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by jorgen123 2y ago
Not to forget a stat about the number of "airline account name-change" e-mails sent to some (hopefully) junk e-mail account for each "name change". Ideally in relation to destination web-page design and amount of junk ja
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by jorgen123 3y ago
Here is a calculation done by project Drawdown. Potentially 2.5 to 4.72 gigatons CO2e reduced/sequestered over a 30 year period: https://drawdown.org/solutions/seaweed-farming It is one of many viable solutions an
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by jorgen123 3y ago
I would agree with you. In the first sentence the writer puts Breda in southern Holland in stead of in Brabant. That is just wrong to somebody from Brabant. This is something that I think most people recognize when they see journalism about
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by jorgen123 4y ago
Your bafflement is baffling about the wrong question. People who eat vegetarian may on occasion want to eat a meat replacement product for the flavor of it. They would not make it a major component of their diet. On the other hand, these pr
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by jorgen123 4y ago
But this is measured by cup for many of the items on the list. E.g. Avocado is #3 but I would not eat a cup of Avocado per day. I do eat a banana most days. And I eat half an avocado, which weighs in the order of a 10th of the weight liste
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by jorgen123 5y ago
This narrative is not bad, but also not quite good. It is good because it is positive and expresses confidence that we can do this. It is bad in where it ignores the emissions caused by land use and resource consumption. Those are not addre
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by jorgen123 5y ago
No. The heart of the problem is this narrative. Granted, you paint the picture that is the prevalent narrative, but narratives can change. There are profitable solutions out there today and many have a potential to scale. Paul Hawken has do
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by jorgen123 8y ago
I think this is too narrow a view, covering only the supply side. What about demand? Why does everybody only want to live on the peninsula? Traffic is a big factor there. We have a total and complete lack of modern/fast public transpor
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by jorgen123 8y ago
Native Dutch here. I agree. I understand some words that are more like numbers in German but nothing much else.
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by jorgen123 8y ago
And yet, how many utility poles and wires do you want in front of your house? I don't think we really want anything other than a monopoly doing our distribution. It would be much better for the perception if there were a clean split in
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by jorgen123 8y ago
To be honest, the GP's post itself reads like a rant and actually does not back up any of its claims. So while I agree that this post did not add value, neither did the GP. Funny thing with utilities. They are a sort of commons, yet al
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by jorgen123 8y ago
Generalizing/simplifying: Transmission is long distance - high voltage, think steel towers with wires. Distribution is from a local transformer (substation) where high voltage gets turned to lower voltage (12 kV) and then sent via util
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by jorgen123 8y ago
I often agree with the sentiment, but not in this case. I actually like it better than the mayo I used to eat. I cannot wait for their test tube chicken.. ( https://www.justforall.com/en-us/stories/clean-meat )
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by jorgen123 9y ago
I would applaud that choice. I had a retinal tear 4 weeks ago and then then retina detached and started sagging in front of my lens, blocking half of my field of view. Seriously scary, especially since my mother has lost most of her vision
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by jorgen123 9y ago
> He could be 10 times more expensive than you. Did you consider that? That is an assumption that may be invalid. Everybody is in their own private situation. Your assumption will be true for many but not for all. Many older folks may no
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by jorgen123 9y ago
Actually, your question should be: Why use Appalachian coal? And indeed, coal production has shifted to Wyoming where it is cheaper to produce with less labor. So even if coal comes back, it will not likely come back to Appalachia. Source:
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by jorgen123 9y ago
Talking about creeping: I just saw a self-driving Chevy Bolt hold up traffic turning left from Franklin onto Lombard. It crawled through the turn like a panicked tourist. Granted that this is not a smooth turn, requiring a sharp adjustment
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by jorgen123 9y ago
Perhaps it is a case of a number without context. I have been here for nearly 18 years now and have become a citizen. I just wanted to get out of the rain of my homeland and into the California sunshine. I guess I am part of the 42% but I w
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by jorgen123 9y ago
You could pick a solution area you feel attracted to from the Drawdown book ( http://www.drawdown.org ) and see how you can contribute. The Drawdown team has spent several years computing and ranking the impact of over 100 solutio
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by jorgen123 10y ago
They call it urban tumbleweed. And where people care about keeping their town clean, tax money gets spent on removing the tumbleweed[1]. Which is why these bag bans are a general good thing. Source: http://1bagatatime.com/le
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by jorgen123 10y ago
One of the differences is that decomposing happens in the form of Methane, which is a potent greenhouse gas (21x as potent as CO2). Capturing and burning the methane "downgrades" the potency of the emissions, now only emitting CO2