CO2 and PM2.5 require different sensors, so buyers need to be very cautious that their model explicitly includes both, and states CO2 as a ppm value.
Costs are about $70. They're also available on AliExpress.
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Costs are about $70. They're also available on AliExpress.
Its... mind boggling, or collectively insane, that we are doing so little. We risk stupefying ourselves into inaction since CO2 also has negative cognitive impacts.
For starters we need to shut down all coal plants and thermal coal mines (physically occupy them if necessary), cease manufacturing new ICE vehicles, and tariff any countries that don't impose carbon prices.
I highly recommend that everyone reading this buy an air quality monitor (CO2 + Pm2.5) so that you can at least monitor your own indoor CO2 levels.
On top of that, we'll also reduce electricity and computer chip waste, since mining activity will decrease as the price plummets.
Its a lot harder to justify huge attacks when your payment is in gift cards, compared to semi-anonymous crypto that can be cashed out in your 2nd world country of choice.
2020: 65 million
2100: 65 million
Population of DR Congo 1891: 8.23 million
2020: 90 million (about 8 million rely on food aid to survive)
2100: 362 million
Europe and the West can feed themselves without cheap fertilizer, they have done so for 200 years (about the time since the last major famine in France).
Cheap fertilizer is just leading to unsustainable population explosions in the developing world, where the reproduction strategies of men (these are patriachal societies where women lack consistent access to education, contraception, abortion) will inevitably push the ecosystem to its limits.
We are essentially in violation of the Prime Directive in terms of the free food, goods, technology we are giving some of these countries.
For example in the EU, the carbon price had fallen too low, so credits were arbitrarily pulled out of the market to force the price up.
Get 50 people chained up in front of the gates, and stop workers and coal coming in.
Maintain this human blockade until the last coal power plant is shut down. Ignore arrests and ignore the police.
Screw the impact on the 'investment'. The grid will handle the loss of electricity anyway.
That's about 12,000 people across the USA who could actively shape the future of humanity.
This forces the tech to be implemented in the biggest and most profitable vehicles, before filtering down to the mass market and eventually the bargain segments.
http://www.salaryexplorer.com/salary-survey.php?loc=221&loct...
I know a significant number of young women here who can speak English, have a computer, and decent home office, and are earning $1k-$2k/month for run-of-the-mill marketing jobs full-time for American companies.
(By contrast the salary for a Doctor here is about $1.5k)
I know young men who basically replicated entire American departments, in Ukraine.
You Americans should really be weary about this widespread move to remote.
Call politicians, protest, raise funds, join a party, become a politician yourself.
With just a $20 carbon tax we basically end coal, which is about 40% of our global emissions:
https://www.resources.org/common-resources/calculating-vario...
At $50 we end natural gas, at $100 we end oil.
Its also much easier to transition Western societies to renewable energy and EVs, which wipes out a lot of carbon emissions for example.
Additionally, much of Africa (20%) is reliant on food aid from the West, so its not fair to assign all of the resource use to the people who are feeding them.
But we can't do that - we have widespread shortages of new chip components because so much capacity is being dedicated to cryptomining!
Instead of tying ourselves in knots, why not just regulate and ban the base source of the problem (crypto exchange for fiat) instead?
Instead, we should treat each retiree as a ward of the state, and provide them with Government housing, cell phone and plan, food (cooked or ingredients), and a limited amount of electricity/water - plus a small stipend for private purchases.
The other fault of the current system is that we link retirement to age - instead, it should be linked to health: if you can continue working, you should be expected to do so.
With the savings, we can eliminate regressive taxes like sales taxes (or just enable the currently totally unsustainable system to keep functioning.)
Crypto is full of pump and dump and exit scams.
Bitcoin et al are also algorithmically supply inelastic. As demand for the coins decreases (due to the inability to actually buy them), the price will decline. This is basic supply and demand economics.
The technology will float around, but the actual formal legal exchange of fiat for crypto should be banned.
This will indirectly disable Ransomware, since businesses will not be able to purchase the coins.
And by reducing the price of coins, reduce the waste (electricity, hardware, human effort) associated with 'mining' them.
Unfortunately, Polish Real Estate prices in large cities are more expensive than in mid-tier American cities.... despite the still lower salaries, and much higher taxes.
Additionally, much of the bureaucracy and tax system has still not reformed, since the constant influx of young hot bodies keeps everything afloat no matter what.
Its crazy that the USA doesn't offer a simple green card to all these people. Its free very-high-quality human capital.
Singapore has registered 62,000 cases, and only 36 deaths.
Its very clear from these statistics that COVID is not a threat in Singapore.
The health of the population (very low obesity, generally healthy Asian diets, no poverty) and latitude (easy Vitamin D generation year-round, high humidity) are probably the major factors.
The real lesson out of COVID should have been that we need to improve the air and food supply of Western countries. But, I guess big pharma can't make money out of that, and totalitarian political systems can't expand.
Wood for construction needs to reach an equilibrium moisture point with the outdoor air after its cut.
If its dried outside, it takes months to years to dry, depending on the humidity level and temperature.
The wood is dried because it makes it lighter, and the shrinkage and swelling has already played out during the drying process... instead of when its in place!
"Installation during rainy weather: AAC is known to crack after installation, which can be avoided by reducing the strength of the mortar and ensuring the blocks are dry during and after installation.
Brittle nature: they need to be handled more carefully than clay bricks to avoid breakage.
Attachments: the brittle nature of the blocks requires longer, thinner screws when fitting cabinets and wall hangings and wood-suitable drill bits or hammering in. Special, large diameter wall plugs (anchors) are available at a higher cost than common wall plugs.
Insulation requirements in newer building codes of northern European countries would require very thick walls when using AAC alone. Thus many builders choose to use traditional building methods installing an extra layer of insulation around the entire building."
More teenagers died of lockdown, than died with COVID.
Why havn't all restrictions across the land (including masks and endless testing) ceased immediately?
The overall labour cost is similar.
American developers are just lucky that they live in a low-tax society.
https://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20170201/many-fast-food-cont...
Which have all of the same problems of plastic.
We cannot force individual consumers to become chemists, and interrogate every material they come across.
In many cases the materials are completely unknown. Is the PFAS used on a Big Mac burger wrapper listed in its ingredients?
For example, bans on long-chain PFASs (Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) has meant industry has just switched to short-chain PFASs, which are more difficult to filter out of water:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.estlett.0c00004
We need to establish a whitelist of acceptable compounds and force industry to work within that for anything that will shed into the environment, be exposed to foodstuffs, or be worn by humans.