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allenout t1_jaatb3y wrote

Reply to comment by TheShark24 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

These aren't biofuels though. Many are just turning plastic to fuels.

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mhornberger t1_jaat5rc wrote

Reply to Should Microsoft open source older versions of Windows!?!? by odilasa

I'm not sure of the point. Those OS's have been surpassed, in terms of stability, security, memory management, etc. I guess some businesses may depend on programs that only run on these legacy systems, but that vulnerability is more of a problem than their inability to find a new Win2K install disk.

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cryptonymcolin t1_jaasp5j wrote

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

I know there's been a lot of snark in this thread, but I deeply sympathize with the feelings of frustration that produced the suggestions you've made OP. Frankly, these are common frustrations, and actually there are a lot of people who might agree with your suggestions.

The trick is: how exactly to do this without having it become immediately corrupted into something that is the opposite of what we desired?

I've tried to build my own approach to solving this design issue; it's called Aretéanism. The Assemblage of Areté just hit its 7-year anniversary the other day, and we're growing stronger and stronger- but also more importantly, we're growing better and better.

If you're curious to learn more about it, this Dropbox link will take you to a PDF of our booklet "What Is Aretéanism?".

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1kl5g30eugxj2v1/What%20is%20Areteanism%20v3.pdf?dl=0

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hsnoil t1_jaaslxj 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

It isn't clean to burn regardless of what color. It gives off a lot of NOx.

As for air travel, the low energy density by volume makes it a pretty big barrier

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hsnoil t1_jaasfpx wrote

Reply to comment by Undernown 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

Uhm, no. First of hydrogen doesn't have the energy density by volume, you can convert it into methanol and use methanol fuel cells, but it still less energy dense than jet fuel.

And heating with hydrogen is a dumb idea, it outputs a ton of NOx.

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mhornberger t1_jaasfec wrote

Reply to Potential of Vertical Farming? by Josh12345_

To a point. At the moment it only works economically for some crops. Greens mainly, though some are expanding to cucumbers, berries, tomatoes, and a bit else. But fruits and vegetables don't represent the bulk of the acreage we use, unfortunately.

V. farms will have a role, I think. But the real land/water savings will come from cultured meat and the rest of cellular agriculture. Plus companies like Solar Foods and others using hydrogenotrophs to make analogues of flour and plant oils, with no need of arable land. A bag of flour and liter of cooking oil made in a bioreactor will represent a much more significant revolution than tomatoes and berries grown in vertical farms.

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hsnoil t1_jaas0ft wrote

Reply to comment by travistravis 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 can have fast air travel without it... as long as you don't mind being rail-gunned at multiple times the speed of sound. You won't die as long as the track is long enough to limit gforce, but you may crap your pants

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Smellthiel t1_jaarutc wrote

Reply to Universal ethics/basic law for all people & global moral education: A new way to sustainability and peace? by fortin1984

defining what is good is impossible without imposing what you think is good onto others which just creates more discourse and callous. the reason laws are as ambiguous and non choosy as they are is because you can only follow things that are neither good nor bad. even as i am writing this i am becoming irritated and animus towards you and i don't even know you.

The fact is that you cannot create an ethical code or law because what 8 billion people consider good or bad differs from every single person on this earth. There is no such thing as universal ethics nor is there such a thing as common morals. This would create more division and more global hatred than if you just let people do whatever they wanted regardless of ethics or morals.

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hsnoil t1_jaarqz8 wrote

Reply to comment by sigmatrophic 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

This doesn't really fall into biofuels, it falls under waste fuels. Cause what they are burning is plastic which is still a fossil fuel.

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hsnoil t1_jaararb wrote

Reply to comment by KreamyKappa 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

It's like "natural flavors", on paper it is to hide their proprietary stuff, in reality it's so you don't know what you are really getting

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VitaminPb t1_jaaqjkw wrote

Reply to comment by sigmatrophic 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

And yet this was initiated and started by the Biden administration.

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