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Comment Re: Its very puzzling, isn't it? (Score 1) 97

Could be that they are treating it more akin to a base load power plant. For solar or wind, the costs go way up, due to having over provisioning and battery storage. This is a 615 MW plant. Even at a $6 billion investment, that's $10/MW for baseload power, so pretty cheap.

Comment Astronomy 101 (Score 2) 27

Those of us who have rubbed elbows with our fellow student-athletes in Intro to Astronomy should know that the visible surface of the Sun is known as the photosphere, and it is the first layer at which the gas density has gotten low enough that photons are no longer trapped and can fly off into space, giving what we observe as sunlight.

Comment Dan Quayle (Score 1) 27

I thought this was a parody of one time Senator from Indiana and later Vice President:

Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.

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