Comment Re:What if we overcorrect? (Score 1) 343
No I meant what I said. The report said that lighting electricity use is up, not just electricity use.
Comment Turns out he is wrong about nuclear power (Score 1) 343
Nuclear power is the slowpoke when it comes to scaling owing to its high cost: http://www.rmi.org/Knowledge-C...
Comment Re:What if we overcorrect? (Score 2) 343
I recently read that at the same time light bulbs have gotten more efficient, total lighting power expenditure has gone up! Evidently, it's a combination of people using a lot more light when lighting gets cheaper to operate, and more ligthing being installed in general.
I can imagine if we start offsetting global warming we will produce more of its anthropogenic causes.
Comment Re:My Question? Clean no nuke energy dissipation?? (Score 1) 630
Whoops, no not 100megaton only about 16 pounds of TNT, I guess that is equal to a bomb vest, but far more specific targeting.
Comment Re:What threat? (Score 1) 630
Freedom by any other name is still MIC autocracy.
Comment My Question? Clean no nuke energy dissipation??? (Score 1) 630
Is that more or less than 100megaton yeild at PoI?
Russia Wants To Establish a Permanent Moon Base 313
An anonymous reader writes "Having established its presence in the Crimean Peninsula, Russia is now shooting for a bit loftier goal, a permanent Moon base. 'As reported by the Voice of Russia, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin told the government daily Rossiiskaya Gazeta that establishing a permanent Moon base has become one of the country's top space priorities. "The moon is not an intermediate point in the [space] race, it is a separate, even a self-contained goal," Rogozin reportedly said. "It would hardly be rational to make some ten or twenty flights to the moon, and then wind it all up and fly to the Mars or some asteroids."'"
Anyone Can Buy Google Glass April 15 167
An anonymous reader writes "Starting at 9 a.m. ET on April 15 anyone in the US will be able to buy Google Glass for one day. From the article: 'This is the first time the device has been available to the general public. So far, the face-mounted computers have been sold only to Google "Explorers," the company's name for early adopters. At first only developers could buy Glass, but Google slowly expanded the program to include regular people. Some were hand-picked, others applied to be Explorers through Google contests by sharing what cool projects they would do if they had Glass.'"
The GNOME Foundation Is Running Out of Money 693
An anonymous reader writes "The GNOME Foundation is running out of money. The foundation no longer has any cash reserves so they have voted to freeze non-essential funding for running the foundation. They are also hunting down sponsors and unpaid invoices to regain some delayed revenue. Those wishing to support the GNOME Foundation can become a friend of GNOME."
Comment Re:Why so much resistance to climate science? (Score 1) 869
Because embracing anthropic climate change involves drastic controls on emissions, manufacturing, and energy generation
No because the oil industry has succesfully spread the lie that the necessary changes are drastic. Cutting emisions by 20% is not drastic, and does not change our way of life.
Comment Re:Energy inputs (Score 1) 256
The other energy cost is collecting carbon from sea water. That is not very high.
Comment Re:Energy inputs (Score 1) 256
In this case no. This is a catalyzed reaction between hydrogen and carbon dioxide. The hydrogen comes from electrolysis. The reaction is a more complete version of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S... They try to go past methane. That reaction is exothermic so you should not need process heat to any great degree. The reaction won't be 100% efficient but if it is too inefficient the cost range can't make sense.
Comment Re:So... (Score 1) 630
So... inside baseball....
Comment Re:Difficult to defend against (Score 1) 630
Seems like a barrage pattern might work pretty well to produce a focused sub crushing wave. It would work like a directional antenna.
Comment Capturing another navy (Score 1) 630
Seems like a barrage should be able to form a wave that can capsize a boat. Go back in and salvage and you get an addition to your own navy. Our first naval battle did exactly that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...
