She said they fixed it, but they'd have to, a month of that and someone is going postal and shoot every waymo in the lot ... justifiably.

Having a million separate taxes is a legacy from a distributed type of governance which has long stopped existing. All layers of government should get the vast majority from property, capital gains and estate taxes.

Some disencentivization taxes can be appropriate, but road transport in general is not something to disencentivize in my opinion, only a small part is luxury spending.

If the primordial dark matter is clumpy, then you don't necessarily need millisecond pulsars. The radiation could be clumpy because two clumps of dark matter are slowly passing through each other.

With so little evidence, you can make almost anything fit.

Then the yuan would rise ...

There is one thing they want to buy, Euro assets ... something which they can only do because the EU allows it.

If sabotage becomes an explicit act of war on US/EU/Russian/Chinese territory it might cause some hesitation on all sides.

Ehh, get in line, I need to feed it to my cows first and spray my crops with it for good measure.

Solar PV sails would have film with metallised aluminium on the back, a bit of vacuum then more aluminium, then a blackbody HOPG film with liquid cooling channels (for its thermal conductivity at low weight). The silicon would be distributed along the sails to minimise the distance the coolant has to travel.

Obviously.

Black body radiators work pretty well if they can only see the earth. PV will get more power per m2 than you can get rid off, but they are in the same order of magnitude.

The only reasonable way to make these PV behemoths is as heliogyros, otherwise it takes too much structural components.

They will sail the solar wind ... how that will actually look orbit wise, dunno, it's completely new territory and no one is doing the simulations yet.

Cosmic rays should be handled with resilient architecture, not shielding. Everything needs to be extreme light weight, at most you could generate put a couple megavolt between wire electrodes to guide charged particles to avoid the sails (flexible PV on one side, cooling foil with cooling liquid channels on the other side, bit of vacuum in between).

PS. assuming the Trump effect won't kick in for the US over 2025.

The second derivative on emissions has been negative for a while.

China had massive surpluses of PV to get rid off internally, I could see that compensating for India in 2025 and everyone else relevant is flat or declining.

Just because they need the fossil plants for 100% uptime doesn't tell you how often they run.

Ultimately net zero is a political decision, so a prediction of the trajectory has to predict politics ... and Trump just got elected.

Calcium silicate can make concrete. Hydrogen for ammonia and (e-)fuel can come from electrolysis and thus nuclear or renewable electricity.

Switching to non emitting processes, while letting emitting processes die a natural death, is far cheaper than sequestration.

That's not the problem, the problem is that it becomes really easy to find homes likely to have cash stored ... especially with an insider.

He won't take any cash, but some of his friends will make a visit later.