Th3 Core

>>block the sun

Well, that's a whole can of worms and still so controversial in climate action circles. For the longest time, people refused to consider it because it creates moral hazard. If the tech exists to cool the planet, why not just burn as much fossil fuel as you want?

So on the "anti" side they say:

1. It creates moral hazard.

2. It could have catastrophic side effects or turn out to be much harder to "tune" than believed.

3. Once developed, it poses all manner of justice issues. Some regions are already benefiting from global warming - farming keeps moving north in Canada. So who gets to decide that it's okay to put those farmers out of business?

On the flip side, the people in favor of intentional geoengineering argue a few things:

1. Exxon and BP and you and me have been allowed to geo-engineer for decades with impunity. Everyone is allowed to engage in almost any action that *causes* global warming, but suddenly it's forbidden when people want to engage in an action to stop it.

2. The hour is getting late and we're not doing well. If we're going to avert the worst, we need bridge technologies to stave off collapse while we get our sh## together.

3. Even if we don't use it, we should research it so if we *do* need to use it, we know how.

The backyard neighbor's SIL works tracking down and banning counterfeits from Amazon. I haven't asked how big the department is, but I always had the impression it was a big operation. On the other hand, given the size of Amazon, the department could be huge and still be unable to catch 99% of the fakes

I heard an interview with him about this. In some cases, the prices will be on the order of 10% of current prices

It's quite good aside from the username. If you do a quoted search for "I hate the hypocrisy presented by the media and the left" and "work for the goverment when Biden" you get zero results.

I tried several fairly short strings and couldn't even find spun versions like you would expect with an old-school keyword substitution spinner.

LM - how many spam registrations do you have to deal with on this site? I've seen WP and Drupal sites that have little traffic and get a couple thousand per month, especially if the site owner has not been good about keeping up on patches.

One thing that occurs to me is that right now all kinds of people who get those prepared meals and who shop with Omaha Steaks and Good Eggs and whatnot are essentially getting individual coolers delivered all the time now.

This is shifting the responsibility for ensuring the cold chain from the merchant to the delivery system.

Doesn't look very bear resistant. They'll have to work on the rural version.

It all reminds me...

We had an insulated box at the back door where the milkman and the eggman delivered their goods. Of course, the stuff still froze in the winter if you didn't get it quickly.

The milkman I don't really remember. The eggman was Mr Weatherby who had a farm just down the road. All I remember about the milkman is that one day the dog got out and she turned out to be the most docile, friendly golden retriever in the world and he admitted that for years he was afraid, based on her bark, that if that dog ever got out, he would be a goner. I think there's a metaphor about that.

It's funny how much and how little those two delivery systems have in common. It's like two completely different worlds with a few strange points of overlap.

>>150 kilowatt-hour battery pack

That is TEN Tesla Powerwalls. That's 1) amazing and 2) probably heavy and large

A Powerwall is $6500, but since every single one has a built-in inverter and other electronics, only a portion of that is battery cost.