It’s not a lithium ion battery tho…There is renewable energy all around u, geothermal, sun, wind, ocean waves… All we need is to start utilizing it instead of clinging to the dead plants and animals goo to keep us running…Yes, the storage of this energy is the main problem atm…There are houses with increasingly cheaper solar panels mounted on them that have to sell excess energy during the day and buy from the grid when the night falls because we still use **** batteries…
What about apartments, condos, towers, factories, warehouses? Not all the places people live see enough sun.
Not too mention with a growing population, growing up seems like it will be more common place than growing out.
You didn’t look at my pretty picture? 
SEGS is solar thermal. More efficient than solar photovoltaic, and you’d need all that land to power the U.S. It has nothing to do with storage.
Still rather primitive by the looks of it…There is not enough resources put into further research of the cost efficiency of extracting and storing of the renewable energy…We shd make this number one priority bcoz energy is what drives the progress…nothing else as much as energy really
News: Working toward a more inexpensive and widespread use of solar energy - Aalto University research like this
What’s primitive? Solar thermal?
That’s pretty neat, but even if they doubled the efficiency it would still take a facility the size of Texas, or of course scattered in the U.S.
Yes, very…Maybe 50 years ago it would be something worth investing in…
It’s still more efficient than photovoltaic
I was publicly lynching them and setting their houses on fire? Lol, you’re a massive joke. I wasn’t even alive back then, for one…
I understand your views thoroughly. We are all one big group right? If somebody shoots up a school with a gun, all gun owners did it. When blacks were lynched, all southerners did it. Get real.
How would you like it if I started generalizing everything? If I blamed you for the actions of other people. It’s absolutely childish and absurd.
As far as the south not wanting to give up slaves… No crap. Their economy depended on it at the time.
It was obviously wrong. I’m not the one that supports other people depriving people’s liberty. If anything, you are the one that supports that since you are a champion of banning things and having bureaucrats control everything…
[B]Get this, slavery would have ended in the 1880s or so anyway due to industrialization. Modern machines were rapidly replacing human workers, and more people were moving to cities, rather than trying to earn a living on farms. Owning a slave doesn’t make sense when you can own a machine that will do the same thing. You don’t have to feed the machine. You don’t have to worry about the machine escaping. The machine doesn’t do a crappy job when it’s malnourished…
Technology would have ended slavery. IIRC, other than Haiti, every other country ended slavery without a war. [/B]
I didn’t fight against integration you disgusting fool.
You act like Federal Intervention is the end all. As if it has cured our woes and is capable of it. It isn’t. There still is slavery, it’s called welfare. Look at what has happened to the people that are in a perpetual state of poverty because of it.
The Federal Government is going to have blood all over it’s filthy hands when this economy tanks and people are put through the meat grinder.
You know what Konan, you’re right. I should like the Federal Government that gave us
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Because if it wasn’t for them, a highschool in Georgia would still be segregated.
I mean, really, who cares about the financial bloodbath that is about to happen. The Federal Government deserves a free pass on all that. It’s more convenient to blame it on Free Markets anyway… As if we have actually had a laissez faire system recently.
Umm, the real threat, debt, is obviously the greater threat than some fear mongering created by people like Al Gore who are invested in creating a carbon credits derivatives market to profit themselves.
Debt is a natural byproduct of a capitalist system??? Where do you learn this BS? How does capitalism give us a national debt? The Free Market didn’t forcefully addle 320 million Americans into indentured servitude by spending trillions of dollars on entitlements, welfare and warfare that we didn’t have. It was the federal government that did that.
Is there consumer debt in a free market? Yeah. Obviously there are private loans, etc… That is entirely different from the national debt. It’s no surprise that you aren’t aware of the difference.
Only you could blame the debt incurred from socialistic policies like SS, Medicare and Welfare on the Free Market.
Accounting just for the debt accumulated ($100 trillion), and the devaluation of the currency (97% over 90 years) America is not only bankrupt, but radically worse off than at any other time in its history, and it’s not even a close comparison.
During the majority of America’s existence there were almost no taxes. There was almost zero real consumer or national debt (and compared to today it was a tiny speck) and yet we still had growth that outpaces this heroin induced “rally”.
Lol. YOU see this list and you think “That’s not enough”
PITA.
