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Green New Deal
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JRP3
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Biofuels, especially ethanol, are an environmental disaster. Those of us actually researching renewables for years know this.
juliusa
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So Biden is an environmental disaster, increasing the biofuel mandates in 2022 above the 2020 and 2021 levels?Try this one, about the same story, but with a different headline:
U.S. EPA to recommend higher biofuel mandates for 2022 than 2021, 2020 - sources By Reuters
U.S. EPA to recommend higher biofuel mandates for 2022 than 2021, 2020 - sourceswww.investing.com
jimm01
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The Tesla Bot may take care of that. think about robots picking the weeds and doing other tasks that fossil fuel machinery is doing today. Remember, they work 24/7 (less any maintenance) and can run on sunlight. A lot of robots can be purchased for the price of a modern combine.
JRP3
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That part of it is, yes. Doesn't mean his entire plan is an environmental disaster, as much as you like to play with simplistic absolutes. It's the overall impact of the entire plan that matters, no one rational thinks a corporate centrist Dem like Biden is really going to take the bold action needed.
jimm01
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The $3.5 trillion budget plan includes a provision known as the Clean Electricity Payment Program, which would use payments and penalties to encourage utilities to increase the share of carbon-free electricity in the total they sell each year. If it works as hoped, the legislation would ensure that the power sector generates 80% of its electricity from sources like wind, solar, and nuclear plants by 2030, cutting more than a billion tons of annual greenhouse-gas emissions.
The measure would mark a foundational step in President Joe Biden’s ambitious climate plan, which aims to put the nation on track to eliminate climate pollution from electricity generation by 2035—and achieve net-zero emissions across the economy by midcentury.
There are real questions, though, about whether the program will achieve its aggressive targets. How the nation’s complex electricity sector actually responds will depend heavily on how the agency that implements the program designs it, and particularly where it sets the payments and penalties, some economists say.
It’s also still unclear if the measure will pass in anything like its current form—or at all.
www.technologyreview.com
The measure would mark a foundational step in President Joe Biden’s ambitious climate plan, which aims to put the nation on track to eliminate climate pollution from electricity generation by 2035—and achieve net-zero emissions across the economy by midcentury.
There are real questions, though, about whether the program will achieve its aggressive targets. How the nation’s complex electricity sector actually responds will depend heavily on how the agency that implements the program designs it, and particularly where it sets the payments and penalties, some economists say.
It’s also still unclear if the measure will pass in anything like its current form—or at all.
The $3.5 trillion budget bill could transform the US power sector—and slash climate pollution
But the key measure, the Clean Electricity Payment Program, will face tough tests in the real world—if it passes at all.
www.technologyreview.com
juliusa
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Scientist disagrees with you. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment...hen-it-comes-to-climate-change-065201949.html
Tesla Bot was the Musk salesmanship and PR piece of AI Day. Don't take it seriously as any kind of near term thing.
But long term could be very disruptive (like EVs, SpaceX, solar, batteries, etc.)
Elon often misses "deadlines" but usually does come through.
JRP3
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Try to post relevant content please.
Although, let's be realistic. Saying it'll be higher in 2022 and then 2020 and 2021 isn't saying much, especially given that they'll cut it for 2021.
The headline could be written a third way "EPA to keep biofuel mandate as proportion of expected fuel use."
if you watched presentation at around 2hr 10 min Elon says “cars are semi-sentient”
""I feel pretty good about this goal. We'll be able to do a demonstration guide of full autonomy all the way from LA to New York. So basically from home in LA to Times Square in New York. And then have the car go and park itself by the end of next year,"
Elon Musk, October 2016.
On this one, Elon Musk has been shown to be out of his depth, having had his statements be thoroughly wrong, multiple times.
Just look at the personnel changes and the hardware iterations.
The bot was just piling a headline grabber on something Tesla hasn't delivered. It worked, of course.
that he does, and i tend to lean towards what he says, since he is instantiating much that has been speculated about a lot sooner than expected by many folks.
pick a 20 year period. what happened
5/6/2002 SpaceX starts. 20 short years later.
Tesla vehicles, less than 20 years.
Exa flop computer, scalable
Neuralink. imagine for a moment you put a speech synthesizer hooked to it. communication in language with other species, or telepathy with others, or a computer link for offline memory and processing speed
colonize Mars.
etc etc
As I said, Elon is often late from his overly ambitious time goals; but, he almost always delivers.
Difficult stuff is delivered quickly, the impossible takes a little longer.
Not out of his depth. Not wrong.
What's wrong with improving hardware?
Late is an understatement. In 2016 he said _1 year_ and they still haven't even delivered on that.
And of course there's the infamous 2 weeks, 4 weeks comment.
The hardware issue is that, assuming he was being honest, he was also already wrong multiple times about the required hardware.
Tesla has shifted approaches multiple times as well.
All through this he's been claiming that something big was around the corner but what you get each time are delays, and then a more expensive system that does more but still makes far too many errors to be autonomous.
‘It literally saved us’: what the US’s new anti-poverty measure means for families
Four weeks ago the Biden administration officially began implementing the child tax credit in what was hailed by Columbia University as an initiative that could “cut child poverty in half in the US”. Most eligible families have received just one monthly installment so far – but for many American parents struggling to make ends meet during the ongoing Covid-19 crisis, it has already made a huge difference.
Experts have said this action could help lift millions of children out of poverty. Even before the pandemic, more than one in six children in the US lived in food-insecure households, according to the Children’s Defense Fund, and nearly 11 million children were living in poverty. But as it stands now, the expanded credit applies only to this tax year, and some Democratic leaders and advocates have called for it to be made permanent.
Four weeks ago the Biden administration officially began implementing the child tax credit in what was hailed by Columbia University as an initiative that could “cut child poverty in half in the US”. Most eligible families have received just one monthly installment so far – but for many American parents struggling to make ends meet during the ongoing Covid-19 crisis, it has already made a huge difference.
Experts have said this action could help lift millions of children out of poverty. Even before the pandemic, more than one in six children in the US lived in food-insecure households, according to the Children’s Defense Fund, and nearly 11 million children were living in poverty. But as it stands now, the expanded credit applies only to this tax year, and some Democratic leaders and advocates have called for it to be made permanent.
House Democrats clear path toward passing $3.5 trillion budget bill and infrastructure plan after breaking stalemate
The House voted to approve a $3.5 trillion budget resolution, advance a bipartisan infrastructure bill and move forward with sweeping voting rights legislation.
“The bottom line is, in my view, we are a step closer to truly investing in the American people, positioning our economy for long-term growth and building an America that outcompetes the rest of the world,” Biden said Tuesday after the vote. “My goal is to build an economy from the bottom up and middle out, not just the top down.”
Democrats in the Senate and House hope to write their bill to strengthen the social safety net and invest in climate policy in the coming weeks. The budget measure calls for expanding Medicare, child care and paid leave, extending strengthened household tax credits passed last year, creating universal pre-K and making incentives for green energy adoption.
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