Eelongate

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   by Eelongate 5y ago

   > Why is it better to unbundle them? Better... for who? I don't know if it's better for either business or society, but it's better for me because I walk to the grocery store and never take my car. If the price of p
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   by Eelongate 5y ago

   The threat of terrorism is massively overblown across the board, not just with respect to nuclear waste. The means to make conventional explosives are widely available, yet outside of a handful of conflict zones it is rarely done. Americ
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   by Eelongate 5y ago

   For a tree to be an effective long-term sequestered of carbon, you have to ensure the tree never burns or decays. Obviously this can be done; you can sink it in anaerobic water or bury it deep in a mineshaft... but just letting forests gro
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   by Eelongate 5y ago

   It already is, they're still using Nb-Sn superconductors for ITER. The whole project is a manifestation of the sunk costs fallacy.
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   by Eelongate 5y ago

   The article is crackpot nonsense: > But many systems exist and persist far from equilibrium. Perhaps the most glaring example is life itself. We’re kept out of equilibrium by our metabolism, which converts matter into energy. Our metab