herdodoodo's comments

herdodoodo | 5 years ago | on: Bye, Amazon

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I hope you can recognize the conflict of interest here. You appear to work at Apple, and that might just make you less likely to acknowledge the overwhelming number of unethical practices Apple partakes in.

EDIT: Sorry, you can ignore ^this^ paragraph - just saw your edit. My apologies for making accusations.

I find it especially interesting you attack Amazon over their disastrous warehouse workplace policies (you are 100% right to do so), and conveniently ignore the even worse manufacturing plant conditions that overseas Apple employees/contractors have to endure.

I should also add, Microsoft and Apple are the two cash-richest companies on the planet. They can afford to drop all DoD contracts indefinitely. They won't, and bad things will continue to happen to PoC outside of the US because of it. I hope, at the very least, you can acknowledge this.

herdodoodo | 5 years ago | on: How to extract uranium from seawater for nuclear power (2017)

Uranium is not the only element/mineral of interest that is dissolved in seawater. Research has been done on this stuff before. I'm glad it's being done, but unfortunately this will remain unviable when compared to open-pit or underground mining (even accounting for the risk of depending on foreign suppliers + transportation costs of importing).

The biggest reserves are in Canada and Australia, not really countries we have to worry about cutting off supply anytime soon. We have bigger strategic mineral concerns (REMs and China)

Cool tech, won't leave the lab. Just like the billion "metal-ion/air/water" batteries that get shilled non-stop.

herdodoodo | 5 years ago | on: Zombie Coal

If I'm not wrong, I'm pretty sure they have to import anthracite from Aus, because the coal they have domestically is lignite and bituminous.

On another note, China has slowed down coal production not because of carbon dioxide output, but because of all the acute toxins/pollutants emitted by coal plants. Carbon dioxide is a compound that only developed countries care about, because it has few short term consequences and whose effects aren't observed by your avg. person. Your avg. person, however, does feel the effects of nasty air and acid rain, caused by nitrates/sulfates released by coal plants. This is the chief reason China will publicize moving away from coal. Because of air pollution and acid rain, not because of climate change.

herdodoodo | 5 years ago | on: Tesla Q1 2020 Update

Sweden also has numerous tax breaks for buying electric vehicles, and does not properly tax the externalities of producing electric cars (running/refueling EVs, however, has very minimal negative externalities)
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