1. It's both actually. His cousin was charged earlier this month with funnelling corporate money to his campaign, using employees as straw donors.

2. Yes, he was charged last year, though I haven't heard anything since the charges were laid.

See also : Del Mastro, though he's actually getting charged, 5 years after the fact.

Not likely. They'll be going with another bolt action rifle, almost certainly chambered in 7.62x51mm.

The Rangers have no need for automatic fire and bolt action is more reliable when dealing with arctic conditions.

I don't think they're expecting to even break even off this particular unit.

It's basically a full scale prototype for the capture tech to see if the tech actually works at a reasonable operating cost. If it does, they'll roll it out to the other coal plants, at lower cost now that they know what they're doing with it.

If it doesn't pan out, they're going to have to find something else to provide power, as the coal plants will have to be shut down when they hit the 50 year mark, as there's no way for them to fit under the CO2 emissions regulations* without the capture tech. And that 50 year mark isn't all that far away.

In the latter case, unit 4 at Boundary Dam will shut down in 2020, followed by unit 5 in 2023, unit 6 in 2028, then Poplar River's units in 2031 and 2033. That's nearly 1/3rd of their generation capacity and most of their base load.

*Existing power plants are grandfathered in. The CO2 regs don't apply to them until 50 years after their commissioning date.

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.