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  1. Well,
    Batterires efficiency is around 99% and above.
    If we talk about transmission loss, why do you mean? From your plug to your battery? The loss ther is basically zero. The grid haas a loss but that is hardly more than 5% ... and you don't complain about that loss for your microwave, why do you complain for charging your battery?
    Then again, when we talk about oil and gas, you seem to ignore the losses, too? Do you think oil and methane tracel through a pipeline or with a tanker 'for nothing'?
    Then again you argue about CH4 and NO ... the problem of NO is in the lower atmosphere, it never reaches the upper atmosphere to react with CH4.
    And then again you complain about CH4 being a stronger greenhouse gas than CO2, this is true. But unlike CO2, CH4 is a zero sum game (as long as you don't leak it out of a gas field. CH4 is reduced in the upper atmosphere by UV light, so all the cattle we breed basically only sets the 'footprint' or baseline. In other words: natural created CH4 would find a balance on a certain level. Only the level is different if you e.g. produce more during farming or breeding cattle.

    The net effect of your average diesel car is a LOWERING of the atmospheric greenhouse gas effect!
    No it is not, for that it would need to exhaust several magnitudes more of NO and you need a magic way to get it into contact with CH4.

  2. Re:What about versus E85s? on Electric Cars Emit 50 Percent Less Greenhouse Gas Than Diesel, Study Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    ethanol, usually made from palm oi
    That does not really make sense.
    Why (and how?) would one convert perfectly fine oil into ethanol?

  3. old programmers never die. they just branch to a . on Ask Slashdot: Where Do Old Programmers Go? · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... different address.

    -eom-

  4. Re:Why is this necessary? on Italy Proposes Phasing Out Coal Power Plants By 2025 (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    This is Europe.
    It is pretty difficult for a 'free market entity' to declare itself to be a power company and invest a billion into a new power plant. First of all: from where should it get that billion? And secondly from where should it get the land to build the plan on? Europe is small ... or most countries are small.
    Production cost of power is probably a bit less than 30% of the selling price. (30% production, 30% transportatiom, 20% taxes, 10% earnings)
    Even while wind is cheaper than coal for new installations, it would only cut into the 30% production cost and lower it perhaps to 25% now and 20% in far future.

  5. Re:That's not happening without nuclear power on Italy Proposes Phasing Out Coal Power Plants By 2025 (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    France is a net importer of energy, not an net exporter.
    Germany is a net exporter of energy, not a net importer.

    And yes, they all learned from Germany. As the energy revolution in Gemany is the poster child for the rest of Europe.
    Negative price desls are usually I wash your hand, you wash my hand back and forth going deals amoung energy companies. So why do you care?

  6. Re:Can someone explain how it would work? on Bitcoin Pioneer Says New Coin To Work on Many Blockchains (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, you missed the obvious:
    After you have shreddered all your US money, you can not afford a ticket to fly to Germany :P
    And then we have this refugee oroblem here ... hope you manage to get in without meeting some 'skin heads' !

  7. Re:low fat superstition again on Chinese Scientists Create Genetically Modified Low-Fat Pigs (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Atkinson is not a high fat advocator.
    He is a high proteine advocator.

    Replacing carbs with fat makes not much sense, unless you are a maori or inuit.

    Reducing carbs makes sense, especially high processed ones.

    There is nothing wrong with a boal of good asian rice or a chunk of good black german bread made from ray.

    The combination of fat and carbs in the same meal is the problem, especially if it is high processed carbs and high saturrated fats.

    Citing Atkinson and obviously never having read a book about him is kinda a sin/lie.

  8. Re:Consumer Demand on Chinese Scientists Create Genetically Modified Low-Fat Pigs (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the declining sperm-count in western men is because of the focus over the last 50 years on a low-fat diet.
    That is certainly annoption.
    However I assume your drinking water simply contains to much estrogen as it is not as good treated as in europe e.g.

  9. Re:Find another gene on Chinese Scientists Create Genetically Modified Low-Fat Pigs (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Mans already have that gene ...
    But perhaps we find anither one.

