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['Member']Joined: January 09, 2021 at 17:08Last active: July 26, 2021 at 16:048 discussions1623 comments

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Court TV.

March 29, 2021 at 16:03 30 comments The Lounge

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My opinion is not explored, because it is not understood - even if it is understood, I am faced with a constant barrage of incomprehension, misinterpr...
July 21, 2021 at 13:48
Then like everywhere else on the net - you left wing bullies have driven out alternate opinion, and the kicker is that your idea of sustainability rea...
July 21, 2021 at 08:23
This is off-side. Read back on this thread, and you've attacked my intelligence, sanity, called me obsessive, and called me ignorant - over and over, ...
July 20, 2021 at 18:42
You don't, because... ...you always assume some sort of deficit on my part rather than assume I have reasons to say what I'm saying! If that's your go...
July 20, 2021 at 13:08
It's not a source of energy. It's a means to produce thrust without propellant. "According to the team, the electromagnetic drive, or EmDrive, convert...
July 20, 2021 at 10:42
Great. Let's leave it there. Thanks for the discussion.
July 20, 2021 at 01:20
Okay. We could capture an asteroid with a high copper content, and build a huge copper ring in space, and set it spinning within the magnetic fields o...
July 20, 2021 at 01:15
I'm touched, and curious as to what these other solutions are, that may work as well or better!
July 20, 2021 at 00:59
... It's entirely relevant. Asia will build more coal fired power stations to support growing prosperity, but is unlikely to apply the technology to p...
July 20, 2021 at 00:38
Not immediately, but there's more than adequate energy to meet and exceed current global energy demand in the molten interior of the earth. It would t...
July 20, 2021 at 00:13
You claim without evidence that solar power can solve climate change; and you demand I produce evidence to prove it cannot? Isn't it your obligation t...
July 19, 2021 at 23:21
Really? After everything I've said you've still no idea why magma? That's an extraordinary admission. I have no obligation to provide you with sources...
July 19, 2021 at 23:07
The potential is not there. Wind and solar cannot produce enough energy, cannot produce energy reliably, don't last long enough, cost a fortune to bui...
July 19, 2021 at 23:02
Oh, sorry! You mean like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crescent_Dunes_Solar_Energy_Project or like this: Gwent Levels: 'Wales' Amazon in danger ...
July 19, 2021 at 22:39
East Anglia One is a wind farm offshore of the British Isles. It's 102 turbines produce enough energy to power 600,000 homes. There are approximately ...
July 19, 2021 at 22:19
Wind and solar cannot possibly solve climate change. These technologies will never even meet current energy demand, less yet provide surplus energy to...
July 19, 2021 at 22:00
You weigh in by telling me I misunderstand Pikkety - then forgive me for considering you an advocate of his position, and tailoring my remarks accordi...
July 19, 2021 at 20:45
I love how there's nothing you cannot misunderstand somehow!
July 19, 2021 at 20:31
I shouldn't have been required to answer to Pikkety's point. I'm not advocating capitalism per se; capitalism is the prevailing economic system, and i...
July 19, 2021 at 20:20
Thanks again for your abusive, ill informed, half assed, hateful opinion! Scientific method emerged 100 years before the industrial revolution; and in...
July 19, 2021 at 19:53
Reasonable enough concerns; entirely unreasonable solution. It's basically the centre-piece of Corbyn's 2019 manifesto. It's been offered to, and reje...
July 19, 2021 at 18:55
I think that's called "the old bait and switch!" The aim isn't sustaining capitalism per se. The aim is to secure a sustainable future with minimal di...
July 19, 2021 at 14:18
The length of the post necessary to explain your confusion would be prohibitive. I might have induced myself to write it for a willing audience, but I...
July 19, 2021 at 13:31
It is a minimally disruptive approach to do this in support of capitalism; as capitalism is the prevailing economic paradigm, and so much nicer than s...
