Spamming solar in Sahara + DC cables to Europe still feels more realistic than fission. Not destabilising Libya would have helped ... whole another can of worms.
Geoengineering (depending on how it is done) is prime hubris. Are we sure we won't screw things even worse?
Thanks, this is what I wanted to say, but perhaps I was a bit too terse.
Perhaps a good coolant with a good flow speed can gain you a decent constant factor versus a classical heat sink, but once the third dimension of your chip gets bigger, you will hit a barrier. Just do the math.
This does not scale, due to square/cube law (the energy is generated in a volume, but has to leave via surface -> the energy evacuated per surface area has to grow)
There is no contradiction: simple amino acids as a basic building block being coopted by replicating RNA to build more sophisticated structures.
You can conceive other than nuclear-acids based replicant, using the same ubiquitous amino-acids to build a protein life not using RNA/DNA but some other encoding structure.
The question is what is the chemically most likely 'other'?
Also, what could be alternatives for ATP/sugars?
EVs work in cold weather, just the range is reduced.
If it is a second car in the family, used for short range commuting ... or if your lifestyle does not involve frequent long-distance trips, EV is perfectly suitable even in Finland.
Unless your interceptor system is unobtainium laser system with unobtainium cooling system, backed-up by unobtainium power source, you are going to run out of interceptor missiles (or even Phalanx bullets) way sooner than 'million missile attempts'.
Quite possibly 100-200 Shaheds + half a dozen proper anti-ship missiles will cause you to turn tail.