Am I the only one here thinking this is an unwanted future ?

Aerospace is already profiting to few rich people on earth and represents 2% of global emissions and this is saying "well we need to go faster consuming yet huge amount of fuel" for the wealthiest. Please stop these technos solutionists gadget and start to think real problems like the climate crisis.

So, according to the article, Boom intends to make their plane carbon neutral from day 1 (by using fuel generated from atmospheric carbon). Clearly that is intended to address concerns like yours.

Does that change your opinion in any way? If so, how does it change? If not, then why not?

I not against Boom but this claim to me is not credible. Maybe they will do this for their testing of the airplane. The claim that all their planes will fly with such fuel is not currently credible.

No. That fuel could be used for other things, to offset more emissions, rather than wasting it on the ultra rich.

Have you considered that it could be used by more than just the ultra rich. For example, medical flights. Or emergency family travel (like when my mother was dying last month and I was on the other side of the world and missed my chance to see her alive due to lenghty air travel).

That is even worse.

Not if the fuel comes from carbon-neutral sources.

This is 100% correct. The last thing we need is more inefficient aviation for the super-rich.

Would you have said the same thing about the Tesla roadster 20 years ago?

No, because physics. Electric engines are twice more energy efficient than their ICE cousins.

Supersonic jets are 2-3 times less energy efficient than 'normal' jets, and all methods to make them carbon neutral can be applied to both modes of transport.

And?

Efficiency does not matter when you burn coal!

Wouldn't it be nice if we could half our coal usage by doubling efficiency of everything using it?

Historically, things that were only meant for the super rich eventually got commoditised for everyone. And: Under current capitalist regimes, this is how humans push the envelope of possibilities, like it or not.

Climate crisis is urgent but token efforts to strike down nascent businesses on the cutting-edge such as Boom is not how the world solves it (discounting the fact that Boom has a path forward to be carbon-neutral: https://boomsupersonic.com/sustainability)

> Historically, things that were only meant for the super rich eventually got commoditised for everyone

That would make the situation much, much worse.

> Under current capitalist regimes, this is how humans push the envelope of possibilities, like it or not

"Not" would be the choice there. This is exactly the reason why we are in this crisis.

Basically your post reads like this meme:

https://pics.me.me/we-should-improve-society-somewhat-yet-yo...

The people posting here may be wealthy, but I’d wager the vast majority aren’t Concorde wealthy

There is a difference being potentially Concorde wealthy and actually choosing to spend money to fly in one.

Also, some of use are not exactly Concorde young haha.

Are you talking about buying one or traveling in one? Latter is very accessible at least according to projections.

You haven’t really refuted any of the points the OP made, though?

It's also fun to see people who believe in global capitalism and make Ben-Shapiro-level of arguments.

I also do it to relax mysef or to dig deeper in my thoughts

Sounds amazing.

What is the chemical transformation equation?

What is your system efficiency?

Consider applying to Time for the place to get funded. They looked for such innovations: https://time-planet.com/en

To avoid misunderstandings, On the advice of @gk1, I edit the blog post title to :

"Introducing Alternative, the community-powered search engine for software"

Unfortunately, I couldn't edit it on HN

Does it sound better?

Alternativeto is an old player in this game. They, definitely have a better database, but it's quicker to add software on Alternative and we have a complete set of tools.

We are covering website, software, toolkit, code, API, and library. You'll have this detail in the detail sheet. In addition, if you sign in, the comparator allows you to filter by type (for example "software").

Alternative is focusing on comparison tools to make your selection faster. The database is growing but it still new. Join us to make a difference!

Thanks

Thanks for the report. "bind9" is not recorded in the database yet. "dns" is recorded as a category but without software liked to it that's why the page is blank.

Indeed, this is not the problem we are answering, but your first though seems a great idea.

It really is a good idea

We provide an open search route API :

https://benchmarker.fr/opensearch?q={searchTerms}

You can then configure a redirection folowing these guidelines:

  <Url type="text/html" template="https://alternative-a.com/en/search">
    <Param name="q" value="{searchTerms}"/>
    <!-- other Params if you need them… -->
    <Param name="view" value="list"/>
    <Param name="sort" value='["reduction","DESC"]'/>
  </Url>

Can you precise, why would you scrape Alternative? Your answer will help us define the next priorities.

You can use Alternative now. It's an online service. More we are to share our knowledge on Alternative faster you will find your software.

Have you tried it?

Not to be flippant, but I _still_ don't know what it does. Am I just ignorant of current trends? Does the name provide enough information that folks will immediately know what it is?

Honestly, a short paragraph describing what it does would be really helpful.

Some of your target audience may be the "poke around spend time finding out what it does" type. But another swathe could be of the "tell me what this is before I spend any time looking at it" sort.

Alternative store data, provided by the community, about the software and online service market.

With these data, Alternative helps to select your future software.

You can start from a similar software search or a functionality search and then reduce the results list to a shortlist of 3 candidates using the tools we provide.

Does it sound clearer? :)

Thanks! Yes, that explains it well.