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541.
by tuatoru 3y ago
Negative exponent: PV panel cost in dollars per peak watt; lithium battery cost is $ per kWh. Possibly: reverse osmosis water purification, proton exchange membrane electrolysis, smelting of iron using hydrogen or direct electric arc reduct
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by tuatoru 3y ago
On the other hand, there is DignifAI[1]. AI antiporn? 1. http://dignifai.vip/
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by tuatoru 3y ago
... in dairy cattle breed improvement programs.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Sweden's experience is that the freer women are to choose, the less often they choose tech or STEM generally. Cog psych has solid reasons why. I'm fine with women being free to choose.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Animals, including domesticated, mostly require fairly narrow biomes to thrive. In Africa there were all sorts of parasites and microbes that played havoc with attempts to grow European animals outside these lucky spots. The Americas were t
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by tuatoru 3y ago
The Monty Hall problem controversy is good evidence that evolution has ruthlessly constrained human intelligence.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
As a New Zealander: please don't.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
* and mineral deficits (calcium, magnesium, manganese, iron, copper, zinc, selenium, cobalt, iodine spring to mind).
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Any such solution would require replacing trillions of dollars of plant and equipment and infrastructure with low-emissions alternatives, which takes many decades at the normal replacement rate of capital assets. It can't be done much
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Things are not better in the west. Fertility is below replacement in all developed countries and it is trending down in nearly all of them. Sweden: https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/Probabilistic/FERT/
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Yes, when one looks at the chart of TFR vs time in China, the main effect of the one child policy seems to have been a slight decrease in the rate at which TFR declined, for about five years. (Unless that was a result of the "barefoot
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Soufflé?
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by tuatoru 3y ago
It's better to identify differences between the general case and the exceptions, and the reasons for them, than simply to say exceptions exist.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
NAXALT (not all X are like that) isn't really a useful comment.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
If dating apps really wanted to help people pair up, they would teach each user his or her attachment style[1]. And how to communicate across styles. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attachment_theory#Attachment_s...
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by tuatoru 3y ago
These would all be good to have, but if I had to choose, I'd prefer a system that delivers needed micronutrients to women and infants. Reducing physical and mental stunting has got potential to improve hundreds of millions of lives fr
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Like today, but more so. More dysfunctional politics, more geopolitical (inter-state) friction, more weather, more inequality, more housing crisis, more suicides, more siloing. More HR, more surveillance. More PV electricity farms, not as
558.
by tuatoru 3y ago
Yes! So many photographers go to "exotic" locations in the hope of taking interesting photographs. There's no need. Fifty years from now, to viewers of photos your backyard is going to seem incredibly exotic.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Yes, the purpose of the COP system (climate change Conference Of the Parties) is to cause tens of thousands of flights and hotel stays, and the consumption of tons of conference food.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
If grandparent's example is representative, German education is not teaching people what they actually need to know. The ssh stuff you can get in five minutes' reading of the man page.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
You missed the demographic situation. 1.5 children per woman[1] is below the number required to maintain a population. Germany has very clearly failed to invest enough in integrating immigrants and making them productive. In terms of popul
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Your poetry (we don't have a good set of concepts to make this stuff prose, yet) reminded me of this[1]. 1. https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/08/17/the-premium-mediocre-l...
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by tuatoru 3y ago
The traditional approach to quantifying these things is to buy a Kill-a-watt[1]. Manufacturers don't know about the electricity supply situation (brownouts/sag, line condition, etc.) in your area so the best they could do is idea
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by tuatoru 3y ago
This is a (the?) use case for room-temperature superconductors: cheap fMRI scanners. It's trauma if the brain scans match trauma responses.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
> Switch to ... heat pump ... water heating Given that where I live installing a heat pump water heater costs over 20 years' water heating electricity consumption for me, and it would still use some electricity, so the payback perio
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Whereas sulfate dispersal in the stratosphere would cost about 700 million per year. Over three orders of magnitude less money.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Now we just need a similar package to smudge and blot the signature slightly, and add a little ink spatter, for the fountain pen look.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
> “The big barrier is a higher capital cost. If you think about New Zealand and a just transition, the reality is if the majority of Kiwis buy a car that’s worth around $7000, they’re not going to be buying electric for a very long time
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Are you allowing for cooling towers, water treatment, pipework, and so on? Also the grid connection hardware, spare turbines, cooling pumps, etc., and O&M costs?
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by tuatoru 3y ago
1. would have been done already if there were such alloys. 2. photovoltaic generators seem popular, but the don't require spending money on a fusion core. 3. The problem is hard, so let's replace it with a harder one?

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