Look, I know you're all into conspiracy theories here and don't want to change cause you're anti-progress, but we literally have tree-topped pine shrubs with a two-year life cycle. They last 40 years, we top them at knee height for the root/trunk, and harvest the resulting growth above every two years which then converts into biofuel.
That fixes carbon. We're growing it in Eastern Washington. Check out the Bioresource Science and Engineering B.Sc. program at the UW, it has details.
We also do blue-green algae and are working on marine bioresource too (different program).
Stop using "tech" when we already have perfectly good plants that do this already.
You mean like when France exported all its "troublesome" people to French possessions?
Or like when England exported all its "troublesome" people to Australia?
And, in case you're new on Earth, I think you literally just ignored the Irish terrorist attacks on England during the Troubles. Lasted for more than a century.
The demographics of the people we need to exclude are stone cold simple and abundantly clear. Getting fancy about who we let in will just lead to mistakes and tragedy
Most homes built until the 1980s had a box built into the porch next to the door, or a door built into the house next to the front door, that revealed a 2x2x2 area (sometimes larger) in which you could place things.
It was opened by a key the delivery people had. And inside by a key the owner had (different door).
It was used for ice deliveries, package deliveries, milk deliveries.
Do that. Add a camera or sensor to that.
Don't make the door to your house be open to delivery people. Give them a place, OUT OF SIGHT, to store things in that only you can pick up.
You should have read the entire post, I addressed that.
Actually, there are scientific journals such as Energy Policy, which evaluate the different policy impacts. Some of the best scientific papers published in those come from China and India.
Solution for this means artificial price supports for crop waste, so that it is converted into appropriate fuel, and reducing all tax exemptions and exclusions for all fossil fuels.
Is that all? I'm sure we'll get right on that.
If by we you mean China and India, it's something Brazil has done already, and various EU countries.
You have to realize the impacts include New Delhi pollution becoming so bad that some airlines refuse to fly there anymore. Inaction has consequences.
If you actually look at some of the statistics published at COP25, you'll see that US and EU emissions are down but GDP is up.
The most rapid growth in emissions is in India, which still has less emissions per person than China does. The rapid increase in pollution, greenhouse emissions, and climate impacts is mostly due to China and India, but even if we reduce it now, some of the gasses take 100 years to clear out of the atmosphere, although other shorter lived gasses are more impactful but have shorter lifespans.
The most obvious other solution is not population growth, which isn't driving either of those top two contributors to the environment, but is literally faster phasing out of harmful energy and food usage including farming, by more efficient energy sources and cracking down on illegal overuse of pesticides and crop waste burning. Note that crop waste can be processed into stored fuel with minimal impacts, but the open burning of crop waste accelerates many other processes.
Solution for this means artificial price supports for crop waste, so that it is converted into appropriate fuel, and reducing all tax exemptions and exclusions for all fossil fuels.
What gets me is that I correctly predicted, based upon the fine work with 3D printing, image recognition, and the actual parameters and technology used to FaceID, that this was possible, and, indeed, probable.
But you thought "oh no, Mr Bill, the Security Gods have promised us it's secure".
Look, if you want to be safe, turn off your Bluetooth and don't let your WiFi connect to other services that aren't secure, and don't use fingerprint or FaceID.
Actually, the literal discovery of various gasses included the discovery that C02 was created by burning materials, reducing O2, and the predictions then indicated that the use of coal and other fossil fuels would have this impact.
We've known the lifespans of various gasses such as the NOx SOx COx variants for a long time. We even figured out how long they remained in the atmosphere. Which is why climate change is settled science.
Residential electricity consumption has been going down for more than a decade now.
Your bill goes up because you have wildfires that destroy energy infrastructure from the sources - solar farms in adjacent states, wind from WA/OR/ID, hydro from WA/OR/BC/ID - and you have to replace it.
Put some solar panels on your building and your utility costs will plummet. Most Californians already know that. India is going for a mix of solar and wind too. The world isn't stopping. As the article points out.
Have you seen all those ads on your TV, where they show all those cars driving past windmills? They're usually shot in California, Oregon, Washington, and Idaho.
Most of the West runs on renewables. If you drive across the Western States, you'll see solar panels and wind farms everywhere, in addition to abundant hydroelectric power.
One of the interesting things is that modern appliances designed to reduce emissions use less energy, which drives down utility bills.
New buildings typically use 20-30 percent as much energy as the old buildings they replace. Running factories in the dark and using LED lighting and modern equipment cuts heat buildup, so you spend far far less on heating and cooling buildings. Building modern factories with solar roofs allows you to run ceiling fans, cuts maintenance, and makes you much more competitive than the slackers with old inefficient outmoded equipment and facilities.
