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by adrianN 3mo ago
I would read that SCP
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by adrianN 3mo ago
Most roads are not used for delivering goods, so if we'd just reduce private car use that would already be a great improvement. If you want to go even further, rail has a lot of potential left.
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by adrianN 3mo ago
You can look up the carbon cycle on Wikipedia, it is fairly well understood where atmospheric carbon can go. Most processes that sequester carbon long term take geological time spans. So unless you think we engineer sequestration at a rate
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by adrianN 3mo ago
Optimistic of you to assume it’ll only be fifty years. Do you expect humans to adapt that quickly? The climate will be messed up for centuries at least
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by adrianN 3mo ago
Interesting! Nevertheless I believe it is true that bike and pedestrian paths are much cheaper to construct and maintain than roads for cars and trucks.
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by adrianN 3mo ago
Road wear increases with the fourth power of axle weight iirc. Bike paths are orders of magnitude cheaper and need a lot less space.
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by adrianN 3mo ago
One example is the requirement to have parking spaces.
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by adrianN 3mo ago
There is little hope for that as long as driving is heavily subsidized.
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by adrianN 3mo ago
Far-out theories need solid evidence to be believable. However, there is not even circumstantial evidence to suggest that anybody was five decades ahead of public technology. You might rather claim that the military has super advanced aircr
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by adrianN 3mo ago
I wonder how they use balcony solar for blackouts. The systems I know shut themselves off if the grid goes down.
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by adrianN 3mo ago
That would be a rather expensive robot vacuum.
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by adrianN 3mo ago
I feel like you could get a lot more quality of life improvement for more people with the money if you spent it on low tech solutions, eg more efficient cooking stoves for people still cooking with biomass, or solar microgrids for areas wit
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by adrianN 3mo ago
The people here prepared a list: https://drawdown.org/
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by adrianN 3mo ago
Solar doesn't need a lot of land. If we used all the land we currently use to grow biofuels for solar instead we'd be able to cover most of our energy needs already.
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by adrianN 3mo ago
I just recall how massively supply chains were disrupted by a few percent of the population having a very bad cough a couple of years ago and extrapolate to a situation where billions are dead, agriculture is fucked for years or decades and
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by adrianN 3mo ago
Any high technology has incredibly long dependency chains. I think you seriously underestimate the difficulty of bootstrapping, say, WW2 level tech from irradiated wastelands after major nuclear exchanges.
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by adrianN 3mo ago
It will just take at least three or four generations to get back to 90's climate, provided we don't trigger any irreversible tipping points, like the melting of the permafrost, in which case the climate is messed up for millennia.
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by adrianN 3mo ago
War definitely can end technological civilization. Bootstrapping it again will be quite difficult as a lot of the easily accessible natural resources are already depleted.
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by adrianN 3mo ago
It helps that every other year is a record breaking year.
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by adrianN 3mo ago
It is very difficult to do that in biological systems where doing A in isolation can have the opposite effect of doing A while also doing B.
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by adrianN 3mo ago
You typically collect kilobytes of information though.
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by adrianN 3mo ago
There is less traffic and hence less noise when people have stores at a walkable distance.
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by adrianN 3mo ago
You only need about 33 bits of information to uniquely identify every human.
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by adrianN 3mo ago
Lab-grown meat seems completely unrelated to synthetic biology. For lab grown meat the problem to my knowledge is that it is very expensive to grow vertebrate cells in the absence of an immune system because every contamination kills the ba
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by adrianN 3mo ago
1% of the budget is a really big number. The EU has a lot than a hundred responsibilities that demand money.
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by adrianN 4mo ago
You get funding for such a study the same way you get funding for anything else: first you run cheap small studies, perhaps in mice, perhaps observational, that show an interesting effect and motivate why you need money to run a proper clin
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by adrianN 4mo ago
Imagine the number of citations you could get for a solid double blind study that showed homeopathy to beat placebo. The only better impact I could imagine would be showing that climate change doesn’t actually exist.
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by adrianN 4mo ago
They are selecting for people who are fine working in their free time. If you contribute to open source you are more likely to contribute to the company on weekends. If instead you have other hobbies or a family that takes up non-work hours
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by adrianN 4mo ago
Free will is still lacking a proper definition.
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by adrianN 4mo ago
You could have a jobs program that builds infrastructure instead.

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