A main reason Trump hates solar and wind power is that there's nopractical way to steal them
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A main reason Trump hates solar and wind power is that there's no
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A main reason Trump hates solar and wind power is that there's no
practical way to steal themI have a 1970s comic about this exact topic....
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I have a 1970s comic about this exact topic....
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I have a 1970s comic about this exact topic....
@alienghic @lauren 😭 The billionaires are working on it: https://euroweeklynews.com/2025/11/04/musks-space-satellites-to-block-sunlight/
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@benroyce @alienghic @lauren I used that comic at the beginning of my talks on energy democracy 15yrs ago. The ubiquitous nature of renewable energies argues for a decentralized energy approach, to paraphrase John Farrell of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. For the first time in human history individuals & communities are able to generate power & store energy. Kings, lords, & now capitalists, really really don't like that. But the political will to democratize energy does not exist. 😞
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@benroyce @alienghic @lauren I used that comic at the beginning of my talks on energy democracy 15yrs ago. The ubiquitous nature of renewable energies argues for a decentralized energy approach, to paraphrase John Farrell of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. For the first time in human history individuals & communities are able to generate power & store energy. Kings, lords, & now capitalists, really really don't like that. But the political will to democratize energy does not exist. 😞
People should just have their own solar/ wind farms
Doesn't work in cities but does in the countryside. There's a steep upfront cost though, despite longterm payoff, and that's where everyone is stuck
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I have a 1970s comic about this exact topic....
@alienghic @lauren The truth rather is "All means of production for solar panels are owned by China"
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@alienghic @lauren The truth rather is "All means of production for solar panels are owned by China"
That's because China is a major industrial power that doesn't have large fossil fuel reserves. It is to their benefit to reduce the amount of oil they import so they invested in renewable energy.
The republican party is tied to the oil industry so whenever they're in power we dump support for renewable energy.
However solar panels last even longer than expected. Panels installed in the 1980s are still outputting 80% of their original spec.
https://environmentamerica.org/center/updates/solar-panels-lasting-longer-than-previously-thought/
Its not super important who makes it if you don't need to replace it
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People should just have their own solar/ wind farms
Doesn't work in cities but does in the countryside. There's a steep upfront cost though, despite longterm payoff, and that's where everyone is stuck
@benroyce it does work in cities, though. Every new school or apartment building can have a big bank of panels on the roof. The Albina Vision Project in Portland https://albinavision.org/ has plans to be an energy exporter, so its residents and business owners will have zero energy bills. It's happening.
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@ben what do you study?
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I completed the January challenge faster than 96.1% of all learners on Duolingo!
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There's a lot of variation in people.
The tallest adults can be 2.5 times as big as the shortest.
The strongest maybe 5 times as strong as the weakest.
But nobody works a million times harder, or is a million times smarter.
So why is our economic system set up to give them a billion times as much wealth and power as the poorest, least powerful?
#fineTheRich (its not a tax, it's a penalty for antisocial greed)
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@DismalManorGang Johnny Mandel wrote the music for it. Definitely no amateur.
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Bill’s arrangement has a bit more passion than the movie version. The song does have an interesting back story — “the stupidest song ever” was written by the director’s 14 year old son. Don’t know who did the original melody. It’s almost an ear worm. #music #nowlistening.
