Search results

Countries are not forced to join NATO. They join because of the fear autocrats like Putin inflict on them. The nearer they are to Putin's Russia, the more they feel they need NATO. Russia can inflict a lot of deaths and destruction but can't win a war with NATO.

As you predicted, I disagree on a number of points. Russia is only a super power on fossil fuels. 145 million people, most live in poverty, with purchasing power below the average Chinese. Russia runs into the arms of China to circumvent sanctions. Putin continues to threaten western Europe...

there are thousands of regular microscopic shorts every seconds when the battery is in use. They are mostly too small to cause a fire but statistically, one never knows if they could or would cause a fire over time.

Apparently solid state lithium batteries are currently hitting problems with 'soft shorts'.

it seems to me that Putin would do anything to cling on to power. He's been there since 1999, 25 years ago, and will likely to remain for at least another 5. Until Putin is gone, the threat is very real. There are ethnic Russians who want to secede hoping that Putin would 'help' them. Besides, I...

So some enbaumers noticed something they didn't see before. As far as I can see, there is nothing special about those white stuff/threads that some enbaumers pulled out of the carotid arteries. We know they are made of fibrin in the blood and proteins that line the epithelial walls of the...

True, the Maldives are not going to disappear next year or the year following that. However, we can do both, deal with the present while making the right choice for the future.

A guy who buys a condo on the seafront in Miami has no fear of sea level. His mortgage would have been paid long before he gets any closer to the water. Look at this from the point of view of poor people in the third world, the subsistence farmer in the Maldives or Bangladesh or some other...

yes, you are correct.

I reckon that the XF07 front hub kit is OK for power, weight and noise but as you have fixed forks, the vibrations from the motor won't be absorbed like with a Carrera with suspension fork, so it's not as pleasant to ride. For your 75kg weight and hilly terrain, you would be better off with my...

did you watch what Trump says about NATO? The way he said it could well be understood that those NATO members without nuclear weapons of their own should pay the USA for protection. He could win in November with the help of the evangelicals.

it's a cross he wants to bear. I think he has done enough for the JLM.

I don't know, at least 1000 years.

sea level rises on average about 1mm-2mm a year. At that rate, most of the Maldives will have gone under water in about 1 to 1.5 century.

Our engineers can certainly build an airport on a bank of sand or even in the middle of the Thames estuary (remember Boris airport?) but protecting the land that is left for the Maldivians to grow their own food is still beyond our engineering ability.

short term optimism? The BBC did a long reportage on the 'climategate' and Prof Jones were pretty much innocent of being selective. The problem is climatology is still very much work in progress. Not so long ago, Michael Fish predicted that the hurricane of 15 October 1987 was a storm. I...

It may be more difficult to set fire to an electric car without breaking in.

the article that saneagle linked to contains a lot more information about what we know and what we still are looking into. It's by no mean the most authoritative study but it recaps in an easily accessible language the pathology of covid, the mechanism which may release active oxygen and...

unlikely. There are litterally hundreds of vendors out there selling batteries.

True. Quite often, those advices don't come with a reminder about liabilities of being an importer. Perhaps even those who give the advice don't think about this themselves. No website is going to warn you of the possibility of being sued if an accident occurs involving their products.