Greenpeace may have started with the boomers. But the new generation with a lot of time on their hands and rather limited experience or for that matter education, on how things really work. I remember feeling all indignant about big industry and "corporations", but i kept reading and soon learnt the reality of the situation. After all I was enjoying a rather nice lifestyle because of of big industry and corporations.

I mean how many greenpeace people with iPhones, or worse driving around protesting all the time on the unemployment benefit (know a few that did that in NZ) do you know.

I once worked in the field. I have published more than him, i have more citations than him. Turns out if you want to be respected in science you need to do more than good PR, many of us don't like this guy, but understand the PR angle, and why you can't really fire him.

I suggest you Google him, and note the lack of contributions.

I do have to pay for serious bandwidth. A hell of a lot more than 1Mbps too. Now sort out the licences...... have fun with that. End of the day, you won't save a dam thing. Unless you have your lawyers on retainer and they don't already have something to do.

I would have thought a few .50cals would be cheaper.

Yet every other scientist has to do far more work just to keep a job than him. So unless intelligent is code for "not do much for 20 years", he is not nearly as intelligent as you claim. Unless you want to reference some evidence to the contrary.

I am well aware of the literature. You probably should read his other post in this exchange.

Whats wrong, you can't even work the internet? Most of this research is not behind a pay wall. If you wanted to read it or know about it, you would. But you don't. Just another person who is willfully ignorant on the internet.

It is true that its not conclusive, but there is evidence that it happened or probably happened. If it did happen however then other things are also probably happened.

And by probably i mean at the level of confidence of any AGW prediction model. ie a bit. Yet every man and his dog knows that scientist having everything correct with AGW and your a coal/oil denier shill if you disagree. Yet every armchair scientist that hasn't even bothered to read the wiki about $TOPIC know why everyone working in the field is so clearly wrong.

Couldn't agree more. And these claims of 2x better are just not supported by the data *once* you move past absolute shit low end tiny bitrate crap where your comparing shit with crap. Once your at the quality end of movie/images the differences between compression schemes is small.

For most people its not even close to an issue. For niche use sure, in fact i have wanted more range before resolution, but how many monitors support it? Most people think facebook photos are high quality and that you can have a 700MB bluray rip :'(

Thing is that no one cares about the image size anymore. We have more bandwidth, larger harddrives and well my image collection is a tiny part of my storage and bandwidth requirements. Then there is a patent bullshit that will inevitably go with this. H2?? whatever it is based off is not free.

Hawking is not smart. If he wasn't a cripple he would have been let go a long time ago.

Run the numbers. Oh you just make stuff up? Well perhaps you should publish your enlightened treatment of planet formation.

WTF are you talking about? This is not a FEL, and 2 FELs don't have plasma but high energy electron beams, and 3 if the FEL produces visible wavelengths normal mirrors work fine. I think your getting confused with some comic book super villain with a touch of star trek technobabble.

Its only 30KW. It won't be all that disastrous at all. It really isn't all that powerful. Even a dirty mirror will significantly increase the dwell time required. Add an ablative layer. You could take seconds to do anything. The if they fired 2 at the same time?