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by ericvanular 7y ago
linguaz these are fantastic questions. It would be super helpful if you could post them in the Meta category on the site so that they can be opened up to the community for discussion. I'd like to obtain community input on these types o
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Hey semi-extrinsic, cjbenedikt posted more about this on the platform. If you'd like, you can engage them there and drive the conversation forward!
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You might be able to rally some support and feedback for this idea on Collective.Energy!
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Conversely, I think that heavy censorship of opposing ideas shows a lack of confidence in one's own opinion. If we can't debate effectively the merits of climate action in a community designed for it, then we need to work on our m
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Nuclear takes time but I don't think the solution is going to come through only one approach. It seems like we'll need a mix of technologies to actually solve this problem. Nuclear provides clean base load in many places currently
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Love reading this kind of news. As an aside, this is the exact type of content that is super welcome on the platform we launched in a Show HN on the front page today ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21472817 ). The url
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Love the sound of this. If you'd like to build your audience, we would be happy to follow your journey at Collective.Energy
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It's understandable that you'd need some oversight to acquire the materials. I wonder if it would be feasible to band together as a unified front to encourage an organization who is able to make this happen push towards reality
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Hey mikepurvis, some of us on the Collective.Energy community are Toronto based. We would love to learn more about the idea if you're comfortable sharing there!
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You've eloquently stated my position in better words than I had used. Thank you, please feel free to chip in these thoughts on the platform
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Great suggestions. I think the community we're discussing would really value your input if you'd be okay with sharing these same thoughts on https://collective.energy !
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These are fantastic discussions. Would love to have both of you posting and discussing on the platform if you're willing. You can extend your positive impact even further!
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Thank you! In fact, there's a thread going on Collective.Energy to detail local meetups for everyone's reference. You can find it at https://collective.energy/topic/23/add-your-local-meetup-gro...
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Thanks for your feedback. I wanted to evoke the idea of harnessing the energy that we collectively have towards solving the climate crisis. Also it seems like you have great knowledge about electrical infrastructure. Maybe you could contrib
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Amazing idea! Please post about this on Collective.Energy, I think you could inspire similar projects all over
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We have baked-in anti spam moderation to the community. In regards to climate deniers coming on and brigading the community, I felt that it would be better to let moderators & the community treat those on a case by case basis with count
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You can take part in ongoing discussions with no judgement or qualification required. If you can help even one person, it will be worth it!
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This is awesome. The focus on climate pragmatism is exactly what we'd like to channel. I'll post about it on Collective.Energy - if you're involved with tmrow, get in touch!
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Thank you! I was facing that dilemma myself for quite some time. The intention here is that you don't need to start huge - writing just one valuable comment on Collective.Energy can have a downstream impact that motivates/inspires
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Thanks! I leveraged an open source Node.js based discussion platform called NodeBB. It's similar to Discourse but not made in Ruby on Rails. I cloned the base repo but then was quite liberal in customizing it to my own needs and extend
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I think Climate Colab is great. They are coming at it from a slightly different angle, which isn’t necessarily any better or worse. It is very contest oriented, with highly structured judging processes. Our objective is to include as many p
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Absolutely! The more people that are working together on climate solutions the better as far as we're concerned. It looks like that initiative is working together through a Google doc for now? Perhaps they might be interested in also l
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Hi HN! It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the global climate crisis. I made this as a response to the problem, ”I don’t know what I can do to help”. https://collective.energy is a community for crowdsourcing climate solutions &amp
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Show HN: Collective.Energy – Crowdsource climate solutions as a community(collective.energy)
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We can use the same economic engine which drove us down the hole of a carbon-based society to pull ourselves back out of it. Regardless of how you feel about capitalism, it is a strong machine for getting things done. Let’s line up the fina
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The New Economics of Saving the World(ericvanular.com)
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How to Get Lucky(ericvanular.com)
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Imagining the future of energy and transportation naturally leads to a collision of those worlds. I've discussed some of the impacts that I think this might have on everyday life and business. What are your thoughts?
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A Day in the Year 2050: Energy & Transportation(ericvanular.com)
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The motivation here was to expose most people who probably haven't heard of RL concepts like rewards, Markov decision processes, etc to the ideas. Appreciate your comment and I understand that a naive search method might be basic for a

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