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The claim that 'one can be subtracted from the other' is a straw man. The words ' Equivalent of 97%' are right there in the headline.

Are you suggesting that fusion is a close-to-viable technology which has been held back because it hasn't had enough research resources spent on it?

Yes, in fact the 'jobs split' between Scotland and England is probably more in Scotland's favor than any putative split of the oilfields after Scottish independence would be. There…

I don't see the problem with this number. Scotland (seen as a separate energy economy) sometimes exports energy to England and Wales, sometimes imports it. Scotland's production of…

But these applications will appear.

Lots of things that we currently do were designed on the basis that power supply and demand were predictable and slowly-changing. Now we will see technologies evolve on the basis t…

For a mathematician the suggestion that 1 might be a prime is on a par with a suggestion that a circle is technically a type of triangle.

I think there were two fears. One is that you might want to stay in your house for a long time without having to go and get groceries. Either because you are quarantining, or becau…

This sounds more like a fantasy based on questionable ideas of karma or natural justice than an actual business consideration for Google.

If the government wants to default on its debts it can generally just do so. People lend money to the government because they choose to trust it for various reasons. If the governm…

It's not eerily prescient at all. It has been known a long time and the subject of much research that viruses jumping from bats to humans is one of the most likely, and most danger…