• TrismegistusMx@slrpnk.net
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    10 months ago

    What’s always astounding is how much a person has to actually know to be as stupid as Ben Shapiro (and Matt Walsh, and others). They have to study and learn in order to misuse the things that they’ve learned. It’s impossible to be this wrong on accident.

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    10 months ago

    Yea it sucks the energy is only renewable until the sun explodes. Oh well, back to coal.

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      10 months ago

      Not enough mass to go supernova; the sun is expected to become a red dwarf.

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    10 months ago

    He’s thinking of the second law, anyway. The first law is just conservation of energy and if anything that makes limitless power sources seem more plausible.

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    10 months ago

    Man… even being as generous as possible, it’s still an incredibly stupid point. “Renewable” doesn’t mean “infinite”. If something can only be renewed a finite number of times, or even once, then it’s still renewable.

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    10 months ago

    Ah yes… Conservation of Energy… which means… that we never lose energy…

    I… is he trying to prove that there… is… renewable resources or is he just that dumb? Oh yeah its that.

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      10 months ago

      I think he’s trying to say, “energy cannot be created or destroyed, therefore all energy is renewable”. Implying gas and oil are just as “renewable” as wind and solar.

      Conservatives back gas and oil purely for personal financial incentives, and like to project that renewable energy is also only for financial incentives and not the good of the planet.

      Which should only work on high school kids. In 9th grade I didn’t understand why air conditioners required power instead of generating power. Heat is energy, right? Why don’t they just take the energy out of the air and convert it to electrical energy?

      I’m very confident Ben knows how the second law of thermodynamics works, and he’s taking advantage of a populace that was put through a failed education system.

  • phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    That would be second law. Always fun seeing these dumb mother fuckers trying using tools that they don’t understand.

    Also who still listens to Ben “I shout louder than you so I won!” Shapiro?

  • Barttier@feddit.de
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    10 months ago

    Ben Shapiro is an intellectual steamboat. A lot of hot air. Way to much effort. Stuck somewhere in the past.

    “Whats next, libtards? Wireless phones? How can you charge a phone without a wire?”