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Comment Re:you know (Score 3, Informative) 49

Don't you think they would have printed photographs (at the time, obviously such purported photos today would be worthless) if they had on-the-ground intelligence?

You mean, like this one? https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.nzz.ch%2F2022%2F10%2F26%2F... ?
Or this one? https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhips.hearstapps.com%2Fhm...

Getty Images has a file: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gettyimages.com%2Fph...
Don't stop at the first page, go down to the bottom and click next; there are 46 pages of images.

Comment Re:It's too late baby... (Score 1) 120

Maybe someday, but, no, it's not too late yet.

Yea.. really it is. It's been too late for quite a while now.

I suppose the question is, too late for what? Too late to stop some amount of global warming and consequent climate change? Yes. Too late to stop the most catastrophic effects? No, not too late.

I'm not saying don't do your best to address it.

Yes, you are. You just said it's too late to address it.

Comment Re:Wrong units (Score 1) 108

Grid operators are generally focused on power, not storage capacity. They care about how much power can be delivered to the grid

That's power...

and for how long.

... and that is storage capacity

It helps to look at a chart, see, grid capacity is power over time.

Power divided by time?? Watts per second, which would be joules per second per second???

No.

Original poster was correct; what matters is how much power the storage can provide, and for how long. Watts, and watt-hours (or, at utility scale, megawatts and megawatt-hours),

Comment Re: Trump crashes the economy and planes (Score 1) 157

The FAA has 35,000 employees, are we really to believe that cutting 100 employees out of 35,000 brought the organization to its knees? Really?

Laying off the maintanence engineers for what you youself call "antiquated equipment" certainly hurt Newark, yes.

You're correct that the problems are long standing. Getting rid of the people keeping it running, however, is not a useful thing to do.

Comment Re:What do you expect (Score 2, Informative) 73

Donald Trump has significant influence over some fraction of one half of one item in TFA's list of challenges for Apple:

A 25% tariff on iPhones is a bit more significant than just "a fraction of one half of one item in TFA's list." It is a major threat.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbcnews.com%2Fbusine...

Comment the Arrhenius curve [Re: With Climate Change] (Score 1) 46

There are those that view this issue differently of course. One claim I can recall is there's diminishing returns on global warming from CO2. The concern is that greenhouse gases have something of a linear effect on global temperature, and the counter is that the effect has a ceiling. The analogy I heard was much like painting a wall, the first coat of paint will hide the color beneath far more than the second, and with every layer the change in color becomes less noticeable.

Warming is not linear, but the curve is logarithmic in the concentration of IR absorbing gasses, so there isn't exactly a "ceiling", although the rate of warming with increasing concentration does decrease. That's why climate sensitivity is expressed in terms of degrees C per doubling: going from 1 to 2 times the baseline concentration has the same effect as going from 2 to 4, etc..

However, we haven't yet even reached a single doubling, so the rate is still very much in the linear range.

Comment Highways [Re:China actually did something similar] (Score 2) 46

...Highway projects are generally within time and budget

Not.

"The Government Accountability Office, for example, found that 77% of highway projects in the USA experienced cost escalation (in Kaliba et al., 2008). Merewitz (1973) suggests that the average overrun of infrastructure projects is a little over 50 percent (Merewitz, 1973)."

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Farxiv.org%2Fpdf%2F1307.217...

Although compared to the massive cost overruns of some military procurements, I suppose 50% is in the noise.

Comment Re: China actually did something similar (Score 2) 46

The US also tried it. The problem is that under water (or wet ground) explosions cause serious nuclear pollution

The US did tests (Project Plowshare), but never actually tried to implement it.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

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