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Warmer ocean may be releasing frozen methane(news.agu.org)
6 points by spenrose 11y ago|1 comments
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by spenrose 11y ago
Key passage: "In CE’s lowest-technical risk ‘baseline’ design, all the input energy required onsite is supplied by natural gas. The carbon dioxide from gas combustion is also captured along with the CO2 extracted from the atmosphere, s
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by spenrose 11y ago
Are you aware of softwarecarpentry.org ? Unlike OP, their curriculum is based on education research, and refined over more than a decade.
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by spenrose 11y ago
A wonderful account of San Francisco 1967-1982 that explains the cultural context in which Biafra came forward: http://www.sfgate.com/books/article/Season-of-the-Witch-by-D...
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Climate wonks focus on economics. They need to pay more attention to politics(vox.com)
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by spenrose 11y ago
"The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded last year that reaching a key emissions goal—roughly equivalent to limiting warming to 2°C by 2100—would rely on the deployment of one or several CDR technologies. Deploying them
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Sucking carbon from the sky may do little to slow climate change(news.sciencemag.org)
1 points by spenrose 11y ago|1 comments
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by spenrose 11y ago
WRT SolarCity, and solar generally, you spend something like $2,000 (haven't looked it up) to manufacture a panel that generates a kilowatt at peak, you wire it up, and you generate power (and revenue) every sunny afternoon for the nex
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Around the World, Nuclear Can’t Compete with Growing Renewables(greentechmedia.com)
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by spenrose 11y ago
"The current flavor of the month in the Apple space is iMore.com. Renee Ritchie’s response is here. Setting aside Gruber’s dripping condescension and evidently complete lack of understanding that not every web site can or should be DF
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You're Blaming the Wrong People(medium.com)
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by spenrose 11y ago
Quotation #2, from the conclusion: "Lastly, it’s important to remember that technological change breeds changes in the way that we travel. … it’s [not] accurate to call what is happening “tourism.” It’s an entirely new market that isn’
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by spenrose 11y ago
Great piece. Quotation #1: "Cities need to understand whether short-term rental inventory is expanding faster than they can produce housing stock and whether that is impacting the availability of housing to long-term residents. Put ano
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by spenrose 11y ago
Aiming an Axe at Asinine Alliteration.
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by spenrose 11y ago
"But if the political deck seemed stacked against the Sierra Club, Henry held the economic cards. In Oklahoma, coal imported from Wyoming now costs more per kilowatt hour than the abundant gas under the ground or the wind that famously
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Inside the War on Coal(politico.com)
2 points by spenrose 11y ago|1 comments
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Floyd Zaiger, a fruit innovator to the world (2011)(sfgate.com)
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The awful truth about climate change no one wants to admit(vox.com)
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The many problems with Seymour Hersh's Osama bin Laden conspiracy theory(vox.com)
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by spenrose 11y ago
He's completely ignoring the effects on the grid, which will be huge. Batteries are also a complement to wind, for example. Here's one piece discussing that dynamic; there are many others at e.g. Greentechmedia.com. http:/&#
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by spenrose 12y ago
A Mozilla effort: https://webmaker.org/
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by spenrose 12y ago
Compare with my favorite pg essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/philosophy.html . Now go read some economists. For example: https://www.google.com/search?q=inequality+site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Feconomistsview.typep
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Clean energy is growing fast but it's not yet winning the race with fossil fuels(vox.com)
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by spenrose 12y ago
An excellent overview of the scale at which we need to integrate renewables: http://www.vox.com/2015/4/15/8420297/fossil-fuels-race-renewables
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by spenrose 12y ago
An excellent book on depression, arguing it is an evolved capacity of the mind: http://psychcentral.com/lib/the-depths-the-evolutionary-origins-of-the-depression-epidemic/00018693 "Overall, this is a sur
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by spenrose 12y ago
"[P]roject leader Tracy Teal, a microbial ecologist and bioinformatician, cautions that GitHub is less than ideal for the purpose. “The capacity to share, track versions and do diffs makes it very appealing for collaborative document a
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by spenrose 12y ago
Yes.
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Jonathan Franzen is confused about climate change, but then, lots of people are(grist.org)
4 points by spenrose 12y ago|1 comments
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by spenrose 12y ago
http://grist.org/living/jonathan-franzen-is-confused-about-c... "I find myself nursing some small ember of sympathy for Franzen. His essay reminds me of lots of conversations I’ve had over the years. I’ll be talki
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by spenrose 12y ago
In a letter to shareholders last month, Buffett wrote that a “very high percentage of [Clayton’s] borrowers kept their homes” during the 2008 housing meltdown and ensuing recession, thanks to “sensible lending practices” that were, he has s

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