ya_throw

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by ya_throw 5y ago
>What do you think causes viral pneumonia? Clue's in the name. A respiratory virus, of which there are many. >covid-19 variants are generally more contagious than the flu, so mask and social-distancing policies that are somewhat
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by ya_throw 5y ago
I don't think you understand how the maths works. The EROEI of nuclear is 106, by the link I previously provided. The very best solar installations have an EROEI of 7. That means nuclear gives 106/7 = 15x more energy output than s
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by ya_throw 5y ago
Not sure how you can say that, when almost every comment I've ever made to you has had some kind of calculation in it. Sounds like it is you who is attempting to dismiss arguments with hand-waving. How can solar possibly be cheaper per
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by ya_throw 5y ago
Just fine, if you're happy with approximately 1/4th the energy output for a given (manufacturing) energy input. And that's for the best case, for certain wind power installations. Solar is the worst, at about 1/15th the
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by ya_throw 5y ago
There absolutely is - it's called energy returned on energy invested.
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by ya_throw 5y ago
I don't even care about the cost of the land, it's the mind-boggling amount of solar panels that would need to be manufactured to fill it. Have a think about how the panels would get shipped and fitted in this proposed facility -
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by ya_throw 5y ago
I already did. We will never be able to find out how many people specifically died of Covid, and how many died of a viral pneumonia, thanks to the changes in death reporting guidelines that I linked. I find it absurd to believe that flu &qu
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by ya_throw 5y ago
Do you really think that our current lifestyle is at all sustainable, without using nuclear power? So far, you have suggested that we build several 1000 square miles of solar panels, and dedicate 90 billion kg of carbon-containing materia
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by ya_throw 5y ago
Now there's where we get into interesting territory. The UK significantly relaxed regulations around March 2020, and basically made it very easy to put "Covid" on death certificates. The requirement for a coroner's repor
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by ya_throw 5y ago
Fascinating argument, but unfortunately, we are doomed. That is, unless we go nuclear. Apart from that, there is nowhere near enough energy or resources to maintain our current lifestyle (and that's ignoring the fact that the vast majo
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by ya_throw 5y ago
Do you have a source for that? Assuming we use the hydrogen conversion process you mentioned, and have fitted the 1000's of square miles of solar panels it would need - I find it hard to believe that the US throws away 90 billion kg of
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by ya_throw 5y ago
Which will make fuel much more expensive, and thus less consumed (which is really what is needed). Obviously that will also mean poor people can't travel very far, but what are you going to do about that? Maybe just hand out a universa
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by ya_throw 5y ago
Using the advertised final cost of electricity is, in my opinion, a useless way to work out the sustainability of any power source. It is skewed beyond usefulness by government incentives, tax breaks, etc etc. If we're talking about re
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by ya_throw 5y ago
Arguably the Amazon rainforest isn't competing with food supply, at least on a global scale. The UK has only just started reversing the almost complete deforestation it experienced due to human demand for fuel and materials. Once you s
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by ya_throw 5y ago
Generating 500g hydrogen requires 25kWh (and a perfectly-efficient electrolyser would require 20kWh). One gallon of fuel has about 40kWh of energy available. To put it another way - by this proposed system, assuming 35mpg, an annual persona
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by ya_throw 5y ago
It's bogus that jet fuel can be renewable, at least in anywhere near the quantity we currently use. Mainly because the amount of arable land needed is staggering, and we already are destroying virgin rainforest just to feed the world.
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by ya_throw 5y ago
How much hydrogen do you need (eg, per final gallon of jet fuel), and where does that come from?
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by ya_throw 5y ago
By "article", you mean "marketing blub from someone trying to sell you something". Ultimately, all of those "sustainable" feedstocks will have to be grown. As my quick maths points out, the size of the field we
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by ya_throw 5y ago
>They'd also know that pretty much the only condition we're treating nowadays is Covid. Do you have a source for that? The percentage of Covid patients in ICU wards in the UK peaked at somewhere near 30% for a short period in J
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by ya_throw 5y ago
The UK Government Covid death statistics literally say "deaths with Covid", and are defined as "deaths within 28 days of a positive test". So it is true, and always has been. https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk&#x
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by ya_throw 5y ago
This is completely bogus. The ever-increasing global demand for soy foodstock is already accelerating the destruction of tropical rainforests - how is it all sustainable to burn huge amounts of foodstock that so we can enjoy making the worl
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by ya_throw 5y ago
Who gets to decide the "legitimacy" of a chain? Some document, or the participants?
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by ya_throw 5y ago
Practically all of our "green" solutions rely on the fact that their energy-intensive manufacturing is done somewhere with lots of cheap (and polluting) energy sources. Show me a wind-powered lithium battery factory and I'll
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by ya_throw 5y ago
How much electricity does this contraption need to generate, before it's accounted for its own embodied energy (that is, the power needed to manufacture it)? Probably more than anyone would ever actually use one.
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by ya_throw 5y ago
1. I absolutely hate the chatty style when it's used to spread the description of a js API over many tedious pages, let alone when it's used for a scientific subject like this one. 2. >SARS CoV2 has a stable genome, its genetic
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by ya_throw 5y ago
Approaching the point? IMHO, we passed that point long ago, probably as early as May 2020. We're just into super-extra-bonus destruction of social, economic, cultural, and education systems now.
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by ya_throw 5y ago
> keep more context in your head. That's the point. I call it "knowing what you need to be in control of your life". > It's ten times more difficult to adapt to changes without information at hand. I understand - f
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by ya_throw 5y ago
I switched to a real dumb phone (Nokia 105) as part of a lockdown project to re-focus my life and reduce my personal dependence on technology (which I strongly believe mostly gets in the way of being an effectual and productive human). One
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by ya_throw 5y ago
https://www.bicyclerepairman.cc/laymans_guide/
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by ya_throw 5y ago
Most PCI cellular modems are actually USB devices, or at least can be put into USB mode.

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