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> The 300MW Thurrock Storage project, developed by Statera Energy, is now energised and delivering electricity flexibly to the network across London and the south east. > With a to…

I thought the ECMWF models were (and always have been) global?

I thought that idea finally died a few years ago, but never say never I guess (I assume you're talking about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaragua_Canal )

Locks are fun! (Can you tell I'm Dutch? ;) )

I think the main reason is that the (big!) ships just don't have room to pass each other anywhere other than on Gatun lake. They can't pass in the Gaillard cut, and not really in t…

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38255225 for a back-of-the-envelope calculation of why it's intractable to pump the water back. And see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i…

The thing that complicates the use of the water saving basins, is that they tend to make the salt intrusion into the lake a lot worse [0]. So to limit the salt intrusion (through t…

> > The ability to redeem LUSD for ETH at face value (i.e. 1 LUSD for $1 of ETH) [...] create a price floor That is not entirely true though; it costs money to redeem LUSD for ETH.…

> You can take an interest free loan out against your Ethereum Well, you do have to pay to take out a loan. Closing a loan is free, and redeeming LUSD for ETH (if it's not your loa…

> I shall refer you to my first post up there! No, that's what _you_ think the reason is or should be. I'm asking what the reason (or answer) is that the _SEC_ gives in the applica…

But what _is_ the reason they can't get through the pipeline (and that you think is a "very good" one)? Isn't just the SEC saying "We don't feel like answering your request. Contin…

I'm not sure what you mean by "until when?". > do you think they wont start forcing the needle? The article is about _fining_ people, i.e. negative monetary incentives. Your reply …

> they shouldn't be forced I was under the impression that you'd just get fined if you don't get your shot. It's not like they are going to take you prisoner and stick a needle in …

> I think that the most fascinating fact about this upcoming IPO is that, to the best of my knowledge, GitLab is the first remote-only (i.e., no-headquarters) company in the world …

I'd say the most effective way for me to scrub a lot of CO2 out of the air is to burn a lot of fossil fuels, and then scrub 80-90% of it (or however efficient scrubbers are). Seems…

In a sense it sounds a bit like immunotherapy for allergies. That is typically about injecting pathogens into your body (e.g. under your tongue, under your skin, or in your lymph n…

> In his article, Vitalik claims Electrum’s cosigner model isn’t good enough, without mentioning it by name. He says multisig has been very successful for organizations like the Et…

(I have no clue how to reply when the depth is reached) > Because as a user I am now sitting in front of 24 websites which look equally "meh" in terms of trustworthiness (fancy des…

I guess I shouldn't have put the "human" in parentheses. I did give an example of how the EF is spending their money on development of the ecosystem though, hoping that'd make it c…

With the advent of hardware wallets, and so many competing wallets/interfaces out there (tailored to different user bases), I feel it makes little sense for the Ethereum Foundation…

I have to say that I'm happy that Ethereum does not do on-chain governance for this very reason. It more or less follows the IETF principle of "rough consensus". [0] As far as smar…

If I remember correctly, the Ebola vaccine is the first approved vaccine to use another virus as a vector. The first one to be approved (by Merck) does not use an adenovirus, but t…

Monero is unfortunately not really anonymous either in many common scenario's, like repeatedly sending payments to or from the same address. [0] It's definitely better than Bitcoin…

What defines the volume to get to that number? From what I can tell from the ARC specs the plasma volume is 141 m3, and the expected power output is 200-300 MWe, which makes it 1.5…

I always thought it made sense that the improved efficiency comes at a cost. Our (human) kidneys are not as efficient, and we require a lot more water intake. Then again, we don't …