I imagine number of things could have caused tiny variations and in fact probably theory states that a perfectly even mixture is far less likely than an uneven one due to random variation.

Huh? If dark matter doesn't react in any way with electromagnetic radiation it will have zero effect on the background temperature.

How would you see the effects of it if it barely interacts with matter or energy other than gravitationally? It could respond to a number of forces that have no equivalent in the ones we currently know of. The standard model is incomplete ergo it cannot by definition rule out things not in it.

To be frank, if they don't know what it even is I fail to see how they can have any idea about how it interacts with its itself or what any of physical properties are other than gravitational. And maybe dark energy is the dark matter universe version of electromagnetism.

But I still find it fascinating that there may be a whole dark matter universe amongst us that we dont know about with maybe structure and even life? Perhaps theres some dark matter professor right now trying to figure out what that missing 20% of the universes mass is made of.

Sure? I've had PV on my roof for the past year. 430W nominal panels. Problem is most of them point east and some of them point west, because the orientation of my house, and the ones that point west are shaded the later half of the afternoon due to trees. Despite the sub optimal orientation, they average about 2kwh daily when the sun is shining.

I'm in lower NY where we have like... weather and stuff, y;know? I'm sure they'd do a lot better in California with better orientation. Full sun for 5 hours a day on average is not unreasonable.
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Because unless the author is mentally unwell that incoherent rant was written by machine.

They will not work in a power outage, because that would mean it could feed power back into a downed electrical grid which is how people get killed. It's also extremely illegal for that reason.

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The payback for these types of systems is like 3-6 years depending on circumstances.

A single 400W panel with microinverter should handily average 2kwh daily as pong as it's pointed in vaguely the right direction. In California that's reducing our electric bill by over 60 cents a day just for power costs, not including avoided taxes and fees. Doesn't sound like much, but at $400 "installed" it's paid for itself in well under 2 years. After that, basically free money as savings to the tune of like $20/mo.

And you can take it with you.

I'd say it's a no-brainer if you have a place to put it, but if you're actually opposed to the concept you might actually not have a brain.
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I get paid for my excess solar. Not a lot, mind you, and only once a year, but they still cut me a check if my net balance is negative.

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The whole quality german engineering approach died years ago. These days german cars are built-to-a-price plastic crap. I too owned a recent BMW - a 3 series - got rid of it after 9 months. Awful interface, piss poor fuel economy and a driving position that became uncomfortable on long journeys. Plus once they get your money they don't want to know. I had a warranty repair and the service staff couldn't have been more indifferent and borderline rude. Will never get another.

Ignorant prick. Is this the crap you tell your sister in bed at night?

At least Dawkins has the excuse of being 85, time has caught up with him and perhaps he isnt firing on all cylinders any more. Zuck is barely middle aged and has no such excuse.

You realise Zuckerberg is jewish, right?

I never opposed anything so a pretty feeble attempt at a straw man but then that tends to be the level of your arguments. Weening societies off hydrocarbons is underway but will take decades as infrastructure takes time and money to build but don't let facts get in the way of your sanctamonious rant. I presume you cycle everywhere, don't own a car, never fly and your home is entirely solar and wind powered? No? Then STFU because you're just as much part of the problem as everyone else.

Feel free to have the last word so you can dig your hole even deeper and run around it wearing your clown costume.