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by spenrose 9y ago
You raise an important topic with somewhat unhelpful framing: "viable" is a boolean label for a continuous variable, the value of storage, which is context-dependent today and an important feedback element in ever-shifting complex
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by spenrose 9y ago
This piece has value. This passage from it is a morass of cognitive dissonance and bad faith rhetoric: "The claim that CO2 causes worse hurricanes is unproven and controversial, even to believers in climate change. Regardless, even if
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by spenrose 9y ago
Agreed on geoengineering. But given that AC is a non-trivial fraction of current energy use [1] and that there are ~2B low-energy consumers in the tropics who would enormously benefit from AC, the in-principle impact on GHG output here is s
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by spenrose 9y ago
"They would weigh a gram each, be launched in stacks of 800,000, and remain for a projected lifetime of 50 years within a 100,000-km-long cloud. The concept builds on existing technologies. It seems feasible that it could be developed
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by spenrose 9y ago
"Santee Cooper’s decision 10 years ago to invest in the project was for the right reasons. Our board had voluntarily set a goal to reduce Santee Cooper’s carbon footprint. At the time, the best way to do that was nuclear. Natural gas w
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Here’s why Santee Cooper started, stopped nuclear plants(thestate.com)
1 points by spenrose 9y ago|1 comments
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by spenrose 9y ago
I meant for 2) to cover that, but your phrasing is helpful.
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by spenrose 9y ago
"relevant"? Sure, it's relevant, but let's dig in a bit. The article presents on the record statements that assert Musk's statement does not reflect Tesla managerial practices and priorities in the factory. So, some
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by spenrose 9y ago
Thanks for the clarification. Next: are you asserting Statoil's public ownership by itself is evidence that costs will be higher, or do you have other evidence to support the claim?
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by spenrose 9y ago
Could you please cite some evidence for your claim about competing commercially? Also, do you mean the technology in general or this particular effort? Here is a year-old write-up of a survey of experts published in a peer-reviewed journal
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by spenrose 9y ago
Citation please. Bonus points for noting the irony that you are criticizing an impeccably supported work with sweeping (but unsupported) assertions.
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by spenrose 9y ago
You sound like an excellent candidate for an SWE position at quite a few cleantech companies "as-is".
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by spenrose 9y ago
This comment constitutes gaslighting. The primary expression of climate change science, the IPCC, has been based on models which incorporate cloud cover and oceans for decades. Here is the first sentence of their landing page on models: &qu
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by spenrose 9y ago
They chose to be intellectually conservative in their first round of work. They are attempting to find peer-reviewed, quantified estimates for as many approaches as they can manage.
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by spenrose 9y ago
These approaches are discussed in the book.
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by spenrose 9y ago
"Let's assume that for a moment all their numbers are correct (it's a huge assumption)" The entire framing of their approach is to only consider peer-reviewed literature -- holding themselves to the highest standard we h
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by spenrose 9y ago
"there's way too much agenda in here that isn't based on the science" 1) The concerns they list are the actual concerns of significant segments of the population. Such as e.g. an overwhelming majority of the German elect
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by spenrose 9y ago
"Annual reduction of 17 million metric tons of CO2, which is, based on the central estimate of the social cost of carbon, "equivalent to an annual global benefit of $700 million." Annual reductions of "10,000, 10,300, an
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Solar power is already saving lives in the US. how(vox.com)
3 points by spenrose 9y ago|2 comments
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by spenrose 9y ago
Gruber's site (1) attracts one of the richest advertising targets in the world, iOS developers (2) serves as a leader for directly monetizable media such as speaking events and podcasts aimed at the same elite audience. His business mo
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by spenrose 9y ago
Pairs well with Bezos' request for philanthropic ideas: https://twitter.com/JeffBezos/status/875418348598603776
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by spenrose 9y ago
"This review shows that assuming the current level of emissions from manufacturing, the electricity mix of the production location greatly impacts the total result. This is due to the fact that the manufacturing is a large part of the
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by spenrose 9y ago
I argue that "the Internet" has become a category error: http://www.sampenrose.net/civilization-absorbs-technology/ There is just civilization, which the Internet used to be meaningfully separate from but is
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by spenrose 9y ago
Two points: article is 5 months old, and it's fantastic: informed journalism rather than "one coder's opinion."
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by spenrose 9y ago
China is already replacing coal with renewables and nuclear. It doesn't need a new source of CO2.
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by spenrose 9y ago
Highest recommendation for Atul Gawande's Being Mortal, a book on this topic: http://atulgawande.com/book/being-mortal/
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by spenrose 9y ago
Maybe update the title to say (2013)?
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by spenrose 10y ago
Fun! Two thoughts: if I recall correctly, Turing lays out progenitors of STDOUT and system libraries. Do you touch on them? Also, do you refer to Petzold's wonderful The Annotated Turing? [1] [1] http://theannotatedturing.co
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Nuclear power is dying. Can radical innovation save it?(vox.com)
3 points by spenrose 10y ago|0 comments
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Book of Bad Choices(bookofbadchoices.com)
2 points by spenrose 10y ago|0 comments

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