😁 whooopsie! Haha. Yeah, it’s somewhat 6000 km I mean. Sorry for my stupidity here today… Thank you very much for explaining my dumb mistake instead of making fun! Time to sleep now, I guess. Thank you!
😁 whooopsie! Haha. Yeah, it’s somewhat 6000 km I mean. Sorry for my stupidity here today… Thank you very much for explaining my dumb mistake instead of making fun! Time to sleep now, I guess. Thank you!
I am fairly sure Earth’s radius is somewhat 6 km, so something with an 48 km radius would be 42 km above Earth’s surface, where we experience 1 G.
Can you explain please, where I made a mistake?
Not OP. What would evaporate?
I think we don’t know anymore what’s going on with Richard. I believe he would consume Earth almost instantly, including all satellites and maybe the moon.
Didn’t do the math myself, but internet says 1 G would be at about 48 km radius.
Probably you are right with the latter. A cement brick house easily has 100 tons CO². And in war, whole cities get destroyed. Plus destruction of enemy energy infrastructure, like oil fields, if existant.
Kind of sad now, when I think about it. Looks like we rather destroy the enemy with us, than having somebody we don’t like rise above us.
That got me interested on fuel economy. According to this webpage, a M1A2 has a gas tank size of 1907 l (505 gal) and a cruising range of 426 km (265 miles).
That would make 448 l/100km (0.52 MPG). Wow.
The site also says
A tank will need approximately 300 gallons every eight hours; this will vary depending on mission, terrain, and weather. (1364 l)
0.6 miles per gallon.
60 gallons per hour when traveling cross-country (263 l)
30+ gallons per hour while operating at a tactical ideal (136+ l)
10 gallons basic idle (45 l)
A mine plow will increase the fuel consummation rate of a tank by 25 percent
Nice idea, but in my area for example this wouldn’t be a good solution. I live in a flood prone area.
Luckily there are many different solutions. What I find quite interesting are simple techs that also don’t require electricity, like a heat chimney, or a air supply from underground, air-flow designs in general.
Also, with already built houses there are even simple possibilities. What I’ve done successfully is letting a tree grow on the south west side, now in the evenings my walls and with that the inside area is much cooler.
If Im not mistaken, Delhi’s hottest month isn’t in peak summer but in May and June, so now. As the climate is largly influenced by the monsoon season.
Next year also doesn’t necessarily need to be worse, now going from an el niño into a la niña makes that somewhat unlikely, although regional differences will probably make some places worse, compared to this year.
Please correct me if I’m wrong, but people may be already dying by the thousands. Isn’t it rather difficult for a doctor to point down the reason of death to heat?
If not next year, it will get worse rather quick, that’s for sure. Much, much worse.
From the article:
At the SMS hospital in Rajasthan’s capital, Jaipur, so many bodies of casualties of the heat have arrived at the mortuary that its capacity has been exceeded.
Warning: comment includes heavy slurs
“Today I want to tell you peasants, that there is no place for racism, sexism and patriarchy in our church. We embrace all human beings. And also fagg°ts and n!ggers and mull@hs. We especially embrace beautiful nude small boys!”
the Catholic Church, probably
Edit: Deleted for now, cause I can’t figure out how to warn alert my comment.
Edit 2: I think I got it now. Please let me know in case it doesn’t work.
While these policies aren’t nice and your assumptions might be right, it’s still a valid point that it’s unfair for people to suffer the consequences of other people’s actions.
In an ideal world everybody and everything would need to face the consequences of their own action. We don’t live in that world. So it’s not wrong to point out unfairness and fight for better solutions. Not being perfectly right yourself doesn’t take away the right to point out wrongness in others.
Now away from the ideal world into reality. In the (hopefully) long term the Maledives are doomed. And they aren’t alone. We screwed up the climate so much and we are still screwing up and haven’t even peaked our emmissions yet.
We need to accept the fact that life will get hard. We need to finally accept the fact that if we don’t overcome our differences, the human suffering will be absolutely brutal.
