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Graham67
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Graham67
7y ago
More CO2 makes plants grow taller, but not with more grain. Being taller, grasses (like wheat) often snap and fall over, particularly in storms. Crop fail. We are at the shallow end of the changes that are coming. An exponential increase in
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8y ago
https://youtu.be/RJh3TiCFJH4?t=30
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Graham67
8y ago
There are 3 possibilities: we go extinct we lose civilisation, we do just fine. Science does not us 30 years, it gives us 12, nowhere near enough to build nukes. With the loss of coordinated civilisation, whatever spent fuel pools, will dry
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Graham67
8y ago
70 is a a lot closer to the truth. That 11 is a selective figure. None of these numbers includes the carbon used to bulldoze the East side of Japan, or Belarus. And again, as the first attempt was clumsy, and a minimum.
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8y ago
That process absorbs CO2 from the atmosphere at low concentrations (400 ppm) onto stones coated with X-material. Later the stones are heated (using more fuel) to release CO2 at much higher concentrations (more than 75%). Then what? It is a
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Graham67
8y ago
We have the opportunity now, to decide to not kill everything bigger than bacteria. We could shutdown nukes, and store the waste. Or we could go for broke - if we go extinct - everything goes extinct.
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8y ago
Something of a one sided wet dream. If all those NPP's had been built there would have been ... well the article completely fails to mention any downside. And the conclusion: the screw-up was the need to "prepare environmental imp
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10y ago
Fundamentalists are immediately, overwhelmingly, correct.
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10y ago
Create a list of tests. Report how many of the tests pass/fail.
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Graham67
10y ago
A vote LEAVE will not take us completely out, a vote REMAIN will take us in so deep, we never vote again, the pound becomes 'fixed-rate' and the central banks own us. The EU did not really help Greece, in it's difficulties. T
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11y ago
Local governments, putting IT out to tender, should describe the VALUE of each feature. EG can work in local dialect (Exxx), source code is openly available (Exxx), we can modify and rebuild (Exxx), nearby support teams are familiar with an
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Graham67
11y ago
It's not carbon free.
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Graham67
11y ago
go-one go-two
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11y ago
go two