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by melling 4y ago
“Methane has a much shorter atmospheric lifetime than carbon dioxide (CO2) – around 12 years compared with centuries – but absorbs much more energy while it exists in the atmosphere” https://www.iea.org/reports/global-m
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by melling 4y ago
No one wants to fly supersonic commercially? Isn’t that simply a matter of being available and affordable?
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by melling 4y ago
Pattern recognition. I’m using the pattern I’ve seen and not the rule. For example, many people say “anyways” instead of “anyway” for this same reason. I will correct my mistake. Thanks.
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by melling 4y ago
Edison invented his lightbulb less than 150 years ago. Before that we used candles and gas lights for indoor lighting. Half of US homes didn’t have electricity until 1925. https://www.nps.gov/edis/learn/kidsyouth&
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by melling 4y ago
Fox News also warned us about the bio labs in Ukraine. https://www.foxnews.com/transcript/tucker-the-pentagon-is-ly... Perhaps we can address the problems on our end so we don’t use AI to generate all sorts of fake new
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by melling 4y ago
Nice meaningless analogy. Let me fix it for you. “You litter frequently in your neighborhood, while 200 people litter in the park across town. What problem should the town address sooner?” We are at the brink of too late. Where did you go
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by melling 4y ago
We already are seeing climate issues. We could have been off coal by now. “A 100 years of coal emissions is 1000 years of rice” By not addressing the big problems sooner, we have shortened the window to seeing significant problems. We’d hav
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by melling 4y ago
I suppose if we didn’t wait decades to eliminate the big problems, we’d have more time to worry about the smaller problems. A 100 years of coal emissions is 1000 years of rice.
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by melling 4y ago
The aviation sector is about 2%. Sounds like another premature optimization problem, as applied to climate change. “Premature optimization is the root of all evil“ https://wiki.c2.com/?PrematureOptimization= What about coal
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by melling 4y ago
Recently on Twitter I saw a doctored video of Joe Biden saying something about going after Trump. Twitter really needs to clean up the mess. There’s way too much noise. People need to get some sort of reduced rating for promoting false n
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by melling 4y ago
Not really. if you know 20-25% of emissions come from one source,… Sure, kicking the can down the road requires more miracles now. That “we need to do everything at once” is what people say after spending half a century off basically igno
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by melling 4y ago
Yes, but sort of irrelevant. If you want to fix a problem, start with 25% of it and not 2%. The people who plug something into the wall won’t know the difference if the electricity is generated from something other than coal. And please don
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by melling 4y ago
100,000 flights a day, every single day of the year 2% of emissions. Coal power plants 25% of emissions. So many people going after aviation, it explains how we got this far into the problem. Carl Sagan warned everyone about coal 40 years a
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by melling 4y ago
Apollo project aka Moon Landing was the analogy. I do believe that was brute forced. And as I already pointed out, even if we fail, we can still save millions of lives. Plus the cost to treat people is spiraling out of control. https:&#x2F
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by melling 4y ago
“It’s simply a matter of the human race deciding…” You misread what I said. I never said it was a simple problem, I said it was simply a matter of deciding to solve the problem. The Apollo program, for comparison, took 400,000 people a dec
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by melling 4y ago
“30 years ago I would have died of cancer; now I will die with cancer, but not of cancer.” And 30-100 years from now, the same cancer will be cured. It’s simply a matter of the human race deciding when to cure cancers.
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by melling 4y ago
How about reporting back once you’ve convinced a billion people to change their habits? If we can’t replace a few thousand coal plants, we are unlikely to… People wouldn’t even notice the difference if we replaced coal power plants.
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by melling 4y ago
Excellent. There are only a few thousand coal power plants globally https://www.statista.com/statistics/859266/number-of-coal-po... They generate something like 25% of greenhouse gases. When should be expect thes
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by melling 4y ago
You are reading a tabloid. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Mirror People really need to understand the different types of news sources
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Google reshuffles virtual assistant unit with focus on Bard A.I. technology(cnbc.com)
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His job sounded more interesting than playing golf or gardening.
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by melling 4y ago
Yes, I have learned my lesson. Next time I hear an optimist feed me a bunch of bs, i’m going to explain that they’re completely wrong, and people should hold the “optimists” just as accountable as the climate deniers. Time to admit you were
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by melling 4y ago
Such optimism. It’s 50 years later. Half a century! https://youtu.be/Wp-WiNXH6hI coal is such a dirty source of power, we’d want to eliminate it even if it didn’t cause climate change.
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Coal usage is at an all time high. https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/global-coal-cons... It is 25% of global emissions. We’ve had 50 years to deal with this. Coal is such a dirty source of power. I’ve
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by melling 4y ago
I didn’t need to read the article to know they meant new cars. We’ve been discussing this for several years and not once has anyone said we are going to scrap existing vehicles.
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by melling 4y ago
Bought some Google. They have been taking it on the chin for being behind. Everyone said classic search is dead. People have been speculating on the companies (tickers), AI, SOUN, and BBAI, but I don’t know enough about them. Nvidia has b
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by melling 4y ago
That “colleague” was Andy Grove, also a rather impressive person. https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/664484-only-the-parano... He got Parkinson’s and died 7 years ago. https://news.ycombinator.com&#
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by melling 4y ago
What’s so disturbing now? We’ve been polluting the planet with plastic for half a century. How bad does it need to get? https://www.democracynow.org/2023/3/13/east_palestine_plasti... https://en.m.
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by melling 4y ago
What feels weird that the top comment is by someone who didn’t even know the company changed its name 2 years ago. Can we do better? HN could be so much better.
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by melling 4y ago
I don’t want to live next to a coal power plant either. 40% of the electricity globally is generated with coal. It also produces something like 25% of greenhouse emissions. It has been like this for half a century? Waiting for the renewable

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