On Wednesday, August 20, 2025 at 5:29:52 AM UTC-6 John Clark wrote:
On Tue, Aug 19, 2025 at 10:28 PM Alan Grayson <[email protected]> wrote: *>> The following editorial is from the August 15, 2025 issue of the journal Nature:* *Cancelling mRNA studies is the highest irresponsibility* <https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02612-9?utm_source=Live+Audience&utm_campaign=d4d2756eaf-nature-briefing-daily-20250818&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-33f35e09ea-50169436> *> On a par with that is the cancelling of tax credits for installations of solar panels at domestic residences. Trump also trashed off-shore wind energy projects, and possibly those on land as well.* *Trump also slashed the budget of the National Science Foundation, the only part of the federal government engaged in pure scientific research, by 50%. And Trump has also caused a reverse brain drain, hundreds of thousands of brilliant foreign born scientists are leaving the country. But Trump is going to spend $200 million on the White House ballroom because currently it's just not pretentious enough, it needs more gaudy gold embellishments.* *> I read of huge technical improvements on windmill efficiencies, but since they tend to kill birds -- which is what's alleged* *Trump also believes that windmills kill whales,* *He probably got that idea from some adverse event with whales near offshore wind farms. In any event, the main problem is methane being released by melting permafrost. Methane is 25 times more effective at causing global warming than CO2, and there's no plan, or even concepts, to contain it. Humanity may already be "the walking dead". AG* *I have no idea how he got that screwy idea but I do know the reason Trump hates windmills and it has nothing to do with birds or whales, it's because he thinks one of them was ugly and interfered with the view from one of his stupid golf courses.* *Trump’s war on windmills started in Scotland. Now he’s taking it global <https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/24/trump-clean-energy-war-global>* *>* *I am less enthusiastic of windmill technology. AG * *Windmills really can kill birds, but if you intend to solve the global warming problem and still provide enough energy to keep 8 billion people on the planet alive, and maybe even happy, then it's just a fact of life that some of those solutions are going to be messy. Or to put it another way, you can't make an omelette without breaking some eggs. * *John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* bse -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/47ce5024-da27-4000-9121-077171f24ffbn%40googlegroups.com.
