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Reply to comment by Specific_Main3824 in Scientists lower price of lithium's best competition - flow batteries - by 20%. Makes the battery effectively equal to or cheaper than lithium ion when spread over 30 years (flow battery lifetimes are effectively infinite with light repowering efforts). by PorkyPigDid911
They're also for two very different uses. FLow batteries = great use for grid storage and peak demand/low demand grid smoothing.
Lithium = best option for your phone currently.
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Reply to comment by mouse_8b in Ask Anything Wednesday - Economics, Political Science, Linguistics, Anthropology by AutoModerator
Thank you. I was prompted by reading about 20,000 year old cave writing. Here's a link. I'd just never thought about it but it's reasonable to think some aspects have come down from 10s of thousands of years ago. . Thanks!
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Reply to Ask Anything Wednesday - Economics, Political Science, Linguistics, Anthropology by AutoModerator
With the new indications that several prehistoric cave paintings have written symbols - early written language basically - and the letter Y seems to stand out - are there some legacy language (written or spoken, cultural) elements that are derived from prehistoric times?
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Reply to The Key to California’s Survival Is Hidden Underground The state is ping-ponging between severe drought and catastrophic flooding. The solution to both? Making the landscape spongier. by Sariel007
I have wondered for years why California doesn't do something like they did in China on the Loess Plateau - as seen in this fantastic documentary below by John D. Liu that's just delightful to watch. It seems to be generally the same situation.
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Reply to comment by cazdan255 in Biotech chestnut tree poised to restore lost ecosystems and biodiversity — But it needs your help by Spiffydude98
Honestly I'd buy dozens of these trees and spread them around my yard and region. I'm in Ontario Canada, and where I am this is a native species so I'd love to get my hands on some. I'd enjoy planting some in the region and also I'd ensure they were well cared for until they were firmly established.
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Reply to comment by boneman1982 in Biotech chestnut tree poised to restore lost ecosystems and biodiversity — But it needs your help by Spiffydude98
I'm Canadian and so they probably won't take my opinion anyhow.
If anyone knows of ways to obtain some of these resistant tree saplings they'd grow where I am and would love to get some. They're native to my area of Canada too in fact.
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Reply to Biotech chestnut tree poised to restore lost ecosystems and biodiversity — But it needs your help by Spiffydude98
Interesting article. Personally I would hope this is a low risk of damage re-introduced plant and I'd love to plant some on my property.
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Reply to comment by sakredfire in Scientists lower price of lithium's best competition - flow batteries - by 20%. Makes the battery effectively equal to or cheaper than lithium ion when spread over 30 years (flow battery lifetimes are effectively infinite with light repowering efforts). by PorkyPigDid911
1998 ish... My wife lost her Nokia phone. In the middle of a canadian winter. She found it at the side of our driveway in the spring it must have fallen and been shovelled with the snow.
It spent 3 months in a snowbank in a Canadian Winter with temps reaching -25c and rarely above -5c...
and she picked it up, turned it on, it still had a charge and worked fine.
I miss our NOkia phones.