Comment Re:With the best will in the world... (Score 1) 486
Please tell me her son is named Dick.
Please tell me her son is named Dick.
The problem with your statement is that there's very little data on it and that laymen like yourself have preformed conceptions about what's possible and what's not. Every form of cancer was once upon a time 100% mortal for example and there's still preconceptions about brain cancer and leukemia deathrates remaining based on that.
There's bodies flagged for organ harvest. If someone is on the brink of death due to multi-organ failure then swapping a head will keep the mind alive, and if the head dies then you could harvest the body anyway.
The biggest problem is re-innervation
It's easier to heal a surgical incision than a blunt trauma generated by your cervical bones crushing your spine.
I didn't know jet engines were this unsafe. I'm only flying turboprop henceforth.
I would really want to know where the 15000 TWh figure comes from, considering that it's 3x the US annual electricity consumption.
And to reach that figure you would: assuming you have the same MWh density as the topaz solar farm. Require something like 300 000 km^2. Which isn't 8% of California but more like 75%.
Why not use asphyxating gases? If the internet can figure out how to make painless exit bags then why can't the US government? It's not like nitrogen, helium or hydrogen sulphide is terribly expensive or hard to aquire.
Probably because the topaz area is calculated as a square more or less and the actual panel distribution inside is patchy.
The Desert sunlight solar farm is also 550MW and covers 16 km2.
The W/m^2 number are low because panels needs to be accessible for service and whatnot. And given the cost of land compared to the rest of the farm there's no real need to maximize panel density.
At 50 square kilometers that's two topaz solar farms which would produce 2192 GWh/year.
Compared to the coal that at 5.5GW and 90% capcity factor nets in at 43362GWh/year: approximately 20 times more.
I live in an apartment.
Also what about your not-daytime needs and industry?
Sure there's a place for solar energy but it's vastly overhyped as society changing when it's really just a form of middle-class luxury for folks in sunny places.
Nice opinions, too bad you don't have any numbers to support them.
With your head stuck in the sand the horizon is quite close.
What I mean is that solar irradiance is at 1000W/m^2 give or take depending on sky quality time of day and so and combined with turbine efficiency means that you can never exceed 600W/m^2 peak no matter what the scaling modifiers are presented as.
All solar energy is area dependent and will scale linearly in a similar manner.
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