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by FirstAuthor 6y ago
> I don't think I've ever seen a study which has said that the amount of carbon produced by these local changes in biomes is anywhere near the carbon saved by the move to renewables. I recommend you read the paper for a review
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by FirstAuthor 6y ago
Thanks! This needed to be said. Saying "Google it!" tells me the person probably has no source, no idea how unreliable the information floating around on the web can be, and no understanding of how to find and appraise a good sour
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Cognitive misers are susceptible to misinformation(firstdraftnews.org)
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by FirstAuthor 6y ago
We are ‘cognitive misers'. We prefer to use simpler, easier ways of solving problems than ones requiring more thought and effort.... We don’t put enough thought into things when we need to — for example, when thinking about whether som
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by FirstAuthor 6y ago
Yes, there is cleaner energy. For example, natural gas is cleaner than coal, and nuclear is cleaner than biomass. See Table 2.
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by FirstAuthor 6y ago
This is a thoughtless, uncivil and insubstantial remark, in breach of the spirit of HN. Have you read the welcome page? "The most important principle on HN, though, is to make thoughtful comments. Thoughtful in both senses: civil and s
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by FirstAuthor 6y ago
There are technically feasible solutions to the intermittency problem, but - as the paper discusses - it's very difficult to scale them up to provide utility-scale backup for 12 or 24 hours without sun or wind. (This is presumably why
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by FirstAuthor 6y ago
Ad hominem fallacy. The paper cites 255 previous papers, mostly peer-reviewed. It's worth reading it properly rather than making glib remarks on the basis of lazy browsing. Here's an interesting discussion of the problem of "
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by FirstAuthor 6y ago
We didn't need incentives to find what we found by reading the research. We reviewed the literature very thoroughly, seeking divergent opinions on every aspect, and we have presented our findings transparently. We recommend you read th
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by FirstAuthor 6y ago
I am the first author on this paper. Nobody paid me anything to write this paper. In fact, it cost me money, because I had to take time off to work on it. I'll tell you what to take with a pinch of salt: allegations that the authors ar