It does not really generate toxic waste like coal fired power plants
It generates all the waste associated with the electricity it uses, which is often from coal fired power plants...
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...says the guy who clearly doesn't understand the geologic water cycle.
instead of bending over for unreasonable shitheads in your party.
Why do you think he'd be inclined to do anything other than bend over for himself?
Huh, that's the kind of thing that would just make me start visualizing how many I could fit in there.
I agree with you even though I'm only guessing at the episode you're talking about and I have no idea which of the two Vortas he was.
(It's the Ferengi hostage exchange episode, right?)
The European Union is a confederation, just like the United States under the Articles of Confederation was.
While DRM is the bane of everybody there are cases where trust and integrity is important and it’s an intriguing look into how hard it is to manage.
Nah, when the user wants to ensure trust and integrity in his own system, it works just fine. The problem comes when the user who needs to be able to access the data is simultaneously the adversary who needs to be stopped from accessing the data.
In other words, it's one of those situations where the fact that it's hard to manage is a gigantic clue that it's wrongheaded to try to do so in the first place.
According to the Open Source Initiative (the folks who control whether things can be officially certified as "open source"), it basically is the same thing as Free Software. In fact, their definition was copied and pasted from the Debian Free Software guidelines.
he also gave $5MM to Sea Shepherds
Enough to get an entire ship named after him!
People in North America identified with their colony/state first, and the United States second back in the 1700s. Give it time...
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By the same argument, replacing the coal fired power plant with wind and solar wouldn't pose a challenge either.
The point is, you've got to compare apples to apples: either coal power vs. desalinization powered by coal, or renewables vs. desalinization powered by renewables. In every case, the pollution produced by the desalinization process (i.e., the brine etc.) is simply added to the pollution produced by whatever means was used to generate the power for it, which means @soEZ's attempt to compare desalinization to power generation doesn't make much sense.