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  1. mspohr

    We must face facts - meat is the problem

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/18/bewildering-to-omit-meat-eating-reduction-from-un-climate-plan?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other The omission of meat-eating reduction from proposals in a UN roadmap to tackle the climate crisis and end hunger is “bewildering”, according to academic...
  2. mspohr

    We must face facts - meat is the problem

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/18/banks-driving-increase-in-global-meat-and-dairy-production-report-finds?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other Billion-dollar financing is driving unsustainable increases in global meat and dairy production, a report has found. Global meat production...
  3. mspohr

    Discussion: Powershare [V2X feature currently announced for Cybertruck]

    Thank you very much for this detailed response. You clearly have a better knowledge of the field and have some good comments. I have just a few clarifications: Standard home hybrid inverters include an AC disconnect so a gateway is not needed. I debated whether or not to connect the wall...
  4. mspohr

    We must face facts - meat is the problem

    https://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cncr.35172 Plant-based diet associated with better quality of life in prostate cancer survivors A higher plant-based diet index was associated with better scores for sexual function, urinary irritation/obstruction, urinary incontinence...
  5. mspohr

    Prediction: Coal has fallen. Nuclear is next then Oil.

    https://www.juancole.com/2024/03/first-nations-levels.html The IEA found that emissions from the advanced economies actually fell in 2023, although global emissions increased slightly, by 1.1%. The report says, “After falling by around 4.5% in 2023, emissions in advanced economies were lower...
  6. mspohr

    Prediction: Coal has fallen. Nuclear is next then Oil.

    As long as we allow corporation to bribe politicians, we'll have this corruption.
  7. mspohr

    Prediction: Coal has fallen. Nuclear is next then Oil.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/14/climate/exim-financing-biden-bahrain-oil.html?unlocked_article_code=1.c00.kR-I.EmxVRokwn-ld&smid=url-share A federal bank that finances projects overseas voted Thursday to put $500 million toward an oil and gas project in Bahrain, a transaction that critics...
  8. mspohr

    Discussion: Powershare [V2X feature currently announced for Cybertruck]

    Here's my idea for a simplified universal Powershare system. This utilizes a commonly available Hybrid Solar Inverter and only requires a Wall Connector with the ability to switch from AC input to DC output. I realize this is far from what Tesla is offering with their own Power walls and...
  9. mspohr

    We must face facts - meat is the problem

    https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2024/mar/14/how-to-eat-enough-protein?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other Meat production is hard on the planet. According to one 2021 study, meat accounts for nearly 60% of all greenhouse gases from global food production. Not only do livestock produce methane, but...
  10. mspohr

    Prediction: Coal has fallen. Nuclear is next then Oil.

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/15/money-carbon-credits-zimbabwe-conservation-aoe?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other These communities fall within the vast, lucrative Kariba conservation project, encompassing an area almost the size of Puerto Rico. It is among the largest in a...
  11. mspohr

    Prediction: Coal has fallen. Nuclear is next then Oil.

    https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2024-1-spring/feature/climate-science-deniers-fossil-fuel-shills-plot-against-green-energy?tum_campaign=sierramagdigital
  12. mspohr

    Prediction: Coal has fallen. Nuclear is next then Oil.

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/14/geoengineering-must-be-urgently-investigated-experts-say?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other Scientists must work urgently on predicting the effects of climate geoengineering, the chief of the US atmospheric science agency has said, as the technology...
  13. mspohr

    Prediction: Coal has fallen. Nuclear is next then Oil.

    Lithium prices are dropping back to pre-pandemic levels as more production comes online.
  14. mspohr

    Prediction: Coal has fallen. Nuclear is next then Oil.

