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  1. Re:Of course we don't need running shoes on Do We Need Running Shoes To Run? · · Score: 1

    Or by the percentage of the species that carries the genes of a historical individual, at any given moment in time. Arbitrarily choosing to measure grandchildren isn't any different than arbitrarily choosing to measure children (though lifespan is certainly going to limit the ability of a gene to have generational effects).

  2. Re:A phenomenal waste of resources on Bohemian Rhapsody On Old Hardware · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You should waste your angst on Las Vegas or something.

  3. Re:Takedown? on Bohemian Rhapsody On Old Hardware · · Score: 1

    Where does something like that get recorded?

  4. Re:Wow on Vatican To Build 100 Megawatt Solar Power Plant · · Score: 1

    Can you spell out some of your assumptions? At 50 watts per square meter (recent panels with noon sun should do quite a bit better than 50 watts / square meter), I get a good bit less than a square mile:

    http://www.google.com/search?q=100+megawatts+%2F+(50+watts+%2F+(square+meter))+-%3E+square+miles

  5. Re:Wasted heat? on How to Charge Your Cellphone Using Wasted Heat · · Score: 1

    The heat is an unavoidable secondary effect (of an internal combustion engine). If you have a device than can extract electrical energy from the heat without interfering with proper cooling, the energy is essentially free.

  6. Re:laptop heat? can that be used to charge it self on How to Charge Your Cellphone Using Wasted Heat · · Score: 1

    Only if you run your computations in reverse some of the time.

  7. Re:Sipping From a Firehose on How to Charge Your Cellphone Using Wasted Heat · · Score: 1

    Those figures are per capita and include industrial and commercial consumption (a society sets the rules for industry and commerce and is responsible for their behavior, but it isn't as if the average American is sitting at home finding news ways to waste electricity, some clever sole is out there doing it for them, lighting a parking lot or whatever).

  8. Re:Ever see on Energy-Beaming Space Collector To Also Alter Weather? · · Score: 1

    The proper term is SPF-Aluminum.

  9. Re:Lots o' power on Energy-Beaming Space Collector To Also Alter Weather? · · Score: 1

    Unless the damping is achieved by smoothing out the energy transfer (rather than suppressing it). Tropical storm Tuesdays or whatever.

    Given the scale of a hurricane, it isn't likely that they would be able to actually damp out an active storm.

  10. Re:EPA would never let you build them on 12 Small Windmills Put To the Test In Holland · · Score: 1

    I don't expect the woman to change her mind, I expect she will have a much harder time influencing others.

  11. Re:Sorry, but Schools DO have Totalitarian control on Worst Censorware Blocks Cannot Be Fixed · · Score: 1

    The constitution enjoins the government. It has nothing to say about consenting adults urinating on each other, for instance.

  12. Re:While I agree... on 12 Small Windmills Put To the Test In Holland · · Score: 1

    Don't forget, various government agencies will shoot them with only minor warning.

  13. Re:One topic at a time please on Worst Censorware Blocks Cannot Be Fixed · · Score: 1

    Bennett is a comedian.

  14. Solution to the space problem on 12 Small Windmills Put To the Test In Holland · · Score: 1

    Just put them in France.

    You can do it!

  15. Re:Little, overpriced windmills on 12 Small Windmills Put To the Test In Holland · · Score: 1

    It is really too bad that stupid isn't an anatomical feature. If it were, you could have punched that guy in the stupid.

  16. Re:While I agree... on 12 Small Windmills Put To the Test In Holland · · Score: 1

    Or they could just use some dynamite (I can't imagine that underwater salvage would be harder than dismantling them).

    I can't see it being a big problem, if it did turn into a big problem, just start shooting unauthorized climbers/interlopers (with as much warning as makes people feel warm and fuzzing inside).

  17. Re:Actually, it would take 6 windmills on 12 Small Windmills Put To the Test In Holland · · Score: 1

    Those numbers include industrial and commercial consumption (they certainly reflect per capita consumption of electricity, but I doubt they accurately reflect residential use in each country).

    Based on a couple of electric bills, I (as a U.S. resident) use somewhere less than 5,000 kWh a year (that calculation is very conservative; this amount probably isn't very high, as I don't use AC, but it probably isn't very low either, as I am only moderately attentive to how much power I am using).

  18. Re:Awesome! on Adobe Pushing For Flash TVs · · Score: 1

    2 cats 1 toilet?

  19. Re:Only 1 problem with that on Adobe Pushing For Flash TVs · · Score: 1

    Hulu had my baby.

  20. Re:Um no... on Adobe Pushing For Flash TVs · · Score: 1

    It is pretty likely that the flash implementation will use the same video decoder as the rest of the TV (probably a hardware chip; won't work for every flash video on the internet, but it will likely work for the highest resolution videos).

    I suppose they could botch it and not do this, but I doubt it.

  21. Re:Do what I do! on eReader.com Limits E-book Sales To US Citizens · · Score: 1

    I'm curious: why not use a more descriptive file name?

  22. Re:They have won... on eReader.com Limits E-book Sales To US Citizens · · Score: 1

    The U.S. has had libraries and used books stores for the last hundred years too.

  23. Re:Units? on Next-Gen Nuclear Power Plant Breaks Ground In China · · Score: 1

    I'll take the nuclear duty cycle.

  24. Re:Some thoughts on 12 Small Windmills Put To the Test In Holland · · Score: 1

    I'm all for wind (and solar and other low impact renewables), but worries about fuel supply are not the biggest problem with nuclear (really, nuclear looks like a pretty good medium term trade off when you compare it to coal, which is what it would really be competing with).

  25. Re:Well, crap. on Oracle Buys Sun · · Score: 1

    It's noon somewhere.