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by tito 7y ago
Check it out, this is a different implementation that works! "A new device that sits inside a shipping container can use clean energy to almost instantly bring clean drinking water anywhere–the rooftop of an apartment building in Nairo
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Hmm, wonder why that is. Loads fast for me!
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Never said it would be easy. But fossil fuel powered light bulbs aren't the long term solution, and renewable-powered bulbs definitely are.
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Call it "Sand to Solar". Some of the best ideas start out as jokes, I googled for this because I was curious: "New technology allows heated sand to generate electricity, presenting a viable new option for investors to focus o
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In terms of "What's a Promising Area to Work On", I'm excited about all of it. I've expanded my description to include the renewable economy as well as the carbon economy.
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Same here regarding govts coming together. I think individuals have a huge role to play. The rise of the climate hackers.
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The cost of energy will go near zero. The marginal cost of an electron captured with solar is free. Solar is starting to beat fossil fuel installations already, below $0.05 USD per kWh. This was not predicted even by the biggest cheerleader
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Exactly. Elon Musk announced a few weeks ago that SpaceX Starship will be fueled from atmospheric carbon. They're building a process to pull carbon fuel out of the air on Earth -- and on Mars. Relevant quote on YouTube from Starship Up
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likely individuals, not governments. We bought our way into this problem.
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Wow! Here's a review of Siberia's climate by 2080: "Even under mild climate change, they estimate a five-fold increase in the potential human capacity." https://www.newsweek.com/russia-siberia-habitable-c
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A startup called Purple Air has a great map of air quality around the world. It's based on their distributed air sensors: https://www.purpleair.com/map
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Climate change will create the first trillionaire. Find everything that eats fossil fuels and electrify it. Find everything that requires stable land and predictable weather and put it in a shipping container. Find every infrastructure inve
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Yeah as my life cycle analysis friend says, "transportation is waste".
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10% of global emissions are for clothing. Wow! And growing..."If the fashion sector continues on its current trajectory, that share of the carbon budget could jump to 26% by 2050" (from the article) Flights: 2.5% of global emissio
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The changing climate will create the first trillionare.
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It's a great question! If we add more carbon to the air during the process, that defeats the purpose! Overall, it works like we need it to. But it needs to get much much bigger and better before it makes a difference, and it certainly
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Show HN: CO2 Direct Air Capture to Carbon Products
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There's a huge opportunity to be curious about the changing climate. The HN community is naturally curious. I encourage everyone here to get curious about ice sheets, shelves, sea ice mentioned in this article. Take the opportunity to
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I found the terms confusing so looked them up. Does this look right to you? Glacier: Large ice masses created by snowfall that has transformed into ice and compressed over the course of many years. Ice sheets, ice streams, and ice shelves
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Haha I know the feeling! To solve that, I made the choice 3 years ago to focus my curiosity (is that possible...) on climate topics. I worked with a bunch of HN readers to build "Carbon Doomsday", an interactive chart of carbon di
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Here's the academic paper the article references: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2019... Not showing up on Scihub tho. Anyone found it?
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The climate world needs more curiosity. Ask questions and go find answers. Share what you find along the way. Have you tried Google for "interactive climate model"? I'm reading through the results now, interesting stuff. Need
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Have you ever Googled "interactive climate model"? Thanks to your post, now I have. Looks like interesting stuff, and could be far better. Now I'm interested in building that better version. Thanks! https://www.goo
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Let's build something like Coinbase Charts for climate models. Interactive, select different variables and even studies. Here's an iPhone app version: https://www.climateinteractive.org/tools/climate-pathways&
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I haven't seen anything useful For example, this looks like it was designed on the Apple II https://www.climateinteractive.org/tools/climate-bathtub-sim...
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Let's build an interactive display of different models. Like Coinbase.com/charts but for climate models. You can check and uncheck various factors (ice sheets, greenland, methane tundra). Interesting?
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Get Ginkgo Bioworks on the case! They've been curious about tree cloning...this is the chance. https://www.ginkgobioworks.com/2010/04/13/ginkgo-tree-falls-...
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Surprised it's such a small tree, more like a Bonzai tree. Though as mentioned in the article, "Big trees cannot get this old". "The world’s oldest tree, Old Tjikko, is a 9,500-year-old Norwegian Spruce tree that was dis
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In a similar vein, Planet Labs' satellites can count Earth's trees every day. Monitoring methane and carbon dioxide is a different beast, but still, remote monitoring FTW. https://www.planet.com/pulse/develop
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Agreed! I wrote the author of the paper to get his input. If you want a copy of his response when I get it, shoot me an email tito@impossiblelabs.io (tho you may be attempting anonymity here...I can post his response to this thread in a few

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