Engineering professor emeritus with expertise in coal power generation and who understands global CO2 emissions must be drastically decreased. Also a former big oil employee who believes Rex Tillerson was right! Indiana, USA.
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Last Notes npub1a37sqr6at06wdhpc3vpv4nrnx8xqswaxkus2zpw5t42xf98wljts03vtyt Jeff Phillips Our "highly stable genius" npub1a37sqr6at06wdhpc3vpv4nrnx8xqswaxkus2zpw5t42xf98wljts03vtyt Jeff Phillips It amazes me that his disciples in Congress still are unwilling to ask him to end his war. Apparently they would rather be voted out of office than to show disloyalty to their savior. npub1a37sqr6at06wdhpc3vpv4nrnx8xqswaxkus2zpw5t42xf98wljts03vtyt Jeff Phillips An alternative would be to impose a windfall profits tax on oil and gas producers and use that money to either lower the cost of public transportation or provide a tax cut to those most impacted by higher fuel prices. npub1a37sqr6at06wdhpc3vpv4nrnx8xqswaxkus2zpw5t42xf98wljts03vtyt Jeff Phillips And despite a ringing endorsement from Donald J Trump and JD Vance. Or maybe because of it? npub1a37sqr6at06wdhpc3vpv4nrnx8xqswaxkus2zpw5t42xf98wljts03vtyt Jeff Phillips WWJD? npub1a37sqr6at06wdhpc3vpv4nrnx8xqswaxkus2zpw5t42xf98wljts03vtyt Jeff Phillips AF-KLM price/earnings ratio is very attractive, but that could change drastically depending on their Q1 results. I read several years ago that the USA airlines, over their entire history, have lost more money than they have earned, so I think I will stay away from buying airline stocks npub1a37sqr6at06wdhpc3vpv4nrnx8xqswaxkus2zpw5t42xf98wljts03vtyt Jeff Phillips And everyone who currently drives an internal combustion engine vehicle should be grateful to the current EV owners because fuel prices would be a lot higher if all those EVs were using petrol instead. npub1a37sqr6at06wdhpc3vpv4nrnx8xqswaxkus2zpw5t42xf98wljts03vtyt Jeff Phillips If it's anything like the last time a Republican US president started a war to bring about regime change in a country in Iran's leader, the plan will be put together as we go, and mostly ineffective and chaotic. And that was when the US had competent people leading the State Department. npub1a37sqr6at06wdhpc3vpv4nrnx8xqswaxkus2zpw5t42xf98wljts03vtyt Jeff Phillips In my opinion, his tariffs are yet another method to accumulate personal wealth for himself, his family, and friends, and a way to build a massive campaign fund. Because he alone can make the decisions, he can grant exceptions to companies and countries that do favors for him, and the possibilities for gains from insider trading are endless. He also appears to take great pleasure in the chaos it creates. "See how powerful I am!" npub1a37sqr6at06wdhpc3vpv4nrnx8xqswaxkus2zpw5t42xf98wljts03vtyt Jeff Phillips Piston-based gas engines also have an advantage of maintaining near peak efficiency over a wide range of load. Gas turbines do not. In addition, they can start and get power to the grid quickly (comparable to how long it takes from the moment you start a car's engine until you can start moving). Therefore, they seem to be a good fit for "load-following" applications. npub1a37sqr6at06wdhpc3vpv4nrnx8xqswaxkus2zpw5t42xf98wljts03vtyt Jeff Phillips Since at least 2015, if a company sought permission to build a new coal power plant, they had to agree to shutdown an