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by mrpopo 8y ago
> All it would take is a few more Trump-style presidencies. I agree with the first statement, but so far, Trump presidency was not exactly a bad thing for the climate. Economic war with China and renationalisation have positive impacts o
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by mrpopo 8y ago
Of course, we should criticize both. And most importantly ourselves. You say the only sustainable solution is CO2 recapture, but that goes absolutely contrary to the meaning of the word... The American way of life, and the recent Chinese wa
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by mrpopo 8y ago
That's just a very naive simplification of a huge branch of electrical engineering. To have low power losses in long distances, you use high voltage. The higher the voltage, the bigger (and more expensive) the "conversion points&q
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by mrpopo 8y ago
That's not how people will see it. Nuclear energy is the safest form of energy, it has much fewer casualties than gas, wind or solar. The difference is the risk of nuclear is indiscriminate, whereas people dying in a solar accident are
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by mrpopo 8y ago
> If we had robot pickers then maybe we could get strawberries to be cheap enough that everyone could afford them Americans spend just 6.4% of their household income on food. It's the country spending the least on food in the world.
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by mrpopo 8y ago
In the US, that was mostly due to gas replacing coal. France is not using renewables. This is great, but not due to renewables as you initially claimed. Also, I don't think the share of bitcoin mining is significant in these examples.
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by mrpopo 8y ago
* They assume the proportion of CO2 emissions per kWh never improves over the next 100 years (great progress of renewables coming to a sudden stop?) I mostly agreed with the first two bullet points, but please show me a significant country
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by mrpopo 8y ago
I'm sure the transition will be hard but I'm okay with this too.
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by mrpopo 8y ago
> annual U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have declined by 758 million metric tons. That is by far the largest decline of any country in the world over that timespan and is nearly as large as the 770 million metric ton decline for the entir
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by mrpopo 8y ago
None of this is like a NK concentration camp. The camps in NK are rather designed around forced labour.
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by mrpopo 8y ago
> I do not believe it will prove to be too little or too late. I absolutely believe that technologies will continue to evolve and be discovered that allow us to move our global ecological impact from the red (deficit) to the green (surpl
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by mrpopo 8y ago
Idaho energy profile overview : https://www.eia.gov/state/?sid=ID Hydroelectric power supplied 60% of net electricity generation in Idaho in 2017. If a large share of it were pumped storage hydro, that would be very he
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by mrpopo 8y ago
> The main attraction of nuclear, judging by the comments I see is that "silly environmentalists don't like it". It seems the people who bring it up enjoy the thought of other people being wrong more than they enjoy being
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by mrpopo 8y ago
You are being misleading here. If I follow your link, I read this: Over the past four decades, the entire industry has produced about 62,500 metric tons of used nuclear fuel. That's the high-level waste. The rest of the comment goes on
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by mrpopo 8y ago
It's not 3 but 9%. https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...
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by mrpopo 8y ago
Treatment of fuel waste is not really a difficult problem. This is where swiss fuel waste is stored : https://www.zwilag.ch/en/cask-storage-hall-_content---1--105... An area less than half a (european) football stadium
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by mrpopo 8y ago
Technically, it's even worse than other fossil fuels, because of all the extra steps involved in the plastic life-cycle, increasing its carbon footprint. Waste-to-energy is a growing part of Singapore's energy mix, and that's
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by mrpopo 8y ago
This is just throwing more (fossil fuel) energy into collecting and burning avoidable trash and into building more structures to accomodate it. How is that "top notch"? This might solve the short-term plastic pollution issue, but
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by mrpopo 8y ago
The key point from the article was to try buying less, not buying different. It's also the only thing that makes from a "climate change" point of view.
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by mrpopo 8y ago
Currently yes, although it's not long before things are really going to change. I am not sure where you stand on this but here are a few things to think about : I assume you heard of the 1.5C target from the COP21. Depending on the est
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by mrpopo 8y ago
The article does a good job at keeping ideas within the realm of reality. > I especially like the idea of CO2 scrubbing for coal-fired power plants. Of course to cut carbon emissions it would be better to ban coal-fired power plants. I d
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by mrpopo 8y ago
Where in the world do you need $700k/y to live relatively freely?... I can't fathom what kind of life you are aspiring to.
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by mrpopo 8y ago
3 feet sea level rise is not the worst outcome, it's practically locked in according to NASA. https://weather.com/science/environment/news/nasa-sea-level-... Note that we have been underestimating the lo
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by mrpopo 8y ago
Well, no it doesn't. Although it at least has the merit to shed some light on the matter, make some cash flow towards the problem, and offer some imperfect solutions. I would love the Earth resources to be considered and treated precio
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by mrpopo 8y ago
I acknowledge that CO2 contributes to fertilisation. I was refuting the claim about the saharan desert. Your new link doesn't seem to contradict me : > CO2 fertilization effects explain most of the greening trends in the tropics
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by mrpopo 8y ago
It's not. It's a false claim from climate skeptics based on this study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-04616-8 The study is about sub saharan Africa, mostly the African savanna, and the identified
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by mrpopo 8y ago
> Presenting a climate scientist who advocates a move to solar panels against a conspiracy theorist who thinks climate change is an invention of the new world order to seize control of the manufacturing industry is not a balanced present
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by mrpopo 8y ago
I'm not sure what you are asking. It can happen in many different forms. For instance, the lobbyist asks for measures profiting their business that go against your campaign promises, but you can't refuse, because otherwise they wo
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by mrpopo 8y ago
Indeed Uber's mission is more promising - not only taxi availability but also car pool, and push for AI driving. These are great solutions to reduce the need for individual cars in areas where public transit is not a viable solution.
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by mrpopo 8y ago
> Any time somebody already planned to replace their car and chooses electric over ICE is a win for the planet. This is sadly not really true, especially in China, the biggest electric vehicle market, where most of the electricity is coa

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