oelewapperke

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   by oelewapperke 15y ago

   No it doesn't include women and children to chuck at soldiers hoping they'd shoot em and get sued for war crimes. Might have been a funny game.
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   by oelewapperke 15y ago

   You do kinda have to admit that presenting an "edited" birth certificate is very unlikely to end the debate. What was wrong with a normal, plan scan ? Of course that doesn't mean there's an illegitimate president. Never attribute to malice
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   by oelewapperke 15y ago

   Which agricultural plant gets 5% efficient photosynthesis ? That's huge. 2% is quite a lot. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthetic_efficiency
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   by oelewapperke 15y ago

   Cellulose is a horribly difficult material to do anything at all with. After drying it can be burned to produce heat, and that's pretty much all that's ever been done to it.
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   by oelewapperke 15y ago

   Perhaps he means if you're using solar cells followed by Fisher-Tropsch to make actual fuel. I'm pretty sure plants beat that. But the base efficiency of plants is horrible : 2% is relatively high in plant species (solar energy input ->
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   by oelewapperke 15y ago

   Yeah, given what sort of stories one reads about science at most internet sites you'd think we'd actually have a way to turn electricity + H2O + CO2 into oil (and sugar, and bread, and proteins, and plastics, and so on and so forth). But we