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RT @nuclearny
New York's electricity mix shift 2019-2022 (including rooftop solar) shows the increase in fossil combustion due to the forced premature closure of #IndianPoint, which produced 2.5x the carbon-free energy of statewide #solar & #wind. #ClimateCrisis #CLCPA #NYActsOnClimate
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RT @bradyafr
Russian forces in Ukraine have built hundreds of kilometers of field fortifications over the past few months.
This interactive map shows where many of these sites are located and links each to satellite imagery. (1/4)
https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1rRKs40IEbGRsV0Fhky25l5OkPJ_vUvQ&usp=sharing
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On the plus side, the main thread is more moderate. https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/kuqgJDPF6nfscSZsZ/thread-for-discussing-bostrom-s-email-and-apology
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It's called Swanson's law, but the more general phenomenon is called Wright's law: the more of something you build, the cheaper it gets.
Conversely if we stop building stuff (e.g. nuclear reactors) they get more expensive.
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RT @_HannahRitchie
Cost of solar PV modules, per Watt 📉
In 1975: $115
In 2021: $0.27
That's 425 times lower.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/solar-pv-prices?yScale=log
https://twitter.com/_HannahRitchie/status/1614277784725229573
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Ukrainian drama: Ukrainian vlogger Dadydov hates Ukrainian vlogger Arestovich. I don't know what to make of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9v0F3SQ5no
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RT @hausfath
A few year back we were joking that climate skeptics would soon be saying “no warming since 2016”. Now they actually are.
In reality, short term variability can make you over interpret pauses or accelerations in what’s a pretty clear trend: https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-no-global-warming-has-not-paused-over-the-past-eight-years/
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Plus, Russia invaded in February. Farmers had time to increase their planned crop of staples — assuming that was possible and they were paying attention?
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Anyway, I find it interesting that studies show coffee decreasing amounts of dementia/PD risk factors...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cns.12684
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36361750/
...but that when I Googled ways to lower Alzheimer's risks, I looked at 4 sites and none of them mentioned caffeine or coffee.
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Also "The risk of dementia in PD is about 1.7- to 5.9-times higher compared to controls" https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fneur.2021.748096/full
However, no one seems to be talking about whether there is an increased risk of Parkinson's after a Dementia diagnosis. Does PD tend to happen before AD somehow?
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Under 2% of elderly have Parkinson's: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8848182/
WHO: 5–8% of people of people aged 60 or older have dementia: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/elderly-dementia-symptoms
But "at least 75% of PD patients who survive for more than 10 years will develop dementia": https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19733364/
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I would've blamed Russia for hurting the global wheat supply with its invasion, but... it is a bit odd how the price of everything else seemed to rise just as much as the price of wheat https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editorials/article-the-conspiracy-to-inflate-food-prices-is-real-its-time-to-rethink/
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RT @HopfJames
An informative article about nuclear's situation. I found this graph showing construction times vs. year to be interesting. It shows short (~ 5 yr) construction times for initial demo reactors and the first batch of GW-scale reactors that followed. 1/
https://www.powermag.com/being-pro-nuclear-wont-be-enough-heres-why/
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