    Obesity is mostly caused by wrong gut bacteria ... people can digest fibres, which ordinary people can't.
    Inassume they get infected via eating the wrong parts of cows ... or gut bacteria somehow get into sausages.

  10. Re:and why this isn't a good idea on Chinese Scientists Create Genetically Modified Low-Fat Pigs (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Wild pigs already have that gene.
    Humans first breeded it away, to have fatter pigs. Now gene edit it back in, to save heating costs for mass production.
    I happily eat the old pig races we still have in germany :)

  11. Re:Suffer less in cold weather? on Chinese Scientists Create Genetically Modified Low-Fat Pigs (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    It is all in the summary, facepalm.
    Ordinary pigs lack a gene to regulate body temperature properly.
    Hence they even freeze with fat in cold weather.
    With the additional gene they can burn their fat, and don't freeze.

  12. Re: No Bacon on Chinese Scientists Create Genetically Modified Low-Fat Pigs (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Fat is good in measure.
    So are carbs.

    Claiming that one is good and the other is bad is just bollocks.

  13. Re:No Bacon on Chinese Scientists Create Genetically Modified Low-Fat Pigs (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    That is nonsense ...

  14. Re:No Bacon on Chinese Scientists Create Genetically Modified Low-Fat Pigs (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    What are you actually doing with bacon?
    You put iti into a pan and fry it ... so more fat is better.
    You take it out of the pan when the meet and remaining fat is crisp.

  15. Re:I don't understand on Chinese Scientists Create Genetically Modified Low-Fat Pigs (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Humans obviously already have that gene, which is clearly written in the summary.

  16. Re:I don't understand on Chinese Scientists Create Genetically Modified Low-Fat Pigs (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Well,
    I could cut&paste you the summary.
    But you could simply scroll up ...

  17. Re:The headline I see on Chinese Scientists Create Genetically Modified Low-Fat Pigs (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    A flavoir that makes me vomit.
    Especially with beef.

    I prefere the meet cooked on fire or in a pan, so that the fat melts away, the remains I cut away.

  18. Re: The Sourcers Apprentice on The Factory Where Robots Build Robots (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Everything is better than dollars.
    A dollar in the US is less worth than a dollar in China, hence in China you produce more for a dollar.

  19. Re:100% stealth on The Factory Where Robots Build Robots (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    They are so secret, you can not even buy shares: https://www.marketwatch.com/in...

  20. Re: The Sourcers Apprentice on The Factory Where Robots Build Robots (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The article you linked compares "manufacturing" based on the dollar value produced.
    That is obviously a nearly pointless metric.

  21. Re:A.I sense of humor? on When an AI Tries Writing Slashdot Headlines (tumblr.com) · · Score: 1

    Hm,
    was that not called Duke Nukem? Forever?

  22. Re:The Mac Is Dead on Tim Cook Confirms the Mac Mini Isn't Dead (macrumors.com) · · Score: 0

    Say what hou want, but the current mac mini *is* a chesp desktop computer for those who buy them.
    Combine it with a timecapsul and it is what many use as a small server for a small office.
    I see them rregularily as Jenkins/Git/Gerrit servers all over the places.

  23. Re:Banning Lithium-Ion batters on Flights on Laptops Could Be Banned From Checked Bags on Planes Due To Fire Risk (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    No, you should watch the videos again, I posted, or google yourself or read some wikipeedia.
    But it is up to you to underestimate a flame created by burning metals, perhaps google the term 'termite'.

    What do you think why it is already forbidden to carry lith ion batteries in cargo? Because the flight companies consist of idiots?

  24. Re:This is not a good solution on Laptops Could Be Banned From Checked Bags on Planes Due To Fire Risk (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Well,
    I keep my laptop sleeping, not running ...

    How ever the sleeping can fail, so you have to check beforee you store it if it is really sleeping.

    I doubt there is any need ever to fiddle with thermal paste, unless like in the early 15" first Intel MacBook Pros, where they had a manufacturer fault on the main boards.

  25. Re:Currency has value because of COMMON value on Software Developer Creates Personal Cryptocurrency (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    That element is not missing.
    He offers you a service, you take it or leave it.
    And you pay him in his own currency ....