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by mrpopo 4y ago
Plastic alternatives are not considered because they are more expensive for companies and less customizable, not because they would create more emissions. Companies would do cost-cutting on product wrapping way before the emissions become a
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Because the issue of plastic waste isn't about the carbon emissions? Only you and OP brought that up.
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If you want to become rich, take advantage of what comes for free and sell it. For this guy, it was welfare and free electricity. For others, it is healthy soil, or rich natural resources.
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Your comparison is flawed and oversimplistic. You might as well consider the US as a former British colony and consider that British colonialism faired quite well.
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TL; DR: they found that mosquitoes survived through the dry-season (previous theory was that they were migrating from a humid region). The researchers are making the supposition that the mosquitoes achieved this by entering "aestivatio
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by mrpopo 4y ago
You can imagine that the space between matter particles is expanding, but since the binding forces between them are much stronger, they come back to the same relative positions. Only at scales where gravitation/electromagnetic forces
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If bottles moved to glass, many companies will quickly switch to returnable bottles, which will increase incentives to use standard bottle sizes, which in turn may reduce the distance that bottles travel, etc. It's also likely that pri
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I'm not assuming linear adoption. I explicitly said that even if adoption was FOUR TIMES faster than now, the amount of renewable energy would barely reach the same amount of primary energy as we use now by 2050. This is a optimistic
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by mrpopo 4y ago
Your source is counting the share of electricity generation. My source[0] is counting the share of primary energy; including fuel, heating, etc. I believe the latter is more relevant for the current discussion (CO2 emissions and cars). Elec
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by mrpopo 4y ago
Solar power is 1.68% of the USA's primary energy mix in 2021. Wind is 3.89%, about 2.5% more than a decade ago, and the trend is not accelerating that fast. It is not even 3 decades to 2050, which is the USA's target date for ne
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by mrpopo 4y ago
Mandatory reminder that hydrogen as fuel for cars is an incredible waste of primary energy and will be for a long time. A petrol car engine is inefficient due to constraints (small + no cooling source other than air). An electric engine + b
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by mrpopo 4y ago
No, this is the result of the laziness of social networks to look for automated solutions to solve at-scale (read: at the lowest cost) problems of their own making. More generally this is the result of giving free rein on global discourse t
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by mrpopo 4y ago
Probably still would, if you interpolate this graph: https://www.rtings.com/images/power-consumption.png Still, wouldn't recommend buying a huge TV. Jevons paradox and all.
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by mrpopo 4y ago
Maybe give it up, the energy savings associated with replacing it with a LCD/LED TV will quickly add up, environmentally and economically. Depends on how much TV you're watching though.
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> The goal for an advanced civilization is not reduce energy usage, but make it cheaper, cleaner and more abundant! Why? Do you think every additional watt of energy will make us happier? The countries using the most energy per capita ar
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by mrpopo 4y ago
You make it sound as if financial institutions and banks didn't have a purpose. There is far more negative utility in this. Governments, banks and financial institutions prevent tax fraud, apply workers' rights, redistribute money
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Crypto has a far lower ratio on utility/speculation than other wasteful computations. Deep learning is changing the world in many visible ways (with a whole lot of speculation regardless).
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Total electricity*. Which is still huge, I am not sure people realize that there are no more low-hanging fruits in the form of a technical feat that a small group of people can accomplish like this, without impacting people's lives.
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"no personal incentive to throw away the trash" is not such a good defence to the dumb tourist's intelligence as you make it seem.
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Still not a natural energy source, fusion as envisioned requires D+T fusion, not extracted from hydrogen gas but from seawater and lithium irradiation. Hydrogen gas is not naturally occurring on Earth, so by definition it cannot be a "
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When done properly, wood charring actually strengthens the wood by drawing out moisture. Charred wood is also more fire-resistant, repels insects and doesn't rot. Of course all this can be achieved differently but charring usually last
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Most people want what they have been told to be desirable. No offense to free thinkers out there, but our mind is mostly shaped by our experiences in society.
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Yes. The current drought in China is a "1-in-150 years" event that will reoccur at least once in the next decade, and I am ready to take bets on that. This was predicted 20 years ago in the IPCC reports from back then, demonstrate
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> “I don’t think we will see it again when the water level comes back.” I know it is hard to admit, but this is the new normal, and it will likely get worse before humanity gets its shit together.
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> being on the far right on the road is where I'd feel safest. No. When there are no bike lanes, the safest place to be is at least one bicycle width away from the far right of the road. Some drivers will overtake you in tight situa
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Not necessarily the man specifically. Anyone with a high stake in Tesla/SpaceX/long-termist companies and an arm in the media machine who would benefit from this press release.
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I know about a certain person who has been doing very unorthodox moves towards the acquisition of Twitter since earlier this year; this person, as well as all the wealthy stakeholders who have a lot to lose if the deal goes through in an un
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by mrpopo 4y ago
I don't claim Mudge was infiltrating Twitter, nor that his claims to bad security are false, nor that it is not dangerous to use Twitter if you value privacy. Bad security at Twitter, or any other social media is a given. Remember they
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I am willing to take a shot in the dark on this story, and say that this is the whole point. I don't see why this story would get shared and amplified so much otherwise.
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by mrpopo 4y ago
Because people with a lot of money are inflating this story to get back at Twitter. It sounds like a conspiracy, but that's the most plausible explanation I have for why this specific whistleblower gets amplified by the media.

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