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Comment #33885288
I have a Toyota rav4 plugin in europe. Gas costs 1.7€/liter, gets about 6l/100km for about 10.7 cents per km. On electric it goes about 73km for 14kwh which costs about .60€ per kW…
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Comment #30732575
So what? You can try and clean up both. Particulate is not the only pollutant either. NOx and ozone are also emitted from diesel cars.
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Comment #30732536
Huh? Most of Europe has socialized medicine and they have a ton more diesels and thus air pollution than the US.
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Comment #30601279
This will only work for a very unbalanced exchange though where the attacker has way fewer resources. The cost of an iron dome intercept will be far higher than that of an artiller…
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Comment #30578787
A heat pump is efficient.
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Comment #30572374
Really he controls NATO member Latvia? He controls Finland? He controls Poland? All these countries are only a few hundred miles away.
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Comment #28855070
Just distributing more money to people doesn’t create more resources in the real world. It just makes those resources cost more in dollar terms because more people have more money …
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Comment #28702361
It’s much slower. GPU single thread performance is very slow. Unless you are doing some specialized operation that has a special instruction on GPU, it will be slower. GPU clock sp…
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Comment #28116306
Could you not use resistive heating powered by solar/wind/hydro? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joule_heating
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Comment #28115954
Well, the alternatives for CFC-generating are already developed and in the marketplace. There are still no equivalent alternatives for many oil-using products. Kind of indicates th…
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Comment #28115415
Technically possible. There were alternatives developed quickly to the CFC problem that worked about as well and were only slightly more expensive. This lead to support for them po…
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Comment #28115167
These are good but also poor examples. The solutions to those were much much easier. If carbon reduction were that easy we would have done it already.
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Comment #25888315
Pantani was in an age where drug testing was not very good so they pushed the limit of hematocrit level to improve performance. Now the tests are much better and so the level of dr…
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Comment #23399341
But can it run crisis?
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Comment #21220270
Is there any public code for these perf tools?
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Comment #16945810
Radiation at 13nm cannot use normal mirrors or lenses for guiding/focusing the beam. The ones we know of reduce the power significantly such that your light source has to be very p…