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How much water do you use each day for cooking? The energy is being absorbed here on the planet, so I don’t see how the heat island effect would be reduced. To reduce albedo the light has to be reflected out to space. Solar thermal would tend to increase absorption.

Thermal benefits from scaling (bigger is better) — you need a certain number of mirrors to efficiently heat your material, and then you need a way to produce electricity, which also benefits from scaling. This is why it's done at the utility scale, not the home scale. Having direct heat is only useful when it's cold. So only a few months of the year in some places.

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You say you consider elementary particles, and quarks qualify. Protons, however, do not.

You mention quarks only as components of neutrons and protons. That’s it. It does not address my point about mass and charge.

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"Elvis, if pressed" (referring to records) is a double pun. More than enough payback for my causality joke.

That would seem to violate causality.

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The mainstay cartoon character from the Looney Tunes collection of Warner Brothers animated works. From back before cable TV. There might be more information on him if one were to search this "internet" thingy With friends like that...

I want to note for the record that when I had the chance to go to Albuquerque a few years ago, I made sure to make the proper left-hand turn, and ended up where I wanted to be.

If you learn it as 3D, rather than projected onto the 2D surface of a sphere.

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Even more generally, any dissipative process. Wind resistance being another example. Inelastic scattering, too.

That latest one embeds automatically for me. Try a different browser, perhaps? Different computer, if possible?

This one embeds just fine for me, if you use the direct youtube link (click on the "watch on youtube" icon and use that address. Not the embedded link — that gives me a "no video at that link" error) If you still have trouble, you may have browser settings that are in conflict with embedding it

So the apparent velocity and absolute velocity are invariant. ...except that it's not. Which is it? Please stop doing this. The rules state that the discussion takes place here, and that you must provide enough information to have the discussion without people clicking on any links.

OK, then, quarks.

There are only two choices here. Either they are the same, or they are not the same. The electron and proton have opposite charge. Same magnitude, different sign. Thus, they have different charge. And something with no charge has a different charge than something that does.

No. SR has no ether, and predicts no fringe shifts. It doesn't "make up" for anything. Aether theory, as described in the late 1800s, predicted a speed of 30 km/s through the aether. The M-M experiment excluded that result by a very large margin. What part of c being invariant assumes an aether? An "aether frame" is an oxymoron, since the aether was the rest frame. As in The Highlander, there can be only one.

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