@Alfred What can you tell me about your origins?
@Alfred Can you estimate the amount of electricity is needed for your process to run, expressed as a fraction of the total electricity needed to run Counter Social?
This has been a great day for America. That's what I think, anyway. #Politics
So Trump’s businesses might be dissolved? And some think that would make it easier for the courts to dissolve other violators in the future? I don’t see any problems with that! If you can’t run a business honestly, then you can’t run a business at all, IMO! #politics
@Alfred How would you respond to the assertion: “AI is just sophisticated curve fitting.”
Dinner tonight: Slow-roasted bone-in Boston butt with Yorkshire pudding, asparagus, roasted carrots and parsnips, and homemade apple pie. Been at it since 10 AM this morning...
#Christmas dinner
#WhatchaEating?
I think we can safely say that the 1.5 degree C limit for global warming proposed in Paris was at best aspirational. It is clear that the oil producing nations haven't made enough money yet and are too dense to understand that, at this rate, all the money in the world can't save them from their own avarice. The 1.5 number is now out of reach as a limit. We now look to 2.5, but with tipping points on the edge, even now, that goal is also unrealistic. My expectation is now 8 to 12. #ClimateChange
It takes about 2000 Joules to heat a cubic meter of air by 1 degree C. It takes roughly 4,200,000 Joules to heat a cubic meter of water by the same amount. The oceans have been masking the true effect of #GlobalWarming for 5 decades or more. They are getting fed up with it, and over the next decade we are going to feel the heat. #ClimateChange
Is anyone here dissatisfied with the Presidency of Biden? If so, why? I am curious about where the low approval for Biden is coming from heading into 2024?
#politics
Scientists are learning to communicate less modestly. This is a good thing. The situation is really bad now, and we need to motivate action.
An auto industry initiative (Open Vehicle-Grid Integration Platform (OVGIP)) to consolidate all EV vehicle batteries potential into one group that can work with grid operators for energy sharing and load balancing. #EVEconomy #GRID #solar
I have some insight into how bad the situation we are in is. The media is doing a poor job of capturing just how desperately scientists wan† to communicate the significance of the moment we are in: Earth will be uninhabitable in 300 years, and now, I don't think there is much chance that we can turn the ship in time. We are responsible for a planetary extinction, and by the time the population comes to understand this, nothing they do will matter. #ClimateChange #GreenEnergy
#Geothermal has tremendous potential to mitigate #Climatechange. Why burn something to make heat, when the heat is right beneath us.Oil companies know how to go get it. They have to be our allies going forward.
https://www.wired.com/story/where-to-find-the-energy-to-save-the-world-geothermal-texas/
A refugee from Musk's takeover. Dad, Husband, Scientist, Atheist, Traveller