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Other agencies downgraded during past debt ceiling showdowns.
we expect federal deficits to widen, reaching nearly 9% of GDP by 2035, up from 6.4% in 2024
Both numbers are well above escape velocity for sustainability with overall Debt above GDP, and nominal GDP growth not coming anywhere close to the deficit levels.
Will this asteroid ever return to near earth collision?
On its current trajectory, will it ever reach anything "interesting" again?
What would be the benefit of going faster over being able to communicate with it?
To show alien invasion force where to come exterminate us???
I don't know. Is there an ultimate destination?
This is BS. Noise is extremely minimal. Wind reduction can help small boats like jagadas. When wind is low, there is no reduction. When wind is high, it might make fishing safer.
Wind turbines will attract sea life from moorings.
This is about roll thrusters that permit orientation that allows communications/operation from earth. How many years of fuel does it have for roll thrusters, and does it share fuel with propulsion thrusters, and is there any thought of making it go faster instead of staying operationally controllable?
Policy for abundance and competition matters a lot for China success. It starts with abundant raw material and processing. Steel and construction materials matters to factory building costs in addition to new energy production costs. It's unclear how much of abundance outcomes is the result of direct incentives to material producers/refiners vs "build it and they will come" attitudes that includes confidence in supporting clean energy/vehicles downstream.
In the west, oil oligarchy protectionism drives policy. History of oil companies patting themselves on the back with PR on clean energy while doing nothing. Funding massive disinformation and politicians for climate terrorism, and the solutions/progress that is made outside of oil companies is just extremely slow. Meant for PR and scarcity, and the hopes that high scarcity profits can be dressed up as rewarding national champions doing a little bit against global warming. Most of the IRA is not about creating US abundance, but rather setting up US monopolies in US supply chain, that have caused projects to stall because they are not competitive by US ROI standards, and the lack of confidence in usurping oil oligarchy for US only market.
Article starts off with "do we need domestic industry?" before not making any conclusions about it later. If Aliens came to earth to trade us cheap stuff, US oligarchy would insist on losing a war against the Aliens instead. Cheap energy and materials further makes jobs. Solar especially has up to 90% of its costs as local deployment spending. Cheap energy and materials is core to competitive manufacturing, and low consumer cost of living. The political reaction to go to war with competitive goods to protect domestic oligarchy profits, and pretend to support uncompetitive domestic upstarts with subsidies, is a net social loss. We end up with a high subsidy per job level, where UBI (full society redistribution) would enable more affordability of better products instead.
hmmm... the girls geeking out over tech and horsepower. Guys just like soft and pretty looking.
European Solar Manufacturing Council
There was a smear posted yesterday, from US sources, on un-named equipment having surreptitious communications equipment. Smelled like BS as much as this does.
Huawei specific geopolitical smears are fairly worthless in 5G world, because all of the vendors manufacture in China.
5G Security Toolbox.
security can come from hardware audits, and a EU owned rebadging firm responsible for monitoring/communications and firmware updates. Logging of communications links can confirm hacking, and trace wrongdoing.
Anyway, foreign tech dependence can create a security risk if you intend to be an asshole, or the foreign country (US) is inherently an asshole. These decisions are not to come from protectionist BSers.
Now store the numbers (array):
0 0 0 1 0 1 1 2
think 8 bytes???
Rather than pipelines, which is support for dead ender energy, railway expansion is the same scale and provides more flexible long term goods transport. Winnipeg to Baie Comeau rail link could populate northern Ontario and Quebec, but Winnipeg to Thunder Bay, and port/sea shipping expansion can make sense too. Both would be relatively safe transportation of oil.
Other than supporting the "necessity of climate terrorism" instead of renewable energy expansion, at least there is industrial policy and support for people/workers.
Germany has a very binary view on class supremacism. It's not supremacism is good vs bad. It's a pendulum of who is above criticism. Russophobic nazi supremacism still kosher though.