I like the backgrounder about Sudbury.
Others like Japan found another way to achieve the necessary temp/pressure, but it hardly scaled as it needed to during the industrial revolution.
TBH the "let's avoid smoke" aspect sounds like a retcon, the mythical London smog is a testament of that.
Yes, that’s what the article says:
“ When you look at all the pictures of the factories in the 19th century, those stacks weren’t there to improve air quality, if you can believe it. The increased airflow generated by a stack just created more efficient combustion for the boilers and furnaces. Any benefits to air quality in the cities were secondary. With the advent of diesel and electric motors, we could use forced drafts, reducing the need for a tall stack to increase airflow. That was kind of the decline of the forests of industrial chimneys that marked the landscape in the 19th century. But they’re obviously not all gone, because that secondary benefit of air quality turned into the primary benefit as environmental rules about air pollution became stricter.”
I didn't think so; I also tried to read the article, but spreading out a 20 word answer over what seemed like 2000 words of navel-gazing got me out of there in a hurry.
Thanks for having been to my Ted talk.
Next up: Why climate change made the filter solution not work, either — with cutting edge science claims back from 1856.
(Damn, the actual timeline for 1950-1980 and 1856 mixes these two issue non-chronologically. Sorry, to be fair: we were completety certain of climate change in 1990, when we saw that the 1970s era cooldown was not a new trend, but just a decade of a brighter albedo due to particle emissions.)
Beyond the minimum the effect tapers off and what TFA is talking about starts mattering.
Of course by the 3rd of 4th generation it becomes a distinction without a difference. But understanding patterns of development is important. If today you want to prevent poor people from tomorrow living in polluted areas, rich people have to make it easier to build affordably in nicer areas--e.g. allow increasingly dense development so poor people don't get pushed toward industry.
This was proposed to be used, again in Los Angeles, as a way to not only generate power (via turbines at the bottom of large hyperboloidal towers) but also clean pollutants from the air. I don't think it ever went anywhere (probably too expensive) but it would work at least in principle.
Am I wrong?
> Maybe not in that exact framework, but basically, (...)
Doesn't exactly require the height of media literacy to grasp I'd say. But maybe GP's comment above does, and I'm just missing their clever wordsmithing skills along with many others apparently.
If you want video of a drone flying over a power plant or hot air balloons taking off, you can license them from stock providers, just like with stock photos.
Of course, it does share some of the cues of AI-generated content - but I suspect a lot of these AI companies buy a lot of stock content for their training datasets.