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  1. Re:With or without subsidys? on Renewable Energy Set To Be Cheaper Than Fossil Fuels By 2020, Says Report (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    there is no need to subsidize fossil fuel after 100+ years to get it right but they still do in all sorts of ways

  2. Re:So we can end subsities? on Renewable Energy Set To Be Cheaper Than Fossil Fuels By 2020, Says Report (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    "Chart of the month: Driven by Tesla, battery prices cut in half since 2014"
    https://thinkprogress.org/char...

  3. Re:Blood on your hands on Why Uber Can Find You but 911 Can't (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    no, thats a potential privacy nightmare - just make it so 911 get a location once when the call is made or in progress. No need to hold onto anymore data.

  4. Re:Blood on your hands on Why Uber Can Find You but 911 Can't (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    really? its just a one off location request on a phone call.

  5. Re:Because "Pop Music" isn't popular anymore. on Is Pop Music Becoming Louder, Simpler and More Repetitive? (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    "Rinse, repeat ad infinitum." - that is the most salient point. it seems since computers made making music easier, its become easier to repeat The old "ooo look that worked, lets copy it" scenario from old still applies today but so much more of it comes out today - its too easy for the talentless to make a record

  6. Re:I'm wondering what's going to happen on Renewable Energy Set To Be Cheaper Than Fossil Fuels By 2020, Says Report (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Water might become the next excuse for war when the middle east gets too hot

  7. Re:FUD that costs lives on Why Uber Can Find You but 911 Can't (wsj.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    i think i'd prefer the 911 services to get to me earlier than later, after all its just a location request.

  8. Re:Blood on your hands on Why Uber Can Find You but 911 Can't (wsj.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    so do you prefer for ambulances/fire brigades/police not to be able to find you in an emergency?

  9. Re:Let golf courses go to seed... on Will Cape Town be the First City To Run Out of Water? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Quite popular. Plus its close to their wine producing region

  10. Re:Solution on Will Cape Town be the First City To Run Out of Water? (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    that must have been Budweiser...

  11. Re:19 Gal/day is not out on Will Cape Town be the First City To Run Out of Water? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    "I'd like to see reuse of "grey water" become commonplace or even required. Most water could be reused in the toilet for example. Most "washers" (be they people, clothes, dishes, etc) are used to flush away contaminants, but then we don't bother to filter and reuse the water, we just dump it just like it is right down the drain, which is a huge waste."

    should be made mandatory on all new builds

  12. don't expect anything less from those with their head in the sand - its a sign I'm not wrong if they have no argument to make

  13. " Don't forget, the U.S. is a Christian Nation" - only by force as most christian nations are some form of pagan in origin

  14. Re: Easy to do for Net Energy Exporting countries on Norway Powers Ahead (Electrically): Over Half New Car Sales Now Electric or Hybrid (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    " where these multi-thousand dollar subsidies per caw would come from?" - the same place the fossil fuel subsidies come from?

  15. doesn't matter where the nuclear waste comes from, its still toxic and it being around is an accident waiting to happen so its a potential danger for a very long time.

  16. Re:Not surprising, really. on UK 'Faces Build-up of Plastic Waste' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    "There's no good way to recycle rechargeable batteries,small amount of copper and other metals, either. " are you sure about that, there are companies out there doing just that.

  17. Re:Shouldn't they, of all countries, know better? on Germany Starts Enforcing Hate Speech Law (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... - "The National Socialist German Workers' Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (helpinfo), abbreviated NSDAP), commonly referred to in English as the Nazi Party (/ntsi/), was a far-right political party in Germany that was active between 1920 and 1945 and practised the ideology of Nazism." - far and right and far left always look very similar

  18. Re:They do on Germany Starts Enforcing Hate Speech Law (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    "German leaders have become corrupt totalitarians (again)" - what a load of ignorant bollox.

  19. Re:Mohammedism on Germany Starts Enforcing Hate Speech Law (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Read the bible and you will see lots of justifications for deadly violence.

  20. Re:Shouldn't they, of all countries, know better? on Germany Starts Enforcing Hate Speech Law (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    they opened it to Catholics?

  21. Re:Sounds like a great idea! on Dutch Utility Plans Massive Wind Farm Island In North Sea (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    "Spoil the pristine waters or some BS?" it will certainly spoil it all if there is a catastrophic disaster with a nuclear plant, radio active waters and all fishing stocks contaminated forever more would be an issue.

  22. Re:No soft metrics! on How Pirates Of The Caribbean Hijacked America's Metric System (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    LOL... you are going backwards at the moment... might be a while before that changes

  23. Re:Misleading headlines on UK Enjoyed 'Greenest Year For Electricity Ever' in 2017 (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It is showing that renewable power generation is on the increase, i don't know why people expect it to be close to 100% overnight when it still a new and developing technology - some places still don;t even have fossil fuel power generation after a few hundreds years of it being around.

  24. Re:100 percent green energy by 2025 on UK Enjoyed 'Greenest Year For Electricity Ever' in 2017 (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    "The government of Taiwan has embarked on an ambitious plan to embrace the renewable energy revolution. As part of President Tsai Ing-wen’s plan to phase out nuclear power plants and reduce the use of fossil fuels, the government intends to invest as much as $56.6 billion, and to raise the percentage of renewable energy in Taiwan’s energy mix to between 20% and 25%. "
    http://www.senseandsustainabil...
    https://www.bloomberg.com/news...

  25. Re:100 percent green energy by 2025 on UK Enjoyed 'Greenest Year For Electricity Ever' in 2017 (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    one bomb on a nuclear plant would suffice to power down the island, much easier than trying to take out millions of distributed power sources