This series is not yet finished (expect episodes roughly weekly) but itâs well nifty so far.
Geometry and history, nicely explained. Usual Extra Credits style of animation.
This is truth. I was there, saw it with my own eyes, lived a part of it. Not at the school in the story, but students had the same stories at a completely different school halfway across the country. Only we didnât have that kind of support there/then. That 9% graduation rate sounds awful, but when you realize that it only takes one little thing - one sick day, one car breakdown, one job problem, one family argument, to completely derail someoneâs chances, then it makes sense that so many didnât make it. Among the people I knew at the time, those sorts of crises were a routine thing. We were all trying to improve in spite of them, but it wasnât easy. Any one event could ruin everything. Itâs really nice to see people acknowledging that and working to make it better.
This one has pipe dream written all over it. But theyâve had a working plant for a year, so itâs not just calculations and projections
Agreed. Iâd file it under âevery little bit helpsâ, but not get my hopes up further than that.
I canât help thinking âletâs concentrate on getting politicians to accept anthropogenic global warming before publicizing ideas on atmospheric carbon extraction.â Research them, yes, but donât give them ammunition to say, âoh, see, we donât have to worry about CO2; we can just turn it into gasoline.â
I donât know where the optimum point is.
yeah, I felt that. I feel that. But itâs like if a software company made everything guaranteed bug-free before release: nothing would ever get released and theyâd go out of business. Even if that were doable, the hardware mfrs will release new chips and the OSes will all update in that time so you couldnât do it anyway.
Everything is compromise. Everything is politics. I hate it, my personal philosophy is âdo it right the first time, and do it once.â But that probably goes a long way to explaining my lack of success.
Today I learned that concentrated blue food dye has an aftertaste thatâs just as bad as the red dye, Red40; which I can always taste in cakes, and other baked goods⌠no matter how sweet they may be.
Turning CO2 into gasoline isnât going to mean any decrease, anyway, because that stuff ends up getting burned rather than stored. This is more a carbon-neutral source of fuel â or rather conversion of fuel, since itâs using hydrogen to make the gasoline.
Well itâs not CHOOH2 fuel from plants, but it still sounds cyberpunkish. My concern is the attitude in the quote:
âThis opens up the possibility that we could stabilize the climate for affordable amounts of money without changing the entire energy system or changing everyoneâs behavior.â
Thereâs a reason that we canât have lightning-fast computers with tons of storage space and network bandwidth and instant-loading web pages. Itâs not the tech. Itâs the fact that whenever CPU and RAM increases, software bloat increases. When disk space increases, we start storing images instead of text (images of text even) and then videos instead of images. Whenever bandwidth and browser performance increases, we immediately consume it by adding more bloat to websites.
If weâre going to stabilize the climate, we do have to change the energy system and our behavior, not just make people feel like itâs ok now to burn and pollute even more than they used to.
Whenever I âneedâ blue food coloring, I end up contemplating pounding a whole bunch of flowers with a mortar and pestle and usually conclude that I donât need blue that much. I guess I know why blue food dye has never come up as an alternative (although sweet pea flowers lend their flavor to foodstuffs as well).
*lolz!
I live in the Bay Area, so âGolden State Warriors feverâ is a thing right now.
Anyhoo, today someone thoughtfully brought in sugar cookies for the whole office in the teamâs colors; yellow with deep blue piped-icing. It was a sweet gesture, and I wanted to like it⌠but that after-taste just ruined the overall flavor.
Never go to one of Alfred Hitchcockâs dinner parties.
Why, did he eat blue food exclusively?
Should I really see this? Some things are better when theyâre ambiguous.