IIRC solar and wind produce little in absolute value and density so their infrastructure and production costs are actually not that great compared to nuclear. Nuclear is extremely dense and manageable compared to large fields of wind or solar. One no-brainer is solar on roofs as that space is already claimed, but for the other cases, it's not that clear of a benefit.

Also, I'd like more information on "we're past the point at which you can reasonably add more nuclear to the mix anyway". Aside from a few countries, many still produce a large part of their base needs from burning fossil fuels. There is still a LOT of potential for Nuclear to help reduce CO2.

And yes, renewables need a complement which nuclear cannot easily provide due to its lack of reactiveness, but that's just showing that solar/wind are not a great solution to cover the base needs. We'd need tons of batteries, or a significant gas power complement which emits lots of CO2.

The Fukushima incident was a disaster for the planet, not for the radioactivity but for the unfounded fears it caused. Germany and Japan bent over the pressure and decided to get away from nuclear. Now they're actually regretting that decision, and Japan is even considering restarting the reactors. Beyond those countries, many others (including France) winded down their nuclear plans, meaning they're now in a worst situation as plants are aging, new ones won't be able to produce as much, and wind/solar is still far from covering for the difference.

You mean the "Buy or subscribe" button? It's not free (except maybe for you if you have a company/institution subscription).

Having experienced both, I fell much safer in EU. Yes the voltage is higher, meaning if you touch it, it's way more dangerous. But to get the same power, you need twice less amps, which is what was meant by "120V is high current". Breakers tripped all the time in the US as soon as you start the microwave and the toaster at the same time. In the EU, it extremely rare to trip any breaker because 250Vx20A = 5kW. That's a lot.

Now for the part that makes me feel much safer. It is almost impossible to touch a live plug. The outlets since the 90s are now designed in such a way that you never risk touching something dangerous. In the US, not so much, especially since the plugs can be dangling due to the vertical shape of the metal connectors. You can see metal at 120V all the time. And better not touch it. In the EU (western at least), unless you live in a house that wasn't renovated in the last 60 years, that never happens.

Finally, the electrical cabinets are so much more advanced. Differential breakers heading all lines of breakers with much lower amps rating ... no need for in-outlet protection when the whole house it protected. I've done stupid things in EU, and basically just manage to trip a breaker immediately with not much else happening. In the US, if you cause a short circuit, you'll get a lot of amps before it trips and that can easily put something on fire.

If the game here is to be pedantic, then I'd argue capacitance is measured in Farad. Capacity is a generic term for "being capable of" ... for example delivering 1,006 megawatts.

Now sure, the unit was wrong. It should be "megawatts" or MWe. Power plants are not batteries (for which "capacity" usually refers to watt-hours).

A reactor which has a capacity of 1,006 megawatt-hours.

If you're wondering why they used the word "capacitated", I guess it's because the reactor will soon be... incapacitated.

Agreed it depends on how amazon reacts. They could reflect the real cost of shipping (we can dream) or they could figure out a way to reduce the price of some other article you buy with the books. Amazon making more money on individual sales is ok; the goal is to reduce the attractiveness of amazon vs local book shops so that they sell less (even though they make more money per sale). And yes if that makes any difference in the long term I'll be surprised. We'll see.

Not sure what you meant here. Online sales by independent stores will also require a minimum of 3 euros shipping fees for orders below 35 euros. Which should not be a problem given anyone who really reflects shipping fees would pay more than 3 euros to ship books.

I'm the first to watch out for unintended consequences, and there could be some hidden here, but your comment seems way too short to be useful.

Question is then: regarding this story, where are the details? How to know whether it's real or some propaganda from China to justify some other crap move coming soon?

As imperfect as the US are, at least they've got free press.

Always makes me wonder, why that PR? Sure it could just be to highlight some misdeed by US agencies (which rare not hard to believe), but coming from countries like China/Russia/North Korea (among others) there is always a high chance this is pure politics.

I would probably believe the news if it was voiced by the EU, but China (like Russia) has strong incentives to make up some fake story (or completely alter some real story) to serve their agenda. In particular, given how Russia's tentative of annexation of Ukraine went, China may need to feed some anti-US sentiment among the Chinese population ... to justify a war in Taiwan for example.

Well, you were wrong. Always been train, not très.

You learned something today!

I'm not sure I'd agree with that. The bible just looks like an attempt to build society rules to make it more stable and productive. Of course a lot is based on ancient rites and beliefs and is full of bullshit. But that was written 2,000 years ago. Having people still believe that stuff 2,000 years later is baffling me, but I can't really blame those who wrote it in the first place.

Main Kampf is playing in a different category IMO, as those who write this type of documents (blaming a sub-part of the population for all problems in the world, leveraging the distress of the people, particularly among the poors and uneducated -- i.e. populism) are hate-filled and ill-intentioned.

Thanks for the pointer. More people should read the bible. It's very interesting to see that:

1. There are crazy rituals in there, which you never hear about even in churches. So the bible is not that "sacred" nor "universal". Churches are doing their own selection of what fits their narrative and what doesn't.

2. If a woman had a miscarriage following the ritual (merely started by her husband suspecting her) then it would be seen as a confirmation of her infidelity.

In a police state, I would not be surprised if the database in question is actually the national database shared across all major cities' police departments.

I've been solely playing on mobile for a decade now and I'm totally fine with mobile games, because I no longer have tens of hours to spend on gaming so occasional 15-minutes is perfect for my needs. And yes, micro-transaction games are the norm but it doesn't mean they're not good or look bad, quite the contrary.

I guess it really depends what type of player you are. I wouldn't want to play Warcraft or FPS on mobile. Puzzle games, building games (e.g. SimCity) or even racing simulations (RR3) can work great however.

But I'm also puzzled why Nintendo is not releasing (some of) its games on mobile. Mario Kart on Android could be a huge success. But I guess it could also kill the hardware branch of Nintendo.

Personally that's the reason I'm posting here. It doesn't always work (there are always useless conversations) but once in a while I get some really interesting answers, links to papers, articles, insightful point of views, ... which make me change my mind. That's the whole point of discussing with people who don't share your point of view: they can teach you quite a lot or at least make you better understand the problem.