If only there would have been any early signs that this could happen.

Why didn’t anyone say anything? Try to warn people!?

Oh well, at least this is the final step and it’s only gonna get better from now on. /s

There is. I do it, it’s my job as a solar engineer.

Basically, there are several leading softwares that solar engineers use to account for just about anything that happens in the real world.

I mainly use PVsol premium where I 3d model each site and the panel placements and electrical components and so on, then run a minute scale simulation based on the exact location weather data (using Metronorm 8.3)…

Almost no one outside my field understands what goes into my job. It doesn’t help that there’s a lot of untrained people pretending to do what I do…

Yeah, worked great so far!

I’m not the one you responded to, I don’t hate Jews. What I do hate is people like you excusing the killing of civilians as acceptable collateral for the greater good. Fuck off!

I am actually hoping for AGI to take over the world but in a good way. It’s just that I worry about the risk of it being misaligned with “human goals” (whatever that means). Skynet seems a bit absurd but the paperclip maximizer scenario doesn’t seem completely unlikely.

I’ve stopped worrying about climate change. I now worry about AGI instead, which seems much more imminent.

I can’t handle worrying about both.

“This article is more than 10 years old” is what it says right at the top…Could OP give us an update?

In the US. Let’s please clarify these things in the title

Thanks!

Can you please provide a source for Biden repeatedly asking Congress to cancel the 2019 wall funds?

Same, let’s not ever talk about this again so that it doesn’t get fixed

So you’re saying that you don’t understand what manslaughter is. You ask a lot of questions, but I get the feeling that you’re not the type of person that is actually looking for answers

I can’t really cancel Putlocker and it’s free and has every movie and show that are on the other streaming services.

So no.

Yeah, the 3 Rs are great. But it’s not happening and you’d need to change the government structure before you can enact the political change that would be required. But even if you’d manage to get rid of 90% of waste in the next decade, which you won’t, what’s your plan for the millions of tons that are left?

It is profitable right now and has been for a long time, anywhere in the world. What’s lacking is knowledge that it could be profitable and investment will.

Take the US as an example. You get about 550 kWh of electricity per ton of burnt waste, that’s $20-30 per ton. And If you’d have district heating, which only a few places do you’d get a lot more.

But counting low. $20 per ton, multiplied by ~150 million tons of trash per year and you get 3 billion dollars per year that you’re burying instead of just burning.

Now this isn’t even accounting for the fact that about 20% of that is plastic, and that plastic is worth anywhere from 1 cent to 70 cents per pound. Let’s really lowball it and say that it’s worth $5 cents per pound on average. That’s $100 per ton. That multiplied by by the roughly 30 million tons of plastic that goes to landfills is worth another 3 billion. And we’re not even discussing metals, paper glass and all the other things that have surprisingly great value.

And let’s discuss compost. Here in Sweden we have a separate bin for that. It’s all collected and the methane is collected and sold as well as the nutrient compost when it’s done.

Yes! Reduce, Reuse, Recycle! But people aren’t doing that and the slogan has had very limited impact in the last 53 years.

To all the confused former British colonies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Workers’_Day#/media/File:Observance_of_International_Workers’_Day_RGBY.svg

Edit: Anyone know what’s from with the formatting and that the link doesn’t read the whole URL?