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CarryNoWeight t1_jaaohwp wrote

Reply to comment by sharksnut in This “Climate-Friendly” Fuel Comes With an Astronomical Cancer Risk: Almost half of products cleared so far under the new federal biofuels program are not in fact biofuels — and the EPA acknowledges that the plastic-based ones may present an “unreasonable risk” to human health or the environment. by nastratin

You're both right! Trump positioned the head of exxon and biden kept the ball rolling =)

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Undernown t1_jaantse wrote

Reply to comment by Necoras in This “Climate-Friendly” Fuel Comes With an Astronomical Cancer Risk: Almost half of products cleared so far under the new federal biofuels program are not in fact biofuels — and the EPA acknowledges that the plastic-based ones may present an “unreasonable risk” to human health or the environment. by nastratin

Straight electric is always gonna be better, it's more of an in-between solution and a way to make use of excess green power that might be overloading the net at certain times.

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enderverse87 t1_jaand0m wrote

Reply to comment by thescrounger in Magnetic pole reversal by Gopokes91

Y2K only turned out fine because we spent years fixing it ahead of time. If somehow we had totally missed it until it happened it would have been really bad.

We'll probably have a few years notice for this as well, so it will probably also be not a huge deal.

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acutelychronicpanic t1_jaan8nl wrote

Reply to comment by New-Shop-7539 in The world should be governed by people with intellectual thought and people should listen by New-Shop-7539

I hope you succeed in making the world a better place. Just don't focus so much on efficiency and perfect solutions. They can be short-sighted.

It seems to me like you have an idea for what the ideal world might look like. But beware that it would be an unstable solution. The problem with central control is that it is fragile. Voting systems are inefficient, but they are more robust and harder to corrupt. Still corruptible, obviously, but less so.

You want to seek a system that can withstand the pressures and corruption of the real world.

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Eidalac t1_jaakt3h wrote

Reply to comment by Tim_the_geek in Magnetic pole reversal by Gopokes91

There would need to be a critical mass of highly magnetic material in the crust, and it would have to be highly polarized and the flip would have to happen extremely fast to have any impact on the crust at scale.

Most highly magnetic material is in the core (iron) while the crust is mostly silicates which don't care about the field all that much.

The stuff that is magnetic wouldn't be polarized enough to prefer one pole to the other. There would be equal "north" and "south " pull.

Lastly the flip is thought to take around 2-12k years, with the magnetic field flickering and changing over that time

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