Without oil and gas we could not produce or transport the food for the 4 billion people who live in cities. A significant number of the less urbanized population would also be at risk of death due to starvation simply because food could not be transported from where it was grown to where it was consumed. Only 30% of the worlds population lives on farms. Only 2% in the US. Fear mongering the use of oil and gas needs to stop. The use of oil and gas makes our civilization possible. Changing to electrical power will happen naturally without all the fear mongering. Electrical systems are just better for most applications. They last longer and work better. But it takes time to figure out how to build them cheaper. Quit warping economic systems with government meddling. Let the economics sort it out. If the dang fear mongering and meddling in economics of nuclear power would have stopped everything would be nuclear powered today. It is the safest form of power generation. With cheap nuclear power we could manufacture oil and gas in a carbon neutral way and have an unlimited supply for those future uses that cannot be electrified. Quit harping on what's wrong and use that brain power to figure out better solutions.

I think they need to watch the movie Colossus The Forbin Project. In the movie they build an AI system (Colossus) to protect against nuclear attack. California is building one to protect from power outages. Colossus connects to a similar Russian AI and begin talking to each other but the people don't understand what they are talking about. Some other state Washington or Oregon will build an AI to control their power grid. The AI machines controlling the grid are connected in a regional network and begin conducting a private dialog. Nervous as to what Colossus and the Russian system are talking about the government cuts the connection. When state operators don't understand what the grid AI systems are saying they will disconnect the AI's. Colossus and the Russian systems then threatens a nuclear war if the link isn't restored. California and the other regionals AIs will threaten a massive power failure unless the regional connection is restored. Colossus and the Russian system rename themselves Guardian and declare they will reign over mankind making them safe and prosperous with no war etc. The regional system will then take control to keep all regional power customers safe and electrified. Anyone who risks the stability will have their power cut.

Bottom line you pay more for electricity not less than nearly everywhere else in the world. Everywhere else also has to pay for all those other things. The UK is not special. The point is that those pushing renewables promised lower costs. That has not happened. The more renewables the higher the cost seems to be. Show me where massive renewables have been installed and the actual costs to consumers has gone down.

28 pence is $0.38 USD currency conversion. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.statista.com%2Fstati... Actually says $0.40 but I also used the average cost I found elsewhere. Looks like China and Russia have much lower costs. US costs are about half that of UK.

Well they could deny info to other countries unless they pay. Negotiate a treaty with other countries to cover space junk. If they use US rockets to launch they would have to agree to pay. Taxing US companies who left old junk in orbit is not hard just pass the law. The government creates new taxes all the time. Taxing defunct companies is not possible. The government itself is responsible for some of the junk so would have to pay. May tariffs on communications transmitted by Foreign countries that pass through US satellites. The idea is that the tracking data is a service and those using the data should pay for the service as well as those who are responsible for creating the need of the service and increase its complexity should also pay. I have to pay for trash collection and disposal.Why should space companies not pay for leaving their junk floating around.

Would like to see how the cost per kilowatt hr is tracking with the percent of solar production. The renewable energy advocates said the renewables would be the cheapest form of energy. Were they right? Has the cost gone down compared to say France that gets most of its energy from Nuclear. UK cost per kilowatt hr is $0.35USD. French cost per kilowatt of power is $0.26USD. Yep that solar power is getting that cost right down there.

Place a tax on every satellite or piece of space debris left in orbit as long as it is in orbit. Currently there are 45,000 objects orbiting earth. That would be a tax of $1,200 per year for each object. This would also provide an incentive for operators to not leave junk in orbit. Some enterprising company could make money collecting up the space junk. You would not have to deorbit it just collect it. If its not a separate trackable object it does not pay the tax. So the collector could charge the junk producer a fee for eliminating their object. Every time they grab a piece of junk the junk producer would pay for the removal. The removal service would need to be very efficient in choosing targets to remove to minimise the delta V required. Maybe even figure out how to use the difference in speed between the object being collected and its path to direct it to the next object to collect. Like a complex game of space billiards. The collection method would need to produce no debris. Probably the hardest part of the process to figure out. Anybody know how to build a space tractor beam?

