richard77

richard77

  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    My understanding is that it is already something more than half a billion, because in New York case 350 M$ is the nominal fine, on top of that he has to pay interests (9% yearly not compounding), back calculated few...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    I don't think General Sanders wants (or even find desiderable) to restart conscription. I read it as a not too subtle way to put pressure on the Civil government to increase spending on Defence in order to avoid the scenario...
  • Commented on The coming storm
    Recycling rate for leas batteries is above 90%, I see no reason why it shouldn't be on the same level for lithium batteries (excluding the small ones used in consumer electronics)...
  • Commented on The coming storm
    Regarding renewables, I think that geothermal is often overlooked (especially compared to fusion or SMRs). With better geophysical analyses tools and some advancement in drilling technology it could make the difference. And if we use less fossil fuels there will...
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: Season of Skulls
    In the book "Mao the real story" (Pantsov), tha author reports that Mao advocated several times with Soviet Politburo for starting a nuclear war with West, claiming that death of half of world population was a worthy price to accept...
  • Commented on Summer webcomics
    Gunnerkrigg court ( https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/ ) is the story of a young girl attending a sort of magic school very much unlike Hogwarts. Running from 2005, updated Mon-Wed-Fri, it has won several awards and the story is being also published on...
  • Commented on Place your bets
    It will also produce ozone, which is quite irritating and can trigger asthma attacks in sensitive people...
  • Commented on Decision Fatigue
    I think is just two hours. Probably the 196MWh is just the gross capacity, but you don't want state of charge to go below 15-20%. 196 MWh * 85% / 2 hours = 84 MW...
  • Commented on Necroqueen!
    About NS1 and NS2, i don't understand why both pipes where still pressurised. When there is no flow, shouldn't be better to decrease the pressure to reduce the clathrate formation and the potential energy content? It will also reduce the...
  • Commented on The gathering crisis
    From here (Southern Europe) article is paywalled. But from what I've read in the past few years, I would have thought that Cameron would be the genius and Johnson the sincere....
  • Commented on The gathering crisis
    Probably most/all of people here is aware that Chernobyl incident was due to an borked experiment where they were testing how fast they could increase the produced power (if I remember well, they had to postpone the start of experiment,...
  • Commented on The gathering crisis
    If this works as promised, you could dig a deep hole anywhere* and get geothermal energy at a fraction of cost of nuclear. * best location would be near existing coal plants, so you can reuse the steam turbine....
  • Commented on The ends of education
    The best case scenario for Democrats is actually for Trump to lose the nomination and the running as indipendent, splitting the Republican vote. If he dies before the election, it would be an advantage for the Republican candidate (IMHO), they...
  • Commented on Crimes against Transhumanity
    Blob of course should be blog....
  • Commented on Crimes against Transhumanity
    For what is worth, I bought the complete Laundry series (and now the New Management) only because of this blob....
  • Commented on COVID-19
    I wonder if the higher death rate of older people is just an effect that they are more likely to have been infected in an hospital, so it is more probable that that they are had preexisting conditions. Data from...
  • Commented on A serious question
    Gross typo:"somehow it because" should have been "somehow, or because"...
  • Commented on A serious question
    I think you are onto something. Maybe is not the moon that triggers the change into werewolf, but the sun! I.e. the sun emits some kind of particles that cause the change, and the moon acts as shield as long...
  • Commented on Sucker bet (a thought experiment)
    As first step, I would hire as consultant a certain science fiction author with a knack for futurology to use his small but well followed blog to start collecting promising ideas. I'm sure he would be smart enough to not...
  • Commented on Upcoming events
    Actually commercial vehicles (trucks and busses) don't engine brake. They have special devices call retarders that use hydraulics to dissipate most of the kinetic energy before brake pads start to work. On such big vehicles engine breaking would be too...
  • Commented on Ask me anything!
    I have been a satisfied customer of Runbox for a couple of years, registering my domain with them. Based in Norway, very privacy oriented (at least they market themselves as such). They offer about one hundred aliases already with the...
  • Commented on The Nakamoto Variations
    Variant 1) Satoshi Nakamoto is a left-leaning science fiction writer with a strong IT background. Bitcoin are his way to cause a financial crisis and the collapse of the current capitalist model before current existing AI (big corporations) transform and...
  • Commented on Unforeseen Consequences and that 1929 vibe
    Thanks for the clarification. I was suspecting something like that, but those energy sources have low marginal costs for production, the levelized energy cost should be still higher than 16$/MWh. So who paid for the investment? China government (directly or...
  • Commented on Unforeseen Consequences and that 1929 vibe
    A bitcoin is generated every ten minutes (the computational difficulty is scaled according to total mining power to keep generation frequency roughly constant). If cited figures for BTC network are correct, that means that every btc needs about 600MWh of...
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