That's ok. But then you should be forced to pay for prostate cancer treatment, and not freeload on poor old ladies.

Except that this study has been replicated. With the null result, as expected.

Glyphosate itself is harmless, the problem is in surfactants - they are much more dangerous. It's like drinking concentrated detergent (which is also lethal at about 200ml dose).

We have a product in development that does just this - it can spin up spot nodes with the best price/performance ratio, dispatch tasks and restart them if a spot node fails. With lots of other goodies.

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Tesla Model S (or Model X) would fit the bill. But yeah, it's waaaay too expensive right now.

Doesn't matter. There's no sidetalk (i.e. you can't hear yourself) on the mobile phone, so lots of people scream even with earphones.

A lot of people ALWAYS scream into mobile phones. I _know_ that I can whisper into the microphone and it will be picked up just fine, but lots of people seem to think that you have to speak LOUDLY.

So, from your own data, coal replaced almost half of the disappeared nuclear baseload. And since not all of the baseload has been replaced, Germany started having grid problems. And as for "planned long time ago" - Germany still has plans for new nuclear power plants, though they are unlikely to be built. Get a fucking clue.

Anyway, why isn't Germany replacing all those old coal powerplants with oh-so-good renewables? WHY?

It doesn't have recent enough data. The situation steadily got worse since then.

Any source from Greenshit is suspicious. It doesn't answer a simple question - if renewables are so good then why are 23 new plants are being built? It's a simple question, really.

Yes, sorry. It's N-2 of course (ability to withstand two linkages going down without causing overload somewhere else). It is a guideline in the sense that it's not codified in the EU laws, but so is a lot of engineering practices. And it certainly applies to Germany's grid, in fact, it can be applied to a grid of ANY size, including your local power distribution network (though it doesn't make a lot of sense at this scale).

As for Chernobyl, I worked on decommissioning the other nuclear reactors there.

And as for renewable folks - let them show that they can build something that can work just as well as the current power distribution network. Right now that green cretins go and cry for government handouts constantly.

Well, I worked at power generation industry. I personally worked at nuclear power plants (including Chernobyl, btw) and then I was employed at a green energy investment company and personally inspected quite a few solar and wind generation facilities. Right now Germany's power grid is in the constant state of emergency - they are literally working at the limits of their capacity to balance the loads. Transient violations of the N+2 rule are becoming commonplace. Right now everything doesn't fail constantly because Germany can buy reliable baseload from France and still has a pretty good nuclear baseload. And also abuses Poland and Czech networks to transmit power from southern to northern Germany.

Situation with France is particularly funny - France exports quite a lot of power to Switzerland but it flows through the German grid, greatly improving grid stability along the flow paths. And we're talking about quite a lot of power, more than 4% of Germany's usage. Oh, and Germany right now mostly exports the green power surplus to Netherlands and other countries.

So you can say whatever you want about green energy and smart grids, but everyone in the actual power production industry knows that it's a complete load of bullshit. Current grids can't work without a reliable baseload. And bullshit about "only to replace old coal powerplants" is only suitable for Greenpeace (it's well known that brain amputation is required to join them). Most of the new powerplants have been approved AFTER the nuclear pullout plans. And only _3_ coal powerplants are being dismantled completely, lots of others are going to be "retrofitted".

And finally, energy intensive industries in Germany are most definitely NOT exempt from rising prices. And it already affects the industry: http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/merkel-s-switch-to-renewables-rising-energy-prices-endanger-german-industry-a-816669.html

Incorrect on all points. Germany STILL depends on its nuclear reactors, they are NOT yet shutdown. But they already have a dangerous amount of grid instability that already causes very real problems for consumers: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/instability-in-power-grid-comes-at-high-cost-for-german-industry-a-850419.html

And to combat this, they're building 25 new coal-burning power plants. Some of them just came online: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/04/23/germany-to-open-six-more-coal-power-stations-in-2013/ (sorry for a link to Wattsup, but it has a really nice table).

Oh, and electricity prices in Germany already cause energy-intensive production to move elsewhere.

Germany can't do it as well. They are building 23 new coal power plants by 2020 to replace nuclear powerplants (which are NOT yet shutdown, btw).

Amazon has AWS Import where you can send them your hard drive and they upload it to Amazon S3. They also operate in Europe. It's pretty pricey, though.