I think you're confusing the incredibly highly refined silicon metal used for making solar cells with silicon dioxide.
Made the move to Mastodon, and managed to drop a whole load of high blood presure on Twitter.
virtual signaling dance over mask wearing
masks are virtue signalling now?
President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer is raising the specter that Joe Biden intervened in Ukrainian politics to help his son’s business.
But if that was Biden’s aim, he was more than a year late, based on a timeline laid out by a former Ukrainian official and in Ukrainian documents.
For climate you need to look at the trend. The trend shows that antarctic sea ice
If you're really looking at trends then don't solely focus on Antarctica... https://youtu.be/RLqXkYrdmjY?t...
The CD32 sold for about 9 months and due to a trademark dispute they couldn't sell it in the United States.
Most games were ported from the A1200 (disk-based) but with a CD soundtrack or maybe some FMV, but the software was essentially the same.
So the CD32 never really had enough time to become its own system, and Commodore was already dead in the water at the launch time of the CD32 so publishers largely stayed away. The A1200 was really the last Amiga with its own software.
People into Amiga should really check out YouTube as there are a lot of interesting channels there like Kim Justice with her history of the platform...and Retro Recipes.
There seems to be marked reluctance to stop using fossil fuel for air transport. It requires a shift in attitude: High speed long distance travel is out; it's beyond our carbon budget. Much like Concorde.
The obvious solution to long distance air travel is to use airships. We're waaay past Hindenberg-era technology. They'll cross the Atlantic on the fuel needed to get an A380 to from the departure gate to the runway at Heathrow. They can run on biofuel, batteries, solar, whatever. They're limited by weight, not volume, which means plenty of cabin space for R&R on the inevitably longer flight. Sure it takes longer, but when the alternatives are not flying or scorching the planet people might come round to the concept of a more leisurely, comfortable flight.
(This is very similar to the "we need natural gas power stations as a temporary measure" gambit. The gas plants are obsolete already, and only hold up the installation of carbon-neutral plant.)
Huge amounts of coal are used in Germany for making steel and cement. Not entirely sure how much - hard to google the numbers - but the steel companies in particular aren't going to like it. They rely on cheap electrical power to run arc furnaces as well as using roughly a quarter of the coal directly.
PS One thing I didn't get in China was spam.
Absolutely agree. Going to China made me realise how dependent we'd become on a very few communications service providers, all of which have government hooks deeply embedded. Worse, the West has an open season on corporate information gathering and trading schemes using said services.
In China, I used WeChat because it is used for every damn thing over there. However, on my return I became very keen on promoting Open Whisper Systems' Signal, using DuckDuckGo.com instead of Google, abandoning Facebook except for communication with uneducated family members, and not physically taking my data through borders in any recognisable form.
PURGE COMPLETE.