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  1. Actually I was mistaken, the biggest wind turbine right now is a Danish one ... will take a while till GE is overtaking that again ...

  2. If you look at which country has made the most breakthroughs in efficient lighting, better engines, more power dense batteries that charge faster, biofuels, solar energy, bigger wind turbines, and the manufacturing techniques to make it all happen,
    I would guess that most of the things you mention here you buy from a european company.
    Your claim is basically completely idiotic. Biofuel, we have bio Diesel and Ethanol mix ins since dacades, most car engines are european or japanese, btw. making a super inefficient car engine on par with the rest of the world will give you a 'big number' of efficiency gain, but you win no price with it. Most research papers about solar power come from Germany, which is in Europe. Before China took over the market the biggest producer of Solar Panels, was Germany, which is not in USA ... should I continue?
    Today an american company makes the biggest wind turbine, tomorrow it is an European one. Is that a kind of pissing contest?

  3. Re:Hatha Yoga on Study Finds Yoga Works As Well As Physical Therapy For Back Pain (time.com) · · Score: 1

    I prefer martial arts an tantra over yoga :)
    I sit already 8-10h behind a screen when I'm working ...

  4. Re:more sperm mutations too on 'Older Fathers Have Geekier Sons' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    For female offsprings, not for males: hint, aging of sperms is for female sperms and male sperms completely different.

  5. Re:This should not alarm anyone on A Third Of the Planet's Population Is Exposed To Deadly Heatwaves (motherjones.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, I did not do the math.
    Probably you are right, interesting math again.

  6. Re:Why Yoga won't be more widely used on Study Finds Yoga Works As Well As Physical Therapy For Back Pain (time.com) · · Score: 1

    That bible quote most likely is a fake introduced later anyway (I mean: it likely was never in a Corinthian letter, they are written by Petrus, right?)

    In ancient times (and the bible is full with references to that) most men weared long hair. As well in germanic cultures as in middle eastern cultures. In some cultures it was believed that the strength of a man is in his hair.

    The habit to shave the head of convicts, war collaborators, conscripted soldiers etc. comes from that "believe".

  7. Re:Hatha Yoga on Study Finds Yoga Works As Well As Physical Therapy For Back Pain (time.com) · · Score: 1

    There are probably hundreds of Yoga "Styles".
    Just find one that interests you most.

  8. Re:and yet... on Study Finds Yoga Works As Well As Physical Therapy For Back Pain (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Says the guy who has no clue how the body works ...

  9. If I understood it right, it was significantly above the speed limit as well. An autopilot or self driving car should at least adhere to the speed limit.

  10. That was my post :D

    On a related note, if I understood the news on TV correctly: Germany passed today laws to allow self driving cars on the roads.

  11. Re:This should not alarm anyone on A Third Of the Planet's Population Is Exposed To Deadly Heatwaves (motherjones.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think it is plausiible that the planets population is declpining by 4B people over the course of 50 years.
    It is more likely it will stabilize around those 10B give or take 1B.
    Western countries, mainly Europe have a decline of about 0.5% - 1% of population per year. I see no reason why that should be different world wide when health care, birth control, and social security is established and working everywhere.

  12. Below-freezing weather is pretty unsurvivable unless you have shelter and artificial heating.
    An Iglu does not need artificial heating to be warm. The body heat of the people inside is enough.

    It makes sense that as the planet warms, deadly cold waves will become less common
    In the far north, far south and everywhere with appropriated hight: it will always be cold in 'winter'.

  13. but how much of a role humans play in it is something we will not fully understand for a long time.
    Any links for that?
    I thought climate change was driven by the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere (and by that increased water vapour and methan concentrations)
    If you know non human reasons I guess many people would like to know about that!

  14. Re:The interesting thing on The Behind-the-Scenes Changes Found In MacOS High Sierra (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    There always will be a system/root user.
    Otherwise you could not make upgrades. E.g. if /System is mounted read only, during upgrades it would need to be remounted, or the "upgrade process" would need special abilities to byass the file systems permissions.

    Any links for the stuff you mention? It sounds interesting.

