I said, tongue in cheek on another thread, that Wind generators don't generate wind. But if you shorten the name of something, or alter it in some way, it changes the perception in the mind of the consuming public. People typically don't think anymore, this is nowhere more evident than in the lengths of posts on forums such as this. A paragraph is typically a long post, a sentence more usual. By keeping it short people often expose the fact that they are either not engaged in the topic, or more typically, not deep thinkers. What's a deep thinker? Someone who has a reserve of knowledge they can draw on, someone who can get their thoughts in order and research ideas. Kub was a deep thinker, I suspect he was an astroturfer for the alternate energy block though
To fully portray your thoughts takes a lot of words, hence, "A picture paints a thousand words".
"A picture paints a thousand words" means that a visual representation can convey a complex idea or story more effectively than a lengthy verbal description. It highlights the power of images to communicate meaning and emotion quickly and clearly.
Spending your life watching TV and texting ensures you'll be a shallow thinker because critical information on those spaces are limited to soundbites. The newscaster can't go deeper because that might start to make people think, and the majority of newstainment is simply statements for you to believe and not question. Avid reading, books, webpages etc, that's where you learn to think deeply.
The big beautiful bill, the BBB. Sure it's big, but beautiful? Well for the rich it is. They are getting tax breaks and trillions more in debt to milk at taxpayers expense. Similarly the cuts to the social services means more money can be directed into their pockets, since Military spending dollars for example must first pass through the hands of the corporations building the hardware and they get to take a healthy cut. The BBB is like a campaign slogan designed to trick the public that's it's going to be good for them. Like Biden's "Time to Heal" slogan. Or "Make America Great again". You know what that means don't you? It means America is not Great anymore, it's fallen from grace, it's no longer the leading nation on Earth in anything other than debt creation and financial manipulations, of which the public get very little benefit.
But what of wind power generators and electric cars. Well for starters when you think of a Wind Generator you think of a tower on a hill or out in the ocean providing power, but that power has to be transmitted and transformed, at great expense and incurring great losses. Something like 50~60% of all electricity generated is lost, radiated out of the wires as heat mostly. Just discussing Wind Generators and keeping it shallow avoids the fact that these remote sites require extensive cabling and towers, or underground, and all the other complex equipment to integrate their current flow into the grid. The windmill on it's pier is just the tip of the iceberg. A convention power station can be sited right by the demand it feeds, but wind is dispersed across the countryside requiring a hell of a lot more of all that extra stuff. It has to be where the wind blows. I look at where they site them and not too many are near large population or industrial demands.
Now lets look at the EV, the
Electric Vehicle. This conjurers up an image too, one of a car running along by electricity, something we are all familiar with in our homes and which we equate to reliability and power and ease and comfort. But don't look too deep because what they actually are is a Battery powered vehicle. Ahhh, that conjurers up a whole other set of familiar experiences doesn't it. Ever had a battery powered torch go flat at an inconvenient time? Or how about a battery powered trimmer or mower or drill? How about an old battery powered Ghetto Blaster, we all had one of those growing up. Buds are the go now but users carry the recharging case in their bag or pocket, and it in turn needs to be recharged when we get home. All very convenient still. We live with these and don't question the limitations because we can always park the mower and let it recharge, finish the lawn tomorrow. Or with the torch, go and dig out another set of batteries from the draw, no real problem. But what if the draw was 2 miles away, and perhaps empty?
Battery powered cars, that's what the EV actually is. And of course we all know this, but in the minds of shallow thinking consumers it's an electric car, as reliable as their fridge and will last as long. It's as reliable as their electric light switch, there on demand as long as they pay the bill. Calling it a battery powered car brings into focus the limitations of the technology. Ever had a torch where the batteries were going flat? It should do the job, light the BBQ and we'll take our chances. Everything about the EV is a marketing Lie, from speedy charging (if you install an expensive 3-phase unit that your solar panels can't hope to keep up with) to the range you can drive. (based on bench tests out of the wind and other real world factors) And it all begins with the name, the branding.
I have what they call an Adventure bike but I've never had an Adventure on it? I just ride it up rough gravel roads and sketchy trails, hoping I don't auger into a tree or drop it in a creek crossing. Sure it's a lot of fun riding it, most of the time, and it's rewarding getting to a remote spot, but it's just a big Dirt bike, and that's what I call it, the branding is bullshit and deceptive. Remember that when you key on your EV next time, you're in a battery powered car, with severe limitations.
We're 17 years past the peak now and the 3rd World is going hungry and dark. We'll be next, we're well on the way in fact.
