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Not sure if this other scandal has a name yet, but it's basically a combined diesel+petrolgate, and certainly involves more than just VW: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/…

I'm not sure this is bad news for Tesla, I'd say it's mostly bad news for the rest of us. Tesla has reached enough scale to be more or less sustainable (in the sense that they don'…

Yes, we've got this on our shower drain. In this configuration it does better than a degree or two, recovering some 50% of the heat, in fact.

I think when I did the numbers for our heat pump, a catastrophic leak that would release all its refrigerant would result in a GHG contribution equivalent to a year of emissions fr…

You could do some heat recovery from the sewer, but it would be a yucky affair - they already tend to clog even without heat sink fins in them :) Here are some calculations suggest…

> Enriching the soil with compost also helps increase fertility. As a result, the overall size of vegetables increases, diluting the amount of lead they contain. The effects of usi…

Yes but going by these numbers, even 1 hour of use a day would produce a marginal profit on every scooter added. An hour sounds attainable. And coming up with clever operations hac…

> Like one would say, what about the effects of water vapor on climate change? Is that a skeptics' thing? The answer is, water vapour is yet another positive feedback. https://www.…

> Perhaps it's not. AMZN is a for-profit entity. Their shareholders come first. Profit comes first. The good news is that that's a myth, apparently: https://www.nytimes.com/roomfor…

They limit themselves to only those solutions which have been vetted by the scientific process, and that could be readily implemented with currently available technology. In a way …

I'd recommend reading The Procrastination Equation. It sets out a simple model of how your brain makes these choices, and makes it clear what all the levers are to help you "game" …

The context for that quote was missing I think (that is, missing from the original article, not your comment), but it makes more sense if they're talking about turning rock into fe…

If we're to believe https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601514/germany-runs-up-ag... then the Germans didn't quite "have to [...] start building coal fired plants", but they have tr…

Indeed this is due to missing options in the installer: with some manual fiddling, it's long been possible to make grub boot from encrypted disk (thus removing the need for a separ…

I did, but I (perhaps naively) took it as someone cheerfully geeking out about something cool their friends built, and which they're now interfacing with. I do appreciate you're po…

Thanks very much for this. Based on the one or two private individuals featuring on both lists, I'm inclined to think your original post was exceedingly strongly worded.

I couldn't decide whether to up- or downvote this: it sounds like equal parts 1) information worth bringing to people's attention and 2) slandering a team that seem really nice fel…

> Eating less meat or a carbon tax (i.e taxing the working poor) is not a solution. As for taxing the poor, that's fixable: the legislation should have all revenues from a carbon t…