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by hok 3y ago
Drying the Mediterranean Sea is surely a bad idea, but I wonder why nobody ever built hydroelectric generators into the Strait of Gibraltar. There is a huge steady flow of surface water from the Atlantic into the Mediterranean (1 million cu
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by hok 4y ago
I wonder if that could backfire if the reduced irradiation would reduce the plants' ability to remove carbon from the atmosphere.
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by hok 4y ago
This reminds me of the CargoLifter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CargoLifter They wanted to create a fleet of LTA vessels some 20 years ago, but never made it beyond a reduced-scale prototype and eventually had to file
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by hok 4y ago
The fact that a court overturns a law is proof that our democracy actually works. No need to be 'verdrossen'. It would be worse if the courts just approves all laws the government conceives.
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by hok 4y ago
This place is spectacular in many ways. My favorite: If you say "I can't afford it" at the entrance, they let you in for free.
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by hok 5y ago
On my corporate Linux, both Firefox and Chromium (which is likely the same as Edge nowadays, I guess) are affected.
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by hok 5y ago
I wonder how hydrogen peroxide (a strong oxidant) can reverse the yellowing of plastics, if the yellowing is the result of oxidation. I'm not a chemist, but this doesn't seem to make sense.
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by hok 12y ago
I heard a similar story (a joke from the communist era) around 1995 from a Czech colleague. It was about an artist whose works were never censored. When the other artists asked him how he did it, he replied: "I always add a little whit