Favorites August 1 2021
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Having my work machine be 20 feet from my bed probably doesn't help either.
No free lunches: "Producing a solar panel in China creates around twice as much carbon dioxide as making it in Europe"
Behind the Rise of U.S. Solar Power, a Mountain of Chinese Coal wsj.com/articles/behin… /v @edward_tenner
So, despite this, obviously either way, if the panels get used, they'll be taking carbon out of the atmosphere on net. Theoretically if they keep driving the price down, it'll make their own coal power plants uncompetative to use. If you want to read more, I found this article with more data, although I have no idea how accurate the analysis is.
This is actually a good idea.
Channel all that nationalistic competitive energy into something that's both visually interesting and technologically useful.
The Engineering Olympiads, kind of like the Math and Science Olympiads, but for the physical world.
CoolPineapple ∞ @CoolPineapple18
This is a cool idea, although I suspect the reason we can't build trains and subways faster is complex approval processes, which are even harder to make competative games about.
Let’s try that again. The CDC says, as of yesterday, 346,456,669 total vaccine doses have been administered. That’s about 816,203 more than the day before. This is the fifth straight day of recording more than 700,000 shots in arms.
This is good to see!
gotta watch this to the end, it's only 45 seconds.
