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Comment Re:Hydrogen as fuel? but water considered dangerou (Score 1) 132

There's one major problem with nuclear power plants. Half a solar plant or half a wind farm still produce half the energy of the full installation, while half a fission plant produces zero energy. To get a nuclear plant running takes time, and you need to spend money all the time it is being built. And while it is running. And when you have to dismantle it.

Comment Re:Donald Idocracy Trump Stikes Again (Score 4, Informative) 114

No, you see, the person you are replying to has put forward a theory, that this move might be to attempt and hide the impact of economic policies on company quarterly earnings by delaying the reporting of those earnings. This might be true or false, but it's not "just orange man bad" That is YOUR assertion, and sincerely a very weak defense of your disagreement.Of course, you could argue that it makes little difference whether the loss in profit is reported every three months or every six months, unless you really believe that things will improve in the six month period. I suspect what will happen is that the half-yearly reports will only show a much higher swing, and make it harder for investors to adjust, making the market as a whole a bit more volatile. It will also make insider trading much more profitable. Now, do you happen to have a better counterargument than "you are only saying this because you don't like my guy"?

Comment Re:It's ending... (Score 4, Interesting) 258

There's also another mechanism where tariffs hurt the consumer. When you applly a tariff to protect local production you should take care of balancing it so that the cost of the imported item plus tariff is only slightly higher than that of the homegrown variety, assuming they have the same approximate value. If you overtariff your imports the local producers no longer need to keep their prices low to compete, especially if local production is small or there are only few manufacturers that don't need to compete against each other. So the prices gravitate automatically towards the maximum the buyers will pay. Tariffs are intrinsically inflactionary.

Comment Re:To put this in perspective (Score 2) 108

Why are you using grams per pound? I mean, I understand not using the SI measurements, but at least stick to only one system. The original article cites 1.6 grams per kilogram of body weight. I make that to be 0.0256 ounces per pound. Though I have no idea what unit of measure you use for stuff smaller than an ounce over there. 25.6 milliounces?

Comment Huh? (Score 0, Redundant) 108

Was this written by a human? I understand that the language used by experts in a sector can be rather terse, but this doesn't seem to be formatted in a way meant to be understood by anyone else than a specialist. And even then I'd have my doubts on whether it is actually meant to convey an actual message.

Comment Re:Trip was downhill for 1,300 meters (Score 2) 201

Ok, so the car travelled 1,205 Km, that's 1,205,000 meters, while dropping 1,310 meters. That makes it a gradient, if it was a continuous slope, of 1,310/(1,205,000/100), the gradient being the difference in height over 100 meters. That's 0.187%. A car left in neutral without the parking brake set will not even start to roll. And I am pretty sure that it was not downhill all the way either.

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