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I also don't believe in the 'bitter lesson' when extrapolated to apply to all 'AI application layer implementations' - at least in the context of asserting that the universe of pro…

Li-ion is a very big umbrella of battery chemistries, and within can have broadly different safety and stability profiles. More important is that Li-ion cells are no joke, and are …

You are missing the core technology point that drives the underlying thesis here - ‘every manufactured good, gets cheaper per unit as you make more and more of it’. Whether this is…

That is because CdTe is actually a stable molecule that isn’t water soluble, turns out the problem of panels from a toxic leeching perspective is largely from the small amounts of …

Not to be incredibly nit-picky, but the costs of the product right now don’t matter nearly as much as the ability to scale production and variable unit costs. As a ‘hard tech’, the…

‘Sustainable’ in the food context is much more around total resource use (land, water, materials), waste products (ghgs and waste water) rather than a primary focus of energy effic…

But Neutral Capturing CO2 is not ‘energy cheap’ and therefore it is best when and where possible much of what we start capturing to rid it from the carbon cycle rather than re-intr…

This would be an interesting choice. a) it will not necessarily last longer, li-ion in the right conditions (particularly more stable chemistries) have superior cycle life experien…

Hypothetically this is not a binary option, they could significantly ramp up the strictness of 3rd party sellers increasing the costs of making multiple, temporary fake seller acco…

For getting an intuition on it, I would recommend the clip from HBO’s Chornobyl which ELI5’s a nuclear meltdown. [1] If the reactor is air cooled, that can be translated as “the he…

As someone who never got “hooked” onto twitter (turned into an active user) each time I viewed Twitter I found two main issues: - a discoverability problem for topics, authors, and…

TCOs for individual consumers will be vastly different depending on the parameters of the situation, with particular impact driven by volume of miles driven annually. Due to this, …

If I may riff and provide a potential view of a tangential alternative force that was at play that made the project destined to be doomed (via this approach you mention about un-im…

Can't say that 'it is the end' yet - but given that pandemics end when there is no more 'room' for the virus to move through naive hosts (places to infect). The fact that Omicron i…

An attempt at a serious answer now that it looks like you fixed the units in your post. One key part is recognizing that “energy TRANSITION” accounts inherently that we are not tal…

I think thread parents point is that the problems are obtuse and plentiful enough that in order to understand them you need to be involved in point 1, which is arguably the hard pa…

This happens often enough and is far from a new phenomenon. Look up the meme and phrase “funds are safu” that covers this. https://youtu.be/DelF6zEHXpE

When thinking about “carbon stores” - it is significantly more preferable to turn managed forests into manufactured wood products for buildings and furniture (where the CO2 gets fu…

Abundant renewable energy, driven by decreases in costs of solar, wind and energy storage could be used with no other inputs but energy* via the Haber process + electrolysis. I sup…

I can't help but think that this action could very well spur out some 'unintended consequences'. Prohibition can restrict and reduce participation and usage at an overall level, bu…

Had to look into MLPerf as I don’t follow super compute. But I don’t see them not doing that test as an issue as they made it quite clear that their entire system is tailor made, l…

External mouse - agreed. Trackpad support though has had many issues over the years in my experience across devices & distros.

And to further add, electrified energy end use cases can benefit from the decreasing costs of solar and wind as prices drop and deployment increases overtime. An ICE vehicle can no…

Just a few points to consider here. 1) the companies may be agile, but there is a very big difference between competency in mechanical device/metal working/plastic moulds etc and r…