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by bob29 4y ago
yes or buy one on ebay for a fraction of the price of some libre maker flavor of the month soon to be ewaste
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by bob29 4y ago
YAAAS If we can accelerate income equality we can reduce consumption. We need the 99% (better yet the 99.9%) to be as poor as possible. Income is related to consumption, and consumption is related to emissions and pollution.
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by bob29 4y ago
This is just a sign that BP is doing a good and efficient job at delivering energy to customers effectively.
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by bob29 4y ago
Facebook Apple Google Microsoft Amazon Netflix:
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by bob29 4y ago
amen
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by bob29 4y ago
Doubtful, perhaps its an example of ignorance but I hope any textbook isn't using my comment as a defintion.
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by bob29 4y ago
I don't have a pension, or a 401k if that is what you are implying. I do have social security deducted from my paycheck. Is that money getting invested into the stock market on my behalf? Sorry I'm not in the elite income class, I
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by bob29 4y ago
I don't do stock market trading, but even those who do that I know of, are doing so via companies such as: Robin Hood, E-Trade, Fidelity, Charles Schwab, Vanguard... Are these "market makers" working behind the scenes to faci
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by bob29 4y ago
At my job? I take food ingredients and perform some manual manipulation to arrange them into enjoyable edible form (although the natural gas powered grill and the electric element powered heating elements, via cooking oil perform the bulk o
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by bob29 4y ago
haha suck it, internal combustion engine cars.
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by bob29 4y ago
> under which, there is no environment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29217929 Also, if you put a solar panel on a roof of a building, there will still be a building underneath the solar panel. Many people live in
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by bob29 4y ago
If you think none of the industrial, process, or scientific work is done, you are incapable of decomposing the problem into its constitutent parts and recognizing the existance of most of its constituent parts in other parts of industry. Go
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by bob29 4y ago
I'm not one to argue etymology. Apparently nothing is real until it's realized. So "not being real" is meaningless and we should discuss whether something is "able to be realized". Can fuels by synthesized at i
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by bob29 4y ago
There are many chemical plants synthesizing chemicals in large quantities: ammonia, ethanol, etc. Until 10 years ago, the cheapest primary fuel was all fossil fuel based, so making synthetic fuels from fossil fuels is simply a loss in effic
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by bob29 4y ago
I believe you would pump in CO2 (and any missing nutrients), not Oxygen. Algae culture requires CO2 and produces Oxygen. It also requires light. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algaculture#Growing_algae
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by bob29 4y ago
Pyrolysis is entirely endothermic - it requires applying heat to biomass. Pyrolysis yields a vapor that will combust in the presence of oxygen and release energy. The energy released in the combustion of pyrolysis products can be used to d
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by bob29 4y ago
The comment was about all nuclear waste from a power plant. You responded with figures for quantity of spent nuclear fuel, which is volumetrically a mere fraction of the total waste from a nuclear reactor. Low level rad waste still has cu
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by bob29 4y ago
How are you heating it? How are you powering all the chippers, blowers, conveyer belts, and other machinery? Along with the transportation of crop residue to your facility, how much carbon is re-emitted with your consumption of all these in
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by bob29 4y ago
nice disengenous quote used out of context, used nuclear fuel is a subset of waste from a nuclear power plant. btw, in case a football field at a depth of 10 yards sounds small: http://www.ccnr.org/max_plute_aecb.html#1
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by bob29 4y ago
The IPCC did not do primary research. They cite a source. That source did not do primary research, either. The actual data comes from an estimate from the industry itself. The estimates came from costs. Estimating embodied fossil fuel energ
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by bob29 4y ago
So wrong its funny. Maybe if you assume the pre-existance of the nuclear supply chain due to a weapons program. I challenge you to actually follow the sources on any of estimates like that, or the hilarious "12g c02/kwhr" qu
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by bob29 4y ago
>build 4 nuclear plants for each one we currently have to achieve a 100% decarbonized grid Uhh, mining and uranium enrichment and transportation all require fossil fuels, and more fossil fuel energy than a fueled nuclear produces in elec
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by bob29 4y ago
It's precisely the point for ALL primary energy sources. everything is built with the current fossil fuel powered industry. cement, steel, uranium mining and enrichment all is subsidized by the fossil fuel doped industry. Same with win
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by bob29 4y ago
Interesting that you can understand this concept when its applied to development of grid-scale storage. But you think its easier and risk free to develop from where we are to R&D plus supply chain, operating procedures, and workforce fo
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by bob29 4y ago
I have tried Pi as only PC, I gave up after a short bit. Not to go too much on a tangent, my takeaway is it depends on YOUR life and work whether or not any computer will work. If you can limit yourself within low resolution, small color pa
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by bob29 4y ago
>many measures the most demonstrably successful game developer without a big studio ex gamer here (player only, no idea about the game making industry), never heard of him or any games. Is he really the most successful? From the outside
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by bob29 4y ago
Why can't you compile C on a raspberry pi 3?? Thats a supercomputer compared to anything that existed throughout the 80s 90s. Especially since your progs seem to be pretty small with kind of vintage retro graphics id imagine they compi
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by bob29 4y ago
>No You aren't disagreeing with me. The claim is that we live in the best world possible , not the best world imaginable . The compromises you mention are necessary due to the underlying reality of resource scarcity. We may act to
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by bob29 4y ago
So actually we live in the best world possible[1] with the best technology possible. If it were possible to make a better iPHone, someone would have made it, but the fact that it doesn't exist means its either not possible or not good
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by bob29 4y ago
I just got off the phone with my local university extension program. They said you're wrong. Sorry.

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