The interaction turns air-stable conductors into efficient, low-work function electrodes.

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Lisbon, Portugal, which is located in the path of the Gulf Stream, averages the most daily hours of sunlight year-round thanks to its dry air and stable climate (much like southern California in the U.S.).

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Created by Mann and his colleagues, it supposedly proved that air temperatures had been stable for 900 years until the 20th century, and then suddenly rocketed off the charts (attributing this to human-caused greenhouse gas emissions).

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We have low population density, clean air, fresh water, fertile land, an ocean on either side and a grand total of two nations on our borders. (One of which is a also a huge, stable and peaceful nation with clean air, fresh water, and fertile land and even lower population density).

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For instance, clouds rising in the troposphere, the lower level of the atmosphere where air mixes freely, will bump up against the boundary of the much more stable stratosphere, forming ripples in the process.

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By creating money out of thin air, government debases the currency, stealing from savers and depriving the economy of a stable unit of account.

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Apparently it's going to take 'em until February to do it up right -- you know, secure and stable and all that nonsense -- but this is certainly a beautiful breath of fresh air.

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It argued that any military threat to Australia was most likely to come from or through the Indonesian archipelago, which lies across vital air and sea lanes, but that such a threat was likely to be remote as long as Indonesia was stable.

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