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senorali t1_j6u9cr3 wrote

Wait, he did the N-Strike line too? I knew about Super Soaker, didn't know about the dart blasters. Do you have a link to that?

Edit: So after some reading, it looks like that's not exactly the case. He created the pressurized air blasters (which are basically just the Super Soakers, but shooting darts), but that wasn't N-Strike.

Still, his contributions were priceless and he ended up winning a lawsuit against Hasbro for underpaid royalties. Anyone who gives Hasbro a good kick in the dick is okay in my book.

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delocx t1_j6u2e3b wrote

"Two-thirds of the extra coal imported by the EU remained unused."

Basically Europe panic bought coal earlier in the year, people looking at EU coal consumption assumed the significant increase in coal bought would lead to a correlated increase in consumption and thus created headlines based on that assumption, but in the end it did not, according to this article.

The last paragraph was included as it clarified that expanded coal generation contributed an increase of less than 1% of to the EU's total coal generation, essentially a non-story. The article states further on that it's likely EU coal imports this year will drop off substantially owing to all the extra coal purchased but unused this winter resulting in abundant stockpiles.

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SqueakSquawk4 t1_j6tkn6h wrote

A slightly less crazy version in Whales. Whales eat krill, who eat planton, who eat co2. When wales die, they normally sink. Carbon stays at the seabed until it ends up in a volcano. I think the numbers say that restoring wales to pre-whaling would offset greeland and fiji completely.

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