at what point does the cost/benefit ratio shift to justifying bombing coal power stations?
They’re apparently going out of business because natural gas is cheaper, last time I skimmed the info about it.
By the time natural gas comes back up again, it may be down to just renewables and maybe nuclear batteries. (Or hopefully nuclear fusion.)
drawing skulls underneath things because this is a simple enough shape that you can manipulate it in your working memory buffer because you’re used to drawing fictional mechanical objects, not faces
Anonymous asked:
mutant-aesthetic answered:
I wonder if global warming rhetoric will deescalate once everyone realizes that it would require keeping down the third world
No, because the third world is at greater risk of damage due to higher birthrates and lower per-capita GDP. Instead, the rhetoric will shift even more towards mass immigration.
well to be fair, moving to the first world is a great way to cut down fertility rates
For individuals. If more are being created than can enter, then this strategy doesn’t work. They need local economic development, among other things.
Anonymous asked:
mutant-aesthetic answered:
I wonder if global warming rhetoric will deescalate once everyone realizes that it would require keeping down the third world
No, because the third world is at greater risk of damage due to higher birthrates and lower per-capita GDP. Instead, the rhetoric will shift even more towards mass immigration.
Anonymous asked:
> sending me this instead of shitposting about how you’re going to attack me with a Federation mobile suit for supporting the extremely problematic Zeon colony drop like ten posts ago
At this rate, you’ll never be able to stop me from seizing control of Earth and paving over everything you have ever known with trees self-replicating solar-powered CO2 scrubbers, Anon-kun, much less your beloved Western Australia.
*Capitalism could never
BRUH ARE U KIDDING ME THE HIGHWAY I LIVE NEAR HAS BEEN UNDER CONSTRUCTION FOR LIKE 4 DAMN YEARS AND IT TAKES THEM 6 MONTHS JUST TO FIX A DAMN POT HOLE
The hell do you mean “capitalism could never”??????? Last I checked, the UK is still a capitalist nation. The US could never because the US doesn’t invest in public works to the same level as other comparably large economies because we spend all our money on the military.
Whaleologist is right but….fuckin what? You can seriously do that shit in 15 hours. I honestly am amazed. That’s how you know I’m a fucking American, like, my goddamned mind is blown.
This isn’t an issue of capitalism or even public works investment.
This is an issue of how American budgets work, because America is the most idiotically designed country you could ever imagine.
American budgets are not organized by need, they’re effectively PRESCRIBED. There’s no pool of government funding that is assigned according to where money needs to go at any given time. We assign budgets in advance and they’re extremely difficult to change. Guaranteed if you ask any American politician about this, they’ll tell you it’s to “reduce government waste” by making people use their resources carefully instead of taking on unnecessary projects.
This is not what actually happens.
Because if you DON’T USE 100% of your budget every year, you will be assigned a lower budget for the next year, “to prevent government waste.” So they prescribe you a budget in advance and then you HAVE to use all of it, or else it’s a NIGHTMARE to do anything new in the future – you have to go through a billion hoops to get funding for a new infrastructure project that is a one-time expense. It’s not cheap to build a new thing, but because it’s a public good that will last a long time, you don’t need to budget for it every year – but the one year you do need to budget for it, it’s an enormous pain in the ass because everyone responsible is desperate to “cut government waste.”
So with American construction projects, especially on roadways, you basically have a system where people are FORCED to take longer than necessary just to use up their budgets. It is literally a regular occurrence in America for a road to be torn up for no reason, just so they can spend money filling it back in for the next four months.
And that’s why the crumbling, outdated, and underfunded infrastructure in America is an embarrassment to western civilization.
And the fact that this fucks up transportation, stresses people out, makes us all sicker and more miserable, and forces us to sit in traffic wasting gas that we have to spend a bunch of money on because one of the things we never invest in is mass public transit (because of heavy lobbying by the automotive and oil industries) – all of that should probably not be considered a coincidence.
In the name of “efficiency” and “cutting government waste,” we’ve invented the most fucked up, purposefully wasteful mandatory maximum budgeted spending that has totally eliminated our ability to respond to short term budgetary needs. Potholes take years to fix, construction goes on for years even as nothing actually gets done, etc. All because the budgets HAVE to be wasted in order for anyone to keep their funding – and notice how much of American budgets go toward things like “administrative costs”.
Our entire country is a money laundering conspiracy.
American capitalism is the most wasteful garbage budgeting system on earth.
It is fundamentally designed to be inefficient and stupid, because doing it this way allows us to keep government spending (on public goods) as close to the absolute minimum as humanly possible in order to preserve the lowest possible tax rates on the people who ‘matter’ to the people who are making the decisions – which of course means the wealthy donor class created by the dramatic shift in economic policy under Ronald Reagan.
Because every single goddamn problem in America is Ronald Reagan’s fault.
Thus why the system of infrastructure should be shifted over to grants out of a pool.
Which requires a better overall design of governments. Most governments are still running on organizational technology a century old.
Anonymous asked:
argumate answered:
you would think trees, but no.
WE WILL PAVE THE OCEAN WITH TREES!
WE WILL PAVE THE DESERT WITH TREES!
WE WILL PAVE THE SKY WITH TREES!
CO2: SCRUBBED
EARTH: SAVED
Anonymous asked:
argumate answered:
you would think trees, but no.
WE WILL PAVE THE OCEAN WITH TREES!
WE WILL PAVE THE DESERT WITH TREES!
All I need is a few hundred million in venture capital and a marine biologist.
We can make a new biosphere in the empty wastes of the South Pacific Ocean.
First you need some kind of substrate, like concrete barges or a floating grid of bamboo, something cheap and simple and easy to mass produce.
(It would need to be anchored to something, unless it’s practical to use sails or some other active mechanism to maintain position. Probably not?)
Major priority is to get plants growing. Mangrove swamps, coral reefs, forests of kelp, plankton blooms, you gotta get something growing there to kickstart life.
Once you’ve got plants growing, little things are going to show up to eat them, then bigger things are going to show up to eat the little things, and soon you’ve got the whole circle of life shenanigans on your hands.
That’s the bootstrapping phase, now the floating island of biological plenty needs to be made self-sustaining and self-repairing and self-reproducing, so that it can be expanded to thousands of square kilometres in size.
Anyway, that’s phase 1. Who’s in?
a year has passed and I haven’t tiled the south pacific with micro biomes yet
time wasted on Tumblr
How do you keep it from
1. Sinking normally from the floater materials being worn down
2. Sinking during a big storm
3. Sinking in a rogue wave?
