Thirdhand Smoke And Home Value

[TRESinc]

Ha. The social engineering thing with cigarette smokers is real. When we started the program at Advanced Micro Devices to eliminate smoking it was all about social engineering. First separate the smokers from the non-smokers. Funny most of the smokers did not want to sit in the smoking section (less social status). So, they had to go outside to smoke of course. But then that was where everyone could seem them on entering and exiting the building. Smoking population dropped rather dramatically.

Three cheers for "social engineering".

glad it worked out for you adolf.

 

[RCA]

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01NALP1HX/?tag=realestatappraat

The U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) claims that outdoor air kills hundreds of thousands of Americans every year. EPA has used this claim to: wreck the coal industry; justify expensive and job-killing air quality and climate rules; and to scare Americans about the air they breathe. Milloy not only debunks the outrageous EPA's claims and exposes them as rank scientific fraud in no uncertain terms, but offers a roadmap for fixing the rogue and out-of-control EPA.

1. The components of the air we breath are fairly easy to document and track over time. In fact they can extract air bubbles from ice going back thousands of years. There doesn't need to be argument here.

2. The quality of air people actually breath depends on the location and geographical circumstances. People living near and off of gigantic dump sites in places like Brazil, China and India are one extreme. Our ancestors probably often lived in enclosed areas that had poor ventilation and open fires. In the US, some of us live in areas with "relatively" little air pollution, make liberal use of high quality air purifiers throughout the home, and avoid sources of air pollution. The have studied these things and find for example, that people that use air purifiers tend to live about 5 years longer.

3. As for the coal industry. Well there is "clean coal" and that is what - AND ONLY WHAT - Trump supports. We are talking about filters for dust particles, sequestration of CO2 and so on. Of course this make coal energy more expensive than it already is. So, generally, it cannot compete with the likes of natural gas. Nonetheless, hard coal is what the steel industry uses, and so it goes hand in hand with building up our steel industry.

4. The problems with the EPA (which Trump is fixing) included reckless creation of regulations without consideration of their impact on the economy, a lack of understanding of how to optimally solve environmental problems with minimal regulatory steps, and so on. --- NOT this link between the claim that air pollution kills hundreds of thousands of Americans every year (which it absolutely does) and "wrecking he coal industry." Again, it was the management of the EPA that was at fault, not their justifications for taking action. One could say they were overzealous and blind to their faults, believing the ends justified whatever means. If we let the American economy fall behind other world economies such as China, that, in the end, will only make environmental problems worse. So, whatever we do to clean up the environment, can not be done at the expense of ruining our economy or significantly holding it back.

 

[J Grant]

China is investing billions in solar and alternate energy as is the rest of the world because that is the future not just environmentally but economically. All the USA is accomplishing is losing more ground to the other developed nations

The problem with MAGA is it;s past looking,. The "again" of MAGA, whatever past glory ear he's trying to recapture, forgets that in those eras, America including govt research was a leader and on the cutting edge of science and technology- whatever it was at the time, vs now it is falling behind .

 

[Artemis Fowl]

China is investing billions in solar and alternate energy as is the rest of the world because that is the future not just environmentally but economically. All the USA is accomplishing is losing more ground to the other developed nations

Where do you get this stuff?
This might be true in fantasy-land. In the real world every large scale solar project has failed or is failing to be economically viable and the process to create panels is more damaging on a per unit basis than any fossil fuel. Then there's waste of these toxic materials after they've degraded.

Oil and coal and NG ARE solar power!!! Nature's storage mechanism.

 

[RCA]

i want some butter chicken. think you just helped me make my decision for lunch!

Never heard of it. But the ingredients look tempting: https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1016754-butter-chicken

 

[RCA]

Where do you get this stuff?
This might be true in fantasy-land. In the real world every large scale solar project has failed or is failing and the process to create panels is more damaging on a per unit basis than any fossil fuel. Then there's waste of these toxic materials after they've degraded.

Oil and coal and NG ARE solar power!!! Nature's storage mechanism.

Actually they have figured out a way to get solar cells to extract CO2 from the atmosphere and combine it with hydrogen from water to create gas as a means to store energy for nighttime use. Production is probably 5-10 years out.

 

[RCA]

China is investing billions in solar and alternate energy as is the rest of the world because that is the future not just environmentally but economically. All the USA is accomplishing is losing more ground to the other developed nations

The problem with MAGA is it;s past looking,. The "again" of MAGA, whatever past glory ear he's trying to recapture, forgets that in those eras, America including govt research was a leader and on the cutting edge of science and technology- whatever it was at the time, vs now it is falling behind .

The good news is that by balancing exports and imports (and that really means curtailing imports of Chinese, German, ... goods), we will be funnelling hundreds of billions of dollars back into our economy, that were leaving it, - every year, - which portends and extended era of economic expansion. You can't sense this in the air? I can. The economy is going into high gear.

 

[Artemis Fowl]

Actually they have figured out a way to get solar cells to extract CO2 from the atmosphere and combine it with hydrogen from water to create gas as a means to store energy for nighttime use. Production is probably 5-10 years out.

They've figured out a bunch cool things that aren't economically viable on a large scale.

 

[RCA]

They've figured out a bunch cool things that aren't economically viable on a large scale.

Nobody knows at this time, whether they can make it economically viable. That is another 5-10 years off. Clean coal is a fairly complex subject, and it appears will have its limitations. It may in any case be restricted to deposits of hard coal.

 

[RCA]

Just wow...
BTW...I think you already live there. Watch where you step.

Yes, it's hard to complain about Pacifica. Clean air off the Pacific, as the winds generally blow from that direction. Oh well, at least when diesel ships are not passing by somewhere off the coast.. Cool temperatures in the summer. No gangs, low crime rate (San Mateo County has the lowest crime rate and highest [or second highest after Santa Clara, depending on source] household income of any county in California). The environmentalists keep business out of our small community. It is definitely not Berkeley in the political sense, probably about 35% Republican. Beautiful ocean views.

-Only - expensive as hell - at least to buy a house. Starting prices for houses here, 50 years old, small, not much to look at, are about $900K, average price $1.1M or thereabouts. Could do better on trees like in Oregon. Could use more rain. But, you can't have everything.