patall

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631.
by patall 10y ago
Well, there were plans for big hollow concrete spheres at the ground of off-shore wind power plants. And Belgium thought about an artifical island with a lowered water level lake inside.
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by patall 10y ago
IF solar falls another order of magnitude, it will be far cheaper (which only has the conversion efficiency problem) to go for power-to-gas technology that has the additional advantage of being able to use gas (not gasoline) powered cars wi
633.
by patall 10y ago
The wikipedia article you link tells the exact opposite story, with more than 30 (did not count) experiments that followed until 2009.
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by patall 10y ago
Well, only if you are pedantic with fossil meaning long dead organic (which is true, of course). But for energy it makes more sense to distinguish between sources that can be used or they are gone (sun shines on the planet and at some point
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by patall 10y ago
That is true, but wind and solar do not change because we do use them, they will occur anew. Nuclear material does not reappear (within our system on earth). So the entropy increases for wind and solar anyways, while much slower for uranium
636.
by patall 10y ago
another point: coal can only survive in most developed countries because it is heavily subsidized.
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by patall 10y ago
Solar energy is a very long-term goal if you include a dyson sphere in your calculation. And even less long-term, it is not that bad for space travel as you have more and especially 24h coverage without an atmosphere and a planet to block t
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by patall 10y ago
You can stand to it as you wish but by which means is nuclear power a renewable? (See France with 91%+ renewable with mostly nuclear power) Edit: Or non-fossil, if that is a difference
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by patall 10y ago
You would always wear a full body suit. There are only two places in the solar system where the human body can survive for short time without any gear: Earth, ... and the upper parts of Venus atmosphere (lacking oxygen though)
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by patall 10y ago
yeah, but it scales cubical. If you build your station 8 times as big and only need 2 times the material. So million people colonies become cheaper per person wise. Plus you might be able to grow algea in there.
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by patall 10y ago
Easier is the wrong word, you cannot just at a second pair of legs to a human as you would think from mechanical thinking. If you really want humans to live there you might have brains contained in an artifical container but adding some fun
642.
by patall 10y ago
Sure, but that is a problem of "winner takes all" and not any voting method.
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by patall 10y ago
As I know it, you have 2-3 persons that count together one urn. That's not one person doing it. And you can do recounts. And adding large numbers of ballot papers is not easy because its marked how many there are in a ballot. (What is
644.
by patall 10y ago
But you can only do that when you have time. I was recently investigating a product with very good reviews. They looked quite good. Then I noticed that most of them used very broken german which, when you compared them showed a pattern and
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by patall 10y ago
I am not sure how you vote but in my country, you could not pre-fill the ballot because you only get it at the voting booth. You have a voting registration that you bring to the booth, there you exchange it for the ballot which you fill out
646.
by patall 10y ago
Yes but that is not the point. You can also add votes to electronic voting by just allowing someone to cast more votes at it. But the difference is that with paper voting, you as a single actor can only influence one voting booth, while as
647.
by patall 10y ago
What shall be the "correlation vs. causation" error here? I mean, if you draw an analog here, it would mean that Chinese people could get children of any race but those would still pair up. The birds do not know which type they ar
648.
by patall 10y ago
Methane does not smell. To quote wikipedia: "At room temperature and standard pressure, methane is a colorless, odorless gas. The familiar smell of natural gas as used in homes is achieved by the addition of an odorant, usually blends
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by patall 10y ago
I am sorry but Obama does not mention any of that. He argues that intelligence is needed and that there is nothing you can do about it. Anyways, I wonder why he still keeps with the story that Mr. Snowden should have contacted his superiors
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by patall 10y ago
The difference in culture may be there, but it is as big and sometimes much bigger between citys and countryside, regions and social classes. It may be a factor but the as I think main reason most people do not move is not any barrier in th
651.
by patall 10y ago
It is expensive of course, else they would have been doing it for a long time. But 12kWh/m^2 is for direct sunlight which cabbage etc. probably do not need, as they will have had some thoughts into that, also other hydroponic farms lik
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by patall 10y ago
These signatures will never be unique or complete. Remind you that this is biology where there is not the TRUTH to be found. At some point you can always subdivide one phenomenon in to two cases. These signatures are generated from non-nega
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by patall 10y ago
Or maybe they hate GEMA for being a big lobbying organization that enforces laws for which you really have to squish your thinking to justify them: I for one, hate them because for every type of data storage I buy, I pay some percentage to
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by patall 10y ago
But that is only your choice. Someone else might prefer to see his kids grow up. And really, do you prefer death penalty even when you are innocent when there is the possibility to be pardoned one year later? And also, it's not like yo
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by patall 10y ago
You mean like a Polish guy coming to Germany, a Brit in France, a Spaniard in Switzerland or even a guy from Texas in New Hampshire. Of course there are differences and they may be much bigger in asia than in europe but still it is not comp
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by patall 10y ago
I thought the main reason for it was more regulation of high frequency trading and its adverse effects on market stability. Making money from it is a lower priority, thats what capital tax is for.
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by patall 10y ago
Thanks, providing constant supply and demand makes sense. On the other hand you only describe consequences of high FTT. If it was something like 0.001 %, it would still disrupt HFT but have almost no effect on my trading!? At least that&#x2
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by patall 10y ago
Can someone explain reasons for not having a FTT? I mean, there is no reason for Company X to move their trading to another country as the (non-hedgefound) owners of it do not gain anything from it. I mean the financial industry does not cr
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by patall 10y ago
I agree with the danger of networked cars but most other things are already possible now. Leaving a bag with explosives in a train is easy, equipping a drone with explosives and flying it into a parade as well. Manipulating the traffic ligh
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by patall 10y ago
What I am missing from the discussion and have not seen addressed on their website is whether this project actually makes sense. I thought that simulations have shown that there are no stable orbits around AlphaCentauri (A&B) [at least

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