The Biden Presidency

[Aridas]

Bizarre positivity on display in this thread,
Biden's foreign policy:
https://archive.vn/L9nGV
Biden's attitude towards racial radicalism:
https://www.nas.org/blogs/press_rel...-pseudo-history-and-race-and-sex-stereotyping
Biden's economics:
https://www.worldoil.com/news/2021/1/22/biden-s-plan-to-cut-us-oil-production-becomes-clearer
Time to buy it from Saudi Arabia instead!
The type of country Biden wants America to be:
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/25/politics/national-guard-troops-dc-through-march/index.html
Biden's military:
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/25/bid...sgender-people-enlisting-in-the-military.html
People just love Biden:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5iCPKDp4V4

In short, you don't have anything of either real value or impact to complain about, then, so you're grasping at straws and then being so lazy that you're just trying to imply a negative spin into them, possibly in hopes that we would just do the work of creating that negative spin for you?

 

[SezMe]

VP Kamala Harris casts her first tie-breaking vote, economic relief plan advances 51-50

T**** is probably fuming with jealousy that *HE* didn't have such a loyal VP. Har, har, har.

 

[Stacyhs]

Looks like Trump will not be receiving intelligence briefings anymore. Good move, Joe.

President Joe Biden said he doesn't think former President Trump should continue to receive intelligence briefings, which is up to Mr. Biden's discretion as the commander-in-chief. CBS Evening News" anchor and managing editor Norah O'Donnell spoke to Mr. Biden in the first network news interview he has given since his inauguration. It will air in the 4 p.m. hour ahead of the Super Bowl on Sunday. .

I wouldn't trust Trump with anything more secret than how many scoops of ice cream he was getting for dessert that night.

 

[Lupus]

Mark T. Esper, former Secretary of Defense, speaking on the official U.S. government website about Chinese and Russian Space Lasers.
https://www.defense.gov/Explore/New...ace-force-leading-charge-to-new-technologies/

 

[SezMe]

Bizarre positivity on display in this thread,<snip>

Yeah, yeah, you don't like Biden's policies. But how about you take each link you provided and offer a better policy? Surely you're more than just anti-Biden, right? RIGHT??

 

[SezMe]

And no attacking everyone with personal insults who dares criticize him ? How very unpresidential! Has Biden learned nothing about how to deal with those who don't know their place from Trump?

I miss the demeaning nicknames. They were so sober and enlightening.

 

[Stacyhs]

Mark T. Esper, former Secretary of Defense, speaking on the official U.S. government website about Chinese and Russian Space Lasers.
https://www.defense.gov/Explore/New...ace-force-leading-charge-to-new-technologies/

Esper never mentions "space lasers".

 

[Lupus]

Here's what I mean by the first link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbP8HGxrgo8

For the second link many of you glossed over the sentence "revoking President Trump’s executive order on “Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping".
Explaining why alternative energy sources won't cut it would take more time than I have to post.

 

[DetectedMotion]

Mark T. Esper, former Secretary of Defense, speaking on the official U.S. government website about Chinese and Russian Space Lasers.
https://www.defense.gov/Explore/New...ace-force-leading-charge-to-new-technologies/

The "space Laser" directed energy weapon sounds like a Jim Fetzer and Judy Wood fantasy dream Esper has become compelled with.

 

[Horatius]

Bizarre positivity on display in this thread,
Biden's foreign policy:
https://archive.vn/L9nGV

Okay, seriously?!?!?


This was the easily-predicted, and in fact it was predicted by me, result of Trump's trashing of the Iran Nuclear Deal, and now, just weeks into his Presidency, you're trying to front this as a failure of Biden's administration?

Get the **** out of here.

 

[Lupus]

Esper never mentions "space lasers".

What's that he says at 1:44?

 

[kookbreaker]

Here's what I mean by the first link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbP8HGxrgo8

Bush on WMDs. And?

For the second link many of you glossed over the sentence "revoking President Trump’s executive order on “Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping".

The EO that made Government contractors discontinue diversity and inclusion training? Popular among the old white boy brigade I'm sure.

Explaining why alternative energy sources won't cut it would take more time than I have to post.

Cop out noted. I've known plenty of folks who say otherwise. Be that as it may, the Trump outright hostility to alternative energy is at an end. Thank FSM.

 

[Stacyhs]

What's that he says at 1:44?

Didn't listen to the video, just read the article.

 

[Stacyhs]

Originally Posted by Lupus View Post
What's that he says at 1:44?

Didn't listen to the video, just read the article.

What is your point about the Space Lasers anyway? Why did you bring the subject up?

 

[acbytesla]

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Explaining why alternative energy sources won't cut it would take more time than I have to post.

They in fact will. Just not today, tomorrow or this year or even this decade. Biden's policies won't stop drilling any time soon. What he is doing is making the replacement of fossil fuels a priority.

I've been studying alternative energy development since the 70s when I debated it in High School.

In 1977, solar energy cost was $76.67 a watt. In 2015, it was 60 cents watt today it is 25 cents and it will only continue to drop. It's cheaper to build a solar panel farm then it is build an operate a natural gas plant. In 5 years it looks like it will be cheaper to replace existing coal plants then to keep operating them.

