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691.
by adrianN 1y ago
If you go sufficiently far back in history, this is true for every event.
692.
by adrianN 1y ago
At least we can build software systems that are a few orders of magnitude more complex than in the 90s for approximately the same price. The question is whether the extra complexity also offers extra value.
693.
by adrianN 1y ago
Public transport in Berlin and London is pretty good and both are quite multicultural.
694.
by adrianN 1y ago
We also used to send children to work in the mines. That does not make it a good idea.
695.
by adrianN 1y ago
We can store oil underground for millions of years.
696.
by adrianN 1y ago
I count three percent as negligible.
697.
by adrianN 1y ago
The important part of making it popular was changing laws to make it dead simple to install.
698.
by adrianN 1y ago
Solar is cheaper than oil, and oil is essentially never used for electricity.
699.
by adrianN 1y ago
Mosquitos are mostly attracted by CO2, not UV. Mosquito traps often have a bit of smoldering coal in them.
700.
by adrianN 1y ago
Electricity prices have a pretty hard bottom that additional supply can't lower. At least where I live distribution is more often the bottle neck than supply.
701.
by adrianN 1y ago
Interesting. In my bubble the only proposals for replacing fossil fuels were hydrogen (now the clear loser) and batteries.
702.
by adrianN 1y ago
It is my understanding that environmentalists never pushed for biofuels at scale. Biofuels make sense at a very limited scale where you use waste to produce fuel, eg pressing sawdust into wood pellets, or making biogas from manure.
703.
by adrianN 1y ago
For the movements that you happen to make with the barbell.
704.
by adrianN 1y ago
Lithium cells are still disposable (eg vapes). The difference is that a single EV contains hundreds of kilograms are we are not used to just chucking old cars in the gutter.
705.
by adrianN 1y ago
That works for some cases, but if you have a service that processes customer data you probably don’t want to make copies without consulting with legal.
706.
by adrianN 1y ago
How is the wind in Michigan?
707.
by adrianN 1y ago
It would be cool if they adopted GNU Taler.
708.
by adrianN 1y ago
Plants have been producing protein from solar power since forever, but I bet it’s easier to tell the difference between steak and bacteria powder than to tell the difference between coal power and solar power.
709.
by adrianN 1y ago
To be fair, ruminants can digest the parts of the plant that we can’t digest. A small number of ruminants are part of good agriculture. Of course we’re ridiculously beyond „a small number“
710.
by adrianN 1y ago
When you drain wetlands they emit GHGs essentially forever.
711.
by adrianN 1y ago
Eat chicken instead of beef if you like meat.
712.
by adrianN 1y ago
Where does the feed come from? What other uses could the land have? Here in Germany drained wetlands are a huge contributor to GHG emissions.
713.
by adrianN 1y ago
Unfortunately solar panels and batteries don’t taste the same.
714.
by adrianN 1y ago
It is my understanding that land use (eg cutting down rain forest, draining wetlands) for pasture and soy are a big contributor to the carbon footprint of meat.
715.
by adrianN 1y ago
I'm not even sure what that's supposed to mean. Is it a joke that I'm not getting?
716.
by adrianN 1y ago
A clock at the center of the planet should experience no net force by the mass of the planet.
717.
by adrianN 1y ago
Anime is such a broad genre that it is completely normal to dislike most of it.
718.
by adrianN 1y ago
I suppose the alternative is making the alternatives cheaper. For example wind and solar for electricity are quite cheap.
719.
by adrianN 1y ago
If you’re optimistic, it is a means to buy time to implement a solution.
720.
by adrianN 1y ago
So prices have roughly kept up with inflation?

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