Hmm, as of 2008, rooftop solar has caused 0.44 deaths per TWh produced. Nuclear is at 0.04 deaths per TWh. As your parent pointed out: this is completely irrelevant.
And no one believes such numbers anyway... during construction of a nuclear plant on average about 10 people die. Hundreds died in Australia due to open pit mining of uranium ore... no idea where that pushes the numbers.
Hmm, So, rooftop solar causes 11 times as many deaths as nuclear, even if you include TMI, Chernobyl, and Fukushima. Due to Chernobyl 400,000 (confirmed) to about 1,000,000 (estimated) people died. No idea how you want to break that down to death per Terrawatt.
France at the moment produces 68% of its electricity with nukes. The rest is mostly renewables. They are replacing nukes constantly with renewables. And the electricity price is low, because the state is subsidizing it...
If you ever had been in France, you would know that;D
You end up with a few pounds of waste material per unit over the course of it's lifespan, which is a couple of decades. If it is over 2000 pounds, we prefer the the term "tons"... just in case you did not know.
Dumping "waste" that is 80-90% usable fuel is about as stupid as it gets. Depending on reactor technology (and that focuses on the reactors currently used in the US), waste has less than 1% useable fuel. That is actually why it is called "waste".
Sure, you could get the uranium out of it and "burn" it in a CANDU reactor, but such the US don't have. So: it is waste...
Saudi arabia and other Arabic countries are "changing" since decades. Just look at in what companies they invest. In the 1970s "Mercedes Benz" was divided up into "Daimler Benz" and "Mercedes Benz" just so that one company owns the other one, but the stocks in that company had no votes on the other one. That was done because out of fear that specifically Saudi Arabia would by to much stock in German companies and would control them.
SA and the other Arabs own 'half the world' already, an no one pays attention.
Because those imagined epicycles sure as hell weren't really there. Actually the Sumerians knew that the planets revolve in "circles" around the sun, and they were quite certain that the earth also "is just a planet". Obviously they had no satellites to "prove" it
- why the Universe has about 75% of hydrogen, about 25% of helium, traces of depleting lithium and minuscule traces of the remaining elements - why the cosmic microwave background is about 2.7K Is obviously not very relevant. Sure we "know more things"... and?
All the stars you can see with naked eye (if it is dark enough in modern time) where mapped and named by Sumerians and older civilizations already. The planets, even Saturn, were known. They knew the earth is round, and made even a wild guess that the earth is the third planet of our solar system.
The point is the wording: "have been thoroughly replaced with *actual* understanding." As if the ancients understood nothing... they had not the instruments, they did not consider a big bang etc. But they had *actual understanding" quite plenty. E.g. why do we use 360 degrees to describe a full circle? Hint: it is not because Sumerians and Babylonians used a 60 based counting system (because they actually did not, it is alternating 60 and 20 based):D
Nevertheless the cardboard and the plastic gets recycled...
Or do you mean a juice container? Made from the stupid mixture of cardboard and plastic? They actually get recycled, too. But into park benches and other silly stuff.
All the power in Europe comes from the European Parliament.
No idea why you believe otherwise.
The question is... Why is this change being pushed so hard now, although they have their "poll" almost zero publicity?
It is not pushed, it is only in the news, for what ever reason. Most people don't like the time shift, but as you correctly point out, we have more important things that matter, e.g. BREXIT, the greek crisis, Portugal also still has trouble, and Italy has an absurd unemployment rate which they fake down by manipulating the numbers.
And obviously we hardly can handle the immigrations coming via the mediterranean sea.
daylight saving time does not actually make the day longer. Actually it does. I mean, if you distinguish between day and night, the "day" part of the day and night is longer.
At least for europeans. Only rare professions get up so early in morning that DST makes no difference.
I for my part am rarely at my job before 10:00... so even in deep winter there is light outside, and with permanent DST I might even go home in light. And as I half live in Paris, it is quite nice to have a sunset, or the afterglow of it, at 22:30.
Since the 1600s, the wobbly foundations of ancient astronomy, cosmology etc. have been thoroughly replaced with *actual* understanding. Hae? What exactly did we understand more than Sumerians 3000 BC? Oh, we know since the 1800s or so that suns are powered by fusion, and that basically is what we know more than the ancients.
