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Nit pick: Electrolysis is more like 70% efficient, but once you add the losses from compression and turning that hydrogen back into electricity, your 30% figure sounds about right.…

I'm not arguing in favor of our current regulation, I'm saying that it is hard to fix and you can't throw it out altogether.

I don't think unregulated nuclear is a good idea. Safer reactors would require less regulation and you could argue that even for current reactors our regulation is excessive. The b…

> the tsunami it experienced was accepted by the best engineering data at the time to be impossible. I find that hard to believe. It was the 4th largest earthquake in the last cent…

> not actually convicted of doing what is alleged Do you mean "not actually guilty even though they were found guilty" or do we put people on sex offender registries without due pr…

> as part of an issued sentence or punishment for an original crime. I think this is the key point. You have a fundamental right to work for anyone who wants to hire you. The gover…

> Many countries already do this. I don't think I could name a 1st world county that doesn't do that.

Minimum wage guarantees you will make a minimum of $0 + all eligible welfare benefits.

With BI, You will never be in a situation where you will be poorer for earning a dollar you just won't be an entire dollar richer.

Any electric heater will be approximately 100% efficient, but electricity is generally much more expensive per unit energy than than natural gas or oil. If you have decided that el…

Though on Earth it's our atmosphere that stops the high energy particles.

This enables a self driving car to charge. Your car can drop you off and go park.

Which is not a fair comparison because gas stations must meet 100% of the refueling demands of gasoline cars and charging stations only need to meet a tiny percentage because most …

I think that would still fit pretty well with "those providing 'real' value are so productive that they support all that dead weight and yet still continue to grow".

> it's not related to censorsphip at all. Censorship: the practice of officially examining books, movies, etc., and suppressing unacceptable parts. Isn't the suppression of "unacce…

Could you explicitly state what it is you are referring to? I'm not familiar with github's content restrictions.

> Marginal cost generally increases after a while That is possible, but I would generally expect the opposite with economies of scale.

Define "regressive" because when I google it I get "(of a tax) taking a proportionally greater amount from those on lower incomes". Are you talking about the wealthy having greater…

> You assume we are already paying everyone fairly for the value they create. No, they are assuming that some employees are generate less than $15 of value per hour. They could be …

I think it would become much more palatable if someone came up with a plan for basic income that didn't require tripling the federal budget.

It's sad that they mistook kilowatts for kilowatt-hours, but I think acre-foot is a good unit for measuring volumes of water. It helps communicate the scale of water use.

It seems like you are drawing a distinction between "tank" and "pressure vessel", could you explain what the difference is?

I agree with you about the e-Golf. I had previously seen numbers like this: http://insideevs.com/monthly-plug-in-sales-scorecard/ that make the e-golf look like they were convertin…

Already exists: http://www.edison2.com/