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The whole world is trending towards negative population growth.
2 billion would be a good number.
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Apr 13, 2022
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We can be more and more accurate with more power and more understanding.
Now that's something the alarmists don't understand, the change of climate is natural.
Yip, a few times more space for each person. Imagine you owned a couple of your neighbour's houses too.
With some systems, no.
Hey! Leave my friend Kermit out of this!
For the history challenged:
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Whether Stalin may or may not have uttered the phrase the IPCC can be summed up in an inelegant phrase an acquaintance used: 'alligator mouth, paper asshole, and no fire insurance'.
It's the swerve...
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Everyone thinks things are impossible until something new is invented.
Wat da fuq?
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Borlaug's work is fascinating however Vogt has his points too:
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I highly recommend 'The Wizard and the Prophet'
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Biden can kick the can down the road on inflation, supply chain issues, gas prices, and everything else he is ignoring but when the shelves are empty of Sriracha there will be blood.
Right. The discussion is about stranded gas, as in a mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons, not gasoline. The problem is getting the gaseous hydrocarbons to market. Pipelines are expensive and politically difficult to build. Feasible truck or rail transport means liquefying the gaseous hydrocarbons so a high volume can be stored at little above atmospheric pressure therefore the -162.
Merely compressing the gases is a losing proposition since then the transport requires tube trailers where the weight of the pressure vessels is much greater than the compressed gases.
They're rather sturdy. A company I worked for had a glass blowing operation, not little elephants but tubes for strobe lights.
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Common soda glass can be worked with an oxy-acetylene flame but quartz glass requires the hotter oxy-hydrogen flame. We used liquid oxygen, another very cold liquid, since in the quantities used standard pressurized oxygen welding cylinders would have been a pain compared to LOX. That was no problem but to have a tank trailer of hydrogen on the premises required a permit.
When we went for the permit and said 'hydrogen' you could see the clerk thinking 'bomb'. Actually leaking hydrogen is a lot safer than leaking acetylene.
The problem was almost solved by famine in the '60s and '70s but then the high yield crops of the Green Revolution allowed the population to increase merrily. Standard population dynamics. Yeast in nice sugary grape juice reproduce until they turn all the food into alcohol and die.
10 million in the US would be good... Even the 160 million of 1950 would be better than 330 million and growing. Double the population ain't double the fun.
If they could find them all. The mines are a 3D lattice of tunnels many of which were never documented.
Because it floats away bloody quick?
What's that stuff they use in making silicon chips? That's apparently very bad if it leaks.
I got 50 litres of that through there.
Now compare your density to the UK. I meant how many people not how stupid you are :-)
Can't they see them (especially those on fire) from satellite?
A little Epicurus.
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For someone from 300 BC he had some interesting ideas.
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