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Comment Re:Can't thrust anything these days... (Score 1) 53

They are of the order of 60% thermally efficient,
Simply nope. Theoretical limit is 42% .... and in practice they are around 30%.

You are mixing up "combined cycle gas plants" which use a combination of gas turbines together with a steam generating boiler ... with simple gas turbines.

However 30% efficiency, is not considered particularly inefficient.

Comment Re:Is this *still* a hoax? (Score 1) 385

No idea where you get your numbers from.

Rice harvest in Thailand is not even 50% of what it used to be 10 years ago.

We have constant switching between super droughts and super flooding.

Perhaps somewhere they started to grow some, and it evens out a bit. Who knows? In North East Thailand - Isaan, the current rice situation is a CATASTROPHE!

Either this year this area has a drought or a floor, or the other area next year.

Comment Re:"We're not really looking for what's true," (Score 2) 60

Almost nothing on Wikipedia is true, but all of it is "verifiable" in that there's at least one published source making the claim. Even if 99.9% of all other sources say the opposite.

(The Haka is not, for example, a war chant. Which is attested to, but because it's claimed to be online, it is "verifiable".)

Comment Wikipedia has a vast number of errors. (Score 1) 60

The number of errors is huge, the number of "official editors" who know anything about the subject is extremely small, and this has always been the case. This is why nobody reputable cites Wikipedia. Wikipedia is where you go to find out what is potentially interesting, but you ALWAYS obtain the facts from elsewhere, if you've any sense.

Comment Re:How abysmally stupid do you have to be ... (Score 1) 61

I do not know what your phone app does.
But mine is for transferring money from my account to any other account.
For that I do not use a card, but my account. How else should that work?

On top of that, I top up my phone.
Do QR code payments ... and so on.

making the bank's own app unnecessary, and one less point of attack.
That is silly. The point of attack is not the app, but the backend of the bank.

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