Different username but I’m not entirely convinced you’re a different user, so again my last reply.

The hell it isn’t! As societies approach 1:1 between working and elderly they quickly run into the problem of having enough people to do elderly care and do regular work. Japan is already experiencing a shortage of caregivers and the worst of it won’t arrive until 2050.

Holy cow did you just stop reading what I wrote after the part you quoted? It’s a financing problem, not enough tax revenue. It’s not enough funding to attract caregivers, not a physical shortage of bodies. You need a massive, massive, massive, massive ^10 generational shortage before you run into a physical shortage of bodies, which of course I don’t advocate for.

Even your link “Consequently, investment in the pension system, healthcare facilities, long-term care, and welfare will become more important.” WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT I SAID, IT’S A FINANCING PROBLEM.

Then you are going to have to start killing the elderly because the plain and painful truth is that they are expensive. They require increasingly costly medical care to keep them alive along with increasing physical assistance as they age.

Holy cow at the ridiculousness of your reply and very, very likely bad faith. This is definitely my last reply to you. It’s not about elderly stage of life and only that. It’s the person’s and generation’s lifetime. If a person (on average, over large populations, over a generation, I wonder how many explanatory terms I need for you to discuss in good faith) or generation requires more than what they put into the system (again, lifetime), and we need an evergrowing economy to keep giving each generation more than what they put into the system (again, lifetime), that is quite literally THE definition of an unsustainable system. Slow clap. Again, it’s not about that your elderly years are more expensive than your 20-65 years, it’s about your and your generation’s lifetime (see list of explanatory terms above).

“Just an organizational problem” is a hell of a problem though.

As in, it’s not a threat to humanity. It’s completely different type and order of magnitude.

We’d already be transcendent if it weren’t for that little thing, heh.

Ah I see you’re not discussing in good faith. So this will be my only reply.

Organization aside, it’s also (IMO) a productivity issue without enough automation to take care of elders, or good enough healthcare to keep them “young.” Unless you want to force old people to work.

Elder care is not really a physical labor problem, it’s a financing problem as it’s organized right now. If a person costs more than they paid into the system (on average, on a large scale, why do I bother I know you’re not discussing in good faith), then the problem is with the system. We should not need everlasting growth so that each generation gets out more than they paid in.

The only problem with low birthrate is an organizational one, where you don’t have enough young population to support the old population. But to me this just means that the organization isn’t set up correctly.

Survivorship bias from a hundred years ago. We build things a lot better now.

You think I’m arguing against the communal knowledge of every industry? I’m arguing with the communal knowledge of every industry. We have way more knowledge, have better materials, know how to build things better, and we do build things better than before. I don’t think we’re going to agree, so I’m out.

We still have homes from a century ago. The ones built today should last wayyy beyond that. And century homes are being torn down not because of the wood, but because they are way too small. I have a really hard time thinking that modern homes are going to be seen as too small in 100 years. Likewise I think you’re out to lunch thinking modern homes are going to structurally fail.

Buildings made today really should last for a long friggin time. I really don’t see why any modern house ever needs to be torn down.

Cut it down and build with it too. I wonder if this community dislikes that thought.

The researchers only looked at solar farms with a capacity of 20MW or more, which feed directly into the grid. That means that the total volume of solar power in China could be much higher, as small scale solar farms account for about 40% of China’s solar capacity.

Scientists created refuges for the animals using painted masonry bricks inside greenhouses that they called “frog saunas”. They found that endangered Australian green and golden bell frogs were able to clear infections from the deadly Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis fungus, in the warmer conditions of the greenhouses, when they would otherwise have died. Many of the frogs that recovered in the refuges were then resistant to infection.

Doesn’t sound like something that can just be dropped outside and the frogs use.

How likely are people going to wait until it’s a heat wave. They’re going to burn through it on normal 30 to 35 C days.

Just think how much further ahead we’d be if Hillary won. Thanks protest voters. Or ideally if Gore won in 2000.

You’re going to run through your cold storage pretty fast.

What’s horrible is what the hell are we going to do? We can’t evacuate 2 billion people out of the Indian subcontinent.

This way it’s $5 cheaper! Profit.

Commercial building like this have curtain walls. Curtain walls don’t support loads, the columns are the ones taking the load.

Should be, but my comment is more along the lines of I doubt many buildings can take additional multiple 1000 lb loads.

I wonder if they consulted structural engineers. Putting multiple 1000 lb loads on roofs that weren’t designed for it doesn’t seem like a good business plan.

Height. And I did not say the 60s or 70s either. I really don’t see this being productive anymore. (Well never was.)

That’s because I think you’re missing what’s relevant. Comparing it to fuel efficiency from the 70s is not the right metric. It’s meaningless.

Now imagine what the fuel economy would be without the monstrous height and weight.