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by strainer 7y ago
I expect this kind of sunshade is inevitable now and that pressure is mounting to build it, and it is extremely fortunate that a capability has developed to build it very affordably (for a global project) and rapidly (at a push - 1 year!).
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by strainer 7y ago
The prospect of intelligent creators is irrelevant here as if they are present they are unseen. What can be partially made out is the broad path of evolution which has actually somehow arrived by its own properties on intelligence in animal
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by strainer 7y ago
In a hard place at a push, syringes could be sterilized before reuse. Sterilization is not effective against prions but some doctors without supplies could possibly resort to it. The story is gut wrenching. Children in poverty need free bas
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by strainer 7y ago
Its not a great answer because despite superior size and having immune systems, microbial life is still routinely deadly, just not too often so deadly to cause extinctions. I have read microbiologists puzzles over for example, what mechanis
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by strainer 7y ago
I question why doesn't some amoeba just maximize its fitness and so turn into effectively a bioweapon that eats all the mammals on the planet? It has some sort of intelligence that restrains it from wiping out its food source? I do wis
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by strainer 7y ago
The fear is not inherently irrational either. Its clearly a very powerful field on the confoundingly complicated biological domain, and with more power and complexity comes greater potential for serious error. It can be fair to disagree abo
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by strainer 7y ago
Further to this picture, in recent years the processing potential of extensive microtubule networks which feature in all cells, and can have special characteristics in nerve cells is beginning to be recognised: > Microtubules are major a
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by strainer 7y ago
The author is frustrated by their apparent misunderstanding of theory and history of theory that is very hard to understand, and is even not completely understood yet, and is right to be subject to new questions and outlooks. It seems equal
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by strainer 7y ago
Medical herbalist, Yarrow Willard enthuses about these 'saprophytes' in this video[1] Many will find his outlook completely fanciful ( he says they are nervines of the forest) but I think its positive and he is experienced in ways
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by strainer 7y ago
Right but I think were only scraping the surface of whats possible over millions of years meddling.
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by strainer 7y ago
We could have adjustable rings of reflective shielding orbiting the Sun and throughout the entire Solar System - well before then. Potentially even be capable of slowly moderating the Suns evolution. A billion years has unfathomable potenti
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by strainer 7y ago
The cross section of the beam can be any shape, the important thing is the signal source is an area not a point. The value of the inverse square (of distance from source) is dominates power density when the signal source is effectively a p
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by strainer 7y ago
You get a lower exponent than the square with a beam. For a perfectly parallel beam the exponent is technically 0 (same intensity regardless of distance - like a laser pointer) For a focused beam intensity will actually increase with distan
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by strainer 7y ago
When you say "we" - are you speaking as one of the many who have puts years of work into these matters? If not shouldn't you at least say " they... do not have good models" etc ? I don't mean suggest that you&
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Video tribute to Alexei Leonov. Famous cosmonaut, science writer and illustrator(youtube.com)
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by strainer 7y ago
> 110MW, which I presume is the thermal energy captured That would be deceptive advertising. 110 MW is the "nameplate capacity" which is basically its maximum sustainable generation capability. Its storage capacity is specified
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by strainer 7y ago
They're not fairly consistent, its a genuine misunderstanding of the system that they have to be. UK has a bit of nuclear, a lot of gas and biomass plant, some very useful pumped hydro and sizable interconnects to trade electricity wit
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by strainer 7y ago
> That suggests that we'd need to keep most of the existing infrastructure for power generation and also replicate its capacity with wind and solar plants. That sounds both expensive and inefficient. Its efficient to use existing pl
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by strainer 7y ago
> if you want to go from eg 50% to 100%, then you need MASSIVE storage to guarantee that you have power when you need it. You really dont, you just need to burn fuel to fill in for gaps caused by weather, that become increasingly less fr
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by strainer 7y ago
I expect seals and humpbacks enjoy interacting with each other and that supportive feelings accompany their relationship. Humpbacks don't as individuals try to protect their babies in order to pass on their genes and survive as a spe
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by strainer 7y ago
Humanity currently dumps about 2 billion tonnes of waste every year[1]. That's ten thousand times as much as this (projected) figure. And we are currently producing about 400 million tonnes of plastic per year[2], which is itself about
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by strainer 7y ago
Since you are curious I really suggest you look into it - read some environmental studies and articles on salt pollution, get some details on the actual situation to offer rather than you know, just sayings and analogies.
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by strainer 7y ago
I've a hunch that a Lagrange point sun shield is becoming quite affordable with recent reductions in cost of launching to space. A sunshield consisting of many self orientating mirror bearing craft would have the advantage of being abl
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by strainer 7y ago
That phrase appears to be apocryphal, salt quickly disperses in practice and no land has ever been known to be deliberately contaminated by it. I feel these vague worries about road salting relate to this article about highly toxic contamin
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by strainer 7y ago
You are confusing different classes of chemical contaminants. Rock salt which is spread on roads consists of a chemical subset of seasalt - which is completely safe to humans as evidenced by healthy coastal communities. The contaminants dis
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by strainer 7y ago
Sorry I was a bit short to simply say "untrue" but I had not raised the prospect of radioactive release and am aware of closed layers of cooling. I pointed out all thermoeletric plants consume significant amounts of increasingly s
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by strainer 7y ago
Thanks, I wasn't clear on what that vector f*x was. So the noise function is mapping pattern values to coordinates, and the SBM function is combining/layering its patterns calculated with different powers at different scales. Stil
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by strainer 7y ago
The code examples have me confused because they return a single sample at a time, but if noise is to have the kind of different characteristics discussed at different scales, individual sample values cannot be independent of previous sample
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by strainer 7y ago
> Reactors do not "consume" freshwater, primary and secondary coolants runs in a closed loop, water never "leaves" or runs out. That is untrue. They have the same cooling requirements as all thermoelectric power plant
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by strainer 7y ago
More magic unlimited thinking I'm afraid. There are costs to desalinating seawater, cost of the plant, cost of locating plants to suitable coastlines, cost of disposal of concentrated brine, cost of introducing gigawatts of heat into w

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