower power generation due to the formula for the power generated by the velocity of the wind? (Doubling the wind velocity produces eight times the energy.)

3) The maintenance cost of dealing with thousands of tiny turbines that are constantly falling apart, because they must be made incredibly cheaply, makes the whole idea asinine.

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For How Much Longer Is the World “Running on Oil?”

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Is our civilization’s dependence on oil “not going to change?”

Obviously, Big Oil wants to keep the status quo in place, regardless of the environmental damage it’s doing to every living creature on this planet. And the Trump administration is doing everything in its power to make sure this assault against all life forms endures in perpetuity.

But this won’t work.  It may be true that the United States is rapidly transforming itself into a dictatorship like Russia, China, North Korea, and the other 50+ sovereign nations on this planet.  But the rest of the developed world is working hard to decarbonize its energy and transportation sectors so as to prevent environmental collapse.

For How Much Longer Is the World “Running on Oil?”

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White Nationalists Want to Tell You What the Constitution Means

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Hillsdale “College” writes:
Enroll today in Hillsdale’s most popular free online course, “Constitution 101: The Meaning and History of the Constitution.”  In this 12-lecture course, you’ll explore the design and purpose of the Constitution, the challenges it faced during the Civil War, and how it has been undermined for more than a century by progressivism and liberalism.

Do you suppose, for a minute, that I want some ultra-right-wing “college” to tell me how I should regard the Constitution? What a sick joke.

I don’t want to hear from the John Birch Society, nor the Heartland Institute, nor the KKK, to lecture me on the meaning of the Constitution.

White Nationalists Want to Tell You What the Constitution Means

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Removing the Cancer

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Jim Meskimen, the fellow quoted at left, is among the brightest and most talented people I’ve ever met, but I take issue with what he says here.

When one’s native country has become beset by a criminal sociopath in the position of leadership, responsible, high-integrity people become politically active, and do anything in their power to remove this cancer before it destroys us.

Removing the Cancer

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