Climate Change

[PB]

If you live on the coast, you should be sweating bullets: https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/20/clima...ntl/index.html

[The SnowShow]

^^^and yet people will put their heads in the sand or they’ll act like it’s climate change fear porn.

[MagnificentUnicorn]

If you live on the coast, you should be sweating bullets: https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/20/clima...ntl/index.html

I wish no one personal harm but this is what the world needs.


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[BCMtnHound]

I wish no one personal harm but this is what the world needs.

While a lot of NA coastline is lined with the temporary abodes of the upper classes, most of the population of the coastline in the world is populated by the very poor. Who will suffer disproportionally far more than the wealthy ‘cottage’ owners. I’ll give your statement the benefit of the doubt, but I don’t think it’ll have the change effect you think it will.

[MagnificentUnicorn]

While a lot of NA coastline is lined with the temporary abodes of the upper classes, most of the population of the coastline in the world is populated by the very poor. Who will suffer disproportionally far more than the wealthy ‘cottage’ owners. I’ll give your statement the benefit of the doubt, but I don’t think it’ll have the change effect you think it will.

That’s true but the cost for the maritime industry will be catastrophic. We need a wake up call, we have a very hard time making meaningful change until something awful happens.


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[The SnowShow]

That’s true but the cost for the maritime industry will be catastrophic. We need a wake up call, we have a very hard time making meaningful change until something awful happens.


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If Miami is suddenly underwater, will that be enough? Or do we also need NYC, Boston, San Diego, New Orleans?

[MagnificentUnicorn]

Miami and NO will suffer the most. I think large areas of NYC, Boston and San Diego will be above water


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[The SnowShow]

126.1° in Delhi today, highest ever recorded in India. Terrifying.

[Bunion 2020]

No no nope. Its all marketing hype, not human caused and a plot to make the 1st world into the 3rd world.

[The AD]

126.1° in Delhi today, highest ever recorded in India. Terrifying.

But it's a dry heat.

[xyz]

If you live on the coast, you should be sweating bullets: https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/20/clima...ntl/index.html

Yup, run for the hills!!

Here is 110 years of sea level data in my area. The green line is the rate of change required to meet the 2050 climate predictions, from my local university. Trust the science!

[skaredshtles]

126.1° in Delhi today, highest ever recorded in India. Terrifying.

tHaT'S WeAtHeR NoT ClImAtE!!

[Trackhead]

Lithium in fracking water?
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-58887-x

[fomofo]

There definitely are problems with renewables, and ultimately they will probably remain a second tier energy source, but will still be significant in their contribution. Ultimately nuclear fission/fusion seems like the obvious replacement for oil, and yet resistance remains high and will continue to do so.

Bill Gates agrees with you, and would like to tell you all about it.



Interesting piece, but I wish Margaret Brennan would of asked him a couple of additional questions...

1) What are you gonna do with the nuclear waste?

2) Would you build one of these in Medina?

[PB]

Nuclear waste disposal: space elevator with disposable cabins that can slingshot NW into sun.

<<spitball>>.

[Cocximus]

The nuclear waste we have is from outdated nuclear reactors. We have better technologies despite low R&D.

[fomofo]

I’m sure the technology is improving over time, but there is very little info on Gates’ reactor’s web site other than the new design “reduces the volume of waste produced”.

Details forthcoming, I guess.

Quick Google search finds this...

As with Generation II and III reactors, the non-reusable fission products, or waste, from Generation IV reactors will also have to be disposed of safely and stored permanently. The same applies to the waste that will result from the decommissioning of these reactors at the end of their lives.

https://www.polytechnique-insights.c...ation-reactor/

[californiagrown]

Nuclear waste disposal: space elevator with disposable cabins that can slingshot NW into sun.

<<spitball>>.

We arent creating a bunch of brand new highly radioactive material for reactors/bombs, we are simply taking a shitton of barely radioactive material and concentrating it down (enriching it). So, lets figure out an efficient way to dillute and disperse it back into the environment, mimicking its original state. The solution to pollution is dilution is accurate, done at appropriate scale. Heck, im pretty sure that the spent fuel and radioactive waste has less radioactivity than the fuel when it was new, so we dont even need to dilute it over the same volume of material that it was extracted from.

If we dump radioactive waste into a volcano, would the radioactive elements sink, or float? Id assume sink, as i think of them as heavy. So if we dump the waste in, the radioactive elements would just sink down away from the surface lava and back into the earths core. Lets just dump waste into a nice stable volcano that has a super low chance of violently erupting.


Yer welcome. Problems all solved.

[k2skier112]

^that sounds like some coreshit conspiracy theories

[californiagrown]

^that sounds like some coreshit conspiracy theories

Maybe chemtrails are just the governments nuclear waste dilution program. It was never about mind control. Alright, im done.


We do need to start throwing more money into Nuclear fusion technology. Its has been accomplished a few times now (on really small scales) and that is something that could legit solve all energy problems because of the vast amount of energy created from such tiny particles. It could have huge implications for not only here on earth with super computing, "clean" energy, etc, but also for powering space travel. I would really like to see that one crazy billionaire throw his considerable resources behind a worldwide push to advance this technology, instead of spending 50billion to be the king internet troll.

[k2skier112]

Fusion will be a hudge breakthrough

[skaredshtles]

Fusion will be a hudge breakthrough

IMO, fusion along with a battery breakthrough will be the killer-pair.

Though, as humans, we're likely to still fuck things up even if energy problems are "solved."

[Cocximus]

Sure, I don't see a problem managing our nuclear waste through dilution. We're doing it with our carbon.

[californiagrown]

Sure, I don't see a problem managing our nuclear waste through dilution. We're doing it with our carbon.

Not diluted enough. Need to spread that carbon back into the earth where it was previously stored instead of injecting it into the air.

The solution, to pollution, is dilution. If you still have pollution, you aint got enough dilution. We just haven't figured out dilution at an appropriate scale yet. And also, shooting "pollution", whether is nuclear waste, etc, into the sun or deep space might be a bad idea as it would remove elements and compounds from the earth's relatively stable geochemical systems/cycles with no way to ever get them back short of asteroid mining i guess. So we should really either go all in on the high impact-high replacement strategy, or go all in on the low impact-low replacement strategy. Low impact seems like less work and less risky.

[PB]

Sure, I don't see a problem managing our nuclear waste through dilution. We're doing it with our carbon.

Plastics, too! We're hiding them in penises!