Oh.. I'm sorry, I was mistaken...
It's 7 trillion now.
See the IMF article
"Fossil Fuel Subsidies Surged to Record $7 Trillion
Scaling back subsidies would reduce air pollution, generate revenue, and make a major contribution to slowing climate change
Simon Black, Ian Parry, Nate Vernon
August 24, 2023"
How many died?
On review, I actually cared more about the Iraqi soldiers and civilians who *died* in that war which you apparently don't care about at all because gender is more important than life or death to you apparently.
But if you are going tangentially point out women fought to my post- how about you doing us a favor and posting about those women who died (if any) in the gulf war.
Joe is nothing like the other former president who said,
"WeÃ(TM)re a nation that just recently heard that Saudi Arabia and Russia will re-feh-urr ahhhhh [sic]."
Who shows overwhelming evidence of dementia, aphasia, and repeatedly showed confusion About reality. (See: "Donald Trump Dementia Evidence 'Overwhelming,' Psychiatrist Claims: Ex-Prez Repeatedly 'Shows Confusion About Reality'")
And who couldn't pronounce "Venuellazss"
And again.. these are quotes. Directly from campaign appearances. Modding on slashdot has really dropped in quality.
Folks really don't want to hear this do they? There's nothing trolling about it. It's just facts.
Why would I suddenly troll after posting for over a decade.
Mostly by slanting so hard and ignoring many cases where the same thing applies to comparable class ICE cars. A $50,000 car has $50,000 car insurance costs. Maintenance costs are lower for EV's. Mostly lies by omission. Of course, some of your comment is reasonable and some Pro-EV Fanatic might be trying to censor you by marking you as a troll.
But I'd say it's mostly your extreme bias that makes it seem like you are lying rather than deluded.
That's the amount of annual fossil fuel subsidies. It's an easy google. Some of it is direct subsidies, some of it is unique favorable tax treatment (such as for the coal industry).
Of course, that's not including wars for oil such as the gulf war. That was an additional, one-time 2 trillion dollars and 4,000 young men's lives.
Joe is nothing like the other former president who said,
"Weâ(TM)re a nation that just recently heard that Saudi Arabia and Russia will re-feh-urr ahhhhh [sic]."
Who shows overwhelming evidence of dementia, aphasia, and repeatedly showed confusion About reality. (See: "Donald Trump Dementia Evidence 'Overwhelming,' Psychiatrist Claims: Ex-Prez Repeatedly 'Shows Confusion About Reality'")
And who couldn't pronounce "Venuellazss"
Yes, they really aren't doing nearly enough to prevent a huge amount of misery and food insecurity. They are being pennywise and pound foolish. If they would just take the 6 trillion dollars in annual fossil fuel subsidies and put it straight into direct CO2 capture, they could cancel out the 41 gigatons of emissions in roughly 3 years which might limit us to a +2C increase if the methane sublimation cycles are not already past the point of no return.
About 13.935456 hectares or 25 square 747 jumbo jets.
Per data as recent as 10 years ago, they thought it was a wash tho removing methane would cool things down / prevent faster.
But recently, they found methane isn't 25 times as effective as co2, it's 75 times as effective as co2.
Per
insideclimatenews.org
"To Counter Global Warming, Focus Far More on Methane, a New Study Recommends
Scientists at Stanford have concluded that the EPA has radically undervalued the climate impact of methane, a âoeshort-lived climate pollutant,â by focusing on a 100-year metric for quantifying global warming."
and
"Over a 24 year time period methane is 75 times more potent than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas. This is three times higher than 25, the current value that the EPA uses for methane."
"How many cars are there in the US?
In 2020, there were 286.9 million cars in the US. While car sales for the past few years arenâ(TM)t a simple upward line, other factors such as increasing car age and the need for personal mobility means amid the pandemic are making sure that the number of US cars is more or less progressively increasing."
So while it may the 3rd largest, that's about 8% the co2 put out by passenger automobiles.
And *all* transportation is about 30% of carbon emissions. So 23 million cars is one of what I call "american" measurements. We have a tendency to measure things in football lengths or other objects instead of saying a concrete fact like "Globally, all transportation emits 11.9 gigatons per year of which passenger vehicles emit roughly 7.14 gigatons".
And since the U.S. is about 15% of passenger co2 emissions, that would be about 1.05 gigatons and since this is about 8% of the U.S. fleet, that's about 0.084 gigatons of global carbon emissions.
But that's just a very rough estimate. I'd give it +/- 50% so 0.05 to 0.12 gigatons.
For comparison, humans put out roughly 119,426,010,658,613 stone of carbon per year.
Millions of simple devices are sold every year that do those tho. Entirely mechanical and automated.
And if the robot looked like whoever/whatever you most desire... and could wake you up that way in the morning, you might accept it.
Many retired people *prefer* robots to humans. The robots don't judge them, don't get tired, don't get irritable, don't steal things.
I'll disagree a little bit: we have heavy lift rockets bringing mass to orbit at a greater rate than any time in history and new larger and more efficient rockets on the cusp of being brought to use, with next generations planned for the future. Space launch technology -- the actual raw launching of mass to orbit, where it can be useful -- has advanced. And mass to orbit means more fuel -- if we really wanted to get something out there faster.
And that's where our statements arrive at the same conclusion: there's little need to do anything but super efficient deep space probes. While I can quibble with your implied assertion about newer technology not making a difference in ability, in a practical sense given our funding of deep space research, the big tech upgrade has been to data collection devices and communication. We'll have to have way cheaper lift capability before extra fuel to cut time off a project makes any kind of sense. But it is now at least plausible as an option.
(Also, this appears to be the only thread that isn't making Trek or Aliens jokes)
As a minecraft player, that doesn't bother me at all. And as a minecraft modder, one of my most popular mods simply adds a small number of activities to the villagers. Players enjoy seeing the villagers doing those things.
And randomly generated dungeons and buildings are a long tradition in many games.
But supporting your point, Vault Hunters combines hand crafted 125 meter cubes randomly into a procedurally generated world. It's popular because of the human touch in the cubes.
But I know that Google will make the results of their LLM useless for search as they have for their traditional search engine.
Google results have been increasingly untrustworthy over the last 12 years. The first page is frequently completely useless.
So I'm hoping for an opensource LLM that isn't corrupted by greed to the point of being worthless.
Neutrinos have bad breadth.
