reizorc's comments

reizorc | 1 year ago | on: Starlink Direct to Cell

Does this mean they can track the location of specific IMEIs from orbit?

reizorc | 1 year ago | on: Real-time map of every Starlink satellite in orbit

And spread across their 2.6 million customers, it doesn't seem like a lot.

reizorc | 4 years ago | on: What if I were 1% charged? (2013)

Would the same happen if you ate 800g of positrons?

reizorc | 4 years ago | on: Simple, solar-powered water desalination (2020)

There's still the issue of what you do with all that salt

reizorc | 5 years ago | on: SARS-CoV-2 spike D614G variant confers enhanced replication and transmissibility

As far as I was aware it's the hospitalisation rate is driving the lockdowns more than the mortality rate.

reizorc | 5 years ago | on: Arctic Sea Ice not freezing In October – first time since measurements began

There are some very serious consequences of an ice free arctic. Here is a video from Just Have a Think called "Blue Ocean Event : Game Over?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo3cznpfIpA

reizorc | 5 years ago | on: Boston Dynamics CEO talks profitability and the company’s next robots

I really wish they'd make tree planting robots

reizorc | 5 years ago | on: Britain’s CO2 Emissions Have Fallen to Levels Last Seen in 1890 (2018)

Burning trees and other biomass for electricity is not CO2 neutral as much as the UK gov wants it to be. First it produces more CO2 at the stack than coal and then you have to actually replant and wait 40 years.

reizorc | 5 years ago | on: Amazon Announces $2B Fund to Invest in Climate Tech Companies

"If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilization developed and to which life on Earth is adapted,... CO2 will need to be reduced ...to at most 350 ppm, but likely less than that - Hansen et al.(2008)" [1]

Neutral is not enough. So I hope they will be plowing large amounts of the fund into negative-emissions technologies. Either that or make large swathes of the planet into a disco ball.

[1] Young People's Burden: Requirement of Negative CO2 Emissions. https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1609/1609.05878.pdf

reizorc | 6 years ago | on: Britain adopts 2050 net zero emissions target

Too little, too late.

reizorc | 6 years ago | on: Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency Gets Big Backers

What's in it for Facebook?

reizorc | 6 years ago | on: Matrix 1.0 and the Matrix.org Foundation

End-to-end encryption is all well and good but until the app stores provide verifiable builds I think promoting messaging apps such as Riot as "Secure decentralised chat/VoIP" is unprovable and therefore somewhat misleading.

reizorc | 6 years ago | on: Roundup’s Risks Could Go Well Beyond Cancer

And Wikipedia is?

reizorc | 6 years ago | on: Britain in two-week coal-free record

Green washing at a national level. Biomass instead of coal is not necessarily better [1] and the source is very questionable [2].

[1] https://www.ecowatch.com/chatham-house-biomass-study-2288764...

[2] https://theecologist.org/2017/apr/10/no-drax-theres-nothing-...

reizorc | 7 years ago | on: The Weird World of Vegan YouTube Stars

I've watched many of these videos. These people have put their bodies through hell: 25 day water fasts, eating only fruit for months, high carb/low fat vegan, raw vegan, 1200 calories a day, urine therapy!? then they wonder why they get gut and other issues.

Usually, they then ignore medical advice, especially when it involves taking antibiotics, and try to cure themselves through wishful thinking and more diet. After that predictably fails they are then magically cured of all ills 8 hours after consuming eggs and fish.

They're HAVE got some serious issues and it's not a plant based diet.