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Why Carbon Capture Can't Conceivably Solve Climate Change

projects.propublica.org
13 points·by wstrange·vor 14 Tagen·5 comments

Maybe version ranges are a good idea after all?

neilmadden.blog
1 points·by wstrange·vor 4 Monaten·0 comments

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wstrange
·vor 14 Tagen·discuss
I do wonder about the economics of CCS vs. investing more aggressively in wind and solar.

This is a big deal here in Alberta where the Oil companies are complaining about footing the bill for CCS. If instead of spending a few billion on CCS, how much CO2 reduction would we get if invested in solar and wind.
wstrange
·letzten Monat·discuss
I'm not so sure. It seems those with capital will accumulate it even faster.

Without some kind of income redistribution we are sailing into dark waters.
wstrange
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
To be fair, that's a one time process. You do not need to do that for every app you want to sideload.

The malware issue that the flow is designed to mitigate is a very real problem. Perhaps there is a better way, but it's not immediately clear what that is.
wstrange
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
That seems disingenuous. Crypto made ransomware much easier.
wstrange
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
Insurance money doesn't grow on trees. The economy is highly connected, so increased costs impact most consumers.

Ransomware is a scourge enabled by crypto. We should do whatever we can to eliminate it.
wstrange
·vor 4 Monaten·discuss
A bunch of people here are conflating low stakes amateur sports with elite sports.

Mixed league works fine for your company softball team. Not so much for professional sports.
wstrange
·vor 4 Monaten·discuss
If we are talking about amateur sports where the stakes are low, the concept of slotting athletes into divisions makes sense.

In elite sports, no one wants to see "best in division X". They want to see the best hockey players, the best golfer, the best skier, etc. The money incentives are considerable.

This would destroy women's professional sports.
wstrange
·vor 4 Monaten·discuss
UBI will require a more progressive tax system. The Oligarchs are having none of that.
wstrange
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
Clearly they have not reached parity, as evidenced by the crash rate of Tesla.

It's far from clear that the current HW4 + sensor suite will ever be sufficient for L4.
wstrange
·vor 8 Monaten·discuss
I have HW4, and have tried FSD with every major release.

It works brilliantly, 99.5% of the time. The issue is that the failure mode is catastrophic. Like getting confused with the lane marking and driving off the shoulder. And the complete inability to read construction zone signs (blasting through a 50 KM zone at 100 KM).

I'm deeply skeptical that the current sensor suite and hardware is going to have enough compute power to safely drive without supervision.

It will no doubt improve, but until Tesla steps up and assumes liability for any accident, it's just not "full self driving".
wstrange
·vor 9 Monaten·discuss
For the back seats you can order webbing strips from Temu for five bucks. They are easy to spot (bright yellow).

I point them out to any passengers in the back seat.

If you have kids that are likely to pull them ... different story.
wstrange
·vor 9 Monaten·discuss
Reading the comments on that Fox site is depressing. A lot of hate for Apple, but for the wrong reasons (as in, completely missing the danger of centralized app stores..).
wstrange
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
Well, you have Larry Ellison and Elon doing their best to corner social media - so I think the right wing has it's bases covered.
wstrange
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
Or a more likely scenario is that Apple picks up even more market share, and we go from a duopoly to a monopoly.