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by Glench 5y ago
I run https://extensionpay.com which lets devs take payments for their extensions without needing to run their own servers. So I happen to know that my users have made over $11k since I started earlier this year! Not bad. I also
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How to talk to your grandchildren about Joe Manchin and the climate(washingtonpost.com)
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The impact on garages is going to be one of the many knock-on effects as we uproot polluting infrastructure from the core of our economy. A similar thing will for tradespeople electrifying houses with heat pump heating/cooling, hot wat
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by Glench 5y ago
That Eco village is cool. Bit of trivia: The guy who wrote the amazing book Reinventing Organizations about actual, >100 person, successful companies that are organized non-hierarchically moved to that ecovillage with his family and seem
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Why heaters are the future of cooling(vox.com)
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Energy Star won’t recommend any gas appliances on its next ‘most efficient’ list(fastcompany.com)
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by Glench 5y ago
Neat, always great when someone makes minimal software that fits their needs. Inspiring to see it done in a relatively small amount of code, too! Right now I rely on Google Music for desktop and mobile streaming but it kind of sucks. It&#x2
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by Glench 5y ago
Yeah, so your argument assumes that retrofitting radiators with heat pumps is the only way to install. Not true! You left out mini-splits which efficiently heat rooms and have the added benefit of being less expensive and disruptive to home
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by Glench 5y ago
Why do you say heat pumps only work in well insulated houses with large radiators? Heat pumps are ~3x as efficient as the best gas furnaces so why would you need a better insulated house? Also, the problem with hydrogen is how do you produc
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by Glench 5y ago
That's great that that happened! I think it's to the point now where we need everyone to do that. Was it hard for them to physically change out their gas system for the heat pump? Was it hard to find installers or units?
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I'd add to that that we're already scathed! The higher temperatures have already affected the oceans, wildfires, droughts, and increased intensity for weather patterns like hurricanes.
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That's awesome! Please share with others what you learn in the process!
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> Are all properties suitable for a heat pump though? That's the question. Generally, yes, but of course it always depends on specific circumstances. Read up on heat pumps! They're really cool. And yes they're like air con
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Yes, that's great! I just wish it was paired with the more ambitious stick of banning new gas hookups.
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You may be right! But the time for ambition and execution is now because our planet is too damn important for anything less. :)
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by Glench 5y ago
Ah, in the US gas is the most common and I'm not sure about the UK — just going off what the article mentioned. But yeah, my understanding is that burning gas in your home produces less CO2 than burning coal or oil, but they ALL pollut
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by Glench 5y ago
> We need to get rid of them all eventually. Totally agreed! But for me I'd love to strike the word "eventually" from the sentence. At this point we're in such deep shit that we have to move more quickly than "ev
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by Glench 5y ago
> The Heat and Building Strategy, to be published alongside the wider net zero review, will include a new 2035 target for a ban on fitting new domestic gas boilers. Man, I'm glad this is included but the scientific reality is that w
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by Glench 5y ago
Love that NOAA is getting shit done. They just redid the climate.gov website to be more useful: https://www.climate.gov/
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What kinds of issues did you have with your heat pump? Was it the unit itself, installation? And where do you live? It's unfortunate that the heat pump ecosystem isn't as developed as it should be. Feels kind of like installing Li
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by Glench 5y ago
I'm glad you laid out all the misconceptions about heat pumps! > It's going to be hard to convince folks to replace their gas water heaters with electric heat pump models that cost ~3x more and save little to no cost annually.
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by Glench 5y ago
> Americans (and Australians) will never accept any changes that negatively impact their lives or wallets. Luckily, a lot of the electrification parts of the climate bill will save Americans (and Australians) money without changing lif
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Yikes
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by Glench 5y ago
Any code that controls money needs to be super solid, but I wonder if Chia's smart contracts[1] would help? Their VM is functional and doesn't have stateful side effects like Solidity/EVM. The Chia team claims this is more se
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by Glench 5y ago
Man, it feels like this has been happening a lot. I guess this happens when you have what is essentially JavaScript code on the EVM handling vast sums of money.
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by Glench 5y ago
Your efficiency argument is ridiculously based on a Medium article. Here's a quote from the Economist article citing two recent scientific studies: "It takes 33 plant calories to produce one calorie of beef."
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If you want to read the whole article and not get a "sign up to read" prompt you can disable JavaScript in your browser developer tools and reload the page.
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by Glench 5y ago
I run a service that lets browser extension developers take payments in their extensions without needing to run their own servers* and it's been frustrating watching the MV3 rollout. The documentation isn't good, there are unresol
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by Glench 5y ago
I'm really impressed by Chia's smart contract platform. From what I gather it seems a lot safer and more efficient than the EVM while also still being Turing complete. More info: https://chialisp.com
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by Glench 5y ago
Write your senator and politician first! It’s easy and they actually do count the letters and calls they receive and use those to make decisions. Next I’d say decarbonize your life! Most people emit everyday carbon from a small number of bi

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