georgecmu

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Tesla sued by family of California teenager killed in fiery Cybertruck crash(theguardian.com)
19 points by georgecmu 1y ago|4 comments
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by georgecmu 1y ago
Never trust anything written by lawyers/economics/MBAs on climate change - only analysis by chemical or mechanical engineers is worth reading. Just so we know if we should keep reading, which one are you? Methane pyrolysis is a
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by georgecmu 1y ago
Water is critical but not hard to get. Right. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_scarcity You would want to use solar power for electrolysis. In the US, regions with abundant solar power are also the ones that: - h
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by georgecmu 1y ago
You're not wrong, but you're not right either. In 2015, the Department of Energy estimated that the CO2 footprint for production, processing, and pipeline transportation of natural gas averaged between 8 and 14 kgCO2-e per MMBTU o
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by georgecmu 1y ago
Exactly right. Carbon black has the average CO2 intensity of almost 4 kgCO2/kgC [1] and its conventional production is so dirty and low-margin, that companies have been walking away from their plants rather than implement EPA-mandated
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by georgecmu 1y ago
On the subject of methane pyrolysis, it turns out if you look at the Gibbs free energy calculation, about half of the energy of methane combustion is released from the formation of water, and the other half from the formation of carbon dio
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by georgecmu 1y ago
Pyrolysis is a less energy intensive way to produce hydrogen, and does deserve more attention. But it still requires methane as a feedstock. So why is methane as feedstock a problem? Isn't it better to spend less energy convert a ubi
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Clean hydrogen at a crossroads: Why methane pyrolysis deserves attention(c2es.org)
34 points by georgecmu 1y ago|54 comments
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Phoebus Cartel(en.wikipedia.org)
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Mapping Radioactive Fallout in the United States(makingmaps.net)
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'Dumpster Fire in a Train Wreck:' Volvo Is Replacing Every EX90's Computer(insideevs.com)
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Food Defect Levels Handbook(fda.gov)
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Trump announces $1M 'golden visa' and raises fees for H-1B visas to $100k(theguardian.com)
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Magical Thinking on AI(aiguide.substack.com)
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Soviet Maps (2021)(twitter.com)
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Microsoft reportedly fixing SSD failures caused by Windows updates(bleepingcomputer.com)
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Computer-Based System Safety Essential Reading List(safeautonomy.blogspot.com)
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by georgecmu 1y ago
As bonus trivia, depiction of Bilbo was based on the "short, round stature, expressive eyes, broad and open face" of the famous Soviet actor Yevgeniy Leonov ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Leonov ). I
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Precariat(en.wikipedia.org)
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Peter the Aleut(en.wikipedia.org)
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The Particular Joys of Etymological Detective Work(lithub.com)
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DNA tests are uncovering the true prevalence of incest (2024)(theatlantic.com)
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Digging into Tesla's Liability in Crash Case: Where's the Data?(carriermanagement.com)
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The most mysterious cells in our bodies don't belong to us (2024)(theatlantic.com)
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Finding Beauty and Truth in Mundane Occurrences(quantamagazine.org)
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Jury Says Tesla Was Partly to Blame for Fatal Crash(nytimes.com)
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Slave Trade in Early Modern Crimea (2007)(academia.edu)
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by georgecmu 1y ago
https://archive.is/0CXuN/
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The Hadza (2009)(nationalgeographic.com)
1 points by georgecmu 1y ago|1 comments
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The mystery over why human brains have shrunk over time(bbc.com)
10 points by georgecmu 1y ago|1 comments

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