18 Replies to “November 1, 2024: Reader Tips”

  1. I swore off air travel in 2016, and I’ve never regretted it for a moment. If you want to travel on aircraft, half of which are manufactured by companies that prize diversity over engineering and manufacturing competence, and subject yourself to customer service practices refined in slaughterhouses, then please, travel by air.

  2. A paper (it’s even peer reviewed) looking at the ability to replace fossil fuel capacity (via alternative energy sources and battery storage) while maintaining modern global living standards. Conclusion, good luck with that, as I’d guess the majority here would have concluded.

    I’ll go with the last sentence of the abstract to give the flavour of the study and its conclusions: “It was shown that both 2019 global mine production, 2022 global reserve estimates, 2022 mineral resources, and estimates of undersea resources, were manifestly inadequate for meeting projected demand for copper, lithium, nickel, cobalt, graphite, and vanadium”.
    https://tupa.gtk.fi/julkaisu/bulletin/bt_416.pdf

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