There's some serious abuse of physics going on in that thread. The mass of a car, any car, is so much greater than that of a person that the mass of a car involved in a collision with a pedestrian is… (View Post)

It's exactly that kind of thinking - failure to recognise that productivity can't always be measured in monetary terms - that has left the country in the state it is now in. One does get the feeling … (View Post)

It would also suck doctors out of the NHS, and at a greater rate than sucking patients out. The net effect would be a worsening of state health provision. (View Post)

Although wind is more productive in the UK, the good thing about solar is that it tends to complement wind. That is, it's often sunny when the wind's not blowing, and vice versa. (View Post)

The sooner we can get off fossil fuels, the better. So far, every month of this year has set a new record for the global average surface temperature for that month. We need to cut our use of fossil f… (View Post)