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Drying the Mediterranean Sea is surely a bad idea, but I wonder why nobody ever built hydroelectric generators into the Strait of Gibraltar. There is a huge steady flow of surface …

I wonder if that could backfire if the reduced irradiation would reduce the plants' ability to remove carbon from the atmosphere.

This reminds me of the CargoLifter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CargoLifter They wanted to create a fleet of LTA vessels some 20 years ago, but never made it beyond a reduced-scal…

The fact that a court overturns a law is proof that our democracy actually works. No need to be 'verdrossen'. It would be worse if the courts just approves all laws the government …

This place is spectacular in many ways. My favorite: If you say "I can't afford it" at the entrance, they let you in for free.

On my corporate Linux, both Firefox and Chromium (which is likely the same as Edge nowadays, I guess) are affected.

I wonder how hydrogen peroxide (a strong oxidant) can reverse the yellowing of plastics, if the yellowing is the result of oxidation. I'm not a chemist, but this doesn't seem to ma…

I heard a similar story (a joke from the communist era) around 1995 from a Czech colleague. It was about an artist whose works were never censored. When the other artists asked him…