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by adrianN 1y ago
What do you mean exactly? We could plant lots of trees and make charcoal from them and bury it. That scales with the amount of money spent. The problem is that nobody wants to invest a big chunk of gdp into burying coal.
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by adrianN 1y ago
It is my understanding that we have tried anti inflammatory interventions and they didn’t help. So the conclusion that inflammation per se is not the problem seems to check out.
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by adrianN 1y ago
Using variable names that are different but render (almost) the same can be a bad idea.
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by adrianN 1y ago
Our understanding of basic physical limits seems reasonably good and hasn't changed for a couple of generations. Our understanding of engineering limitations on the other hand is not so good and subject to frequent change.
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by adrianN 1y ago
Adequate rest is quite important to prevent the kind of injuries people in physical jobs get.
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by adrianN 1y ago
A healthy lifestyle improves outcomes pretty much regardless of genetics. Genetics just determines the ceiling.
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by adrianN 1y ago
That is very different from "there is no known mechanism". We also never powered a country exclusively with nuclear energy, but I think most people would agree that it can be done.
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by adrianN 1y ago
Tourism reliably destroys places. Southern Italy is another example where the sheer masses of tourists have completely ruined a whole area.
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by adrianN 1y ago
For varying values of „we haven’t done it yet“.
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by adrianN 1y ago
Can we detect uranium when it is transported in shielded containers?
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by adrianN 1y ago
There are demonstrators being built everywhere.
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by adrianN 1y ago
Interesting discussion on concrete. I wonder whether additive manufacturing could help create stronger concrete structures.
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by adrianN 1y ago
Battery capacity in Germany is growing exponentially, but most batteries being installed right now are home systems that don't help much to stabilize the grid.
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by adrianN 1y ago
You can always produce hydrogen or methane and use ordinary gas turbines to turn it back to electricity.
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How renewables are saving Texans billions(theclimatebrink.com)
131 points by adrianN 1y ago|137 comments
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by adrianN 1y ago
The article completely passes over the costs for the alternatives.
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by adrianN 1y ago
What are the projected costs per MWh?
768.
by adrianN 1y ago
Wifi routers use quite a lot of power for the area that they can cover. Ten watts or so for a hundred square meters is a lot of you want to cover a whole city.
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by adrianN 1y ago
To me it looks like there are several free lunches available, just because the sun produces so mich energy compared to what we could possibly use.
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by adrianN 1y ago
Of course, but „it’s a short quote so you can use it“ is not true (at least in Germany).
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by adrianN 1y ago
Colliding with 1t of car is similarly deadly as with 2t of car. Traffic fatalities have gone way down in the past forty years.
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by adrianN 1y ago
Fair use is not a thing in every jurisdiction. In Germany for example there are cases where three words („wir sind Papst“) fall under copyright.
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by adrianN 1y ago
BEVs are not that much heavier than comparable ICEs. All modern cars are too big and too heavy. From an energy standpoint weight is less of a problem for electric cars because they can recuperate.
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by adrianN 1y ago
The easiest fix might be pushing for faster adoption of BEVs. Nobody can easily take subsidies away from farmers.
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by adrianN 1y ago
If you find a hundred dollars on the ground you don't pick it up because in an efficient market somebody else would have already picked it up, hence it can't be real?
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by adrianN 1y ago
If tooling makes everybody 20% more efficient you can fire 20% of your employees and increase profit.
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by adrianN 1y ago
If you take sidewalks away completely and turn everything into a big highway you’ll have even less pedestrian traffic. That doesn’t make it good policy.
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by adrianN 1y ago
I’m not sure whether it’s possible to read a text without any interpretation. I don’t think you can derive any meaning without interpretation.
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by adrianN 1y ago
Fortunately those are not the only two options.
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by adrianN 1y ago
„Just don’t comply with social expectations“ is an advice that is often given but seldomly followed.

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