Aesthesiaphilia

Aesthesiaphilia , 10 months ago to technology in Study: Carbon offsets aren’t doing their job, overstate impact

The carbon tax is supposed to (partially) go towards credits for EVs

Aesthesiaphilia , 10 months ago to technology in Study: Carbon offsets aren’t doing their job, overstate impact

All the IPCC models assume massive amounts of sequestration, I believe

It's a necessity at this point, even if all fossil fuel use stops globally tomorrow

Aesthesiaphilia , 10 months ago to technology in Study: Carbon offsets aren’t doing their job, overstate impact

If the overall goal is to increase the human population, it actually makes total sense

If the goal is to prevent murders, then no, it doesn't make sense

Aesthesiaphilia , 10 months ago to technology in Study: Carbon offsets aren’t doing their job, overstate impact

There's plenty of EVs with 300+ miles of range now. Shouldn't be an issue.

Aesthesiaphilia , 10 months ago to technology in Study: Carbon offsets aren’t doing their job, overstate impact

carbon sequestration is not ever going to work

I don't know what you're talking about, it's a thing that is currently being done. Not some future hypothetical tech.

But yes it is too expensive for now. Costs are coming down hopefully that continues to be the case.

And yes, the best, cheapest, most efficient way to reduce ghg is to eliminate fossil fuels.

Aesthesiaphilia , 10 months ago to technology in Study: Carbon offsets aren’t doing their job, overstate impact

Instead of offsets, companies should be pursuing direct carbon sequestration like with https://climeworks.com/

No estimates, no accounting magic. Just a direct measure of physical, measurable tons of carbon directly removed from the atmosphere.

Aesthesiaphilia , 10 months ago to technology in Apple security updates could be banned by British government

Surveillance state.

Aesthesiaphilia , 10 months ago to technology in Data center water usage remains hidden

For California at least, residential use is about 10% of all water usage iirc. So if data centers are dwarfed by that...not a big concern in the big picture.

The issue I guess is when data center usage sucks up all the local supply. State and region wide they don't use much but they do use a lot in one small area.

Aesthesiaphilia , 10 months ago to technology in Data center water usage remains hidden

Water is extremely important in most large scale cooling systems, whether it be swamp coolers (aka evaporative cooling) or traditional HVAC (aka chillers).

Aesthesiaphilia , 10 months ago to technology in Data center water usage remains hidden

Not to mention a much higher carbon footprint.

The reason evaporative coolers are cheap is because they use a fraction of the electricity that chillers do.

And note that the majority of data center water usage is indirect via power generation, so using less water on site but more indirectly by consuming more power is both more expensive and less efficient.

Unfortunately, evaporative coolers are the best way to go, for now.

Aesthesiaphilia , 10 months ago to technology in Data center water usage remains hidden

Screw data centers, I want to see desalination combined with nuclear power plants. They literally generate power by boiling water, it's a match made in heaven.

We just need a few more advances in technology to remove impurities from brine and we'd also corner the table salt market.

Aesthesiaphilia , 10 months ago to news in Hawaii fire survivors urged to submit DNA to help identify victims

I hate the fact that those dna samples will 100% end up in a government database of bioanalytics used to further spy on citizens.

Aesthesiaphilia , 10 months ago to workreform in What the electric car transition really means for autoworkers

100%. One of the reasons I didn't join a union as a skilled worker is that I don't want to be locked into doing the same exact thing for the rest of my career.

Aesthesiaphilia , 10 months ago to workreform in UPS workers approve 5-year contract, with 86% of votes cast in favor

Good for them! I'm glad they got an excellent contract!

But we need to keep in mind that "and benefits" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. I looked at the contract, the pay is something like 30-40 an hour. Good, definitely a living wage, but not $170,000 good. People see that number and think it's the salary.

Aesthesiaphilia , 10 months ago to til in TIL researchers at a base in Antarctica started to develop a new accent

I was so busy imagining Cher trying to lick her own pussy that I almost didn't see the tiny waist part