tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post5098588162574341321..comments2023-10-08T04:12:46.273-05:00Comments on The Political Environment: Did The Gulf Oil Spill Turn Out "Pretty Well?" Comment On The CommentJames Rowenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10203270946492159686noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post-50688978153478409332011-02-02T11:12:08.825-06:002011-02-02T11:12:08.825-06:00Wow. I see republicans are back to pushing the abi...Wow. I see republicans are back to pushing the abiotic oil theory. That theory dates back to the Soviet era. The same time when Lysenokoism was destroying the Soviet biology community, abiotic oil was destroying geology. The Russians have yet to produce a single barrel of abiotic oil. It's amazing to see the Republicans falling for Soviet era pseudoscience.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post-69984642434511668652011-01-31T21:58:22.641-06:002011-01-31T21:58:22.641-06:00Railways are considered the leading edge of techno...Railways are considered the leading edge of technology in almost every other country. Mauritania just got trains with a new kind of wheel.<br /><br />One of the biggest shocks since coming back to the US is how primitive things are becoming and how incapable we are of dealing with the economic downturn. At least in Japan, SOME things got better.<br /><br />(And Anonymous, I dare you to look someone in the face who lost their job because of the oil spill and say that it was not significant.)Helen Bushnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14177708490995175178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post-3920234938736471662011-01-31T18:35:36.696-06:002011-01-31T18:35:36.696-06:00Of course we are too busy shoveling wood chips int...<i>Of course we are too busy shoveling wood chips into a railroad engine while trying to attach a windmill on top.<br /></i><br /><br />I don't know enough about thorium reactors to tell if they're really "green energy technology." But -- for better or worse -- research on thorium reactors is going in the US and other countries, not just in China.<br /><br />Anyway, China is the world's leading producer of wind-powered electricity.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post-37199171092122832212011-01-31T03:24:53.178-06:002011-01-31T03:24:53.178-06:00Here’s an example of real cutting edge green energ...Here’s an example of real cutting edge green energy technology<br /><br />http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/01/30/china-announces-thorium-reactor-energy-program-obama-still-dwelling-on-sputnik-moments/#more-32829<br /><br />Of course we are too busy shoveling wood chips into a railroad engine while trying to attach a windmill on top.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post-34918236479230909052011-01-31T02:06:26.856-06:002011-01-31T02:06:26.856-06:00Oil spill?, what oil spill? A credible journalist...Oil spill?, what oil spill? A credible journalist gives a good perspective on the latest end of the world disaster that wasn’t. <br />http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/gulf-oil-spill-survivors-080510<br /><br />Other myths include oil being a fossil fuel<br />http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/gulf-oil-spill-survivors-080510<br /><br />Or CO2 throwing the climate into an unprecedented crises<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOLkze-9GcI<br /><br />As Descartes once advised: “Now therefore, that my mind is free from all cares, and that I have obtained for myself assured leisure in peaceful solitude, I shall apply myself seriously and freely to the general destruction of all my former opinions.”Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post-62045409533710966972011-01-30T19:03:54.092-06:002011-01-30T19:03:54.092-06:00Perhaps an extreme case of playing “the devils adv...Perhaps an extreme case of playing “the devils advocate”? Or just plain mental illness.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com