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Comment Re:One non-disturbing theory (Score 1, Funny) 304

no no no, couldnt be, we have to go with the scary version, we cant go using reasonable options, how will anyone get funding for research???

Possible answers:

1) Aliens and their visits to planet earth is real and they are helping us clean up the oceans.

2) The air-planes are spraying some chemical compound or organism which break down plastic / hydrocarbons.

(3) All the plastic can be found in the Bermuda triangle.

So on so on.)

Comment Re:Thanks for pointing out the "briefly" part. (Score 1) 461

This includes wind, the slashdot article is only talking solar.

Hence all renewable energy combined

That is was briefly have already been covered.

It has been pointed out the price of getting the solar panels had dropped (was it 40% in how many years?) and part of that may be to higher demand so at least there's that.

Also I've read that the nuclear power energy from a new nuclear plant in UK ended up being very costly and Finlands new nuclear power plant ended up costing much more than what was planned too. So there's that.

Plus I saw some article about how much Uranium we had .. uhm.. possibly in reserves (at current sites? In general?) and how much was mined vs how much would be needed if one where to build up nuclear power plants to cover fossile.

Personally I think one should build thorium-salt reactors if possible and not regular old uranium plants and obviously only build them if they are cheaper (and possibly accept them anyway if they can provide power when wind and solar doesn't.)

Here in Sweden almost 50% is hydro power so I guess we can buffer fairly well with that.

Comment Re:Thanks for pointing out the "briefly" part. (Score 2) 461

"Now" is misleading when the article is 2 years old?

lol :D

Oh well, more recently they hit 74% with all renewable energy combined:
http://thinkprogress.org/clima...

Maybe the 50% is correct for this year or other pages have just picked up the hype and not checked the sources or noticed the dates either.
http://www.thelocal.de/2014061...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/qu...

Did I Fucking Love Science got it wrong?
http://www.iflscience.com/tech...

More 2012:
http://www.marketwatch.com/sto...
I can't see a year here:
http://theweek.com/speedreads/...

Anyway, even if it has happened recently too it's less impressive when it has already been done more than 2 years ago..

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