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by tuatoru 4y ago
If it's growing at tenfold per year, that's only six years' growth. I don't know what the actual growth rate is, but I don't think there's cause for concern, except to coal miners. Edit: there aren't any m
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by tuatoru 4y ago
> I believe this is a result of a sustained campaign of disinformation Don't waste your energy. The ignorance of the 75th percentile journalist is stunningly broad and deep; it's no wonder that ordinary people haven't a cl
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by tuatoru 4y ago
There was a story about this three or four weeks ago. There is a temporary shortage of lithium refining capacity, taking in lithium ore from the mines and producing lithium carbonate /lithium oxide in the purity required for battery
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by tuatoru 4y ago
On PV price drops, they are pretty much on trend, using Wright's Law. There's about a 16% reduction in cost per doubling of cumulative production.[1] If announced capacity expansions and renewables commitments come true, we can ex
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by tuatoru 4y ago
At present the grid/stationary storage battery market is essentially a sideline for vehicle battery makers.[1] Vehicle batteries have to balance between energy density, power performance, tolerance for temperature extremes, structural
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by tuatoru 4y ago
Electrolysis at scale has to happen for green hydrogen to replace coking coal in iron smelting/steelmaking (~9% of global carbon emissions)[1] and to replace steam reformation of fossil methane for making ammonia, for fertilizer (~1%).
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by tuatoru 4y ago
Just recently methanol was $378/ton in small amounts. In 2019 it was between $200/ton and $300/ton. I'm too lazy to do the price deflation--and I wouldn't know what deflator to use--but that seems like it would have
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by tuatoru 4y ago
Do you have insurance against house fires or vehicle theft? Nah. I think you'll be just fine. First two sentences from the abstract:- Prudent risk management requires consideration of bad-to-worst-case scenarios. Yet, for climate chan
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by tuatoru 4y ago
Similar thing in NZ with sodium fluoroacetate, big brand name 1080, "ten-eighty". Used to kill bird predators in NZ's forest parks. "Nah, we don't use 1080. This is sodium fluoroacetate." "Oh." Edit:
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by tuatoru 4y ago
A good thing that CATL is moving on to sodium, then.
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by tuatoru 4y ago
Some weird (probably made up) measure of "brand". Is missing Saudi Aramco, for instance.[1] Edit: I see the Visual Capitalist source page explicitly mentions brand. The intermediate page distorted what it was linking to. 1. "
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by tuatoru 4y ago
Encouraging more people to fly: just what we don't need. Cutting out flying is an easy behavioral change that dramatically decreases your carbon emissions.
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by tuatoru 4y ago
Yeah, it's nerd-sniping, distracting them from actual global problems like energy poverty, malnutrition, endemic disease, ecosystem collapses and tragedy of the commons problems, pollution and cumulative poisoning, oppression of women.
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by tuatoru 4y ago
Thing is, renewables don't need copper. Definitely nice to have, but aluminum will substitute with only minor losses. And intermediate solutions like CCAW (copper clad aluminum wire) are already in use. Edit: every material and techn
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by tuatoru 4y ago
Copied from another submission: "Droughts, deluges, heatwaves, blizzards, tornadoes, cyclones, forest fires, floods, crop diseases, sea level rise, reservoirs and rivers emptying, crop germination and pollination failure, harvest failu
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by tuatoru 4y ago
Yup, it's the worst possible political system, except for all the other systems that have ever been tried.
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by tuatoru 4y ago
Droughts, deluges, heatwaves, blizzards, tornadoes, cyclones, forest fires, floods, crop diseases, sea level rise, reservoirs and rivers emptying, crop germination and pollination failure, harvest failure, desertification, coral bleaching,
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by tuatoru 4y ago
Time alone increases with age. Must be why happiness does too.
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by tuatoru 4y ago
In theory blowing up one could damage a lot of others in the same or nearby orbital planes with the fragments. Relative kinetic energies are large in orbit. But this would be looked on as a hostile act by the USA. Russia won't have ICB
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by tuatoru 4y ago
Nine years ago the business media were all "robots are going to take everyone's jobs!!1!". Time for the robots to show up to work and clock in. In the mean time, in developed countries the balance of power in wage negotiatio
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by tuatoru 4y ago
To me it seems like at least a trillion-dollar problem. (One percent of a year's world GDP.) Auto makers are under-investing, or they don't see enough profit in it.
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by tuatoru 4y ago
Is an ad for some fantasy cosplay.
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by tuatoru 4y ago
Misunderstands black swan events. Having your bike stolen is not a black swan event: it's foreseeable. Having your bike spontaneously explode: a black swan. Bikes don't do that, according to our understanding of the world.
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by tuatoru 4y ago
I don't know if this was a reference to the Gravity Model of trade[1], but I think you will be right in the long run. I expect the long run to be at least three decades, though. Maybe seven. I'll be dead. 1. https://en.
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by tuatoru 4y ago
Economically, the UK's GDP has not yet reached its 2019 level. The major EU countries have long since surpassed theirs.
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by tuatoru 4y ago
> to create a tax and regulatory haven inside of Europe I think you mean "to preserve". In the wake of the GFC the EU adopted much stricter financial transparency laws.
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by tuatoru 4y ago
The UK will never ask, because one ironclad requirement will be adopting the EU's financial transparency laws. Avoiding those laws was the reason for Brexit in the first place. London is the money laundering capital of the world.[1] 1.
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by tuatoru 4y ago
Only ever have sprocs in public. Nothing else. Tightly managed.
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by tuatoru 4y ago
Also at https://www.euronews.com/2022/06/21/ukraine-crisis-eu-food
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by tuatoru 4y ago
We have a Rolleiflex T, which we love for its mechanical qualities (so clever!) but still find heavy. My wife uses Olympus (micro four-thirds) digital, which is much lighter. Olympus make (made?) some great lenses.

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