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by kisamoto 3y ago
Not enough for what we need. Even if we covered all the possible area we could with trees we couldn't capture enough CO₂. And that ignores the fact that climate change increases the chances of wildfires.
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by kisamoto 3y ago
To reach maximum sequestration rate I thought it was much longer than that (~95% within 30 years at 3um). Where did you get your numbers from (curious, always looking for more sources)?
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by kisamoto 3y ago
The crushed rocks in this case mineralize into stable silicates which can be beneficial as they flow down rivers into the sea. As they are alkaline they can combat ocean acidity and the minerals help crustaceans harden their shells.
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by kisamoto 3y ago
There's already a large amount of this available and energy can be sourced from renewable supplies. Also worth noting that life cycle assessments take into account the gray emissions produced while sequestering CO₂ so the removal shoul
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by kisamoto 3y ago
Very significant impact. There is no silver bullet that can remove the excess emissions on it's own, however combinations of these removal methods (coupled with decarbonization of course) will be essential to addressing excess atmosphe
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by kisamoto 3y ago
Olivine is in ready supply as a by-product from the mining industry. There are piles of it laying around (which don't have the same effect as spreading it out) although they do need to be transported to projects.
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Is carbon removal critical to save the planet, or just hot air?(reuters.com)
4 points by kisamoto 3y ago|1 comments
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by kisamoto 3y ago
atmospheric CO₂ emissions doesn't really limit itself to state borders
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by kisamoto 3y ago
What others should go on there? (serious question, I like this kind of stuff)
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We put half a million files in one Git repository (2022)(canva.dev)
134 points by kisamoto 3y ago|170 comments
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by kisamoto 3y ago
True - there is no flexibility but that's kind of the point. The situation you describe is exactly how salary discrepencies and potential gender inequality happen. Realistically if you have a candidate you want to hire but they are not
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by kisamoto 3y ago
This article is a few years old so I hope it has evened itself out by now. I wonder why an 'algorithmic' approach to salaries is not more common.. To achieve this there must be a structured career ladder with standardised job desc
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by kisamoto 3y ago
Copying my comment here for additional discussion: Worth noting that most of these bots are 'good bots' (i.e. they will obey robots.txt). So you can avoid the nginx resource usage entirely by adding suitable robots.txt entries. I
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by kisamoto 3y ago
Although most in the CDR industry don't refer to their negative emissions tonnage as 'credits'. Continuing the DACS example, they are not issuing 'carbon credits' that are verified by Verra or Gold Standard. There i
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by kisamoto 3y ago
Carbon credits can be a reasonable way to help richer nations help poorer, more polluting nations transition to greener alternatives. However more often than not they are indeed "a scam". Credits have been around since the 70&#x27
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by kisamoto 3y ago
This article seems to have a climate contradiction when it comes to "credits" versus "removal". "carbon credits" are the most common, cheap, questionable credits from verifiers such as Verra and Gold Standard.
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by kisamoto 3y ago
Having worked on Django projects of multiple sizes I really like the HackSoftware Django Styleguide. It was a refreshing approach rather than tracking down logic scattered between models, views, managers etc. For very simple projects it can
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by kisamoto 3y ago
This is removal not traditional credits. Removals often have a LCA that takes into account any emissions produced during the process and sells active CO₂ removal.
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by kisamoto 3y ago
GNUCash (which I also use btw) is a local install without multi-user web management. If you're a single person working on the taxes then GNUCash may tick all boxes (although another comment mentioned the need for inventory management w
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Ask HN: AI enhanced speech computer control to help those with disabilities?
1 points by kisamoto 3y ago|0 comments
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by kisamoto 4y ago
Minor correction in that our primary forestation partner is Eden Forestation (although we have used OneTreePlanted in the past) but everything else you mention is accurate - thanks!
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by kisamoto 4y ago
wow - impressive work! Curious about the carbon positive aspect of this though? Where to the emissions come from? Are the trees your planting for fuel or something else?
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by kisamoto 4y ago
First - we are happy you like the concept and we do agree with you. Validating and verifying is difficult at the moment. Partly because there are a lot of questionable schemes out there and partly because carbon removal as a concept is very
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by kisamoto 4y ago
Agreed that there needs to be changes on all fronts. At the moment we're really pushing for the voluntary market. It's not a mandatory regulation but there are companies and individuals who do want to do something but don't h
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by kisamoto 4y ago
Thanks a lot - it's really motivating to read comments like this that align perfectly with what we're trying to achieve. If you'd like to try us out, need help or just want to chat sustainability my direct email is in the OP
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by kisamoto 4y ago
Thanks a lot for your praise. We are early stage and releasing something new (and slightly controversial) but it's really encouraging and motivating to us to see others who share a similar opinion. We look forward to crossing paths aga
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by kisamoto 4y ago
Thanks for the praise - we appreciate it. We know Wren and in fact have a similar project for carbon removal called "Carbon Removed"[1]. We love the idea of a subscription to remove your footprint or even just a one-time removal t
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by kisamoto 4y ago
Forestation can be quite controversial so we err very heavily on the safe side. Our calculation is on the site[1] but I'll copy it here for clarity as well: * We use an average CO₂ sequestration rate of 10.875kg of CO₂/tree&
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by kisamoto 4y ago
Yup - in that order!
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by kisamoto 4y ago
On the flip side, we're just starting the 100 years now trying to extract carbon dioxide out of the air as fast as we can to get a livable planet out of it. Granted we (as a species) have huge challenges ahead of us, but with collectiv

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