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Remember when we didn't have enough electricity for electric cars?
Have you seen the price of electricity? That's with only about 5% of cars being electric. We've consumed nearly all of the slack in transmission capacity. I'm expecting transmission costs to balloon.
‘the abundance of [AI] will be limited by the abundance of energy’. And the reason current US policy opposes clean, renewable energy is --- purely political.
And Indian Point in NY is the classic example of how nuclear was supposed to be replaced by renewables but was replaced by gas (and many solar installations in NY were blocked so we're not coincidentally here): https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/20/nuclear-...
So, it's political in that our policy is in line with what most people want: fewer renewable generation stations. But there's no outside enemy to conquer here. We've just collectively decided on this equilibrium.
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It falls into the bin of "tragedies of the commons we could fix with current technology but fail to sufficiently fund and support in earnest" Really, when is the last time we overhauled our built environment and actually followed through with a comprehensive plan in the west? We couldn't even finish the interstate highway system in a time when we had seemingly great alignment towards it along with far cheaper costs.…
Public housing failed not because of insufficient funding or support but because a small fraction of residents were sociopaths and criminals. The authorities refused to take decisive action to quickly evict the troublemakers and so they wrecked the projects for everyone. Section 8 vouchers have been far more effective by enabling low-income people to rent housing from private landlords at market rates. There are some…
I don't know about better, but it's what we've got. The problem is a shortage of housing, and the government building housing solves for that because the public market has been shown to be incompetent at that.
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We still don't. Until free/at cost car charging is provided at work when the sun shines you're just moving the place where combustion happens. This may be a worth while trade in downtowns where the main form of car pollution is engine exhaust at an average of 20mph.
All three employers I've had over the last ten years now offer free charging at work. New houses everywhere have been putting in extra circuits for charging for years. Apartment buildings are commonly built with chargers now, and older ones are starting to see retrofits. Electricity generation is almost always much, much cleaner than burning fuel in an internal combustion engine, and has been since long before EVs be…
The future is not evenly distributed and the outliers matter little.
>Electricity generation is almost always much, much cleaner than burning fuel in an internal combustion engine, and has been since long before EVs became available.
Depends entirely on your assumptions about where you draw the line for emissions from second and third order effects.
Saudi oil is so easy to get out of the ground that compared to coal it's practically green.
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The ocean tidal power data center idea was a neat one.
Neat how? Tidal power never made economic sense. There are only a limited number of places with enough tidal flow to even potentially make it viable. Any moving parts in the marine environment require frequent expensive maintenance due to growths and corrosion. Environmentalists will file lawsuits against anything that causes any damage anywhere, even if it would be a net environmental benefit compared to alternative…
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All three employers I've had over the last ten years now offer free charging at work. New houses everywhere have been putting in extra circuits for charging for years. Apartment buildings are commonly built with chargers now, and older ones are starting to see retrofits. Electricity generation is almost always much, much cleaner than burning fuel in an internal combustion engine, and has been since long before EVs be…
And in Singapore I can get 10Gbps home internet. The future is not evenly distributed and the outliers matter little. >Electricity generation is almost always much, much cleaner than burning fuel in an internal combustion engine, and has been since long before EVs became available. Depends entirely on your assumptions about where you draw the line for emissions from second and third order effects. Saudi oil is so eas…
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It falls into the bin of "tragedies of the commons we could fix with current technology but fail to sufficiently fund and support in earnest" Really, when is the last time we overhauled our built environment and actually followed through with a comprehensive plan in the west? We couldn't even finish the interstate highway system in a time when we had seemingly great alignment towards it along with far cheaper costs.…
Public housing failed not because of insufficient funding or support but because a small fraction of residents were sociopaths and criminals. The authorities refused to take decisive action to quickly evict the troublemakers and so they wrecked the projects for everyone. Section 8 vouchers have been far more effective by enabling low-income people to rent housing from private landlords at market rates. There are some…
When I talk about spotty coverage I mean, verizon says I have an LTE connection, and yet I get served with dialup tier experience. Not always, but often. This has been the case for the probably 15 years I've had a mobile data plan. I experience this nowhere near anywhere remote, in the heart of large cities even.
Remember when we didn't have enough electricity for electric cars?
Have you seen the price of electricity? That's with only about 5% of cars being electric. We've consumed nearly all of the slack in transmission capacity. I'm expecting transmission costs to balloon.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
And in Singapore I can get 10Gbps home internet. The future is not evenly distributed and the outliers matter little. >Electricity generation is almost always much, much cleaner than burning fuel in an internal combustion engine, and has been since long before EVs became available. Depends entirely on your assumptions about where you draw the line for emissions from second and third order effects. Saudi oil is so eas…
You've replied to me before - I really wish you would engage positively.
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And in Singapore I can get 10Gbps home internet. The future is not evenly distributed and the outliers matter little. >Electricity generation is almost always much, much cleaner than burning fuel in an internal combustion engine, and has been since long before EVs became available. Depends entirely on your assumptions about where you draw the line for emissions from second and third order effects. Saudi oil is so eas…
You've replied to me before - I really wish you would engage positively.