You can just stick some electrodes into water - doesn't even have to be clean water - and make it that way.
One of the less farcical plans for clean power is a shit-ton of nuclear plants (fusion or fission, doesn't affect the plan) running electrolysis all day every day to generate the hydrogen needed to replace fossil fuels.
Honest question, does anybody in the West even know what a "win" for Ukraine even looks like at this point?
I'm serious, what are our objectives here? Restore Ukraine to her 2014 borders? Her 1991 borders - that involves retaking Crimea and assaulting a Russian naval base? The total destruction of Russia as a military power?
I'm asking because at the moment the West's objective appears to be the latter, no matter the cost in Ukrainian lives or territory - and I'm not sure the people of Ukraine would pick that one if they were given any choice at all in the matter.
They can - and once this is in, the money itself can simply refuse to be spent on anything "unwise", like currency transfers or particular types of investments...
Just for little people, of course. We wouldn't want them to lose all of their money. People like WEF donors, well, they're true operators, real competent types who can do what they want.
As far as I can see, this works until the kids hit school age. What qualifications are the kids going to be able to get attending three, four, five different schools in that same number of different countries each year? Or are they not going to attend schools in the country they are in and take their chances about being picked up by that country's social services?
I know, I know; but you have to make that comment when this kind of thing comes up, it's the law.
Also, yes, the difficulty with hydrogen isn't the hydrogen per se, it's the additional requirements around storage. Hydrogen's very hard on storage vessels, not purely in most things being leaky as far as hydrogen's concerned, but also in embrittling whatever storage vessel you use.
This is the thing about Rangz - there are black people in Middle-Earth. The Haradrim. But in the second age, Harad was called Umbar and the people of Umbar hadn't yet taken up with Sauron.
If you wanted a story about black people in Second Age Middle-Earth all you had to do was set it there. Could have been an interesting story, too, fall of an empire (of sorts) and the turn to evil, that's the kind of thing that needs a good scripting team to make work, but when it does work, it works pretty well. And I'm assuming that for a billion dollars Amazon could find a competent scriptwriter somewhere.
But no, what the RoP team were actually after was to colonise and deconstruct classic LotR, because that's the only way in which this makes sense. And just like Johnson's TLJ, the main expectation being subverted is that this would make anything like as much money as they wanted to see.
... the thing is, was this not really obvious, right from the get go?
As I understand it, HotD is a prequel to GoT, which didn't have any black characters in that group.
So unless we're pulling a "Surprise! Daenarys was actually black the whole time!" approach, means that any black people in that group are going to have to go, are they not?
Yeah, this is something you see quite a bit - I'm sad to say quite a bit (though not exclusively) from Americans, I suspect because a lot of mediaeval history pre-dates the US even existing.
Most people in the middle ages were insular and provincial - this is something my mother even sees doing her bloody genealogy. People who simply don't know any better will list tentative links between families with the same surname - like "Smith" - hundreds of miles apart, in the 1600s in mainland Europe.
I'm sorry, love, but the truth of the matter is that neither group you say are linked ever saw or even heard of each other before their miserable lives ended far too early. The life of anybody who wasn't either rich enough to go travelling or a soldier or some other occupation that paid you to go travelling was that you stayed at home. That's just the way things were back then. Don't condone it, not foolish enough to close my eyes to it.
Letzte Generation
Well, that sounds like an entirely rational movement.
If you're the last generation and have no requirement to leave anything to your successors you have no reason not to pull the entire edifice down around you.
I see what you're both saying, I don't think Giz is wrong, particularly.
You're absolutely correct, women tend to need a weapon to stand a viable chance of inflicting terminal damage on a man. That, as a corollary, tends to indicate a higher level of premeditation, does it not? Got to have a weapon handy if you're going to do the deed, as a woman, no?
Oh FFS, even after we've (at least theoretically) kicked the EU to the curb we still have EU ballots?
Pick a leader!
Wrong leader, pick again!
And so on, until we end up with "Money Printer" Sunak.
Time to get out of Sterling, lads...
Impact extends outside park:
The plan’s influence extends outside the park and provides for ‘removal of infrastructure’ on overlooking spurs and ridges that impacts the purported ‘cultural values’. How many local residents with views of Mount Warning will need to relocate? How many power lines and communication towers will need to be demolished so a few are not offended?
‘Development within the views and vistas of Wollumbin AP could affect intervisibility to important cultural sites. Impacts could include things like building on spurs and ridges. Further suburban development within the views and vistas of Wollumbin AP will impact on the aesthetics, connection to Country and the cultural landscape which are integral to the cultural values of Wollumbin AP. Removal of infrastructure will occur once the summit is closed in the future.’
So simply living next door now counts as some injury to these cultural conquistadors...?
Every single time I read this line I just hear Jackie Earle Haley saying "I'm not trapped in here with you..."
More seriously, if accurate, this sounds like a Ukrainian counter-attack and conquest of Russia. I'm not sure why I would even want to fund that.