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by snewman 5y ago
It's an interesting question but I don't think it applies here. The problem with carbon offsets is not some moral question about my offloading my guilt to another party. The problem is that there's double-counting. Going back
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by snewman 5y ago
[Author of the original post here] I agree that some carbon offsets / credits are "high quality", i.e. represent actual, durable reductions in someone's emissions. They can help with the important projects you mention. W
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[author here] I agree that offsets based on sequestration, as you mention, are a completely legitimate tool. I mentioned that briefly in the post, but didn't dwell on it as the post was getting too long already. The deep problem with t
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by snewman 5y ago
> So you achieve the maximum reduction with the minimum cost Offsets do allow for a certain amount of optimization, which is a good thing. However, cap-and-trade, or a carbon tax, are better ways of reducing emissions while allowing for
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by snewman 5y ago
[Author here] A more careful wording of "will it work if everyone does it" would be "if many people do it, does that reduce its feasibility for everyone else"? This addresses the arctic circle and hunter-gatherer example
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by snewman 5y ago
I agree with most of this, but we keep finding clever ways to knock down sectors that had seemed impossible to electrify. For instance, FleetZero claims to have a practical approach for global shipping [1]. It's not yet proven, but I h
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by snewman 5y ago
The problem is that in this scenario, the airline is still emitting CO2, so global emissions never go to zero. If you want to say that the airline is not at fault, because they purchased an offset, then the cement plant operator is at fault
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by snewman 5y ago
Gradual heating of the ground is definitely a thing; over the decades, certain London Tube lines have drifted from pleasantly cool to sweltering: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/central-line-temperature-lon...
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by snewman 5y ago
OP says the lignin is "a waste product from the paper industry" and "majority of lignin is burnt". So it sounds like: currently, grow tree (pulling carbon from the atmosphere), process for paper industry, burn the result
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by snewman 5y ago
I love to see creative approaches like this! A couple of naive questions: 1. How long will the carbon remain bound / out of the atmosphere? 2. How quickly can you scale, and what are the limiting factors that (if eased) would allow you
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Why Climate Change?(climateer.substack.com)
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I'm one of the original authors of Writely / Google Docs, and worked on relatively heavy-duty word processors in an earlier life. I'd agree with you, and add that there are are a lot of other details that make Notion nicer to
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Dinosaurs had long tails, and so will fossil fuels(climateer.substack.com)
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The Phantom Tollbooth The Princess Bride (even better than the movie)
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To save the planet, optimize for 2050(climateer.substack.com)
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Optimizing for 2050(climateer.substack.com)
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Cow Burps as a Metaphor for Life(climateer.substack.com)
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by snewman 5y ago
Author here. Thanks for the feedback! Agreed that net metering was deliberately designed as a subsidy, and that there was nothing hidden or underhanded about this, it was (and remains) all quite overt. And yet. The inspiration for this post
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How should net metering affect your electric bill?(climateer.substack.com)
234 points by snewman 5y ago|327 comments
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> Producing novel observation platforms is going to be expensive regardless of which platform, because of launch costs. This is exactly the point: launch costs are coming down, and there is widespread anticipation that they will start to
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by snewman 5y ago
Hard information regarding serious illness / death from Omicron is scanty; it's still early. I've read indications that the vaccines (and/or previous infection with another variant, such as Delta) do seem to provide subs
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by snewman 5y ago
It's worth clarifying: un-boosted vaccination or past infection seem to have greatly reduced ability to prevent infection with Omicron. There is still substantial (lessened, but not as drastically lessened) protection against serious
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by snewman 5y ago
DynamoDB is fine for us. Not contradicting your experience, just adding another data point. There is definitely something hit-or-miss about this incident.
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by snewman 5y ago
Anecdotally, we're seeing a small number of 500s from S3 and SQS, but mostly our service (which is at nontrivial scale, but mostly just uses EC2, S3, DynamoDB, and some basic network facilities including load balancers) seems fine, kno
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by snewman 5y ago
> We don't need deregulation. We need better designed regulation. This is the key point. So many debates about "more X" vs. "less X" when what we mostly need is "better X". Anti-Covid measures; almost a
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It's a feature from the viewpoint of ensuring that the chain works at intended. It's a bug from the viewpoint of climate change. Or perhaps a better way of putting it: the fact that proof of work burns a lot of electricity is not
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As usual, Matt Levine has the best take ( https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-11-16/jpmorg... ): > Ben Thompson points out that this is all pretty approximate; ConstitutionDAO will not give its t
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by snewman 5y ago
I'm in a similar position (haven't worked in climate tech, but have been diving in recently), and am interested in connecting with others who are trying to find the most useful way to deploy capital in service of a better climate
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You're correct regarding the original Docs implementation. I had thought that the rewrite (launched around 2010 or possibly 2011) was primarily based on the architecture of Sheets. But it's possible there was some Wave heritage I&
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by snewman 5y ago
Do you have a source for this? I don't think it played out that way. Google Docs and Sheets both had synchronous editing before Wave launched. At some point Docs was rewritten to use the underlying mechanism from Sheets. I'm not a

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