July 19, 2021 at 11:11
The root cause of climate change is the ideological context within which capitalism operates; the overlapping religious, political and economic ideolo...
July 19, 2021 at 10:25
I know what I'm talking about. I accept no responsibility for the fact you still don't know what I'm talking about. I've been sufficiently clear that ...
July 18, 2021 at 12:22
Sorry, what's that? Yeah, that would be nice, thanks! You are dismissed! Who you on about now? That's incorrect. Capitalism is not to blame. The root ...
July 18, 2021 at 09:44
It's not undeniable though, that's the point. I could be a figment of your imagination for all you know. From your perspective, I'm just someone passi...
July 18, 2021 at 00:26
It matters to me now, while I exist - that I belong(ed) to a species with a future. I would find my existence intolerably masturbatory were there not ...
July 17, 2021 at 23:34
The subject cannot exist but in a rightful relation to objective reality. It follows from the design of DNA, to the physiology of organisms, to the be...
July 17, 2021 at 22:50
Really? How astonishing! I would have thought it were obvious capitalism is a good system, and the question therefore, is how it can be sustained? Wou...
July 17, 2021 at 22:09
Very well, I accept your characterisation of my state of knowledge. You're right, but nonetheless, those were not my approaches to these conclusions. ...
July 17, 2021 at 21:10
I'm not sure that's what I have at all. To my mind, I have a problem, and a likely solution. It's not a vague solution; technical detail is lacking, b...
July 17, 2021 at 15:46
Good question. I don't know, but I do know there is sufficient magma energy to power New York City, and every other city for that matter. An answer wo...
July 17, 2021 at 13:16
For me, philosophy begins with epistemology. Subjectivism and metaphysics are sophistry, not philosophy.
July 17, 2021 at 06:05
You, and only you. Always you.
July 17, 2021 at 05:40
It was right before the election, remember; burning and looting - and the left applauding from a kneeling position as people's homes and businesses we...
July 17, 2021 at 05:08
When will you publish the results of the "likes" experiment?
July 17, 2021 at 05:06
I have no idea what you're thinking, but I get a mental image of a dead cat in a tumble dryer. And you're not? Okay then, for the last time of asking,...
July 16, 2021 at 21:07
We've established that. What we haven't established is how you intend to reduce human population to under 1 million in time to save the planet. If tha...
July 16, 2021 at 19:16
We have very different perspectives. I care about sustainability, but not because I conceive of nature as some romantic ideal - I put before human int...
July 16, 2021 at 16:12
It's your idea; you suggested population reduction - it's for you to say how you intend to achieve that. I said over-population isn't the problem. The...
July 16, 2021 at 15:36
I have a fairly good idea of my own intellectual abilities, and I'm far from idiocy. For example, I know there isn't time to reduce population by mean...
July 16, 2021 at 15:22
I'm only going to say this one more time before I get very pissed off. Recharge rate applies to hydrothermal - a form of geothermal that draws heat fr...
July 16, 2021 at 08:05
I thoroughly endorse your plan of not talking to me anymore. But before you go, please explain how you would go about de-populating the planet: ...wit...
July 16, 2021 at 07:07
Despite what being explained to me over and over? The key difference between us is, I hope humankind survives and prospers. And far from keeping it a ...
July 16, 2021 at 06:49
That's not a record temperature. World's hottest borehole nearly complete By Rebecca Morelle Science Correspondent, BBC News, Iceland Published 14 Dec...
July 15, 2021 at 12:30
It's just to give an idea of how much solar you're talking about. And the sheer size of the thing is just the start of your problems. Solar only produ...
July 15, 2021 at 11:48
I guess I must be. There's no other reasonable explanation. I must be too stupid to understand why a big ball of molten rock - 4000 miles deep and 26,...
July 15, 2021 at 11:11
Idiots are often easily confused, and I'm wondering if that might be the problem.
July 15, 2021 at 08:43