StinkyFingerItchyBum

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Cake day: February 26th, 2025

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  • It’s an interview. It’s no place for honesty.

    The only real answer is "I expect to have grown and matured in the role to where my colleagues find me an invaluable asset and even other departments seek me out as a problem solver within my realm of responsibilities.

    It tells management that you want to stay in the role, so they don’t have to hire someone new in 2 years, yet hints at ambition to excel as a good employee. Yet not overly ambitious to get promoted or threaten anyone in the interview.













  • Geoengineering will be tried out of desperation, but we have no idea what the consequences of doing such will be. Consider that it doesn’t address the problem at all and merely temporarily treats a symptom. If you stop geoengineering, temperatures will snap back in a very short time. Meanwhile, we’re still emitting more carbon, faster in spite of all our efforts. The more likely scenario is that geoengineering will temporarily buy is 1 or 2 degrees, while our CO2 rates rocket to 6°C. It will enable us to emit more.

    Carbon Capture is completely uneconomic and unscalable. When I say uneconomic I don’t mean we haven’t built the right doodad to do it cheaply enough. I mean you cannot sequester carbon for less energy than you got from burning it in the first place. It is far more energy intensive to recapture what should not have been emitted in the first place. We can’t even stop emitting because our economy demands more energy. If we can’t do the cheap, easy scalable thing now, how do you think we will build and power Carbon Capture at a global scale, while suffering under 2,3,4,5,6 °C. We are also going to need hundreds to 1000 of years of CC to undo the damage we’ve done. So if you thought electricity rates were high from all the data centres being built, wait until AI, robotics, air conditioning in virtually all homes including the most northerly and the global battalions of CC devices that need to be built, operated, maintained, and replaced all while presumably we have no more access to the 20-1 energy return on energy invested of fossil fuels. Solar has an EROEI of 3-1. How much of this is going to AC and CC and how much are we using for living?

    Neither of these technologies will save us. Shit, there is a good chance they will both hurt us. Geoengineering poses globalized unknown risks with no time to test. For example, what if some key species only function at a certain average or peak solar intensity and geoengineering accidentally knocks out a keystone species or 5? Carbon capture is serving as a convenient political excuse to not end emissions as abruptly as we needed under the false premise of “It’s ok, we’ll fix it later”.