About 7 million peolpe die from air pollution every year

By “Efficiency” I believe he’s referring to “Capacity factor”, which is “On average what percentage of an assets capacity does it produce” for which wind it about 30% nuclear power and most dispatchable power sources are in the 90% range. The instability of wind and solar remain a major problem because it is…

My problem with the “only if the story calls for it” argument is that the same is never applied to white characters. A lot of stories don’t call for white characters to be white. Jason Bourne, Katniss Everdeen, Ethan Hunt, Ace Ventura, John McClane, Ellen Ripley, Sarah Connor - none of these characters needed to be…

It’s a made up story/movie about children with superpowers who live on an island in a time loop, managed by a woman who turns into a bird and the thing you find unbelievable is that people of color existed in the UK in the 40's?! Oooooookay.....

Shimizu’s calculations show that a sufficiently large array of his turbines could capture enough energy from a single typhoon to power Japan for 50 years.

Isn’t the bottle neck for most renewable energy sources the battery/storage? Collecting enough energy to power Japan for 50 years in one storm is nice, but it means diddly if there isn’t a reliable way to store that massive amount of electricity in one go.

Nah, I’m with you. This costume is from a movie celebrating Polynesian culture, not mocking it or playing it up for laughs as was the case with blackface - it’s a completely different context and not comparable in the slightest. Could this costume potentially be used in an ignorant way? Of course, literally everything…

It is a way to give “cosplaying” children Maui’s tattoos without printing those water-based things on your children from neck to waist and all down the arms. If it were too light-colored (to match other skin-tones) you’d be offended. If it was just the leaf-toga then little boys’ wouldn’t’ve wanted it because the…

Whether or not people believe that climate change is man-made or cyclical, can’t we all agree having less pollution is objectively better??

“He could speak at schools, donate money....” You know he doesn’t do this? I believe he just talked about a million dollar donation he was making, you can do more than one thing you know? “Organize protests, join protests...” ummmm, that’s exactly what he is doing here, you just don’t like WHEN he’s doing it, here’s a…

I’m just going to say this:

I’m often annoyed at the distinction between ebooks and print books. Are we supposed to look down on one? Never made sense.

Well, that’s how the capitalism of USA works, supply and demand is king right? “we don’t need no regulations”. Well sometimes that works, sometimes this is what happens.

Have a look at Schuiten and Peeters’ “Cities of the Fantastic”; one of the cities is entirely enclosed in greenhouses

And now he’s going to be disqualified for having the runs.

I see no problem with the underwater cameras, I see a problem with freaking out over seeing a woman’s nipple, especially in this context. They’re not sex objects, they’re athletes competing. This view gives a good look at a sport where a lot more happens under the surface of the water than the casual fan realizes.…

Perhaps the bigger, more concerning issue is that the Trump camp immediately doubled-down on the originality of the speech, and then, when that failed, tried to defend the copied text with lousy math and with a cartoon based on a child’s toy. In this case, the aftermath is far more damning than a potential First Lady…

Maybe he was passing someone doing 5 under. The left lane is not the “license to speed lane.” Maybe he wasn’t even in the left lane.

I’m routinely amazed at this. To wit: I was driving through an unfamiliar area, ended up a in zipper merge for construction, running out of room, and a guy who is 100+ feet behind me decides he needs to cut me off (into a turn with barrels), rather than just let me merge in—for which I had signalled. He this followed…