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Sunday 19th May 2024

Category: Policies

Job One

Summary. The integrity of a country begins outside that country. The standing and quality of life of its citizens depend on the vision that the world has for that country’s values. Congress in 2024 needs to, desperately needs to, address US ability to protect its interests worldwide. Play to your strengths; start with the Military.… Continue reading Job One

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Clean Wind Power

Windmills have significant embedded costs. Surprisingly, they are significantly environmentally destructive. Each weighs 1,688 tons (the equivalent of 23 houses) and contains 1,300 tons of concrete, 295 tons of steel, 48 tons of iron, 24 tons of fiberglass. Carrying on a recurrent theme here, we have the rare and expensive to extract rare earths neodymium,… Continue reading Clean Wind Power

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Clean Solar Power

Purifying silicon requires processing with hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid, nitric acid, hydrogen fluoride, trichloroethane, and acetone and incorporating gallium, arsenide, copper-indium-gallium-diselenide, and cadmium-telluride; much of this is highly toxic. Silicone dust is a hazard to the workers. It’s not like you can have a conveyor belt that takes sand into a containment vessel and spray… Continue reading Clean Solar Power

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Regular Order

We can thank cool heads for bureaucracy. I am not kidding you.  No, I am not talking about the processing kind where some piece of paper goes past a desk where two pieces of paper are launched in different directions, eventually circualting around and progenating reams of forms, memoranda, studies, reports, critiques, agendas, minutes, focus… Continue reading Regular Order

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