ThomPete

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by ThomPete 6y ago
You would burn them money to create enough energy or what exactly is your point?
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by ThomPete 6y ago
Electricity is only around 15-20% of a countrys energy usage.
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by ThomPete 6y ago
You going to tell the poor that they need to pay more for their organic grasfeed wagu beefs?
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by ThomPete 6y ago
Solar and wind today doesn't deliver more than 1% of the world energy consumption. We are as close to fusion as we are to the kind of fuel cells that would be needed for that. Furthermore solar+storage doesn't do industrial grade
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by ThomPete 6y ago
Yeah but you wouldn't be happy that your incubator or AC didn't work when it needed to. You wouldn't be happy either if factories can't produce enough food because they would have to wait for wind or sun.
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by ThomPete 6y ago
And one of the primary reasons is that the more wind and solar we install the more backup we will need and the more complex our grid becomes. This is not actually factored into the price of wind and solar which is completely misrepresenting
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by ThomPete 6y ago
gold standard was a solution for almost nothing but what it were useful for had transformative for a lot of other things. Blockchain is the same.
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by ThomPete 6y ago
Aquafarming or aquaculture is the way we solve that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaculture
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by ThomPete 6y ago
We won't, it's simply not physically possible. And of course we won't be fucked. Climate catastrophism is the last thing we need.
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by ThomPete 6y ago
its part of it and a reality for many.
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by ThomPete 6y ago
if you want humans to change you have to come up with better solutions not just ask people to change. It's never worked and it never will.
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by ThomPete 6y ago
No it's not that simple and if it was we would already have done it. It's not just a matter of political will it's a matter of what makes sense from a market perspective. It doesn't make any sense to rely on wind and sol
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by ThomPete 6y ago
It's not necessary to be alive either yet here we are. I am not sure what happened to rationals about humans and the environment but it's taken a really dangerous twist into something very very antihuman. Thanks but not thanks. I&
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by ThomPete 6y ago
That's exactly what I said above just in fever words. What other interpretation are you thinking about?
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by ThomPete 6y ago
It's not that simple. Less than 1% of energy comes from wind and solar and we aren't looking at more than 3-4% in 2030. Wind and solar require either nuclear, gas, coal and oil as backup. Nuclear is completely out of vogue and wil
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by ThomPete 6y ago
Can you define what you mean with necessary more precisely?
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by ThomPete 6y ago
we do? How do you do heavy industrial production without coal, gas or oil?
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by ThomPete 6y ago
I am sorry you feel like that. Personally I would always want to factor in some sort of ROI for the conversation to have any meaningful context. There are many ways we can "fix" things but the cost of the fix should always be meas
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by ThomPete 6y ago
Aquafarming is an amazing emerging trend and will help us create a sustainable environment for fish and reduce collateral damage on marine wildlife. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaculture
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by ThomPete 6y ago
not if you want to live a modern life with all the benefits that comes from that.
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by ThomPete 6y ago
the old and frail teachers can teach from home for some of the classes. its still 75% who are not in danger and even among the 25% there are still many who would teach anyway. Of course its the answer to tell the old and frail to quarantine
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by ThomPete 6y ago
or get big widescreen monitors they are great
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by ThomPete 6y ago
this is the virus killer war all over again
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by ThomPete 6y ago
everyone is susceptible to infections thats not what we are talking about. Most people cant afford babysitters for their kids, 80% of the workforce dont work behind a computer. What you guys seem to suggest will bankrupt most families.
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by ThomPete 6y ago
lots of teachers are young. Lots of people who work at schools are young. Let the old stay home, there is no reason to keep the young and healthy home. Again what are you going to do if we dont get vaccines?
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by ThomPete 6y ago
not sure what you are expecting. We wont be able to deal with this unless we get a vaccine and if we dont exactly what are you expecting us to do? The consequences of keeping things in lockdown are plentiful and we already know children are
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by ThomPete 6y ago
it would literally be genocide to go biodynamic for billions of people. Outcompete conventional processes and prices then it will solve itself. Until then conventional production has provided us food enough to feed the entire worl (but not
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by ThomPete 6y ago
I think history have shown us that if you want people to change their behavior you have to come up with something better not just something that you or I or someone else think is easier or more rational. The world doesn't work like tha
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by ThomPete 6y ago
The cost of transportation is not even worth mentioning as long as we don't try to install some super expensive electricity grid.
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by ThomPete 6y ago
Great stuff, bad AI recommendations at least for the climate denier part. (maybe you should change it to climate catastrophism skeptic which would be more precise from the results I see) very few people denies there is a climate I take it :

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