Comments by "Scott Tovey" (@scotttovey) on "Sabine Hossenfelder"
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@Leo99929
"3) Solar panels have no moving parts. Their warranties are like 15 years and that's only to a reduced capacity where they'll still produce power. Do you mean variability of energy production rate? Yeah, we need maybe nuclear aswell, and/or pumped hydro/hydrogen/batteries."
The problem with that is; the activists are against those forms of cleaner energy as well. That's unreasonableness is a good indication that they are not concerned with the environment. They are more concerned with destroying the stable energy we now have.
Why is it so crucial to have an EV fleet by 2030 or 2035, when it is a well known fact that the electrical grid, can neither produce, nor deliver the amount of electricity that the transition will demand?
Michigan electric companies had to bring gas powered plants back on line because the projected reduction in energy demand that they were basing their decisions on, turned out to be false. Demand has increased as a result of EVs rather than go down.
In regards to the reduction in demand projection is concerned, I have no idea where they got that stupid idea. As population increases, demand does not decrease, it increases, and even though Michigan's population has reduced, that reduction does not necessarily equate to a demand so low that it allows for the turning off of multiple electric plants.
One cannot maintain a stable power grid by using projections based on wish full thinking data. You have to use real time data which will always imply an increasing demand.
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@Leo99929
"4) It's not about the energy, it's about the CO2 that was sequestered by plants over hundreds of millions of years that we're re-emitting in about 100. The planet is showing that it cannot smooth out that drastic a dump... But also Internal combustion engines are about 25% efficient before idling and air con loads."
Not all ICE's idle when you come to a stand still. Some actually shut down until you depress the accelerator, then it starts back up and you go. I can't say how many cars are out there with that technology, but they began showing up sometime in the early 2000s.
"Power stations more like 37%. Solar panels are ~20% efficient and wind turbines are about 40% efficient. The only difference is that they get their power more directly from the sun, rather than a plant absorbing a photon, using that to sequester some carbon, which is then fossilised over millions of years, we find that, dig it up, transport it, refine it, then burn it at the same efficiency as solar and wind."
Again, fossilization does not produce petroleum.
Fossilization produces a mineralized representation of the item that was mineralized. No matter how much you process a fossil, you are not going to get oil from it.
"You know, rather than spilling excess oil into the sea, or flaring excess methane off."
The first time I seen a flaring stack, I thought it was a stupid thing to do. That methane can be collected and sold in the market just like all other natural gases.
Dumping excess oil into the sea also makes no sense.
Why not just close the tap on the outlet a bit and slow down the production?
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@Leo99929
"7) the US imports about 76% of it's total gross petroleum products. If they used solar panels, wind, pumped hydro, hydrogen, batteries, and nuclear, then they could be 100% energy independent. China has invested 275 BILLION USD in renewables. The US has invested 50 Billion. Europe 56 billion."
That is so stupid. rather than using our own source of petroleum and supplying America, our petroleum is shipped elsewhere for refining, and petroleum is then imported for refining.
I was going to ask who thought up such a stupid policy, but then I realized that it is probably part of the petro dollar policy.
Regardless, it's still a stupid policy.
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@Leo99929
"Is there, or is there not, a finite amount of petroleum fuels stored under ground?
If it's not finite, then how is it replenished? At what rate?
If it is finite, then any extraction rate will mean that it eventually runs out.
If it's extraction rate is faster than it's replenishment rate, then it will run out."
Oil and gas exploration has been artificially hampered in the US by the Federal government. That means there is no definitive way to determine the extent of the US's petroleum reserves.
"Look up a graph of historic gasoline prices. They've been increasing for the last 100 years. At least with inflation, which should be obvious. "
The cost of everything increases with inflation.
Look at gold prices. An ounce of gold remained at $20 an ounce until Roosevelt offered foreigners $35 an ounce while at the same time making it illegal for Americans to own gold, and confiscating the gold Americans did own.
The price of gold has increased steadily since Nixon took the US dollar off the gold standard.
This is not truly an increase in the cost of gold, rather, it is a decrease in the buying power of the dollar. Likewise with oil.
Inflation is a hidden tax, especially when it is caused by the federal government borrowing and spending money like it's a spring of water flowing out of the ground.
"It's a general trend over macro time. I'm talking about tens of years. Not just the last 4. Oil prices shot up when President George W. Bush invaded Iraq in 2002/2003. There was a dip in 2008 due to the financial crisis (contributed in no small part by the US subprime mortgage crisis) and in 2014-2015 there was an overproduction of oil which lead to oil prices tanking through to 2018. 2020 there was reduced demand due to the pandemic, then a spike in 2022 as Russia invades Ukraine."