older (and presumably less efficient) coal power plant. I wish other nations, including mine, had adopted that policy. npub1a37sqr6at06wdhpc3vpv4nrnx8xqswaxkus2zpw5t42xf98wljts03vtyt Jeff Phillips What's your estimate on how long this new government will last? npub1a37sqr6at06wdhpc3vpv4nrnx8xqswaxkus2zpw5t42xf98wljts03vtyt Jeff Phillips With Trump it is always about money and nothing else. Oil = Money. Democracy = Loss of Power. The choice is easy for him. npub1a37sqr6at06wdhpc3vpv4nrnx8xqswaxkus2zpw5t42xf98wljts03vtyt Jeff Phillips The Saudis were smart to put $2 billion in Jared Kushner's slush fund. Oops, I meant to write "investment fund". If Maduro had done the same, he'd still be in his presidential palace. npub1a37sqr6at06wdhpc3vpv4nrnx8xqswaxkus2zpw5t42xf98wljts03vtyt Jeff Phillips Warning: link leads to a website full of pop-ups, other videos, and so many ads that you will.hit "go back" before you get.to the promised video. C'mon Aura, do better. npub1a37sqr6at06wdhpc3vpv4nrnx8xqswaxkus2zpw5t42xf98wljts03vtyt Jeff Phillips It's only illegal when leftists riot. When fa do it, they're trying to save your country from destruction. npub1a37sqr6at06wdhpc3vpv4nrnx8xqswaxkus2zpw5t42xf98wljts03vtyt Jeff Phillips Apparently "Peace through strength" is out of favor. npub1a37sqr6at06wdhpc3vpv4nrnx8xqswaxkus2zpw5t42xf98wljts03vtyt Jeff Phillips My concern is that he is so desperate for "success" that he will give Putin everything he wants. Yalta 2.0 npub1a37sqr6at06wdhpc3vpv4nrnx8xqswaxkus2zpw5t42xf98wljts03vtyt Jeff Phillips ☹ npub1a37sqr6at06wdhpc3vpv4nrnx8xqswaxkus2zpw5t42xf98wljts03vtyt Jeff Phillips I am living proof that plug-in hybrids are the entry drug for 100% EVs. After 12 years of driving a PHEV, this month I traded one in for a Toyota BZ4x BEV. Once you've tried electric, you never go back! npub1a37sqr6at06wdhpc3vpv4nrnx8xqswaxkus2zpw5t42xf98wljts03vtyt Jeff Phillips Wait until the full impact of Trump's tariffs are felt. Then they will be telling us inflation is going down while prices are going up. No one disrespects Trump voters more than Trump. npub1a37sqr6at06wdhpc3vpv4nrnx8xqswaxkus2zpw5t42xf98wljts03vtyt Jeff Phillips There needs to be an effort to provide private support to the Scripps Institute to keep this monitoring station on-line. npub1a37sqr6at06wdhpc3vpv4nrnx8xqswaxkus2zpw5t42xf98wljts03vtyt Jeff Phillips "They paved paradise and put up a parking lot" 🎼 npub1a37sqr6at06wdhpc3vpv4nrnx8xqswaxkus2zpw5t42xf98wljts03vtyt Jeff Phillips I nominate resilience. npub1a37sqr6at06wdhpc3vpv4nrnx8xqswaxkus2zpw5t42xf98wljts03vtyt Jeff Phillips Sounds somewhat similar to the event in South Australia in 2016 (?) when a tornado took down some high voltage transmission lines, and the disturbance in the grid voltage was enough to cause most of the wind turbines to disconnect from the grid to protect their electronics. Of course, because of the storm, the wind turbines were producing near their maximum output. When they disconnected it was enough to collapse the entire electric grid and the entire state went dark. npub1a37sqr6at06wdhpc3vpv4nrnx8xqswaxkus2zpw5t42xf98wljts03vtyt Jeff Phillips I am hoping NOAA will still be able to publish this data next year, but President Trump is all that he can do to stop US government funding of climate research. If we don't measure it, no one can