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Comment The truth is in the middle (Score 1) 55

Your estimate is wrong. 7,202,335,148,562,342,439,363,104,735,232 units per month will be one month after 7.5 years. The correct number is 3601167574281171219681552367616 (feel free to insert the commas).

Considering the GP estimate of 1025 cars a week will result 53446 cars/year or 53592 (for a leap year) which translates into a monthly production rate between 4454 and 4466.

Considering the truth is in the middle I would calculate the monthly production of tesla to be between 1800583787140585609840776181581 and 1800583787140585609840776181575 cars/month.

Now back to my MBA course.

Comment Strawman argument (Score 1) 705

So policies directed at mass shootings tend to be ineffective at actually reducing gun deaths. Because of the meticulous planning, mass shooters are difficult to detect. Because of their mental illnesses, they are difficult to deter. This is precisely where gun control will be least effective. The world's worst mass shooting was in Norway, not America.

How many mass shooting are in Europe and how many in US? (according to definition of 4 or more victims). USA have already 30 and it's just the beginning of the year. I will not go over your arguments because ALL of them are false and based on false dichotomies premeditate/impulsive, rifles/guns, crazy/stupid, not criminal/criminal.

Gun control works. And please do not bring the subject of Switzerland which is sooo different than US including gun legislation.

Comment Not really true (Score 1) 589

Hollywood is pathologically incapable of making a movie that conveys a conservative message

About free market, low taxes, low government, industry deregulation, real freedom and right of having guns you have the "Mad Max" series.

And about the values of the traditional family in shaping the future you have "A boy and his dog".

Comment Re:Really? (Score 1) 193

Exactly. Russia doesn't have the NSA, it doesn't have a direct point of access to the world's biggest Internet companies...Russia can't do 10% of what the US does in the "cyber sphere".

No she haves KGB aka FSB. Citation needed for those 10%.

Any cyber treaty would severely limit what the US can do NOW, while only theoretically limiting what other countries MIGHT do.

Bullshit.

Comment Re:Not bad but far from being good (Score 1) 404

I did not find statics for week consumption but I tried. Maybe my googlefu is not so strong or data is not easy accessible.
Despite not being in the industry I tried my best to aggregate data for making sense of the news.
Looking back at my first post I still consider my estimates very optimistic regarding the advance of renewable energies.

Comment Re:Not bad but far from being good (Score 1) 404

During the we you have mainly residential consumption and during the week you add industrial consumption. This is the reason for my assumption.
EV's will increase the demand on electrical grid. I do not know if a modern coal plant will be more green than a gas engine.
EV's charged at night? Only wind power?

Comment Re:Not bad but far from being good (Score 1) 404

30% of residential consumption energy I found documents for it. 20% for Germany was just a ballpark number as I did not found statistics for it.
On the other side I did not consider that 85% was the peak number in the weekend but just considering it as an average.
My estimates where too conservative if anything ignoring the storage of energy of which nobody speaks about.
If you are at it just consider switch to electric vehicles which will increase demand further.
Maybe I'm wrong but I see "this green way" being more polluting than alternative solutions (nuclear). Germany dumps nuclear energy in favor of coal.

Comment Not bad but far from being good (Score 3, Informative) 404

So in the weekend on the perfect day when solar and wind are at max we are covering 85% of residential consumption.
In the European Union household electric energy consumption is about 30% rest being the industry and services. Considering Germany industrial sector it will be safe to say the domestic energy consumption will be around 20% of total electric energy consumption.

So in a perfect weekend Germany was able to provide less than one fifth of electricity consumption during the week.

To cover the industry renewable capacity will need to increase at least five times to work in perfect conditions. Considering the fact the best spots for solar and wind have been already used (unless they were stupid to chose the worst locations in the first place) we are going to start the law of diminished returns.

Just adding that EU goal of being totally green and use only renewable resources is made partially by relocating production to China with their record of being "clean" I see a long way to go to reduce CO2.
 

Comment How can they patent it? (Score 2) 71

On one side they do not know how it works.

They think microbes in the caterpillar - as well as the insect itself - might play a role in breaking down plastic.
If the chemical process can be identified, it could lead to a solution to managing plastic waste in the environment.

On the other side they patent it

Dr Bombelli and colleague Federica Bertocchini of the Spanish National Research Council have patented the discovery.

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