Brent Spiner was brilliant in Master of Disguise, a phenomenal movie

Well, its possible that the mutations necessary were very close to something they already had. Or very ‘lucky’ mutations happened, interpret that as you will.

To be fair, material scientists are redoing everything always as it is

Put mathematically, when we cut fossil fuel usage by 10%, it will result in 4% fewer cargo ships. When we reduce fossil fuel usage by 50%, it will result in a 20% reduction in cargo ships

Having not watched the video, I dont have the time at the moment. I do not care if it is unserious to envision a solarpunk future. It is worthwhile to be hopeful and aspire to something cleaner and harmonious with nature. You can pry solarpunk from my cold dead hands

This is great, it reminds me of a Volts podcast episode about a company that uses large sheets of Limestone to do the same. But if this is really that much more efficient, then we have a real solution on our hands

Okay? Don’t blame the ev, this is a strange framing to use

There are 2 types of real carbon credits, easy credits and hard credits. The easy ones are cheap things like planting trees and efficiency programs, the hard credits are expensive, carbon capture tech that we haven’t perfected and will always be costly.

Poor countries are attracted to the idea of selling their cheaply attained credits for money today. And why wouldn’t they? They are indebted and struggling. But it’s going to fuck them over in the future when they need credits for their own carbon accounting and they’re out of easy credits to make.

No hate or judgment here, it’s just the next steps in how global imperialism will continue to fuck over these countries

Puerto Rico has to be one of the worst victims of the industry with also the least recourse due to a lack of statehood

Large mirror arrays to send the heat back into space instead of onto the pilgrims

It makes sense that the things you have more physical relationships with like stoves or lawn equipment would make people think about other items. You get a central heatpump to replace your central air heat/ac and you can quickly forget anything is different outside of a slight noise reduction

Damn this website is so much better than reddit

So energy remaining and radioactivity are separate. The isotope that it becomes has a decently long half life, but it might only be a few protons or neutrons away from something really radioactive.

I do believe that the fuel rods count towards that pile of waste. I think the US has laws or rules that make it hard or impossible to recycle these back into the good stuff, but it’s very doable. France does it to a high degree.

I also learned in that interview that after a relatively short period, the aggressive decay is over and you’re left with a barrel of waste that isn’t actually shooting off radiation very often.

The economic advantage of SMRs is that when you make reactors in a location, the 1st is always more expensive than any following reactors. Just a reality of construction, permits, designs, etc. So if you have 4 reactors in one place, that’s pretty nice. They also have the advantage of being able to turn one off for maintenance and then having 2, 3, 4 other reactors in the same vicinity that can pick up the slack for the duration.

As for waste, yeah it’s the same problem. But it’s important to note that the volume of material is not that big. The entire volume produced by all us nuke energy ever takes up a football field stacked 10 yards high. All told, that’s a smaller problem than I ever thought.

I’m not a big nuclear advocate, I’m pretty mid on it. This is where I got all of the above information, an interview with the head of the US DOE loan program https://www.volts.wtf/p/nuclear-perhaps?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Bruh make an electric sedan please

It’s important to note that the rates we humans tend to build things is far from linear. A path to the high number listed in the article of 5.5 BT of CDR might like look like 1BT in 2030, 2BT in 2040, 4BT in 2045, and 5.5BT in 2050

Harvard Researcher Ye Tao discussed using mirrors in farm fields for heat management of the soil/earth. He said you get similar results with solar panels, but his focus is combating earth temperature rise which is cheaper to do with mirrors than panels, making them a situationally better idea depending on the needs of a given place. Full interview by David Robberts (Volts) here https://www.volts.wtf/p/volts-podcast-dr-ye-tao-on-a-grand

Time us is so heavily dependent on location you cant standardize the data effectively

This should include gas cars too which are ungodly inefficient