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Ok - carbon dioxide removal is going to be needed to meet to the 2 degree C target too. Sure, you can reforest or afforest with whatever trees you want. It certainly will help but …

According to the IPCC, to meet the 1.5 degree C target we need to be doing 6 GtCO2 of carbon dioxide removal per year by 2050. It would be very difficult to reach that scale with r…

One reason cooling is used is to protect the Li-ion or lead acid batteries in the uninterruptible power supplies that provide backup power to the servers. Both Li-ion and lead acid…

A portion of parents are very worried about Covid in their children. These parents have sway with school administrators and local governments. All I am saying is that I doubt we ge…

Yes - which why I doubt we will see full "reopening" everywhere until they open up boosters to everyone and provide time for people who want them to get them.

I could see things starting to really ease up once all children have had a chance to be vaccinated and everyone else has had a chance to get their 6 month booster shot.

1) A large increase in evictions will mostly affect the rental market. There would be some single family home rentals affected, but mostly it would affect apartments. A lot of home…

One group of people playing soccer, football, or baseball can take up almost the entire turf space in a small popular park. Think of Dolores Park is SF. On weekends it's packed wit…

Many of the rapidly growing Phoenix suburbs are projected to find themselves in trouble with regards to water resources in the future. These suburbs have met their 100+ years of wa…

It's similar in California. In the years leading up to the big Santa Cruz mountain fire in 2020, the scientists and forest rangers were aware of the increasing amount of fuel build…

Much of the forest in CA is managed by the US Forest Service, so you can't blame CA officials for everything. Plus, you can only safely do controlled burns in certain weather windo…

Yea, you are right about the 2% interest rates changing the breakdown. I was referencing numbers I ran back when rates were 3-4%. That said, most folks still rely on 30 years mortg…

The first several years of the mortgage you are paying mostly interest and not as much towards equity. Plus, you have paid closing costs when you bought, will pay 6% to a realtor w…

Yep, that starter pack looks good. Love that they include a 6 speed driver instead of a 9 speed!

People who throw really hard probably benefit from the higher speed discs, but there are also very good players that drive 9 speeds. Advanced players will carry a variety of driver…

Just in case anyone reads the article or comments here and decides they want to try out disc golf, here's a tip... DO NOT go out and buy a high speed driver disc (speed >9) to use …

There are regulations governing the size and shape of the discs, so that type of modification would likely be illegal. But also, it would probably destroy the aerodynamics

The distinction is important when you think about how and whether or not to combat the issue. If general prices are rising due to runaway inflation and rising wages (like in the US…

None of this vision would work for a variety of reasons, but the biggest one is that insurance companies are not going to agree to pay for medications that are not proven effective…

They will face two big challenges trying to make these for stationary storage: 1) Lifetime - Historically aluminum ion batteries struggle with cycle life. The aluminum ions are big…

Also, this statement is very strange: > Testing by peer-reviewed specialist publication Advanced Functional Materials publication concluded the cells had “outstanding high-rate per…

I'll be convinced there is a serious inflation problem if broad-based measures show inflation >3% in 12 months time. In the meantime, a lot of the price increases cited by individu…

Much of the available data is only pointing to inflation being on the order of 2.5% in the coming years. This is hardly the runaway inflation scenario many are predicting and is cl…

Another issue is rail capacity for transporting lumber from sawmills. Even if the sawmills were able to ramp up and massively increase their supply, we could run into a bottleneck …

In that case, then your manager could not support you going remote and require you to come back. If that were the case, I would understand (though it would be a bummer for you). I …