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how does this guy manage to get so many upvotes

• bhauer 3y ago
  I think that is much less about the content and more about the headline. Many people agree with the headline and are upvoting based on that alone.
• onos 3y ago
  I guess his top argument was “climate change”. If that’s the go to we need to see what effect on climate change this 7T would have if invested elsewhere.
  • ebiester 3y ago
    In terms of capital ROI out in terms of decarbonization? We know approximately how much the transition costs per ton of carbon not released. https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/insights/us/articles/6849_Utility-decarbonization-strategies/figures/6849_Figure7.jpg https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/insights/us/articles/6... Is a figure pulled from their consultancy but this is one of many. Some of the possibilities have a return on investment. Others don’t. The 7T assumes a positive ROI and while fundamental research is crucial to reversing the damage later, I’m not spilling any secrets that we will need 100 dead ends and 1000 incremental improvements before deployment of the next great tech. So is that investment?
• datameta 3y ago
  It's the interest in discussing development in perhaps the most transformative technology of the 21st century so far in large part, I imagine.
• bartimus 3y ago
  Socialists upvoting the socialist article