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by tito 7y ago
Emissions monitoring is a really interesting technology challenge. So much of it is self-reported, which means a crapshoot. Remote monitoring seems more reliable but less accurate perhaps. The highest resolution monitoring tech I know of is
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by tito 7y ago
Asking about the difference between permafrost methane and shale gas produced methane is interesting tho. Reading the article now, lmk if you find a good answer.
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by tito 7y ago
Here's the publication referenced in the article: https://www.biogeosciences.net/16/3033/2019/bg-16-3033-2019.... Ideas and perspectives: is shale gas a major driver of recent increase in global atmosphe
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by tito 7y ago
From the article: "Methane released from shale gas production has a slightly different chemical fingerprint compared to methane from cow burps (not farts as commonly believed) and wetlands."
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Antarctica warming breaking records(newsweek.com)
2 points by tito 7y ago|1 comments
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by tito 7y ago
The book referenced in the review is "After Geoengineering" [1] by Holly Jean Buck Interesting premise. Full disclosure I just noticed I'm quoted in the book! Overview: "Climate engineering is a dystopian project. But
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by tito 7y ago
“Investment in nuclear power declined by nearly 45% last year to USD17 billion” in 2017 :( http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NP-Investment-in-new-nucle...
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by tito 7y ago
“Global clean energy investment totaled $332.1 billion in 2018.” [1] Compared to $1.9T/~3 years, $630B on fossil energy investments per year. [1] https://about.bnef.com/blog/clean-energy-investment-exceeded...
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by tito 7y ago
Agreed! No need to blame anyone. Let’s solve the problem though, will need to have everyone involved.
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by tito 7y ago
Interesting to start with more of a null hypothesis here. What’s the historical investment level? Does this amount actually reflects a complete collapse of fossil investments? BankTrak apparently has been doing these report cards for 10 yea
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by tito 7y ago
nice save! holy crap that’s a lot of batteries.
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by tito 7y ago
21,000 of Tesla’s huge battery system in Australia ($91M) [1] [1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/sep/27/south-aus... edit: thanks for the math save!
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World's top banks pour $1.9T into fossil fuel financing since 2015(banktrack.org)
71 points by tito 7y ago|49 comments
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Curious about this question of direct subsidies, will re-read the IMF report and see if they break these categories out. IMF report summary: - $5.3T global subsidy in 2015 - 6% growth per year between 2011 and 2015 - 6.5% of world GDP (2015
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by tito 7y ago
Hey fellow Circuit Launcher! Appreciate your thoughtful questions. 1. Pretty much everything that we do today is a net positive CO2 emission. The products we buy need to have that carbon capture baked into the cost. Imagine if everything yo
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Show HN: Negative, Jewelry That Drives Demand for Direct Air Capture CO2
4 points by tito 7y ago|3 comments
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by tito 7y ago
On Saturday, Elon Musk said that SpaceX will use direct air capture to make fuel from air on Earth: https://youtu.be/sOpMrVnjYeY?t=3852 In partnership with Climeworks, one of the leading DAC companies, I just launched a cam
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Consumers want to buy sustainably – they just don’t know how(fastcompany.com)
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by tito 7y ago
Would love to see it! I don't see anything referenced on Prof Wardel's sites yet unfortunately: http://necstlab.mit.edu/publications http://isn.mit.edu/strategic-research-areas
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by tito 7y ago
I love carbon and carbon materials. Here's an amazing clip showing Vantablack. It's so dark it looks like an optical illusion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fg2x0L4YAuU And apparently this stuff is blacker!
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by tito 7y ago
When we look back in 50 years, I believe we'll see this as a time of incredible growth and discovery. Kind of how I look back on the space age now, the moon landing. The space program was almost a complete disaster, but instead it insp
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by tito 7y ago
I help run AirMiners, the world's largest community of scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs working to pull carbon dixoide from the atmosphere. Check it out here: http://airminers.org
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by tito 7y ago
Here's an open-source chart of carbon dioxide levels globally: https://carbon.datahub.io Data is pulled from MLO on Mauna Loa in Hawaii, the gold standard for data going back to 1958.
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by tito 7y ago
The sea is rising more slowly today than any day in the foreseeable future. Sea level rise is accelerating. This angle may spark some smart thoughts here.
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by tito 7y ago
Related: Rising sea levels could flood Seattle-area homes by end of century https://www.seattletimes.com/business/real-estate/report-ris...
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by tito 7y ago
Related: Warren Buffett is investing $30B into wind farms. Not to help his conscience ;) https://www.betterworldsolutions.eu/warren-buffett-spends-bi...
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by tito 7y ago
What are Amazon's other 2040 goals? What I mean is, why do climate goals all get to be decades out (21 years in this case). That's like saying "I'm going to get in shape by 2040". Does AWS have 2040 goals, too? I wo
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by tito 7y ago
USD$5.2 trillion was spent globally on fossil fuel subsidies in 2017 https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2019/05/02/Glo... "hey fossil fuels, let's 1v1" sincerely,
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by tito 7y ago
I’m not saying the tax you propose will ever happen, I don’t think it could or necessarily should. This is a model of the real social cost of carbon. Which means someone will pay it, maybe not you or me though, and maybe not right now. And
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by tito 7y ago
Hey right on, that’s a nice twist, appreciate it! That’s obvious to me now that you say it but wasn’t before. Yes, there’s the beginnings of a market ceiling to the price. We need to get the supply of that $100-$600 capture up. Either using

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