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Apparently, my brain’s intuition is to read “Biene” in French when it’s in the middle of English text. Even though I am German. 🫠

Is this the part with “hell freezing over”?

“Yes, the needs in this area will be a problem, but I’d rather bet on AI solving the problem than constraining it and having the problem,” Schmidt said.

In 2022, Schmidt founded White Stork, a defense company that develops AI-powered drones.

I guess, the guy does have a solution after all. Just let AI drones kill 90% of humanity, that’ll slash emissions quite drastically.

The idea for the when-part is that people will have electric cars at home, which can double as a big battery, or as the other guy already said, you can buy dedicated storage, too.

You could also hook these storages up to the grid, and then have an algorithm decide to sell to the grid when electricity is expensive, or to charge from the grid while electricity is cheap, possibly even taking the weather forecast into account.
Definitely still lots of details to figure out, but I expect things to head that way…

It’s often said that probably the biggest challenge with switching over all the cars and heating to renewables here in Germany, is going to be the transport of so much electricity to all the homes.
That’s what I also really like about the balkonkraftwerk, that it produces electricity right where it’s used.

The thing is, you and everyone arguing against me here, have yet to offer a concrete solution that’s better. I don’t care how futile trees might be, they’re the most efficient, most scalable solution that I’m aware of. And not doing anything due to trees being futile, that’s completely fucking pointless, too. If we die, we might as well die fighting, even if it merely makes the remaining years just a little less bad.

You could bury the wood underground where oxygen doesn’t reach, or as someone else already suggested, turn it into biochar before you do it.

But whatever we do, we need an efficient way of getting the CO2 out of the atmosphere and there’s just no way that we’re going to beat trees in that, because it is an endothermic process and whatever machine we might build will require building that machine (at large scale) and will have inefficiencies all over the place.
So, planting as many trees as possible is always the first step we have to take.

Yeah, the actual permanent solution would have been to not unearth all that fossil fuel in the first place. The second-best solution is to bind it in trees.

We could try cutting down trees and burying them underground without (much) oxygen. But just having more trees alive at a time is a lot less effort.

You need actual biomass to physically exist, only then is carbon actually bound. Trees have much denser cellulose and stay around for longer. Ultimately, though, the answer is both. And bushes and shrubs. Just build up a whole forest. The denser you can make it, the better.

If the tree dies or is cut down and burnt, then absolutely, yeah. But a tree can survive for many decades, which is time when the CO2 is not in the atmosphere. Ultimately, the solution is to plant more trees and not cut them down until enough CO2 is bound.

I recently bought these roasted pumpkin seeds and they’re a bit too chewy for me, but I figured a bird could probably swallow them quite happily. So, I chucked a few of them on my balcony.

That was a week ago. I’ve seen only a single bird grab a seed so far.

It is awkward to land there, I’m not saying I did everything perfectly. But it made me painfully aware that the balcony + house wall is probably just some barren rock in their eyes. There’s just no reason to go looking for food there.

I’ve only skimmed it, but Figure 1 shows their skin temperature consistently above the 31°C air temperature, so the humidity should inhibit evaporation of their sweat, which is bad for body temperature, but the humid air should still be conducting heat away from their body rather than into their body.

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I don’t think, they use many decimals for their units in the USA. 🙃

It’s not just about losing sweat cooling. Humid air is better at conducting heat (because water is), so if the air temperature exceeds your external body temperature, then it accelerates the heat being conducted into your body.

In terms of reducing CO2 levels, yeah, but trees do also help cool down locally by simply providing shade and also because they evaporate water, which is an endothermic process.

During 2020, I was still living with my parents and working from home, so I got to enjoy home-cooked meals every day. Well, except that every two weeks my mum would surprisingly find a massive zucchini in the garden and it had to be eaten.

Long story short, I was fed a life supply of zucchini in one summer. I have not enjoyed zucchini ever since. 🫠

As a recent meme on the Texas community put it: Don’t forget to stay inside from 11am until November 1st.

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Unfortunately, I doubt many people will make the connection. Due to the continuing rainfall, it has been relatively cool over the past two weeks. Particularly in Bavaria, the ruling party also has an interest in not understanding that it’s connected to climate change.

Unfortunately, that’s not generally the case. Everyone is affected, in particular also the ecosystems that support our lives.
And we’re seeing disproportionate effects in poorer countries, because those cannot afford AC, isolated housing or rebuilding from the increased flood, storms, forest fires etc. that are already taking place.

There is some things one can do when recognizing the changing climate, like:

• selling your beachfront property,
• moving into colder regions,
• selecting crops that can deal with the harsher weather,
• ensuring a flood can seep away in your city,
• planting trees to provide shade + the cooling effect of evaporation + hindrance for storms.

But yeah, it’s still going to be a wild ride for everyone.