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by melling 3y ago
Maybe it would help if we went with the bathtub filling up analogy and greenhouse gases. https://scied.ucar.edu/video/modeling-carbon-dioxide-bathtub Would you try to empty the tub with a spoon or bucket?
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by melling 3y ago
To keep it simple, 10 years of burning coal is 100 years of aviation. 100 years of coal is 1000 years of aviation. And with your analogy, if I have 100,000 dollars and I give you $2000, I still have almost $100,000. If I give you $20,000, t
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by melling 3y ago
Nope, airline travel is 2-2.5% of all greenhouse emissions. All the coal we burn is at least 10 times that. If we stopped burning coal it would actually make a difference. Air travel is a rounding error in comparison. https://www
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by melling 3y ago
There’s no story here. “Lucien Mathieu of Transport and Environment, a European NGO, says that even the biggest EVs have lower lifetime carbon emissions than the average conventional car. That is true even in places with plenty of coal-fire
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by melling 3y ago
Private jets are irrelevant. There aren’t enough to even matter. A hundred years of burning coal. Now that will cause some real global warming. Hard to believe we burn more coal now than ever. https://www.cnbc.com/2023&#x2F
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by melling 3y ago
“Isn't the point of maglev to be able to go faster?” Yes, faster, quieter, and smoother. People will give up their cars when mass transit is faster and more convenient.
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by melling 3y ago
This is embarrassing. Americans hate choo choo trains. Can we please invent cost effective low-speed maglev trains. China is moving in the right direction: https://youtu.be/9u4lG0HuICg
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by melling 3y ago
Ok, stop using oil and they’ll stop drilling for it. The economies of the world will collapse if oil went away tomorrow. The world uses 100 million barrels a day. Btw, coal is an even bigger problem. I can’t figure out why we are at peak c
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by melling 3y ago
The world needs oil and gas. 100 million barrels of oil a day. You know what’s far worse than oil and gas? Coal. Someone posted this about coal this morning: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36942118 I can’t believe in
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by melling 3y ago
And I imagine 25 years from now, the new solar roof be cheaper and more efficient.
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by melling 3y ago
You probably don’t realize this, but you’re just perpetuating misinformation that’s been debunked repeatedly for decades.
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by melling 3y ago
@dang Quick question. How does this story have 38 upvotes , over 50 comments, and not appear in the top 150 stories on HN? Is it getting flagged down for some reason? Seems like an important topic that we need to address.
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Coal use hit an all-time high last year(cnbc.com)
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by melling 3y ago
Fox frequently mentions Climate Change. They simply have a different point of view. People trying to address the issue are “alarmists “ https://www.foxnews.com/video/6313629464112 https://www.foxnews.com&#x
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by melling 3y ago
“But most importantly, we don't have time” “Look at the arctic and ocean temps, we do not have time.” “Again, we do don't have time for the most efficient solution.” Yes, we squandered 45 years not doing obvious things and waiting
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by melling 3y ago
In the old days, we would just google it. These days ChatGPT will write a nice answer: “A bear market is a financial term used to describe a prolonged period of declining stock prices, typically by 20% or more, across various financial mar
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by melling 3y ago
He’s likely more productive than most of us.
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by melling 3y ago
This has been a common complaint for decades. We always want to try rush experimental drugs/procedures that “show promise”. How often do these drugs, etc turn out to effective? 25 years ago we wanted to rush gene therapy and that did
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by melling 3y ago
It now opens for me now too. archive.ph often doesn’t open for me.
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by melling 3y ago
These links never open on my iOS devices. Is there some necessary trick?
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by melling 3y ago
Good question. Perhaps they mean as percentage of federal spending? https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/feb/01/nasa-b...
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by melling 3y ago
What if we failed and we could only cure half the people who would have otherwise died? Of course that’s half of people going forward…forever
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by melling 3y ago
A $1000 dinner is nothing in comparison to the cost of going to the moon. I’m definitely glad we did it. However, the Apollo program was expensive. It was 2.5% of GDP for 10 years. https://www.herkulesprojekt.de/en/is-t
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by melling 3y ago
Looks like he died from pancreatic cancer. This cancers always reminds me of the Last Lecture by Randy Pausch. He was a CMU professor who also died from pancreatic cancer 15 years ago. https://www.cmu.edu/randyslecture&#x2
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by melling 3y ago
The movie is based on this Pulitzer Prize winning book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Prometheus It doesn’t get mentioned much but is highly rated on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/American-Pro
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by melling 3y ago
Sorry, the point I wanted to make was that without competition, companies have little incentive to improve their products. Sure, Linux rules, the Motorola 68000 was nicer than x86, Beta beat VHS, … in a perfect world,…
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China is 30% of global emissions. The world can’t solve climate change without China. https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-by...
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My first post to Threads: “A little competition is a good thing. Welcome to Threads…” Competition is critical to get the best systems. Apple vs Windows. Android vs iOS,Intel vs AMD…
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by melling 3y ago
It wasn’t pertinent to my point. I was merely pointing out that coal is a huge problem. Also, the United States is 15% of global emissions, not 28%. https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-by...
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by melling 3y ago
“Coal declined a lot” Yes, in the United States (4% of global population), coal usage declined. Unfortunately, globally coal usage is at all time highs. https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/global-coal-cons.

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