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Comment Re: Prove US wrong (Score 1) 273

During spring break, experts like infectious disease specialist Brian Conway worry that unvaccinated Canadians travelling to areas with high measles rates, particularly in the southern United States, could spark a further spread in Canada in the coming weeks.

Some of it, yeah.

Comment Obvious why, if you read the slop (Score 5, Interesting) 35

Basically, people sift through data trying to find "relationships" without giving too much construction on the actual knowledge behind these.

So, a lot of "discoveries" of correlations, not a lot of effort to explain the causative links.

At least in the fields I try to follow.

Sad, really, but enhanced by the publish-or-perish crap.

Submission + - Cheap green tech allows faster path to electrification for the developing world (japantimes.co.jp)

Mr. Dollar Ton writes: According to a new report from a think tank, "Ember", the availability of cheap green tech can have developing countries profit from earlier investment and skip steps in the transition from fossil to alternatives.

India is put forward as an example. While china’s rapid electrification has been hailed as a miracle, by some measures, India is moving ahead faster than China did when it was at similar levels of economic development. It’s an indication that clean electricity could be the most direct way to boost growth for other developing economies.

That’s mainly because India has access to solar panels and electric cars at a much lower price than China did about a decade ago. Chinese investments lowered the costs of what experts call "modular technologies” — the production of each solar panel, battery cell and electric car enables engineers to learn how to make it more efficiently.

India's per-capita consumption of oil for road transport is 60% lower than when China hit that milestone. As a result India’s peak road-oil consumption per person will likely never reach Chinese levels.

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