  15. Re:Predictable results on Ethiopia's Coffee Is the Latest Victim of Climate Change (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The 21st century started ... hm, let me check my calendar ... oh, just recently. 17 years ago.
    So what is your point? As I said 90% of the ice on Kilimanjaro is already gone
    And that is very bad for the reagion, droughts everywhere.

    Al Gore is not a climate scientists. He made no 'predictions' he made 'wake up movie', and you seem still to be a sleep.

  16. Re:Who domesticated whom? on Cats May Have Been Domesticated Twice (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    That is basically true for all cubs, regardless of species.

  17. Re:So, how can they can they declare it ended? on Scientists Declare End to Global Coral Reef Bleaching Event (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Well, if a huge deal of corrals are now 'bleached', obviously the amount of corrals left to be bleached gets smaller ... It is like saying: from a population of 10,000 we lost 5000 over the last 2 years to plague. But this month only 30 died to the plague. So we are assuming over next months the amount of dead to decrease.

    In the end we have 1000 survivors with a decrease of death per month from 30 over 20 to 10 and finally 0.

  18. Re:Oh no! My coffee plantation! on Ethiopia's Coffee Is the Latest Victim of Climate Change (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    No.
    Most parts of Russia are hotter in summer than Etopia.
    And most parts of Russia are a freezing hell in winter ...

    Honestly, that was actually a stuoid question. (I usuall say: there are no stupid questions, only stupid answers. However, thisbwas a stuoid question)

  19. Re:Correct! on Ethiopia's Coffee Is the Latest Victim of Climate Change (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes. the models are not the issue, The interpretation, neither. Publishing is.
    If we can mot manage a rapid change in CO2 exhaust, we as a species are basically doomed.
    However I believe we will manage. Even rogue states like the USA will soon switch dramatically.
    We won't be able to save most of the pacific islands but can still welcome the refugees.

  20. Re:Predictable results on Ethiopia's Coffee Is the Latest Victim of Climate Change (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Any links that current climate models can not track historical ones?
    No?
    Guessed so ...

  21. Re:Predictable results on Ethiopia's Coffee Is the Latest Victim of Climate Change (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    90% of the snow and ice cap on Kilimanjaro is gone.
    So what is your stupid point?

    I doubt anyone made a prediction, you probably just cite a newspaper. That is not a prediction.

  22. Re:Warmer climate means less extreme weather, not on Ethiopia's Coffee Is the Latest Victim of Climate Change (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Dampener forr what?
    Temperature? Yes.

    Amount if rain? No.

    If I never had a flood on my fields or in my streets, and now have that every rain season, I would call that: extreme.

  23. Re:The interesting thing on The Behind-the-Scenes Changes Found In MacOS High Sierra (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That does not make much sense.
    On HFS user and root stuff is seperated as well, just as on any unix system.

  24. Re:Excellent! But no nuclear? on Coal Market Set To Collapse Worldwide By 2040 As Solar, Wind Dominate (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Panels dont contain an aluminium frame.
    It is a frame.

    Panels don't contain lead or cadmium. They use copper as conductors and that is outside of the panel, on top of it. Gallium is not a heavy metal. Gallium is mainly only used in the most expensive PV cells used in space crafts.

    PV cells can not be recycled because they continue to much glass?

    How retarded is that? PV cells are glass. Glass is silicium, molten sand, or more precisely, silicium oxide. PV cells are made from pure silicium.

    I suggest to google for some stuff that gives you an education instead of googling for stuff you fear and get fake answers.

    Silicium based PV cells are probably the most easiest thing to recycle on the planet, just behind glass bottles.

  25. Re: Sounds like the right decision on Supreme Court Rules Sex Offenders Can't Be Barred From Social Media (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I have a funny story for that.
    Inwas camping in france with a group of friends and French guy with a 4 or 5 year old daughter joined us (married to a maroccean lady).
    The girl wanted to use my iPad to go on facebook.
    She only had grandmas and grand dads as friends and her profile picture was not herself (don't remember what it was), surprisingly she spoke english, too. Anyway when I looked a bit questioing what she does on my iPad on Facebook she said: "you know, we can put our real age into facebook. That would make a lot of trouble!"
    All the grandmas and granddadies where actually her 4 - 8 year old kid friends.