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Comment Re:Wrong Comparison (Score 1) 516

Well, it's not that you can throw to the bin the energy when those peaks are not happening. Energy production has to be controlled, and thermal plants (such as coal ones), along with hidro-electric plants, are way more flexible than a nuclear reactor. Even in France they use non-nuclear power to adjust production to those peaks. Nuclear power covers just about 75% of electricity generation there.

Anyway, I'm talking about how it IS done currently in MOST countries, like in the States, where only 20% of electricity comes from nuclear power. Any more exceptions apart from France, Finland and two or three other countries?

Comment Re:Wrong Comparison (Score 1) 516

World's nuclear power generation is more or less steady over the time, as nuclear power plants are not capable to modify their output of energy. Power consumption is not steady. Thus, the variable energy consumption must be obtained by other means rather than nuclear power, and it will be mostly from oil, coal or gas.

Basically, this means that every single time you turn a light on you are producing CO2, like it or not.

Other than that, I agree with your comment.
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Microsoft Treating "Windows-Only" As Open Source 383

mjasay writes "The Register is reporting that Microsoft is hosting Windows-only projects on its 'open source project hosting site,' CodePlex. Miguel de Icaza caught and criticized Microsoft for doing this with its Microsoft Extensibility Framework (MEF), licensing it under the Microsoft Limited Permissive License (Ms-LPL), which restricts use of the code to Windows. Microsoft has changed the license for MEF to an OSI-approved license, the Microsoft Public License, but it continues to host a range of other projects under the Ms-LPL. If CodePlex wasn't an 'open source project hosting site,' this wouldn't be a problem. But when Microsoft invokes the 'open source' label, it has a duty to live up to associated expectations and ensure that the code it releases on CodePlex is actually open source. If it doesn't want to do this — if it doesn't want to abide by this most basic principle of open source — then call CodePlex something else and we'll all move on."

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