>"(all of which the biochar process destroys)."
Reply to self. I don't think it would destroy heavy metals, though.
This is the one thing that puzzled me. Biochar is used to adsorb heavy metals out of things.
The lived experience of the Australian East Coast grid is that whacking in loads of unreliables (solar wind) with inadequate storage (11 weeks worth) will kill the economics of the fossil fuel and nuclear plants, which work best as baseload providers, not infilling for the unreliables.
This is what happens when your grid capacity auctions are badly designed. Especially if you need 11 weeks of other load you can price that in to ensure other kinds of power don't go broke.
Whether the way Nintendo went about it is illegal isn't for me to say.
I suspect the ones who will get to say is the EU, specifically I suspect this will prompt an investigation as to whether this breaches the common charger directive. Given:
additional proprietary charging protocols should not prevent, restrict or limit the maximum power achievable with the USB PD charging protocol and the harmonised charging hardware (receptacle, chips, etc.) integrated in the radio equipment
I suspect Nintendo may find themselves in trouble here if they've broken USB PD. They don't have to allow 3rd party interfaces to audio/video/etc under that directive but you should be able to charge at full speed via that port.
...easily design a new, reliable system at a reasonable cost But only if bureaucrats and profiteers didn't get involved What happens instead is that bureaucrats waste a tremendous amount of time and money on paperwork before awarding the contract to a profiteer who sees the contract as a cash cow to be milked for every cent possible while hiring cheap, incompetent people to do the work
Endless subcontracting is indeed an issue but even if you get rid of that it's still a hard problem. The hard bit is actually doing it whilst keeping the system running. You really can't afford to get this wrong, get it wrong and trains go smack, people die. You can't really close lines for long periods of time without causing huge issues so it needs a lot of careful planning. In many ways it would be simpler to build a set of new lines than upgrades.
cheapest form is COAL
citation needed
Get back to us when you find a plentiful power source that has both an up-front cost and an operating cost that are cheaper than coal, supplies that are domestic and more plentiful than coal, and therefore will provide the poor and middle class with electricity rates as low as coal can.
The answer was and still is natural gas. It was what was killing coal before all the stuff like carbon credits came along and will continue to do so. The turbines are pretty much the same tech. What makes the difference is that the boilers are so much easier to maintain, no clinker build up, etc. It fires up quicker and shuts down easier too. The US is still a net oil producer and gas is a constant by-product, there's even a thriving export market for it.
it turns arable land useless
I mostly hear this argument from people who are just repeating what someone else told them. The truth is this is why you don't use premium grade 1 arable land for solar arrays. It wouldn't make financial sense for a farmer to do this, nor are you likely to get planning consent, believe it or not people have thought about this. In the UK we use the ALC system to grade land. Most solar arrays will be built on subgrade 3b (Moderate) or worse land and you can still graze sheep under it.
Indeed, France 24 cites technical problems as the cause of the 12 year delay and massive cost overruns.
Keep in mind this is a new reactor at an existing nuclear site, i.e. the cheapest option as the infrastructure isn there and the site is already well surveyed etc.
The biggest problem for the French here is that this was an early model in a new generation of French reactors, the EPR. It's essentially a productionised prototype with all the fun that this entails. Curiously the Chinese and the Finns have apparently managed to build this design with a few hiccups but a lot less delay. The British Hinkley Point C has been built with less overruns than the French but still way over budget. Each time they build it it gets easier and there's a proposal for an updated EPR2 design which will supposedly be easier to build. One does wonder though whether there's something about the French and British management culture which is causing this inability to deal with challenges when building something new? Too much subcontracting?
The way not to be held to ransom by countries like Russia is to produce enough energy domestically.
Nice for some. The practical problem here in the UK is that we've passed peak production in the North Sea, particularly in our exclusive economic zone. There are still exploitable reserves yet to be drawn on but they're in deeper harder to reach spots and thus less profitable. It's cheaper to import gas from Norway than exploring and extracting these fields (and contrary to popular misconception the UK is still exploring and moving fields into production at this point).
This is why the UK is making big bets on wind and nuclear, this is our energy independence. Wind is intermittent yes but with a large inter-connectors to Europe to sell excess and cover shortage plus by converting old hydro lakes into pumped storage we have a plan. It's not a perfect plan but it reflects the economic realities of our situation.
Hidden cameras installed as part of a police investigation authorised by a judge? No problem at all with that.
No no, these cameras need to be installed as standard in every home just in case the police need them. Wouldn't want to tip the criminals off by installing them with a warrant, after all it's for the children. We'll just turn them on when we suspect you. If you've consented to warrantless backdoors in your phone without a police investigation, you should be okay with that right?
"Remember: it's for the children !!"
Wait until you have kids then you may change your priorities. If a load of privacy being lost means some kids don't suffer or even people avoid being killed then thats fine by me.
No doubt I'll be modded down for having an opinion that goes against the tech nerd groupthink.
Draw me a line then. The majority of kids who have been abused are abused by a family member or a friend. Therefore we should require government cameras in every home to ensure some kids don't suffer or even die. Would you support this? If not why not, where do you draw the line?
There is no "criminal charge of obtaining money by deception." But I'm not your enemy - there ought to be such a criminal offense. But there's not.
Nah it's a crime in most states under state law rather than federal. Examples of "Theft by deception" as a state crime are New Jersey, Georgia, PA, etc, etc. Hardly just American Samoa. I suggest that maybe you didn't google it?
I have been convinced that the capitalist system is the best system to provide for the needs of people and just let the market do the work.
The trouble is naïve raw capitalism has a dirty little problem it is well known to not work well for, and that is externalities. When we drive we aren't actually paying for all we consume, we are foisting it on the rest of us. Capitalism only efficiently solves these kind of problems when they are actually priced into the market. To properly have a capitalist solution to GHG within the time limits we have you'd need to price carbon far more aggressively into the market than it is now. My main issues with that are people get whiny about it and I'm not convinced of the evidence base of carbon offsets. You'd have to directly fund alternatives to fossil fuels from it and that makes people whine a lot.
The current mental health crisis has a lot to do with overload. Work, social media, hypernovelty, etc. all create mental load.
The effective solution is to cut back on social media, not work.
It might help a little but we still need to cut back on work. 40 hour work weeks and multiple jobs are corrosive in the medium to long term. The biggest problem with our current system is that there are too many simpletons in management who think that more hours = more productivity and advocate for the constant crunch. Unfortunately what they don't realise is that human minds aren't built for prolonged concentration, and even if you can keep them on task by using automated systems like Amazon warehouses do, eventually people snap and their productivity drops. It's different per person, but it always happens
She sells cshs by the cshore.
