Degradation of democracy
mercredi 18 novembre 2020 à 01:00*The [Republican] party is challenging the outcome of the election without any proof of fraud. Their degradation of democracy will reverberate for years to come.*
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*The [Republican] party is challenging the outcome of the election without any proof of fraud. Their degradation of democracy will reverberate for years to come.*
*White men swung to Biden. [The bullshitter] made gains with black and Latino voters. Why?*
The article does not try to answer that question, but it is very important.
US citizens: call on your state senator to pass the ROE Act's provisions.
US citizens: tell Biden: Don't Let Mitch McConnell Dictate Your Cabinet Choices.
This article demonstrates the folly of measuring construction of renewable electric generation in proportion to what already exists.
Percentage is a useful way to measure a small fraction but misleading when used to describe a fraction close to or above 1. A ratio such as "250%" sounds impressive, but 250% of a small number is only a little larger.
Aside from that, I can't see how it fits the other figures. What here is 250% of what?
Furthermore, "gigawatts per year" is not is measure of energy, nor of "energy generating capacity". The amount of energy generated or work done per unit time is called "power" and it is measured in watts. I speculate that 23 gigawatts is the total maximum power output of Europe's existing offshore wind generators.
What can be said of the strategy in the leaked paper? It is inadequate. It proposes to add around 340 GW of wind and ocean generation by 2050, which could be a substantial amount, but 300GW would be built in the second and third decades. That is delaying too long!