It means that we can expect to be able to create synthetic cells that have simpler energy systems and those systems could be exotic so that the cells could not survive outside of the laboratory. So this knowledge does in fact contain a very important insight that may profoundly effect how safely and cheaply we can make all forms of biological molecules, including drugs, on an industrial scale.

Your genes come from your parents and those same genes influence how good a home environment they are able provide for you. Compounding interest rates can be small and still cause a balance to grow significantly over over time, the same goes for the effects of genes over multiple generations. i.e. Arguments that simply contrast genetics with environment are foolish because they are often intertwined with an accumulating, multi-generational, impact.

Before or after they read this book? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Id be concerned if they didn't have spare capacity during what looks like the lowest demand scenario short of a zombie apocalypse. The real issue is, how to they cope on a very cold, overcast, windless day when industrial and domestic demand is at it's highest? Also, don't they have a means of distributing power throughout the entire EU, geographically large single countries do this.

The "Little Brown book of Contemporary Trolls - volume 5".

The ex-employee has (potentially) defamed a very large (i.e. economically important) corporate entity therefore the truth needs to be determined and potential damages, to it's reputation and the value of shareholder assets, assessed. Try arguing with that.

A laser can point in any direction, and you can't dog fight with an opponent that has the option to hit you from any approach angle, while you are still kilometres away. i.e. If he can see you he can burn your eyes out long before you can punch him.

So, the gibberant is aberrant?

One could form an automata from the patterns of virtual particle interactions in the vacuum, however that is still going to be a virtual machine running an arbitrary language and not something running on the "bare metal" (or strings) of the universe and according to the fundamental rules that govern string interactions.

When we see claims such as those made by George Mobus we need to consider if they are nothing more than a symptom of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

It needs a hight frequency coherent light source to cause it to lase at a lower frequency?

If you can't afford the most efficient technologies, or even an energy efficient home, or you rent and there is no incentive for your landlord to improve the building, you will be far worse off if there is a price on carbon. It is a evil idea in practice, so unless the "tax" is parametric and proportional to your after tax income it should not be implemented. Why don't you go and kick a few poor people in the face Elon because that is as bad as what you are suggesting if you don't guarantee that they are economically protected from the fallout of your schemes.

Done, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... good luck trying to fund building one.

The plan is to have fusion powered aircraft and given Lockheed's reactor will be the size of a truck it should fit in large cargo and passenger planes. But you will have to wait a few decades before it is in civilian vehicles. Then you will have solar powered aircraft, but they will have their own little star on the inside. Old school fission power needs so much extra weight in shielding and support technology that it really isn't practical unless you are cruising the atmosphere of some other planet and you don't care if you radiologically trash it, i.e. it would be a good way of exploring a gas giant.

Because having two Sir David Attenboroughs would be confusing.

http://www.nytimes.com/1996/09...