This could be said almost world wide to most farmers with different direct and effective subsidies. It is not going to happen. it is just politically untenable.

There is also the fact that water is used very wastefully in general. Fairly small changes in farming practices etc can save large amounts of water, especially when irrigating what is effectively a desert.

How much energy? about a little more than oil. No desalination is far more energy intensive. That is why there are things like aqueducts and long pipe lines already.

The problem as i understand it, is a lack of fresh water in the first place. This implies desalination *and* pipe lines. Also expensive water.

It really isn't that a big undertaking and is done very frequently. +10000 tons of steal is worth real money.

Well it is cheap. You just beach the ship and crazy underpaid nutjobs risk life and limb to chop the things up. Ok maybe they are not so nuts, after all its a job.

I review in a fairly wide range of Journals (ones i have published in). From biology to computer science to math and statistics. Often the stats is sloppy and misinterpreted. So reviewers, begin the same group of people, have the same flawed ideas about that sort of thing.

People put far to much faith in "science" and mostly scientists. We are just people, like everyone else. We have the same failings and just because we never left University, it does not make us special.

The reason you don't understand is that your too lazy to read anything about outside a /. summary.

Lets not forget the copyright warning letters stuff that was also passed under the "emergency Christchurch" whatever it was. The guy is a crook. But not as stupid as he looks, for example copyright warning letters from ISPs is only for NZ copyright material *and* it has to go to a tribunal to disconnect the person. So none of this automated DCMA letter crap.

Also sky is shit and even charge extra for 1080.. Its a joke. The only reason people pay for sky in NZ is sport, mostly Rugby etc. Also bittorrent works fine in NZ.

The power rating of turbo pumps is in MW and even GW. Batteries are not going to cut it on anything that not a toy.

The earth is not exactly traveling in a straight line you know.

Why does it need to be manned? probes and stuff without meat bags that need metric tons of life support would give far better return.

Oh god.. not this kind of crap. You know this solves and explains exactly *nothing* that we have already observed right.

Which would be pretty fantastic!

Bad statistics is bad statistics. Suck it up or get the statistics right. I don't care what side is spinning what. I am always going to call deliberately misleading statistics out. Yea when its deliberate, is because their is an axe to grind. Regardless if that axe "drugs are awesome" or "beer is evil" or "all hurricanes are SUVs fault". It is done far too often in the scientific community by people that should know better.

Yea its old but i have been sick.