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Feb 23 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
@SelkieSonja @SamRamani2 Nuclear generated electricity can be used for high-efficiency, affordable electric home and commercial heating. The units are cheap and readily available in any hardware store, home improvement store, and online.
@SelkieSonja @SamRamani2 Germany also pioneered #Passivhaus, one of the most advanced energy conservation and efficiency building design standards in the world. It delivers huge cuts in demand for artificial heating, cooling, and indoor air quality. AND it's already in wide use.
amazingarchitecture.com/articles/what-…
@SelkieSonja @SamRamani2 Passive solar has been used for heating and cooling since Ancient Greece and Ancient Egypt. By reducing upfront heating and cooling needs, it reduces ALL artificial heating and cooling needs, even the buy-in for renewables to cover residual energy needs.
treehugger.com/passive-solar-…
@SelkieSonja @SamRamani2 Up to 40% of all generated electricity from ALL sources goes to indoor lighting. Natural light, aka daylighting, can reduce this by 25% or more. Plus eliminating artificial lighting carries major health and performance benefits.
archdaily.com/tag/natural-li…
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Isn't it time we pushed back on the "Democrats are doomed" narrative from @CNN, @MSNBC, and everyone else who should know better? The idea that mid-terms are always referenda on the incumbent President, and not on the opposition, may have made sense before, but no longer.
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THIS mid-term election can and should be a referendum on an opposition party that has done far more TO the United States, including all of its own constituents who didn't vote for it and never would, than FOR the United States.
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E.g. Jim Jordan, who "represents" Ohio's 4th CD, has NEVER introduced, co-sponsored, or supported any bill that would improve the lives of his constituents. He's just a fast-talking bomb thrower, 3rd from the bottom in effectiveness as a GOP lawmaker.
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@stephan80339517 @SethAbramson One thing we can do to defeat DeJoy is #BypassTheUSPS. Get local boards of election to organize teams of trusted volunteers to deliver an at-home ballots to any voter who wants one, and collect them all before the deadlines for return.
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@stephan80339517 @SethAbramson Another thing we can do is emulate Colorado, with secure, video-monitored ballot drop boxes in locations convenient for almost every voter.
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In 2017, the Minneapolis PD was already going down a bad road, with completely inadequate screening of police recruits for the kind of personality and character traits that had already led to PREVIOUS George Floyds.
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From 2016: This is only one of dozens of programs, articles, and academic studies going back decades that show how poorly we identify in advance the kind of cops who killed George Floyd. It also points to what we need to do.
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I'm going to retweet this from @camanpour and the tweets that followed as a thread. The vision of a post-#COVID19 recovery that Ursula @vonderleyen articulates for Europe could and should be a model for the United States as well.
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A potential defense against this: a #CoronavirusCompact. A joint purchasing agreement that lets multiple States buy equipment and supplies under a single contract with suppliers. Uniform prices and coordinated logistics under an interstate authority. It's been done before.
Texas did this decades ago, allowing other States to join its contracts with suppliers for educational and other products and services.
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Critical information in this report that needs to be shared as widely as possible: The Trump Regime's attempt to include a "Citizenship Question" in this year's census was rejected by the Courts. But its intended damage was already done and still remains.
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