false dichotomy (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2015-04-03 21:15 (#6CFB) Steam catapults are a remarkably old technology for launching $20M aircraft into the air.Screws/propellers are a remarkably old technology for propelling ships through the water. We still do that on even the newest multi-billion dollar aircraft carrier. We should stop.Do I really need to go on? Re: false dichotomy (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2015-04-14 01:29 (#70A0) What is so "old" than how power is generated?"Fire" heats water makes stream that turns a turbine to make electric power.Replace word "fire" with: Coal, Oil, Gas, Nuclear, Solar Furnace, Geo-Thermal, so 19th century! So superheated stream driving the plunger is less efferent the electric-o-magnetic.One conversion of energy, vs two? No loss there!
Re: false dichotomy (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2015-04-14 01:29 (#70A0) What is so "old" than how power is generated?"Fire" heats water makes stream that turns a turbine to make electric power.Replace word "fire" with: Coal, Oil, Gas, Nuclear, Solar Furnace, Geo-Thermal, so 19th century! So superheated stream driving the plunger is less efferent the electric-o-magnetic.One conversion of energy, vs two? No loss there!