The carbon tax is supposed to (partially) go towards credits for EVs

All the IPCC models assume massive amounts of sequestration, I believe

It’s a necessity at this point, even if all fossil fuel use stops globally tomorrow

If the overall goal is to increase the human population, it actually makes total sense

If the goal is to prevent murders, then no, it doesn’t make sense

There’s plenty of EVs with 300+ miles of range now. Shouldn’t be an issue.

carbon sequestration is not ever going to work

I don’t know what you’re talking about, it’s a thing that is currently being done. Not some future hypothetical tech.

But yes it is too expensive for now. Costs are coming down hopefully that continues to be the case.

And yes, the best, cheapest, most efficient way to reduce ghg is to eliminate fossil fuels.

Instead of offsets, companies should be pursuing direct carbon sequestration like with https://climeworks.com/

No estimates, no accounting magic. Just a direct measure of physical, measurable tons of carbon directly removed from the atmosphere.

Surveillance state.

For California at least, residential use is about 10% of all water usage iirc. So if data centers are dwarfed by that…not a big concern in the big picture.

The issue I guess is when data center usage sucks up all the local supply. State and region wide they don’t use much but they do use a lot in one small area.

Water is extremely important in most large scale cooling systems, whether it be swamp coolers (aka evaporative cooling) or traditional HVAC (aka chillers).

Not to mention a much higher carbon footprint.

The reason evaporative coolers are cheap is because they use a fraction of the electricity that chillers do.

And note that the majority of data center water usage is indirect via power generation, so using less water on site but more indirectly by consuming more power is both more expensive and less efficient.

Unfortunately, evaporative coolers are the best way to go, for now.

Screw data centers, I want to see desalination combined with nuclear power plants. They literally generate power by boiling water, it’s a match made in heaven.

We just need a few more advances in technology to remove impurities from brine and we’d also corner the table salt market.

And it works because Americans don’t pay attention and our media is full of traitors and cowards.

like a wet newspaper.

Eyyy

That all sounds totally reasonable, I’m just worried about future generations. If loan payoffs now cause inflated tuition for them, that’s not fair and they will rightfully curse us like we curse boomers.

This is why I’m against student loan forgiveness. When a thing costs $10, and the government offers to pay $8, the cost of the thing tends to rise to $18.

We need overall student loan reform. Then, maybe forgiveness as a secondary thing to compensate those who won’t benefit from the reform (ie people who borrowed before the reform). But overall reform of the system should be the primary goal, not a one-time payout to those lucky enough to take out their loans before x date.

Sure, from a European perspective, but one is center-right and the other is far-right (farther right than any of your parties).

No, conspiracy theorists.

She plays it for 3 hours a night

“wtf are you on about? Oranges have been banned for 10 years.”

“I’m eating one right now.”

“You’re a liar, prove it.”

“I’m not going to take a picture of myself for you. What kind of idiot thinks oranges are banned?”

“Oh yeah, prove they’re not.”

“Prove oranges aren’t banned by the government? How the fuck?”

“See, I rest my case”

“You fucking idiot…[3 hours of research and case law into it being legal to eat an orange] here you happy?”

“Oh well they banned them in my country (of 6 people).”

You can SAY whatever you want, but at the end of the day if you don’t vote Democrat then yes you’re a fascist and/or a moron.

Fuck your excuses and your conspiracy theories. Vote.