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  • Wow reading about pensions my mind just assumed you were properly old. YOU ARE ONLY 38?! Congrats on the financial stability!

    I also have moved around a lot, mostly for work, all exciting opportunities. The first few years going home feels like nothing ever changes but I recently went to my home town for a wedding and saw some friends for the first time in 15 years. Wow did the passage of time hit me like a truck. The years add up.

    I was in the mountains hiking with an 85 and 82 year old a few weekends ago. They crushed. We may be older but we are still a lot closer to 18 than 85.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.