If the bits on your drive are changing while the drive is offline, that isn't a filesystem issue. A filesystem issue would be if your OS wrote the wrong information to the drive, but that can't happen with an offline drive.
Two highlights: Battery production does cause some mortalities, but charge the battery from a natural gas power plant and your total mortality rate is less than half the mortality rate of a gasoline vehicle. Charge with Wind, Water, or Solar, and you cut the mortality rate 80%. Charging from a coal plant would be a poor choice, however.
A reduction in air pollution means a reduction in pollution related health problems, which means a reduction in health care costs for 80-90% of the population, and an increased quality of life for those suffering from the health problems. We lose $120 to $280 billion a year on health care and loss of life due to fossil fuel-caused air pollution. That's $500 per year for every man, woman, and child. Reducing air pollution also means a reduction in future weather related property damage, which again is something a majority of the country pays for, through property insurance.
I was thinking about a 2014 Volt myself, until I sat in one. The view out is very limited, compared to my current 29mpg Civic. The Volt would probably only save me 120 gallons a year, so I'm holding off in the hope that some newer EVs have better visibility.
Two highlights: Battery production does cause some mortalities, but charge the battery from a natural gas power plant and your total mortality rate is less than half the mortality rate of a gasoline vehicle. Charge with Wind, Water, or Solar, and you cut the mortality rate 80%. Charging from a coal plant would be a poor choice, however.
They'd have to find how much GHG, etc, they'd emit manufacturing, shipping, and installing all of those wells and pumps. Then compare that with installing $500 billion of wind turbines, solar PV, etc.
We certainly aren't going to take away clean water, etc from people just to cut down on pollution, but we can reduce the amount of pollution generated by those services. We have good ways of making clean electricity for clean water and hospital power. I don't think we're ready for electric ambulances or shipping yet. And we definitely won't have electric LifeFlight helicopters soon.
Is there any study showing that life today is more -- or less -- stressful than life decades ago? These days, it seems like both parents need to work in order to have enough money to raise kids. Further, the kids need to do more extracurricular activity to get into a good college, which means the parents spend more time driving around.
To be clear, that is just my observation. I have not done an objective study to measure stress. I just don't think we should blame the medical industry until we've ruled out the other possible cause(s) for more people with mental health issues.
Other than coal, oil, and gas companies being allowed to dump their waste into the atmosphere, causing health problems and climate change for which the rest of us are paying by means of health coverage and property insurance?
Posting to undo Informative mod point. The WSJ article is an opinion piece in support of clean coal, and the Inside Energy piece doesn't really provide much either way.
>> nuclear is very hard to clean up after things go wrong.
As opposed to cleaning up the global fossil fuel disaster? We don't have a clue as to when the failure state (continued release of waste) will be corrected, much less how to clean up all of the waste.
Out of all recorded history, find the 17 years that have been the hottest. You will find all 16 years of the 21st century among those 17 hottest years of all time.
>> It's like a billionaire asking why they can pay a tax of a 1/2 million dollars as pocket change...
Especially since combustion of fossil fuels significantly aided our billionaires in gaining those billions. But hey, if things go to heck in a handbasket, at least they'll have their virtual bank accounts with which they can buy food...
I actually do use different names and passwords for each account. The email address doesn't change though, which means someone could try using it on other sites to try getting my username and resetting my password at those other sites.
Even less important accounts can have serious side effects if compromised. Say someone got hold of my/. account. No, they can't drain my bank account, but they could post stuff so threatening that law enforcement comes knocking on my door. After legwork and legal fees, I would be able to prove I didn't post that stuff, but that's still a lot of stress and wasted time&money.
And there is a big difference in falsifiability: you could go to school and learn the physics that go into climate change. If you ever found a point where the teachers told you the equivalent of 2+2=5, you could point that out to the world. Whereas, if I went to seminary(?) school (apologies for not knowing the correct term), there's no way to guarantee God would ever speak to me.
If only 5% of the Louisiana damage was caused by climate change, that's $1B that could've been spent on green energy. That, in turn, would lead to reducing the pollution that causes breathing issues (asthma) or heavy metal poisoning (mercury in the fish we eat). If we don't burn coal, the mercury in the coal can't drift into the sea. If we did get off fossil fuels, that would save $361B to $886B annually.
Because the real predictions (2C or 3C global temperature rise, more frequent and destructive storms, etc) are only going to be proven after it's too late to do a damn thing about it. It's like the ball metaphor in Minority Report. Climatologists are saying "The ball is going to hit the floor in a few decades", and deniers are saying "It hasn't hit yet, so it never will." Only in this case, the ball hitting the floor has serious consequences. But hey, who cares if we can start "catching" the ball today, and in the process, save more money than we spend as a result of cheaper energy and lower health care costs?
What's wrong with saying we've "used up" a year's allotment of clear air? Wouldn't the allotment just be the amount of O2 generated by plant life consuming CO2? If humanity somehow raised CO2 levels to 70,000 ppm, breathing would become difficult. Yes, climate change would become seriously bad long before that. However, it would still be nice to try to live using only what the planet can recycle, until we can figure out how to cleanly recycle more if needed.
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If the bits on your drive are changing while the drive is offline, that isn't a filesystem issue. A filesystem issue would be if your OS wrote the wrong information to the drive, but that can't happen with an offline drive.
Here's a study discussing mortality rate effects of the various forms of vehicle power: http://www.pnas.org/content/11...
Two highlights: Battery production does cause some mortalities, but charge the battery from a natural gas power plant and your total mortality rate is less than half the mortality rate of a gasoline vehicle. Charge with Wind, Water, or Solar, and you cut the mortality rate 80%. Charging from a coal plant would be a poor choice, however.