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/14/geoengineering-must-be-urgently-investigated-experts-say?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other Scientists must work urgently on predicting the effects of climate geoengineering, the chief of the US atmospheric science agency has said, as the technology...
  15. mspohr

    Discussion: Powershare [V2X feature currently announced for Cybertruck]

    Three Backup Gateways trying to coordinate.
  16. mspohr

    Discussion: Powershare [V2X feature currently announced for Cybertruck]

    It strikes me as overly complicated to switch all of these AC sources and drains. I think it would be less complicated and more efficient to just keep everything DC from and to the car battery. Standard Hybrid inverters can do the grid/ load switching when AC is needed.
  17. mspohr

    Autonomous Car Progress

    Interesting. Looks like they are adopting Teslas approach. But, they have far less training data. Unlike traditional methods, e2e Embodied AI is built on the premise of learning how to drive from rich and extensive exposure to recordings of driving in various environments end-to-end—from...
  18. mspohr

    Prediction: Coal has fallen. Nuclear is next then Oil.

    https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/13/us-gas-leaks-report-climate-change?CMP=share_btn_url US oil and natural gas wells, pipelines and compressors are spewing three times the amount of the potent heat-trapping gas methane as the government has determined, causing $9.3bn in yearly...
  19. mspohr

    Prediction: Coal has fallen. Nuclear is next then Oil.

    In thinking about this, my houses have a crawl space with easy access to drains. Would be easy to wrap a cold water supply line and insulation around the drain pipe to preheat. Our water supply in winter is very cold so there could be substantial gain.
  20. mspohr

    We must face facts - meat is the problem

    https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2024/03/some-academics-get-funding-for-propping-up-the-livestock-industry/ But as the public has been whipsawed over its findings, new research says it has become increasingly clear why. Since the publication of the UN report, the livestock industry has...
  21. mspohr

    We must face facts - meat is the problem

    The first world is dependent on an industrial food chain. Lots of first world people are living on the margins, not abundance. They end up consuming more of the poor quality industrial food since that's all that is available. Democracy has nothing to do with it.
  22. mspohr

    Electrify Everything

    https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/mar/12/how-did-norway-become-the-electric-car-superpower-oil-money-civil-disobedience-and-morten-from-a-ha?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other So, in 1989, Røstvik and three similarly environmentally concerned friends imported an electric car, probably the...
  23. mspohr

    Climate Change / Global Warming Discussion

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/13/seven-times-size-of-manhattan-the-african-tree-planting-project-making-a-difference?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other In a world of monoculture cash crops, an innovative African project is persuading farmers to plant biodiverse forest gardens that...
  24. mspohr

    We must face facts - meat is the problem

    First world diet includes lots of processed food, toxic additives, saturated fat, and sugar. I wouldn't wish this diet on anyone. A healthy diet includes sufficient protein and calories without the unhealthy components of an industrialized diet. The world could indeed feed twice as many people...
  25. mspohr

    We must face facts - meat is the problem

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/13/texas-wildfire-cattle-ranchers-climate-crisis?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other For the cattlemen, though, it’s the livestock and the landscapes they are reared on that may prove the biggest loss. “We don’t have grass. We don’t have water,” Joiner said...
  26. mspohr

    Discussion: Powershare [V2X feature currently announced for Cybertruck]

    I can see some benefit from charging the car from excess solar after the PW is full and especially if you don't get credit for export but that could easily be managed with an intelligent wall connector connected outside the PW when the grid is active. Since the car battery is about 10 times the...
  27. mspohr

    Discussion: Powershare [V2X feature currently announced for Cybertruck]

    Of course, many people put the wall connector outside the PW so they wouldn't drain the battery. I hope that Tesla would have some provision to disable the wall connector when running on battery so it doesn't deplete the battery unnecessarily.
  28. mspohr

    Prediction: Coal has fallen. Nuclear is next then Oil.

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/12/no-big-north-sea-fossil-fuel-nation-plan-stop-drilling-global-heating?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other None of the big oil and gas producers surrounding the North Sea plan to stop drilling soon enough to meet the 1.5C (2.7F) global heating target, a...
  29. mspohr

    We must face facts - meat is the problem

    How is it possible to feed 80 billion farm animals but not 8 billion people?
  30. mspohr

    CPUC NEM 3.0 discussion

    Corrupt. Follow the money.
  31. mspohr

    Climate Change / Global Warming Discussion

    AI is rapidly becoming the largest single use of electricity.
  32. mspohr

    Prediction: Coal has fallen. Nuclear is next then Oil.

