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Hydrothermal Vent Energy (more energy density than NUCLEAR
power!)
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: February 14, 2014, 1:10 am
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MKing said,
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> You are on the right track agelbert, don't give up yet.
Obviously you look around and see everything you've written
extensively on, while the power of fossil fuels might get you
down occasionally, buck up! They can certainly duke it out for
decades, maybe even a century or two, but at the end of the day
it is a finite world, and there is only one choice. Gradually
increasing scarcity will affect price, people reacting to this
economic stimuli will drive substitution and conservation, and
one day a few generations from now Johnny will laugh at old
granddad for offering him a ride in that antique classic, a 2014
Corvette. Sorry Pops, he will say, but my carbon fiber 1200#
with D/C motors in each wheel hub and fully charged just 20
minutes ago ride makes that heap of junk look like a Model T,
fit only for senior citizens with poor reflexes or antique
collectors. And jesus Pops, it SMELLS and makes all that NOISE.
>
> Might not happen in your lifetime Agelbert, or mine, but the
future is already here, oil is already obsolete, and the winds
of change aren't just turning windmill blades in southern
Colorado nowadays.
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Well, I agree on your last statement. It will definitely NOT
happen within the next 50 years. I am a realist, as much as I
understand the math and physics, I also understand the power
politics. Big oil will transition ONLY when they are assured
continued control of the centralized energy spigot
There is a way to do that with renewable energy. As a matter of
fact, it dovetails EXACTLY with something big oil might be VERY
interested in pushing simply because they will continue to have
control through a centralized source of energy with such a
gigantic concentration of energy in a small footprint that, get
this, it has more energy than a nuclear power plant.
The ONLY energy corporations in a PERFECT position to tap this
massive energy gold mine (lots of free minerals without open pit
mining as well!) are the Oil corporations because you need a
massive "former" (lol!) Sea going oil platform to position the
equipment and tap the energy. Exxon Mobile, if it hogs the
hydrothermal vent energy gold mine will be even richer than it
already is. And that means more fascism, MKing. I wish it
didn't.
But anyway, it doesn't look like energy is going to be lacking
anytime soon, whether we go extinct from pollution along the way
or not.
Enjoy this video. It's not pie in the sky; Big oil has the pipes
and knowhow to lay them to collect this energy with the SAME
steam turbines (400C to 600C) that they use in nuclear power
plants to generate electricity and cable it to shore. Big oil
has lots of rigs that float or are anchored to the sea bed. In
short, THEY have the lead on this bonanza.
Listen to the stats. It's ****ing mind boggling. 20 MILLION
households powered from ONE hydrothermal tap!
All that deep ocean drilling knowhow they have developed can now
be put to use. Sure, the corrosive crap that comes up from these
hydrothermal vents may have every heavy metal contaminant in the
world BUT they might have rare earths and other mineral goodies
too. It might be a double grand slam for big oil.
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Re: Hydrothermal Vent Energy (more energy density than NUCLEAR
power!)
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: June 26, 2018, 8:18 pm
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> [center]The United States military 👹🦍 drops an
explosive 💥 with a strength you can hardly comprehend
once every 12 minutes.[/center]
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>
> We live in a state of perpetual war, and we never feel it.
While you get your gelato at the hip place where they put those
cute little mint leaves on the side, someone is being bombed in
your name. While you argue with the 17-year-old at the movie
theater who gave you a small popcorn when you paid for a large,
someone is being obliterated in your name. While we sleep and
eat and make love and shield our eyes on a sunny day, someone’s
home, family, life and body are being blown into a thousand
pieces in our names.
>
> Once every 12 minutes.
>
> The United States military drops an explosive with a strength
you can hardly comprehend once every 12 minutes. And that’s odd,
because we’re technically at war with—let me think—zero
countries. So that should mean zero bombs are being dropped,
right?
>
> Hell no! You’ve made the common mistake of confusing our world
with some sort of rational, cogent world in which our
military-industrial complex is under control, the music industry
is based on merit and talent, Legos have gently rounded edges
(so when you step on them barefoot, it doesn’t feel like an
armor-piercing bullet just shot straight up your sphincter), and
humans are dealing with climate change like adults rather than
burying our heads in the sand while trying to convince ourselves
that the sand around our heads isn’t getting really, really hot.
>
> You’re thinking of a rational world. We do not live there.
>
> Instead, we live in a world where the Pentagon is completely
and utterly out of control. A few weeks ago, I wrote about the
$21 trillion (that’s not a typo) that has gone unaccounted for
at the Pentagon. But I didn’t get into the number of bombs that
ridiculous amount of money buys us. President George W. Bush’s
military dropped 70,000 bombs on five countries. But of that
outrageous number, only 57 of those bombs really upset the
international community.
>
> Because there were 57 strikes in Pakistan, Somalia and
Yemen—countries the U.S. was neither at war with nor had ongoing
conflicts with. And the world was kind of horrified. There was a
lot of talk that went something like, “Wait a second. We’re
bombing in countries outside of war zones? Is it possible that’s
a slippery slope ending in us just bombing all the goddamn time?
(Awkward pause.) … Nah. Whichever president follows Bush will be
a normal adult person (with a functional brain stem of some
sort) and will therefore stop this madness.”
>
> We were so cute and naive back then, like a kitten when it’s
first waking up in the morning.
