When money comes from the taxpayers and goes to people who are friends with the money-allocating decision maker people, it's not a "waste," from the decision makers' point of view.
Also applies to "expensive" wars, and also does a lot to explain why funding schools or the USPS is hard but funding the military is super easy. It's not a cost; it's a big ol' haystack of cash that fell from the sky, and we gotta do that again real soon, man.
Maybe an addendum for wars is there are 95,000+ public schools and 19 large defense contractors. Funneling the money to the few is our (stupid) american way.
But for real every single time I used one of these I always ended up with a melted piece of plastic stuck to one of the pieces of clothes I washed. Stopped using them because of that.
Not a bad idea. If I recall, most of Iceland uses this method, no?
Granted, they’re a volcanic island that sits at the tip of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge so it’s relatively easier for them to access this type of energy, but it’s seems like it is a pretty reliable source of green energy.
The heat energy in the earth is already there, so why not use it?
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