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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:24am on 2013-03-07

"It's not that clean energy will never happen -- it totally will. It's just that it won't come from a wild-haired scientist running out of his basement screaming, 'Eureka! I've discovered how to get limitless clean energy from common seawater!' Instead, it will come from thousands of scientists publishing unreadable studies with titles like 'Assessing Effectiveness and Costs of Asymmetrical Methods of Beryllium Containment in Gen 4 Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors When Factoring for Cromulence Decay.' The world will be saved by a series of boring, incremental advances that chip away at those technical challenges one tedious step at a time." -- David Wong, "5 Easy Ways to Spot a B.S. News Story on the Internet", 2013-02-27 (quote appears on page 2)

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posted by [personal profile] minoanmiss at 03:13pm on 2013-03-07
Well said, Mr. Wong. Cracked.com is a lot like Dan Savage, in that it is often assholic and more than occasionally awesome.

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