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by patall 6y ago
I do not know about Gravicity but Heindl Energy (bankrupt as of this year) planned to lift a granite block 500m in radius hydrolicly for an on paper storage capacity of 1614 GWh. source: http://www.eduard-heindl.de/energy-s
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by patall 6y ago
That part is obvious. Still, you have to be able to run it. If you have hourly outages weeks into taking over because you cannot fix this or that glitch, the nicest user database isn't worth much if users are switching to the next plat
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by patall 6y ago
Beside all the political issues, what is Microsoft actually supposedly buying here? The data centre, data and access to it? Because it does not seem to me that they are buying any of the developers, am I right? At least there is no talk abo
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by patall 6y ago
You misunderstand. 12k$ (or some number in that ballpark) would be per postive test for testing everyone. Your 12k$ for MRI would check a single person. That's something totally different. The point is that treating a cancer patient ea
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by patall 6y ago
Eventually, this is all about cost. cfDNA assays are targetted to in the end cost less than 100 bucks per sample which for the detection of a single cancer puts you in the range of $12000 for one tumor diagnosis. Ideally, you can now decrea
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by patall 6y ago
With most of these (cell free DNA) assays, its not a single site that you are measuring but a statistical aggregate about profiles that have been defined for a certain cell type. If you know the overall profile of prostate cells and the pro
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by patall 6y ago
While that is true, that is true for our entire society. Big projects are almost never started nowadays by selling somethings else (unless its a direct replacement). Instead, what usually happens is that you take a bank loan that is secured
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by patall 6y ago
They are quite widespread for one reason: certificates. Demeter is one of the oldest and most strict organic certificates and also probably the most powerful. If a farmer really wants to do sustainable agriculture, it makes sense to go for
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by patall 6y ago
The comment is about Rudolf Steiner and the anthroposophic movement where many of the permaculture (but also a lot of lets say more questionable) ideas have been popular: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodynamic_agricu
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by patall 6y ago
My parents earn together ~90k, just bought a house and travel about 4 weeks a year through all of europe and still support us three kids. So thats not true, at least not if you are living in a smaller city. And for places like Berlin or Mun
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by patall 6y ago
If the holy grail is only a few years away, then yes. Normal CRISPR editing rely on non-homologous-end-joining (NHEJ) which is not an absolutely exact process. However, there are now base editors (look up prime editing) that edit a single p
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by patall 6y ago
Actually, there is a couple thousand monogenic Mendelian diseases, so work isn't short, also not people, just money. However, you won't treat a developmental delay with a gene edit, that only works for non-working enzymes etc. wit
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by patall 6y ago
Biogas is a renewable. And contributes 5% to Germanys energy load, at baseload capability, still being made more and more flexible. You may not like it but it is definitely there. Hydro by the way also destroys vast stretches of land and cr
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by patall 6y ago
While its not that high (about 5%), Germany also has biogas which is also a baseload capable energy source that is renewable and can use most of the existing gas infrastructure
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by patall 6y ago
Because its cheaper? Britain is building one new nuclear power plant (Hinkley Point C) which is delayed by many years but has guranteed energy prices of 10 ct per kWh. That's about double what energy costs are usually in europe at this
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by patall 6y ago
Parent is writing about Antarctica, the ice sheet is not floating but would be replaced by air which is a lot less dense. And the land rising effect is certainly there, its well known from our norther hemisphere where satellite measurements
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by patall 6y ago
I have wondered about this before: are there standard available solutions to clean your wood stove exhaust air in an economically sensefull way. I mean, my garden produces that much wood each year, I better use that somehow. And I cannot us
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by patall 6y ago
But this is only because you are now out of a sudden in such a situation. If you knew it was like this for ever and its up to you how much human contact you still get you can team up with some friends (or collegues that you especially like)
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by patall 6y ago
Sorry but no, I do not have an opinion on that.
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by patall 6y ago
From abstract: "Given that accumulating evidence points at cholinergic dysfunction as a driving force of major dementia disorders, our findings mechanistically explain how prolonged use of PPIs may increase incidence of dementia. This
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by patall 6y ago
I see, that actually makes sense. To bad most affordable cars actually operate in much lower ranges.
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by patall 6y ago
That's why you would only use those for long distance trips and for everything else you would own that one old pack. Rigidity could indeed be a problem but so has been gasoline safety. There would need to be standards but there are als
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by patall 6y ago
Can anyone explain what happened to battery swapping. A few years ago there was this Tesla show where they swapped three cars in the time it took to refuel a normal ICE automotive. But after that nothing happened. I know it is difficult to
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by patall 6y ago
The second is actually why noone really knows if this will go through. EU law may prevent most kinds of subsidies for national carriers.
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by patall 6y ago
What I always think of if I hear this is the tallness paradox between Europe and USA. When controlling for ethnicity, the modern white person from the US is on average about 1.5 inches (4 cm) shorter than the average person from the EU. As
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by patall 6y ago
I cannot agree more. I am so annoyed that there is good number of new cycle lanes are created along the busiest street in the area. Not that there are no parallel roads that are much nicer but no, you have to build them were all the noise,
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by patall 7y ago
Well, NYSE stops at certain drop intervals, so percentage does also occur professionally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trading_curb
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by patall 7y ago
Interesting math question: When we now start at a negative price tomorrow, what does a percentage change mean? Today, we have got losses >100%, unusual but obviously possible. But if price changes tomorrow from say $-10 to $10, is that a
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by patall 7y ago
Besides what others have pointed out, there is no benefit of having the flu and we do not really know about long term damage just yet. There has been a report (I have only found it in German so far) of 6 divers in Hamburg with irreparable l
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by patall 7y ago
While you may be suggesting this more as a not-to-be-taken-entirely-serious, there probably is some truth to it: evolution. Accoriding to the red queen hypothesis, noone (species) can ever win evolution, you can only constantly adapt and se

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