Comment by Lerc
1 day ago
Quoting startup like that makes the effort seem like it is an extremely recent venture.
It is 13 years old.
It has been making progress, the degree and date of success is debated and confidently claimed to be in many mutually exclusive states, which at the very least says that there are lots of people confidently making claims that are not true. I'm not going to join that fray to declare which of them is correct.
Is it ready to provide power? No? Then I don't care what they are trying to do while they are burning a bunch of fossil fuels in the meantime
Are you avoiding all use of fossil fuel while alternatives become available?
It is a bold claim to make but not something that usualy be done. Any abrupt halting of fossil fuel would severely impare the ability to develop and produce alternatives.
We need to transition to sustainable methods. If you want to go cold turkey, go ahead and cease driving an ICE, never travell by air or have anything delivered (and that's just the tip of the iceberg), it would be a counterproductive way to reach sustainability, that is your right, but you can decide to do that to yourself. You don't get to decide how others reach sustainability.
There is a difference between advocating for a better world and acting like a bully because you don't like the current world.
This is all incremental use. What have we gained? How many kids in Memphis should get asthma so you can code a little faster?
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