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Ca. 1962 Bertrand Russell declined Oswald Mosley‘s offer to debate. His letter to Mosley:
It’s especially important to press these priorities of security and solidarity now, when the share of US GDP going to profit has increased since 1984 from 2% to 16%–a difference totaling $17,000 per US worker. Wealth is jointly produced; well-being should be jointly achieved. https://t.co/eWSDDIMKs0
— Jedediah Purdy (@JedediahSPurdy) July 27, 2018
Good thread on Twitter critiquing the theology of pro-Trump Christians. Here’s the first post of the thread:
1. Though much-analyzed, it’s not discussed enough how parishioners’ reservations about @realDonaldTrump hinge around personal behavior (adultery, affairs, language, etc.), not systemic sin.
This reveals a broader crisis within Christianity. https://t.co/NkESm2lthB
— Union Seminary (@UnionSeminary) July 24, 2018
My favorite line, “But if heaven is about a Mixmaster, then heaven in meaningless.”
Integrative bargaining is good, distributive bargaining is not. Guess which kind of bargainer Trump is? (This is a really sharp take by David Honing.)
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Interesting article PV Magazine, California electric car culture to cheaply cook the duck curve:
Researchers at the US Department of Energy (DOE) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) have done the math on California’s 1.5 million zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) mandate and found that the cars’ batteries can meet the goals of the state’s 1.3 GW energy storage mandates by absorbing a healthy amount of daytime overproduction and mitigating the early evening duck curve ramp.
Learn more about the duck curve here.
To make it work, it’ll mostly take controllable one-way car charging from the grid (V1G) and a small amount of two way charging/discharging from the car and the grid (V2G) to be used on the worst day of each forecast year.
That’s right, use your EV as a battery to power your house after you get home in the evening. Continue reading