No this is nothing else than an application of the same rules to imports into Europe that already apply to companies in Europe. That won't stop "nations" complaining, but if a trade war starts it will be because those complaining nations want that trade war.

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Huh ? Autolayout and auto track routing has existed for decades !! This seems more like (ab)use of the buzzword AI than anything fundamentally new

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If Apple is sending the IMEI then yes "BS". The IMEI et the IMSI is often used to spy on users. Do a quick google serach for IMEI catcher. So the IMEI is very much personal data.

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Chinas local market is much more fragile that people believe, They need the west more than we need them. About time western companies lived up to their moral responsabilities and pulled out of china

Who would have thought that the Ansible could really exist

Look at these cyber-ranking results : https://www.statista.com/stati...

Your comment just makes you look like a Russian shill.

How can any one give such à purile comment à +5 informative !!

* Renewables aren't always available
* So you need a backup source of energy to replace the renewables when they aren't being produced
* That could be a stored energy source for periods when excess renewable energy is produced, but there is nowhere near enough of that to help
* So any power grid with significant renewable energy use, needs thermal power plants that are idle when the renewables are produced but can take up the load otherwise
* An idle power plant isn't making money even though the capital and operating costs stay the same (no the fuel isn't the most significat cost) --> A direct result is that the cost per megawatt/hour of these semi-idle plants goes through the roof.

You can't ask the thermal power plant to cover the cost of intermitant nature of renewables, as they'll all just shutdown leaving the absence of a renewable source just meaning massive rolling black-outs. The objective being to reduce green-house gas emissions, a holistic approach is needed and so sorry any renewable pundit needs to admit they need the "fossil feul guys" and give them the credit they deserve for covering the problems associated with renewables. Until someone comes up with an energy storage technique capable of storing 100's of GW/h of energy to cover for the absence of renewable sources this is the only way towards this goal. So name calling is just stupid

See the wikipedia page about the franklin below Gordon protests for the 80's and think about how the ecological point of view has evolved since

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Imagine Linus doing a kernel build on one. That would slow down linux's release cycle !!!

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If you plug an appliance, with all the patching issues invloved, such as this into an internet connected network you deserve what you get. Use an android TV device such as an Nvidaia Sheild that will be patched regularly and keep the TV off the network

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They should only be used for entertainment.

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'The early bird catches the worm' just shows that the worm should have stayed in bed.'
-- Lazarus Long, Time Enough For Love, Robert Heinlein

Doesn't a tree already do this ? In fact if the tree is fossilised into coal it can store the energy for millions of years and all of this based on the use of the molecule CO2

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Peak US energy consumption will be about 250 GW. So worst case 12h of storage is 3 TWh. Over 12h the consumption won't always be at the peak, so a good guess at what 12h US energy storage really means is about 1TWh of storage capacity and this storage must be capable of delivering 250GW peak !! Wow that I big dam with hundreds of massive turbo-generators attached.. Assuming that we need to call on that 12h of storage several times per year, say 5, that about 5TWh/yr of hydro-electric capacity

About the only storage mecanism actual capable of delivery that type of storage is hydro-electric, the question is now is that realistic. At the moment the US has 282 TWh/yr and a peak of 80 GW. About half of that 282 TW/h is probably run of the river type and so must be used immedately or risk severe local flooding. But even still 140 TWh/yr of other hydro-electric capacity is well and truly in the ball park of the author estimations, though might need bigger dams to store the water and deliver power over 12 hours rather than over shorter periods.

One remaining problem is the peak production capacity which would need to be tripled. The logistics of doing that without creating waves you could surf on in US rivers will be amusing but probably not insurmountable. In any case there would need to be a massive investment program in hydro-electric power as well.

The last problem is that last 10% of production that the authors haven't addressed. If its not wind, solar or hydro, what is it ? With current technology, about the only thing that would make sense is combined-cycle gas turbines, allowing for high efficiency and rapid deployment when the wind ain't blowing, the sun ain't shining and after you've used your 12h of energy storage. So the authors are asking the energy industry to build 250GW of production capacity that is only used 10% of the time. That's ok, but it means the infrastructure costs need to be amortized over few production hours, and the price of a MW/h from the combined-cycle generation will cost many times the current cost.

In short, yes the authors proposal seems highly possible on paper, though the US citizens must decide that they are willing to pay much more for power that they are now, and/or go without 10% of the time. Seems to me its a politico-economic choice in that case rather than a technological one. Unfortunately, recent history in the US with the massive exploitation of shale oil and reduction in cost per MW/h of power in the US is the reverse of the decision the authors are advocating, and I'm not sure that US political system has the balls to stand up tell everyone they have to pay more.

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And I thought Wikileaks was the preferred source of NSA source code !!

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