It’s mostly used in an international political context. In the UN, it’s what everyone uses, so why not?
Generally, ambassadors and leaders of UN missions get the form of address too, so I guess it makes sense, even if it’s a bit archaic.
In the UN, everyone is addressed like that, including the heads of missions. I wouldn’t be surprised if the presidents of the European Commission and European Council also get addressed like this.
It’s important to note what purification tablets do and don’t do. They kill bacteria, some viruses and many parasites. They don’t remove chemical pollution, or biological toxins.
You should use them if you want to drink from open water like steams and ponds, but it won’t, say, remove factory effluent. It will prevent getting diseases from human or animal waste, which is the main risk.
But it won’t make the water taste like it didn’t come from a pond.
Well that, and a multi-decade headstart in solar panels
Battery parks are definitely the new hot thing, but it takes a long time to get enough capacity that you can take the entire solar peak on a sunny day
The Netherlands has a huge grid capacity issue, but there are two much more relevant problems stopping the growth of renewable power: space and the fact that the earth is round.
The Netherlands is the most densely populated large country in Europe. Wind turbines take up quite a bit of space, and we’ve got a very large part of the country covered with stuff already. There isn’t much room for new wind parks. There is also a steady expansion there already, and we don’t have unlimited will turbine builders either.
The problem with solar is that we already have a lot of solar. Solar panels all produce the most power at the same time, which often causes an excess of electricity turning the price negative, meaning producers will turn their plants off. So a solar park will stop producing exactly when it would have been most profitable otherwise. This means the return on investment is significantly lower, below other safe investments, so people will just invest elsewhere…
And private solar panels suffer from the same issue,along energy companies charge extra to compensate for fixed-rate contracts, making them much less financially appealing for people.
Yes, and now we want to change those laws. It should be easy to follow those too.
American consumers pay it to the importer, who pays it to the US government, who funnel directly into the pockets of Trump’s cronies.
The EU might sell a little less over it, but it probably means that a lot of “To: USA” labels are getting swapped out for “To: China”…