starbeast

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by starbeast 8y ago
>Has nothing to do with communism, wind and solar on the other hand do. Showing your hand there.
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by starbeast 8y ago
>As a species we are programmed to fear the unknown. Looking about the place, this seems unlikely.
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by starbeast 8y ago
I only just found out about him. Was only looking him up because you said that anyone who did could see he wasn't a lobbyist. Found out he was a lobbyist. Can you tell me his current client list, since you know so much about him? Then
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by starbeast 8y ago
You told me to look him up and that he wasn't a lobbyist. So I put his name and lobbyist into google and almost immediately found that he used to get paid by Venezuela as a lobbyist. I have no real idea who this guy is until you said t
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by starbeast 8y ago
Lets not look at the maximum we can hope for ever. Lets look instead at figures for what is commercially available now. So, say 27% maximum conversion. Average insolation gives us ~6kWh over a square meter over a day, 27% of that gets us to
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by starbeast 8y ago
I looked him up. He used to be a paid lobbyist for Venezuela.
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by starbeast 8y ago
Well, he has started several lobbying companies and been a lobbyist for a number of paying clients, so I think that the meaning of the word 'lobbyist' is still safe.
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by starbeast 8y ago
~20 terawatts = humans ~90,000 terawatts = sunlight hitting surface of earth
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by starbeast 8y ago
The vast majority of registered lobbyists in the USA are paid professionals, usually from the legal field. Several major law companies run large lobbyist for hire departments. Now Michael Shellenberger may be one of the pro-bono lobbyists (
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by starbeast 8y ago
Immediately thought of Bruce Sterling's article on anticonventional objects. I guess this company goes in the buildable, but neither desirable or profitable section. - https://www.wired.com/2013/10/design-fict
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by starbeast 8y ago
Including all losses, to power everything in the world with solar it comes to around twice the area of Portugal with current tech.
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by starbeast 8y ago
>Nuclear power is dead for economic reasons. I'd say that BNFL killed itself through dishonesty. They may have had a viable business otherwise. https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199798/cmselect/c
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by starbeast 8y ago
Globally, hydro is three times as risky as rooftop solar, there were ~171,000 dead from the Banquio Dam failure alone - http://www.nuceng.ca/refer/risk/risk.htm Also, I keep seeing figures for rooftop solar and no
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by starbeast 8y ago
Small turbines are rubbish. Always have been. Wind turbines are a swept area game. Everyone in the industry knows this.
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by starbeast 8y ago
The seasonal mass psychosis must be spreading.
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by starbeast 8y ago
Given that you cannot cheerfully give it to your worst enemy, nuclear has massive problems as the global solution for power. People are saying on the one hand that nuclear is the solution, but on the other that certain countries aren't
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by starbeast 8y ago
Lobbyists are paid to present a preferred opinion, pretty much by definition. If someone is a registered lobbyist then their opinion should be held with great suspicion when it is anything to do with the subject that they lobby on.
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by starbeast 8y ago
The Times, The Telegraph, The Sun and Transport Secretary Chris Grayling have already labelled any culprits as 'eco-warriors' and that was even before these two were arrested and then released. https://www.desmog.co.uk&
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by starbeast 8y ago
Even just being in a crime reconstruction video as an actor is apparently risky. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-342183...
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by starbeast 8y ago
>I wonder if this guy is just a compulsive liar who happened to fake his way into a journalism career That accurately describes one of the established ways to bookend a stint in politics. In the UK, this caliber of bullshit would either
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by starbeast 8y ago
If you do not actually include an enforcement process in your bureaucratic monitoring system, then most of your data detailing what goes on in some of the most heavily regulated and dangerous professional environments in existence, will be
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by starbeast 8y ago
How wide is the set of potential tentacles?
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by starbeast 8y ago
Can someone tell me a mechanism that would fundamentally halt the production of new neurons in adult brains? If you can't define that edge well, then it would seem very likely that new neurons do form in adult brains, given the scale o
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by starbeast 8y ago
A highly effective tactical weapon in our long standing battle against the sea and everything that lives there. That damn sea, one of our oldest enemies and yet it still persists. We'll get the better of it yet though, the big wet bast
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by starbeast 8y ago
He looked like a mushroom, obviously. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sacred_Mushroom_and_the_Cr... But an actual mushroom, not a human shaped mushroom like Lenin became. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by starbeast 8y ago
I wonder what the protocol is for 'borrowing' Ivanpah to point it at the moon at night and at what point in the exchange the phrase, 'well, you won't be using it', will finally occur. edit - And by whom. Should prob
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by starbeast 8y ago
>While I suspect you can't start a fire from moonlight in practice Ivanpah may be able to, I wonder if we can borrow it at night for an experiment - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanpah_Solar_Power_Facility
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by starbeast 8y ago
>I'm also not sure what kind of second secret life your friend has to hide from the craft. Some people try to be experts in theoretical conspiracy. I think he is just more into the experimental side of the field.
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by starbeast 8y ago
It worked for him. He just then got kicked out.
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by starbeast 8y ago
A friend of mine's grandad used to comment that in the second world war, as British infantry, the one place you didn't want to be was anywhere near the Americans. They were just as likely to drop bombs on you as the Germans were.

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