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  1. Re:Because it's Germany by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1 · on German Nuclear Plant Infected With Computer Virus (reuters.com)

    They manipulated security audits and lied about the dangers to the public. In fact, if you live within a radius of 50 km of a running nuclear power plant, your children are much more likely to suffer from leukemia and other radiation related diseases.

  2. Re: Water heigh storage: dams by FlyHelicopters · · Score: 1 · on Why Our Antiquated Power Grid Needs Battery Storage

    This one is build on the tip of a natural hill: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/R... around 1919 already

    Yep, and it stores a WHOLE 39 MW... that is nice, but it is noise in the grand scheme of things.

    That hill is also taller than anything within 500 miles of where I live.

    This one is not on an artificial hill either, but only has a few meters difference between the upper and the lower reservoir: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...

    A "few meters"? Really? It is 128 meters higher... That isn't a "few meters", that is a lot!

    This one is close to what I meant: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...

    That is 300 meters difference in height. As I said, there is a LOT of elevation changes in Germany. I'd have to travel a thousand miles to find a hill that high here.

    This one is on an artificial hill: http://www.swr.de/kaffee-oder-... easy to see on the pictures

    So for 155 million euros, power is provided for 1600 homes...

    That is a TERRIBLE investment...

    There are about 5 MILLION homes in the Dallas, TX area...

    This is all a nice idea, but you really are off by 3 orders of magnitude in what would be required to provide such power storage for a large number of people.

  3. Re: Water heigh storage: dams by angel'o'sphere · · Score: 1 · on Why Our Antiquated Power Grid Needs Battery Storage

    This one is build on the tip of a natural hill: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/R... around 1919 already

    This one is not on an artificial hill either, but only has a few meters difference between the upper and the lower reservoir: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...

    This one is close to what I meant: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...

    This one is on an artificial hill: http://www.swr.de/kaffee-oder-... easy to see on the pictures

  4. Re:Where can I find a copy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Scientology Tries To Block German Documentary

    The movie will air on March 31st. I think there'll be viewer-created subtitles and torrents shortly after. The movie may also appear on the web at http://www.swr.de/mediathek/ under the German title "Bis nichts mehr bleibt". It is not strictly a documentary, more of a "based on a true story" thing.

  5. Re:Hello? Natural Selection? by Asic+Eng · · Score: 1 · on Chimps Evolved More Than Humans
    Of course there were probably civilisations prior to 10,000 years ago. Unfortunately the only evidence we have of this is the Sphinx.

    We have older evidence already. This here gives us 12000 at least: http://www.swr.de/international/en/2007/01/22/beit rag3.html

  6. Re:trully a shame (from a disgusted European) by Bartmoss · · Score: 1 · on E.U. Agrees To Launch Galileo Satellite Location System
    Actually, I have one of those "new EU passports". They are the ones with the plastic page inside. The big deal is that they're machine readable; there is no biometric information imbedded.

    Example link here

    The biometric thing hasn't been decided yet, has it?

    Either way, I want a direct EU citizenship.