Climate Change

[Mythe_Seraph]

Yes, I already commented about this earlier in the thread. It's certainly a problem for worldwide EV adoption.

Worldwide.

Yeah, worldwide, which is who CA will be competing with, namely China and India. And all three of these places are going to be competing with a foreign location for raw materials. This is optimal? Not at all. Hence the need for innovation. Technology is the first hurdle.

[dasva]

Didn't everyone think California was crazy back in 2011 to set a target of 33% of in state energy generation was going to be from renewable sources by 2020? Well it's happening ahead of schedule.

Yeah but the are also planning on shutting down the last nuclear plant by 2020 and the last one before that that got shut down resulted in a huge jump in gas usage for energy generation (which always happens anywhere that does that) while being the most expensive energy prices in the nation outside of Hawaii. If we want to follow the Chinese example of going greener we'd be expanding nuclear as well....

[archibaldcrane]

2024-2025 actually is when Diablo Canyon's reactors are being (incredibly fucking stupidly) shuttered, not 2020.

[Day]

We, uh, did it fam

this is good actually once we use it all up and the earth dies or whatever we can start making batteries

[Greatguardian]

Yeah, worldwide, which is who CA will be competing with, namely China and India. And all three of these places are going to be competing with a foreign location for raw materials. This is optimal? Not at all. Hence the need for innovation. Technology is the first hurdle.

That's why this law is great. Now any team of researchers competing for a grant to work on battery tech can turn around and say "y'all need this shit pronto so just give us the money and we'll get to work."

[Mythe_Seraph]

That's why this law is great. Now any team of researchers competing for a grant to work on battery tech can turn around and say "y'all need this shit pronto so just give us the money and we'll get to work."

Yeah, totally man. They can probably make tons of money recycling the hydrogen highways they have to tear down to make room for the new electric ones.

[Rooney]

2024-2025 actually is when Diablo Canyon's reactors are being (incredibly fucking stupidly) shuttered, not 2020.

This is a big part of why my current project has to be built by then.

[archibaldcrane]

Whatcha doin my man?

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[Rooney]

Major upgrade to one of the larger stations in the vicinity. More of a ripple effect of the closing, but the construction dates are now set in stone because of it. We also have a bunch of solar stations going up nearby as well that are on extremely expedited schedules.

[archibaldcrane]

Gotcha.

[6souls]

https://blogs.mprnews.org/updraft/20...h-methane-gas/

Arctic lakes are releasing large amounts of methane gas as permafrost thaws.

Katey Walter Anthony has studied some 300 lakes across the tundras of the Arctic. But sitting on the mucky shore of her latest discovery, the Arctic expert said she’d never seen a lake like this one.

Set against the austere peaks of the Western Brooks Range, the lake, about 20 football fields in size, looked as if it were boiling. Its waters hissed, bubbled and popped as a powerful greenhouse gas escaped from the lake bed. Some bubbles grew as big as grapefruits, visibly lifting the water’s surface several inches and carrying up bits of mud from below.

This was methane.

As the permafrost thaws across the fast-warming Arctic, it releases carbon dioxide, the top planet-warming greenhouse gas, from the soil into the air. Sometimes, that thaw spurs the growth of lakes in the soft, sunken ground, and these deep-thawing bodies of water tend to unleash the harder-hitting methane gas.

But not this much of it. This lake, which Walter Anthony dubbed Esieh Lake, looked different. And the volume of gas wafting from it could deliver the climate system another blow if lakes like this turn out to be widespread.

[archibaldcrane]

https://twitter.com/eilperin/status/...001562112?s=19

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[Salodin]

Thought this was the scotus thread and was laughing at how this is what they use to distract from this nomination.

Now I'm not laughing =(.

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[Roranora]

no evidence -> not enough evidence -> hoax -> futility and hopelessness

[Zetanio]

try not to kill the earth, fail miserably, kill the earth a lot.

[Roranora]

just our own habitable space.. and that of many other members of the plant and animal kingdoms

but i tell you whyut, them jellyfish are happily awaiting their rapidly approaching reign

[TsingTao]

Octopii man, they're the real smarty pantsu of the sea. When we flood hundreds of miles of coastline they will be the ones that learn to use our waterlogged devices to get an extra leg up the evolutionary ladder.

Mark my words...when hordes of octopii can crawl in to a flooded WalMart, grab all the cutlery, and gut whoever fucks with them you will see the next dominant species. Jellyfish will toe the line.

[Probably not, but it's an amusing mental distraction from all the supreme court fuckery]

[Zealot]

No octopii are super smart and human beings are as garbage before them should they ever organize.

[zoobernut]

no evidence -> not enough evidence -> hoax -> futility and hopelessness

I am pretty sure I said this would be their tactic many pages ago. Too lazy to find it but it seems like an easy strategy for them to take at this point.

[Twilight Sky]

Octopii man, they're the real smarty pantsu of the sea. When we flood hundreds of miles of coastline they will be the ones that learn to use our waterlogged devices to get an extra leg up the evolutionary ladder.

Mark my words...when hordes of octopii can crawl in to a flooded WalMart, grab all the cutlery, and gut whoever fucks with them you will see the next dominant species. Jellyfish will toe the line.

[Probably not, but it's an amusing mental distraction from all the supreme court fuckery]

I want to see this shit happen now.