Monday, July 21, 2008
Sissies for Obama
McCain is endorsed by Clint Eastwood, Sylvester Stallone, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Obama gets support from Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Oprah Winfrey, Tom Hanks, and every weenie in Hollywood. That includes you, Pepe.
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Stalone & Schwartzie ? these are your heroes ai ?
Better than Matt Damon & DiCaprio. You can have your sissy boys, pepe.
I support wind and nuclear energy, anything (w/ modification, of course) to take as much of our reliance off of OPEC as possible.
And Josey Wales could slap around DiCaprio any day of the week.
hard for me to imagine anything worse than stalone other than perhaps chuck norris & steven seagull. A chacun son sale gout.
Those windfarms look rather ugly, take lots of space, and stop running half the time. Except for that, sounds good, I guess. Wanna have one in the backyard?
Who is Josey Wales?
Norris and Seagal are atrocious actors, yep. Stalone is no Shakespearean actor, granted -- but he had his moments in his youth.
i'll give you that the oprah endorsement is almost enough to convince anyone to vote the other way
Those windfarms look rather ugly, take lots of space, and stop running half the time. Except for that, sounds good, I guess. Wanna have one in the backyard?
Who is Josey Wales?
First, I suppose they do, AI. I suppose they do. And they are already going up in my Dakota backyard. I'm guessing your disdain for them is more political than anything, though. Yes, I know all the arguments against these massive wind turbines, but similar to the internal combustion engine, the new wind turbine technology is gonna need some massive and then refined tuning. The respective state historical societies of North and South Dakota are concerned about how wind turbines alter the respective viewshed and landscape, too. In addition to energy, they also provide Dakotans with jobs, and give the Plains something to export: energy.
Who is Josey Wales, you ask? AI, you have some movie watching homework for the weekend. Click here for some insightful commentary.
Nothing political here -- just pragmatic. I haven't seen windmills in the US -- just in Belgium, where they seemed just too tall and ungainly. Besides, they almost never turn, or, if they do, they just crawl. So it looks to me like a case of "don't just sit there, do something" and/or a sop to AlGore, so that he won't foam at the mouth too much. Now, maybe things are a bit different in North Dakota -- how I would know?
There is a bit of a problem in finding out ways to capture all the direct energy that wind turbines generate, but battery technology continues to get better and better (this might solve the problem as the right batteries might be able to capture all that energy -- the same for hybrid cars, but today it doesn't even make sense to purchase one). Right now, any energy coming from wind turbines needs to be sold or exported, from how I understand it, right away. Yes, I've seen the turbines not running at all, and also think, "What a waste." I wonder if they are stopped for a fix, or what.
All in a ll, I'm neutral to these windmills -- if they can help at the margins, and don't bother the people living next to them, why not? But they have a sissy feeling to them -- I still think nuke plants are more macho, and more more powerful. Now, if we could figure out a better way to get rid of the junk they generate, we'd be in business...
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