There are an estimated 26 million streetlights, and even if a fraction of them were modified to have single- or dual-car chargers, then we would not need to replicate the hub-and-spoke infrastructure of today but have something decentralized instead.

Obviously, that would require engineering the grid and rewiring of existing infrastructure. It is also something that would need to be done otherwise to accommodate the charging needs if we really want to transition from ICE to electric, and although the barrier to entry with repurposing existing infrastructure might not be as high as if we were starting from scratch, it would still take many years and actual commitment from governments across the world that are squarely in the pockets of big oil, so I remain skeptical that we will pull it off in 10-15 years.

I own a short-range electric car (bought dirt-cheap second-hand, 5 years ago) that I use as my daily commuter and a very long-range diesel car that we use for the occasional road-trip or when rarely driving beyond the range of our electric car. There is not a single "long-range" electric car that is sold today that I can even afford even 5 years from today (based on how much these cars cost today second-hand) can replicate the range that I get out of my diesel, so there is a use-case for each of them. We also do not intend to get rid of the diesel car anytime soon unless there were a comparable option at a similar price-point (it is nowhere near that today), and a really compelling reason to do so, since we do not put many miles on it, and well-maintained diesel engines last practically forever.

Good luck with that membrane. All that CO2 is just an earth quake away from getting into the atmosphere. If they can build a membrane that's earth quake resistant, they should build terrestrial buildings and bridges with it.

Have you actually seen a current green card or are you just repeating what you read? Green cards are indeed green and this is what they look like since 2010. I'm not sure if I should take the erst of your post seriously either.

I am an Android user, and have used Google Now, but had not tried Siri until very recently, when it was bundled with the latest macOS Sierra release. So far, I have been less than impressed with both Google Now and Siri, and after trying Siri for three days on my computer, I turned off that functionality altogether, because it was not as helpful as I had expected a voice interface to be. So, I would like to know who's building a better, open source voice interface (as opposed to merely recreating Siri or Google Now, which are both mediocre at best)?

It depends. In Colorado, for example, DUI/DWAI are clearly strict liability offenses, which do not require mens rea. A court in New York previously concluded that DWI is a strict liability offense, and does not contain the element of mens rea.

Sadly, Congress can actually overturn FCC rules, and this Congress, with its Republican majority may succeed where their predecessors failed.

And here is the author's disclosure from the article, available on PubMedCentral: "Author disclosures: J. M. Rippe, consulting fees from ConAgra Foods, PepsiCo International, Kraft Foods, the Corn Refiners Association, and Weight Watchers International." Still think the study is credible?

Better back up your firmware, just in case this makes you infirm.

According to http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/publications/fs-nator.cfm it seems like prohibition from workplace discrimination based on national origin extends to hiring. Unfortunately, the most likely outcome of a lawsuit like this one would be a fat settlement for this indivisual, after which, it will be business as usual at Oracle and at other companies with similar hiring practices.

"by the enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase by the enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase" - remove duplication. It's just "by the enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase". Aarghh!

This is one of the most horrible and stupidest summaries I've read in a long time. Enzymes are biochemical catalysts. Ethanol and acetaldehyde are substrates. The substrates get converted into end products with the help of enzymes and energy. Ethanol does not get converted *into* an enzyme known as acetaldehyde. Ethanol gets converted to acetaldehyde by the enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase by the enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase, through the loss of one hydrogen atom. In the next step, acetaldehyde gets converted into acetic acid (same thing as in vinegar) by the enzyme aldehyde dehydrogenase through the loss of another hydrogen atom. Acetaldehyde a lot more toxic than acetic acid. If you block the enzyme aldehyde dehydrogenase (which lacks naturally in a minority of East Asians), there will be an accumulation of excess acetaldehyde, causing very noxious symptoms. This is exactly what drugs like disulfiram ("antabuse") do. What a badly written summary. Both the submitter and the editor need to read some biochemistry or learn to use google before posting rubbish.

Well, the Indian economy has slowed down considerably, investor confidence is down, and years later, many of the problems noted in the posts above still remain to be solved. While this mission had been previously reported in other sources, the linked article was published on August 15--Indian Independence day--so the official announcement by the PM sounds more like the kind of feel-good pitch that one can expect in any 'address to the nation,' in most places in the world. The Chandrayaan mission was similarly announced 9 years ago during an independence day speech by a former PM, and completed 5 years later, although the costs ($90 million) were substantially higher than initially announced. Given that track record, it seems highly unlikely that this project can be pulled off in $100 million, although I suppose like any government initiative, the project probably has a better chance of getting funded if the scientists asked for that amount than what it might actually take (say, 10 times as much?), and then ask for more later! :-) At the end of the day, any kind of government investing in science is a good thing, and the recent Mars Curiosity landing is more evidence that a space mission captures people's imaginations like nothing else. Hopefully, this mission will have that kind of effect on the next generation of students in India.

There has been at least one bill in recent years--HR 3012--which would have made legal immigration easier for highly skilled workers, and which was passed with an overwhelming majority in the House (389/15), only to be placed on hold indefinitely by Sen. Chuck Grassley in the Senate. The way I see it, 389 votes in favor of such reform suggests that the majority of Americans support such a move, but there seem to be many (largely) political hurdles to overcome before anything concrete actually gets done about it.