A 20 min. YouTube interview of Jeff Goodell on his book The Heat Will Kill You First”. He tells how your body dies from excessive heat. Right now high temperature records are being broken in most parts of the US. Heat kills more people than other weather events.
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2023-07-16 Reducing Peak Usage – Demand Flexibility Schemes
After about the 15:00 minute point he describes this demand flexibility scheme where consumers are paid £2.50 for each kWh they do not use during peak demand times in the early evening – 4 to 7 PM. That’s ten times what consumers pay per kWh. But if the utility pays consumers that much, they must
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2023-07-15 Why We Shouldn’t Build Nuclear Power
Adam Dorr of RethinkX 16.5 min. YouTube video. His book is Brighter Main reason: “”Cost – Nuclear power makes no economic sense. It really is that simple: it’s an open and shut case.”” “”We don’t need nuclear, or coal power or any other conventional power for base load. Research shows … Batteries make base load
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2023-07-14 Reproductive Coercion; Kansas Wind Turbines NIMBYs
Kansas is 4th in US in wind power generation. More pushback is coming from the rural areas when wind turbine utilities try to add more wind farms. Farm owners with less than 80 acres are not included in the possible sites to be considered – there isn’t enough acreage. The term reproductive coercion was used
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2023-07-14 Trump Att’y threatens FBI Director – Live
In this 13 min. video attorney Ben Meiselas plays clips of congresspersons and others being confrontational and accusing FBI director Wray of making a “two tier system” of justice where Trump is unfairly treated and Hunter Biden gets away with a handslap, so to speak. Trump’s attorney is doing this accusing. She is possibly involved
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2023-07-14 GOP War On College Campuses
Manufactured outrage Ideologues hyperpartisan Reactionary kickback Anti-CRT Anti-Critical Race Theory “”There _is_ a crisis in free speech and academic freedom in publicly funded education, and the crisis is not coddled undergraduate students. It’s increasing political interference with what should be free, relatively self-governing academic affairs. As I mentioned in the book, for years, the Goldwater
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2023-07-13 Gerrymandering Court Win For N.Y.
After 9:40 he says “…the idea that the people choose their elected representatives rather than the other way around.” Partisan Gerrymandering is taking place in states and the court, as he says, is okay with that. He brings up section 2 of the Voting Rights Act was not invalidated by SCOTUS. SCOTUS invalidated some sections
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2023-07-11 Are Climate Doomers Right? Apocalypse!?
Are Climate Doomers Right? It’s a 16 min video from DW Planet A. At 3:45 she interviews some experts on this topic. At 5:52 she goes through some scenarios. At 8:12 the Inaction chapter begins. At 10:20 she says that in a poll of children, 65% think the world is doomed because of government inaction.
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2023-07-10 If Only Hillary Had Been Elected, We Wouldn’t Be In This Mess
So, so true, and so sad. I’ve been saddened by this thought many times. If only…
2023-06-27 The Reasons Behind The Chip Shortage (Sabine)
Very good video about the chip shortage. There were fires in several plants, natural disasters like the earthquake in Fukushima, and too much dependence on only a few factories. We need to prevent this from happening again.
