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by barney54 6y ago
And this is exactly why the federal government still owns so much land. Through laws like the Taylor Grazing Act they sold almost all lands which had water in the west.
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by barney54 6y ago
Drilling for oil and gas doesn’t actually change the surface much. It doesn’t change the contour of the land or result in much subsidence. Mining is a different story.
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by barney54 6y ago
This is true in places like Denver as well. It can get tough to get rental cars in the winter or in summer (spring and fall are better) because of vacationers going a number of hours from the airport. Uber/Lyft don’t really help with
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by barney54 6y ago
I have this hope too, but it’s really energy intensive right now. I also have hope for renewable hydrogen, but we have a lot of research to do to reduce costs.
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by barney54 6y ago
I am a native speaker and I had to look it up as well.
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by barney54 6y ago
The vast majority of lithium does not come from copper mines, but from lithium mines such as the Salar de Atacama in Chile https://www.lithiumchile.ca/project-item/salar-de-atacama/ with evaporation and spodumene
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by barney54 6y ago
What is the use case of per client blocking?
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by barney54 6y ago
Yes, but for plastics like PET that downgrades the plastic. This process breaks it into monomers so the recycling can be truly circular.
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by barney54 6y ago
This is right on, along with the large amount of free storage.
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by barney54 6y ago
"Toxic chemicals in tobacco smoke are the main reason cigarettes cause cancer, but radiation also may play a part." That's the best that EPA can do here? Is there really no data?
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by barney54 7y ago
Lithium sulfur batteries have a lot of potential and I really hope Brightsun’s tech works as well (or ever close to as well as claimed). However, I’ll believe it when I see it. There are just too many claims about battery tech that don’t
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by barney54 7y ago
I think this has very little to do with a carbon tax and everything about external and internal marketing. They are committed to using renewable power.
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by barney54 7y ago
Here's an alternative perspective: https://russroberts.info/price-gouging/
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by barney54 7y ago
I have received offers of 0% financing from Jeep and Ford for 84 months. They are desperate to sell cars and trucks.
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by barney54 7y ago
But the Fed never unwound after the great recession...
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by barney54 7y ago
Are you asking if VentureBeat is genuine news or a PR firm?
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by barney54 7y ago
The most expensive oil? Oil is currently $25 a barrel. What am I missing here?
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by barney54 7y ago
And while it is possible to recycle glass, in practice it is tough. Glass is heavy and therefore costly to transport. It also generally has to be sorted by color before it is recycled (and this is a problem with U.S. multi stream recycling
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by barney54 7y ago
Also wanted to say that The Food Lab by Kenji Lopez-Alt is great.
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by barney54 7y ago
One irony is that now WD-40 makes lubricants—such as the WD-40 silicon lubricant on my work bench.
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by barney54 7y ago
"Up like a rocket, down like a feather." Oil companies, gas stations, etc. try to keep prices high for as long as they can, but the prices fall over time.
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by barney54 7y ago
No, the budget was not cut.
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by barney54 7y ago
I have about 20 Hyperikon dimmable BR30s that are 4-5 years old and have been excellent. But I bought some cheaper ones for the kitchen more recently and they have had a bad failure rate. The older Hyperikons were excellent, the newer ones
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by barney54 7y ago
Why do you prefer wind to solar?
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by barney54 7y ago
You could do that, but no is no one powering their data center that way. They are all grid connected.
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by barney54 7y ago
It's much more complex than this. You can't run a data center on wind. Data centers are all grid connected, so what really matters is the composition of generators on the grid (or at least the composition on the generators near th
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by barney54 7y ago
Google is not really 100% renewable in any meaningful sense. Google (and others) buy renewable energy, but that doesn't mean their purchases match up to what their data centers actually consume for the simple reason that data centers h
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by barney54 7y ago
I’m not sure what you mean by publish “what the power sources are.” Data centers are grid connected and are therefore connected to a lot of different generators—including coal, natural gas, wind, solar, and hydro. All generators on the gri
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by barney54 7y ago
Under capitalism you don't necessarily reward politicians. Politicians get rewarded when the spoils of politics are large, not from market exchanges.
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by barney54 7y ago
From what I read I’m not chilled because I don’t trust the special rapporteur on basic facts. For example, he says, “ He will not receive a trial consistent with the rule of law. That’s another reason why his extradition shouldn’t be allow

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