:) This one is the monk and the robot book:)
:) This one is the monk and the robot book:)
Years ago I learned that tribes people often create large herds (a sign of wealth) that then lead to desertification, famine and poverty. Seems like we do the same thing, but at a higher level.
There was a hopeful time when the gas turned off (or the pipleine exploded) and every energy saving project came to the forefront. I hope these efforts are still going on?
What is that? Like, carbon emissions stop because of general supply chain collapse? Or we all get together and figure out a way to make massive diamond blocks from the CO2 in a hurry?
Is this moral stance somehow correlated to skills and capabilities of the people? Will there be more spills because only the incompetent are left or is there no such link?
Charm Industrial likes Switchgrass I think. To make oil to pump back under.
While it’s too much, it’s surprisingly small - 66kg. It’s like 8 Gallons of Gasoline. Not sure how I would send the phone from China to anywhere for that much fuel - I suppose transport is extra.
Right, I should read the article. Sorry.
Two obvious things: China has 2-3 x the people. Maybe adjust to a per person basis? Or a per GDP ratio if you are so inclined. Also, most of the stuff for sale comes from China - so we just moved our emissions there. This is super hard to adjust for, but should be considered a bit.
The rest of the world always follows. It’s been weird. Catalytic converters, efficiency standards and all that.
Maybe for a long tail - but I think there were a few reports from other places that phaseout can happen faster than expected :) I am just worried that fossil prices drop because nobody buys them, making it super cheap again.
I suppose that’s pretty much guaranteed. I am worried that the supply chains stop working before we get serious about climate repair. It’ll be interesting to see what happens to the fossil fuel companies when the “proven resources” in the ground become worthless because there are barely any buyers anymore and borrowing against it is no longer possible. I don’t know how much they do that - but it would have implications for the finance people.
So you propose a sort of metric of “energy utility”?
Or, combined with the other idea to move the harvester; grain pirates! The small airship swoops down at night and picks up a some strip worth of grain, and is gone in the morning.
It is conceivable that unlike boats, autonomous airships may not need to be super big - they scale linearly. So a continuous swarm of small, lighter than air evacuated diamond foam devices could come, pick up stuff, and depart for local targets or far away targets via the jet stream. That also removes the need for the tower - they could pick stuff up right from the harvester.
I love it, this is really nice. Thank you!
Maybe this will change once the insurance tables update their pricing to include the new risks?
Solution is a maybe an overstatement, but
Trees are nice, but it’s nowhere near enough to do that.
I suppose it helps to qualify what you say. But then it may become quite unreadable.
Even “Today is Thursday” is questionable. Where is it today? Do you mean right now, right here? What calendar? Somewhere it’s already Friday. The “day” is just rolling around the earth, etc. It’s more defensible to say at the time of posting this it is Thursday in California.
The philosophy people have a thing where you posit a thesis and then present counter arguments, and then counter these again (and, in medival time, counter the ones that are non-dogmatic once again to make sure you don’t get burned alive).
The Chinese had a seven legged essay, I think it went back and forth 7 times, and the conclusion was left up to the educated reader, in contrast to scientific paper standard today where we explicitly state the conclusion.
Exploring and to some extent preempting counterarguments may be helpful in any case.
That’s nice and makes a dent. 18,248,000 MWh/year so 49,994MWh per day. The batteries at this site are 3,287MWh, so they can store about 6.5% of the average daily Californian use. 875 megawatts peak power for maybe 5h per day is 437MWh almost 10% of CA daily consumption. And it’s highest in summer, when the ACs are running, so that’s nice. Please check my math! EIA