Mercedes-Benz Drives Toward Solid-State EV Batteries
https://spectrum.ieee.org/mercedes-benz
#ycombinator #climate_change #climate_tech #electric_vehicles #formula_1 #mercedes_benz #solid_state_batteries
#Eukaryotic #phytoplankton decline due to #ocean #acidification could significantly impact global #carbon_cycle
#climate_change #mightymicrobes #CO2 #primary_production #carbon_fixation
https://phys.org/news/2025-03-eukaryotic-phytoplankton-decline-due-ocean.html
Rules to improve air quality are under attack
https://www.heatpumped.org/p/you-put-your-pitchfork-away-already
#ycombinator #climate_change #technology #home
“The Last of the Nightingales” Tells the Story of How Soundscapes Change After a Fire
Masha Karpoukhina’s documentary follows a soundscape ecologist who lost everything in a California wildfire. #EnvironmentalStudies #Climate_Change #Biodiversity #Soundscapes #SoundscapeEcology #EnvHist
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-documentary/the-last-of-the-nightingales-tells-the-story-of-how-soundscapes-change-after-a-fire
#Enzymes are the engines of life − #machine_learning tools could help scientists design new ones to tackle #disease and #climate_change.
Mission Accomplished? Heat pump adoption has a long way to go
https://www.heatpumped.org/p/mission-accomplished-heat-pump-adoption-has-a-long-way-to-go
#ycombinator #climate_change #technology #home
NOAA Employees Told to Pause Work with 'Foreign Nationals'
https://www.wired.com/story/noaa-employees-foreign-nationals/
#ycombinator #donald_trump #politics #climate_change #government #policy
Let's stop playing the blame game when talking about LA's fires. Listen to climate scientist Daniel Swain give a fact-based explanation of why these fires were so destructive. https://horizonskyline.net/2025/02/03/forget-the-finger-pointing-a-fact-based-explanation-of-why-las-fires-were-so-destructive/ #LA_Fires #environment #climate_change #Daniel_Swain
I got a heat pump, and my energy bill went up
https://www.heatpumped.org/p/i-got-a-heat-pump-and-my-energy-bill-went-up
#ycombinator #climate_change #technology #home
Stanford Researchers Produce Ammonia Fuel from Thin Air
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ammonia-fuel-2670794408
#ycombinator #ammonia #green_energy #climate_tech #climate_change
Plant CO2 uptake rises by nearly one third in new global estimates
https://www.ornl.gov/news/plant-co2-uptake-rises-nearly-one-third-new-global-estimates
#ycombinator #Climate_Change #Decarbonization #Environment #News
An 8-year-old Laptop and Go
It seems like a law of nature that software evolves to suck up all the reserves of the most current hardware. As a result, we have to buy new hardware every two to three years just to keep the software running at a bearable speed.
Now I have the opportunity to prove that old hardware can still be used productively.
Recently, I bought a dirt cheap, used Macbook Air from 2015.
4G of RAM, 128G of SSD.
And some old Intel CPU with two physical, hyperthreaded cores.
These are definitely no specs to brag about.
To get a speedy OS and GUI, I decided to install Manjaro Linux with the Sway window manager. I heard that Manjaro works well on old Macbooks. And indeed, it works like a charm. (But I had to tick the "proprietary drivers" checkbox when installing Manjaro to make WiFi work.)
Now the interesting part:
Go 1.21 compiles itself (that is, the compiler, the whole toolchain, and the complete standard library, without running tests) in 2:33 minutes. Not bad!
Go seems ideal for developing code on low-end machines, if neither OS nor sluggish GUI tools don't get in the way.
This test wasn't just for killing time.
In the face of climate change and environmental pollution everywhere, circular economy becomes a crucial factor in shaping a future that is worthwhile for everyone to live in.
This includes using hardware for as long as possible.
Don't dump, reuse.
(Maybe I'll run the same test on a Raspberry Zero. How low-end can hardware be and still be a decent platform for developing and running software?)
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