1) Simplification and compartmentalization, valuing all the options (Black-Scholes) makes me happy. Life is just a series of options. Guess whom I learned that from.
2) Progressive income tax is evil and leads to economic inefficiency.
WRT gas prices -- nothing cures high prices like high prices.
It generates NOTHING.
You precharge it by making it turn by any means, mechanical or electric, , every following turn you have less and less energy left until system stops.
If you want to pull any energy at all for another use, even light a humble Led, it will stop even faster.
It is just speculation, but I imagine you end up in the inverse of the universe, so there would also be 'anti' entropy.
Of course it is! It's 156.9 for Regular in Toronto today. It was 174.9 on Tuesday when I needed gas though :grumble:
Are you sure that's the right planet? Because when I searched that coordinate, this planet showed up.
Forget the motor... put a fan blade on the generator... face this into an Ontario "breeze"... hook it into the grid... and like the Pickering "Cashman" says about selling gold... Oh Yeah...!! Except, this "Oh Yeah" isn't said by Ontario residents.
In the old days (70's... 80's) it was a rare thing to see a wind turbine breaking the friction barrier, that when it did the public reaction was akin to the sighting of a UFO. I can still remember a lonely windmill on the QEW between Hamilton and Niagra Falls that seemed never turning. Later it started. My suspicion was that a motor had been connected to the generator, that in the event of the slightest breeze (or not) the motor was used to keep up appearances, as even the most naive of the general public could figure out that no movement meant no power generated.
Compared to the San Gorgonio Pass in California (one the windiest places in the US, for countless environmental reasons), Southwestern Ontario's wind speed is slower than a tortoise can comprehend entropy. Hence the incentives by the Ontario government to support wind generation had to be enormous to attract private industries, this was to engage them in what would otherwise be concluded as lunacy by them. Yet the fringe green continued to go unabated, engaging in multi-billion dollar deals and contracts, those with binding 20 to 40 year terms. Money was, and still is, dissipating in wind farming faster than "dust in the wind" of the San Gorgonio Pass. The return on investment to minimize greenhouse gases seems ludicrous here, rather to give money away (not to incur debt in the process) to other provinces or countries.
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