    Deep hole geothermal makes steam. No pump required.
  33. mspohr

    Prediction: Coal has fallen. Nuclear is next then Oil.

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/08/oil-industry-has-sought-to-block-state-backing-for-green-tech-since-1960s?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other The oil industry has fought against government support for clean technologies for more than half a century, the Guardian can reveal, even as...
  34. mspohr

    Climate Change / Global Warming Discussion

    https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/3/3/2226055/-Earth-Matters-No-technological-miracles-needed-to-address-climate-Green-New-Deal-push-relaunches?detail=emaildkg&pm_source=DKRE&pm_medium=email Since he was a kid in the 1970s, Mark Z. Jacobson has been focused on solutions to prevent the...
  35. mspohr

    CPUC NEM 3.0 discussion

    Newsom is bought and paid for by the utilities (as well as medical industry). Fat chance of any improvement there. Any new candidate for governor will also be bought off. That's the way the system works.
  36. mspohr

    Prediction: Coal has fallen. Nuclear is next then Oil.

    The only permanent scar on the land is activity that continually destroys nature trying to regrow. If you don't continuously scrape the land or pollute it with toxins (fossil fuel products) it will rewild quickly. Agrivoltaics works.
  37. mspohr

    Prediction: Coal has fallen. Nuclear is next then Oil.

    It's not the scale. There is a vast difference in the difficulty of cleaning up and plugging a fossil well and dismantling a solar farm. You can dismantle a solar farm in a few days/weeks and cart everything off to be recycled. It is difficult/impossible to clean up fossil well pollution and...
  38. mspohr

    Green Hydrogen

    https://www.hydrogeninsight.com/innovation/this-new-technology-could-kill-the-business-case-for-hydrogen-in-green-steel-production/2-1-1609504 At this temperature, the iron oxide in the ore splits into pure molten iron and oxygen; impurities such as silica and magnesium rise to the top of the...
  39. mspohr

    Prediction: Coal has fallen. Nuclear is next then Oil.

    I'm not sure why you're persevering on this issue. There is absolutely no parallel between the damage done to the environment by a fossil fuel well (from the drilling, then operation, then abandonment) and a solar panel installation.
  40. mspohr

    Prediction: Coal has fallen. Nuclear is next then Oil.

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/06/increase-fossil-fuel-pollution-health-risk-report?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other Chemical pollution tied to fossil fuel operations poses serious risks to human health, warns a new analysis published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday...
  41. mspohr

    We must face facts - meat is the problem

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/06/animal-agriculture-nitrate-water Megafarms in the US produce more than 100bn pounds of meat that fill supermarket aisles in the US and abroad. But they also produce 940bn pounds of manure annually – twice as much sewage as produced by the...
  42. mspohr

    Autopilot needs manual lane change without disengage

    The discouraging thing is that they removed functionality from AP and then charge you to put it back. My old 2015 SD had this functionality but it was removed in my 2022 SLR. I think we can call this greed. In addition, I never had phantom braking with my 2015 S but this occurs often enough...
  43. mspohr

    Autopilot needs manual lane change without disengage

    I think they removed it so they could charge you for EAP to get that functionality back.
  44. mspohr

    Prediction: Coal has fallen. Nuclear is next then Oil.

    The solar PV installation should be generating income. It the owner isn't paying the landowner, that's a simple problem and destroying the installation is not the solution.
  45. mspohr

    Prediction: Coal has fallen. Nuclear is next then Oil.

    Why would you remove a solar installation that has a 25+ year life rather than replace the rare inverter failure?
  46. mspohr

    Prediction: Coal has fallen. Nuclear is next then Oil.

    Since there is no operating cost, the solar will just keep producing even if everyone goes bankrupt.