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Unfortunately, the nuclear fuel companies are part of the problem. Their bread and butter is solid fuel rods; without them, profits would take a nose dive. If I'm not mistaken, something like 5 compan ...

Russia is using Europe as its cash-cow in order to both placate the plebs at home (by keeping domestic utility prices low, despite rampant inefficiency and corruption) and to retake its place as a lar ...

About a year ago I read something about how rising sea levels could place so much new weight on th edges of land masses that they could help tip tectonic plates enough to trigger earthquakes, but I ca ...

With sweet water ice pouring into the North Atlantic on a constant basis, that may well happen in the not too distant future.

From what I read in the Wikipedia entry, it seems to me that the events were in cascade. A massive, continuous eruption in the Siberian Traps shot CO2 in the atmosphere, which made temperatures spike, ...

Except the US isn't exactly a democracy, not a 'proper' one anyway. A representative, delegatory republic has a massive problem in that whenever a 'tier' delegates power to someone else, the legitimac ...

Don't forget the last air travel breakthrough that never happened.

http://www.ubergizmo.com/photos/2006/2/flying-cruise_large.jpg

There's nothing wrong with inefficient airplanes that government ...

-'cept it's a turboprop.

There are many applications in which turbofans are not the best choice. The practice of sticking one on every plane, regardless of type/function, will disappear once peopl ...

All those "green" initiatives are really doing the job, huh? All those "saving the planet" toys and games.
Oh, they're definitely saving the planet. Saving it from a nasty species of creatures. ...

Germans must build more coal fired plants as a backup to unreliable wind capacity.
That means, more windmill capacity equals more coal fired plants until coal last.
Yea, I mean, who could've believ ...

shocking.... This doesn't look good on Musharraf, but it might well have been an extremist attack....

It's possible; I'm not sure, he's that hardcore. It could be that somebody really wanted him t ...

Nobody builds 3-wheelers intentionally.
Piaggio did.

Isn't tritium the stuff they make them newfangled weapon sights out of?

Oh, and in case anyone's wondering how they do it in the real world, here's a small story.

You're a major European carmaker. You take the cheapest shitbox in your lineup (a car built in a factory ...

Some of the stuff in the official blurb is laughably ridiculous.

"GHG emissions from vehicle production: no worse than typical vehicles in production today."
Given the utter disaster that Li-Ion ...