pdonchev

pdonchev t1_j9a5uov wrote

Both the story and the guy are super cool, and a ray of light in the horrible tragedy, but I cannot not notice that his name is "Jackass" (C is Turkish is the sound that J makes in English). I choose to take that as an association to the legendary status of the show.

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pdonchev t1_j6tcuov wrote

Not only. "Transitioning" countries in Europe don't have sufficient sources of electrical energy in the winter (also in summer, but winter is the bulk of the deficit) and happily import cheap dirty energy from other countries, while bragging about being a clean economy. And then you have the biggest bulshit of the 21th century so far, the gas-backed solar and wind. Where the gas sometimes is the bigger source. And then you have the wind turbines that not only have embedded a lot of dirty (and cheap) energy, but when installed they would not recuperate even this energy during their operating lifetime, but the economies work because you sell the smaller quantity of clean energy at a much bigger price.

To measure impact on the earth, the emissions for all exports should be subtracted from a country's pollution footprint, and added, together with the transportation emissions, to the footprint of the importing country. Then the charade will be clear - for now powerful (rich) governments mostly externalize emissions (in the process increasing them), while their countries continue to be the largest emitters by a large margin.

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pdonchev t1_iw79hwz wrote

I would boldly assume that the effect of extra calories from food accessibility dwarf any effects of ambient temperature, within some reasonable range of home temperatures (say, 18-28 °C). It's hard to outrun a bad diet, I bet it's even harder to out-shiver it.

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