somewhat_drunk

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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
Rocket reliability has jumped over the last decade, and a trend that is likely to continue. But one could (and should) still encapsulate the material in an explosion-proof container.
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
Far more politically expedient to shoot it into the sun.
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
BEV lifecycle emissions are significantly lower than PHEV lifecycle emissions. https://theicct.org/publication/ghg-benefits-incentives-ev-m...
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
>That said, we are already intervening in the climate with greenhouse gases. The safest intervention from here is to just stop/slow that. We know what the world is like with less GHG. We only get one shot at a habitable Earth, so wh
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
Perfect analogy.
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
What's your take on the viability of geoengineering our way out of climate change?
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
The argument against is that we might fuck it up. It's a good argument.
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
Are your shoes tied?
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
I doubt we're going back to burning oil, at least not as we have been doing. But I also doubt we're going to transition away fast enough, and once we have the "fix," the transition away from it will slow. We have exactl
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
I've been saying for a long time that we'll eventually have to geoengineer our way out of climate change. Sadly, I still think that's the case.
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
I've been saying for a long time that we'll resort to geoengineering to finagle our way out of climate change. Unfortunately I think that prediction is still spot-on.
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
Hilarious!
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
As long as there isn't a secondary market on which to trade, then no, they aren't any worse. And right now, there isn't a good secondary market in the USA.
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
Interesting, thank you!
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
I think they're using that statement as an indication of the average consumer's behavior, not necessarily their own. In fact, their very next sentence makes it clear that they aren't just swallowing the official line wholesa
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
>fluoride in drinking water Is there a legitimate issue with fluoride in drinking water? A quick google search yields nothing.
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
>It's quite likely ...is it?
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
Just like fusion![1] 1. I kid, I kid
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
To be clear, I don't like them from the perspective of equity crowdfunding, which has an alarmingly high percentage of low-information, follow-the-crowd, "dumb money" retail investors. SAFEs muddy the waters. It's just
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
Oh? https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/06/23/fac...
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
You aren't taxed more on larger, more expensive vehicles because the powers that be (or the poster you were responding to) think you're a privileged asshole. You're taxed more because heavier vehicles cause more road wear, a
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
SAFEs are common in equity crowdfunding. Raises on Republic are often SAFEs. I'm not a fan.
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
Exactly. That right wing grifters have piled onto the current UFO conspiracy push doesn't lend it any additional credibility. If anything, it detracts from it.
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
>In the end, it helped me see that all programming is basically a spreadsheet and analogous to the STDIN/STDOUT stream processing of Unix executables. All of the stuff we think of as programming, like objects and classes, is basical
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
>It is very unclear whether electric vehicles actually are more environmentally friendly. No, it really isn't. Google it, and ignore right-wing sources, which are more often than not complete garbage these days.
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
Probably means cross-sectional area.
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
FCEV "well to wheel" systemic efficiency is significantly lower than equivalent BEV systemic efficiency, and FCEVs are much more complex than BEVs. FCEV's only advantages over BEVs are faster charging times and moderately gr
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
Indeed. It's not a feasible solution on that basis alone.
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
An obvious false equivalence. The difference is pressure.
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
I was a project engineer in a hydrogen fuel cell research lab for a few years. To add to this, hydrogen also: - is the smallest molecule; as such is very difficult to contain - embrittles and degrades most steels - is ignited by a miniscule

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