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From: Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>
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Subject: Re: Food Prices
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2025 16:52:11 -0700
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On Thu, 12 Jun 2025 16:50:51 -0400, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

>On 6/11/2025 8:50 PM, cyclintom wrote:
>> On Wed Jun 11 19:44:43 2025 Frank Krygowski  wrote:
>>> On 6/11/2025 4:42 PM, cyclintom wrote:
>>>> Energy prices have skyrocketed over the last 12 months as the wind and solar farms have gotten to the point of needing replacement.
>>>
>>> Hmm. How odd. I see no replacements happening in any of the solar
>>> installations in my area. Not many wind turbines here, but the ones I
>>> saw along Lake Erie last week seemed to be churning away as usual.
>>>
>>> I'd ask for sources of information, but I know the real source is the
>>> voice in Tom's brain.
 
>> Frank, stop acting like a single point in time is proof of anything. The 120 foot windmills require REGULAR replacement of the blades. They are NOT recyclable and are normally simply buried.  And the attached generators burn out often because the ends of the blades are traveling just under the speed of sound and shaking everything to pieces.
>> 
>> Solar farms leave the dead cells in place until they begin to show steep drops in power output. What's more solar farms are OFTEN left in place and simply deserted. The Mojave Desert here is rife with them.

>I'm struck by the complete lack of numbers in that post, in addition to 
>the complete lack of citations.

Tom can't do that without loosing "control" of the information he's
providing.  The object of his game is not to answer reader questions
or inform the GUM (great unwashed masses) of his magnificent version
of reality.  The object of game was disclosed to me long ago when Tom
asked me why do I post in RBT?  I answered, but I also asked Tom why
he posted in RBT?  His answer was interesting.  It was something like
"To regain credit for my accomplishments".  (I can't find the
original).  I believe his answer was quite accurate and revealing.
Somewhere in Tom's past, I believe he may have been cheated by someone
and not received the credit that he thought he deserved.  Most people
write it off to yet another life experience, but not Tom.  He went
searching for ways to obtain recognition.  However, simple recognition
wasn't sufficient.  Tom also wanted 100.0% of the recognition. Sharing
it with anyone else was intolerable.  If I suggested a better Usenet
reader, Tom would try everything except what I suggested.  If I
pointed out a problem with Tom's latest "amazing fact", Tom would
repeat the mistake numerous times in the hope that repetition would
change his reality.  If I pointed out one of Tom's numerous mistakes,
he would ignore my comments and switch topics to something more
familiar, instead of dealing with the mistakes.  It didn't matter how
something was presented to Tom, if even a tiny part of the credit for
the idea went to someone else, Tom would have nothing to do with it.
The problem is that citations, sources, corroborations, references,
calculations etc all give a small part of the credit to someone else.
In Tom's reality, giving away some credit by providing citations is
intolerable, and is therefore avoided.




>
>As usual for Tom, of course. We're supposed to believe in the voices in 
>Tom's head as the ultimate source of truth.
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