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by kiliantics 4y ago
I think I first came across Hakai through a HN post. It's pretty niche but, in my opinion, it's an example of the kind of quality I wish more of our modern media had and what we should really be demanding in our news outlets.
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by kiliantics 4y ago
How long ago was this? I just bought batteries for solar and you can't get cheaper than around $800 per kWh without building your own battery. And panels are rarely much less than $1/Watt new so I can't see how you'd bui
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by kiliantics 4y ago
It's possible to restrict vehicle size in urban centres, plenty of cities do. You can move things with smaller safer trucks and vans for the last mile. In some cases, this is even done with cargo bikes.
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by kiliantics 4y ago
I have a slightly different take to the parent. I think it's nonsense because the ostensible core purpose of this movement is about taking competent, motivated people and deploying them in such a way that they can make a meaningful cha
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by kiliantics 4y ago
Will the super rich and powerful finally care and do something once they can't get any Taittinger or Moët?
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by kiliantics 4y ago
For relatively nearby objects. The parallax used is the apparent angular shift of an object as the earth orbits the sun. The angle gets very small the further an object is and observing it will depend on the resolution of your telescope. In
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by kiliantics 4y ago
I don't put on sunscreen unless I know I will be outside unexposed for over an hour while the UV index is 5+. If I can wear a hat and long sleeves or know there will be shady spots, I still avoid sunscreen. I rarely get anything close
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by kiliantics 4y ago
These seem like pretty reasonable ways for them to be lost. Though the headline suggestion did give me a scary thought: if we do end up on a trajectory of social collapse, most likely caused by ecosystem breakdown, then the resulting failed
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by kiliantics 4y ago
This organisation runs a slack community where climate jobs are discussed and new postings for lots of companies get shared there: https://workonclimate.org/ That said, while I feel similarly to you OP, I am also highly ske
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by kiliantics 4y ago
How are you arriving at the 12 trillion trees number? I think there are some less obvious ways that trees can capture more carbon. For instance, trees build soil over time. Much of the deforested land in the world has had its topsoil washed
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by kiliantics 4y ago
While on the face of it, this sounds right, I've started to think there's a chance we are wrong. Can you really prove that industrialised agriculture has a higher carrying capacity than untamed nature? Supposedly the population of
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by kiliantics 4y ago
There's a pretty long (4-part) discussion on Andrew Gelman's blog[0] about Guzey's article and the book. In the end I was pretty convinced that many of the book's claims cannot be trusted. [0] https://statmode
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GPU Puzzles(github.com)
3 points by kiliantics 4y ago|0 comments
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by kiliantics 4y ago
For me, your use of automobiles and airplanes does not help your argument. In my opinion, those industries got way too powerful and negatively shaped our entire society's infrastructure at a colossal magnitude. It's really very re
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by kiliantics 4y ago
What's really wild is when you realise that over half of all humans do not have access to infrastructure that safely disposes of their bodily waste. I'm currently working on a project to build a composting toilet and doing researc
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by kiliantics 4y ago
It would be better spent on e-bike subsidies. They are a far more sustainable electric vehicle and have the added benefit of killing traffic.
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by kiliantics 4y ago
> but really toxic air not so much (or do we?) considering how many people are allowed to die of air pollution as a matter of standard policy, even in "nice" western countries and cities, I don't know that this argument ho
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by kiliantics 4y ago
I think that the most wealthy and powerful can have a greater impact than the largest producers. Why does China produce so much CO2? A lot of it is to satisfy the massive demand coming from the West for all the cheap stuff they make. If we
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by kiliantics 4y ago
Exactly. If this Kurzgesagt video is to be believed, then the average road costs as much carbon to build PER METRE (!!) as it takes to produce one car: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiw6_JakZFc Heavier vehicles like truck
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by kiliantics 4y ago
Appropriate taxation on fossil carbon could make a difference. Flying in kerosene-fueled planes should be made a lot more expensive than any alternatives.
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by kiliantics 4y ago
I love Berlin for how people really own their democracy and freedom there by taking it into their own hands and living it, not just talking about it while the government silently removes all their rights as happens in the US.
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by kiliantics 4y ago
> Add to that the design of modern "luxury" cars which are soundproofed, fitted with anti-noise and blaring ICE systems to block the world out. The more I learn and think about this, the more it just seems absolutely insane to
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by kiliantics 4y ago
wow, truly exorbitant
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by kiliantics 4y ago
Very cool site. While the disparity is pretty obvious in things like kitchens, it's also interesting to see just how similar most of us live when going through the categories of e.g. worship, applying make up, pets, etc.
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Lewis Mumford on the Interstate Highway System in 1958(twitter.com)
4 points by kiliantics 4y ago|1 comments
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by kiliantics 4y ago
In general, we should indeed try to eat less fish -- just as we should try to eat less farmed meat -- particularly the high-up-the-food-chain species like salmon, and any seafood that is fished with destructive methods like bottom trawling.
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by kiliantics 4y ago
Yeah, it would be better if instead the first world countries stopped destabilising governments and stealing natural resources in the third world. They might have a decent chance at developing independently then.
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by kiliantics 4y ago
Well he goes on to recommend a bank that does put all deposited money into low carbon projects. It's called Atmos: joinatmos.com
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This is hilarious, thank you
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by kiliantics 4y ago
this would also help stop people hooting unnecessarily, if they had to hear it themselves

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