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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

That's how they've historically referred to Presidents

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The carbon tax is supposed to (partially) go towards credits for EVs

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

All the IPCC models assume massive amounts of sequestration, I believe

It's a necessity at this point, even if all fossil fuel use stops globally tomorrow

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If the overall goal is to increase the human population, it actually makes total sense

If the goal is to prevent murders, then no, it doesn't make sense

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There's plenty of EVs with 300+ miles of range now. Shouldn't be an issue.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (6 children)

carbon sequestration is not ever going to work

I don't know what you're talking about, it's a thing that is currently being done. Not some future hypothetical tech.

But yes it is too expensive for now. Costs are coming down hopefully that continues to be the case.

And yes, the best, cheapest, most efficient way to reduce ghg is to eliminate fossil fuels.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (20 children)

Instead of offsets, companies should be pursuing direct carbon sequestration like with https://climeworks.com/

No estimates, no accounting magic. Just a direct measure of physical, measurable tons of carbon directly removed from the atmosphere.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah and they all say similar to this:

A new report by the French Environment and Energy Management Agency (Ademe) shows that rare earth minerals are not widely used in solar energy and battery storage technologies. And despite their name, they aren't actually that rare at all.

“Their criticality is mainly related to the current virtual monopoly of China for extraction and processing,” the agency said, noting that the country accounted for 86% of the world's production of rare earth minerals in 2017.

The extraction of rare earths has a significant toxicological impact on the environment, depending on the nature of the reserves. Ademe said the presence of thorium and uranium in deposits can mean that rare earths create a type of radioactive pollution that is different from other types of waste. However, the agency ultimately concluded that the renewable energy sector actually barely uses such materials.

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2019/11/28/are-rare-earths-used-in-solar-panels/

Besides, remember that you're comparing localized pollution with globalized pollution:

Cumulative CO2 emissions related to materials for [future, 100% decarbonized] electricity infrastructure may be substantial (4–29 Gt CO2eq in 1.5°C scenarios) but consume only a minor share of global carbon budgets (1%–9% of a 320 Gt CO2eq 1.5°C 66% avoidance budget).

https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(23)00001-6

Even in a worst-case scenario, polluting one area to save the planet is a no-brainer tradeoff.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

To me the funniest part of all this is tech workers screaming that the sky is falling. Really shows what a bubble tech is.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

Surveillance state.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

For California at least, residential use is about 10% of all water usage iirc. So if data centers are dwarfed by that...not a big concern in the big picture.

The issue I guess is when data center usage sucks up all the local supply. State and region wide they don't use much but they do use a lot in one small area.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Water is extremely important in most large scale cooling systems, whether it be swamp coolers (aka evaporative cooling) or traditional HVAC (aka chillers).

 

Any time I click on my notifications, I get directed to an Error 50x page that says:

We are working on resolving the issues

Over the next few days, there will be a change in server infrastructure. Temporary problems with the website's functionality may occur during this time.

It's been over a week and still nothing...also haven't seen any posts about notifications being down, so is it just me?

 

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