Don't try and mess with the ocean currents, that's just craziness. The curtains might block warm currents to the glacier, but where will those currents go instead? What happens if the curtain breaks or is damaged. Increasing friction at the bottom of the glacier seems more likely to have a chance.

I logged in for the first time this year to upvote this, but I have no karma. This is a fantastic comment - I am going to copy it into my notes so I can see in the future and laugh again and again.

Cory Doctorow is now dead to me.

UGH
A while back the corp I work for renamed itself from a 4 letter (so easy to type! ) email address to a 14 character nightmare. This is way worse! 3 letters to 19! How much time are all those employees (and their contacts!) going to spend fixing typos in that damn address.

So in 2016 BNEF's own numbers show battery prices declining 20% a year for the previous 6 years and respond by predicting that those price declines will not continue and instead battery prices will fall only 5% a year for the next 3 years. 3 years later (now) they see that battery prices have continued to fall 20% a year and declare this surprising.

The thing that surprising to me is how they are systematically wrong by the same degree repeatedly and yet don't seem to be aware of this. They do this with wind pricing, solar pricing, battery pricing, and the cost of electric vehicles.

Must be a coincidence.

What about the TVs made in Korea? I don't see how this applies to the TV brands such as Samsung, LG, etc.

Thank you - 8088 is totally correct.

Back in my day, we had to write our own games, in the snow!

At uni there was a 3-D vector FPS on HP Chipmunk workstations called Tunnel. You where in a maze, with the view being just the perspective outline of the walls, and the other player was a cube outline with a tetrahedron on the front side. So there would only be about 12 straight lines on the screen, except when the other player was present,

We wrote our own version on DOS PCs (8086s! not ATs!) and linked 3 PCs with serial ports so 3 of us could death match. Jesus we played that for hours!

Update: Apparently, it was originally ('73) called Maze War:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maze_War

Wow - 137 UID. I remember rushing to sign up again after the database reset. /. was always the first site I would try on a new computer/browser/kindle/shoe-phone to see how it would render that critical stream of news for nerds.

My thanks to the legacy of Roblimo.

My main memories of the TRS-80 was that it had a fancy line editor, quite a bit more sophisticated than Apple II or PET. Also our school lab had a copy of Eliza running on the TRS-80 which was pretty fun for 5 minutes :)

Actually not true. In fact, your statement is the opposite of true because other vehicles / pedestrians / bicycles involved in a collision with a Model X have a better chance of survival than they would with an alternative vehicle, not worse. Unlike most SUVs the Model X does not achieve improved results from high mass or high body rigidity that can overwhelm another vehicle or obstacle but rather because it has larger and better designed crumple zones which allow longer and smoother deceleration in a collision. This is possible because the entire drive train is down below the collision height. For pedestrian and cyclist collisions the front hood additionally is designed to crush under impact and soften the blow. They can do this with the X better than most ICE vehicles because there's no rigid engine under the front hood.

Linking articles from credulous, retweet "journalists" and energy/auto industry sock puppets? Nice to know Slashdot has no problem with fake news.

TL;DR

These are the same guys that predicted, in 2015, that there would be an installed base of 1000 electric vehicles with over 200 mile range in 2040. In 2015 there were already over 100,000.

Basically, you can just ignore anything that comes out of the EIA. They aren't even trying to make their lies make sense any more.

Fixed that for you. Reference: http://www.newgrounds.com/port...