The drop in oil production since Biden took office, is artificial.
The reason there was an over production in 2014-2015, is because Trump recognized the fact that if the US pumped out more oil and became energy independent, it would reduce the ability of terrorist supporting nations like Iran to fund terrorists organization like Hamas.
When wicked people have money, they use it for evil means.
When wicked people don't have so much money, they use it for their personal well being.
"The only thing any of that has to do with the president is Bush invading Iraq in 2002/2003... Also I guess the subprime mortgage thing a little bit?"
Do you notice how many mistakes the so called experts make when it comes to the economy? It takes a colleges degree to be that stupid or so greedy that you intentionally tank the global economy.
"The reason these petroleum fuel reserves weren't previously tapped was because there were cheaper extraction options at the time. Now they've ran dry and we're starting to scrape the barrel with fracking and tar sands. Those processes are more expensive than the ways we've been extracting primarily to date."
Fracking helped in bringing prices down.
Biden canceling oil leases before Oil companies have time to do a proper assessment of the area is part of the reduction of US oil. Biden closing down the pipeline and destroying Union Jobs, is part of the reason gas prices have gone up.
"All that is without mentioning the health costs: between 1 in 4 and every single person exposed to aviation fuel is expected to get cancer in their life time. It's every single person for boat fuel. Leaded fuel is responsible for a general 6 IQ point drop in human population. Globally, air pollution it is estimated to cause about 29% of lung cancer deaths, 43% of COPD deaths, about 25% of ischaemic heart disease deaths and 24% of stroke deaths."
I'm inclined to believe that these ailments have more to do with the proliferation of seed oils in the US food chain, than to do with petroleum fuels.
The Worst Ingredient in the World: Interview with Dr. Chris Knobbe
https://youtu.be/MuYvGyNXvPk?feature=shared
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The quality of academia in the US has gotten to the point that the only correct path is to end government subsidies. Colleges and Universities have millions of dollars in trusts that they don't touch. They would rather their students end up over their heads in student loan debts.
The fact that student loans cannot be discharged in bankruptcy, lends to the problem. Thus, the student is the only one taking the risk. If a college or university misleads the student to go into a field that is not suited too the student, the student takes on debt with the expectation of obtaining a job that will allow the debt to be paid off, yet the unsuitability of the student in the field, pretty much guarantees that a job with the needed income, will not come to fruition.
Guaranteed student loans pretty much insures that college age adults will amass huge debts, before they have the life experience and maturity to properly handle the debt. Society as a whole needs to be rid of them.
Additionally, the fact that students can be heavily ladened with the debt, insures that colleges, universities, and their tenured staff, will be more inclined to demand more money, even in the midst of an economic down turn. This is one of the things that happened during the economic down turn that became known as the great recession.
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I find that scientists, that have observed the rotation of the earth technologically and therefore with strict accuracy for less than 100 years, are always claiming that man is affecting the earth's climate one way or the other, and non of them considers the plausibility that what they are observing is nothing more than a smidgen of a thousand year cycle and therefore cannot be used to make such dogmatic and inflexible hypothesis's.
Around 100 years before Israel's destruction and subsequent 70 year Babylonian captivity, the prophet Isaiah prophesied that the earth will reel to and fro like a drunkard.
Isaiah 24:20: The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
Some speculate that this is the result of a nuclear exchange and other's speculate that it is the result of the 200,000,000 million man army from the east marching on Israel.
Revelation 9:13: And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14: Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.
15: And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.
16: And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.
Regardless of which you choose to believe, it is all a part of the Lord shaking the heavens and the earth, and man can do nothing to stop it.
Isaiah 13:13: Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
Isaiah 2:6: For thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;
Haggai 2:21: Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth;
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You left one possibility out.
The people that responded with such hate has nothing to do with scientists and has everything to do with them as a person.
Whenever I disagree with people, regardless how I put it, some hater will often say moronic things like; "calm down", "get back on your meds", "Your over the top", "your funny, you need to go into stand up" none of which has anything to do with the discussion. Rather than have a logical discussion, they will throw out straw man arguments, use personal attacks, or even claim that you said something that is very obvious you did not say.
These dull minded individuals are members of the cancel culture club that do not want to hear anything that is contrary to their world view. If what they believe turns out to not be true, rather than accepting that someone has information they did not, and need to further investigate what they believe to be true, they attack, ridicule and threaten with violence, those that hold the opposing view.
