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by ph0rque 10y ago
That's fascinating! I noticed your US tab just multiplies the MN output by 50. Can you do a detailed analysis of planting trees along roads all throughout US (or at least the 48 states)? Or is there missing data needed to do that calcu
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Giles Bowkett: Elm Is the New Rails(gilesbowkett.blogspot.com)
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by ph0rque 10y ago
As pointed out elsewhere, we probably don't have enough land for that many trees, unless we figure out how to grow forests in the deserts or on floating islands in the ocean, etc. (technically possible, but not trivial). That misses th
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by ph0rque 10y ago
I was merely pointing out that startups are good at solving problems that arise from taking products to scale. The organization I linked to helps families grow food forests, so they both farm and plant trees on a given piece of land.
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by ph0rque 10y ago
Yes, and also food (fruits, leaves, etc), medicine, wooden furniture, clothes ( http://www.treehugger.com/clean-technology/will-your-next-t-... ), and many other items.
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by ph0rque 10y ago
As far as your other concerns, they become a problem at scale. Which is what startups are all about solving, right?
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by ph0rque 10y ago
My calculations assume a tree will sequester the carbon for 10 years. I'm sure we can do a lot better than that, but even with these assumptions, it's pretty cheap to sequester the CO2 on an ongoing basis.
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by ph0rque 10y ago
Not to sound like a broken record, but for the average American, $15/person/year will plant enough trees to offset all the CO2 released into the atmosphere by that person: http://shindyapin.tumblr.com/post/141
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U.S. Solar Photovoltaic System Cost Benchmark: Q1 2016 [pdf](nrel.gov)
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by ph0rque 10y ago
We can't solve simplest problems on Earth (like re-capturing CO2 for example) But we can. There are these nanomachines that take in CO2, store the C, and release the O2 (on a simplistic level)... called trees. For the average America
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Robotic welding arm used to 3D print a stainless steel bike(newatlas.com)
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Elcano Project: Open Source Autonomy(elcanoproject.org)
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Fungus in humans identified for first time as key factor in Crohn's disease(sciencedaily.com)
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The Earth Awaits: Eating the Elephant(frugalvagabond.com)
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by ph0rque 10y ago
Notwithstanding the grandiose statements, I love this direction: cure cancer by somehow telling the cancerous cells to become normal cells.
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Mothballing the World's Fanciest Oil Rigs Is a Massive Gamble(bloomberg.com)
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The Federal Reserve confronts a possibility it never expected: No exit(washingtonpost.com)
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Prime Insider Audible Channels(amazon.com)
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Can ExxonMobil Be Found Liable for Misleading Public on Climate Change?(bloomberg.com)
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Guinea Worm Disease Could Soon Become the Second Human Disease to Be Eradicated(npr.org)
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by ph0rque 10y ago
Sorry if this is an ignorant question, but does it run in the browser?
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by ph0rque 10y ago
My address came into existence ~2 years ago. I'm still having trouble with address lookups validating my address as valid, including in this case.
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by ph0rque 10y ago
Love the idea and the site! A couple suggestions: * Let me create a user account and save cities * Make cities shareable so I send a link to e.g. my wife for discussion * I don't mind getting emails with packages that fit my budget and
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by ph0rque 10y ago
I may be biased, but I think YC Fellowship companies should be on that list, too :)
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by ph0rque 10y ago
It's possible they have figured out how to eat the creatures who feast in their cemeteries, essentially making them cannibals at one remove. In that case, all living things are cannibals at several removes: animals -> decomposing
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Costa Rica celebrates 113 days of 100-percent renewable energy (and counting)(inhabitat.com)
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Investigating fraudulent clicks in Google Adwords(medium.com)
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by ph0rque 10y ago
Hmmm... is anyone offering an index of indexes?
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by ph0rque 10y ago
> On a bike on the other hand, starting to cycle requires much more energy than keeping momentum. Sounds like that can be fixed by having electric bikes that generate energy when braking, which can be used to accelerate again.
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by ph0rque 10y ago
I wonder if these guerillas could paint a fake curb that looks real enough that cars wouldn't want to cross it?

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