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To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (456495)	10/29/2020 10:38:12 PM
From: cosmicforce	Respond to of 541747

It is a direction that we need to pursue - proportional to the improvements - if we don't imagine it now it can't exist in the future. The problem with the power industry is that it takes 30 - 50 years to move things to that industry from R&D. We need off-grid storage no - air batteries and hydrogen can fill those power doldrums. Consumer electronics it is three years. It is only 20 years because we let the big power industry tell us where to go - and they do that (telling us where to go).

To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (456495)

10/30/2020 12:16:29 PM

From: koan

Respond to of 541747

While I agree the anti science folks are a problem. It goes beyond that. It is our anti intellectual culture which is mostly located in the right wing.

They openly call "liberals" effete snobs. They see the educated as elitists.

The Asian's don't do that. They know the power of knowledge and respect education e.g. South Korea, Japan and Taiwan.

In fact a great deal of the attraction to Trump and the Republicans his their anti intellectual beliefs e.g. the majority of Republicans do not believe in evolution or Global warming.

In the 2016 Republican race they asked about 16? of those folks what they thought about those two issues and the only one to say he believed in evolution I think, but it could have been global warming, or both, was Huntsman.

He had 1% of the vote at the time and he said:" call me crazy"-lol.

If you look at polls regarding things like wearing masks, there is a huge difference between the Democrats and Republicans.

So the problems is really not in both parties. It is primarily in the Republican party.

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Pretending the solution from 20 year in the future can be used today is magical thinking writ large, like Trump claiming the virus will simply go away the way things go away.

The hundreds of millions of anti-science ninnies is the biggest danger we face today.

They're embedded themselves into both the left and right of the political spectrum.

I call them "Pig Ignorant"