My friend was working on a start-up for marine carbon capture. I have a lot of friends moving to green energy and related fields. It’s promising to see.

And we will be earlier adopters than our children. Yeah that’s very cool of your mom… and Jimmy Carter :)

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Very much agree that moving away from fossil fuels is most important. Given how long these large scale technologies take to develop, I’m glad that we are working on this tech now, even though these exact plants are not producing a net benefit.

And it’s thanks to earlier adopters, like your mom, that helped fund the technology that we have such great green energy tech today.

This article shows it pretty well : https://decarbonization.visualcapitalist.com/the-cheapest-sources-of-electricity-in-the-us/

The top graph shows that wind and solar are some of the cheapest electricity options available, even compared to fossil fuels.

On the bottom graphs shows that if wind and solar technology had stayed at 2009 levels (more than a decade ago to your point), they would be among the most expensive.

So thank your mom for me.

Very much agree.

The one in texas funded by the oil company isn’t built yet.

Yeah its critical to cut emissions. At the same time I’m excited to see this field growing. It’s another tool.

A decade ago people argued that solar and wind didn’t work.

I agree with the video. Carbon capture is no replacement for reducing emissions.

Also, I am excited that people are working on direct capture too because many of the same arguments that the video makes, were valid arguments against solar and wind a decade ago, but not any more thanks to those early pilot projects.

The article states that the plant needs to be 10x more efficient to be considered a viable tool.

this stunning shouse

Is that a typo or are they pointing out that it’s a house inside a shed?

You sound like my dad. He never misses an opportunity to point out that the roof is on the outside of the house.

One can hope.

Other than hoping, I am donating a few bucks to the most pro-Palestinian politicians.

I have been looking for protests but they are hard to learn about.

The Three Body Problem also had a habit of coming up with really interesting concepts, which could have themselves been entire books, then dropping them after a chapter or two.

For example the device that could make anyone truly believe anything. They never got too techy about how it worked but after a chapter or two you really felt like you had explored some implications of such a technology on society.

I guess it’s a bit much to ask a book about climate disaster to provide detailed insight into what the future may hold for Lemmy.

That’s some interesting perspective, I hadn’t thought of it that way. With Trump it’s really hard to know what is coming until it happens, but it’s nice that some people see a silver lining.

Sweet! Thank you!

That’s very fair.

I’ll have to read more of their stuff. Which of their books is your favorite?

The article explains some of the background to chromium which I hadn’t known.

Google’s Chrome is a freeware release with deeper ties to Google’s ecosystem, while Chromium, released at the same time as Chrome in 2008, is open source. Google has slowly loosened its de facto control of the project, particularly since 2020, allowing outside developers into its leadership, softening its stance on non-Google-derived features and opening up its “Goma” development scheme for Chromium, as detailed by CNET in 2020.

Not a snowballs chance in… in… Canada?

Those are actually decent odds.