Does biochar remain in ground for long? How quickly does it decompose and rot?
7 to 10-ish years from what I recall. Which is another thing that makes it so low risk. If you stop the subsidy it goes away with a few years.
Readit Newsbiohcacker84 commented on Nuclear Explosion for Carbon Sequestration arxiv.org/abs/2501.06623... · Posted by u/energy123
biohcacker84 commented on Arizona resident dies from the plague independent.co.uk/news/he... · Posted by u/Anon84
How would reintroducing the black footed ferret reduce the plague ? It's not stated in that link.
Reducing prairie dog concentrations, and most often killing the weaker slower ones, which are likely infected and showing the most symptoms.
Reduces spread and increases evolutionary pressure to increase resistance and possibly even become immune.
Led, mercury, cadmium and arsenic are showing up in so many foods. In rice in spinach and obvious in fish.
Microplastics and PFAS in fruits and fish and everything else.
And the most recent TV report on cadmium in spinach, I watched, told me to have a diversified diet.
Diversified into WHAT?
biohcacker84 commented on U.S. abandons hunt for signal of cosmic inflation science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/bikenaga
Meanwhile China is building it's own giant telescopes: https://www.science.org/content/article/china-quietly-prepar...
And will soon launch their own version of Hubble: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xuntian
Deeply embarrassing as a US citizen.
On the other hand, the US is close to bankruptcy. And that's not all the current admin's fault.
And their cuts are trying to avoid that, although they have thrown out many babies with the bath water. It's hard to blame them for trying to avoid default, which would be far worse than anything.
The program apparently cost $900 million which is not a trivial cost.
biohcacker84 commented on Startup just hit a big milestone for green steel production technologyreview.com/2025... · Posted by u/ohjeez
Carbon neutral as long as your electricity is carbon neutral.
Also many steel mills are built so that they can switch between energy source, oil, coal, gas, which ever happens to be cheapest currently.
It's a commodity business, price is almost all that matters. And with the current US Administration the days of carbon subsidies might be numbered.
biohcacker84 commented on The death of partying in the USA derekthompson.org/p/the-d... · Posted by u/tysone
Addictive tech in your hand is an evolutionary trap.
Much like cars are to squirrels, squirrels have evolved to run into a straight line to the nearest tree at the hint of any danger. And for all threats other than cars that is the correct thing.
But many squirrels are "trapped" by evolution to cross the path of a car when there is no need to do so.
Humanity's curiosity, sociability and OCDness have all been trapped by algorithms and smart phones.
And it is shortening lives and even more so reducing reproduction. A faint hope is, that with all such evolutionary pressure, we can evolve our way out of them.... eventually.
biohcacker84 commented on Nuclear Explosion for Carbon Sequestration arxiv.org/abs/2501.06623... · Posted by u/energy123
I find it interesting ever more risky way to sequester carbon are invented.
Instead of making adding biochar to farm land an agricultural subsidy. A simple, extremely low risk policy, that is a local subsidy and does create international trade conflicts like other subsidies can.
And it does not affect any wilderness.
And in hot humid climates is proven to increase fertility.
Or a bit risky we could fertilize the open ocean, very significantly increase ocean life. And it has been proven that a significant percentage of fish poop sequesters carbon in the deep ocean.
Instead efforts seem to be focused on shading the sun. And new ideas using nukes....
biohcacker84 commented on Cheap blood test detects pancreatic cancer before it spreads nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/rbanffy
HN crowd remembering it is not enough. The problem in the U.S. is that the electorate is divided into two camps: the educated and the uneducated. The uneducated camp votes without a deep understanding of important issues, and they can easily be influenced using "culture wars" topics such as DEI and trans kids. Consider that 53% of Americans approve of the administration’s performance so far—why is that? How can we effectively explain things to that 53%? That’s the challenge.
You're doing great, keep it up!
biohcacker84 commented on OpenAI scrubs diversity commitment web page from its site techcrunch.com/2025/02/13... · Posted by u/gpi
I think there's still appeal in the underlying (very) basic ideas of trying to create a workplace that's comfortable for everyone.
It's being rolled back quickly because that's what influential rich people want, and because DEI has become a politically charged term that pretty much invites conflict and toxicity at this point
I think there's still appeal in the underlying (very) basic ideas of trying to create a workplace that's comfortable for everyone.
It's doing more harm than good: https://x.com/stevemur/status/1621680046317654016
Color Blindness is better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxB3b7fxMEA
It sets up people for failure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97R3z2ofuYk
Its origins are Marxist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbby7yFrIxM
If copyright forces a diversity of AIs. That would be good.
Every AI company using its own created training, resulting in AIs that are similar but not identical, is in my opinion much better than one or very few AIs.