Amusing... actually not... depressing would coin it more. A self proclaimed first world nation is depending on donations to get/keep its citizens out of harm. When do you guys wake up and realize that your life situation simply sucks and is not on first world standards?
Of course all woman are always late. In what world do you live? And what is sexist about that? We men know and cope with it! You hardly can blame a woman to be sexist, just because she is late for a date with her significant other! On the other hand, in case you insensitive clod don't know: a lady is never late!
That is not insightfull, but dumb. In Europe everything is already done by Robots. Ah, obviously no one would visit a shop where the 'burger flipper' is not a hot chick or a hot guy... In case you mean that with 'robot'.
Robots already have replaced thousands of thousands of workers! Or do you realy think a german or swedish car is made by humans? Sure, there are still a few involved. But compare the number of workers of today with the late 1970s... Probably it dropped ny a factor of 1000, most cdrtainly it is more than a factor of 100!
Many forms of recycling take more energy than working from raw materials. Such recycling is only commercially viable thanks to the high charges for landfill and dumping of used goods. Care to point one, or a couple of them out? I never have heard about such a thing, how should that be physical possible?
Well, if you are old enough you should have watched Mars often enough... However if you live in a city like NYC, you probably never have seen a planet or a star in the sky... what do I know?
Perhaps because it contains a core for handling artificial neural networks?
if it didn't have something that connected to or operated in cooperation with a living organism? Because they don't find that a fitting definition for bionic?
In german bionic means: mimicked after a living organism, not interacting/cooperating with one.
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Hmm, as of 2008, rooftop solar has caused 0.44 deaths per TWh produced. Nuclear is at 0.04 deaths per TWh.
As your parent pointed out: this is completely irrelevant.
And no one believes such numbers anyway ... during construction of a nuclear plant on average about 10 people die. Hundreds died in Australia due to open pit mining of uranium ore ... no idea where that pushes the numbers.
Hmm, So, rooftop solar causes 11 times as many deaths as nuclear, even if you include TMI, Chernobyl, and Fukushima.
Due to Chernobyl 400,000 (confirmed) to about 1,000,000 (estimated) people died. No idea how you want to break that down to death per Terrawatt.
France at the moment produces 68% of its electricity with nukes. ...
The rest is mostly renewables. They are replacing nukes constantly with renewables.
And the electricity price is low, because the state is subsidizing it
If you ever had been in France, you would know that ;D
You end up with a few pounds of waste material per unit over the course of it's lifespan, which is a couple of decades. ... just in case you did not know.
If it is over 2000 pounds, we prefer the the term "tons"
Dumping "waste" that is 80-90% usable fuel is about as stupid as it gets.
Depending on reactor technology (and that focuses on the reactors currently used in the US), waste has less than 1% useable fuel. That is actually why it is called "waste".
Sure, you could get the uranium out of it and "burn" it in a CANDU reactor, but such the US don't have. So: it is waste ...
Saudi arabia and other Arabic countries are "changing" since decades.
Just look at in what companies they invest. In the 1970s "Mercedes Benz" was divided up into "Daimler Benz" and "Mercedes Benz" just so that one company owns the other one, but the stocks in that company had no votes on the other one. That was done because out of fear that specifically Saudi Arabia would by to much stock in German companies and would control them.
SA and the other Arabs own 'half the world' already, an no one pays attention.
Because those imagined epicycles sure as hell weren't really there.
Actually the Sumerians knew that the planets revolve in "circles" around the sun, and they were quite certain that the earth also "is just a planet".
Obviously they had no satellites to "prove" it
No I'm not joking.
Because stuff like this:
- why the Universe has about 75% of hydrogen, about 25% of helium, traces of depleting lithium and minuscule traces of the remaining elements ... and?
- why the cosmic microwave background is about 2.7K
Is obviously not very relevant.
Sure we "know more things"
All the stars you can see with naked eye (if it is dark enough in modern time) where mapped and named by Sumerians and older civilizations already. The planets, even Saturn, were known. They knew the earth is round, and made even a wild guess that the earth is the third planet of our solar system.
