if, for example, Microsoft had to provide some Skype APIs for other "skype" like programs to talk to Skype instead of it only being Skype to Skype, the world of video chat programs would be much better as the program will need to compete on functionality rather than lockin
"UTC+1 for the whole year has been tried in the UK: it was not popular. They particularly hated it in Scotland." - when did they do that? apart from every year up to 1916
he hasn't earned it yet but he is using the german national party's tactic of making the small minded fear immigrants and non-native people by saying they are to blame for all the problems - that was their first baby steps into becoming the Nazis
"The consumption of fish is by far the most significant source of ingestion-related mercury exposure in humans and animals.[4] Mercury and methyl mercury are present in only very small concentrations in seawater. However, they are absorbed, usually as methyl mercury, by algae at the start of the food chain. This algae is then eaten by fish and other organisms higher in the food chain. Fish efficiently absorb methyl mercury, but excrete it very slowly.[5] Methyl mercury is not soluble and therefore not excreted." - from the wiki. or did i misunderstand your question "So, please describe HOW these fish will consume mercury laced food from this possible source?"?
thats usually down to idiot journalists who cannot understand the original reports in order to sell newspapers etc or there have been solutions put into place to help mitigate the problems identified (this is usually not considered by those that think everything is a scare story)
when those nuclear sites go offline, do you plan to live on that ground once you've found the billions to decommission and make it safe (if that possible). why are people so obsessed with only having a single source of power and a single power station to serve millions instead of distributed power generation and storage? Wind/solar is a big big employer and will continue to be when they improve the turbine technology.
Solar still works when cloudy, Wind still works. if you take that 100*100 and spread it across every single roof that can take a panel or two and attach a battery to each panel configuration, link them all together along with all the EVs into a series of microgrids and then you don't need to build a one-off site.
Why does there have to only be ONE solution? Distributed power generation is a far better solution, i.e. not a single point of failure for a large area.
"Do you know what also stores energy? Oil, coal, natural gas, wood, and uranium."- Oil, coal, natural gas, wood are single use, they are not reuseable.
"Wind power only works as an energy source if it has another source to back it up. Which is just another way of saying it doesn't work." - does a nuclear power station produce electricity without any fuel? "The problem with using wind is that we have to account for the intermittent nature of wind" and what do we do went a fossil fuel power station goes offline for repairs/maintenance?
Don't forget that every battery in every EV is a storage resource and the more EVs that come online linked into microgrids, the more accessible battery storage there will be. Its not just having a single monster battery on the main grid which is a single point of failure just like a fossil fuel generator and nuclear power station is. With more and more people getting solar at home/business with battery storage, having an EV and all these being linked into a series of microgrids. Look to the future and distributed power with distributed storage - its disrupting the old ideas.
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a lot of "minor differences" makes a "bigger difference" - silver bullets are rarely the answer or available
how do you get around "vendor lock-in" without some sort of regulation e.g. skype, facetime?
if, for example, Microsoft had to provide some Skype APIs for other "skype" like programs to talk to Skype instead of it only being Skype to Skype, the world of video chat programs would be much better as the program will need to compete on functionality rather than lockin
farming technology has moved on since then
"UTC+1 for the whole year has been tried in the UK: it was not popular. They particularly hated it in Scotland." - when did they do that? apart from every year up to 1916
ROFL...
he hasn't earned it yet but he is using the german national party's tactic of making the small minded fear immigrants and non-native people by saying they are to blame for all the problems - that was their first baby steps into becoming the Nazis
not true https://www.morgan-motor.co.uk...
The black cab is the benchmark to beat here in london.
there have been plenty of reports of sat nav taxis taking customers on a merry dance to get to the destination.
"The consumption of fish is by far the most significant source of ingestion-related mercury exposure in humans and animals.[4] Mercury and methyl mercury are present in only very small concentrations in seawater. However, they are absorbed, usually as methyl mercury, by algae at the start of the food chain. This algae is then eaten by fish and other organisms higher in the food chain. Fish efficiently absorb methyl mercury, but excrete it very slowly.[5] Methyl mercury is not soluble and therefore not excreted." - from the wiki. or did i misunderstand your question "So, please describe HOW these fish will consume mercury laced food from this possible source?"?
all those sensible safety regulations are being put on the fire by trump
thats usually down to idiot journalists who cannot understand the original reports in order to sell newspapers etc or there have been solutions put into place to help mitigate the problems identified (this is usually not considered by those that think everything is a scare story)
when those nuclear sites go offline, do you plan to live on that ground once you've found the billions to decommission and make it safe (if that possible). why are people so obsessed with only having a single source of power and a single power station to serve millions instead of distributed power generation and storage? Wind/solar is a big big employer and will continue to be when they improve the turbine technology.
Solar still works when cloudy, Wind still works. if you take that 100*100 and spread it across every single roof that can take a panel or two and attach a battery to each panel configuration, link them all together along with all the EVs into a series of microgrids and then you don't need to build a one-off site.
old, old ideas.... time to join the 21st century
i'm afraid its fighting the old guard with old ideas. the old mallet to crack a nut syndrome
Why does there have to only be ONE solution? Distributed power generation is a far better solution, i.e. not a single point of failure for a large area.
"Do you know what also stores energy? Oil, coal, natural gas, wood, and uranium."- Oil, coal, natural gas, wood are single use, they are not reuseable.
"Wind power only works as an energy source if it has another source to back it up. Which is just another way of saying it doesn't work." - does a nuclear power station produce electricity without any fuel?
"The problem with using wind is that we have to account for the intermittent nature of wind" and what do we do went a fossil fuel power station goes offline for repairs/maintenance?
Don't forget that every battery in every EV is a storage resource and the more EVs that come online linked into microgrids, the more accessible battery storage there will be. Its not just having a single monster battery on the main grid which is a single point of failure just like a fossil fuel generator and nuclear power station is. With more and more people getting solar at home/business with battery storage, having an EV and all these being linked into a series of microgrids. Look to the future and distributed power with distributed storage - its disrupting the old ideas.
mmmm authors are self professed pro-nuclear so not really an independent view of the facts...
you might do better to find a recent example instead of one that finished 40-ish years ago.
batteries are recycled, not disposed of.
rofl
"Nuclear power is reliable, inexpensive (at least compared to solar + batteries), carbon free, and also the safest energy source we have." rofl
have you got any research that shows that?