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Ask HN: Why can't the fusion be to 2020s what moon landing was to 1960s?

1 points·by newman555·5 лет назад·2 comments

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newman555
·3 года назад·discuss
well still better than both ruining the planet and health with animal based processed food.
newman555
·4 года назад·discuss
For B12? You do know that animals don’t produce B12, but microorganisms (that can be found in soil and untreated water) and that farmed animals eat B12 supplemented food?

So no, people don’t need meat. Not for B12, or for proteins or for iron or for anything else.

Do people want to eat meat? That’s a different story.
newman555
·4 года назад·discuss
thanks for replying. and I like the quote :-)
newman555
·4 года назад·discuss
how frustrating it is for you to do what you do and know what you know? I only know the “common” knowledge about climate change and it makes me angry every time I think about what we know and where we’re still heading.
newman555
·4 года назад·discuss
and majority of that agriculture land is for animal agriculture (which is probably obvious to everyone by now)
newman555
·4 года назад·discuss
Have no idea why you get downvoted, but I did notice few times now how HN crowd doesn’t know much about veganism or appreciates people who think animal agriculture is cruel.

Ah yeah, and also terribly destructive:

https://youtu.be/LaPge01NQTQ
newman555
·4 года назад·discuss
funny enough, was asking my self the same question yesterday after 5-minute googling didn’t get me anywhere. I see a recommendation mentioned below, but as I also saw, hard to find something where you can control signal to noise ratio
newman555
·4 года назад·discuss
“help endure climate change”, while beef and eating meat is one of the major contributors to climate change … This is wrong on so many levels.
newman555
·5 лет назад·discuss
Zero harm is a myth for most things. But harm involved in producing cow’s milk (to animals, to environment) and plant based milk is HUGELY different.

It sounds to me you want to make everything relative so that the conclusion is “everything involves some harm, so I might just eat me some steaks and drink some cow milk, it won’t matter”. But it matters greatly. So let’s not do that.
newman555
·5 лет назад·discuss
I’m not looking for any high ground, I’m looking for decent ground. There’s no way you can compare the cruelty involved in producing cow milk to that of producing oat milk for example. It’s not in the same universe.
newman555
·5 лет назад·discuss
once I switched there’s no way I’m ever going back to cow’s milk. Why? Health, much greater taste variety, no cruelty involved to make it, environmental benefits.
newman555
·5 лет назад·discuss
“and justice for all”
newman555
·5 лет назад·discuss
not again. I can’t go through 641st “nuclear vs solar/wind” thread on HN about :)

Isn’t this an objective data driven problem and we can decide what’s better for short / medium / long term?
newman555
·5 лет назад·discuss
I have to say I didn’t notice anyone saying anything positive or dismissing about the climate change on HN lately, it seems we generally agree that the problem is very real. Although it seems that when it comes to solutions - lots of discussions and disagreement there.
newman555
·5 лет назад·discuss
but why?
newman555
·5 лет назад·discuss
thank you!
newman555
·5 лет назад·discuss
is there somewhere a summary of “basic science” problems that need to be solved to make fusion feasible? And - would throwing more money at the problem?
newman555
·5 лет назад·discuss
I tried that (accept and move on), but when you have kids...I find it impossible. I can’t accept that fate for them. How do you reason about that?
newman555
·5 лет назад·discuss
can’t they solve that problem with a bit of robotics and AI (i.e. unmanned defences)?
newman555
·5 лет назад·discuss
still, I see no serious action being taken to tackle the climate crisis. Current governments are just putting some dates by which we’ll stop doing x or y, but in really almost nothing concrete is done to stop the worst scenarios.