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by henearkr 4y ago
Here: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20220708_37/
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by henearkr 4y ago
It's worth mentionning that the shooter targeted Abe because he was "dissatisfied" with him. Japan is a country with an abysmally low voter turnout. So, it may be a consequence of this (cultural?) issue that dissatisfied peop
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by henearkr 4y ago
Much more information here: https://japantoday.com/category/crime/Ex-PM-Abe-shot-from-be...
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Of course it depends on the particular species, but insects in general have been shown able to plan their actions and make elaborate schemes, to have the equivalent of emotions like surprise or fear, and I bet we'll discover a lot more
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by henearkr 4y ago
I'm not doing NIMBY. There are a lot of promising storage solutions, some of which went online recently, and they were pretty much large scale. A lot more are planned, for example just in Australia: https://www.energy-storag
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by henearkr 4y ago
For example redox flow batteries, or molten salt energy storages. Probably many other systems too. They are scalable. As for dams: you can also imagine small-scale gravity storages, like water towers. No need for a mountain like to build a
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by henearkr 4y ago
Why wouldn't it be scalable? Most of the solutions I know of are scalable (those that do not require rare minerals).
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Well it depends on the country. In France for example, people who are anti-abortion, anti-cannabis, anti-EV, etc (most often those are Conservative people) are also anti-wind-turbines and pro-nuclear.
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by henearkr 4y ago
I concur that, for this kind of near-civilzation-collapse risks, dams are less desirable than wind/solar facilities. But I can't compare the risk posed by a dam and the risk posed by a nuclear fission plant. One is an instant and
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by henearkr 4y ago
Big oops! Yes, thank you!! I fixed it in the comment.
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I hear you, but the real argument against nuclear fission is not the economic one, it's the safety one. The safety during the (peace time) use of nuclear plants has been hugely improved, so I agree that's not anymore the main conc
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by henearkr 4y ago
But they are allowed to hide behind this false narrative because the population is not aware enough, which is why we should speak publicly a lot of the energy storage solutions and projects.
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by henearkr 4y ago
As I heard today again on the radio, the narrative is "to get energy whatever the weather, we cannot rely only on wind and solar". I'm surprised that they haven't heard of the possibility of energy storage . Both alread
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by henearkr 4y ago
Please restore the full title. It is truncated, as noticed by an other comment.
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by henearkr 4y ago
Wow, I had no idea this would be so intense (1st session). I suspect that the sound and music has a pretty high impact, even independently to the binaural tech. I think that because in my experience I can be pretty easily moved in a movie t
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by henearkr 4y ago
My point is that the permanence of the vote removes all the benefit of the concept of "election". They are voted in but then they never change. That's how you elect a tyrant. Even laws are not voted like that: you can amend o
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by henearkr 4y ago
Some senate has voted for them in the past, then the senate changes, the justices do not (except if they die or resign), and then the situation is that the current senate, or any subsequent future senate ever, will not have voted for th
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by henearkr 4y ago
The Conservative Supreme Justices are in a position of absolute power, where they take any decision they gut-feel (mainly using their religious and conservative beliefs of course), and they don't really need to give any justification a
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by henearkr 4y ago
You are reasoning like if not 100% of engineers but "only" 99.999% work on the priority projects then those priority projects will fail. That's not the case. Moreover, there is always the need to continue to explore and diver
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by henearkr 4y ago
No the cost of launching seed robots would be small, nothing comparable with launching everything already ready to use. So it is not at all exclusive with being on schedule with the other, more important, projects. But I agree we must spend
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by henearkr 4y ago
Of course we cannot rely on that, because photovoltaic facilities built by builder robots would take too much time to be of any relevance for the current crisis. If it is launched now we may be able to use it a few decades later.
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by henearkr 4y ago
Yes, but there may be a benefit to launch a part of the Human world outside of the biosphere, e.g. the most polluting industries. It is worth thinking whether it is a good thing or not that a very risky industry (for which an accident cou
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by henearkr 4y ago
Just for the sake of contradicting you, we (all the Humans) could move outside of the biosphere, e.g. on the Moon or Mars. That would completely remove our influence on the biosphere, the atmosphere, the oceans... However that would request
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by henearkr 4y ago
I agree, but wouldn't a partial PSCC (point source carbon capture) also legitimize the polluting industries? (I'm assuming here that not all of their emitted CO2 is long-term stored, otherwise of course that also solves anothe
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by henearkr 4y ago
My solution (to use exclusively DAC for the CO2 supply) looks like that difficult to you? I really think it is the best way to go. It is different, in my opinion, to emit CO2 to create material goods that will last, and to create CO2 for
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by henearkr 4y ago
It looks like it's captive in the big bubble even in decompressed form, however I think it is always a bad idea to create more CO2 on purpose (it can be released by accident or for maintenance), which is why I really hope this startup
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by henearkr 4y ago
That makes me chuckle that they use CO2. It would look like a good idea only if they somehow compel their customers to buy only CO2 coming from a direct-air-capture facility. Or even better, if they attach a small direct-air-capture device
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by henearkr 4y ago
I've had an horror story with Google Cloud, and they have been very helpful. After I explained my situation (a $5k bill for an inactive side/toy project is extremely painful), and I provided great details about what I think happen
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by henearkr 4y ago
No. There is no suspected cause for any such "anomalously high insect population in the past", while we have a lot of suspected causes, verified by the way (so rather culprits than suspects) for the insects decline. The "anom
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by henearkr 4y ago
Maybe you've heard of the "car windshield observation": we used to find so many dead insects on windshields some decades ago, and now it is obvious that there are way fewer. This is caused by the insect apocalypse. It's

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