And how do you define "facts" - scientific consensus perhaps?
No. Observable and testable. Consensus has nothing to do with it.
Science routinely re-evaluates its own scientific conclusions and often returns a very different outcome than the previous.
Can you say the same about people who believe what is written in a book that's thousands of years old? Of course not - you're told to take it on faith and not question (re-evaluate) what was written.
I think science seeks "truth", not facts - the same way faith does albeit by way of a different methodology.
No, science seeks observable and testable facts.
if the battery power trend takes off, it must lead to a new paradigm in which homes will be powered more with low voltage wiring than line voltage electrical, according to a blog
A couple of real big if's there. Battery power is unlikely to take off in all but a few low latitude places where the climate is right and it's heavily subsidized. Even then, there are better alternatives than rewiring a house; and of course solar doesn't work for high density housing like a multi-story apartment building..
Every test and every interpretation has a margin of error; obviously a person should understand the error rate for both false positive and false negative is before making a decision. The headline simply said "often gets it wrong" but I don't see any qualification of what "often" means. One in ten? One in a million? Who knows? Although they do state that some labs are more competent than others; no surprise there.
So we've entered the endless small war phase.
Try to find a time in history when the world wasn't in the endless small war phase (other than when the world was in a big war phase of course)
It isn't that they don't know what they're doing. The majority recognize their own limitations and (presumably) seek help in areas where they need it. Nothing wrong with that. It also says a lot that 23% think their own IT organization is incompetent.
That said, keep in mind two things: this report was sponsored by a company that sells IT services, and no matter what "global business leaders" do, half of them will be below average.
One Purchasing excess electricity isn't a subsidy
It is a subsidy if you are selling it back at retail prices. Utilities don't buy any other power at retail, nor would they buy solar generated power at retail if they had the choice of not subsidizing it.
Or like the courts would say that Hollywood could stop Christian groups from editing their movies
Nobody can edit a movie and redistribute it without the copyright holder's permission, that's an entirely different scenario. That's not the same as editing your own personal copy before letting your kids watch it.
I thought first rule of robotics...
I highly doubt Volvo (or anyone else) bases their engineering design requirements on a science fiction story.
Nothing happens.
