The place was always subject to earthquakes, so during the nineteenth century buildings were made of wood. It was found that New Zealand kauri pine was an ideal material: it was strong enough to build high, grew straight and knot-free for hundreds of feet, and was flexible enough to resist the strongest earthquakes. By the end of the century, the entire city was made of kauri.
Two problems arose. NZ realized that a kauri takes a thousand years to grow, and that their export rate was totally unsustainable. They stopped exporting it just in time to save the species. One day in 1906, the other problem became evident: kauri was earthquake-proof, but not fireproof.
Just pump several gigatons of sulphur into the atmosphere to counteract the warming of the carbon dioxide!
What could POSSIBLY go wrong?!
The head-in-sand argument always assumes that we have to start with gigatonnes of sulphur. Why can't we start with a much smaller amount and investigate the effect?
He was trying to say Maunder Minimum, but we have no way of telling what the trough or peak of a solar cycle (other than the short-term 11-year cycle) will be. That's why we can only assign names to them long after the fact.
not sure if you grasped the concept of burning;) it releases heat and CO2.
but since methane has over 20 times the greenhouse effect of CO2, we would be better off than if the methane were released unburned - though not better off than if the methane were not released in the first place.
Luck is the key word there, because despite huge increase in solar and wind, we are see NO improvement in CO2 emissions. As long as so many cling to the oversimplified dream that simply adding solar and wind and EVs will make enough of a difference, we will fail.
To get to zero carbon, we have to eliminate the fossil baseload. Greens can dream of wind-powered unicorns all they want, but any country that has heavy industries and large cities will need a carbon-free baseload to replace the fossil baseload.
Why did everything not die then? Just a guess, but the lack of 7 billion people and their concomitant industrial output probably had something to do with it.
I'll have to say this slowly, so even the Greens will understand.
Parent's question is about the effect on the overall environment last time the CO2 level hit 403 ppm before human existence. Right now, the industrial output of those 7 billion humans have brought us to 403 ppm again. It was not apocalypse then, so why should it be apocalypse, other than for Malibu realtors, now?
Pharma, cable, airlines and banks have just as cosy a relationship with Congress as they did this time last year. The muck seems to be, if anything, getting dee- *gurgle*
It's not that oil prices always round up, but that crude increases get reflected immediately in the price of refined products, while when crude drops, you have to wait for the price to "propagate through the magic one-way supply chain."
when you hire only the inexperienced, you get the same newbie mistakes over and over again. And with each new Web-years generation of greenhorns, their solution to every problem is moar scripting. That's why Slashdot now has virtually the only online commenting system that still works on mobile devices.
In Islam representation of the human figure is forbidden, so art in that culture has been geometric from the beginning. Instead of centuries of variations on portraiture and scenes containing people, it has been centuries of geometric design.
No way that generating electricity from coal to power an EV is less CO2 intensive than an IC.
IC engines have to spend a lot of their time accelerating, idling, or running at an inefficient high revs, times when they blast a lot more pollution than when they are running at optimum cruise. Now think of a hybrid in which when the IC is running it's always at cruise, no matter what the drive train is doing. Then add the economy of scale of a large generating plant, and even when you have to subtract transmission line and battery losses, the electric cars such an arrangement powers are still more efficient.
When I say that dry storage of waste would be more economical than reprocessing for years to come, I do mean years, not ages. A repository like Yucca Mountain is just a buffer, big enough to hold a generation or two worth of waste while we develop better reprocessing technology. Long before those geologic eons commentators are worrying about, the unburned U and Pu in it will have been recovered and burned up.
They would be for early restoration of power to critical facilities, not permanent infrastructure. Look at the picture: the solar array is deployed on the hospital parking area.
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It's already made up of 50 smaller countries. Time to reassert their local issue rights over the power of central authority.
The place was always subject to earthquakes, so during the nineteenth century buildings were made of wood. It was found that New Zealand kauri pine was an ideal material: it was strong enough to build high, grew straight and knot-free for hundreds of feet, and was flexible enough to resist the strongest earthquakes. By the end of the century, the entire city was made of kauri.
Two problems arose. NZ realized that a kauri takes a thousand years to grow, and that their export rate was totally unsustainable. They stopped exporting it just in time to save the species. One day in 1906, the other problem became evident: kauri was earthquake-proof, but not fireproof.
Just pump several gigatons of sulphur into the atmosphere to counteract the warming of the carbon dioxide!
What could POSSIBLY go wrong?!
