The Sopranos – Paulie and Ralphie have a sitdown
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Justice Scalia responds to Justice Breyer’s plea for judicial abolition of the death penalty
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Pushing On String: Adding More Wind Turbines Doesn’t Mean More Power Gets Delivered
30 Jan 2022 Leave a comment
Wind power never adds up: it doesn’t matter how many turbines carpet your horizons, in calm weather total output always amounts to nothing.
For sheer density, the Germans win hands down, with more than 30,000 of these things carpeted across Deutschland’s rural landscapes and, once pristine, forests.
And yet, from late September, through October and well into November last year, wind power output in Germany often ranged between dismal and a doughnut.
Demonstrating that their delusional obsession with wind and solar runs deep, the Germans are determined to axe all of their nuclear and coal-fired power plants, and ‘replace’ the lost output with thousands more wind turbines and solar panels.
As to the former, as this little analysis by Professor Fritz Vahrenholt demonstrates, it simply doesn’t matter how many wind turbines Germany might eventually manage to squeeze into its landscape; when the wind stops blowing, the power stops flowing.
Germany’s…
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Alaska court rules against youths in climate change lawsuit
30 Jan 2022 Leave a comment
Case dismissed
Another climate lawfare caper, supposedly by youths (who pays the legal costs?), bites the dust. Governments can’t control the climate, but may pretend they can. Next!
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The Alaska Supreme Court on Friday upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by 16 young Alaskans who claimed long-term effects of climate change will devastate Alaska and interfere with their individual constitutional rights, reports AP via the Daily Mail.
The lawsuit against the state of Alaska claimed the state´s legislative and executive branches had not taken steps to lower greenhouse gas emissions.
The lower court dismissed the case in 2018, saying these questions were better left to other branches of government.
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