Unfortunately I am very pessimistic in this regard. Already and maybe since always human suffering gets ignored if it’s not your tribe. It seems like humans can’t overcome their tribe thinking. It seems like humans don’t improve on their hate and brutality against each others. And it seems that many humans aren’t able to feel sorry for human suffering if it’s far, far away.
The future looks bleak and we made it and still make it look that way.
Usually in a tornado you have a lot of debris flying around. The faster the blades go, the higher the probability to hit debris and damage the expensive blades.
I’m not denying that humanity is responsible for all the climate mess we are in. I’m saying that I can imagine el niño having higher than average CO² releases due to the weather effect it brings looking at a single year, not the climate 30 years.
Of course we humans brought not only ourselves but the vast majority of life into an crisis that seems now to run off. I am very pessimistic about the future as I see still no meaningful reply to this.
Still I find it plausible that in an el niño year there could be more than average CO² emmissions while neutral or la niña years could have less, so they would cancel each other out. If that is so, it would merely be on top of human made emissions, which are still higher than ever.
However, we’re probably at a point now where one can’t say anything for sure, because no human being has ever experienced 427 ppm CO² and the whole system has an inertia. With this sentence I don’t want to say that scientists work not well. I want to say that it is much harder to come to a conclusion to values that have never been seen before compared to data that we can compare with historic data.
Of course that doesn’t mean that we can’t blame fossil fuel use, because humans emissions are the ones we control most and if we want to continue our lives than we need to stop emmitting.
I could imagine that el niño can contribute to CO² emmissions indirectly.
Maybe there are in an el niño year more wildfires happening compared to other years for example, which would release additional CO². Or maybe swamps get less water or a combination of several el niño weather effects.
You are right. I kind of read your first comment like “Why don’t we simply take matters in our hands” instead of “it’s strange that many accept this exploitation of environment and even humans as perfectly normal”.
It is interesting and depressing to look at. It’s also fascinating to see how many people seem to be successfully brainwashed or whatever the reason is they vote against their own interest.
I think your idea is a very fine idea but at the same time very naive.
One can start advocating what you did. Looking at classes like poor and rich, the poor are definitely the majority, so theoretically one should be able to plant the seed of thought.
But in praxis that doesn’t necessarily work that way. I believe one will immediately be called ‘too extreme’ if not ‘terrorist’ and struggle to gain supporters. It doesn’t help that much of the media is owned by few people.
At the same time the rich showed already that they have no intention to stop poisoning our life basis if that would mean less money for them.
So even if one gets people to follow the idea and starts to get political attention, rich corporations that have a threat to their income have also shown many times that it is not too difficult for them to make people disappear or that they ‘tragically die’ somehow.
That’s cool, thank you for pointing out that ship. I only knew of the Tres Hombres which runs under Fairtransport. I’ve seen some videos on Youtube and got the impression they are financially struggling.
I love those sailing ships of the old times. I find them fascinating. If you love them like me, this is a real gem of video material commented by a sailing captain.
All good mate! xD
I just thought it funny sounding, but understood what you wanted to say.
Makes sense environmentally. But that’s not the focus of our societies. Everything is about profit and costs.
The last sailing boats didn’t stop because they were slower. I’m not even sure if they were, they could go almost 20 knots in ideal conditions.
The main point was labour cost. An engine ship needs just a few men to run it. A sailing ship with dozens of sails needs dozens of men. The work was incredibly hard and dangerous (like being wet and exposed to the weather for days and weeks working 14 hours or something a day and I think it was normal to consider one death per cape horn trip). If you wanted to do something like this today, you’d have to pay high salaries and probably high insurance costs.
Also sailing ships are more difficult to plan a schedule, because they can’t go a constant speed. That brings higher costs for storing goods.
And more. Major river discharge can raise the sea level in the area. Then big circular currents similar like when you stirr your cup of coffee or tea. Or chocolate milk 🤤