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andrewducker- New vaccine 77% effective against malaria
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- Warning over major Android 'package delivery' scam
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- Scientific paper that claimed smokers less likely to contract Covid retracted over tobacco industry links
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- Post Office scandal: What the UK's most widespread miscarriage of justice is all about
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Date: 2021-04-25 02:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-04-25 05:08 am (UTC)You need to be moving tens of thousands of tons hundreds of metres to get a useful amount of energy. Dinorwig uses a lake with 9 million tons of water in it, and a 500m drop.
I'm sceptical that they can scale up to anything like the levels they need to to be useful.