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by barathr 5y ago
Greer has been writing similar things for some time (over a decade). Some interesting, some repetitive. Mostly well founded, though much of his writing is based on pretty old studies (so I would double check his climate citations against
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It was Porter Ranch, due to a gas leak: https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-air-purifiers-f... (Not that leaking gas would get meaningfully filtered by the average air purifier.) This study found improvem
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I'd encourage everyone to check out California Rare Fruit Growers generally, and specifically this list of apples from a tasting a couple years ago: http://mbcrfg.org/apple-tasting-2019-rankings/
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There's a major research paper coming up next month on the effect of solar storms on the Internet and well, the impacts can potentially be enormous: https://twitter.com/sangeetha_a_j/status/1389303295055831042
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There's little need for nuclear for this when there's surplus solar power in the West these days during the middle of the day. Desalination is the perfect kind of load for this suprlus power: flexible, its output can be stored, wa
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> 'Beware of first- hand ideas!' exclaimed one of the most advanced of them. 'First-hand ideas do not really exist. They are but the physical impressions produced by love and fear, and on this gross foundation who could er
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In some romance languages "having hunger" is literally how one expresses that someone is hungry...
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Well, the headline may be wrong due to this very caveat: > Well, if you have an electrical loop whose size is measured in miles, or (better) hundreds of miles, you can pick up enough current to matter. The telegraph stations were like th
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There's a deeper issue, which is that such analyses always treat profitability as the key goal. This is public infrastructure -- it doesn't need to be profitable, just meet some more important public goal. We shouldn't expect
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This is all or nothing thinking. No one solution will solve everything, but trees plus emissions reductions are probably the two easiest and biggest.
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If a machine were invented that scrubbed carbon from the atmosphere and turned it into useful food, construction materials, animal feedstocks, and fibers, all while rebuilding topsoil, it would be on the cover of every tech magazine in the
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Sustainability is often about long-term productivity, not short-term productivity. A piece of land that's going to be in a family for multiple generations is a different thing from a corporate operation that is looking for quarterly or
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The key with small farms is that they have "skin in the game" and also the feedback loop is faster since they are often on the land and see the effects of what they do.
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Even the latter statement has to be hedged, unfortunately (e.g., see the Dust Bowl), though it is more often the case. It really comes down to sustainable vs. unsustainable practices.
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Only un-grafted avocados take a long time (and typically it's more like 10 years to fruit, not 20). Grafted cultivars vary in precocity, with some (e.g. Lamb) fruiting in the year after grafting and others (e.g. Sir Prize) taking many
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by barathr 5y ago
I hope we can get to a place by the Fall that everyone leaves windows open in public buildings, workplaces, etc. if they can be opened. It's the simplest mitigation strategy. The next easiest is changing the HVAC system to pull outdoor
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by barathr 6y ago
I'd like to believe that something like this is possible, but I just don't get how this gets around the fact that every Joule that is used for bitcoin mining is a Joule that wasn't used somewhere else. Even if many Joules of
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Her earlier two related posts on metaepistemology were amazing as well: https://zeynep.substack.com/p/lessons-from-a-pandemic-annive... https://zeynep.substack.com/p/critical-thinking-isnt-just-a-.
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Among the less common ones Izu and Mikatani Gosho are good.
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One issue with Pawpaw is that some varieties have high levels of acetogenins: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annonacin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetogenin There are some low annonacin varietie
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You have to wait until they are extremely soft -- then they'll be very very sweet (and juicy). I tend to only buy and grow non-astringent persimmons because it's a hassle. People also dry them -- there's a whole process for
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The same process takes place with astringent persimmons. Persimmons are even weirder because they have four types: pollination constant non-astringent (PCNA), pollination variant non-astringent (PVNA), pollination constant astringent (PCA)
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Bananas are relatively easy to grow in California, Florida, Louisiana, and Hawaii, and there are short-cycle varieties that are being tested in Georgia and elsewhere. I encourage everyone to grow them if your climate will allow for it -- th