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Comment Re:Obligatoriness Extraordinaire (Score 1) 237

"This is actually a silly concern. Electricity demand is highest in the middle of the day when the sun is shining. That is also when the spot price for power is highest. It makes no sense at all to store that power to sell it in the middle of the night, when prices are far lower."
  No you are wrong.
https://www.pacificpower.net/y...
Peak is around 4pm to 8 pm and 6am to 10 am. It varies a bit by season.
Peak solar production is centered at solar noon.
In other words the end of peak solar production almost exactly start of peak usage.
Here is Con-Edison and they call it super peak 2-6 pm http://www.coned.com/customerc...

Comment Because the US was really the only winner of WWI. (Score 1) 323

World War I devastated Europe in both lives and in wealth. The US came out of WWI as a world power. Sure the US lost a lot of men but nothing like the number France, Germany, and the UK lost. The US filled the gap in science after WWI. It didn't hurt that Edison had invented the industrial research lab and other companies in the US soon developed labs of their own.

Comment Re:WWII proably didn't help much either (Score 4, Interesting) 323

Not really von Braun did more as political figure than as an engineer. The Thor, Atlas, and Titan had very little input from von Braun and Polaris and Minuteman had zero.
I doubt that religion had much to do with it. I am sure avoiding being slaves in Russia had a lot more to do with it.

Comment Re:Huh (Score 2) 240

Once you change a language enough it is no longer the same language.
I just do not see the issue. If you want C++ without C create a new language that fits that description. Apple created Objective c without c and called it Swift. So make C++ without c and call it Sure.

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