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Old 05-07-2018, 11:56 PM   #1591 (permalink)
niky
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Originally Posted by oil pan 4 View Post
Science is based on independently reproducible results.

Scientific laws display 100% accuracy, that's why it's a law, it always works, 100% of the time and there is no counter argument that isn't proved wrong 100% of the time.
"Scientific Law" is a quite misused term.

Newton's "Law of Universal Gravitation", for example, is not a Universal Law because it doesn't describe gravity 100% accurately. That's why we have General Relativity.

But it's good enough for field work. And it is just as demonstrable in a laboratory as the greenhouse effect caused by CO2.

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Originally Posted by freebeard View Post
But you can change your mind.

Choose pumped hydro, flywheels, compressed air under mountains, weight lifting rack railroads, molten salts..... help me here, there must be a few more.
Everything else requires specific construction. The allure of batteries is universal interoperability.

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I like pumped hydro myself. Kill two birds with one stone.

 
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