What Can a Technologist Do About Climate Change? (2015)
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What Can a Technologist Do About Climate Change? (2015)
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Re: What Can a Technologist Do About Climate Change? (2015)
#2Brilliant article. Four years have passed.
"Everything about today’s power grid, from this centralized control to the aging machinery performing transmission and distribution, is not suitable for clean energy."
Had the U.S. started on this 10 years ago, like China did, we'd be well on-the-way to ready. The author again calls for WW2-scale effort. The clock is ticking.
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#3The section on "model-driven debate" (http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/#media-debate) describes (and provides an example of) a mode of conversation that I have long wished was more common.
In particular it seems that the web should facilitate such model-driven debates, since these dynamic calculations can be embedded in the fabric of the conversation (the posts, articles, and documents that are being shared), where they would be more awkward to include in verbal/visual presentations/conversations.
I would love to see more of this, but alas it seems like an incredibly niche way of presenting ideas.
Re: What Can a Technologist Do About Climate Change? (2015)
#4Thread from February: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19259106
Re: What Can a Technologist Do About Climate Change? (2015)
#5Had not seen this though I am interested to anything Victor says, and climate change.
This looks like a lot of work went into it, and it seems to contain a lot of information. I wonder if there were an easy way to rank the innovations on various axes (most impactful for the environment, easiest, most profitable etc)
Re: What Can a Technologist Do About Climate Change? (2015)
#6Answer: quit Grievance Studies, enrol in Engineering. :)
Re: What Can a Technologist Do About Climate Change? (2015)
#7Technology will play a role in affecting a perilous recovery, it won't in the way most technologists think. We don't have time to "invent a fix", we can't bank on having fusion power magically suck carbon from the oceans and skies at the last moment. Or a sunshade to prevent the tundra from erupting in methane.
Technologists can help organize (via online tools), educate and show (via charts, graphs, simulations). This is ultimately a social and political problem that requires the full force of governments. Individual efforts are largely symbolic. Not that we shouldn't do them, but convincing your legislators to enact real reforms is where we avoid life ending catastrophe. We can have a huge impact, we just have to find the areas where we can have a 1000:1 advantage vs a 1.5:1 advantage.
Re: What Can a Technologist Do About Climate Change? (2015)
#8Technology will play a role in affecting a perilous recovery, it won't in the way most technologists think. We don't have time to "invent a fix", we can't bank on having fusion power magically suck carbon from the oceans and skies at the last moment. Or a sunshade to prevent the tundra from erupting in methane. Technologists can help organize (via online tools), educate and show (via charts, graphs, simulations). Thi…
We have time to invent a fix. We can’t continue to wait for a policy change to change the world.
Technologists have the opportunity to build new solutions, improve renewable energy efficiencies, hack direct air capture. Technology holds the keys for 10,000:1 advantages.
Anyone who is interested in this...shoot me an email.
Re: What Can a Technologist Do About Climate Change? (2015)
#9Technology will play a role in affecting a perilous recovery, it won't in the way most technologists think. We don't have time to "invent a fix", we can't bank on having fusion power magically suck carbon from the oceans and skies at the last moment. Or a sunshade to prevent the tundra from erupting in methane. Technologists can help organize (via online tools), educate and show (via charts, graphs, simulations). Thi…
>> Technologists can help organize (via online tools)
Please participate via https://www.yourstake.org
For example: https://www.yourstake.org/campaign/green-america-fossil-bank...
Re: What Can a Technologist Do About Climate Change? (2015)
#10Answer: quit Grievance Studies, enrol in Engineering. :)
Seriously! We’re not going to plant a trillion trees in the next few years by complaining.
We’re going to do it by inventing and executing.