Monday, July 31, 2023

On Avoiding a Climate Disaster: What I Think

We should stop messing about with fake commitments that make us feel better & actually solve the climate problem. Renewables, nuclear energy, and efficient energy storage are needed. Then, we must solve the problems on scalable carbon dioxide fixation/recycling. 

Read the book How To Avoid A Climate Disaster by Bill Gates.

After reading, you will realize that:

  • We don't need Ecosia,
  • We don't need to delete our emails,
  • We don't need to turn off our electricity,
  • We don't need to turn to veganism,
  • We don't need to save water.

Those things will not change the system. The people that advocate such are simply putting the blame on YOU, and certainly on the poorest of us. The #1 activity that humans do where the majority of the greenhouse gas come from is the manufacturing of products. So, should we blame the companies instead?

Not quite.

Everyone is to blame, but we do the things we do because it makes us happy and content with life. We don't need to be in survival mode. Instead, we need something like a global Manhattan Project where the greatest human minds come to remove carbon dioxide & drop the greenhouse gas to essentially zero or as near to zero as can be managed. We have already surpassed the 1.5°C limit, so the only route is to burn as much fossil fuel as we need to:

a) get to a new, green energy economy 

b) maintain economic development, and 

c) build breakthrough technologies that will remove CO2 on a global scale.

Thursday, July 27, 2023

Quantum Physics - Laymen Get Wild

Quantum physics is a surprisingly broad field with quite a few people working on different problems... yet when a study gets publicly released, enthusiasts and interested individuals get scooped most of the time!

Like, remember that article hypothesized in 2020 by a particle physicist that explains the existence of parallel universes based on evidence found in a NASA experiment in Antarctica? Daily Mail, NY Post, and other non-science journalism sites went wild and people just accepted the hypothesis to be true! Of course, it's been debunked already, but it was a fun week.

Anyway, what I'm trying to say is that there's great demand for these kinds of studies. It's obvious because Marvel movies rely on these concepts as plot devices. I'm betting that Marvel Studios would start funding quantum physics research once they've used up the studies published in the 20th Century hahahaha

Nice ra sad ang The Marvels, at least in the trailer. Quantum entanglement this time 😂