Photons have no rest mass. Their mass is entirely their energy. They do have mass.

This isn't new. They had to correct for Pioneers microwave thrust. Heat thrust is the accepted explanation for the Pioneer anomaly.

I think it starts with the idea that one knows best usually combined with a ridiculously oversimplified model of how things work.

It's just as ridiculous to claim that a study on chickens means the same thing happens in humans....

Does it mean it's worth looking into in primates? Sure... But it's not time to break out in unified song that such stuff happens in humans and all this vaccination stuff is BAD BAD BAD...

By the Way "Chicken Pox" is in no way related to chickens... Nobody really knows why the word "chicken" is in the name to start with. It didn't come from chickens nor does it infect chickens.... Some theories say it's named after "chickpeas" or perhaps is some mixture of old English words that got morphed into "chicken", but there is no connection to the barnyard animal.

The availability of solar and say a coal fired plant are totally different numbers. Coal fired plants have reliability numbers for available output which is darned near one hundred percent of scheduled. Yes, there are failures from time to time, but the availability of a coal plant is really good and when they are making power, chances are it's going to be 100% of scheduled.

Photovoltaic solar, on the other hand, has variability approaching 50% of scheduled capacity ALL THE TIME. Lets say you have a forecasted 100MW solar capacity on line, you can only count on a fraction of that to be available and you need to have reserves to cover the variable fraction, even if you get what you forecasted. Wind is similar only it's worse, usually having about 35% (65% variable) capacity. It's hard to know where the sun will shine and how fast the wind will blow over the next 10 min, and you simply must as a grid operator KNOW how much power you are generating and how much you are using and they must balance or really bad things happen to the grid (think blackouts and equipment damage..)

So this reserve capacity needs to be up and spinning, ready for energy production when you put photovoltaic solar and wind into the mix. More reserve capacity than you would need w/o the renewables and their unreliable energy sources....

No, you just repeated the claim, but didn't say what the subsidies you think Oil companies get actually ARE.

I'm asking you to detail what they ARE if it's so clear they exist to you, tell me what they are... Enlighten me with the details of these subsidies you'd end....

BTW, I don't think any exist even though you and others make this claim all the time.... So tell me what they are, I'm waiting....

Got to love a joker like you..

Just pop up a little lead umbrella so there's a shady spot.

Only if you think Chickens and Humans share enough commonality in our immune systems and the viruses that infect us will act the same in a human host as in a chicken.

Of course the anti-vaxxers are accustom to threading together some pretty sketchy evidence to create their "science" to start with, so why not let them have this.... Most of them are still on the "vaccinations cause autism" band wagon, which has about as much evidence as Neil Armstrong not having been to the moon.... Why should this little study be left out?

Where the Oral polio vaccine does sometimes cause polio, it hasn't yet caused a new more virulent strain of polio to appear. What they say is that sometimes the attenuated Polio virus mutates back into the non-attenuated version and can infect the recipient. The injectable version of the vaccine never causes Polio. This vaccine has been in nearly constant use since it came out in the late 60's, so I think that for Polio at least, the vaccine hasn't had this affect of creating a SUPER POLIO virus, but it's done an excellent job of nearly eliminating Polio for the planet. One year in the US in 1964, 5,000 people DIED from Polio and many more where harmed for life. Last year, there where zero cases of Polio in the whole western hemisphere.

Between the two types of vaccine, we have successfully eradicated one of the three types of polio virus (Type 2 I believe) and are nearly to the point where "in the wild" infections of polio world wide are getting close to single digits per year. (I believe it as something like 55 total infections, with a significant number being from the oral vaccine.) I'll have to go check the WHO's numbers to be sure though.

Why would I be predicting that? To claim that die-offs are necessary for prosperity is in my view a non sequitur, another sort of fallacy.

Correlation doesn't imply causation. And really, die offs are associated in Chinese history with chaotic periods which don't have prosperity.

