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>>7914854
Solar, wind, geothermal, and hydroelectric.

In an ideal world, nuclear even though that's probably not defined as "renewable".

humans turning giant wheels while being whipped

>>7914854
Solar
>>7914867
This, we cannot afford to exclude nuclear power

>>7914874
Hahahaha. That is not even worth the cost of making the wheel

>>7914801
Of course it will... eventually

A better question to ask would be "when". In which decade? (Or century lel)

>>7914801
wendelstein, look it up

>>7914811
ITER. It's a specific reactor.

Might never work. Might blow up. Might get its funding cut.

Project was launched in 1985. Now they're saying first plasma in 2025. Maybe.

>you're a keen young fusion researcher
>26 years old with a fresh PhD
>you get onboard with the new project that's going to build the first net-power fusion reactor

>the day is finally here
>you turn it on
>but just to test it
>there's no real fusion fuel in it
>you're 66 years old
>you're not scheduled to put tritium in it for more 7 years
>...on a delay-plagued project

>it's D-T day
>you're 78 years old
>you're really going to do it, you're going to try for net power fusion
>you turn it on
>magnetic reconnection
>the plasma burns a hole in the chamber
>the cryocooling system is breached
>a spot on containment coil goes ohmic
>liquid helium becomes gaseous helium
>it all explodes
>you're at a safe distance but
>heart attack
>as you die
>you bitterly
>think
>of
>fusion

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I guess you're trolling, but just in case

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry_paradox

>>7914747
You have not proven N exists, so the proof does not work.

>>7914831
Every subset of the positive integers contain a minimal element.
Even my 6 year old daughter know that.

>>7914627
http://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/clinical-trials

basically your the guinea pig in clinical trials. not sure how difficult it is to apply and get accepted.

Good luck, take care.

>>7914651
It must suck to be placed in the control group if you do a trial like that.

>>7914574
Physics

>>7914575
\thread

Kepler's laws

Physic books typically jump to Kepler's laws right after teaching Newton's axioms and then totally ignore that the sun gets pulled towards the earth too.
To this day I have never seen a derivation of Kepler's laws that is consistent with Newton's third law.

>>7914562
Tell them you're a transgender pansexual muslim. Youll fly in fa[math] [/math]m

>>7914569
>Tell them you're a transgender pansexual muslim. Youll fly in fa

Add in that you are a muslim but you sexually identify as a jew so you are a transmuslim jewkin.

>>7914569
[math]\forall[/math]yy lmao

you can slouch just as well in a kneeling chair as in a regular chair

There is this small chair by a 'osteophilicist' which apparently will sit you in a way that simulates standing but I forget the name, would be nice if someone could find that.

Just get a small table that you can kneel at, so that you're pretty much doing lunges the entire time.

>>7914406
what do you mean "why"?

I only believe what I see with my own eyes, and I only see the earth as flat.
Actually even better, I can guarantee no one can see the earth as anything other than flat.

>>7914409
I'm not criticizing.

I'm just asking, why? Why is it that believable in the first place?

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>>7914406
you cannot even prove that the earth exists.

>>7914174
At what pressure though? IIRC this is the reason why other high temperature superconductors have failed.

>>7914174
Can't read now, but damn this would give me a boner if legit

>Due to a pending patent, the exact chemical characterization and
technological processes for these materials are temporari
ly withheld and will be presented elsewhere.
FUCK

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off-topic: absolutely loving old books

>>7913924
>groundbreaking and as influential
>Newton's Principia
... perhaps over-estimating the impact of Principia?

I can drink milk yet I'm American.

Debunked.

>>7913932

Americans, by majority, have european ancestry...

>>7913922
>Hasn't domestication of animals been common for most ancient peoples?
... clearly not, fgt pls

>>7913892
20. An n+1 dimensional tetrahedron looks, on layer 4, like an n-dimensional tetrahedron.

>>7913898
/thread

too bad, first reply is correct :D

brb, preparing further question

>>7913725
Bump

>>7913748
/sci/ is slow, you don't need to bump after a few minutes

The administration has no credibility at all when making statements on how much money there is, how it is spent, etc.

The state audit revealed that the UC could not provide any accounting for 6.6 billion in a five year period. That was ~4.5% of the annual budget at the time, for five years running.

That said, I don't see a reliable means to stopping the administration from doing as it pleases.
"Shared governance" between the faculty senate and campus administration at Cal was exposed as a sham after the campus administration agreed to make DIA self-funding and went behind the FS's back to fund athletics to the tune of $10 million/year for seven years. When publicly called out, they merely reduced the impermissible payments to $5 million/year, and refused to fire Birgeneau, Barbour, or Brostrom (the persons most responsible for the breach of the administration's promise to the faculty).

>>7913766
(I bump when it hits page 2 on homepage, usually)
That seems like we should be fighting this even more, then. It seems to me that blame lies on all sides- Napolitano, Dirks mismanaging UC, and Brown refusing to allocate the proper funds to fulfill the university's original mission.

>>7913528
There's a tennis ball or golf ball in the jar. Even if you got perfect measurements, you'd still be wrong.

>>7913528
When I was a kid my daycare did a jelly bean guessing contest, the prize was one of their IBM PCs loaded with games. They upgraded so they didn't need it anymore. I won that shit, good memories.

IDK, I'd estimate around 1500. If you really wanted you could count the number of jelly beans number of jelly beans that form continuous planar ring around the jar and get a circumference in terms of jelly beans and then count the number high. From that and some circle formulas you could probably get a much closer estimate though to complicate matters it looks like the jar is slightly concave which will throw you off a bit. Eh, only do this if you're autistic.

Be careful u might lose a leg

because the best strawman is the one that works, and becomes adopted as a platform by the opposition

>>7913396
They do argue these things. Then people shoot back that the economics of renewables aren't up to snuff yet and that the curtailing of pollution will cause economic harm (cause it's definitely cheaper and easier to pollute, so you're losing that extra bit of cash). That's when people start bringing in the global warming and environment argument, as a way of saying it's going to cost more than these economists and businessmen are griping about. How much any of it is really going to cost, who should pay what and when is still a massive debate, obviously.

>>7913396
Same reason people "argue" over whether the earth is flat, evolution is true, GMOs are safe, etc.