Teddy Kennedy who blocked wind turbines off of Martha's Vineyard while he was alive.
Do you consider him a Republican stalwart?
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Rebuild Staten Island
Posted by Prof Bob
7th Nov
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Sure...rebuild them...
Posted by ggooh
13th Nov
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I think you're forgetting...
Posted by jtdavies
7th Nov
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Pay homeowners
Require Utilities to Pay homes $0.54 kwh to feed solar onto the grid.
This will make investing in solar attractive!
This will make investing in solar attractive!
Posted by Paul kangas
7th Nov
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Rebuild Staten Island
I read a lot of items related to energy and power. It seems that large numbers of writers on the subject do not know the difference between energy and power or the units of energy and power. This article mentions a unit of gigawatts per year. The watt is a unit of power or the rate of energy use and already contains the per time unit 1 watt = 1 joule/sec. The proper unit here, if power is intended, is just gigawatt. I believe that this article intends the unit to represent energy, which can be represented as power X time, in this case gigawatt-hr would be appropriate and one could refer to gigawatt-hr/year. As a physicist, I find that when units are incorrect, the clarity of the writing suffers greatly.
Posted by Prof Bob
7th Nov
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Gw/h/y?
That's redundant, he did provide a power*time estimation. Although saying 114,800Kw/h per year would be more standard and easier to visualise and price. In my city that would be a savings of $13,397.16 annually.
Posted by shaunehunter
11th Nov
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If the rhetoric regarding "climate change" is to be believed...
...I don't see how we should permit Staten Island to be rebuilt at all.
Posted by JohnMcGrew@...
7th Nov
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If the rhetoric regarding "climate change" is to be believed...
Ocean rise may just be rhetoric, too! Rebuilding near current sea level is not a chance I would want to take. A strong and well placed Winter storm could do the same type of damage along the New Jersey and New York shore. Placing lives at stake and also very expensive to fix property and infrastructure damage.
Posted by MaineBikah
7th Nov
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And yet...
...the same Federal government that will within the next several years be regulating more of the economy in the name of "climate change" will also fund the rebuilding of the Jersey and New York shorelines, businesses, and homes right where they were before.
If "climate change" and rising sea levels are true threats, then we should be removing people from the shore; not spending billions to replace homes and businesses of the 1%-ers.
If "climate change" and rising sea levels are true threats, then we should be removing people from the shore; not spending billions to replace homes and businesses of the 1%-ers.
Posted by JohnMcGrew@...
Updated - 8th Nov
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Sure...rebuild them...
...but don't ask the rest of us to help fund what is in reality the dwelling places of the privileged few who just happen to want to live by the water. If a boat owner has a boat destroyed, the boat is restored by the insurer. It ought to be the same with dwellings built in flood zones. It is luxury living for the privileged few and I resent having to pay for their losses with increased premiums for insurance or having tax money collected from the general public used to rebuild dwellings in these places. It is socially wrong.
Posted by ggooh
13th Nov
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Doubtful project
Weather predictions have already announced that coastal cities will end up submerged under several meters of water in a near future, due to climate changes already showing as tsunamis like the Japanese one or hurricanes like Sandy.
How come they are planning to reconstruct that devastated area? it should be left as it is and use that money to build new houses in safer places.
All this wrong reasoning makes you wonder about human intelligence or should I specify, Politicians intelligence?
How come they are planning to reconstruct that devastated area? it should be left as it is and use that money to build new houses in safer places.
All this wrong reasoning makes you wonder about human intelligence or should I specify, Politicians intelligence?
Posted by David Traversa
10th Nov
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Rebuild Staten Island with art and power
I believe that all of these problems can be resolved by designing new kinds of cities and a totally new kind if transportation. The new kind of transportation could replace most existing cars, tractor trailer trucks, airplanes, buses, and trains. It could be much faster, safer, occupy some of the same highway between cities, and above all, be more efficient!
I have started by designing a new architectural concept form to accommodate city dwellers. This is a concept that hasn't been tried. But it's a hard day on the planet. So what will it be? Another technological miracle or that same street corner in the next city just like Manhattan?
I have started by designing a new architectural concept form to accommodate city dwellers. This is a concept that hasn't been tried. But it's a hard day on the planet. So what will it be? Another technological miracle or that same street corner in the next city just like Manhattan?
Posted by condrive
10th Nov