The thing with wind is that the buy-back energy (the energy used to make the machine) is fairly high compared to the energy you get out of them. I've heard that most wind turbines take dozens of years before they really become profitable.

Through a closed fuel cycle with reprocessing it's possible to eliminate nearly all of the long-lived isotopes until you're left with the ones that will only last a few hundred years before becoming harmless, which is doable as far as waste storage is concerned. The problem with reprocessing is that it's not an…

As a certain professor at Purdue seems to hint often, I would guess that the explanation for the fluid movement comes down to Reynold's number.

Mind=blown. I remember some lines saying things like "again" but I didn't know everything was to this extent.

If you're tired of misleading Youtube videos, then use Firefox's YTshowRating addon. It shows a little bar of the likes/dislikes and it's saved me from quite a few videos that had a promising title and/or thumbnail but were actually Youtube poop or "an excruciatingly unsexy video."

Except for the part where it said that Moore is staying away...

The colors of the map appear to indicate if the state likes Twilight (red) or doesn't like it (blue), saying nothing of the relative amount of readers. It's a little confusing considering that the other text on the infographic talk about the numbers.

One of my nuclear engineering professors was on a board of something in Argentina before coming to teach at Purdue. He quit because they had flawed designs and were trying to make him approve it but he didn't want to be responsible for when they pushed it past him to be approved. I'm thinking this may be a minor…

If cell phones did cause cancer, it would be through a process that we don't know right now since it emits non-ionizing radiation. Unless it's a chemical thing, but I'm pretty sure the concern is that it emits radiation (aka electromagnetic waves) that is harmful.

I'm not a technophobe. I love technology. That's not the issue here. The issue is that the game has a single player option that only works if you have a stable internet connection. Why even include single player when one could just host an online game and put a password? Makes no sense. So they actually spent extra…

That's exactly the problem. "Voting with your wallet" is completely useless in a world where a majority of the people simply don't care about quality anymore. Today it's hard to find an AAA title (like D3 probably will be) that is not limited by harsh DRM and simplifications to reach a noobier audience. I'm not trying…

I find it worrying that too many gamers have this relaxed attitude towards every single worsening that hits the gaming industry.

I like making an omelette pretty much every morning.

Please enjoy the game and stop over-analyzing the NPC's. I respect your opinion about Eidos being racist, but you are still wrong (and probably white) if you think so.

But what if you want to join a server with 63/64 players, doesn't that mean you will have to wait for the game to start for several seconds before it actually tries to join the server? Sounds to me like it would result in a lot of frustration.

"and also had its fair share of bugs"... Sounds like Battlefield. I think it's a shame that they waste time on a single player campaign and co-op when they should focus on multiplayer. BF2 and BC2 is still full of bugs that are so annoying that it affects the way you play the game, so how are they going to keep BF3…

This film is actually deeper than most people give it credit for. His wish for the death of everything stems from the inability of his conscious mind to cope with his handicap. His subconscious created a fantasy where he was all-powerful, quite the antithesis of his reality, and controls the direction of his own…

I like to take notes on loose leaf sheets then use binders with appropriate dividers for sections of things. Try to whip up a summary page of the big ideas before a test and have those all in one place for reference.

Amen to that. It's like getting books for free as long as they don't publish new editions at the end of the semester or something stupid.

Just ONE Heinlein was tough for me as well.