Capitalism cares nothing for your failed energy intensive ideologies. Renewables and modern equipment and DC green data centers just plain outcompete your heavily tax-subsidized fossil fuel heat wasting methods.
Pretty sure the capital of India doesn't care what either of these two Americans think.
Did you know that China has 10 times more emissions per capita than India? It's just that a lot of people in India use cars, cabs, and motorcycles that are very polluting.
Until 2020, which is the earliest point, the US is part of the Paris Accords.
And after last night's blue wave election, most Americans live in states which are meeting and exceeding the emissions reductions, actions which make our states more efficient, more resilient, and drive down our costs of doing business.
If you live, sadly, in a state without a carbon tax, you're still paying carbon taxes when you buy or sell goods outside the US. But, if you have no carbon tax where you are, the money won't go back into your state, it will go to the foreign country you are doing business with. They keep it all. If you had a state carbon tax, then you can deduct that from the foreign country carbon tax owed. And the money would stay in your state.
Seriously, though, the SMS platform Twitter is using a Short Messaging System originally used by submarines to avoid being spotted, and it's only so big. Packet sizes do put an upper limit on the protocols, and 128 characters is more of a reference to routing overhead. 280 also fits in, but was avoided for submarines as the technology to triangulate the sender generally failed under 128.
You can stuff a 640 character packet in a larger one, but then you have to chunk the data.
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Look, I know you're all into conspiracy theories here and don't want to change cause you're anti-progress, but we literally have tree-topped pine shrubs with a two-year life cycle. They last 40 years, we top them at knee height for the root/trunk, and harvest the resulting growth above every two years which then converts into biofuel.
That fixes carbon. We're growing it in Eastern Washington. Check out the Bioresource Science and Engineering B.Sc. program at the UW, it has details.
We also do blue-green algae and are working on marine bioresource too (different program).
Stop using "tech" when we already have perfectly good plants that do this already.
If it's in the cloud, even the secure cloud, it's open.
You may not think it is, but it is.
And, yes, other nations do - and will - have access to it.
You mean like when France exported all its "troublesome" people to French possessions?
Or like when England exported all its "troublesome" people to Australia?
And, in case you're new on Earth, I think you literally just ignored the Irish terrorist attacks on England during the Troubles. Lasted for more than a century.
Try actually reading a book sometime.
The demographics of the people we need to exclude are stone cold simple and abundantly clear. Getting fancy about who we let in will just lead to mistakes and tragedy
Agreed. Russians and Nazis.
Those are the real threat.
AIs just think it's stupid, unless they're scripted bots.
And my grandfather, my dad, and I never served in units fighting Russian operatives during the Cold War(s).
Suuuure.
Try another one.
Maybe they'll byte.
Actually, I've seen them in BC and Alberta, which are both in Canada.
Look, stop trying to invent new tech.
Most homes built until the 1980s had a box built into the porch next to the door, or a door built into the house next to the front door, that revealed a 2x2x2 area (sometimes larger) in which you could place things.
It was opened by a key the delivery people had. And inside by a key the owner had (different door).
It was used for ice deliveries, package deliveries, milk deliveries.
Do that. Add a camera or sensor to that.
Don't make the door to your house be open to delivery people. Give them a place, OUT OF SIGHT, to store things in that only you can pick up.
SERIOUSLY!
All the cool kids on campus use electric longboards now, only lame suburban kids use hoverboards.
We laugh at them.
A lot.
In the absence of artificial scarcity (diamonds) or collusion or import/export limits (supply), the market will establish a reasonable price level.
I wouldn't worry.
The problem is mostly for the profit margins of the suppliers and intermediaries.
You should have read the entire post, I addressed that.
Actually, there are scientific journals such as Energy Policy, which evaluate the different policy impacts. Some of the best scientific papers published in those come from China and India.
Solution for this means artificial price supports for crop waste, so that it is converted into appropriate fuel, and reducing all tax exemptions and exclusions for all fossil fuels.
Is that all? I'm sure we'll get right on that.
If by we you mean China and India, it's something Brazil has done already, and various EU countries.
You have to realize the impacts include New Delhi pollution becoming so bad that some airlines refuse to fly there anymore. Inaction has consequences.
If you actually look at some of the statistics published at COP25, you'll see that US and EU emissions are down but GDP is up.
The most rapid growth in emissions is in India, which still has less emissions per person than China does. The rapid increase in pollution, greenhouse emissions, and climate impacts is mostly due to China and India, but even if we reduce it now, some of the gasses take 100 years to clear out of the atmosphere, although other shorter lived gasses are more impactful but have shorter lifespans.
