You know I keep thinking/believing I guess that there will be some sort of breakthrough in solar efficiency that made waiting somehow OK. Well, still waiting.
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I get this but we also have to keep perspective…
China is number 2 with US as number one. But they basically lie about how much and most likely are higher than the US overall. And they are imho much worse than we are with the dies of globalization
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There is no other perspective, amigo. You can’t spend a dollar more than once. Guns or butter, as the classic economic dilemma goes.
Current military spending is already behind schedule in terms of production and ROI. It’s a black hole.
What happened when the USSR fell? Who took power before long?
This one is up and running, incredible project…incredible, well worth the listen.
The United States has had the technology for cheap, clean, and renewable energy for a very, very long time.
In a country run by billionaires, it’s more about what some people would stand to lose with said technology, and less about all the people who would benefit from it.
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I like the data such as this: where our current ideas are challenged if not truly disabused!!
‘Impossible’ cluster found in deep space could change what we know about early universe
It seems that every few months they are either confirming Einstein’s theories or disproving them. Our current idea’s are currently in flux.
The new telescopes have given us an abundance of fresh information. It’s only natural we will be reevaluating long standing practices and theories. Exciting times in the field of astronomy.
someone should tell china that solar and wind power doesn’t work. Only the smartest bestest people know this tho.
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Regarding solar, wind, and all other methods of energy production… your grandma was right. We should not put our eggs in one basket.
Sign me up for a balanced energy portfolio that includes a bit of everything. Personally I believe the US is way too light on nuclear and has over-focused on natural gas generation. But I am a few years (actually over a decade; when did I get this old?) beyond when I played in this arena.
Back then, the TVA was kicking our asses with hydro generation, and major electric projects went there based on simple economics. Michigan was countering with natural gas due to cheap natural gas ala fracking. Again, this was more than a few years ago. I suspect things have changed along the way.
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Easy for them not to change but now that electric numbers are blowing up we are starting a nuke plant back up that’s been closed for many years.
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data centers. It’s crazy the population is going to have to subsidize their power usage.
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Should have stayed with Nuclear all along.
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agreed. I’m a big fan of nuclear power, at least now until something better comes along.
it’s crazy tho that nuclear SOUNDS like super duper high tech but it’s really just using radiation to heat water to make steam. so basically a super lethal steam engine 
and while I think things can be over regulated, nuclear certainly isn’t one. Watch Chernobyl on HBO. Good lord. All to save money and pride.
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We shouldn’t have to… but we will end up subsidizing. It’s already happening in many rural areas.
agreed. the stipulation for those massive power sinks should be they have to build their own power support. even if it’s not 100%, something to lessen the impact. But today’s world is socialize the risk and privatize the profit.
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100%
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The James Webb Space Telescope caught a runaway black hole escaping its galaxy.
Astronomers may have just confirmed something long thought possible but never proven: a supermassive black hole running away from its home galaxy.
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers observed a black hole with a mass about 20 million times that of the Sun tearing through intergalactic space at roughly 2.2 million miles per hour (3.6 million kilometers per hour). What gave it away was not the black hole itself, but the trail it left behind.
Stretching more than 200,000 light-years, about twice the width of the Milky Way, is a glowing line of newborn stars. Scientists believe this stellar wake formed as the black hole plowed through gas, compressing it and triggering star formation. Webb’s infrared instruments also revealed a bow shock at the front of the object, similar to the wave that forms ahead of a ship moving through water.
The idea of runaway supermassive black holes has existed for over 50 years. The only known way to eject one from a galaxy is through a violent gravitational interaction involving two or more supermassive black holes. When galaxies merge, their central black holes can form unstable systems. In rare cases, one is flung outward at extreme speed.
This object appears to be the first clear observational confirmation of that process. The light we see today left the system when the universe was about half its current age of 13.8 billion years, meaning these dramatic events were already shaping galaxies billions of years ago.
If confirmed by further study, this discovery changes how scientists think about the relationship between galaxies and the black holes at their centers. It suggests that even the most massive anchors in the universe are not always permanent fixtures. Sometimes, they break free.
Read the study:
“JWST Confirmation of a Runaway Supermassive Black Hole via its Supersonic Bow Shock.” arXiv, 2025.
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