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Plus, how much does it cost in man-hours to clean up negative external effects of traditional power plants vs solar? Need to include that as well.

That's where I got it from. Was likewise intrigued by the frequency remark, interesting stuff.

It might just be semantics but of course you can compare those numbers - just not in a very useful way. :-)

And of course he has to plug his new business at the end.

Curious where one would buy those, directly from the manufacturer?

Having a "dead weight" has it's advantages - passive, no bacteria, mold, flex, resistant to shock etc. Pretty sure billion dollar companies like Siemens have thought this through and came to the conclusion that concrete is best. The negative externality of a disappointed customer seems to be larger (medium term) than the damage being done by producing the concrete.

Absolutely, I too think it's a matter of supply. So often shops refuse to take cards to avoid the fees. I suspect a systematic or law issue making card transactions more expensive.

He couldn't even bother to remove the spell checker line?

Don't know, feels a bit like ransom when coming from Google, not the publisher.

As I understood they tried to mitigate the explosion by putting sandbags and straw bales around the bomb. The burning straw is what I guess you see at the top of the explosion/fire. The straw also caused surrounding roofs to catch fire. Not sure why they didn't think of this and used fire proof stuff.