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by cossatot 10y ago
Offsets/credits are a fine idea, assuming they work. And forest preservation by Brazil would hopefully be domestic, and not chopping down the Amazon has additional non-carbon environmental bonuses.
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by cossatot 10y ago
Well of course per passenger-mile shipping is less efficient than air travel, because shipping is primarily transportation for goods, not for people. A big container ship has what, 20 people? Nonetheless, you're right that shipping s
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Firms that discriminate are more likely to go bust(marginalrevolution.com)
3 points by cossatot 10y ago|0 comments
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by cossatot 10y ago
You don't need a laser, just a projectile: http://www.hypersciences.com/
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by cossatot 10y ago
From 'The Solid Earth' by CMR Fowler (the geophysics book closest to my desk), the Earth's surface heat flux is 44 TW. This is not the total heat energy in the earth, it's the amount of internal heat (from the sources
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by cossatot 10y ago
This is what enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) are all about: Pumping external water into hot, dry systems. Most of the work is focused on either opening natural fractures or creating new ones between an injection well and an extraction wel
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by cossatot 10y ago
EGS is a very promising technology. Currently, geothermal energy is better considered hydrothermal energy as hot water in abundance is required to turn the turbines in generators, or by heating fluids w/ lower boiling points to turn
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by cossatot 10y ago
Yes I know; this is why I asked the question. It would be easier to suppose an answer if Albania was 98% or 2% Islamic.
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by cossatot 10y ago
Does anyone know how much 'besa' is related to (or derived from) the Islamic tradition of warm hospitality towards travelers?
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by cossatot 10y ago
Rural America is, on the whole, losing population [1], and having the sorts of groups you're lumping move in (for either "hipster farming" or outdoor recreation reasons) provides socioeconomic diversification and robustness t
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by cossatot 10y ago
Unfortunately, this is often the rhetorical approach commonly employed in unpopular, ahem, professional science as well. No one wants incremental progress, everything has to be transformative (science's disruptive ). Fortunately, thi
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by cossatot 10y ago
The velocities are in mm/yr. 68 mph plate tectonics would definitely be terrifying; that's an order of magnitude faster than faults move during an earthquake. There are two phenomena that look cyclonic. The larger ones have to do
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by cossatot 10y ago
I forked this and put plate tectonic velocity vectors (in an earth-centered, earth-fixed coordinate system) in place of wind vectors but didn't have the .js knowledge or time to fix all the annotations and menu stuff. I'm hoping
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South Korea’s biggest shipping line has filed for bankruptcy protection(wsj.com)
123 points by cossatot 10y ago|49 comments
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by cossatot 10y ago
If we stick to PhDs as opposed to the excellent but undervalued MS degree: Far better chance of becoming a tenured professor (I'd say roughly 1 in 10-20 in my field, geoscience). Plus, like has been said elsewhere in this thread, after
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by cossatot 10y ago
No, the article is from Canada. It's about 400 grams/day.
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by cossatot 10y ago
And many in the sciences are confused by 'endogenous' and 'exogenous', but just say 'independent' and 'dependent'... Every field has its jargon and econometrics has no primacy here; no reason to have
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by cossatot 10y ago
Scaling is a very hard problem[0], but it's easier in these sorts of fluid systems where the materials have a simple Newtonian viscosity and the temperatures and other parameters don't change dramatically throughout the model. Co
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by cossatot 10y ago
Yes, because native populations had been decimated by disease.
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by cossatot 10y ago
Matthew Butterick uses both in his typesetting applications: http://unitscale.com/mb/technique/dual-typed-untyped-library...
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Uttar Pradesh just planted 49M trees in a day(cgdev.org)
1 points by cossatot 10y ago|0 comments
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by cossatot 10y ago
The science of finding out the (pre-)historic earthquake history is called 'paleoseismology'. You can read about it from a variety of sources. In most instances the earthquakes are dated by finding carbon-bearing material in depos
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by cossatot 10y ago
Avar has a good point in general, although I'm not sure it's relevant to the recent San Andreas earthquake history. Over geological time, the actual probability distributions are unstable, because the boundary conditions causing t
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by cossatot 10y ago
The damage from a Cascadia rupture is going to be more widespread but the ground shaking in the metro areas may be less than for the San Andreas because the San Andreas hits the surface quite close to populated areas (LA also has more peo
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by cossatot 10y ago
Aside from the very real liability issue, the idea of lubricating faults is interesting. From a practical standpoint it would be hard to inject something that remains viscous enough at the relevant temperatures. Earthquakes nucleate at abo
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by cossatot 10y ago
With dice, each roll is independent of the others. With earthquakes, the probability of an earthquake occurring in any given year is (almost always) dependent on how long it has been since the last event. That is represented by the hazard
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How long should we wait for an overdue earthquake on the San Andreas?(rocksandwater.net)
72 points by cossatot 10y ago|90 comments
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by cossatot 10y ago
My wife and I picked up a seemingly injured young crow from our yard before the neighborhood cats (or buses) found it, and we took it to a local wounded bird shelter. The crow's family(?) crowed incessantly whenever we walked outside f
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by cossatot 10y ago
Malice and stupidity are not mutually exclusive.
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The visualizations transforming biology(nature.com)
6 points by cossatot 10y ago|0 comments

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