You can currently pan with right click, and I like the idea of a configurable starting time! Everything is mapped into the current epoch when you load your browser at the moment.
Ah i see, i had tried right click and it wasn't working, but that was because I had a planet selected with its details showing, in the normal view it's fine. Makes sense not to pan when an object is selected, i guess.
I just had the browser window maximized while I was away from it for a while. This would make a nice active desktop, though I don't know enough about the software stacks involved with that to know whether it's possible.
I don't really have a workflow but a nice tool is the OneTab browser extension (https://www.one-tab.com/) which will store all the tabs from the browser windows, they can be restored later, links can be moved between groups etc.
I had a go at getting chatgpt to classify them by pasting in the link/title pairs from the onetab export tool and asking it to group them into similar topics. It was promising but didn't really scale due to the limit on message size. I'm sure a tweaked/retrained AI would do a pretty good job, not sure if there's tools out there already to do this.
It's irritating that many of the people who resist EV adoption because "it won't work, there's not enough chargers" seem to be more amenable to the idea of hydrogen, despite all the extra infrastructure/energy needed for production, cooling and transport, when electrical infrastructure is already ubiquitous. I don't know if it's that people are more conditioned to the idea of putting liquid in a tank to power a vehicle than plugging it in.
Nothing against hydrogen per se, I'm sure it'll have its uses, but electricity has a much shorter lead time to take up the current energy deficit from cutting fossil fuels.
Coal vs. nuclear is the other major head-scratcher, but I guess that's down to the green movement's own lack of awareness of the severity of global warming back when they were campaigning against nuclear.
> Japan currently imports a lot of LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) on big ships. They can’t use dirty natural gas forever - but they will still need to import some energy. Thus, they are placing bets that they will be able to import hydrogen and ammonia in the future. They've made some strong policy decisions to this effect. Korea and other smaller Asian countries aren't far behind.
There was an interesting series on TV, "Downey's Dream Cars", where Robert Downey Jr. did conversions of some of his gasoline cars to various renewable-driven engines, electric, biofuel etc. On one of these, the original plan was to put in a manual electric drive, which I was looking forward to seeing, but unfortunately that got cut as there wasn't room for the manual transmission.
Anything that gets petrol-heads on board with EVs is good IMO, hope they don't get burned for it.
YES! They could start immediately with items for which there's an alternative, e.g. cellulose kitchen sponge vs. the plastic ones. That should be at least as doable as the carrier bags and plastic straws and knives/forks that are finally getting replaced.
This should be right up there with global warming. At least with this, the problem is easier for anyone to understand and care about because of the direct threat to our own health. Just you'd have a lot of pushback from the industry.
It's egregious the way plastic is thrown at every problem. Diligently cultivated by decades of industry marketing, it seems the meanest transient need by a human seems to justify some plastic container, which could have a much longer and more meaningful useful lifetime, that gets thrown away immediately and will be floating around in the environment for centuries after. A bottle of water, mouthful of yogurt, A thimbleful of cosmetic cream or sunscreen, a single meal etc.
Even the longer use stuff is appalling when you think of the relative time-scales of use and breakdown. Toothpaste tubes, toothbrush, floss dispenser, one or two months, then centuries in the environment. All those tech gadgets and kitchen appliances, CDs, monitors, furniture. Our species has too high a regard for itself in some ways. On the one hand we consider ourselves the only species with the capability for empathy, love etc, are undoubtedly one of the most conscious, but somehow completely blind to the suffering we cause.
