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Time to admit it...

Lots of Republican men need Estrogen,
but take Hegseth instead.

This is quite the biline.

Also worth noting that the idea of using up so much energy in things like server farms is atrocious... and not something that will likely stand.
Why should computers generate so much damn heat?

Which supercomputer do you prefer? This one, or that one?! I ask, because one costs under $200, used.

Nobody needs a video toaster.

I grew up in California, and love wind and solar, but it's not ideal everywhere, and I LOVE energy density.
We have to realize that our future energy mix could EASILY look much different than what we expect, based on breakthroughs in materials science, fusion, the ability to vaporize rock / drill deeper, etc.

All the energy we'd ever need isn't just above us... but also below us and inside us, around us. All equally clean, theoretically. Able to travel with near-zero resistance, theoretically.

It's important to realize that solar energy production can easily vary by nearly 100%, depending on where in the country it is. That's a huge difference when it comes to affordability.

Ideally, we could maximize the solar in the Southwest, but our grids are not suited to transmitting the energy to cities efficiently. (There are some superconductivity things happening which could help change this.)

Fusion is great everywhere, as is man-made geothermal. Both are being commercialized rapidly.

The US is not "going to be wrecked" by having much larger natural reserves of oil & gas than China does. Ultimately, both China and the US are growing green energy at about the same rate, with the US having a cleaner energy mix. States like Texas and California have some of the best green energy mixes.

My best guess is that fusion will be commercially viable within a decade, and that will greatly increase green energy density, while avoiding the regulatory requirements of nuclear fission.

Sure, that's what is being said, but if you look at the actual source of energy consumption, what the US actually IS all-in on is natural gas, which produces much less CO2 than coal. The US has nearly 100 years of natural gas reserves, and is currently at about 8.5% wind/solar/hydro.

China is at about 50% energy from coal, and has about 16% wind/solar/hydro, with about half of that being hydro. China's share of solar is about 50% higher than the US, which is less than most would think.

The people who said that they went to war against Iran because Israel told them they were going to attack - and then later denied their own statement - now blames Europe for not supporting them when the US is "obliged to protect" them.

Umm... pretty sure Europe didn't ask for this.

Maybe it's a bit of Trump mental flatulence from a piece of undigested gristle... a mini-stroke of stable genius.

Ust-Luga quickly becoming slang for a smoking addict.

An investigative report emerged by Russian opposition journalist Rostislav Murzagulov.

It alleges Putin may have provided Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán with a covert "bribe" in the form of an automotive component plant and a mansion near Moscow.

Russian opposition journalist Rostislav Murzagulov said on his YouTube channel that he had obtained a set of documents detailing the mechanism of this alleged hidden "bribe" from Putin to the Hungarian prime minister.
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