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Tech has made things more efficient - the rewards of such are simply being funneled from the average person to the wealthy.

It sounds like one of the members of YMCA is a dipshit who insists it is not a gay anthem, and has been able to legally take the rights to the song and YMCA from the original members.

This is a proportional interpretation. The cost of data storage has absolutely plumetted since, say, 1990.

Oh fuck off dude.

Quite frankly we need a separate spending bill specifically targeting sustainable travel. I would say something like $2.5tn. (Real) high speed trains, commuter trains, trams, bike lanes, etc.

Except most people are not going to tolerate having a multiplicity of apps, and if people in your circle don’t already use signal, they definitely won’t now. Whereas previously, I was getting pretty decent traction from people slowly adding it.

If you mean “point and click” level of proficiency, sure.

Meh, maybe 10% of a single generation at most know how to use computers. Technically savvy millenials vastly overestimate how technically savvy other millenials are.

Listen, I am a huge urbanist, would love to see the US and the world transition to car-alternative transit modes. The reality is, cars are not disappearing. Even in the most transit friendly countries, cars still make up an enormous portion of the modes of travel. We need EVs as much as we need alternative modes to be feasible.

Agriculture accounts for 20% of the global emissions. Meat is the vast majority of that. It’s not divide and conquer, it is a reality (and the military contributes a lot to that as well, as they very much promote meat consumption).

This is not the function of the phone.

Batteries definitely do not cost the same.

They are not rare. It is the fastest growing energy production mode and is growing faster every year.

Residential installations lag behind the commercial due to installation costs, but they are blowing up as well. I can walk around my neighborhood and see a couple dozen homes with it.

It’s also highly regional. The further south in the northern hemisphere the more common.

Meh, this article really only discusses lithium ion and lead acid batteries. It is well known both of these are abysmal for grid storage, and are at best relatively expensive solutions for mobile energy.

There are already several energy storage solutions that are starting to be installed that aren’t these and that are far more cost effective. Flow batteries are an example. For the same cost as lithium ion we get 3x the energy storage and 3x the lifespan (and are essentially 100% refurbishable) for the same cost. They just come at a price of weight and volume (which isn’t a problem for most grid or residential storage). There are others as well.

The article does do a good job talking about thermal as a solution, and this is very true. They don’t talk about high temperature thermal energy storage, though that is admittedly more of an industrial use case.

I will also say thag more solar is also something that is compelling and interesting - meaning we significantly overbuild solar capacity to capture the majority of mismatch of demand vs supply. We often think about trying to build the minimum amount of solar to get to match the output we need, but in the end it is probably cheaper to massively outscale what we build vs what we need.

You made a generalized statement about carbon capture, which is unfortunately absolutely a necessary step we need to take.

• Trees last hundreds of years
• Trees die at differing times
• Trees are replaced by new trees as they die
• Trees support additional plant biomass

Trees are not the solution. The forest is the solution.

… Which is more reason to invest in carbon capture.

Direct carbon capture is a scam. Alternatives like biochar, enhanced basalt weathering, and reforesting are definitely not.

Its immensely difficult to convince your circle to download yet another app to message a handful of people. It is much easier to convince them to replace their SMS app.

This attitude results in the app never gaining any traction and losing what traction it had.