A really interesting point. To really make forests work we’d need very specific types. Vast vast swaths of monoculture.

https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/how-many-new-trees-would-we-need-offset-our-carbon-emissions

Does MIT count?

We could probably tell with a close fly by, but it also raises a scenario where a big solid asteroid has a very soft outer coating of debris.

Yep, I used my HVAC stack space, have a portal door in the front hall closet and master bdrm closet for mid floor access as needed.

Another major feature of wired, while definitely advanced lvl, is power over ethernet.   If you want security cameras, you can run ‘only’ the ethernet cable and not need a power source for the cameras.

Certainly reasonable, and cheap!, initial step. But the wifi reliability issue remains. It’s just variable by design, especially if you have just one central wifi point. As long as hiccups in signal are acceptable wifi is a fabulous solution.

Straw man arguments are generally frowned upon by actual engineers, so I’ll leave you to your straw

For the love of god, can we get normal wheel sizes again?   When *range* is a concern, sacrificing 10-15% because wheels seems really f’n stupid.

nah it’s missing that extra special feature.   We’ll make it *raised*

basalt dust on the ground absorbs *significant* amounts of CO2 - UK estimated it would account for maybe a 1/3 of their annual CO2 release. And it both improves soil and reduces the need for fossil fuel derived fertilizers.

The US alone would need to plant a Dakota sized area *every year* to account for our CO2 release. And in 80 years, now you need to plant 2 of those areas every year since the first is now decomposing.

We don’t really have a choice but to recapture it. We’re seeing just the very tippy tippy tip of the effects of it’s presence. An immediate stop of CO2 release today would still result in 50 years of continued warming.

The value isn’t monetary, at least not directly. It will be measured in dozens of trillions of dollars, but at that point the money isn’t the issue. An actual survivable environment *requires* massive carbon capture.

funny, you nor the IRS knows where or when they were purchased. So the fact that I purchased them yesterday for 1/2 what I’m selling them for today means I don’t have to pay tax on that income?  How exactly do they know the difference?

That’s great.  So in 40 years we can start worrying about people selling a ticket on eBay....that will even the playing field.

Appreciate your admission that it’s only recently that we’ve started looking at the returns of the wealthy...who’ve been given a pass for *decades*

Given how the millionaires and billionaires avoid *any* taxes at all, maybe that should be the damned focus and not people selling 3 old TVs on eBay.

Exactly.  I’m quite sure they’d get permission to drop it in the Pacific graveyard.   They apparently want to shoot it at ppl ;-)

liability is a cruel mistress if you’re into that sort of thing.