Re: CO2 Funny

On 22/05/2024 1:50 am, john larkin wrote:

On Tue, 21 May 2024 14:23:04 +0100, chrisq <devzero@nospam.com> wrote:
 

On 5/21/24 04:15, john larkin wrote:

This is wonderful:
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/comment/2024/05/20/joe-biden-democrats-green-transition-evs-energy-costs/
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"Contrast Biden voter certainty with their knowledge about carbon
dioxide. Nearly one in five Biden voters think there should be no
carbon dioxide at all because it’s a poison..."
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"Forty four per cent of Trump voters and 26 per cent of Biden voters
were able to correctly identify the approximate concentration of
carbon dioxide in the atmosphere; nearly three quarters of Biden
voters were wrong by a factor of between 100 and 1000."

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Are we surprised ?. More like mass psychosis and death wish at the
highest levels of western governments. So infused with dogma and
dodgy science, they will bring down the whole house, rather than
admit they are wrong.

There's nothing dodgy about climate science. It's conclusions don't suit the fossil carbon extraction industry which has a lot of money, some of which it spends on climate change denial propaganda

Yes. What social media has done is magnified the already tribal
behavior of believing what everyone else apparently believes. Only the
tribes are now billions of people worldwide. That's an unstable
dynamic that results in all sorts of random delusions.

Anthropogenic global warming isn't any kind of delusion. If John Larkin had ever learned much about science he'd be aware if this.

The other thing we're seeing is fear, depression, and despair, over
Climate Change and other things. Lots of fear.

There's no need for fear, depression or despair about anthropogenic global warming. We finally seem to have got to the point where CO2 emissions have peaked. We still have to get to the point where they get done to the point where the CO2 level in the atmosphere can start to fall, but at least it is in sight.

Still, control the cost and access to  energy worldwide, and they
will control the world. Fascism, same shit, different wrapper...

One nice thing about renewable energy is that solar cells and wind turbines come in small modules. You can put them where you need energy.
You can couple them together into larger grids, and get some advantage from doing it, but renewable energy doesn't offer authoritarian regimes any kind of political advantage (which may be be one of the reasons so many people are lying about it).

There is some of that, using climate as a power-mongering tool, but it
wouldn't work if not powered by so much public fear and hysteria.

There isn't any fear or hysteria around (except perhaps in the fossil carbon extraction industry, as they look forward to rapidly diminishing cash flows).

I wonder if such fear and innumeracy are hereditary.

Your kids don't seem to be as enumerate as you are.

I suspect they are. If the lunatic greenies don't want to breed, and they mostly
don't, the sane people will slowly pull ahead.

"Lunatic greenies" who don't want to breed seem to be one of the more implausible inventions of the climate change denial propaganda machine.
John Larkin is a gullible twit, and he is convinced that they exist.
I've never met one.

So as a long-term investment, buy Exxon stock.

Not good advice.

(I have a mild variant on the Sallen-Key lowpass filter. Is anyone
interested?)

https://archive.org/details/ElectronicFilterDesignHandbook4thEd
is a full bottle on active low pass filters. They do cover the Sallen and Keys configuration, and a lot of variations. I like the one with a little bit of gain that lets me use equal value capacitors.
It your "mild" variant one they didn't cover?
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Bill Sloman, Sydney