Errr .... we do. It's been a long time since I've been in a building without CO2 monitoring. Is that just a European thing? It's literally a standard monitoring component of every heat-recovery ventilation system in all new houses and has been from before people even knew how to spell COVID. My friend doesn't even have a new house (early 90s) and she also has a CO2 monitor in the living room which controls the ventilation system.

I retrofitted such a system to my house but I used VOCs instead of CO2 as it is a better proxy for stale air and cleanliness, and CO2 gets picked up on VOC sensors along with outgassing, farts, etc. The only problem is if I walk into the study with a glass of Whiskey it triggers the ventilation system.

Are you one of the people who says smoke burns your house down? Is a fire alarm not a fire alarm because it is triggered by smoke?

This is an anti-virus system not a primary virus identification system. CO2 is a proxy for air quality and ventilation, good ventilation and air quality objectively prevents the spread of viruses. Just because you don't understand a title, doesn't make it clickbait.

Congrats, you're literally the first one to mention COVID and your post complains about others mentioning COVID. You've won the dumb comment of the year award. Shame you led with this because the second part of your post is actually quite insightful.

Yes CO2 levels above 1000ppm can make you feel hazy. It's a good idea to open the window if you get to that level, which is quite easy to reach in a closed meeting room.

They did allude to it but they did a poor job of it. "CO2 is an approximation of many things" In this case they are talking about air quality and lack of ventilation in an occupied space.

If you're sitting in a room with others and the CO2 level is rising you're rebreathing their stale exhaust. It's a pretty good proxy for when you should open a window.

That said VOCs is a better proxy. With VOCs you can approximate CO2 as well, but also pick up other things such as someone's farts, though I suspect you don't need electronics to tell you to open the window then.

This is a story about a success achieved through global action using policy at a national level. A person directly controlling that national policy is inseparably related.

And while he hasn't done anything to damage this success yet (and it's not likely he will), his actions on reversing years of global co-operation at the behest of industry, lobbying, and not wanting to see something from his golf course very much put this at risk. It's 2025, we're now sitting an angry tweet away from reversing global successes.

Pretty much an admission that the government had these audit agencies all along so all DOGE was really able to do was not save any money, add more bureaucracy and indirectly kill a bunch of people in other countries.

“The US attempt to create a postsoviet style right wing oligarchic system collapsed because Americans are addicted to scams and turned the U.S. economy into a bubble for chatbots”

People who aren't you, but who are near you. They also matter. We all know quite well you don't care about those people, as you've let us know on numerous occasions, but they do matter.

Will this AI give us the complete Epstein files?

Journalism is pretty much dead in this country.

I take it you don't have the latest Teams installed, or never used a corporate laptop loaded with all that rubbish management software? A few years ago an 8GB RAM laptop ran perfectly fine. Nowadays on a corporate machine you can't even have office apps open while in a Teams call without paging to disk. My 2 year old laptop is absolutely tanking my productivity. That wasn't the case 2 years ago. Teams didn't take up 3GB of RAM just to do a damn video call back then, but then it also didn't have AI loaded auto translating bullshit with fancy animated background graphics, etc, etc, etc.

You clearly don't work in the corporate world. The adage of "What Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away" is still very much alive. My 2 year old work laptop is running like a dog with 4 broken legs thanks to the enshitifcation of groupware. It's at the point now where if I am running teams with a video call I actively close every damn office program that isn't absolutely necessary for the call because the computer runs like shit thanks to Microsoft + corporate spyware.

I have a relatively new laptop and it's absolutely affecting my productivity.

Hardly. Devices on the hardware level aren't that enshitified. Yeah the headphone jack is gone, but those tears should have dried up 10 years ago. For the rest of it, hardware has just been on a steady albeit incredibly minor improvement.

With the average device age still well within the OS update period, the enshitification in the software stack is adopted one way or the other.

Which figures? Land usage figures? Because that is mostly what he focuses on and he exaggerates the land usage of wind turbines to a fantastical degree, pinning it at 2 Watts per square meter.

He has it at 3 offshore. The London Array runs at about 3.2.

You've given a lot of reasons why he's wrong but the figures disagree. All I did was divide the yearly output buy a year and the land area.

Bu the way, Seagreen 1A is about 0.3 W/m2.

That would be around 107 Watts per square meter

You need to leave space between turbines...

Now, this is primary power, not just electrical usage, to be clear.

Yes, the book is sustainable energy without the hot air, not just sustainable electricity for current usages.

As for technological changes, solar cells have become more efficient and much cheaper.

A bit but insolation has not changed. Mackay quoted 20%,the best rooftop panels are about 25 now. So out of date, but it's not a huge change, either.

iPhones receive updates far longer than any Android device and they also hold value better. You can also stop beating the dead horse of iPhone=expensive because Samsung a more expensive Android model.