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  1. Unless you are media exercising your right to free speech then you get a hoard of people complaining about you.

  2. It is the current not voltage that is bad.

    Static electricity shocks are in the tens of thousands volts.

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

    Unless they don't have enough water/.

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

    Pineapples are not fast growing. It takes a couple of years.

  5. Re: Communism on Venezuelans Flock To Cryptocoins Amid Spiralling Inflation (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    An economic model is not supposed to be popular, if it is a popular one it means it is one that gives government power, removes power from individuals and all of this is done either for 'the good of the public' or for 'the good of the nation' (socialism/communism vs fascism/nazism), pick your hemlock.

    An economic model is supposed to follow sound ideas of money being created by productive work

    Is it?

    Or is the economic model supposed to provide for the people the best quality of life? Who cares about the top end of town, it is how well the bottom end of town lives that determines if a model is good or bad.

  6. Re:Guess you won't need those subsidies anymore on Coal Market Set To Collapse Worldwide By 2040 As Solar, Wind Dominate (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I have too. The efficiency isn't all that great. We're talking in the teens. High-end panels might give you 21%.

    As opposed to Coal which is less then 1% of the energy from the sun. (Plants only take 1% of the energy. Let along all the loses from plant to coal to power)

  7. Re:Guess you won't need those subsidies anymore on Coal Market Set To Collapse Worldwide By 2040 As Solar, Wind Dominate (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Al Gore told Us the Ice would be gone! on Arctic Climate Change Study Canceled Due to Climate Change (livescience.com) · · Score: 1

    Largest ice by volume or by area?

    Which is more ice. 1km^2 of ice 10m thick or 5km^2 of ice 10cm thick.

  9. Re:That's right folks on Arctic Climate Change Study Canceled Due to Climate Change (livescience.com) · · Score: 1

    Seeing as though the people that don't think climate change is a problem get away with being false prophets I don't think their is any penalties.

  10. Re:Think of the good side on Arctic Climate Change Study Canceled Due to Climate Change (livescience.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah they would of gotten stuck on the iceberg instead and have to call for a helicopter rescue.

  11. Re:dumping the grid on Coal Market Set To Collapse Worldwide By 2040 As Solar, Wind Dominate (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Except for Australia. (although much smaller so you might be right)

  12. Re: And yet people continue the Warming Alsrmism on Coal Market Set To Collapse Worldwide By 2040 As Solar, Wind Dominate (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    What about if you burnt the trees into a carbon rich ash, and then used the ash to increase carbon in soil.

  13. Re: And yet people continue the Warming Alsrmism on Coal Market Set To Collapse Worldwide By 2040 As Solar, Wind Dominate (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Seeing as though animals do not release fossil carbon that part is true.

    And even if volcanoes do release more greenhouse gas then humans it is offset by the natural process (as shown by greenhouse gases not rising over history)

    Which is easier to reduce. Greenhouse gases from humans or Greenhouse Gases from volcanoes.

  14. Re:Yet another reason to never use in-store wifi on Amazon Granted a Patent That Prevents In-Store Shoppers From Online Price Checking (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Cell phone: Are you allowed to put up a cell phone tower?

    Net Neutrality: Would this fall under Net Neutrality:

    Wire Tapping: How is it wire tapping? You do not tap someone else's wire. You provide your own for the,m to connect too.

  15. Re:Yet another reason to never use in-store wifi on Amazon Granted a Patent That Prevents In-Store Shoppers From Online Price Checking (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    So only amazon can do this due to the patent.
    Amazon does not have physical stores.

    How exactly is Amazon going to do this?

  16. Re:much ado about nothing on China Successfully Mines Gas From Methane Hydrate In Production Run (oilprice.com) · · Score: 1

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    1,222 kilometres is a lot more then 330km.

  17. I was saying if renewables provide more then 50% of electricity on one day, then non-renewables must provide less then 50% on that day.

    31.6% annual electricity and 12.5 annual power from renewables.

  18. This weekend is at the intersection "not hot enough to run air conditioning" and "not cold enough to run heat" (both of which are largely electric in Germany, I believe), and being on the weekend countless offices and businesses were closed, driving demand way down.

    This interesting report will be the year-long daily percentage of Germany's power needs that are supplied by local (generated within Germany's borders, not imported). Once renewables are able to provide, consistently, every day for 12 months, a minimum of 50% of Germany's power needs, this is nothing more than a mildly interesting milestone.

    In 13 years it is hoped this self-described 'aberration' will become the norm, which makes this story premature, and as I often say, "Premature is rarely a good thing!"

    Are you talking about power or electricity?

    If you are talking about just electricity , why does renewables have to provide 50% of every day's electricity when non-renewables don't do that today?

    (current annual figure by the way are 31.6% electricity and 12.5 power according to wikipedia)

  19. In 2011, the average time it took a facility to conduct a refueling outage was 43 days.
    24 months they must refuel,

    http://neinuclearnotes.blogspo...

    According to those numbers it is 95%.

    Now your problem is 100% for 24x7 is a horrible plant to run your grid 100% on. the grid needs plants that load follow and according to your post nuclear does not do that.

  20. Re: "Green" technologies aren't sufficient. on Westinghouse Files For Bankruptcy, In Blow To Nuclear Power (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Even fish?

  21. Re:No, it's the hour in the middle you can skip on Hollywood Producer Blames Rotten Tomatoes For Convincing People Not To See His Movie (vanityfair.com) · · Score: 1

    Why?

    The film is inside the camera going back in time.

  22. Re: Oh well on Sea Ice Extent Sinks To Record Lows At Both Poles (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 2

    From yes prime minister

    Bernard Woolley: What if the Prime Minister insists we help them?

    Sir Humphrey Appleby: Then we follow the four-stage strategy.

    Bernard Woolley: What's that?

    Sir Richard Wharton: Standard Foreign Office response in a time of crisis.

    Sir Richard Wharton: In stage one we say nothing is going to happen.

    Sir Humphrey Appleby: Stage two, we say something may be about to happen, but we should do nothing about it.

    Sir Richard Wharton: In stage three, we say that maybe we should do something about it, but there's nothing we *can* do.

    Sir Humphrey Appleby: Stage four, we say maybe there was something we could have done, but it's too late now.

  23. Re:No, it's the hour in the middle you can skip on Hollywood Producer Blames Rotten Tomatoes For Convincing People Not To See His Movie (vanityfair.com) · · Score: 1

    He did not alter the spin of Earth.

    He went back in time and took the camera with him as he did so.

  24. And watch as every single ISP drops Cogent so that their customers can access the internet. Their are so many sites on Cloudflare that if they were blocked, Customers would move from any ISP that would not let them access their sites.

    No Discord, Udacity , Stackoverflow for starters,

  25. Re:A very good more basic question on Finland's Universal Basic Income Called 'Useless' By Trade Union Economist (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Except California is a net payer to the federal government. The biggest handouts(based on how much the states pay) are the red states (excluding Texas)