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I personally love far future SF, and it's weird cousin, far future fantasy, but occasionally despair at how... local it feels. This may be a function of me getting a lot of my SF kick through games, but still. A...
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paws4thot commented on
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NG - National Grid (company). They have an actual charging policy for connecting generating plant to the national grid (distribution network) which means that a generating plant of $capacity is charged a higher connection fee the further it is from Trafalgar Square....
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paws4thot commented on
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I still think I said what I thought I was saying. I now realise that you were not saying what I thought you were saying, which is functionally the same thing because it makes my statement inaccurate or irrelevant in respect of yours....
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Dirk Bruere commented on
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"Save us the effort & give us a list of the other small-scale non-Tokamak "promising projects" please?" Dense Plasma Focus, Helion Energy, plus these http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/skeptical-look-3-wild-fusion-energy-schemes/ Lockheed are nowhere in sight...
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Dirk Bruere commented on
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Also worth reading http://thepolywellblog.blogspot.co.uk/...
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bud latanville commented on
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late to the party ho-ho... I just wanted to say that a least part of what Charlie's talking about struck me while I was subjecting myself to the movie Quantum of Solace, and was part of a small complaint I heard about the film: "There were no nifty gadgets!" went the complaint...and there weren't. As such. The nifty gadgetry on display amounted to Bond using a smartphone (in 2007 or 08) in much the way we in 2014 might find absolutely normal: he takes a photo, it gets uploaded to the Ministry's computer network, a shit tonne of blade computers...
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