The Boring Company raises $112M from Musk, early employees

Re:The Boring Company raises $112M from Musk, early employees by btcindivist on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @04:25AM (#16856507)

Heating and cooling trumps the transport sector with 30%+. Globally, stuff does skew a lot from our first worldly habits.

If you do the calculations similar to those done in http://withouthotair.com/ you'd see your first worldly habits put your heating and cooling at the top, and probably your diet at the second place.

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Re:The Boring Company raises $112M from Musk, early employees by Retric on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @07:02AM (#16857194)

Energy use is not the same as CO2 production. Cars produce a lot of CO2 in the oil extraction, transport, and refining stages. Heating and AC use wind, solar, electric, nuclear, etc not just fossil fuels.

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Re:The Boring Company raises $112M from Musk, early employees by icebraining on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @05:54AM (#16856864)

So because transportation is not the top CO2 impact industry, no changes to it can have a substantial impact on the environment?

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Re:The Boring Company raises $112M from Musk, early employees by btcindivist on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @05:57AM (#16856883)

When profiling are we optimizing the fastest functions?

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