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Climate Change 3: Whatever you do don't call it a twatwaffle

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dxmnkd316 said:
1-2 feet from what I read on LA Times.

https://twitter.com/dwnews/status/1482331481607311360?s=21

go to around 0:40. A couple of different satellite views. Crazy.
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"New Zealand's military is on standby."

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Kepler said:
Waves from it hit San Francisco this morning. I assume they were tiny, but it was enough for them to issue a report and close the marina.
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Local news has such a hardon right now as there's actually something to report on Saturday morning.
 
French Rage said:
Local news has such a hardon right now as there's actually something to report on Saturday morning.
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The marina is pretty sheltered, though I suppose waves bounce around inside the bay. Wonder if it was more pronounced in places like Half Moon Bay or Pescadero.
 
burd said:
The marina is pretty sheltered, though I suppose waves bounce around inside the bay. Wonder if it was more pronounced in places like Half Moon Bay or Pescadero.
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I would be surprised if there was anything inside the bay, but the had helicopters watching the waves at HMB. I mean, nothing was happening of course. I'm not saying they shouldn't have closed the marinas and that exercising caution isn't the right thing to do, especially after the Japan one in 2011, but the news cameras weren't really getting much in the way of dramatic footage. But for the Saturday morning news crews, which have to be their lowest squad, it was their time to shine! Suck it, 11pm news!
 
French Rage said:
But for the Saturday morning news crews, which have to be their lowest squad
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They probably aren't lowest because there's sweep-up-the-eyeballs action from the Fright overnight.

Whoever has the Wednesday a.m. detail -- that's the lowest. Those people probably set nursing home fires to have something to shoot.
 
Kepler said:
This is so laughable it could be us.
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Neither are part of an ideal future energy system. Solar, wind, geothermal, hydro. Nuclear is a farce. We've only got so much fissile material remaining and it still requires serious damage to the earth to mine and then refine. Then, of course, there's the byproducts... Fusion, on the other hand, is obviously the holy grail. But, like always, we're decades away from our first net-positive stable reactor of consequential size.

Solar and wind though are the near future for now as a bridge to fusion. The Dutch have already powered their country for a stretch of >24 hours on wind alone. We have the American Southwest and plains where solar is absolutely feasible. Cities are still going to be an issue. But there's no reason the burbs can't be powered on solar in huge regions of this country. Obviously we would need to figure out how to store energy in an earth-friendly way. I'm not sure slapping a 500-750 A-h lithium battery on every house is feasible... Maybe flywheels are possible at a certain size. Actually, reading through this it seems we have a lot of options that have been tested at the low-to-middle end of sizes.

Anyways, NG and nuclear are bridges that should be ramped down over the next 40-50 years.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
Neither are part of an ideal future energy system. Solar, wind, geothermal, hydro. Nuclear is a farce. We've only got so much fissile material remaining and it still requires serious damage to the earth to mine and then refine. Then, of course, there's the byproducts... Fusion, on the other hand, is obviously the holy grail. But, like always, we're decades away from our first net-positive stable reactor of consequential size.

Solar and wind though are the near future for now as a bridge to fusion. The Dutch have already powered their country for a stretch of >24 hours on wind alone. We have the American Southwest and plains where solar is absolutely feasible. Cities are still going to be an issue. But there's no reason the burbs can't be powered on solar in huge regions of this country. Obviously we would need to figure out how to store energy in an earth-friendly way. I'm not sure slapping a 500-750 A-h lithium battery on every house is feasible... Maybe flywheels are possible at a certain size. Actually, reading through this it seems we have a lot of options that have been tested at the low-to-middle end of sizes.

Anyways, NG and nuclear are bridges that should be ramped down over the next 40-50 years.
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Is fusion really gonna be achievable in our lifetime though? It was mentioned as an afterthought when I learned basic physics stuff when I was like 12 in the mid-90s. 30 years later, it seems not much has changed with the overall feasibility...
 
Yeah fusion has been "a decade away" since I was old enough to read. I will believe it when I see it.
 
ScoobyDoo said:
Planet is 1/2 gone already anyway. Is anything we do going to be in time?
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Of course. The Earth is stronger than we are if we just give it a shot it will heal itself. Remember when we put holes in the Ozone? It won't be easy, and sacrifices will need to be made but we can inch our way back to homeostasis. First step though is we need to add a lot of green to this world and fast. Projects like The Great Green Wall need to be implemented all over the world.
 
Handyman said:
Of course. The Earth is stronger than we are if we just give it a shot it will heal itself. Remember when we put holes in the Ozone? It won't be easy, and sacrifices will need to be made but we can inch our way back to homeostasis. First step though is we need to add a lot of green to this world and fast. Projects like The Great Green Wall need to be implemented all over the world.
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I'm a big fan of that project. Glad to see it continues.
 
Handyman said:
Yeah fusion has been "a decade away" since I was old enough to read. I will believe it when I see it.
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My recollection is the timeline has shrunk from 50 or even 100 years to 50 to 30 to 20... I dunno. I feel like we're closer and closer but it's going to be a long ways off.

Anyways, people suck at guessing actual times but the general trend is closer. Cue lynah to come and tell me I'm dumb ( ;-) )
 
dxmnkd316 said:
My recollection is the timeline has shrunk from 50 or even 100 years to 50 to 30 to 20... I dunno. I feel like we're closer and closer but it's going to be a long ways off.

Anyways, people suck at guessing actual times but the general trend is closer. Cue lynah to come and tell me I'm dumb ( ;-) )
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Well I remember being in Middle School when scientists told us we would run out of oil in 20 years. Then I remember being in Geology Class in college and they said we would run out of oil in 20 years. Then I remember being in Grad School and them saying we would be out of oil in 20 years...
 
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