Anthropogenic Global Warming ... how hot is it ?

[sear]

"... bio fuels like palm oil actually reduce CO2 by absorbing more when grown than is released when burned." R5 #440

I'm not sure how that's possible.
And it's not clear to me why palm would be different from other veg.

"So bio fuels are much better than wind/solar." R5

It's the logic of the syllogism. If your premise were true, your conclusion might be also. I'd want to review the scientific data, to verify its validity before I accepted the premise.

"But the way we are headed is batteries, which is the worst possible." R5

We need a battery technology that has a higher energy density than gasoline or diesel, that is durable & inexpensively mass-producible. It may never happen.

 

[Shiftless2]

In the 1950s, almost no one had health insurance or car insurance.

Car insurance began becoming mandatory in the United States in the 1920s, with Massachusetts passing the first compulsory law in 1925, followed by Connecticut, while most other states enacted similar requirements between the 1930s and 1970s, with nearly all states now requiring coverage, except for New Hampshire.

Then in the 1970s, car insurance started to be become mandated by law, which I consider illegal because there was no fairness regulations.

Sorry guy but auto insurance is regulated by the state.

No idea what you mean by "fairness legislation" - the Insurance Department in each state has to approve company's rate filings. And they have to describe whether rates are "unfairly discriminatory".

So tell us what you mean by the term "fairness legislation"

 

[Rigby5]

I'm not sure how that's possible.
And it's not clear to me why palm would be different from other veg.


It's the logic of the syllogism. If your premise were true, your conclusion might be also. I'd want to review the scientific data, to verify its validity before I accepted the premise.


We need a battery technology that has a higher energy density than gasoline or diesel, that is durable & inexpensively mass-producible. It may never happen.

Its easy to explain why bio fuels absorb more CO2 out of the air than is later release back into the air when burned.
Bio fuel, like palm oil, come only from the small fruit.
All the rest of the tree, like the trunk and leaves, never gets burned, so always retains that CO2 that was removed.

That is assuming you use the wood and leaves for something long lasting, and you don't just let them rot back to CO2.

Batteries are always going to be bad because electricity is very inefficient, from resistance, heat, induction, weight, cost, life span, slowness, etc.
A chemical fuel is always much faster, lighter, cheaper, and lasting forever.
If one prefers electric motors instead of combustion, there are fuel cells that also are much better than batteries.

 

[Rigby5]

Car insurance began becoming mandatory in the United States in the 1920s, with Massachusetts passing the first compulsory law in 1925, followed by Connecticut, while most other states enacted similar requirements between the 1930s and 1970s, with nearly all states now requiring coverage, except for New Hampshire.


Sorry guy but auto insurance is regulated by the state.

No idea what you mean by "fairness legislation" - the Insurance Department in each state has to approve company's rate filings. And they have to describe whether rates are "unfairly discriminatory".

So tell us what you mean by the term "fairness legislation"

The fact Massachusetts made auto insurance mandatory in 1925 does not mean other states did.
Wisconsin still does not require mandatory auto insurance.
They just require financial responsibility, which means you don't cause an accident and then fail to pay for it.

Auto insurance is notoriously guilty of redlining, where there is a vast difference in charges based on address, race, income, ethnicity, etc.
If you are going to mandate something like insurance, then it should also be public and uniform.