• AbilityOne Commission
• Access Board
• Administration for Children and Families (ACF)
• Administration for Native Americans
• Administration on Aging (AoA)
• Administration on Developmental Disabilities
• Administrative Committee of the Federal Register
• Administrative Conference of the United States
• Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts
• Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
• African Development Foundation
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
• Agency for International Development (USAID)
• Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
• Agricultural Marketing Service
• Agricultural Research Service
• Agriculture Department
• Air Force
• Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau
• Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives Bureau
• American Battle Monuments Commission
• AmeriCorps
• Amtrak
• Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
• Antitrust Division
• Appalachian Regional Commission
• Architect of the Capitol
• Archives (National Archives and Records Administration)
• Arctic Research Commission
• Armed Forces Retirement Home
• Arms Control and International Security
• Army
• Army Corps of Engineers
• Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Interagency Coordinating Committee
• Bankruptcy Courts
• Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program
• Bonneville Power Administration
• Botanic Garden
• Broadcasting Board of Governors
• Bureau of Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade
• Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives
• Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)
• Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection
• Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)
• Bureau of Engraving and Printing
• Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)
• Bureau of Industry and Security
• Bureau of International Labor Affairs
• Bureau of Justice Statistics
• Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
• Bureau of Prisons
• Bureau of Reclamation
• Bureau of the Census
• Bureau of the Public Debt
• Bureau of Transportation Statistics
• Capitol Police
• Capitol Visitor Center
• Census Bureau
• Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
• Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
• Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board
• Chief Acquisition Officers Council
• Chief Financial Officers Council
• Chief Human Capital Officers Council
• Chief Information Officers Council
• Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee
• Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)
• Coast Guard
• Commerce Department
• Commission of Fine Arts
• Commission on Civil Rights
• Commission on International Religious Freedom
• Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission)
• Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements
• Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States
• Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS)
• Community Planning and Development
• Compliance, Office of
• Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US CERT)
• Congress—U.S. House of Representatives
• Congress—U.S. Senate
• Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
• Congressional Research Service
• Constitution Center
• Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
• Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
• Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)
• Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
• Copyright Office
• Corporation for National and Community Service
• Corps of Engineers
• Council of Economic Advisers
• Council on Environmental Quality
• Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
• Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
• Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims
• Court of Federal Claims
• Court of International Trade
• Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency for the District of Columbia
• Customs and Border Protection
• Defense Acquisition University
• Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
• Defense Commissary Agency
• Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA)
• Defense Contract Management Agency
• Department of Defense (DOD)
• Defense Field Activities
• Defense Finance and Accounting Services (DFAS)
• Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)
• Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
• Defense Legal Services Agency
• Defense Logistics Agency (DLA)
• Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
• Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA)
• Defense Security Service (DSS)
• Defense Technical Information Center
• Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)
• Delaware River Basin Commission
• Denali Commission
• Department of Agriculture
• Department of Defense Inspector General
• Department of Education (ED)
• Department of Energy (DOE)
• Department of Health and Human Services
• Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
• Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
• Department of Justice (DOJ)
• Department of Labor (DOL)
• Department of State (DOS)
• Department of the Interior (DOI)
• Department of the Treasury
• Department of Transportation (DOT)
• Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
• Director of National Intelligence, Office of
• Domestic Policy Council
• Drug Enforcement Administration
• Economic Adjustment Office
• Economic Analysis, Bureau of
• Economic Development Administration (EDA)
• Economic Research Service
• Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs
• Economics and Statistics Administration
• Education Department
• Election Assistance Commission
• Elementary and Secondary Education, Office of
• Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA)
• Employment and Training Administration
• Endangered Species Committee
• Energy Department
• Energy Information Administration
• English Language Acquisition Office
• Engraving and Printing, Bureau of
• Environmental Management (Energy Department)
• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
• European Command
• Executive Office for Immigration Review
• Export-Import Bank of the United States
• Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity (FHEO)
• Farm Credit Administration
• Farm Credit System Insurance Corporation
• Farm Service Agency
• Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board
• Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
• Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
• Federal Bureau of Prisons
• Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
• Federal Consulting Group
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
• Federal Election Commission
• Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
• Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
• Federal Executive Boards
• Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council
• Federal Financing Bank
• Federal Geographic Data Committee
