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by adrianN 7mo ago
Black holes are good star ship engines because they turn everything into Hawking radiation.
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by adrianN 7mo ago
A 2kW socket for ten hours over night will give you a hundred kilometers of range or so. A regular 11kW wall box can fully charge your car over night. How long is the typical commute you're thinking about? Fast charging is pretty much
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I doubt people here can give realistic estimates as to how quickly we can ramp up the production of e.g. heat pumps, since a lot depends on how much we're willing to pay for it. There are many areas where we have the technology to elec
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by adrianN 7mo ago
So Major Major‘s father is being paid to let land be available for rich biodiversity. Sounds not unreasonable to me.
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by adrianN 7mo ago
You should be lobbying for cheap electricity so that people put heat pumps in their homes instead of burning diesel for heat.
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by adrianN 7mo ago
Which countries do substantially better?
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Many more don’t get paid at all.
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IMO shaping public opinion is part of the government’s job description.
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It is my understanding that for the animals where we have a simulation of the full connectome the behavior you see approximates the real behavior reasonably well, so maybe the jury is still out as to whether it is sufficient or not.
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Nuclear has a hard time existing in a net with dominant renewables during most of the year. Down-regulating nuclear absolutely kills its profitability. What you want is power plants with low capex that can be profitable with just a few hund
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by adrianN 7mo ago
I'm under the impression that more supply=lower rents, even if execution is not perfect, but I'm not an economist.
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I'm not sure why new housing devalues old housing. In my mind, higher density generally makes an area more desirable (e.g. because higher density enables more jobs, better infrastructure) and raises the value. Imagine as an extreme exa
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by adrianN 7mo ago
There is the possibility that the government builds housing, since the government doesn't have to care about direct profits and can include the overall economic effects of affordable housing in its calculations. We don't expect mu
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Humans get tricked regularly by phishing emails.
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Obesity is a problem in lots of countries.
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Patient outcomes should provide reasonably hard data for comparisons. Life expectancy at least is not vastly better in the US, how about other metrics?
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Human well-being should reduce medical expenses, so at least in theory it should be a goal of insurance companies.
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Ten years from now the people making these decisions have moved on to different companies and cashed their quarterly bonuses.
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by adrianN 7mo ago
How much higher would the energy cost be without evaporative cooling? It doesn’t seem that hard to use water-air heat pumps to get rid of the heat without any water use, so the reasons it’s not used are probably economic. I suppose you coul
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It turned out to be pretty hard to take out Germany’s factories in ww2.
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If you wanted to save CO2 you'd slap solar panels on the fields instead of growing corn or whatever. Plants are rather bad at capturing solar energy and they need fertilizer and pesticides to grow and diesel to be planted and harvested
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But we already have a bunch of social networks that are not for everybody. The problem is that social networks are pretty much a winner-takes-all market due to network effects.
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Most people don't really care about rent seeking middle men though, so why should they put in effort into doing things themselves?
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There is historic precedent: https://docsouth.unc.edu/imls/lecontesalt/leconte.html , but we probably want to collect cattle pee, since that is available in greater quantities.
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Sooner rather than later we need to decarbonize fertilizer production. Maybe this will speed the process up a bit.
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by adrianN 7mo ago
It's debatable whether biofuels reduce CO2. I think it's better to understand them as subsidies for agriculture.
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We know that systemic inflammation is associated with all kinds of chronic diseases. I don’t know whether we have figured out which causes which, but I’d be wary of overstimulating the immune system too.
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Power is essentially free when the sun is shining or the wind is blowing, why would people buy more expensive nuclear power during that time?
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Manufacturers have large marketing budgets. Presumably all that money influences which cars people want to buy.
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We have enough fossil capacity that we don’t use for price reasons.

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