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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
Pictures of highways in China
4:51 PM · Sep 21, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
All this driving does come at a human cost. In 2016, China had a road death rate of 18.8 per 100k people, which was 54% higher than America's rate of 12.2.
That's more than 260,000 road deaths in China every year,
1:26 AM · Sep 22, 2021
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Just in case you didn't realize China has a ton of roads and cars. 104.5 deaths per 100k motor vehicles per year, vs 14.2 in the United States.
Joey Banks@joeyabanks
It's incredible how fast screen technology is progressing. The Apple Watch now has a larger resolution than the original iPhone:
12:55 PM · Sep 22, 2021
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*not to scale.
Daniel Swain@Weather_West
Yet another reason why *intensity* of wildfires, which is increasing, is more important than the size of wildfires. Hotter, more intense fires burning in increasingly dry vegetation in many regions consume more biomass--produce larger & now globally significant carbon emissions.
𝕯𝖍𝖆𝖗𝖓𝖆 𝕹𝖔𝖔𝖗 @dharnanoor
globally, summer wildfires emitted more carbon than the entire country of india produces in one year. https://t.co/VDmiyOliZk
4:26 PM · Sep 22, 2021
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In a follow up, prescribed burns release far less carbon.
Kim-Mai Cutler@kimmaicutler
“Marin County water officials are competing with Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, to purchase three portable desalination plants to bolster water supplies.” https://t.co/ikchE5rHzF
CalMatters @CalMatters
California is running out of water https://t.co/pUVduBichC
4:46 PM · Sep 22, 2021
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Just build permanent ones, it's not like we're going to stop having drought issues.
Charlie Stross@cstross
Progress in lunar landing technology: how to build a solid landing pad FAST (that doesn't kick up abrasive regolith fragments that damage the lander):
masten.aero
Mitigating Lunar Dust: Masten Completes FAST Landing Pad Study
5:44 PM · Sep 22, 2021
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Instant landing pad!
Laura Foote 🌇@NeverSassyLaura
People in this thread trying to tell me there are cars in Star Trek need to watch more Next Gen and Voyager. The *utopia* parts of Star Trek are car-free.
Laura Foote 🌇 @NeverSassyLaura
It's amazing how basically every single fictional utopia is free of cars. From Star Trek to The Good Place, on some very deep level in society, we all know cars are bad.
8:43 PM · Sep 22, 2021
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Cars are dystopia! Also, she included her favorite Star Trek quote.
Saleha Mohsin@SalehaMohsin
NEW: Biden will to nominate Saule Omarova, a law professor who has criticized cryptocurrencies and advocated for the govt to have a much bigger role in banking, to run the OCC
Saule Omarova
w/@jesseahamilton + @benbain
More on @TheTerminal
9:26 PM · Sep 22, 2021
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Well this is certainly interesting.
Alex Trembath@atrembath
1. As most of us know, California water consumption is overwhelmingly dominated by agriculture. sfchronicle.com/local/article/…
10:53 PM · Sep 22, 2021
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Alex Trembath@atrembath
2. Both agricultural and urban water consumption have declined in absolute terms over the past 30 years, during which time the population increased by a third (keep this in mind whenever anyone tells you absolute decoupling isn't a thing). ppic.org/publication/wa…
10:53 PM · Sep 22, 2021
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Apparently water reduction for agriculture could reduce water usage by about 20%.
