Carbon Removal Techniques

The so-called Green New Deal is from lala land.  It presupposes that fossil fuels can be replaced by alternative energy sources such as sunlight, wind, etc.  Problem is those alternatives barely make up a small fraction of the total, and far from being reduced, it looks like the use of fossil fuels is actually accelerating — China, for instance, doubled their use of oil in just one year in 2016.  So the real issue is how to deal with the amount of excess carbon in the atmosphere despite this acceleration, despite the use of fossil fuels, which are here to stay for the foreseeable future.

A more practical approach — that might actually achieve something — might be removing the carbon from the atmosphere.  Can we tackle the climate change problem by filtering out carbon from the air around us?  The link below explores the practicality of this approach in some detail.

I also think we must come up with solutions for capturing the carbon before it is released as a gas into the atmosphere.  This would be for both cars with their exhaust pipes as well as for factories with their chimneys spewing the stuff into the air.  A carbon tax might be made so costly that private companies would see the cost/benefit of investing in a technology that would allow them to trap the carbon instead of releasing it as a gas.  Ditto for cars that continue to spew the gas out of tailpipes.

There should be a national Plant A Tree program to get each family involved in exploiting this natural remedy.  Trees inhale carbon and exhale oxygen — what am I missing?  Isn’t that a real solution and not from lala land.

Carbon Removal Techniques

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Price Fixing

I’ve been situated in the same location now for some 7 years and have consistently tried to get service from Verizon for television and internet access, but to no avail.  Verizon is  simply not available anywhere in my area.  The service that is common in my area — you see their trucks everywhere — is Comcast.

Which makes me wonder how much indirect price fixing there is between Verizon and Comcast, not in terms of making their prices more or less equal but higher than would normally be the case — your garden variety price fixing — but in terms of a covert agreement between the two giant cable companies concerning which territories each will have absolute control over because the other agrees not to offer services in that area?  So now I’m paying Comcast more than twice the cost if those same services were supplied by Verizon.  Obvious price gouging.

And stepping back a bit for this issue of territoriality, there’s also the issue that these same cable companies offer their services, not based on a fixed price for everyone, but based on YOUR zip code.  Isn’t that also a form of price fixing?  The car companies do the same thing.  The price of a Toyota in Kalamazoo is different from the price in Boston, i.e., richer locations end up paying a premium.  More price fixing, in my opinion.

But where is the government to look into these abuses?  Nowhere to be found.

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Southland

Enjoying Southland — a gritty LA cops/detectives TV series.  They dramatize each episode to the max, but there’s a strong realism about the show.  As I say, gritty.  LA has to be a very difficult place to be a cop.

Despite their recent bad press, I’m very pro-police.  I think they are heroes — keeping the rest of us from turning into savages.

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Suppressing Free Speech

Ann Coulter

Benjamin Aaron Shapiro

Tucker Carlson

Candace Owen

Paul Joseph Watson

Victor David Hanson

Katie Hopkins

All brilliant.  All talented debaters.  All conservatives.  No wonder the left wants to suppress free speech or label it hate speech, which is the same thing.  I wouldn’t want to debate any of the above either.

But then the left doesn’t really debate, does it?  It just slanders — skillful at slander, not so much at debate.  So debate is a no-go zone.  Down with free speech.

Yet there was a time when free speech and open debate were revered, and just about everyone concurred in their value.

And way back in the 18th century, one can easily imagine the derivation of our 1st Amendment — the occupying British, no doubt, looked down upon any talk about independence from the British Empire, and were eager to suppress it.

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