The answer to your question is quite simple, specifically it is that not all power sources are born equal. There is quite good example in TFA summary itself, if ones is willing to think about it - airplanes cannot run on solar or wind power, DAC can. Effectively this moves carbon burden from airlines, that really have to rely on gasoline for its energy density and transportability, to DAC, that can take advantage of alternative energy sources to extract carbon. Truly, it is possible to reach that much insight by thinking oneself

The cost to employer X$ is what it has to pay to attract someone like you to work for them given labor market demand and supply. If you are remote, there is suddenly so much more supply and people are willing to take less bc they can telecommute from cheep regions. Thus literally the employer cost is down. This is market economy for you

YOU maybe missing the point that the videos are of objects kilometers and dozen kilometers away, especially such taken by fighter jets' acquisition cams. I dare you to take a better video of an object flying 20 km away with your smartphone ... (((the ignorance is unbelievable)))

It is sad to see how little people have understanding of the real world and fact process. WHO performed exactly as it was supposed, and very well at that. Let's say, as TFA suggests, that WHO raised alarm right after Taiwan and Hong kong sent their "suspected human-to-human transmission" emails and demanded all countries to shatter borders, institute airport checks, and social distancing/isolations. Trump would be the first to bash WHO for over-reacting, and noone would do anything. Trump bashed WHO and did nothing for weeks even after human transmission was proven for fact! It is ridiculous to imagine Europe or US government do anything but pour a bucket of shit on WHO should it have done that. But what is most sad is how few people understand that there are bars for proof and evidence in these matters. You can't just shout "it look like human transmission" and bah 8M people go into lockdown. It takes evidence, confirmation, and verification for those things to happen... The 4 weeks it took the Chinese government from the day first infections hit to the point of declaring international threat is nothing out of the ordinary. In fact, it is fast. Most governments sat on their hands and did nothing for nearly 2 month after WHO declared this international concern, and all the writing was on the wall for anyone to see. That is the real failure. Very naturally all really responsible now are trying to hide and shift the blame onto the "communists". What can be wrong with that -- everyone hates communists, right? But the fact of the matter is that the Chinese response was the best of all around. They had to go from zero to new agent identification, test development, and full blown containment effort, to end up with 3k fatalities for >1B population being the first country hit! And all the other nations? They got all the data and need-to-know from WHO and the Chinese even before any cases reached their borders. They sat on their hands and did everything to ultimately endanger their populations and run death tolls into thousands (or tens of thousands maybe - it's even not over yet!) Now they blame Chinese for what they themselves did. And you are arguing about that here?

In summary - noone would have listened to WHO in January. Trump would have dismissed it as alarmist (as he did with own advisers warning him in January already), maybe even cut of funding for inciting economic damage to USA. WHO did the exactly right things. It would have taken 4 weeks to go from totally unknown agent to virus isolation, test development, confirming transmission, verifying, assessing, and producing international threat warning. I can't get a damn patch published in that amount of time at my work. This was in fact quite fast. Could it have been done faster? Noone really can know now. But we do know that all other countries sat and did nothing (relevant) with that information for month after human transmission was confirmed and all the information been provided by WHO and China. It is ridiculous to blame now WHO and China. Anyone should see it for what it is - pathetic attempt to redirect the blame for 10s of thousands of dead away from their own skin, and a cheap play on general public's stupidity.

Anyone can "predict" anything, as Cuomo said everyone is entitled to an opinion. You are saying 1B infections with 60M hospitalization and 600k death. That's 94% asymptomatic cases, 1% of symptomatic case fatalities. What kind of pipe are you smoking??! Open up https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/ma... and look at it for 5 sec, should be enough to blow your weird Imaginarium to shreds. I can predict you are an idiot sir, very much the same way.

Travel ban was not necessary. Airport screening, early testing, and contacts tracing was. WHO was absolutely right. Trump banned Chinese from coming in but didn't do anything for Hong Kong, south Korea, and Europe. That's why it was racist. And dumb and useless. Which you sitting at home now amply demonstrates. Singapore never banned travel. They instituted arrivals screening, testing, tracking and tracing. And they don't sit home now. That basically summarizes it. That "travel ban" was unnecessary, dumb and wrong thing to do. Since Trump can't speak for anything else, he broadcasts that as something awesome he did, while it was useless as you very well know now :). Speaking of China and delays bla bla, China got 3k dead out of those 126k, despite being 1st country hit. What a lame attempt to deflect blame by complacent governments around the world that were showing off full streets and restaurants when cases were already in their shores "it won't touch us". What is lamer than dumb people being led astray by that obviously fake carrot.

You must be an idiot - exponential is 2^X not X^2. Whatever you base is exponential will overrun your system in log(Capacity) time (which is really not much for whatever Capacity you offer).

Yeah, and you must know better than WHO because... ??? "Actually, there is good reason to believe that many, many asymptomatic and light cases are not known and the death rate is a lot lower." -- and what is that "good reason"? your Lancet paper or PhD that you just defended on COVID-19? Oh give everyone a break, and stop talking out of your ars

That's just laughable. Talk to your mom to decide what car to buy, or ask your bro where to have a house, or your sis for what laptop works best... In my experience I found THAT to be the worst idea for how to make your purchasing decisions.

How's negative punishment is not violence? Stepping on child's self esteem and taking things he/she thinks are his/her leaving him/her feeling powerless is not any better than giving him/her spanks. Just because you think it is not a physical violence doesn't make your actions any less damaging. It's frustrating to see how few people are actually using their heads for something other than eating. Try to look less at what "everybody" seems to be doing/saying, and think for yourself next time.

The situation hete in fact is pretty obvious. It used to be that academic journal editors were experts in their fields. This allowed them to know who can be a reviewer on a paper and meditate the review process. Now there is so many journals and papers, a whole lot of "editors" are not just inexperienced, but are simply morons, not only not experts in paper's field, often not even an academic faculty. That's why they want authors to suppy them reviewers suggestions - really quite an idiotic idea if you come to think about it... Ban reviewer suggestions and have the editors do their jobs, as it used to be, is all that's required to fix this one.

This is incorrect, virtual particles don't move slower, or move at all. They are probability waves that appear in particular space-time point and collapse at another. That's why they can annihilate again, at all; if they moved as normal particles, they should have flown at opposite directions due to conservation of momentum and never see each other again (think about that). This all happens actually at the speed of light. I feel like the paper's authors mess up with things they don't really understand.

The light (and all other massless particles) travels at maximum speed allowed by the structure of space-time, this is what the relativity is really about. The structure of space-time is defined by SO(3,1), where "travel" actually a rotation mixing time and space coordinates. "c" is the maximum you can get. Now if you ask why should we live in SO(3,1) space-time, that's a completely different story...

Gravity affects energy, not mass. Regardless the photon travels as a light or as a pair of virtual electron and positron, the gravity effect is the same. Why otherwise do we have gravitational lenses. I don't really know what this article is all about; gravity and quantum theory don't quite mesh well, it is well known. This sort of result, even assuming it is conceptually and mathematically solid, which is a far stretch, is a poke in the sky.

THIS

This is the source of all troubles in the world - bringing in improper analogies and building "theories" upon them. Let's begin with that the photon is not a particle flying through space, it is a probability wave. Particles do not fly, the probability wave propagates. Likewise, light remains a wave in medium, and it is that wave that is slowed due to interference with the charges in atoms.

Try to explain with your little analogy the greater speed of light in some meta-materials; what, the atoms emit photon before they absorb it?

Some times it is just better to accept that your thinking platform needs a change than try to continue squeezing the world into a completely inadequate concept-box.