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The Manga Guide to Databases 236

stoolpigeon writes "Princess Ruruna, of the Kingdom of Kod, has a problem. Her parents, the King and Queen, have left to travel abroad. Ruruna has been left to manage the nations fruit business. Much is at stake, Kod is known as "The Country of Fruit." Ruruna is not happy though, as she is swamped by paperwork and information overload. A mysterious book, sent by her father, contains Tico the fairy. Tico, and the supernatural book are going to help Princess Ruruna solve her problems with the power of the database. This is the setting for all that takes place in The Manga Guide to Databases. If you are like me and learned things like normalization and set operations from a rather dry text book, you may be quite entertained by the contents of this book. If you would like to teach others about creating and using relational databases and you want it to be fun, this book may be exactly what you need." Read below for the rest of JR's review.

Comment Re:Macro wind power: Kite Gen (Score 1) 243

This would cause a circle of death above the power plant. Nothing could fly there (birds, planes, etc.) without getting chopped to pieces by extremely high speed wires flying about.

People keep expressing this basic sentiment but why compare only to windfarms?

What about the cone of heat and smoke (plus or minus scrubbers) above a coal or gas fired power plant? No place for a bird, and even planes wouldn't want to get too close depending on exact conditions.

I'll guess nuclear power plant cooling towers have similar characteristics and I'm not entirely sure what a bird flying over a vast field of solar arrays (does the air above get very hot? are sources of food and water out of reach?) would experience.

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