We agree on Obummer and I ThankQ for your thoughts on his post.
Also interested in your research on solar.
A Silicon Valley group backed by billionaires said it’s acquired all the land it needs to build a utopian city in Northern California, after quietly buying more properties in the past month.
Flannery Associates LLC, the company behind the California Forever project, acquired at least seven more land parcels totaling about 814 acres in Solano County in October, according to county records. The company now owns more than 53,000 acres in the area — after some parcels traded hands — where it plans to create a walkable, green community they say would generate thousands of jobs.
Well, crap.
Research on solar: OK, you axed for it. I make a hobby out of humiliating the “man made global warming/ climate change” crowd, there being no bleeping way that the puny activities of “man” could effect much of anything earth-wise.
Some years ago the question came up for a way to demonstrate just how powerful a sun beam is to a classroom. I built a one sq yard parabolic mirror with a focal length of two feet. One of the tests I did was to put a one-pound chunk of lead in the target can, pointed it at the sun, and watched it melt in about 20 minutes. To compare I melted one pound of lead on an electric hot plate and checked the power to melt in 20 minutes. Both tests calculate that it takes about 300 watts of energy to do that and that is a common frame of reference. That verifies natural solar exposure to be at least 300 watts per sq yd world wide.
To get the constant earth solar exposure first calculate the area of the earth constantly exposed to the sun, ie the area of a circle with a 4,000 mile radius, then multiply by 300 watts. One will need a calculator that can do a LOT of zeros. That number is so incredibly large that all the activities of man divided into it is still outside most imaginations.
Then, just for fun, I point out that the entire population of the globe, some 7 billion folks, could fit inside the State of Texas and each could have 4,000 sq feet to live on. Enough solar energy falls on one county in Kansas to supply the whole operation, never mind the practical aspects of efficiency, wiring, roads, terlets, and all the niceties of civilization.
So if Bill Gates wants to cut the world population in half it means he just wants to hog the solar energy?