The Morning's Digital Desktop

A few items wandered across my digital desktop this morning.  Among them being....

A quote from House Speaker Paul Ryan that would seem to confirm his party's real objective behind their recent attempt to repeal "Obamacare".




Listen for the line: "...we're not going to give up on destroying the health care system for the American people..."

The "to-vaccine-or-not-to-vaccine" issue has not gone away.  As a contribution to the (mostly pointless) efforts to present science that would ease the anti-vaxx community, I found this:

Demystifying Vaccine ingredients - Formaldehyde

I know.  Facts are useless these days.

And I don't know if you've heard of something called "fan death".  Well, now you have.

I have a few friends who weighed in on this one:  "Only if you take off the guard and very slowly feed your brain into the prop."  and  "What happens is, you lie under the nice cool fan, and enjoy the breeze, and just stay there til you starve to death."

And finally, some information to present in the wind turbine discussion.  Some have suggested that the carbon footprint of even making and installing these large wind generators is more than they provide in savings.  There is this study that provides some numbers to back up the contention that the payback time is a year or possibly less.  So, for a generator that will have a lifespan of 20 years, it seems to make sense.  Wind turbines can't be come up without someone pointing out that they kill birds.  This is true, but not in numbers that even come close to comparing with other causes of bird deaths.  I leave it to you to find other references.