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Comment no (Score 4, Informative) 83

Not only is this old news, it has also already been debunked a few times. This road was already planned a long time ago, way before the summit was even appointed. So yes, the news is that they felled a forest to build a road, but dragging the climate summit into this is just a trumpian naarrative

Comment So no dose effect? (Score 1) 62

The study did not find a statistical difference in the changes and damage among rats that were exposed to water that had been in contact with plastic for one minute versus five or fifteen.

To me this suggests that the toxins are released into the water within 1 minute, and very limited amounts leech out afterwards. Would this not suggest that a proper pretreatment would address the toxicity? Also, it would indicate that re-using these containers is fairly safe

Comment Re:Works out for Ireland! (Score 1) 189

Or you could argue that Apple could afford tax lawyers and know exactly what gamble they were taking by selecting Ireland and its too-good-to-be-true conditions.

I do not understand why everyone thinks Apple did not see this as a business risk and took the gamble. I'm quite sure they knew *exactly* what the EU tax laws are and what they were getting into

Comment Re:Yeah no (Score 1) 47

Indeed the summary is either really dumb, or the researchers do not understand their own methods.

This method copies the light reaction of photosynthesis. There is no water as byproduct. Quite the opposite: water is the input from which oxygen (and H+ and electrons) is derived.

In algae, the CO2 is sequestered in the subsequent dark reaction of photosynthesis, which also consumes energy (NADPH, ATP) that is created in the light reaction. The dark reaction is a complex chemical cycle that does not produce any electrons.

And I'm sorry but that bit about coal formed by trees is nonsense. Wood in an anaerobic context is not usable for bacteria that break down cellulose. This is why peat exists. Similar for coal. Trees are fine as carbon sequestering as long as you either store them dry or anaerobic. But all of that is not in scope of this paper.

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