>>>> TYVM

1. Not questioning you. 2. Source? I want to be able to keep up with current info.

Am I the only one who saw this headline and immediately flashed on Tom Cruise getting on the subway in "Minority Report", and the retinal scanner software reporting his location to the police?

Trees don't grow in all places. If this tech can be used on non-arable land (and the limitation seems obvious; you have to build this stuff in places where you can actually retrieve the produced fuel, by pipeline or tapping a tank or whatever), then the two technologies (trees, and whatever you call this if it proves out) can profitably coexist.

Also, there's a _lot_ of non-arable land, although I doubt that covering the North American western mountain ranges and the Andes will prove especially popular with people who like actually looking at and climbing mountains. But... covering the largest deserts between the Arctic and the Antarctic ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ) would be likely to generate a lot of fuel, and (as another poster has pointed out) be pretty much carbon-neutral.

Remaining concerns include the following:
1) The other output of the process is Carbon Monoxide, a general-purpose poison gas at sufficient concentrations.
2) Most such processes to date have require the presence of rare earths, a definite limiting factor and possibly another source of poisons and heavy environmental costs from extraction.

You're saying you would have trusted the seller to disconnect the antenna?

::facepalm:: never mind.

Light moves at that speed in a vacuum. Light in a fiberoptic cable moves at a different speed. But I doubt it's different enough to matter in this scenario. (Just for yuks, has anyone got the speed measurement for light in fiber?)

There is no upper limit to individual consumption. Imelda Marcos owned 6000 pairs of shoes.

FAIL: "No True Englishman" tautology. Thank you for playing.

That turns out not to work as well as one could hope. Most news does not have high international appeal, unless you are in DC or on Wall Street. So you lose a _lot_ of local subscribers who paid real money, and you get back clickstream revenue, which is pretty universally a smaller quantity of money. Meanwhile, you still have a physical distribution network to maintain for your remaining subscribers. As someone noted higher in the stream, this becomes a death spiral.

That's in the freaking trailers, dude. You don't have to play the game to know it.

Sikhs do have a lot of problems from all sorts of directions, when wearing traditional garb, including headdress/"turban" and ceremonial knife. Not least from TSA and other LEOs. Eleven years later, Security still doesn't have it right.

:: sigh :: trying again. Sorry, all.

"If someone killed three thousand of your neighbors, you might feel that way, too. Oh, wait, is it after 9/11/01 yet?"

>Seriously though, those Indians aren't interested in justice, they are interested in revenge. If someone killed three thousand of your neighbors, you might feel that way, too. Oh, wait, is it after 9/11 yet?

I believe you have to have an Act of Congress authorizing you to sue, in order to actually prevail. Anyone can file suit.