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Edited on Tue Nov-10-09 05:04 PM by OKIsItJustMe It suggests that it happened somewhere in a 10 year window from 1972-1982. I know I was convinced in the 70's, but I think it’s overstating things to claim, “ We've known "it's time" for forty years already.” Who is “we?” certainly not the general population; and I question whether even the general scientific community “knew it was time” in 1969… Let me...

Except in a sort of implied, indirect freedom-hating Euro-socialist way . . .

Edited on Fri Nov-13-09 07:39 PM by kristopher Your original question, as posed in your last post minus 1, was "Is 50+ days of grid storage perfectly feasible to you". I repied: I simply can't believe you persist is asking the same stupid question. "Is 50+ days of grid storage perfectly feasible to you" is either a meaningless question or a stupidly insane question. If we do not read it as being accomplished by a...

Edited on Fri Nov-13-09 01:06 PM by Nederland

They're trying to show that the technology doesn't require geoagriculture to work, it just sits whereever it can get sunlight and is a self-contained cell that produces ethanol and biodiesel. In other words, it's that whole "no more fermenting necessary" thing we've been hoping for, for quite some time. It probably isn't super efficient though, and efficiencies are important. If it's more efficient to...

It's amazing how they can figure out stuff with such a small brain.

Edited on Thu Nov-12-09 06:10 PM by GliderGuider Plenty of dV. The solid fuelled ICBMs of later vintage are not suitable due to generally low throw weights.

but those beaks are real weapons, capable of causing serious mayhem!