• Federal Highway Administration
• Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac)
• Federal Housing Finance Agency
• Federal Interagency Committee for the Management of Noxious and Exotic Weeds
• Federal Interagency Committee on Education
• Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy
• Federal Judicial Center
• Federal Labor Relations Authority
• Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer
• Federal Law Enforcement Training Center
• Federal Library and Information Center Committee
• Federal Maritime Commission
• Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
• Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission
• Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA)
• Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae)
• Federal Railroad Administration
• Federal Reserve System
• Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board
• Federal Student Aid Information Center
• Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
• Federal Transit Administration
• Federal Voting Assistance Program
• Financial Management Service (Treasury Department)
• Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, National Commission
• Fish and Wildlife Service
• Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
• Food Safety and Inspection Service
• Foreign Agricultural Service
• Foreign Claims Settlement Commission
• Forest Service
• Fossil Energy
• Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
• General Services Administration (GSA)
• Geological Survey
• Global Affairs (State Department)
• Government Accountability Office (GAO)
• Government Ethics, Office of
• Government National Mortgage Association
• Government Printing Office (GPO)
• Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration
• Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation
• Health and Human Services Department
• Health Resources and Services Administration
• Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control Office
• Helsinki Commission (Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe)
• Holocaust Memorial Museum
• Homeland Security Department
• House Leadership Offices
• House of Representatives
• House of Representatives Committees
• House Office of Inspector General
• House Office of the Clerk
• House Organizations, Commissions, and Task Forces
• Housing Office (HUD)
• Illinois and Michigan Canal National Heritage Corridor Commission
• Immigration and Customs Enforcement
• Indian Affairs
• Indian Arts and Crafts Board
• Indian Health Service
• Industrial College of the Armed Forces
• Industry and Security, Bureau of
• Information Resource Management College
• Information Resources Center
• Innovation and Improvement Office
• Inspectors General
• Institute of Education Sciences
• Institute of Museum and Library Services
• Institute of Peace
• Inter-American Foundation
• Interagency Alternative Dispute Resolution Working Group
• Interagency Council on Homelessness
• Interior Department
• Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
• International Labor Affairs, Bureau of
• International Trade Administration (ITA)
• International Trade Commission
• Interpol
• James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation
• Japan-United States Friendship Commission
• Job Corps
• John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
• Joint Board for the Enrollment of Actuaries
• Joint Chiefs of Staff
• Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies
• Joint Fire Science Program
• Joint Forces Command
• Joint Forces Staff College
• Joint Military Intelligence College
• Judicial Circuit Courts of Appeal
• Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation
• Justice Department
• Justice Programs, Office of
• Justice Statistics, Bureau of
• Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Office of
• Labor Department (DOL)
• Labor Statistics, Bureau of
• Land Management, Bureau of
• Legal Services Corporation
• Library of Congress
• Marine Corps
• Marine Mammal Commission
• Maritime Administration
• Marketing and Regulatory Programs (Agriculture Department)
• Marshals Service
• Mediation and Concitiation Service, Office of
• Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission
• Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
• Merit Systems Protection Board
• Migratory Bird Conservation Commission
• Military Postal Service Agency
• Millennium Challenge Corporation
• Mine Safety and Health Administration
• Minority Business Development Agency
• Mint
• Missile Defense Agency (MDA)
• Mississippi River Commission
• Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation
• Multifamily Housing Office
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
• National Agricultural Statistics Service
• National AIDS Policy Office
• National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
• National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare
• National Capital Planning Commission
• National Cemetery Administration (NCA)
• National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform
• National Constitution Center
• National Council on Disability (NCD)
• National Counterintelligence Executive, Office of
• National Credit Union Administration
• National Defense University
• National Drug Intelligence Center
• National Economic Council
• National Endowment for the Arts
• National Endowment for the Humanities
• National Gallery of Art
• National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
• National Guard
• National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
• National Indian Gaming Commission
• National Institute of Food and Agriculture
• National Institute of Justice
• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• National Interagency Fire Center
• National Labor Relations Board
• National Laboratories (Energy Department)
• National Marine Fisheries Service
• National Mediation Board
• National Nuclear Security Administration
• National Ocean Service
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
• National Park Foundation
• National Park Service
• National Railroad Passenger Corporation
• National Railroad Passenger Corporation (AMTRAK)
• National Reconnaissance Office
• National Science Foundation
• National Security Agency (NSA)
• National Security Council
• National Technical Information Service
• National Telecommunications and Information Administration
• National Transportation Safety Board
• National War College
• National Weather Service (NOAA)
• Natural Resources Conservation Service
• Navy
• Northern Command
• Northwest Power Planning Council
• Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission
• Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission
• Office for Civil Rights, Department of Education
• Office of Compliance
• Office of Disability Employment Policy
• Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE)
• Office of Government Ethics
• Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
• Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
