This is a cool book: it's all about electricity.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1610397495

The author is obviously a journalist (only journalists call machinery
"contraptions" or electricity "juice") but at least he gets the units
right.

Sounds like we'll be burning a lot of coal for a long time in the
future.

On Sat, 02 Mar 2024 10:12:52 -0800, John Larkin <jl@997PotHill.com>
wrote:

>This is a cool book: it's all about electricity.
>
>https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1610397495
>
>The author is obviously a journalist (only journalists call machinery
>"contraptions" or electricity "juice") but at least he gets the units
>right.
>
>Sounds like we'll be burning a lot of coal for a long time in the
>future.
>

This is sorta beautiful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9VJqT5Wd40

and some details

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxNM4DGBRMU

On 3/2/2024 2:00 PM, John Larkin wrote:
> On Sat, 02 Mar 2024 10:12:52 -0800, John Larkin <jl@997PotHill.com>
> wrote:
>
>> This is a cool book: it's all about electricity.
>>
>> https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1610397495
>>
>> The author is obviously a journalist (only journalists call machinery
>> "contraptions" or electricity "juice") but at least he gets the units
>> right.
>>
>> Sounds like we'll be burning a lot of coal for a long time in the
>> future.
>>
>
> This is sorta beautiful:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9VJqT5Wd40
>
> and some details
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxNM4DGBRMU
>
>

Thanks! Really interesting to me.
Ed

On 2024/03/02 10:12 a.m., John Larkin wrote:
> This is a cool book: it's all about electricity.
>
> https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1610397495
>
> The author is obviously a journalist (only journalists call machinery
> "contraptions" or electricity "juice") but at least he gets the units
> right.
>
> Sounds like we'll be burning a lot of coal for a long time in the
> future.
>
>

Speaking about electricity - check out Kathy Loves Physics on YouTube -
she has a lot of fun on the topic of Electricity...

https://www.youtube.com/@Weirdly_wonderful

John :-#)#
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On 3/03/2024 5:12 am, John Larkin wrote:
> This is a cool book: it's all about electricity.
>
> https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1610397495
>
> The author is obviously a journalist (only journalists call machinery
> "contraptions" or electricity "juice") but at least he gets the units
> right.
>
> Sounds like we'll be burning a lot of coal for a long time in the
> future.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bryce_(writer)

Robert Bryce was a senior fellow at the Manhattan Research institute
from 2012 to 2019. He stopped being a journalist quite a while ago.

"The Manhattan Institute is a policy think tank that has received
significant funding from both ExxonMobil and Koch Industries. According
to media transparency, the Manhattan Institute has been known to
“obscure” science supporting man-made climate change.

Bryce has been unwilling to answer questions about the funding the
Manhattan Institute receives from the fossil fuel industry."

So John Larkin is - as usual - peddling climate change denial
propaganda. He is a gullible sucker for that kind of nonsense.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

On Sun, 3 Mar 2024 14:04:01 +1100, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
wrote:

>On 3/03/2024 5:12 am, John Larkin wrote:
>> This is a cool book: it's all about electricity.
>>
>> https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1610397495
>>
>> The author is obviously a journalist (only journalists call machinery
>> "contraptions" or electricity "juice") but at least he gets the units
>> right.
>>
>> Sounds like we'll be burning a lot of coal for a long time in the
>> future.
>
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bryce_(writer)
>
>Robert Bryce was a senior fellow at the Manhattan Research institute
>from 2012 to 2019. He stopped being a journalist quite a while ago.
>
>"The Manhattan Institute is a policy think tank that has received
>significant funding from both ExxonMobil and Koch Industries. According
>to media transparency, the Manhattan Institute has been known to
>“obscure” science supporting man-made climate change.
>
>Bryce has been unwilling to answer questions about the funding the
>Manhattan Institute receives from the fossil fuel industry."
>
>So John Larkin is - as usual - peddling climate change denial
>propaganda. He is a gullible sucker for that kind of nonsense.

My go-to source for dirt on organisations is Transparency
International, and they make no such accusation. You're wrong again,
Bill.

On 4/03/2024 4:52 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Mar 2024 14:04:01 +1100, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
> wrote:
>
>> On 3/03/2024 5:12 am, John Larkin wrote:
>>> This is a cool book: it's all about electricity.
>>>
>>> https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1610397495
>>>
>>> The author is obviously a journalist (only journalists call machinery
>>> "contraptions" or electricity "juice") but at least he gets the units
>>> right.
>>>
>>> Sounds like we'll be burning a lot of coal for a long time in the
>>> future.
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bryce_(writer)
>>
>> Robert Bryce was a senior fellow at the Manhattan Research institute
>>from 2012 to 2019. He stopped being a journalist quite a while ago.
>>
>> "The Manhattan Institute is a policy think tank that has received
>> significant funding from both ExxonMobil and Koch Industries. According
>> to media transparency, the Manhattan Institute has been known to
>> “obscure” science supporting man-made climate change.
>>
>> Bryce has been unwilling to answer questions about the funding the
>> Manhattan Institute receives from the fossil fuel industry."
>>
>> So John Larkin is - as usual - peddling climate change denial
>> propaganda. He is a gullible sucker for that kind of nonsense.
>
> My go-to source for dirt on organisations is Transparency
> International, and they make no such accusation. You're wrong again.
> Bill.

Transparency International is all about financial corruption.

The Manhattan Institute is selling it's services in a perfectly open way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchants_of_Doubt

It's a perfectly honest merchant of doubt. The doubts it is selling are
lies, but neither you nor John Larkin are willing to recognise that.

There's a lively international trade in delusion and misinformation.
Truth in advertising is an ideal, but a more expensive ideal than
anybody seems able to afford.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney