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Hey! Just start making posts and making connections. It's very similar to X since it was an offshoot of the twitter project's desire to go open.

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... we were to be able to find a store of hydrogen that could be harnessed that might make the production point unnecessary. Like I said before, I'm a sci-fi nerd, but I think there is a lot of technology needed to work towards helping us thrive on this planet.

This is an interesting article. I think that it highlights some of the potential issues in utilizing hydrogen in the auto market. Specifically the energy required to make the hydrogen, especially in America where we have very little renewables going into utilizing energy anyways. But if...

I agree with that 100% too. My volunteer work was an organic farm, and the classes I took emphasized regenerative agriculture as well. This is a big issue that transcends (somewhat) the political divide.

I do think it may go in either, or both directions. If it's a fuel cell they can use that to power motors, right? If batteries get better that could also lead to better at home and on-grid power storage for renewables to lessen the peak hours. i know that's not EV but it's renewables in general.

Well it's like the gas fired light fixtures in cities or the horse-drawn buggies before light bulbs and engines too. If there is a market that drives innovation without having to sell products to fund that innovation.. like we wouldn't have Starlink or SpaceX if Musk didn't do Tesla, for example

Where did I hear that huge hydrogen resources could be tapped for their energy output. I have a hard time understanding how using tremendous amounts of energy to make hydrogen for cars gets us anywhere. But I think the idea of hydrogen would solve the battery and fueling problems (and range!)

And I think that's okay. I agree with your other comment about coming together to find solutions, things are so divisive now. I'm also big into ag and have been volunteering and working on farms and attending a big conference here in my home town (little "big ag" community") 😀

I agree. I'm fresh out of Facebook land where it's just "you're stupid", "no you're stupid!"

I am a big sci-fi guy, but I think we're closer to collapse than we are to being able to colonize a place we could escape to. I'm a lefty who thinks that government control should be mostly a minimum, with a thought that we already have forms of central planning inherent in capitalism.

but nuclear is OK IMO.

I'm not sure. I'll have to do some more reading about that. From what I do understand though is that the motor is not the problem but the battery (and I don't know if we can improve motors much more). Battery tech is advancing rapidly and in terms of % of renewables we're pretty far behind...

That's an ethical question like the trolley question, but I'll bite on that I think its also a good idea to have a declining population and could achieve a healthy balance with our ecosystem. Arcologies too instead of sprawl.

I agree mostly, but I will argue that gas and oil fired power plants are much more efficient than ICEs and can sometimes run on a range of fuels. Also plastics are a big utilization of oil and we are starting to understand the effects these microplastics are having on our bodies too, a little aside.

I can dig through my library to find an actual quote (from a book in the 90s) but anthropologists suggest that we suffer directly all kinds of diseases and over population because we started farming. Hunter-Gatherers were actually much more in tune with nature's cycles. They worked less too.

Well of course we wouldn't be at the same place if the conditions had changed. If we didn't rely on cobalt mines from forced labor in the congo, we wouldn't have these devices.. or maybe they'd be different in their engineering.

I feel like the damage is pretty extensive and that it will take a long time to heal what we've done for it. Not turning it around in 20 years (and we've lagged behind that) if civilization is to survive the future we need to keep working now. Not give up at least.

It is also most likely that the health of the soil system affected how the land responded to the drought. Hint- science has shown us how these cycles work. It's not fringe. Even my hardcore conservative farmer buddies understand that they can't leave their soil bare anymore.

What Is A Local Water Cycle And How Does The Soil Affect It For those who think it's easier to annoy you than to Google 'What is a local water cycle and how does the soil affect it' themselves.

letmegooglethat.com?q=what+is+a+...

www.nature.com/articles/s41....
Normally the soil would be covered and hold a lot of water to stave off a drought, but we didn't consider that and left vast swaths of land bare.

Cite how the fringe has all the data and can't possibly be wrong. 80% of fringers get their data from memes 🙄

www.nature.com/articles/s41....

Do scientists agree on climate change? - NASA Science Yes, the vast majority of actively publishing climate scientists – 97 percent – agree that humans are causing global warming and climate change. Most of the leading science organizations around the wo...

science.nasa.gov/climate-chan...

You mean when we wiped out massive herds of ruminant animals so we could sell their skins for profit and we didn't think about the consequences of such a broad effort? Got it. Couldn't possibly be due to man's activity because it's god's will? Yep I get you. Understand perfectly what a sheep u are.

How about we get objective and realize that all the data coming from the oil companies' own data about climate change was hidden from the public in the interests of profit... How dark money flowed from these right wing organizations to keep the oil flowing.

See there it is again, you expect everyone to believe the lies of fabricated evidence on this side, but you don't see the exact behavior you're talking about from the right side? How about we get objective... you're saying 97% of scientists from around the whole world are biased. My dude.

Or perhaps we should persecute the right for manufacturing evidence against Hunter biden, or maybe we should actually PROSECUTE Matt Gaetz for his involvment with drugs and minors. Again conservative thinking wanting it both ways.

To add, there is documented evidence of donald committing crimes and he's been convicted of those crimes.. you're saying that your side gets the affirmative when it suits you, but the dissenting view when it goes against you? Your own argument shreds itself.