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5. People understanding engineering and science are very different than handwavers.
Fri May 5, 2023, 01:10 PM
May 2023

Last edited Fri May 5, 2023, 03:32 PM - Edit history (1)

This of course excludes engineers who are employed by handwavers.

I doubt Elon Musk's engineering staff could get away with too much truth.

The handwavers, by the way, regrettably won. We're still throwing vast sums of money on the reactionary idea of so called "renewable energy" and in fact making it worse by throwing more than half that money on energy storage without having clean primary energy.

Also what your father and I may share is the warm glow of advanced age and the apparent ability to have aged while thinking critically the whole time.

Here we are, above 424 ppm and still buying the same snake oil to address it.

It doesn't bode well for future generations. They will need to be remarkable to overcome what we have done.

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