complain. npub1a37sqr6at06wdhpc3vpv4nrnx8xqswaxkus2zpw5t42xf98wljts03vtyt Jeff Phillips Ouch! Will there be a new government soon? npub1a37sqr6at06wdhpc3vpv4nrnx8xqswaxkus2zpw5t42xf98wljts03vtyt Jeff Phillips Offering Trump the opportunity to build a golf resort on the Gold Coast would be more likely to change his mind. npub1a37sqr6at06wdhpc3vpv4nrnx8xqswaxkus2zpw5t42xf98wljts03vtyt Jeff Phillips Taiwan's leaders may want to see if they can get a better deal from Beijing. Then use that as leverage against the Great Negotiator. US foreign policy is all transactional now. npub1a37sqr6at06wdhpc3vpv4nrnx8xqswaxkus2zpw5t42xf98wljts03vtyt Jeff Phillips I think hubris also plays a role. Yes, they've heard about Neville Chamberlain's foolish agreement to let Hitler take part of Czechoslovakia if he promised not to take the rest, but they are much smarter than old Neville and have a better plan (even if it looks a lot like the old plan). npub1a37sqr6at06wdhpc3vpv4nrnx8xqswaxkus2zpw5t42xf98wljts03vtyt Jeff Phillips He needs to see a return on his $288 million investment. npub1a37sqr6at06wdhpc3vpv4nrnx8xqswaxkus2zpw5t42xf98wljts03vtyt Jeff Phillips What fragile people those Trumpers are. Afraid of some words. Poor babies. npub1a37sqr6at06wdhpc3vpv4nrnx8xqswaxkus2zpw5t42xf98wljts03vtyt Jeff Phillips Almost famous! npub1a37sqr6at06wdhpc3vpv4nrnx8xqswaxkus2zpw5t42xf98wljts03vtyt Jeff Phillips The so-called "Green New Deal" proposed by some pro-environment Democrats, was never approved by the US Congress. What was passed was the "Inflation Reduction Act" (IRA) which has massive tax credits to support green energy as well as CO2 capture and storage and new nuclear technologies among others which were not in the Green New Deal. Phineas T Bluster likes to refer to the IRA as the Green New Deal for unknown reasons. npub1a37sqr6at06wdhpc3vpv4nrnx8xqswaxkus2zpw5t42xf98wljts03vtyt Jeff Phillips I think it is more a method to distract people from things he doesn't want them to see. Like his sentence in his hush money trial. npub1a37sqr6at06wdhpc3vpv4nrnx8xqswaxkus2zpw5t42xf98wljts03vtyt Jeff Phillips Why do IN state legislators continue to fund something that isn't working? npub1a37sqr6at06wdhpc3vpv4nrnx8xqswaxkus2zpw5t42xf98wljts03vtyt Jeff Phillips That number is amazingly close to the $/kW cost of the Vogtle 3 and 4 nuclear plants built by Georgia Power in the USA. Cost including financing (subsidized loan from US government) was 31 billion USD for two 1114 MW units. That's $14,000/kW when rounded to two significant digits. That project ended in May 2024, and construction started in 2009. npub1a37sqr6at06wdhpc3vpv4nrnx8xqswaxkus2zpw5t42xf98wljts03vtyt Jeff Phillips Sounds like a good plan. I'm in. npub1a37sqr6at06wdhpc3vpv4nrnx8xqswaxkus2zpw5t42xf98wljts03vtyt Jeff Phillips Europe will have to take an even larger leadership role in countering global warming. I fear that most of what Biden put in place with his Infrastructure and Inflation Reduction Acts will be dismantled. EV industry in the US could be set back by a decade. npub1a37sqr6at06wdhpc3vpv4nrnx8xqswaxkus2zpw5t42xf98wljts03vtyt Jeff Phillips Very troubling. I had not perceived offshore pipelines or power cables as a vulnerability, but I guess we have to now. npub1a37sqr6at06wdhpc3vpv4nrnx8xqswaxkus2zpw5t42xf98wljts03vtyt Jeff Phillips Shows that the massive jump from 2022 to 2023 was not an anomaly.
