NASA is looking into them for this very purpose, their cost will come down with economies of scale.

I like the idea of spinning up a big flywheel with extra energy and harvesting it back at low levels at night.

End the subsidies and favourable treatment for fossil fuels while you're at it.

I agree, but the most important one is NOT being in the waiting room with loads of infectious people for minutes or hours!

How would reducing their budget help? Half of the ones I know can't do their jobs properly BECAUSE they don't have the necessary funds.

ER...Isn't the alfalfa dried in situ before shipping? Wouldn't the water go into the local atmosphere?

Reversing accidental moderation.

Really, I think W8 looks flat, old and ugly.

Only locally. As for the bees, a small change could be very bad for us. Asian honey bees are undomesticatable, they do pollinate, but may be very hard to deal with in fields/gardens. There are so many insects that our controlling them in local areas will not be a large impact. I'd like to see this tech extended to rodents and pest birds. Insects and rodents eat more of our food than we do, one could argue that we have artificially inflated the population of many species. I think we have the right to locally defend our areas. I also think we need to reduce our population to about 4 billion.....

My point is that society remembers that sort of crap and it takes many years for the distrust to dissipate.

I stand corrected, they do pollinate. I'd still kill them all near me. It shouldn't really damage their population. Many are introduced here in Australia anyway. Perhaps it will apply selection pressure for mozzies that don't go near human habitation!

Many people are stupid, but it wasn't that long ago that doctors did pretend to treat black people so that they could observe how untreated syphilis develops.....

Er, it's pretty easy to drink 40 glasses of water over a week..... That's why I have a filter to block the F in my water. I brush with toothpaste and then SPIT IT OUT! Do not swallow F, it doesn't work to drink it and it may be harmful. F in water is an unmetered dose, they don't know how much you drink, concentration is not dosage. The CDC recommends against F water for those under 1 year. I'm also concerned about how f will concentrate in the food chain as it is added at all points in the production chain and then concentrated by cooking and processing.

Yes, they should plant this on a rotation with different varieties and using sprays on some fields.