By the way. Given the fact that the "COVID-19 vaccine" is not a vaccine, but in true, a gene splicing therapy that genetically modifies those that take it. Anyone opposed to it cannot be an anti-vaxer. The accusation is false and misleading.
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@kimchristensen2175
"Yup... It's like the 'Merica car is driving down the road when all of a sudden the engine stops. A mechanic gets out and takes a look at the engine, but can't figure out what's wrong right away. Then Trump gets out of the car and slashes the tires with a knife. The mechanic says "WTF" but the rest of the occupants praise Trump because “Something needed to happen”"
I don't know Trump's knowledge of cars, but it I do figure he knows enough to not slash the tires when the engine stops running.
You need to know a bit more about cars if you want to use an automobile as a metaphor with tariffs.
For the first 100 years of US existence, the primary source of Federal revenue was tariffs, not income taxes.
Since 1913, Federal income taxes have been increasing year by year, while at the same time, the national debt has been increasing year by year. Up until 2000, spending and the debt remained fairly stagnate, but after 9/11, spending on wars increased, and as that spending increased, so too did all the corruption and unlawful spending.
It is quite obvious that both democrats and republicans have received ample kickbacks for all that corruption they put into US law through the 1000 page omnibus spending bills, and the 1000 page omnibus bills passed into laws.
Neither party is innocent, but people like you are so biased in your view, that you blame the republicans for everything when it was in fact a minority of republicans, and a majority of democrats that corrupted the Federal government and gained power through that corruption.
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@GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket
"Murder is murder, theft is theft, piracy is unauthorized duplication of someone elses work."
The unauthorized duplication of someone else's work is theft.
In the most usual sense of people doing so, they do not simply duplicate the work, they sell the work and steal money from the copyright owner.
But don't worry. Most people believe it's totally OK to steal from poor people that can't defend themselves, take you to court, and sue you into oblivion. But it's not OK to steal from the rich like Microsoft because Microsoft can take you to court and sue you into oblivion.
The claim by the CCP that DeepSeek was done at a reduced price however, is a lie.
It is a lie because while what they may have done was less costly, they failed to add to that cost, the cost of developing the original open source code.
DeepSeek is a modification of the original code, it is not a, from the ground up new development.
I would give an exception to this is they used the open source code to learn how it was done, and then wrote code from scratch to run it on a different chip.
MSM and others however do not ask these questions because in their puny little minds, CCP big super hero, America big super flop, and that is far from the case.
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@THX..1138
"If you put information into the public you cannot restrict the public from accessing that information as long as you leave it in public view the public has the right to view it. All copyright does it stop people from copying your information...... "
That's kind of funny as YouTube and other streaming apps do it all the time.
It's called a copyright claim by the copyright holder and a copyright strike against the creator that the claim is against.
"Which brings us to what people do not seem to understand about how these models work is they do not download information from the net and keep like you do when you right click save as on a picture of an apple. Rather the model looks at the picture of the apple and it learns what an apple is, what it looks like. The picture itself is not retained."
The picture is not retained, but the data bits that describe the apple do.
AI is capable of recreating the image of the apple with those data bits.
AI can retain the data bits, but AI may not recreate the image.
When you purchase a book, you take that book home and keep it in your home until you decide to dispose of it. You may give that book away or sell it in a yard sale or garage sale. You may not make copies of that book and sell them.
You may site portions of that book in order to quote the author as long as you provide proper recognition and citation to the author.
AI is capable of infringing on your rights as an author and you may not have the legal wherewithal to do anything about it.
"In that sense these models are surfing the net the same as you or I do and what they retain is their impressions of what they seen. Again more or less like you or I do when we surf the net....
So there is no theft going on."
That's not entirely accurate.
A song writer opened a fake YouTube account. He had AI generate a song in to be similar in style and genre to what his real name does in real life. He then posted that song on his fake channel.
He then was able to generate a copyright strike against a non AI generated song he had posted in a video on his real channel, making the claim with his fake channel. YouTube, not being sophisticated enough to know how to determine proper copyright ownership, found in favor of the fake channel despite the fact that the song they put a strike against, was older than the one they sided with and used to determine infringement.
That's a problem.
A problem that can be easily solved by requiring AI platforms to add artifacts to AI generated content so that should someone attempt to steal the work of a legitimate artist by using an AI bot, the artifacts will be in the AI generated content. And even that is not fool proof as someone may use an audio editing program to edit out the artifacts.
