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Author Archives: energyskeptic
Book review of “Livewired. The inside story of the ever-changing brain”
Preface. This book conveys a sense of wonderment and awe about our brains work and how we become who we are. I think if you read the excerpts below you will understand why Artificial Intelligence will probably never come close … Continue reading
Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Evolution
Tagged artificial intelligence, brain, neurons
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The conveyor belt may be slowing down — Yikes!
Preface. The conveyor belt (AMOC: Atlantic meridional overturning circulation) may be slowing down. If it stops, floods, increased sea level rise, and disturbed weather systems. Until recently the IPCC and other scientists didn’t think this might happen until 2300 or … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Peak Food, Sea Level Rise
Tagged AMOC, climate change, conveyor belt, ocean currents, sea level rise
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Battery Energy storage batteries (BESS) too complex to ever be commercial
Source: RWE connects its first utility-scale battery storage project to the California grid Preface. In 2024 if all of the BESS battery storage time were added up, they could store 8 of the 8,760 hours of annual electricity generated in … Continue reading
Posted in Battery - Utility Scale
Tagged battery energy storage system, BESS, fire, thermal runaway
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New war and energy alliances over next resource wars
Preface. My greatest fear is nuclear war over the remaining resources on earth, since that has the potential of driving us extinct. But with the end of oil and endless growth capitalism depends on, the world will return resource wars … Continue reading
Book review of “Siege: Trump Under fire”
Preface. Wolff’s book continues the mordant humor of Fire & Fury. His books are the best, by far, of the dozens I’ve read about the Trump Administration. There will never be any books as insightful because Wolff was given unprecedented … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged incompetence, politics, Trump
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Why do people vote for Trump?
Preface. Before the election, it was widely known that Trump was a gangster who bragged about grabbing women’s asses, lied over 30,000 times during his term, went bankrupt 4 times, and much more. So how could people have voted for … Continue reading
Book review of “Pandemic Politics: The Deadly Toll of Partisanship in the Age of COVID”
Preface. This is a book review of “Pandemic Politics” about the myriad ways Trump mishandled the covid-19 pandemic. With the 2024 election coming up, it is a good time to remember how spectacularly Trump failed in managing covid-19. In 2016 … Continue reading
Posted in Pandemics, Political Books, Politics
Tagged covid-19, pandemic, partisan, politics, Trump
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The evolution of the Republican party from 1960 to 2024: from moderate democracy to extreme authoritarianism
Preface (long). Over time the planks grew more and more religious, stopped mentioning voting rights in 1980 as well as a war on regulations, stopped supporting the equal rights for women, could care less about abortion to being against it … Continue reading
Posted in Critical Thinking and Scientific Literacy, Politics, Religion
Tagged abortion, Agenda 21, evangelist, Extremists, Fanatics, politics, Republicans, women's rights
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Why some people are conservative and others liberal
Preface. A book review of: Garcia, H. 2019. Sex, Power, and Partisanship. How evolutionary science makes sense of our political divide. Although Chris Mooney’s book “The Republican Brain” was brilliant, it didn’t address that politics must surely go back to … Continue reading
Posted in Evolution, Human Nature, Political Books, Politics
Tagged big 5 personality traits, conservative, Democrat, falacy, liberal, politics, Republican
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Book review: Bring the War Home: The white power movement & paramilitary America
Preface. This is a book review of Belew’s “Bring the war home: The white power movement and paramilitary America”. In hard times in the future, racist white republican groups, many who were or are in the military, could make regions … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Social Uprising, Terrorism, Violence
Tagged militia, right wing, terrorism, white power
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