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well well well if it isn't the consequences of someone's own actions (w @dell.bsky.social )
SAME JUST HEAVING SOBS??!?!
and finally: yes, using less nitrogen fertilizer is a good idea for the environment — that's a shift that needs to happen over the long term, however. this is an immediate shock! which isn't great
couple qualifications on this ~
- the shortage is not affecting potash right now, but diff fertilizers serve diff purposes. corn, for instance, needs both nitrogen AND potash
- piece focuses not on food *shortages* but how this will affect big cash crops ie corn, soybeans
This is a very timely example of 'flimsy voluntary commitment to fend off real regulation' performance I dig into in my latest for @crikey.com.au - comparing it to how the fossil CCS industry flipped out when the biden gov't was like "oh....so, do it then??"
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“This is a press release designed to make it seem like they are addressing this issue. But this issue can only really be addressed by utility regulators or Congress.”
ok so Pillion was phenomenal????
I regret my decision to watch the White House / Big Tech press conference about their "ratepayer protection pledge."
The highlight was when he went off-script and admitted that this is all about providing "PR help" to Big Tech companies.
it's very funny to me when big tech companies sign pledges that are just.....mostly things they had already said they'd do!
NEW from me: the pledge big tech companies signed at the white house today is supposed to protect ratepayers from high utility bills due to data centers — but the WH actually has little ability to make that happen
"this is theater," @aripeskoe.bsky.social told me
Great piece. This is especially bad for California, which imports the majority of its fertilizer. It had already rerouted supplies away from Russia during the initial invasion, and dealt with a major price spike that never fully went away. All the more urgent to make its own with green H2.
One surprising side effect of the US war in Iran: American farmers are staring down soaring fertilizer prices at the worst possible time.
From @mollytaft.com
there's a lot going on right now but did you know a massive amount of the world's fertilizer flows through the middle east, and did you know that that fertilizer needs to be shipped to the us *right now* for planting season, and uh did you know we are at war with iran
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truly genetically my son :)
they don't afaik! and some cooling systems have stormwater or wastewater flows
oh!!!
perhaps mixing coffee with Flamin Hot Dill Pickle Cheetos on a mostly empty stomach was not the slam dunk move i thought it was
yeah dipping my toe into reporting on pfas last year made me realize that basically every other environmental output is like a big shoulder shrug in the US :)
honestly my question was partly because i keep seeing people (not well informed activists to be fair but gen pop) bring up "water pollution" wrt data centers and i was wondering if i was missing something huge
thank you! this was my sense as well, i hate how hard it is to actually track claims like these (and how bad we are at regulating industrial water LOL)
thanks — this video mentions mostly water use, not pollution? i have reported on the boxtown facility before and haven't seen anything about water pollution
oh and also are NOT the oregon rolling stone story about nitrates
oh i forgot about this — i actually have a lot of issues with how the orig rolling stone investigation was put together, but i haven't seen fern's covg so i'll check it out, ty
thanks! this is the same case as the nyt story i was referencing
good faith data center question: can anyone point me to any studies or news reports that are NOT the nytimes georgia expose from last july about actual *water pollution* from data centers? not water USE, but pollution
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