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silence7 OP t1_j7mjkm0 wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Heat pumps boom in Maine, despite frigid cold and oil industry pushback by silence7
Looks like those have started to arrive downthread.
silence7 OP t1_j7m54jn wrote
Reply to comment by MonsterByDay in Heat pumps boom in Maine, despite frigid cold and oil industry pushback by silence7
Yes, it takes a beefier backup system to power a heat pump than a furnace: it gets all its energy from the electricity.
silence7 OP t1_j7lxo53 wrote
Reply to comment by runlikethewind5 in Heat pumps boom in Maine, despite frigid cold and oil industry pushback by silence7
You need that for pretty much every modern central heating system: they all use electricity for thermostats, fans, and pumps, even if the heat is generated using fossil fuels
silence7 OP t1_j7lswf3 wrote
Reply to comment by FightTomorrow in Heat pumps boom in Maine, despite frigid cold and oil industry pushback by silence7
They're usually more subtle than that, doing things like teaching people to experience psychosomatic illness in response to renewable energy.
silence7 OP t1_iscft7c wrote
Reply to comment by Kagahami in Inside the Global Effort to Keep Perfectly Good Food Out of the Dump | Around the world, lawmakers and entrepreneurs are taking steps to tackle two of humanity’s most pressing problems: hunger and climate change. by silence7
In terms of climate, when food is grown, but then wasted, you've also burned fossil fuels to make fertilizer and transport the food, as well as possibly emitted methane during the growing of the food and its decomposition in a landfill. So waste reduction can have some real knock-on benefits in addition to feeding people, and be a part of how we lower overall emissions
silence7 OP t1_isamwit wrote
Reply to comment by zensins in Inside the Global Effort to Keep Perfectly Good Food Out of the Dump | Around the world, lawmakers and entrepreneurs are taking steps to tackle two of humanity’s most pressing problems: hunger and climate change. by silence7
The problem for Republican politicians is that if you give poor people a reason to vote, they won't support having all their money transfered into the pockets of the wealthy patrons who back the Republican party
silence7 t1_irbqm5t wrote
Reply to We‘re filmmakers and security experts, working on a documentary about the global security implications of climate crisis. AUA! by christina_honig
What steps can countries take to limit the risk of climate-change-induced conflict between themselves and their neighbors?
silence7 OP t1_j8eaajz wrote
Reply to comment by cafenegroporfa in Electric boats are coming. Will Maine have mechanics to service them? A regional nonprofit has partnered with educators on a three-part training course to help prepare technicians to work on electric boats. by silence7
The US currently dedicates~40% of corn, and a similar fraction of soybean oil to biofuels already. So there's limited room to expand biofuels to support all the applications that we currently use liquid fuels for. My expectation is that shorter-range boats, intended for single-day travel, are likely to be electrified.