AI is not artificial intelligence and never will be.
AI is closer to a language interpreter, coupled with a database, that receives instructions in every day language rather than a programming language like C++, PHP, Python, JavaScript, etc.
As much as the developers working on AI deserve credit for their excellence in developing AI, they are pretty reckless in not including in their development model, safeguards against AI being used and abused by nefarious actors like the CCP, and people that do not have a problem with stealing intellectual property from others.
AI is a problem that will eventually come to an end, because the one thing the masses won't stand for, is not being able to work and get ahead, and being subjugated to low class peasants, which is what the elites want to do.
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@MagMar-kv9ne
It is difficult to edit one's own work.
It is necessary to wait several days before going back and reading what you wrote. This is difficult when you have a deadline which is why publishers often employ editors.
Me, I'm a perfectionist, I tend to spot my mistakes before any one else and even after that, I may find one's I missed. It takes good eyesight to not miss anything and when you're reading your own material, your brain tends to disregard mistakes in which similar words sound the same, but are spelled differently for different meanings.
I make it a practice to type what I post in a text editor and then copy and paste it onto the platform. This enables me to read over what I wrote and make sure it says what I want it to say.
I find that I am a perfect speller, as long as spell check is enabled in the text editor. Even with this practice, there are times when I will find after I have posted something, that a word is missing in my statement or misspelled, at which point I edit the post to correct the errors.
Errors can come from what we have been taught in our youth.
It's very annoying to finish an analytical work only to find later on that because you didn't question what has been commonly held as true for centuries, the outcome is wrong.
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@blueboy189
"but we have no god given right to be able to understand it."
We may not have a right, but we are offered understanding that we may not otherwise have. However, we will not be able to obtain the understanding unless we do 3 things.
1) Search out the matter. Proverbs 25:2
2) Come and reason with the Lord. Isaiah 1:18
3) Call unto the Lord for the answer. Jeremiah 33:3
4) Be humble about your approach as God resists the proud and gives grace to the humble. James 4:6 and 1Peter 5:5
God created the universe. He certainly has a complete understanding of how it works.
Proverbs 25:2: It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
Isaiah 1:18: Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Jeremiah 33:3: Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.
James 4:6: But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
1Peter 5:5: Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
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The problem you're seeing in science Sabine, is that religious belief, trumps 2 + 2 = 4.
As long as someone chooses to believe that 2 + 2 = 500, and that reality is not a legitimate argument against it, as long as people put financial gain above the facts of reality, corruption will exist in science.
But fear not. The promise of Christ's return and His millennial, kingdom reign on earth; is also a promise of restored integrity in science.
Isaiah 9:6: For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
7: Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
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@mylesgray3470
"It funny, people were scared to buy hybrids for years. Prior to 2015 or so, Used Prius prices were pretty low because people didn’t trust them. Now that people can see they do in fact last a long time, demand is high for them."
You're missing a point in your prognostication; hybrids have been around for about 20 years or so. They've had the time to prove themselves to the public, EV's not so much. Rather than allow the tech to go through the growing pains it needs to go through, government is attempting to force people to buy them. In the United States, that's unconstitutional and an overreach of government.
"I predict the exact same theming will happen with EV’s. I own a Prius and a Tesla and prefer the Tesla, hands down."
Not in the near future it won't.
If they prove themselves over a period of 20 years the way that hybrids have, people may decide to buy them provided the government is not subsidizing them, and the price is affordable.
Manufacturers are cutting back on their EV programs due to heavy losses.
You can't manufacture what does not sell. If a manufacturer does so and does not change course when it turns out there is no market demand, the manufacturer goes out of business.
"Ford’s electric vehicle unit reported a $1.3 billion loss, amounting to a $132,000 loss per electric vehicle sold during the first three months of the year, CNN reported."
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"@maddhatter3564 thank you for the EV propaganda. "
Propaganda is stating things that are a lie in order to deceive and mislead the people.
The truth is not propaganda.
If I am so wrong, why does the main stream media report that the Automakers are loosing billions of dollars in their attempt to push EVs on the public?
"@FLPhotoCatcher The fact is, EVs are now less expensive than most comparable ICE vehicles, and have less required maintenance, and less maintenance costs compared to similar ICE engine vehicles. Of course, they also save a bunch on gasoline and oils over their lifespan, so that even if maintenance costs are not lower, you still come out ahead."
