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Can Japan Thrive without Nuclear Power?

Considering that new research shows that nuclear accidents are about 200 times more frequent than previously calculated and that they occur about... (read full comment)  

Posted on May 22, 2012 at 8:35 PM EDT

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U.S. Will Be Hard-Pressed to Meet Its Biofuel Mandates

@lasertekk Fortunately you are not in charge of energy policy, because there are plenty of crops which are grown for uses other than food... (read full comment)  

Posted on May 9, 2012 at 11:39 PM EDT

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New Cement-Making Method Could Slash Carbon Emissions

@RD This is before the dust is created.  To wit, "the researchers mixed solid calcium carbonate with liquid lithium carbonate", so it doesn't sound... (read full comment)  

Posted on May 11, 2012 at 5:50 PM EDT

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The Future of Pharma Is Incredibly Fast

I'm not sure this is "incredibly fast".  It sounds like the current process was "ridiculously slow" and that it never should have taken them 12... (read full comment)  

Posted on May 11, 2012 at 7:32 PM EDT

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Moore's Law Over, Supercomputing "In Triage," Says Expert

Intel only estimates that their new version of FinFET will last another couple iterations, but I suspect that it can be coaxed into a third or... (read full comment)  

Posted on May 9, 2012 at 11:20 PM EDT

Why SolarCity Is Succeeding in a Difficult Solar Industry

@arpad  @yotabIt really shows how little arpad understands about the basics of science and technology that he believes that solar and wind energy... (read full comment)  

Posted on May 5, 2012 at 4:12 PM EDT

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Laser System Paints Information on the Road Ahead

@briang1621 The reason is because green led transistors are some of the most efficient and easiest to make.  It's wasn't just because someone woke... (read full comment)  

Posted on April 30, 2012 at 8:28 PM EDT

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GE's New EV Charging Stations Are Not Ugly

@mkogrady They have them, they're just too expensive.  If you mean that they could make them look prettier, yeah maybe, but I think the priority to... (read full comment)  

Posted on April 30, 2012 at 9:29 PM EDT

The Library of Utopia

Creating the taxonomies and metadata would be more important than many people imagine.  Just having the raw data of 100+ million works would be an... (read full comment)  

Posted on April 30, 2012 at 7:55 PM EDT

Asteroids Could Be Mined for Fuel, Says Company

@parder_dade You can thank big government maven Ronald Reagan for the ISS.  As to the myth of private industry being superior, they are only now... (read full comment)  

Posted on April 28, 2012 at 10:32 AM EDT

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