The head-in-sand argument always assumes that we have to start with gigatonnes of sulphur. Why can't we start with a much smaller amount and investigate the effect?
He was trying to say Maunder Minimum, but we have no way of telling what the trough or peak of a solar cycle (other than the short-term 11-year cycle) will be. That's why we can only assign names to them long after the fact.
not sure if you grasped the concept of burning;) it releases heat and CO2.
but since methane has over 20 times the greenhouse effect of CO2, we would be better off than if the methane were released unburned - though not better off than if the methane were not released in the first place.
I heard that if you use that phrase as a Starbucks order, the gates of Heaven will open up right there in the store.
Marketing drones frequently take liberties with reality.
I'm holding out for the AI quantum gluten-free HDD.
Luck is the key word there, because despite huge increase in solar and wind, we are see NO improvement in CO2 emissions. As long as so many cling to the oversimplified dream that simply adding solar and wind and EVs will make enough of a difference, we will fail.
To get to zero carbon, we have to eliminate the fossil baseload. Greens can dream of wind-powered unicorns all they want, but any country that has heavy industries and large cities will need a carbon-free baseload to replace the fossil baseload.
Why did everything not die then?
Just a guess, but the lack of 7 billion people and their concomitant industrial output probably had something to do with it.
I'll have to say this slowly, so even the Greens will understand.
Parent's question is about the effect on the overall environment last time the CO2 level hit 403 ppm before human existence. Right now, the industrial output of those 7 billion humans have brought us to 403 ppm again. It was not apocalypse then, so why should it be apocalypse, other than for Malibu realtors, now?
Pharma, cable, airlines and banks have just as cosy a relationship with Congress as they did this time last year. The muck seems to be, if anything, getting dee- *gurgle*
You must be shopping in California. Most parts of the free world have lower prices.
If they're just engineering for bigger potatoes or more tasty apples, that's harmless...
But when GMO is used for these purposes, the hippie lunkheads will still avoid it because "not natural."
Oil prices always round UP, so it's 14%
It's not that oil prices always round up, but that crude increases get reflected immediately in the price of refined products, while when crude drops, you have to wait for the price to "propagate through the magic one-way supply chain."
Those who want to be ripped at at Krogers unless they show their papers will continue to make that choice.
Ooooh, Krogers tracks my grocery purchasing habits. Therefor something something 1984 chemtrails something.
when you hire only the inexperienced, you get the same newbie mistakes over and over again. And with each new Web-years generation of greenhorns, their solution to every problem is moar scripting. That's why Slashdot now has virtually the only online commenting system that still works on mobile devices.
Hi, Space Nutter Troll! How’s the weather in San Diego?
Competition improves everything. If we could introduce this concept into medicine, we would have eternal life with dentistry we could afford.
It is 2017 people. Who is still viewing Youtube without an adblocker???
In 2017, when was the last time you were able to go to a Web page that did not require you to turn off your adblocker?
If a bot at a hedge fund gets caught profiting by insider information, what does the SEC do, pull its plug?
I suppose this also means that upcoming seasons of “Billions” won’t be nearly as good.
Belgium is another country in the process of splitting in two.
Stupid Flanders.
This seems like a way to introduce people to Islamic art, and by extension, to Islam...
This is the same 'logic' used by those liberals who think that saying "Merry Christmas" will influence people to enslave women and torture heretics.
In Islam representation of the human figure is forbidden, so art in that culture has been geometric from the beginning. Instead of centuries of variations on portraiture and scenes containing people, it has been centuries of geometric design.
No way that generating electricity from coal to power an EV is less CO2 intensive than an IC.
IC engines have to spend a lot of their time accelerating, idling, or running at an inefficient high revs, times when they blast a lot more pollution than when they are running at optimum cruise. Now think of a hybrid in which when the IC is running it's always at cruise, no matter what the drive train is doing. Then add the economy of scale of a large generating plant, and even when you have to subtract transmission line and battery losses, the electric cars such an arrangement powers are still more efficient.
When I say that dry storage of waste would be more economical than reprocessing for years to come, I do mean years, not ages. A repository like Yucca Mountain is just a buffer, big enough to hold a generation or two worth of waste while we develop better reprocessing technology. Long before those geologic eons commentators are worrying about, the unburned U and Pu in it will have been recovered and burned up.
They would be for early restoration of power to critical facilities, not permanent infrastructure. Look at the picture: the solar array is deployed on the hospital parking area.