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So give the drone a photo of the target person and hope it doesn't find someone who merely looks like them first? Sounds like a Three Stooges plot.

Reminder: we also use the sun to grow all our food.

I wonder who'll tell the world's two billion marginal farmers about this genius plan.

Agreed. I keep telling people they should do things my way, yet they just don't listen!

Anything but address the root problem of too much plastic waste.

Less plastic, less need to produce insanely potent carcinogens while recycling it.

Paywalled. Which island? Every rock near Puget Sound is inhabited these days.

However, on some days it's Pungent Sound.

And if there isn't a grunge band by that name, there should be.

In other words, "current climate policies" are nearly useless. The worst crisis in human history is barreling down on us and we have taken only insufficient baby steps.

Do we want a brutal global police state? Because this is how one gets a brutal global police state.

>Unlucky if your electric power is produced with gas.

Not really, because it won't be for long. Gas is now a dead man walking.

No, it's because public carports require more materials, more complicated installation, more safeguards to keep DC wiring away from prying fingers, heavy posts to survive vehicle strikes, etc..

Not most voters. Just most voters in fossil fueled states, many of them rural, who get unfair extra votes due to an antique Constitution that has become the fossil fuel industry's primary weapon against climate solutions.

Not only that, but the coal plant will poison fish with mercury, making them inedible, for a thousand miles downwind.

Solar pro here. If you want to pay more, build solar carports. To pay less, put arrays on open ground or on rooftops.

This was largely by necessity. Lacking large oil and gas deposits, and facing domestic and global opposition to burning coal, China dove into cleantech and electrification a decade before anyone else did.

Now the rest of us are playing catch up.

>Bonobos live in a relatively stable ecological environment in Congo, where there is enough food available. Under those circumstances, there is less need for competition with other groups and peaceful interaction with strangers might even be beneficial for the conservation of the species. Early humans, on the other hand, lived in nomadic groups that had to compete with other groups of humans for food. Under such circumstances, it is probably evolutionarily more beneficial to favor individuals from your own group over strangers.'

NREL now rates most new panels at 16 - 22% efficiency, and quickly improving. Meanwhile, the EROI payback is now less than two years (the old Weisbach graph that was kicking around for years, showing poor EROI, was based on pre-2010 German data with cloudy skies, northern latitude and far more materials and energy inputs than present panels use).

Inverters wear out much faster than panels do, and new panels are simply much more productive than old ones, so it usually makes sense to just start with new gear that won't give you any surprises.

I think you mean silicon. And the efficiency loss in hot weather isn't terrible. Usually 10-15% at 95 F.

PV panel duarability varies by brand, but even partially delaminated cheapies often still produce power. A friend of mine powers his place with an array built of low-cost old and damaged panels that he picked up nearly free. We'll see more of this ahead.

>most tropical timber is produced by felling only a limited number of trees in a piece of forest, leaving the structure of the forest mostly intact.

Note: this study pertains only to selectively logged, managed tropical forests...not clear-cut forests, and certainly not tropical forests replaced with pastures and plantations.

Leaded gasoline was phased out more than forty years ago, but, yes, poor communities are far more polluted in many other ways.

Every day effectively brings a new point of no return, given that reversing ice loss will take centuries. All we can do is to stop making this mess worse.

Murder sometimes brings wealth as well.

In capitalism there are far fewer "win-wins" than we are led to believe. Destroying the environment for personal gain may be the oldest path to wealth.

>2-7% improvement over line losses of HVAC.

This statement is grammatically false. Yes, with imagination one can twist it into a correct interpretation, but I thought it so confusing that it deserved explanation.

Subsea lines avoid the politics of overland routing. When you're running a line 2,000 km on land, every local government enroute wants a piece of the revenue.

Hence, the 3,800 km Xlinks line that will soon power much of the UK from Morocco skirts the coasts of Portugal, Spain and France.