California still one of the top States for oil and gas production?

Do you think you have a point?

CA, a state with 40 million people is 3rd in oil and not very high in gas and, what you are responding to was about trends.

Of course he doesn't. He's just a troll that's fishing for a reaction. He's best ignored.

This looks pretty cool

Would probably be used at good surf spots so as a solution to save humanity is a wash imo.

Looks like a great way to purée things that hang out close to shore.

I'm not an engineer but you could probably design a cage that would keep all but the smallest fish out. And there are plenty of waves even in spots where nobody surfs, or even swims for that matter.

Also be sure to book your Florida beach vacation early

Stupid question, but if you had to start a charitable foundation with a climate change focus, what would your number one policy goal be to achieve?

Funding would only be between 250-500k/year.

Solar microgrids in the developing world. They can bypass dirty energy like they bypassed land line phones.

I agree and this is one of the options we're currently looking at. Thanks for the input.

This for sure. Especially with that level of funding. The developing world simply has to bypass thier “industrial revolution” if we are to have any chance at mitigating anthropogenic climate change.

If you don't mind my asking, what are you involved in?

I have prescriptions for all of it!

On a serious note, it's just a small group of people, myself included, that have all decided to stop being internet warriors about climate change and throw some money at it.

You might consider looking for ways to mitigate the heat islands in the middle of urban areas.

For that kind of budget, if you're looking for an impact quick and going after a less explored area, clean cook stove tops.

A whole lot of the world is still burning peat, coal, and wood in basically open fires. Although such fires consistitute a tiny % of global energy generation, they contribute to 10~30% (depending on sources and definitions you use but the numbers are staggering basically no matter what sources you use) of global CO2/CO2e/Black Carbon emissions. I am almost literally talking about shipping gas BBQ grills to rural African communities and giving them propane tanks.

Micro-solar is tough with a lot of moving pieces and I personally know MUCH better funded entities that's been working to bring electricity/computer access via portable solar panels (10+ years ago, integrated computer/battery/satellite link/panel in giant suitcases) to rural Africa struggling to make things happen. To do anything worthwhile, you need some full time staff and a pretty substantial travel budget. The overhead alone will consume most if not all of your budget.

Honestly you guys are better off just dumping the 200k on a charity of your choosing or volunteering a year of your time to do some on the ground grunt work.

PS: you could also just run around and tell people to stop using their fireplaces and charcoal grills. (basically uncontrolled burn of carbon fuels with no carbon capture whatsoever) Chances are that will do more to help the environment than trying to get something done with 250-500k on your own.

indoor cooking/heating as you described also kills millions of people every year due to smoke inhalation, many magnitudes more than climate change can hope to kill

seems like it should be a much larger priority

plus, solar is already scaling incredibly fast

What I would do with the micro-solar business or the clean fuel business in the developing world (and I mean very low development like rural India/Africa) is not just import the equipment, but help a local group set up the business of selling/installing these systems themselves. Micro-loans, training and perhaps loans, subsidies/credits given to their customers to make it not free, but affordable.

Is this what you guys are referring to? https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/28/bloc...oin-crypt.html

Could it be scaled?

It uses blockchain, the hype can be scaled beyond internet scale. I'm guessing there are some big differences in a block's grid and a town's grid.

Democratic National Committee votes to reverse its ban on taking money from the fossil fuel industry. The ban was only two months old:

This Sort of Spineless Corporate Pandering Is Why Democrats Keep Losing
The DNC's vote to reverse a ban on fossil fuel industry giving is a deplorable step backward for the party
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2...ts-keep-losing

The DNC rationale for that is just utter b*******.

https://www.google.com/amp/thehill.c...onations%3famp

France: Make pollution less affordable

USA#1: Post memes of cops chasing kids with straws on Twitter

Curtains for Miami, wonder where they'll film Ballers

Sucking carbon dioxide from air is cheaper than scientists thought