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It wasn't so much an agreement as it was a requirement in the EU.
Apple wouldn't have changed to USB C otherwise.
Lord Patrick
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Quadman2
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I calls them..."Time Jokes".
Takes time to filter though.
And if the delay is too long; guess the joke's-on-you.
Q
And the last to enjoy the "joke."
My understanding is that it takes a few years of operation of the turbine in order to make up for the fuel, materials and pollution due to its manufacturing. After that it starts to show a positive benefit. I don't know what that time frame is. A problem they do have is disposal of worn out blades. The materials they are made of are not readily, if at all, recyclable. It may be a toss up as to what's worse, the turbine itself or the pollution they prevent from happening during their lifetime. To me, the holy grail of energy production would be fusion energy ("star in a jar"). If that can ever be mastered on a commercial scale, our energy problems would be over.
Mystic
We're all born mad
"Star in a jar" ... my (deceased) father spent a 40-year career, after being trained by Enrico Fermi, to exact just that from this biosphere. It didn't happen.
P.S. It will not happen before nuclear fission in the form of explosives end the discussion.
We do have uncontrolled fusion energy. It's called the hydrogen bomb. Now if we could just pull that off at a slow enough rate to collect the energy for domestic beneficial use, we'd have nearly unlimited, low pollution energy. ITER, a fusion research facility near France, is working on that.
spicer
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Isn't everything south from there except straight up.
SolderIron
Addicted Member
Simple, just follow the compass in the north pointing direction
Mystic
We're all born mad
More pole.
spicer
Lunatic Member
Maypole.
Mystic
We're all born mad
Maybepole.
nailer
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Quadman2
Lunatic Member
On the serious side of "mag pole reversal" there could be important ramifications to the Earth over a fairly short period of time.
After a short look-see into the affects of this rapid movement of this "pole" (now down to 22 miles per year, moving in the direction of Siberia) there could be many not-so-good" happening in the vegetative and animal worlds wherein these life forms are dramatically affected!
And with the resulting "weaking of the protection of the biosphere" now moving due to a mag reversal , humans in turn would be directly involved with this change.
Lots of bio scientists are carefully monitoring this phenomena, trying to determine how much, when the change are going to happen and what, if anything can be done to deal with the above pole movement.
Q
After a short look-see into the affects of this rapid movement of this "pole" (now down to 22 miles per year, moving in the direction of Siberia) there could be many not-so-good" happening in the vegetative and animal worlds wherein these life forms are dramatically affected!
And with the resulting "weaking of the protection of the biosphere" now moving due to a mag reversal , humans in turn would be directly involved with this change.
Lots of bio scientists are carefully monitoring this phenomena, trying to determine how much, when the change are going to happen and what, if anything can be done to deal with the above pole movement.
Q
What's 'more' than 'most'?
spicer
Lunatic Member
All.