If EVs are now less expensive, why are the US automakers loosing billions by building EVs?
If they were less expensive, Ford would not have to price their EVs $132,000 below cost.
Ford just reported a massive loss on every electric vehicle it sold
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/24/business/ford-earnings-ev-losses/index.html
"Ford’s electric vehicle unit reported that losses soared in the first quarter to $1.3 billion, or $132,000 for each of the 10,000 vehicles it sold in the first three months of the year, helping to drag down earnings for the company overall."
Ford loses $1.3 billion to EV segment, but hybrid and electric sales
https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en/market-insights/latest-news/energy-transition/042524-ford-loses-13-billion-to-ev-segment-but-hybrid-and-electric-sales-grow
Ford Lost $130,000 on Every EV It Sold in the First Quarter
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a60621256/ford-ev-revenue-losses-q1-2024/
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My take on upcoming future events:
Jesus Christ returns to earth with the armies of heaven, restores the kingdom of Israel, and makes Israel the single super power on earth and global hegemon.
No one will occasion to say; "There is no God".
Gold and Silver will become the global legal tender.
Some US States have already made gold and silver coin legal tender and not subject to being taxed.
Technology to tap into the hydrogen supplies that are within the earths crust will come into existence and begin the transition to a hydrogen economy from the petroleum economy. For a time, the two will be equally used.
Over the next 100 years, all government debt is paid off.
Swords are beaten into plow shears and man does not learn war anymore.
Isaiah 2:4: And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Micah 4:3: And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
I can agree with polygamy returning as that is a biblical prophesy.
Isaiah 4:1: And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.
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@theBear89451
"In the US, there is a large overlap between the people who oppose a single payer health systems and those who are on Medicare. It’s basically, socialism for me, capitalism for thee."
There is good reason to oppose a single payer health system.
There is good reason to demand the repealing of the affordable care act.
The leftist, marxist democrats always title their bills in such a way that people at face value, without having the ability to read the legislation, will support it. The democrats claim good things will come with their legislation all the while knowing that within the legislation, they have put restrictions and other things that will ultimately, create more problems than they solve. Much like Biden's "Inflation Reduction Act" which caused higher inflation by virtue of the fact that the government refuses to end deficit spending.
As long as the worst of the politicians can influence what goes into the legislation, it is best to repeal what they passed, in favor of the lower cost of services that existed prior to their inflationary spending.
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"Is the present determined by the future? The idea that our universe, and everything in it, has a secret plan, a goal that we inevitably have to reach, is called Teleology. This sounds strange, if not outright crazy and a little bit depressing."
It's odd to me that highly educated people, will go out of their way, to turn "the Universe" into a conscious being while at the same time, deny the existence of a Creator God who is actively bringing about His plan to bring the earth and mankind to His ultimate goal of bringing His kingdom on earth, and imposing a period of time where man learns war no more; bringing about a thousand years of peace under the rule of His only begotten Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Is there an ultimate plan?
Yes.
Isaiah 46:8: Remember this, and shew yourselves men: bring it again to mind, O ye transgressors.
9: Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,
10: Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
Revelation 19:11: And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
12: His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.
13: And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
14: And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
15: And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
16: And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
Revelation 20:1: And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
2: And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
Revelation 20:3: And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
4: And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Isaiah 2:4: And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Micah 4:3: And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
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@zyansheep
"Sure, but wasn't this the same argument against solar? Now solar is arguably the cheapest energy source in many places."
If a technology needs government subsidies, other than the standard business tax write offs that business receive, it's market is not sustainable.
California is the best example of the lies put forth by those advocating for "green energy".
1) Neither wind or solar produces actual energy. It only produces electricity.
As a result, it neither wind nor solar can produce many of the products that are on the market today.
The problem here is not that the technology will never be able to do the job, the problem is that people are demanding that a boy, can do a man's job.
The boy is too young. Let the boy grow up a bit and see what the boy is capable of doing himself.
2) The more solar and wind are used to produce electricity, the higher the price of electricity climbs. This alone is not sustainable.
3) When the government subsidies cease, the real price of wind and solar will be seen. You may still be able to purchase solar panels in the $200 to $300 range, but it is doubtful that the prices will remain there.
4) Most solar panels are made in China. China has been at war with the United States for several decades. This means that those pushing solar in the US, have adhered themselves to the enemies of the United States and are giving them aid and comfort and is an act of treason. What this means to the average American as that globalists and their global market, have put every American in a position in which we have no choice but to commit treason by purchasing products made in China.
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