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Comment Cheap electricity and expensive gasoline (Score 1) 199

Gas price USD 8/gallon
Electricity 0.15/kwh

Compare that to California:
Gas prices: USD 4.2/ga
Electricity: 0.35/kwh.

If you get 3.5 miles/kwh and 28 miles/ga and drive 12000/yr, your fuel cost saving in California is USD 600/yr. Not enough to justify range anxiety, future battery replacement cost and higher initial investment.

For Norway, it would be close to USD 3000/yr. Definitely worth it.

Comment Re:India bashing (Score 1) 34

"A country that has the world's largest population is bound to rank high in terms of the size of the economy"

Few years ago, people were using same language for China.

In 1995, Japan's GDP was 15x that of India. So it is not given. It is a great achievement for India and it deserves congratulations. I am not saying it is worthy of praise, but it still made good achievement. It was 16th in GDP rank in 1994 and now it is 4th.

Comment India bashing (Score 1) 34

The title clearly says that India overtakes Japan in total GDP. Nowhere it claims it is per capita or Indians are doing better than Japanese. This should be obvious to any fifth grader.

Despite that there are so many people bashing India and pointing out the obvious.

Let us face it, this is a great milestone for India and we should congratulate India for this achievement. When someone achieves a medal in college for sprinting, you don't put them down by saying how slow that person is compared to Ussain Bolt.

Comment Re:GDP means nothing - it is not weighed relativel (Score 1) 34

No single metric is enough to compare two vastly different economies such as Japan and India. All the metrics give view from a particular angle. GDP, per capita GDP, PPP GDP and so on.

No one in India is claiming that it has better quality of life either.

This is just one of the measures in which it overtook Japan and that is it. You are vastly extrapolating it for no reason.

Comment Should you feel sorry for residents? (Score 2) 23

The Tata coal plant in the article was build in a very remote location long time ago. Almost all the residents complaining moved there later. It is like you have been grilling burgers all the time and then someone moves in your neighborhood and complaints for smoky smell.

That does not mean that the plant should not be shutdown. But there are always trade offs. However, the residents can move out if they are not happy with the plant.

Comment Re:This is there since 80s (Score 3, Interesting) 11

I had tried in the pass unsuccessfully to search on this. Tried again today and found this on Google AI:

"Professor Padmakar P. Lele was a pioneer in the use of ultrasound for cancer hyperthermia, particularly with his work on scanned, intensity-modulated, focused ultrasound (SIMFU) systems in the 1980s. His research focused on using focused ultrasound to noninvasively heat and destroy tumors, with a goal of heating tumors to \(43^{\circ }C\) with minimal damage to surrounding tissue. His work laid the foundation for modern ultrasound hyperthermia techniques, which are still used today as a treatment for some cancers, often in combination with radiation and chemotherap"

Comment This is there since 80s (Score 1) 11

I attended a seminar at my university way back in mid 80s and this was discussed. Ultrasound Hyperthermia as it was called then. I even remember the professor name, it was Lele. Don't remember his university affiliation, so may be hard to do Google search. He presented several successful case studies as well. Maybe, it didn't work as well and was abandoned at that time and with the advancement of AI, software, and better hardware, it can do better job today. The main idea was same. Cancer cells at a faster rate than normal cell when heated. Ultrasound can penetrate and focus on the cancer tumors and do localized heating and kill larger proportion of cancer cells while killing only a few normal cells.

Comment Re:A rare good move from Trump (Score 1) 231

Good or bad, it does not seem legal. H1B is controlled by congress and president is required to enforce the laws made by congress. Putting arbitrary 100k a year fee is not in the spirit of the law. Imagine if states like California put 100k fee on gun registration. They can't, because gun ownership is in constitution and states cannot put excessive burden. Same for H1B. It is in a law by congress and president cannot put excessive burden on companies in exercising what is in the law.

Comment Re:This should stop the abuse of H1-B (Score 0) 231

You got it totally wrong. This law is abuse of presidential powers. Congress makes H1B law, not president. President is supposed to enforce the law as per the intention of the congress. Imposing 100k per year, is far from any congressman could have envisioned.

This law will mostly be blocked by courts.

Comment Solar take away too much land...really? (Score 1) 224

Any data? Last time, I checked the data, solar is using less land per unit of electricity produced than all the lands leased by fossil energy companies.

Solar will return the land back intact in future. The fossil energy companies return uninhabitable land.

In practice, solar needs lesser land than fossil energy takes.

Comment One crazy dream after other (Score 1) 107

First fusion and now space solar. Neither will ever be commercially profitable. Experimental tiny projects aside, neither had or will have any future.

Simple number feeding to either of these system will tell you that the cost is too exorbitant even if we have 100% technology today based on any known science. So unless, we have some fundamental laws of science uncovered which open different avenues, these projects are doomed.

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