Sandy B.
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Commented on Not a Manifesto
@33 and such: If you showed someone 100 years ago any modern rifle or pistol they'd understand it pretty well. If you showed someone my kitchen, the only really incomprehensible thing is the microwave. Refrigerators were around, just inefficient and...
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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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