Baseload generation can change and often does. It just changes _predictably_.

No they don't. Germany still has a very reliable baseload generation which produces MOST of the power locally, so from the point of view of the power company their electricity supply IS mostly predictable and constant.

Denmark, Portugal and other postage-stamp-sized countries are simply not interesting - they can overbuild power transmission infrastructure and buy electricity from neighbors.

Imagine two cities with power plants. Each power plant produces 2-4GW of power. There is a power line between cities capable of transmitting 1GW. What is going to happen if one power plant closes one unit producing 500MW for maintenance? Answer: nothing much, since the other plant and transmission line can handle the increased load.

Now imagine that a blowhard greenpeace hippies closed one power plant and installed wind turbines around the one of the cities. What is going to happen if a sudden anticyclone causes a windless weather over a large region? Answer: whoops, your the power line between cities has just melted, even though the other power plant had enough capacity to handle the load.

And this is not a theory, such things might happen any time in Germany now. Its grid is overstressed because renewable energy generation and consumption are quite often not correlated.

By transmitting it only a _short_ distance through the grid.

Yes, you are racists. Most blacks were born in the USA, so why should they go anywhere? Maybe it's you who should buy a ticket to England or Ireland or to a country where your ancestors came from?

Pedant mode: the plural of "virus" is "viruses". If you /insist/ on using Latin then it should be "vira", since it's a neuter noun in the second declension. Though we don't have any actual examples of such use in contemporary sources.

Except that Fukushima is not even close to Chernobyl in the level of pollution.

It could go either way. I was in an actual war zone during a war (Ukraine 2 months ago). I can't say that it affected me much, though I wasn't that much into FPS games even before that. However, I know someone who simply stopped playing Counter-Strike completely after a tour in a region with actual terrorist insurgents.

There is no black market for radionuclides - they are useless for criminals. And terrorists would want either something REALLY hot for a dirty bomb (in which case they don't need to do any tests except standing nearby with a dosimeter) or highly enriched uranium or weapons-grade plutonium. Both require expertise to turn into actual weapons.

Yes, there were attempts to explain it using a yet-another-MOND. But we've seen several such examples by now, and no conceivable MOND can explain them.

Right now Putin has 86% approval rating, confirmed by multiple statistics agencies. No way he can be beaten by anybody right now.

There's no crackdown on WiFi. The quoted rule only applies to publicly-owned free WiFi hotspots: http://slon.ru/fast/russia/pra...

Yes, that's very common. Usually the color shift is too small to be noticeable - I can detect mine only in specific conditions.

It was not 'rent', it was a utility payment (and also small fee for property upkeep).

I'm arguing that living space _was_ guaranteed and it was free, even for anti-Soviet dissidents. And that is true. It's also certainly true that there were lots of political prisoners - but that's irrelevant. So I added another irrelevant fact.