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8y ago
From a cursory review of results for "insect visual spectrum" it seems to check out - quite useful to know.
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The comment drops a 'pro tip' that they use ciproflaxin in their plant lab as a growth inhibitor - writes confused criticisms of a study warning of antibiotic resistance accelerated by synergies with common herbicides - its beyond
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8y ago
I didn't mean to slight you or the authors for the difference. I just noticed your questions seemed to follow from that ambiguity.
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The quote accurately begins: "Neither reducing the use of antibiotics nor discovery of new ones may be sufficient strategies to avoid the post-antibiotic era." This can have a different meaning from your slightly abbreviated ver
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8y ago
The knock on effects of biologically active synthetic products are plainly not yet predictable. Current test and assessment abilities only establish a tenuous "not guilty yet" legislative status. How long is it taking to acknowled
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8y ago
Neither Lead salts or Arsenic are permitted by organic standards. No substances permitted by organic standards are not permitted under general standards. You can check §205.602 here : https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-i
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8y ago
Organic standards allow use of copper sulphate (subject to more controls that non-organic certified produce) It is entirely false to characterize organic as "including heavy metals" when they simply allow a fairly common and light
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8y ago
Interact candidly - don't avoid your error while trying to parse. You wrote "IF it suffers failure..." so the "it" was not the example of failure you gave, "it" was hypothetical . This is why I asked you
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8y ago
But the one referenced as an example in your original post DID fail - and you wrote "IF it fails". You described a potential failure "in the nature of the things". It is natural to consider the nature of things - apply e
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8y ago
The paper indicates 1-2K of temperature increase from current levels of AHR which is 4 to 8 times as great as the hypothetical situation in the papers that you have now elected to insult me for criticizing. In the discussed papers ALL ene
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8y ago
I believe its possible, with stability being the big problem. Self stabilized, floating, tethered and large scale wind turbines are already being built[1] - so its something to look out for in the future. [1] https://www.equinor.c
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8y ago
I would guess that the bending and twisting pressures of swelling and crashing water, rather dwarfs the potential forces the cylinders can drag through air in a storm, especially while they are not spinning. And I'd guess they would be
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8y ago
"the nature of the things means that if it suffers structural failure" What actual dam did you mean to refer to there?
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I hoped merely pointing out that discrepancy would suffice - how ben_ws comment compared the history of nuclear accidents to the potential dangers of dams. Potential scenarios are very important in determining probabilistic risk. Simply sho
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" if it suffers structural failure the death toll makes nuclear accidents look like almost nothing" You compare a hypothetical dam disaster, with nuclears record so far - its clearly worth reconsidering that comparison. Nuclear p
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Disappointed this comment was not flagged for declaring disgust with the product on top of a single sentence characterization of its business model.
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"model results show that AHR has a significant impact on surface temperature and that it is able to affect global atmospheric circulation, leading to a 1-2 K increase in the high-latitude areas of Eurasia and North America. The results
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8y ago
Wind turbines do absorb energy from the atmosphere, that is clear thermodynamic fact not my intuition. Having arranged an atmospheric modelling capability, these researchers should have included the scenario for heat plants concentrated emi
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The analysis in the papers as well as the article quite deceptively presents possible surface temperature effects in a 100% onshore windfarm scenario, as a factor of global warming. I view this as a controversy motivated inversion of the fa
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8y ago
The chart is logarithmic - as such its overall slope can be selected by altering the base (aesthetically here to 45%) buts its curvature and smoothness is not manipulable.
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8y ago
It is not the case that because all possible mutations have and will continue to occur, all mutations are safe to be technologically propagated. There are many discovered and as yet undiscovered mechanics and ecologies involved in which mut
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8y ago
It is not the case that all types of chemical are equally mysterious to the environment. Fundamentally if the chemical or thing is already in the environment then we can quite confidently deduce the environment is evolved to work with not d
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8y ago
Not sure where to draw the line between edutainment and education here. Some favorite or curious - barnabydixon : Puppetry - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxseO_JzIiiJENauW2RmcJQ Gary Cheynne : A colorful whiteb
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I would not have guessed that the solar arrays beneficial effect on precipitation is dependent on them not being too efficient and so releasing more heat than bare desert (which is very reflective). From the article - "The precipitatio
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8y ago
By a factor of 4 or 5 - thats 20% of people affected. Its not a short announcement, plenty of room to mention Vista.
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Seems to be the last 52 esr for Vista as well as XP. Is it a bit sneaky to just announce the older OS? When I click on the download for firefox 62 on this old Vista laptop, I just get sent the install file 52.9.0 esr with no warning or expl
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8y ago
To my eyes semicolons are like comments in JS code which indicate "this has been linted for publication". But this > (one); (occasion) where a semicolon can have meaning in JS leaps out of the screen - even easier if they are n
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8y ago
That statement makes no sense to me but neither does the popular idea that species evolve to compete with each other limited only by immediate material resources. I imagine some mechanism of foresight or conservatism must develope in a dive
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8y ago
I pasted it wrong blush And, Thankyou that seems as clear as can be, when I get my head screwed on straight I will have a better read through your fine insights of the workings. I will be trying include your sequence in my quirky collecti
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8y ago
I would like to be able to make this sequence, it looks nice. ~~Unfortunately the included python code is not valid~~. ( * ) It will take me quite a while to grok the math discussion well enough to implement it. * - pasted it wrong.
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