I asked some people I know who are involved with carbon sequestration research and guidance for the National Marine Sanctuaries and they said basically that the sinking-kelp scheme for marine carbon dioxide removal is an interesting idea worth investigating, and it poses perhaps “medium” environmental risk, but there are a lot of unknowns which warrant proceeding with caution. Some of them think it is premature to sell carbon offsets to companies based on that unproven idea, and that we are a long way off on having enough research to back inclusion in carbon markets.
Unfortunately, I think we are running out of time to make these decisions and given the time required to scale up, being too cautious could be a big mistake.
This carbon dioxide fear seems to me mainly a fixation of the West and its allies, which are showing they are willing to destroy themselves over CO2, like the Netherlands attacking its own farmers, or the Swiss government threatening 3 years prison to anyone who heats their home over 60F this winter, but curiously at the same time no one is doing anything about the plastic pollution in the environment or the problem of the microplastic in our blood.
RISC-V is something like 4 generations behind ARM.
But soon Pine64 will have a single boad computer based on RISC-V and IMHO everyone should give that a try.
OLED uses PWM so it’s not eye-safe.
OLED is the most eye safe to me, due to its pixels not actually sending light in my eyes when black, blue light being reduced and PWM is not OLED specific.
Some vendors do, some not and some do it on LCDs.
I actually find starring at my OLED screen on the Xperia 10 III much easier on the eyes as looking on any of the LCDs in house.
OLED/PWM are not inherently going to cause headaches and nausea. Claiming that all OLEDs are not eye-safe is ill-informed and fearmongering in my opinion. Only early/cheap implementations of OLEDs have PWM frequencies low enough to cause any concern.
If the PWM frequency is high enough, (in the 10s of kHz) there is absolutely no risk of getting eye-strain/headaches etc from the backlight flicker, as persistence of vision means the eyes/brain cannot percieve the difference between it and a constant light source.
You make a very good point, there are other threads dedicated to OLED or Coreboot or whatever. This thread is about carbon neutrality. Everyone, let’s please stay on topic.
We have updated the copy for our marketing listing. Also copy-pasting Nirav’s message from Reddit:
"We pre-purchased the carbon sequestration and they provided us detailed reports showing how and where they sunk the carbon and how they measured that it is actually sunk in a “long cycle” method (meaning the CO2 won’t be reentering the atmosphere).
We’re selling the remaining inventory of carbon that we purchased. Once we run out of this inventory, we would need to find a new supplier of carbon capture."
Running Tide didn’t kill trees to bury or sink – you’re correct that doing so would be conterproductive. They planted kelp underwater, which captures CO2 through photosynthesis, producing oxygen and storing the carbon in the kelp itself, just as planting trees and allowing them to grow would do, but underwater where the space is not at a premium and it’s less likely to be disturbed by human activity.
