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by mrpopo 6y ago
1) I am not sure how many of the low paid workers even get A/C but I am pretty sure that those who do require much less energy to cool down their dormitory room than the fancy dubai palaces, open air A/C streets and stadiums, empt
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by mrpopo 6y ago
Fair enough, I removed this sentence. Looks like it was distracting from the core of the message.
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This number assumes UAE's population of 9~10 million and includes (I think) the immigrant population. I am not sure what you consider "not very worrying", as I don't think that the 5 million Indians and Pakistanis living
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by mrpopo 6y ago
CO2 emissions per capita in the United Arab Emirates are equivalent to 23.37 tons per person, one of the few countries with higher per capita emissions than the USA. This is including the massive (60-70%) low-paid immigrant worker populatio
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by mrpopo 6y ago
Why should a bad options investment be better protected than studying?
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by mrpopo 6y ago
I see what you mean, and I don't think it's gonna be easy either, I don't have false hopes. Technically though, being locked down is more restrictive than forcing people to move in small electric cars or e-bikes. Just like r
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by mrpopo 6y ago
"using nuclear now" is part of the scenario. Any technology that has brought more efficient, less co2-intensive energy thus far has been used to increase the energy usage at a limited impact, instead of decreasing the impact. Only
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by mrpopo 6y ago
Good point, I meant "realistic" as the only technologically plausible scenario. Is it realistic from a human point of view, I don't know. I see what you mean, but even if a magical carbon capture solution was invented, it wou
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by mrpopo 6y ago
Most do, they want to replace them with nothing, e.g. reduce electricity usage. And that may be a hard thing to swallow, but reducing energy usage is the only realistic pathway towards a <2deg world goal.
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by mrpopo 6y ago
> Both the browser and node.js use the same engine - the V8 engine. RIP every other engine, I guess?
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Until your partner gets tired of asking or being asked...
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When a significant portion of the American population stops believing in the truth, the world's most valuable encyclopedia becomes a biased beacon of leftist facts. The author criticizes Wikipedia for not mentioning "Obamagate&quo
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by mrpopo 6y ago
> You said herd immunity involves a good fraction of the population dying which you don't know It's well-known by now that even the low-risk population (<50 age group) still has a 0.x% risk of dying directly from covid. It&#
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by mrpopo 6y ago
> The point is to have young healthy people get the virus who will neither die, nor require hospitalization. This is a novel virus that is not entirely understood yet. Maybe the majority of these young healthy people would not die (only
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by mrpopo 6y ago
That's the message you are reading. The lockdown brought precious times for supply chains to start relocating, for cosmetic industries to start producing hydro-alcoholic gel, for hospitals to enter crisis mode without the staff burning
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by mrpopo 6y ago
> It's cute, it's strange, it's audacious, nobody got hurt. A 5-year old who manages to get his hands on something that could kill dozens of people if used incorrectly is not something I call cute. I don't understand
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As it's something you have to do, why not at least try to make it enjoyable? I don't get it.
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by mrpopo 6y ago
I got a drivers licence as I was pushed by my parents to, but I hated it. The thought that a small mistake of mine would end up killing someone. Now I'm married with children, living car-free and I'm loving it. My children can&#x2
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by mrpopo 7y ago
The best-selling Hyundai all-categories SUV in the US is the Hyundai Santa Fe and weighs in average 1.8t. The fact that there are lighter SUVs appearing on the market is encouraging, but your affirmation is most likely not true.
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by mrpopo 7y ago
> so a total plug to wheels efficiency of less than 40%. In the real world, it will be far less efficient than that (probably 25% at best). > That vs the typical plug to wheels efficiency of around 60% in today's electric vehicle
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by mrpopo 7y ago
Yes. Extensive testing was done in Korea and Taiwan in February and the same results came out. With extensive contact tracing, it became clear that asymptomatic cases played a big role in spreading the virus. This data is not different or n
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by mrpopo 7y ago
The developer in SF will be financially better off thanks to policies that have worsened inequalities more than in any other developed countries.
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by mrpopo 7y ago
Why do you say it is obvious? Monocultures were selected at a specific point in time for their properties, which may include robustness, but it doesn't change the fact that they are basically giant colonies of clones. Real long-term ro
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by mrpopo 7y ago
Absolutely, and uranium mining will require more energy over time, as the best sources get depleted. Still, AFAIU, 1) the mining is not the largest energy requirement (security enforcement measures and refining require much more energy and
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by mrpopo 7y ago
Most life-cycle estimations argue that solar itself has a higher carbon footprint than nuclear. Solar+storage would be worse. The rationale behind it is simple physics. Enriched nuclear fuel is the most energy-dense material we can access,
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by mrpopo 7y ago
And fracking lives solely on government subsidies and will receive even more subsidies after this crisis. Without subsidies, fracking's gone and coal's back up. I fail to see how your comment responds to OP's suggestion of di
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by mrpopo 7y ago
Unless they are willing to do it for free, I don't think their sister who already does volunteer work can consider it.
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Many insect and parasites populations shrink during winter. With a warm winter, the ecosystem is now unbalanced, some forests will die out, some animal species will be ridden with ticks, etc. In the longer term, unbalanced ecosystems cause
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by mrpopo 7y ago
> the regulation needs to leave enough room to allow airlines to avoid emission taxes by using carbon-neutral fuel. Where exactly do you expect this carbon neutral fuel to come from? Fuel=energy, and energy doesn't grow on trees. We
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> Nobody will care whether their electricity comes from coal or renewables. They will once their taxes start going up. > We can get rid of those 40% of emissions without imposing restrictions on people. Without imposing restrictions o

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