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  1. Re:he's not a whistleblower on Google May Be In Trouble For Firing James Damore (inc.com) · · Score: 1

    you should ask that of the poster he was replying to as well.

  2. Re:Too little, too late on Mazda Announces Breakthrough In Long-Coveted Engine Technology (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    It doesn;t matter that distracted drivers cause more, tiredness/falling asleep at the wheel still causes accidents and driving tired is not being careful.

  3. Re:Too little, too late on Mazda Announces Breakthrough In Long-Coveted Engine Technology (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    With most issues raised about lithium for EV batteries, no-one seems to care about it relating to their phone/laptop, they will quite happily take them everywhere.

    "Almost all that lithium—greater than 95 percent of it— is produced through a process of pumping underground brine to the surface and allowing it to evaporate in big pans. It’s separated from the brine using electrolysis." quote from https://cleantechnica.com/2016...
    The photos circulating the net pretending to be open lithium mines are actually copper or tar sands http://www.snopes.com/lithium-...

    Recycling is already happening and they can be recycled into new storage systems like home solar batteries as they don't need to be powerful as an EV requires.They make their money at the moment from extracting the other elements like cobalt.

    Carbon fibre recycling is being worked on and getting better: http://www.compositesworld.com...

    There are risks with all forms of transport and power generation, you just have to mitigate it in some way. ICE did explode (google Ford Pinto) before better design happened.

    Yes, the dangers of not disposing of batteries correctly is known as are the dangers of lighting a match next to petrol/gas are also known - you take a horse to water but you can't make it drink.

  4. Re:Too little, too late on Mazda Announces Breakthrough In Long-Coveted Engine Technology (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    batteries will be recycled so if its sitting in a junk yard, it'll just be the body

  5. Re:Too little, too late on Mazda Announces Breakthrough In Long-Coveted Engine Technology (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    stop and fill up...

  6. Re:4.5GW not that much on Massive Solar Plant In the Sahara Could Help Keep the EU Powered (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 2

    True, but i doubt its the aim to 100% reliant on one source. As we all get more energy efficient and more people get their own solar/wind and battery storage that 30000000 GW figure will reduce

  7. Re: Stupid lawsuit, but useful on Linux Kernel Hardeners Grsecurity Sue Open Source's Bruce Perens (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    that should apply to armchair AC lawyers too

  8. Re:Terrible news on US Nuclear Comeback Stalls As Two Reactors Are Abandoned (theaustralian.com.au) · · Score: 1

    as more and more homes/business get their own solar/wind and battery storage and microgrids emerge there will be less reliance on single point of failure of "utility scale amounts of power" and those utilities will soon also get with the program and get more and more battery storage.

  9. Re: Misleading title on Systemd Named 'Lamest Vendor' At Pwnie Security Awards (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you should read all the way down to the bottom of that link, it might more sense to you.

  10. Re: Misleading title on Systemd Named 'Lamest Vendor' At Pwnie Security Awards (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I would have thought the best way for the those that didn't like/understand systemd to make their point would have been to produce an exploit related to the "init" function of systemd.

  11. Re:Welding helmet on Solar-Eclipse Glasses On Amazon May Not Meet NASA's Safety Requirements (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    and don;t forget to have a jacket handy, the temperature does drop a bit when the sun is blocked

  12. Re:Stupid on New Diesel and Petrol Vehicles To Be Banned From 2040 In UK (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    the occasional long journey for some IS the minimum use case, daily use is not.

  13. Re:reasonable gamble on New Diesel and Petrol Vehicles To Be Banned From 2040 In UK (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    it already is as the top of britain is geologically rising and the south is sinking.. :)

  14. Re:reasonable gamble on New Diesel and Petrol Vehicles To Be Banned From 2040 In UK (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    EVs will be taxed at some point as they need to replace tax lost from fossil fuel sales.

  15. Re:reasonable gamble on New Diesel and Petrol Vehicles To Be Banned From 2040 In UK (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Nicely put but probably not understood by the nationalistic "brexit" mentality types around the world.

  16. Re:Short-sighted view on New Diesel and Petrol Vehicles To Be Banned From 2040 In UK (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Some EV battery packs, e.g. Nissan Leaf, are designed to be able to identify dud cells and replace them so no need to put in a new pack.

  17. Re:Short-sighted view on New Diesel and Petrol Vehicles To Be Banned From 2040 In UK (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Have you factored in maintenance/servicing etc?

  18. Re:Strange bedfellows on World's First Floating Wind Farm Emerges Off Coast of Scotland (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    How would you know what the decommissioning cost is to the government, i.e. you and me, decades in advance of it being done?

  19. Re:Won't somebody think of the birds? on World's First Floating Wind Farm Emerges Off Coast of Scotland (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    tie a cat or two to the blades to scare the birds away, cats kill way more birds than a turbine and no-one calls for a cull of cats.

  20. Re:Strange bedfellows on World's First Floating Wind Farm Emerges Off Coast of Scotland (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Informative

    "If we get air cooled nuclear power then I have my doubts that even wind can compete on being as cheap or "green"." - no-one who promotes nuclear seems to include the extortionate build/decommission costs or subsidies given to nuclear industry. http://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear-...

  21. Re: Strange bedfellows on World's First Floating Wind Farm Emerges Off Coast of Scotland (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Informative

    you'd be lucky if you could find a spot in the North Sea that isn't windy

  22. Re:Systemd is responsible for the libraries it use on DNS Lib Underscore Bug Bites Everyone's Favorite Init Tool, Blanks Netflix (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Your logic only gets used when systemd is involved, any other software that fails because of an external source will not get the same crap, they will defend the software involved and say "xxx is not at fault, its an external xxxx fault".

  23. Re:The problem is systemd breaking unexpectedly on DNS Lib Underscore Bug Bites Everyone's Favorite Init Tool, Blanks Netflix (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    PID1 systemd does not handle DNS, the very optional systemd-resolved does that.

  24. Re: The problem is systemd breaking unexpectedly on DNS Lib Underscore Bug Bites Everyone's Favorite Init Tool, Blanks Netflix (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    systemd isn't resolving names, one of its optional extras is doing the resolving i.e systemd-resolved. You should have learnt the difference between systemd and systemd-the-project by now.

  25. Re:Blanks Netflix for a userbase edge case on DNS Lib Underscore Bug Bites Everyone's Favorite Init Tool, Blanks Netflix (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    why don't you check to make sure? accuracy is everything.