It’s easy, collect premiums and reject any claims as being “acts of God”.

Rather than doubling your system generation size, it would be better to store the generated electricity. You can have a massive system, but it still won’t generate anything at night.

Too bad the TV broadcasts rarely show when anyone runs on to the field.

I think there’s a lot of opportunity for reducing wasted energy in many buildings. Even the term “waste heat” is indicative that energy is typically exhausted when it could be used for space or water heating. Obviously mechanical modifications would be needed, sometimes extensive, but it’s a good option for reducing energy use.

Leaded fuel is still used in piston airplanes everywhere. While there are ongoing efforts to develop an unleaded alternative, there is none currently available to the market.

In the new report, researchers found that a combination of increasing battery density, reducing tire rolling resistance, and cutting the weight of vehicles through high-strength steel or carbon fiber could double efficiency by 2050.

For those who don’t want to read the rambling article.

I think carbon footprint calculations should really include imported carbon. My “electronic device” was manufactured in China. The carbon emitted in its manufacture should follow the product to me, as I am the reason it was manufactured.

People blaming China and other countries that manufacture a significant amount of products with relatively dirty power are really just shirking the blame. When imported carbon is considered, the US and Canada are the worst polluters per capita.

I live in a farming community in Saskatchewan, Canada. It’s really mind blowing how many farmers don’t give two shits about climate change. They’re really not unlike heavily profit-driven companies just looking for next quarter gains, completely oblivious to other longer term factors that might be detrimental to their business.

It’s sad in a way. This is their livelihood, and rather than adapt to the risk to bring some sort of long term sustainability, they’re just looking for that next brand new model of truck to buy when harvest comes in this year.

There are controls in the case of Casinos, though. The most relevant being no minors.

Perhaps they’ll make a sequel, A Slightly Longer Hike.

I think I heard this on Les Stroud’s Surviving Disasters, but North America is unique in that many places haven’t been largely inhabited for enough time to find out they are prone to disasters (some definitely are but people are stubborn enough to go back). Whereas, ancient Asians and Europeans may have had the chance in the past to relocate out of floodplains or other disaster-prone areas, for example.

Making anything more climate friendly is hard when people’s livelihoods depend on the capitalist hole we’ve dug. Unfortunately, farmers will be some of the first to feel the impacts of climate change first-hand.