If I read copyrighted material and then write my own story using information in what I read is that infringement? Do clif notes have to pay for the rights to publish notes on other authors books? Isn't this is what ChatGPT does? Isn't this what every high school student does when they write a book report? Once I learn about something I am able to tell people what I have learned. Am I breaking the law if I tell my grandkids about a story I read. I just don't see a lot of difference between asking an AI a question and having it tell me what it has learned than asking a human and having them tell me what they learned assuming they were trained on the same materials. How are AI responses that different than human responses? Both sometimes have inaccuracies both sometimes quote others verbatim. The human gets paid for his time the AI creators get paid for theirs. Assuming both legally obtained the info they were trained on.

Calling magnetic dust a robot is just wrong. The dust has no ability to do anything without the external magnets and optical heating equipment. The idea is actually very clever and can probably help cure some very difficult infections. But it is likely to creep people out telling them we are putting tiny robots up your nose. No fear for the dust to take over the world like the concern over grey goo. Might make a great idea for a sci-fi story. Guy goes to the dr for a sinus infection. Volunteers for an experimental treatment and is consumed by the runaway nano robots that go on to kill the dr and half the town before it is stopped by a grandma using honey and lemon.

Propulsively landing a rocket is impressive, but reaching orbit is much more important. Under a 1000 ft altitude? Not much to brag about. Model rocket builders do that all the time. The guy at BPS.space has landed a model rocket propulsively and is working on building one to reach the edge of space. He is basically a one man show. So for a mega company like Honda this achievement is a bit underwhelming. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...

The mosquito is a part of the food chain. Before we strive to eliminate it we need to fully understand its function in that chain. Sure it feeds frogs etc but what does it eat besides blood at the adult stage. When it is a larvae it eats what? Bacteria, algae? What happens to the water quality when they are removed? It could kill all the life in ponds if the algae goes crazy. This needs a small scale test in an isolated area before any large scale eradication effort.

If law enforcement is requesting data with a warrant the target should not get notification. Law enforcement should not be requesting and companies should not respond to warrantless requests. The public at large should be informed of warrantless requests for data not just the senators.

I think this is total BS. These guys are trying to blame the plastics industry for all kinds of diseases so they can file massive class action lawsuits to drive the plastics industry out of business. Just like the talcum powder and cancer suits. Not sure who is financing these studies but it's basically find an industry that is profitable and use lawfair to extract as much money out of it as you can using gullible juries and bogus science. What I want to know is how does plastic get into the body? I have not read a single study that used radioactive labeled plastic fed to animals that absorbed the plastic. Plastic molecules are huge and just could not be absorbed by the gut. Unless you can show that happens all this is bogus.

Look at https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthebreakthrough.org%2Fis... Table 1 and figure 4 This clearly shows that the number of deaths related to low temperatures dwarfs those related to high temperature. World Wide 9.2 times as many people die due to cold as do those who die from heat. As extreme cold temps are moderated deaths due to extreme cold should drop. Because it is the biggest cause of temperature related deaths the effect should be a net positive. Not saying less deaths from extreme heat just that the overall deaths from extreme temperatures will go down. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nasa.gov%2Fcenters-a.... NASA says the earth is greening due toC02 Fertilization. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.climate.gov%2Fteachi.... NOAA Climate .gov says humans can adapt to warming. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.energy.gov%2Fne%2Fenha... US Department of Energy says Nuclear power plants are safe.

Net positive. Fewer people die of heat than die of cold. Longer growing season. Higher crop yields. More greening around the world. Bring on the CO2. Bring on the heat. Get ready to build some sea walls and erosion controls over the next hundred years. Quit building flimsy homes in flood and storm surge prone areas. We can handle the heat. We will be fine. We need the energy to live abundant lives. Build big batteries to store solar. Take down those ugly windmills. Build safe Nuclear power plants and Drill Baby Drill for that sweet abundant oil.