>
> The Bureau of Investigative Journalism reported that under
President Barack Obama there were “563 strikes, largely by
drones, that targeted Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen. …”
>
> It’s not just the fact that bombing outside of a war zone is a
horrific violation of international law and global norms. It’s
also the morally reprehensible targeting of people for
pre-crime, which is what we’re doing and what the Tom Cruise
movie “Minority Report” warned us about. (Humans are very bad at
taking the advice of sci-fi dystopias. If we’d listened to
“1984,” we wouldn’t have allowed the existence of the National
Security Agency. If we listened to “The Terminator,” we wouldn’t
have allowed the existence of drone warfare. And if we’d
listened to “The Matrix,” we wouldn’t have allowed the vast
majority of humans to get lost in a virtual reality of spectacle
and vapid nonsense while the oceans die in a swamp of plastic
waste. … But you know, who’s counting?)
>
> There was basically a media blackout while Obama was
president. You could count on one hand the number of mainstream
media reports on the Pentagon’s daily bombing campaigns under
Obama. And even when the media did mention it, the underlying
sentiment was, “Yeah, but look at how suave Obama is while he’s
OK’ing endless destruction. He’s like the Steve McQueen of
aerial death.”
>
> And let’s take a moment to wipe away the idea that our
“advanced weaponry” hits only the bad guys. As David DeGraw put
it, “According to the C.I.A.’s own documents, the people on the
‘kill list,’ who were targeted for ‘death-by-drone,’ accounted
for only 2% of the deaths caused by the drone strikes.”
>
> Two percent. Really, Pentagon? You got a two on the test? You
get five points just for spelling your name right.
>
> But those 70,000 bombs dropped by Bush—it was child’s play.
DeGraw again: “[Obama] dropped 100,000 bombs in seven countries.
He out-bombed Bush by 30,000 bombs and 2 countries.”
>
> You have to admit that’s impressively horrific. That puts
Obama in a very elite group of Nobel Peace Prize winners who
have killed that many innocent civilians. The reunions are
mainly just him and Henry Kissinger wearing little hand-drawn
name tags and munching on deviled eggs.
>
> However, we now know that Donald Trump’s administration puts
all previous presidents to shame. The Pentagon’s numbers show
that during George W. Bush’s eight years he averaged 24 bombs
dropped per day, which is 8,750 per year. Over the course of
Obama’s time in office, his military dropped 34 bombs per day,
12,500 per year. And in Trump’s first year in office, he
averaged 121 bombs dropped per day, for an annual total of
44,096.
>
> Trump’s military dropped 44,000 bombs in his first year in
office.
>
> He has basically taken the gloves off the Pentagon, taken the
leash off an already rabid dog. So the end result is a military
that’s behaving like Lil Wayne crossed with Conor McGregor. You
look away for one minute, look back, and are like, “What the
**** did you just do? I was gone for like, a second!”
>
> Under Trump, five bombs are dropped per hour—every hour of
every day. That averages out to a bomb every 12 minutes.
>
> And which is more outrageous—the crazy amount of death and
destruction we are creating around the world, or the fact that
your mainstream corporate media basically NEVER investigates it?
They talk about Trump’s flaws. They say he’s a racist,
bulbous-headed, self-centered idiot (which is totally
accurate)—but they don’t criticize the perpetual Amityville
massacre our military perpetrates by dropping a bomb every 12
minutes, most of them killing 98 percent non-targets.
>
> When you have a Department of War with a completely
unaccountable budget—as we saw with the $21 trillion—and you
have a president with no interest in overseeing how much death
the Department of War is responsible for, then you end up
dropping so many bombs that the Pentagon has reported we are
running out of bombs.
>
> Oh, dear God. If we run out of our bombs, then how will we
stop all those innocent civilians from … farming? Think of all
the goats that will be allowed to go about their days.
>
> And, as with the $21 trillion, the theme seems to be
“unaccountable.”
>
> Journalist Witney Webb wrote in February, “Shockingly, more
than 80 percent of those killed have never even been identified
and the C.I.A.’s own documents have shown that they are not even
aware of who they are killing—avoiding the issue of reporting
civilian deaths simply by naming all those in the strike zone as
enemy combatants.”
>
> That’s right. We kill only enemy combatants. How do we know
they’re enemy combatants? Because they were in our strike zone.
How did we know it was a strike zone? Because there were enemy
combatants there. How did we find out they were enemy
combatants? Because they were in the strike zone. … Want me to
keep going, or do you get the point? I have all day.
>
> This is not about Trump, even though he’s a maniac. It’s not
about Obama, even though he’s a war criminal. It’s not about
Bush, even though he has the intelligence of boiled cabbage. (I
haven’t told a Bush joke in about eight years. Felt kind of
good. Maybe I’ll get back into that.)
>
> This is about a runaway military-industrial complex that our
ruling elite are more than happy to let loose. Almost no one in
Congress or the presidency tries to restrain our 121 bombs a
day. Almost no one in a mainstream outlet tries to get people to
care about this.
>
> Recently, the hashtag #21Trillion for the unaccounted Pentagon
money has gained some traction. Let’s get another one started:
#121BombsADay.
>
> One every 12 minutes.
>
> Do you know where they’re hitting? Who they’re murdering? Why?
One hundred and twenty-one bombs a day rip apart the lives of
families a world away—in your name and my name and the name of
the kid doling out the wrong size popcorn at the movie theater.
>
> We are a rogue nation with a rogue military and a completely
unaccountable ruling elite. The government and military you and
I support by being a part of this society are murdering people
every 12 minutes, and in response, there’s nothing but a ghostly
silence. It is beneath us as a people and a species to give this
topic nothing but silence. It is a crime against humanity.
>
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weekly podcast “Common Censored.”
>
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Yes, I read that the other day. :( What a f u c k e d up
fascist MONSTROCITY this country has turned into. 😡
If they had used even a TENTH of the money they give to the
Military Monsters at the Pentagon for Renewables, we could have
gotten all our energy from hydrotherrmal vents YEARS AGO!
BASTARDS!
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