Why do Warmistas, ignore the past?

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Harvey Mus

No, no, we are not talking about the Holocene. I've whipped that dead horse enough.

Today I am talking about taxes, which artificially raise the price of fuels. Europe has paid artificially high prices for fuels for decades now. The thought process, I'm told, is that this will spur innovation, in alternative fuels. And spur inventions to save fuel as well.

So what do we have for innovations? We have hybrid electric cars, which still rely on dead dinosaurs. Electric cars, which have less range than comfortable hiking boots. And you still have to plug that sucker into a wall, and recharge it with a dead dinosaur.

And I'll be honest here. I can't afford to drop $30k on an electric go-cart. And I couldn't fit or haul my trade around in it anyway. And your little electric go cart, is only marginally better than a Mini Cooper, mileage wise.

Nuclear energy, Japan, Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and a few others has demonstrated the short term dangers there. And the disposal of spent fuel cells is the real time bomb with nuclear energy. Co2 is a trifle compared to a spent fuel rod, with a halflife of 500,000 years or so.

Windmills are expensive, high maintenance, and not too terribly reliable. Plus they slaughter endangered species, and have been blamed for beaching whales. High frequency resonance or something...

Solar energy suffers from the same problems as wind. If it were as great as you make it sound, then why are states building $500 billion dollar nuclear plants? Surely solar towers would be cheaper.

We have fuel injection. But that doesn't really save fuel, does it?

The only real innovation, has been to put people into rinky dink go-carts, powered by lawn mower engines. Which is full circle to where the auto began.

But why do some of you, and you know who you are, insist that higher fuel taxes will solve anything?
30 years of artificially high fuel prices. And the best anyone has come up with are go-carts with electric motors?

I'm just not seeing the trade off here...
I never implied the tax money was going towards innovation. That's as ridiculous as claiming cigarette taxes are funding cancer treatment.


Newsweek and the UK Telegraph at one time, ran stories about offshore wind farms driving whales to shore. Both stories have disappeared, replaced by vigorous disclaimers.

I suspect a cover up by Big Wind.

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Popular Science has had some interesting pieces lately on "The Rebirth of the Internal Combustion Engine"

Here's a gallery..these are still concepts but if some work out, then what's not to like?
http://www.popsci.com/cars/gallery/2011-06/gallery-rebirth-internal-combustion-engine?image=0

And here's one that's interesting: Lasers could replace spark plugs in car engines - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13160950

From what I've read lately, some of these new high efficiency internal combustion engines have some serious power too. If we're going to throw money at something, I think we should concentrate on making what we know works even better.

Continous or Discrete?

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Can you help me to figure out whether these are continuous or discrete variables?

1. The amount of gas left in a lawn mower tank is related to the amount of time the engine has been running.

2. A relationship exists between the speed of a runner going up a hill and the steepness of the hill.

3. The temperature during the day is related to time of day.

4. The amount you pay depends on how many sodas you buy.

Answer
Continuous variables can change even with infinitesimally small changes. Discrete variables only increment in set increments. So for this question...

For the complete solution, go to Study Nutty.
http://www.studynutty.com/2011/09/11/continous-or-discrete-can-you-help-me-to/

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