One of the units at Saskpower's Boundary Dam plant up here just finished being converted to carbon capture and is operating now. It supposedly captures 90% of CO2 emissions.

Is animal-sourced insulin even used anymore? I was under the impression that it was cheaper to produce it using modified bacteria.

This wouldn't be a one-off cure for type 1. Type 1 is an autoimmune disease. Any replacement pancreas would get trashed same as the originals did. You'd either need to keep replacing them or take immunosupressants for the rest of your life.

Not necessarily. It depends on which part of the 5-way alliance that forms current American conservatism we're talking about.

You've got the business conservatives who seek low taxes and low regulation, the foreign policy hawks who seek a strong defense budget, the social conservatives who fear moral anarchy, the racists and nativists worried about immigration and affirmative action, and the elderly retirees who rely on Social Security and Medicare.

Yes, but it's only supposed to be unfair in their favour. Anything else is "Against God's Will" or "Against the will of the Market".

Which is what this thing uses.

Nothing funny about it. This thing is combined heat and power system. You get electricity directly from the cells, and in keeping the cells cool, you get hot water suitable for running an absorption chiller and desalinating.

1.3KW per square metre is at the top of the atmosphere.

It's significantly less at ground level. You get about 1050W peak at high noon on a cloudless day at the equator and less as you go north or south from there.

I dunno. Some of those big illuminated editions are heavy enough to cause serious damage if they fall off a shelf onto someone.

You'd still have the exact same issue with the amount of mass and/or height needed. Mass x height x 9.8m/s^2. For a kilowatt-hour of storage, mass x height needs to equal about 600,000. Gravity-based energy storage simply requires a lot of both for any worthwhile amount of energy.

And they'll be producing several hundred thousand such packs annually once the factory is operational.

Also, it's going to be a 10 million square-foot facility, with a few hundred more empty acres around it. I don't think they'll be pressed for space.

Problem is that requires a lot of water, a lot of height, or both. Assuming 80% efficiency on your pump and generator, you'd need something on the order of 600,000 metre-litres of water per kilowatt hour of storage.

Umm, unless I am managing to completely misunderstand something, those are not encryption, those are simply digital signals rather than analog.

No-class-action clauses have held up, all the way to the Supreme Court. See AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion.

Doesn't Comcast have a "You're not allowed to file a class action suit against us. Hahahaha." clause in their contracts?