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Comment Elephants are strictly metric. (Score 1) 41

>> Females are generally over 7 foot, but males 10 to 13 foot, at the shoulder.
Absolutely impossible.
Elephants are not natives of imperial unit countries, so any elephant gets educated by his parents (and the rest of the horde) to use metric.
-> There are only metric elephants.
In this context, the size of an elephant cannot be 7,10 nor 13 foot, but only the metric equivalent...

Comment Re:Boeing engine cover? (Score 1) 182

>> If your car's hood flies off at speed is it the manufacture's fault, or did you just not closed it properly?
For having worked in car design, it is both.
If you are able to half-close it without the warning sound blaring at you, it actually IS a bad design, and the manufacturer is as responsible as the guy who did not close it properly (user or mechanic)

Comment Re:Solar, wind, hydro, batteries and not nuclear (Score 1) 69

I strongly disagree with that statement.
Even without storage, a very strong solar will huge mean excess solar in the day, shutting everything else down, and influence prices, (and thus consumption) extremely.
When generators previously considered "baseload" are forced to shutdown 8h per day, they get 50% more expensive due to their fixed costs.

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