A reduction in air pollution means a reduction in pollution related health problems, which means a reduction in health care costs for 80-90% of the population, and an increased quality of life for those suffering from the health problems. We lose $120 to $280 billion a year on health care and loss of life due to fossil fuel-caused air pollution. That's $500 per year for every man, woman, and child. Reducing air pollution also means a reduction in future weather related property damage, which again is something a majority of the country pays for, through property insurance.
I was thinking about a 2014 Volt myself, until I sat in one. The view out is very limited, compared to my current 29mpg Civic. The Volt would probably only save me 120 gallons a year, so I'm holding off in the hope that some newer EVs have better visibility.
In addition to the other responses: you get to use your lithium battery thousands of times. You only get one use from a gallon of gas.
Also, many people have the option of getting electricity from a green supplier or purchasing their own solar panels to charge the battery.
Here's a study discussing mortality rate effects of the various forms of vehicle power: http://www.pnas.org/content/11...
Two highlights: Battery production does cause some mortalities, but charge the battery from a natural gas power plant and your total mortality rate is less than half the mortality rate of a gasoline vehicle. Charge with Wind, Water, or Solar, and you cut the mortality rate 80%. Charging from a coal plant would be a poor choice, however.
--Arnold
They'd have to find how much GHG, etc, they'd emit manufacturing, shipping, and installing all of those wells and pumps. Then compare that with installing $500 billion of wind turbines, solar PV, etc.
We certainly aren't going to take away clean water, etc from people just to cut down on pollution, but we can reduce the amount of pollution generated by those services. We have good ways of making clean electricity for clean water and hospital power. I don't think we're ready for electric ambulances or shipping yet. And we definitely won't have electric LifeFlight helicopters soon.
I'd only be interested if they didn't scan emails for data mining. Scanning for malware would be ok.
"pro-shareholder agenda"
and
"global issues such as climate change, workers' rights, discrimination, human rights, corruption"
seem like seriously conflicting goals.
India hit 54C in 2015.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Yes, I'm assuming GP meant temperature actual readings of +/- 50C, as opposed to suggesting that AGW will change temperatures by +/- 50C.
Will it also delay Windows Update so that it doesn't download and install packages while I'm multiplayer-gaming?
Is there any study showing that life today is more -- or less -- stressful than life decades ago? These days, it seems like both parents need to work in order to have enough money to raise kids. Further, the kids need to do more extracurricular activity to get into a good college, which means the parents spend more time driving around.
To be clear, that is just my observation. I have not done an objective study to measure stress. I just don't think we should blame the medical industry until we've ruled out the other possible cause(s) for more people with mental health issues.
Other than coal, oil, and gas companies being allowed to dump their waste into the atmosphere, causing health problems and climate change for which the rest of us are paying by means of health coverage and property insurance?
Posting to undo Informative mod point. The WSJ article is an opinion piece in support of clean coal, and the Inside Energy piece doesn't really provide much either way.
>> nuclear is very hard to clean up after things go wrong.
As opposed to cleaning up the global fossil fuel disaster? We don't have a clue as to when the failure state (continued release of waste) will be corrected, much less how to clean up all of the waste.
The first settler of Qualcomm!
Out of all recorded history, find the 17 years that have been the hottest. You will find all 16 years of the 21st century among those 17 hottest years of all time.
>> It's like a billionaire asking why they can pay a tax of a 1/2 million dollars as pocket change ...
Especially since combustion of fossil fuels significantly aided our billionaires in gaining those billions. But hey, if things go to heck in a handbasket, at least they'll have their virtual bank accounts with which they can buy food...
I actually do use different names and passwords for each account. The email address doesn't change though, which means someone could try using it on other sites to try getting my username and resetting my password at those other sites.
/. account. No, they can't drain my bank account, but they could post stuff so threatening that law enforcement comes knocking on my door. After legwork and legal fees, I would be able to prove I didn't post that stuff, but that's still a lot of stress and wasted time&money.
Even less important accounts can have serious side effects if compromised. Say someone got hold of my
With all of the breaches lately, I think it's time to get rid of the less important accounts. Adios!
*Facepalm* Forgot to check the estimated Louisiana damage number. Current estimate is $30M, not $30B.
1 degree of global warming isn't enough for you?
And there is a big difference in falsifiability: you could go to school and learn the physics that go into climate change. If you ever found a point where the teachers told you the equivalent of 2+2=5, you could point that out to the world. Whereas, if I went to seminary(?) school (apologies for not knowing the correct term), there's no way to guarantee God would ever speak to me.
If only 5% of the Louisiana damage was caused by climate change, that's $1B that could've been spent on green energy. That, in turn, would lead to reducing the pollution that causes breathing issues (asthma) or heavy metal poisoning (mercury in the fish we eat). If we don't burn coal, the mercury in the coal can't drift into the sea. If we did get off fossil fuels, that would save $361B to $886B annually.
Because the real predictions (2C or 3C global temperature rise, more frequent and destructive storms, etc) are only going to be proven after it's too late to do a damn thing about it. It's like the ball metaphor in Minority Report. Climatologists are saying "The ball is going to hit the floor in a few decades", and deniers are saying "It hasn't hit yet, so it never will." Only in this case, the ball hitting the floor has serious consequences. But hey, who cares if we can start "catching" the ball today, and in the process, save more money than we spend as a result of cheaper energy and lower health care costs?
What's wrong with saying we've "used up" a year's allotment of clear air? Wouldn't the allotment just be the amount of O2 generated by plant life consuming CO2? If humanity somehow raised CO2 levels to 70,000 ppm, breathing would become difficult. Yes, climate change would become seriously bad long before that. However, it would still be nice to try to live using only what the planet can recycle, until we can figure out how to cleanly recycle more if needed.