Dumb civilized westerners think the 3rd world needs plastic solutions, no the answer is we need viable baseload electricity sources — — Nuclear. This is a useful exercise in information for anyone who hasn’t studied civilizations, energy grids, chemistry, physics, and geology. I spend lot of time in Silicon Valley reminding pissant web developers, […]
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tldr: Clean coal isn’t necessarily something we can do at scale that will solve problems on any reasonable time-scale. Source: https://www.worldcoal.org/sites/default/files/styles/basic_page_header/public/shutterstock_133998776.jpg?itok=DbbVckc6 Humanity can’t grow a several trillion dollar carbon sequestration industry over night, a few years, or even a single decade. Clean coal is unreasonable on any relevant time scale with current technologies. I did […]
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I regularly think about how anthropogenic(man-made) climate disasters will wake and accelerate the spread of the next influenza pandemic.(Every 68 years influenza pandemics repeat themselves in the pattern H2, H3, H1) I spent some time yesterday pondering what would be necessary to quickly blitzkrieg carbon emissions and buy humanity time to research battery chemistry and […]
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There’s been some recent news with positive sentiment toward Solar Power in Germany creating super positive outcomes, but I believe it’s worth pointing out that this is much ado about nothing. Germans produce power semi randomly. They then put strain on the power-grid and pretend it’s renewable. Customers didn’t and won’t get any money from the power […]
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I encourage everyone to write a blog post about their unconventional or non-common beliefs. If you do, feel free to share it with me: @datarade. Intellectual Property is counterproductive to the advancement of humanity and we should abolish it. The golden ticket is for great markets to reward prolific monopolists, not oligarchal non-creators. The riches should belong […]
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