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Comment Re:Suspicious (Score 0) 95

Obviously the wetlands beavers create will sink a huge amounts of carbon over their lifetimes. It’s strange these researchers have neglected to mention that. They also never seem to mention that higher CO2 concentrations increase plant growth in general, as do higher temperatures. They focus heavily on “runaway warming” and positive feedback loops, but never mention the significant sources of negative feedback. Furthermore, these positive feedback loops always seem to relate to methane, a potent but not persistent greenhouse gas.

Comment Re:30,000F is easy to reach, basic physics. (Score 1) 124

I was going to say, it's pretty clear that they are talking about the temperature of the plasma, and that temperature is not unusual for plasma. The real problem is that the temperature of the plasma says nothing about how well the coating will perform, so they're not really giving us useful data about the quality of the product.

Comment Re:idiot Vegas son (Score 1) 157

I'm constantly hearing people spouting what is essentially uninformed nonsense about carbon fiber. It is a reliable, well understood material that has been around for a very long time now. There is nothing fundamentally wrong with it. The make boats out of it. They make aircraft out of it. All kinds of marine equipment is made from it. You don't know what you are talking about.

Just about every single military submarine ever built has a cylindrical pressure vessel. Again, if there were something wrong with it, we would know. These aren't radical, untested technologies.

Comment This is dumb. (Score 0) 68

Oh, so 2/3 of the applications are approved on the first try? Are these for brain implants? Do they involve novel surgical techniques? Probably not.
Most firms give up after 3 tries? Are they firms with a single product and a specific goal of bringing that product to market. Do they have essentially unlimited funding from the wealthiest person in the world? No? So that's not really relevant either, is it? This is just more FUD from the usual suspects.

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