The point is the wording: "have been thoroughly replaced with *actual* understanding." As if the ancients understood nothing ... they had not the instruments, they did not consider a big bang etc. But they had *actual understanding" quite plenty. E.g. why do we use 360 degrees to describe a full circle? Hint: it is not because Sumerians and Babylonians used a 60 based counting system (because they actually did not, it is alternating 60 and 20 based) :D
Nevertheless the cardboard and the plastic gets recycled ...
Or do you mean a juice container? Made from the stupid mixture of cardboard and plastic? They actually get recycled, too. But into park benches and other silly stuff.
All the power in Europe comes from the European Parliament.
No idea why you believe otherwise.
The question is... Why is this change being pushed so hard now, although they have their "poll" almost zero publicity?
It is not pushed, it is only in the news, for what ever reason. Most people don't like the time shift, but as you correctly point out, we have more important things that matter, e.g. BREXIT, the greek crisis, Portugal also still has trouble, and Italy has an absurd unemployment rate which they fake down by manipulating the numbers.
And obviously we hardly can handle the immigrations coming via the mediterranean sea.
Actually the article s false.
Obviously.
As long as the european parliament has not decided on it: nothing is going to happen.
And the "european commission" did not even file a bill yet ... so if there will be a change, it will be in 4 or 8 years or further in future.
daylight saving time does not actually make the day longer.
Actually it does.
I mean, if you distinguish between day and night, the "day" part of the day and night is longer.
At least for europeans. Only rare professions get up so early in morning that DST makes no difference.
I for my part am rarely at my job before 10:00 ... so even in deep winter there is light outside, and with permanent DST I might even go home in light. And as I half live in Paris, it is quite nice to have a sunset, or the afterglow of it, at 22:30.
You are right, it is not an issue in other languages, because the time between spring and autumn/fall is just called "summer", an not "summertime".
Since the 1600s, the wobbly foundations of ancient astronomy, cosmology etc. have been thoroughly replaced with *actual* understanding.
Hae? What exactly did we understand more than Sumerians 3000 BC?
Oh, we know since the 1800s or so that suns are powered by fusion, and that basically is what we know more than the ancients.
Amusing ... actually not ... depressing would coin it more.
A self proclaimed first world nation is depending on donations to get/keep its citizens out of harm.
When do you guys wake up and realize that your life situation simply sucks and is not on first world standards?
EU has no such laws.
Individual countries might have, but certainly not Germany.
A storm that kills the power supply in a region big enough to be of concern has yet to be invented.
Of course all woman are always late. In what world do you live? And what is sexist about that? We men know and cope with it! You hardly can blame a woman to be sexist, just because she is late for a date with her significant other!
On the other hand, in case you insensitive clod don't know: a lady is never late!
That is not insightfull, but dumb. ... In case you mean that with 'robot'.
In Europe everything is already done by Robots.
Ah, obviously no one would visit a shop where the 'burger flipper' is not a hot chick or a hot guy
Could you be more specific on the dialect? :)
I would hate to waste my time for learning the wrong one
Robots already have replaced thousands of thousands of workers! ... Probably it dropped ny a factor of 1000, most cdrtainly it is more than a factor of 100!
Or do you realy think a german or swedish car is made by humans?
Sure, there are still a few involved. But compare the number of workers of today with the late 1970s
If anyone can bring (back) men to the moon, it's Mr. Musk,
Would not wonder if the first private customer is a woman.
Many forms of recycling take more energy than working from raw materials. Such recycling is only commercially viable thanks to the high charges for landfill and dumping of used goods.
Care to point one, or a couple of them out?
I never have heard about such a thing, how should that be physical possible?
Well, ... ... what do I know?
if you are old enough you should have watched Mars often enough
However if you live in a city like NYC, you probably never have seen a planet or a star in the sky
Most photos uploaded will have the geo location in the meta data. ...
Wow that was easy again
It is not a cold (re)boot anyway, it is ansarm boot.
In a cold boot power is disconnected from the main board and the ram loses all its data.
Kids in our days ...
Perhaps because it contains a core for handling artificial neural networks?
if it didn't have something that connected to or operated in cooperation with a living organism?
Because they don't find that a fitting definition for bionic?
In german bionic means: mimicked after a living organism, not interacting/cooperating with one.