• Office of Mediation and Concitiation Service
• Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP)
• Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
• Office of Refugee Resettlement
• Office of Science and Technology Policy
• Office of Scientific and Technical Information
• Office of Special Counsel
• Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)
• Office of the Director of National Intelligence
• Office of the Pardon Attorney
• Open World Leadership Center
• Overseas Private Investment Corporation
• Pacific Command
• Pardon Attorney, Office of
• Parole Commission (Justice Department)
• Peace Corps
• Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC)
• Pentagon Force Protection Agency
• Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
• Policy Development and Research
• Political Affairs (State Department)
• Postal Regulatory Commission
• Postal Service
• Power Administrations
• President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports
• Presidio Trust
• Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office
• Public and Indian Housing
• Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs (State Department)
• Radio Free Asia
• Radio Free Asia (RFA)
• Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)
• Railroad Retirement Board (RRB)
• Reclamation, Bureau of
• Refugee Resettlement, Office of
• Regulatory Information Service Center
• Rehabilitation Services Administration (Education Department)
• Research and Innovative Technology Administration
• Risk Management Agency (Agriculture Department)
• Rural Business and Cooperative Programs
• Rural Development
• Rural Housing Service
• Rural Utilities Service
• Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation
• Science and Technology Policy, Office of
• Science Office (Energy Department)
• Scientific and Technical Information, Office of
• Secret Service
• Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
• Selective Service System (SSS)
• Senate
• Small Business Administration (SBA)
• Smithsonian Institution
• Social Security Administration (SSA)
• Social Security Advisory Board
• Southeastern Power Administration
• Southern Command
• Southwestern Power Administration
• Special Forces Operations Command
• State Department
• State Justice Institute
• Stennis Center for Public Service
• Strategic Command
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
• Supreme Court of the United States
• Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement
• Surface Transportation Board
• Susquehanna River Basin Commission
• Tax Court
• Taxpayer Advocacy Panel
• Tennessee Valley Authority
• Trade and Development Agency
• Transportation Command
• Transportation Department
• Transportation Security Administration (TSA)
• Transportation Statistics, Bureau of
• Treasury Department
• TRICARE Management
• Trustee Program
• Trustee Program (Justice Department)
• U.S. AbilityOne Commission
• U.S. Access Board
• U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
• U.S. Air Force
• U.S. Arctic Research Commission
• U.S. Army
• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
• U.S. Botanic Garden
• U.S. Capitol Police
• U.S. Capitol Visitor Center
• U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM)
• U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
• U.S. Coast Guard
• U.S. Commission of Fine Arts
• U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom
• U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)
• U.S. Customs and Border Protection
• U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
• U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC)
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
• U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC)
• U.S. Fleet Forces Command
• U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
• U.S. House of Representatives
• U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
• U.S. International Trade Commission
• U.S. Military Academy, West Point
• U.S. Mission to the United Nations
• U.S. National Central Bureau - Interpol (Justice Department)
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
• U.S. Postal Service (USPS)
• U.S. Senate
• U.S. Sentencing Commission
• U.S. Trade and Development Agency
• U.S. Trade Representative
• U.S. Trustee Program
• Unified Combatant Commands (Defense Department)
• Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
• United States Mint
• United States Postal Inspection Service
• Veterans Affairs Department (VA)
• Veterans Benefits Administration
• Veterans Day National Committee
• Veterans’ Employment and Training Service
• Vietnam Educational Foundation
• Voice of America
• Washington Headquarters Services
• Weather Service
• West Point (Army)
• Western Area Power Administration
• White House
• White House Commission on Presidential Scholars
• White House Office of Administration
• Women’s Bureau (Labor Department)
• Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
I’m going to spare you and leave out the rest of the bureaucracies and the divisions of said bureaucracies.
Hah, but the facts are that the Fed govt ended the slavery and ended the segregation…And if there wasn’t for the fed govt, you would be living in your little southern apartheid there because “You don’t take kindly to strangers and foreigners dictating your way of life”…Why U getting mad…truth stings?
Lol, that’s a hella lot agencies…
Yeah, you really piss me off. When somebody accuses me of lynching people and wanting segregation, it’s enough to piss me off.
I don’t want slavery. I don’t want segregation. And I don’t want some Croatian socialist pawn, telling me that I shouldn’t be allowed to own firearms, that I need to pay EVEN MORE IN TAXES, that I need to carry the people unwilling to work, that I need the government to monitor me EVEN MORE, that I need the patriot act, that I need the NDAA, that I need to pay for bailouts, that I need to pay for stimulus, etc…
I don’t want it anymore than you want some crazy American forcing your government to do things you don’t want.
You have a big hat but no cattle.
Go pound sand.
We need more, right Konan? It’s good. All these agencies protect us! Right?
i’m a realist and a pragmatist…But you still live in a conservative bubble my friend…I said it clearly, your parents generation were alive during all this…That’s right, you should not allow the bubble to be pierced by any means…even if it’s by a needle of truth…because, what else have you got left then,… if the dreams and illusions are to be dispersed…
I figure most of them serve that purpose, yes…Can we go down the list and check?!
Damn , lol…Christian Bale is so cray cray
Realists don’t believe printing money, raising taxes and going deeper into debt to fund more government programs is a viable solution. You are not a realist.
I live in a bubble, that’s for sure. But it’s not a conservative bubble. It’s a government bubble. It has ballooned out of control and it will burst. And with it, the US economy.
Now go out and enjoy your phony rally.