Yes, there are still many issues to address. Mostly involving the ability to store energy. But they are very likely solvable with commitment Whether it be gravity store energy, flow batteries, molten salt or other technologies.

Coal is dying fast. 30 years from now Petroleum fuels are like to only be used for niche products.

 

[Stacyhs]

Originally Posted by Lupus View Post
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Explaining why alternative energy sources won't cut it would take more time than I have to post.

They in fact will. Just not today, tomorrow or this year or even this decade. Biden's policies won't stop drilling any time soon. What he is doing is making the replacement of fossil fuels a priority.

I've been studying alternative energy development since the 70s when I debated it in High School.

In 1977, solar energy cost was $76.67 a watt. In 2015, it was 60 cents watt today it is 25 cents and it will only continue to drop. It's cheaper to build a solar panel farm then it is build an operate a natural gas plant. In 5 years it looks like it will be cheaper to replace existing coal plants then to keep operating them.

Yes, there are still many issues to address. Mostly involving the ability to store energy. But they are very likely solvable with commitment Whether it be gravity store energy, flow batteries, molten salt or other technologies.

Coal is dying fast. 30 years from now Petroleum fuels are like to only be used for niche products.

Those who think alternative energy sources won't replace almost all fossil fuels want immediate results. Immediate gratification is the expectation of the immature, the unimaginative, the unintelligent, the ignorant, the impatient, and those too lazy to bother doing any research.

 

[acbytesla]

Those who think alternative energy sources won't replace almost all fossil fuels want immediate results. Immediate gratification is the expectation of the immature, the unimaginative, the unintelligent, the ignorant, the impatient, and those too lazy to bother doing any research.

I suggest they look into perovskite.

I'm a cynic. Very skeptical of what I call snake oil or clickbait articles about breakthroughs. But what cannot be denied is delivered cost reductions. The fact is people are not going to accept replacements for fossil fuels if they aren't competitive in price. They are today and that is without subsidies that were used only a few years ago to incentivise development.

It isn't a question anymore if alternative energy will replace fossil fuels, but when.

 

[Tero]

Bizarre positivity on display in this thread,
Biden's foreign policy:
https://archive.vn/L9nGV
Biden's attitude towards racial radicalism:
https://www.nas.org/blogs/press_rel...-pseudo-history-and-race-and-sex-stereotyping
Biden's economics:
https://www.worldoil.com/news/2021/1/22/biden-s-plan-to-cut-us-oil-production-becomes-clearer
Time to buy it from Saudi Arabia instead!
The type of country Biden wants America to be:
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/25/politics/national-guard-troops-dc-through-march/index.html
Biden's military:
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/25/bid...sgender-people-enlisting-in-the-military.html
People just love Biden:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5iCPKDp4V4

The tar sands oil
https://www.worldoil.com/news/2021/1/22/biden-s-plan-to-cut-us-oil-production-becomes-clearer
...is not cutting anything. The current tar sands oil (heavy diesel, for ships) remains. Keystone XL would have increased tar sands oil.
But it is only 3 out of 25 billion barrels produced. And we need to buy it ffom Canada. Texas Oklahoma etc produces enough fuel for now.

 

[acbytesla]

The tar sands oil
https://www.worldoil.com/news/2021/1/22/biden-s-plan-to-cut-us-oil-production-becomes-clearer
...is not cutting anything. The current tar sands oil (heavy diesel, for ships) remains. Keystone XL would have increased tar sands oil.
But it is only 3 out of 25 billion barrels produced. And we need to buy it ffom Canada. Texas Oklahoma etc produces enough fuel for now.

The one thing I give the Trump administration credit for was continuing, even accelerating the research and development into new kinds of nuclear reactors.

 

[smartcooky]

I suggest they look into perovskite.

I'm a cynic. Very skeptical of what I call snake oil or clickbait articles about breakthroughs. But what cannot be denied is delivered cost reductions. The fact is people are not going to accept replacements for fossil fuels if they aren't competitive in price. They are today and that is without subsidies that were used only a few years ago to incentivise development.

It isn't a question anymore if alternative energy will replace fossil fuels, but when.

The thing that really pisses me off about those members of the public grieving the loss of jobs in the fossil fuels industries is they fail to understand that alternative energy industries are ready to literally explode with jobs.

https://www.edf.org/energy/clean-en...ewable energy,respectively, from 2016 to 2017.

"The renewable energy sector employs 777,000 people, roughly the same as the U.S. telecommunications industry. ... The most rapid renewable energy job growth has come from the solar and wind sectors, which rose by 24.5 percent and 16 percent, respectively, from 2016 to 2017."

Solar and wind energy jobs outnumber coal and gas jobs in 30 states, including the District of Columbia.

The coal industry, which has been declining, now employs 160,000 workers, less than a quarter as many Americans as the renewable energy industry.​

This needs to be embraced now, while there are still fossil fuels available because if we wait until they become high priced & low supply, it will be too late, there wont be the cheap energy needed to carry on the rapid development of renewables.