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by elproxy 20d ago
« selon que vous serez puissant ou misérable, les jugements de cour vous rendront blanc ou noir » "The laws on little culprits fall;/ Great criminals escape them all." Nothing new since 1678 it seems
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by elproxy 1y ago
In fairness, he did so in part because this was going to go against Total's interests (see Oil, Power and War for that part of the story), but yeah, it was still the right stance to have and history proved him right.
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by elproxy 2y ago
I am not sure his death is confirmed though. Apparently he had a new stroke.
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by elproxy 2y ago
Yup, or things like sulphur thermal storage[1]. Also, hydrogen is pushed heavily by the fossil fuel industry, as it will provide another out for all their methane reserves (via steam reforming). [1] https://www.solarpaces.org&#x2F
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by elproxy 3y ago
Or they did, because the people to benefit from those tax cuts happen to own the media and pushed the very anti-abortion and xenophobic ideas that got him elected...
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by elproxy 3y ago
Or let oceans do some of the work: https://www.withouthotair.com/c31/page_246.shtml
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by elproxy 3y ago
So, should the FNSEA be dissolved then? https://twitter.com/SebastienM/status/1671842089502494721?s=...
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by elproxy 3y ago
And just the same, copyleft licenses (which are not "non-permissive" in my book) such as GPL don't "mean that you cannot without consent", they just want you to share the result back under the same license (which is
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by elproxy 4y ago
The only thing these people want to save is their class privilege, just so we're clear...
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by elproxy 4y ago
I assumed it was going for psoas, but popoasson would work too...
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by elproxy 4y ago
Not books on Software engineering, but since you asked for most impact: * Limits to Growth (Meadows, Meadows & Randers) * Sustainable Energy: Without the hot air (David MacKay) Available here: https://www.withouthotair.com&#x
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by elproxy 4y ago
Nuclear is expensive first and foremost because of the unreasonable yield demands of capital and the advent of neoliberalism causing states to cave to said demands (source: https://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads&#x2
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by elproxy 4y ago
Paris-Madrid is a poor choice, provided the French and Spanish rail gauge are different, meaning one needs to change somewhere. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iberian-gauge_railways
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by elproxy 4y ago
C++ mostly ;)
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by elproxy 5y ago
Yes, and as pointed out in the link I shared, air pollution is part of the limited impacts it is applicable to, but points out "it does not apply to impacts like resource use and energy use".
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by elproxy 5y ago
The Environmental Kuznets Curve is problematic though, see for instance: https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2020/10/9/response-to-mcafe...
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by elproxy 5y ago
From the article linked above: "(...) We call this whataboutism. Actors advancing this discourse often deploy statistics demonstrating their own small contribution to global emissions, or they point to large emitters such as China – “W
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by elproxy 5y ago
Yes, sure, we can go mine the bottom of the oceans and extract it by centrifuging ocean waters, that probably would give us marginally more than a doubling of margin. Point remains: reserves are exhaustible, an exponential consumption may n
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by elproxy 5y ago
Besides the fact that electricity generation is merely one aspect of GHG emissions (hello agriculture, land use, transportation, etc). The ultimate argument against the "let's not radically change our ways and only retool the engi
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by elproxy 5y ago
Beyond the fact that electricity-generation is once again only part of our emissions issue, there's about ~450 reactors worldwide and the uranium ore reserves give us around ~120 years of operation on current 3rd (/3+) gen reactor
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by elproxy 5y ago
A lot more complicated than that in fact [0]. CO2 is only causing 1/3 of the radiative forcing. High atmosphere chemical interactions and contrails have a massive impact. [0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a
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by elproxy 5y ago
> Aviation contributes only 2% of global air pollution Whataboutism, one of the identified discourses of climate delay [0]. Besides, the proportion of radiative forcing (what actually matters) caused by aviation is more than twice that [
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by elproxy 5y ago
It isn't all about electricity generation: how areagriculture, land use, global logistics (to a good extent) affected by electricity generation ?
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by elproxy 5y ago
Yes it's slow to build today, though it hasn't always been the case: France once built 56 reactors over 15 years [0]. Yes it's expensive, but once again, this isn't a feature of Nuclear power, but one of the capitalist (
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by elproxy 5y ago
Nuclear’s problem is not regulation, it’s that it is relatively slow to come online with large upfront investments. It’s simply not well aligned with the current financial world. The “fix” for this within the neoliberal paradigm would be to
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by elproxy 6y ago
I would add that beyond that, electricity is usually a rather small (~25%) fraction of final energy consumption in developed economies, so really there's a lot more to worry about if we're thinking about climate, and that might we
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by elproxy 6y ago
Nuclear doesn't need pumped hydro storage so much. France has historically been doing load following with its reactors, and the rate of modulation is of 80% over 30min. (so 24MW/min for a 900MW reactor). Sure, having a bit of pump
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by elproxy 6y ago
Yup, a lot of the conversation around energy and electricity feels like we're not at all talking about the same things. A book worth reading on the subject: https://www.withouthotair.com/
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by elproxy 6y ago
Not a technical problem, it's just that long term projects with large upfront investments end up costing a lot within the socio-economic system we have. These are societal choices. Do we collectively want low-carbon electricity, with p
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by elproxy 6y ago
That's a misread of Malthus: https://twitter.com/g_kallis/status/1285950145553731584?s=20 And in the meantime the state of science has evolved a bit. We have a better idea today where we stand on planetary bo

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