The most obvious other solution is not population growth, which isn't driving either of those top two contributors to the environment, but is literally faster phasing out of harmful energy and food usage including farming, by more efficient energy sources and cracking down on illegal overuse of pesticides and crop waste burning. Note that crop waste can be processed into stored fuel with minimal impacts, but the open burning of crop waste accelerates many other processes.
Solution for this means artificial price supports for crop waste, so that it is converted into appropriate fuel, and reducing all tax exemptions and exclusions for all fossil fuels.
What gets me is that I correctly predicted, based upon the fine work with 3D printing, image recognition, and the actual parameters and technology used to FaceID, that this was possible, and, indeed, probable.
But you thought "oh no, Mr Bill, the Security Gods have promised us it's secure".
Look, if you want to be safe, turn off your Bluetooth and don't let your WiFi connect to other services that aren't secure, and don't use fingerprint or FaceID.
It's that simple.
Actually, the literal discovery of various gasses included the discovery that C02 was created by burning materials, reducing O2, and the predictions then indicated that the use of coal and other fossil fuels would have this impact.
We've known the lifespans of various gasses such as the NOx SOx COx variants for a long time. We even figured out how long they remained in the atmosphere. Which is why climate change is settled science.
Try reading a basic chemistry book sometime.
Residential electricity consumption has been going down for more than a decade now.
Your bill goes up because you have wildfires that destroy energy infrastructure from the sources - solar farms in adjacent states, wind from WA/OR/ID, hydro from WA/OR/BC/ID - and you have to replace it.
Put some solar panels on your building and your utility costs will plummet. Most Californians already know that. India is going for a mix of solar and wind too. The world isn't stopping. As the article points out.
Have you seen all those ads on your TV, where they show all those cars driving past windmills? They're usually shot in California, Oregon, Washington, and Idaho.
The future is now. We didn't wait for you.
Same goes for India.
Most of the West runs on renewables. If you drive across the Western States, you'll see solar panels and wind farms everywhere, in addition to abundant hydroelectric power.
Coal is more expensive. Renewables are cheaper.
One of the interesting things is that modern appliances designed to reduce emissions use less energy, which drives down utility bills.
New buildings typically use 20-30 percent as much energy as the old buildings they replace. Running factories in the dark and using LED lighting and modern equipment cuts heat buildup, so you spend far far less on heating and cooling buildings. Building modern factories with solar roofs allows you to run ceiling fans, cuts maintenance, and makes you much more competitive than the slackers with old inefficient outmoded equipment and facilities.
Capitalism cares nothing for your failed energy intensive ideologies. Renewables and modern equipment and DC green data centers just plain outcompete your heavily tax-subsidized fossil fuel heat wasting methods.
Adapt.
Pretty sure the capital of India doesn't care what either of these two Americans think.
Did you know that China has 10 times more emissions per capita than India? It's just that a lot of people in India use cars, cabs, and motorcycles that are very polluting.
No, I'm serious.
Replace all parking lanes on arterials with barrier-separated bicycle and transit lanes.
Destroy all vehicles other than public transit and bicycles using those lanes.
Problem solved.
Um, guy, I'm ex-military.
And most of the West Coast is filled with military and ex-military.
I was born on a USAF base while my dad served, my grandpa is buried at Arlington, USAF too.
I stand by my original correct post.
Until 2020, which is the earliest point, the US is part of the Paris Accords.
And after last night's blue wave election, most Americans live in states which are meeting and exceeding the emissions reductions, actions which make our states more efficient, more resilient, and drive down our costs of doing business.
If you live, sadly, in a state without a carbon tax, you're still paying carbon taxes when you buy or sell goods outside the US. But, if you have no carbon tax where you are, the money won't go back into your state, it will go to the foreign country you are doing business with. They keep it all. If you had a state carbon tax, then you can deduct that from the foreign country carbon tax owed. And the money would stay in your state.
Let's hard code that in.
Seriously, though, the SMS platform Twitter is using a Short Messaging System originally used by submarines to avoid being spotted, and it's only so big. Packet sizes do put an upper limit on the protocols, and 128 characters is more of a reference to routing overhead. 280 also fits in, but was avoided for submarines as the technology to triangulate the sender generally failed under 128.
You can stuff a 640 character packet in a larger one, but then you have to chunk the data.
I for one welcome our new long-winded overlords.
sigh
Look, the actual economic powerhouse cities and states that drive more than half of the US GDP are already meeting and exceeding the Paris Accords.
It's just the inefficient tax-subsidized states that aren't, which is why they aren't growing their GDP.
Renewables and efficient buildings and plants allow us to outcompete you buggy whip manufacturing denialists.
Cheaper, faster, better.