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by strommen 7y ago
No. Less restrictions. Currently every area of a city is "zoned" for what is allowed to get built there. "Single family home" (SFH) zoning is the most common, and the strictest: it requires every building to be a house m
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by strommen 7y ago
Carbon credits vs. carbon tax isn't an either/or. Carbon tax discourages emitting carbon into into the atmosphere. Carbon credit encourages sucking carbon out of the atmosphere. Both are needed. One advantage to carbon credits i
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by strommen 7y ago
Abolish single family zoning. It's terrible for the planet, terrible for economic and racial equity, and terrible for our mental health.
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by strommen 7y ago
You're being super disingenuous here. The main priority of Germany's energy transition program was not to lower electricity carbon emissions; it was to phase out nuclear. They were far more worried about a 2nd Fukushima than globa
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by strommen 7y ago
I think you misunderstand the linked doc. Oak Ridge Electric Company, which is a tiny municipal utility that sources electricity from TVA, has 7.09% participation in its green pricing program (which presumably bypasses TVA). This has nothi
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by strommen 7y ago
Coal is dying in the US. There hasn't been a new power plant built in years , and facilities are getting retired early because it's cheaper to build new solar/wind than to run on coal. The bad news is that many of the coal p
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by strommen 8y ago
The reason why stuff like this (electrolysis, desalination, etc.) is not widely done is that the capital cost of the facilities is too high. If you spend a bunch of money on an electrolysis plant and only run it 10% of the time, you'll
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by strommen 8y ago
The battery in a Nissan LEAF is warranteed to retain 75% of its capacity for 8 years, 160,000 km. So there's a good chance you'd be on a 2nd battery, considering a 3rd at your stage. But on the upside, there's virtually none
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by strommen 8y ago
I don't see this as much of a problem. Drag coefficient on a Dodge Ram is 0.357; on a Prius it's 0.29. That's less than a 25% penalty on efficiency.
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by strommen 8y ago
The net effect is not even close to the same; it's far worse. Methane is ~36x more potent as a greenhouse gas over a 100-year timespan. This includes the eventual decay to CO2.
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by strommen 8y ago
Yes, paper degrades in a landfill. Any carbon-based stuff you put in a landfill generally degrades to methane, which is 25-86 times worse than CO2 when it comes to global warming. So recycle your paper :)
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by strommen 8y ago
Companies piling downtown helps the environment. It allows more people to live close by or commute via mass transportation. Suburban sprawl is the energy-intensive way of living. I've got an EV in Minneapolis (colder than Toronto but l
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by strommen 8y ago
2x cost for electric is not typical. The average cost premium is more like 10-15k (and the US government will allow you a $7,500 tax credit for the electric). Of course the top-selling electric vehicles (Tesla and Leaf) don't have a
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by strommen 8y ago
It's carbon neutral when plants decay to carbon dioxide. But they need oxygen for this to happen - and when they don't (like when they're underwater), they decay to methane. And methane is a greenhouse gas 20-80x more potent
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by strommen 8y ago
A company that converts clear-cut land to forest could earn money. There is an entire sector of the economy dedicated to voluntary carbon offsets, and re-forestation efforts are the primary supply. People and companies use these as a sort
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by strommen 8y ago
Climate science is absolutely "a fight between science and self-interested industry". The general scientific principle, that higher levels of CO2 in the air increases Earth's temperature, is supported by both evidence and the
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by strommen 9y ago
The suburbs are a happy medium. I have a nice yard, a quiet neighborhood, and can drive to any amenity I'd ever want in under 30 minutes. In the USA, quality of schools are another big plus for the suburbs over both rural and urban are
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by strommen 9y ago
> Lundgren claims that the assistant U.S. attorney on the case told him, “Microsoft wants your head on a platter and I’m going to give it to them.” Are you kidding me.
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by strommen 9y ago
When this loophole exists, it's tough to blame Google for not taking advantage of it. You may as well ask them to donate their profits to the federal government.
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by strommen 9y ago
China is moving unbelievably fast on electric vehicles. Their government is extremely motivated to stamp out air pollution, and there's nothing really stopping them. It's easy to spend lots of money on infrastructure when there
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by strommen 9y ago
Can't believe I had to scroll way down to find a comment that actually understood the article! There are new refrigerants called HFOs that are chemically-similar to HFCs, but do not exhibit the greenhouse effect. Ammonia and propane al
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by strommen 9y ago
CO2, and its interchangeably-used measure of CO2e (which is a sum of all greenhouse gases weighted based on how much they contribute to global warming) is the only pollutant that matters in this context. Our disposable-good society is a sma
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by strommen 9y ago
Electricians, plumbers, etc. all make very good money without 4- year degrees. But nobody aspires to these professions nowadays - everybody assumed they must go to university.
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by strommen 9y ago
The public universities don't cut capacity or quality - they raise costs. And the private colleges follow suit because they can.
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Why Uber lost $2.2B in 9 months(vox.com)
5 points by strommen 10y ago|0 comments
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by strommen 10y ago
I have to wonder what was going through the mind of somebody who selected the username "douche".
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by strommen 10y ago
Thanks for correcting me. And agreed about production vs investment tax credits. It's unfortunate that the first "victim" of renewable energy is going to be nuclear (another carbon-free energy source). The intermittent nature
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by strommen 10y ago
The federal government provides a tax credit for 30% of project cost for solar and wind. Unfortunately, this tax credit is non-refundable, meaning it can only be used to reduce your tax liability. This effectively means that in order to do
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by strommen 10y ago
For anybody who cares - the first iteration of temperature data supporting the 1940-70 cooldown period included only latitudes from 20 to 90 degrees North. When equatorial and southern-hemisphere data become available, it showed the cooling
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by strommen 10y ago
Have you checked out pjax? I believe it does the same thing. The biggest problem I've had trying to use stuff like this is that the page load events don't fire. And many pages run lots of JavaScript in these events.

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