That's a lot of vague talk. What are "many people"? What are "screw ups"? And what is "better" versus "lot worse"?

Again, We are going to have to disagree on this one. I believe that mortgage lenders where coerced into making loans they knew where likely going to be bad by federal fair housing standards and equal opportunity laws where they started looking at things like race and sex and deciding which lenders where in compliance and which ones where too discriminating. HUD was big into this kind of thing for decades. What do you think Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac where all about and why do you think they got left holding most of the bag?

I realize that it's pretty indirect, but the fact remains that it was government relaxation of mortgage standards and the government accepting the risk for the sub-prime loans that got this ball rolling. If you had left banks to their own devices, skipped on Fannie and Freddie, you can bet 2008 would never have happened...

You want to just blame the evil banks for everything..... They had a PART in this, but it was government that really messed this thing up, both by pushing the lenders into making loans that NOBODY in the right mind would buy, and then soaking up this bad paper by funding Fannie and Freddie to take on the risk for it almost without bound. There should have been laws about this, but that would have killed the sacred cow of "affordable housing" congress was trying to keep alive. It was the S&L thing on steroids, which ALSO was a failure of government regulation with the S&L's being encouraged to do bad things in the process....

Grid storage? PFFFT..

Don't make me laugh. Batteries may be getting cheaper but It's not happening *anytime* soon with any kind of capacity that can really make a difference for photovoltaic solar and wind power even with batteries that are free. It's absolutely NOT cost effective because the conversion and storage losses are huge and it makes it way too expensive.... And don't be fooled by the "sunshine is free" so we don't care how much we waste argument. Despite how hard Elion Musk tries to market his little home battery pack thing, it's simply NOT cost effective to charge a battery and use the power later.

The only real way one can do electric storage on an industrial scale is to pump water up hill into a large reservoir, then use it coming back down hill to generate power when you want it back. However, this technique only has a few places where it will work where the geography is suitable and enough water is available. Even then, the efficiency is abysmal and it's only really viable cost wise when you can buy the power for about 1/3rd what you sell it for at peek. Batteries are worse at efficiency, especially on the industrial scales required for what you are suggesting.

I have a smart meter and my provider has yet to offer me the option of automatically shedding load automatically based on my instantaneous use. But this idea is NOT new. I've seen devices on AC units and electric water heaters designed to cycle the unit off to shed load and that was over a decade ago. The provider controlled these devices via radio signals and gave you some credit or better rate for the ability to turn off your devices when they wanted.

My provider does offer an incentive for shedding load on peek days with advanced warning. They send me an E-mail about 24 hours before the event, asking me to reduce use during projected peek loads. They pay $0.60 per KWH for any reduced load I manage to provide. Turn up your AC, turn off your lights and don't cook indoors during those hours for savings. Seems effective to me, they get to shed load, don't have to pay peak rates for the power I don't use and I get a credit on my bill. I'm guessing this saves them about $0.60 per KWH even after paying me a credit, depending on the spot electric market cost during peak. However, this is not an automatic thing for them.

My point is that it's not really "smart meters" that allow this automatic shedding of load, but increased communications capacity that "smart meters" bring to the table. Smart Meters do allow for "time of use" billing which allows providers like mine to pass on the costs (or in this case the reduced costs) more directly and encourage conservation during more critical times.

If we can get those stats I think we'll have a better idea of what is going on in the Euro grid.

In the US grid... our renewables are pretty low. There are some spots in the system with lots but they make up a relatively tiny portion of the total grid. Germany might be like America's california... very earnest about going to renewables... but in the larger picture... likely irrelevant.

login and I will.

I make a point of not getting into it with ACs... they're mostly sock puppets for other accounts where people are trying to make it appear like they have people with them when they don't... or they're basically too chicken shit to stand behind an issue with even a fake name.

Or they're just trolls that like to start shit.

Either way... i'm not getting into it with you unless you log in.