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Tw has a systemic problem I perpetually bash him on: he thinks things would be perfectly all right if we could just leave dictatorships, and unfriendly dictatorships that control our friends' main energy sources, alone and unmolested.
Having resources, particularly vital ones, hostage to the unfriendlies, is -- well, how would you describe it? Parlous? Alarming? Scary? Undesirable? See a pattern here?
The problem with alternative energy ideas is one that is usually rather glossed over: they lack concentration. The very history of civilization is the history of devising more and more powerful and concentrated energy sources. To make things work on a large scale, you need to deliver lots of watts, in any quantity needed.
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Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.
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