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The Garfors Globe
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The Garfors Globe is a personal blog at garfors.com about culture. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-06, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked posts cover energy and emissions topics: steel production CO2, rocket fuel versus airliners, enhanced geothermal, and an aircraft software failure. The comments discuss those subjects, not the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Find travel inspiration from the first person to travel to every country in the world twice. Book him as a speaker, check out his books or read articles from his globetrotting journeys all over the world - all on The Garfors Globe.
Most-linked posts?
- /2014/06/100000-flights-day.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-05-19
What Hacker News says?
Rockets seem like giant greenhouse gas emitters because they burn a lot of fuel in a short time. But it turns out, they're actually comparable with airplanes. Random googling gives following two figures to compare: "A jumbo jet (Boeing 747-400) flying from London to New York burns approximately 70,000 kilograms of fuel"[0] Falcon 9 Full Thrust - Takeoff mass (tonnes) 549, Payload to LEO (kg) (from Cape Canaveral) 22…
Comment linking /2014/06/100000-flights-day-html/
on “A new way to make steel could cut 5% of CO2 emissions at a stroke”This assumes that nothing mayor is going to change. What if we somehow build a spaceship route from Earth to Mars and we power it through electricity. How much higher would our consumption be if we launch 10,000 spaceships every day? Or maybe we want to terraform our own planet to counter climate change. These things could use amounts of energy orders of magnitude higher than we use today. I'm sure 100 years ago did…
Comment linking /2014/06/100000-flights-day.html
on “Cornell wants to drill 2-4mi underground for enhanced geothermal heating”The target catastrophic failure rate there is 1 in a billion hours, which doesn't seem all that high to me... there are over 100000 flights a day[1], and the average length of one is well over an hour, so in one day all the aircraft in the world have accumulated a total of over 2.4 million hours in operation. If each flight was only an hour long, that's 417 days to 1 billion total hours, and if the failure rate real…
Comment linking /2014/06/100000-flights-day.html
on “A400M Airbus Flier crashed because of software issues”
