Major nuclear fusion milestone reached as ‘ignition’ triggered in a lab

Post by drdeca » Fri, Oct 15, 2021, 4:42 AM UTC

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> Doubling the population will make things worse in 40 years. How is this hard? Double chickens? Double cows? Double coal plants? wtf? lol. You are the fool. Trying googling "when does population double". Ooooff. 1. The population isn't projected to double even in the next century much less the next 40 years. In the next eighty years, the population is expected to increase by only 40%. If you took your own advice ("G…

Ok! I will google for you. "a doubling time of 49 years" https://theconversation.com/7-5-billion-and-counting-how-man... "You're incorrectly assuming that the greenhouse gas emissions scales linearly with the population size *even as the emissions per MWh approaches zero." No it will not be linear. If you have a population that is exponential.

Post by engineer_22 » Sun, Oct 24, 2021, 9:34 PM UTC

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Building households in a desert isn't much better than farming in a desert....

They were diverting water from regular farms in the Sacramento delta to almond farms. The delta farmers were naturally upset. The diversion was actually being pushed at the federal level, but Sacramento successfully fought back. Almonds also do not respond well to periods of drought since the trees need to be watered each and every year. Annual crops can be rotated based on water availability.