Interesting, but I'm not sure why you think that Germany is starting from much further back re non-fossil fuel energy production. Last year, Germany generated 225 TWh of energy from renewables (mostl… (View Post)

If we hadn't abandoned "thou" and made "you" serve as both singular and plural second person pronoun, we'd have no need of "y'all". (View Post)

Yes, that point is already here. I've just convinced my missus to stop overpaying her mortgage and save the money at a higher interest rate instead. You can get 4% on a 2-year bond last time I looked… (View Post)

We'll be doing our bit. We get 4 hours of nighttime electricity at 7.5 p/kWh, so we've learned to use the timers on everything :-) (View Post)

Of course something can be blacker than its surroundings, but it can't "[absorb] all the radiation falling on it"* * Unless its a black hole, and even they are thought to emit Hawking radia… (View Post)