That image of various quality of life measures vs income is powerful.

It's scary when we look at the primary energy issue, compared with the renewable portion.

The good news is that it isn't as bad as it looks as that primary energy also includes the energy that goes to waste in creating it. All that waste heat leaving engines and smokestacks is a high portion of that primary energy.

Humans are vulnerable to thinking they are living in special times. Eschatology is the word for it.

I'm old and was raised on the dreams of scifi in the 60s. I've always thought we might get to a singularity one day, possibly in my lifetime, but I've never thought we are on the cusp of it until now.

So did he keep all his fingers? Me paps lost a few over the years in a similar role

I'm going that once it's been properly tested we can release such models on all kids.

Yes it's scary. But I'm guessing it will be much easier to shut down the bad pathways quite swiftly. At least for the more quotidian situations.

>The lion’s share of the increase in sexlessness among unmarried Americans has been among the relatively religiously devout.

And at the same time and over the same period fewer Americans are identifying with a religion.

Hope we expect to respond and how we respond are two very different things.

I've been shocked and surprised by how easy it is to project agency onto chatgpt. I suspect I would adapt very easily to a bot companion.

That movie Her captures it. Bonus points when the bot is voiced by Scarlett Johansson!

I'm gonna need an ai to figure out what stories I like reading most.

I guess they might as well create them while they are at it. I'll be curated into my own little whirlpool of culture.

Could be with time, people interlope into my taste stream and find it refreshing. Then I'll charge them for the pleasure...

This uplifting news leaves me bitter. Ironically, it's also about uplifting by Russian troops.

>Russia’s invasion of Ukraine caused global energy prices to rise dramatically in 2022, exacerbating existing price increases due to rising demand from the post-pandemic economic recovery.

I guess it's hard to separate the two.

I know it isn't easy to sort this issue but if a distracted ape can achieve it a computer can and will. And it won't take all those high tech sensors either as that ape doesn't need them.

That link didn't open for me. You might need a better source anyway to have some credibility.

I look forward to the time when we are confronting the question of what to do about the last 10%.

I suspect we will have much better answers by then than nuclear power.

This is what a tipping point looks like at the top. If renewables continue in their growth pattern we will be pushing down fossil fuel growth very soon if not already.

The article includes this quote.

>“For many years the IEA earned the reputation of vastly underestimating renewable energy growth,” he said, “so there might be a tendency to bend over backwards and err on the side of exuberant optimism.”

Did they give inflated electrons this time? The report itself says

>Our outlook for 2023 to 2025 shows that renewable power generation is set to increase more than all other sources combined, with an annualised growth of over 9%.

I get confused at that point not knowing if they mean any of three things.

9% growth in energy output annually

9% growth of installation of equipment compared to the previous year

9% growth of equipment from the previous accumulated

Anyway, hope they have vastly underestimated as usual. Every time I look into their assumptions they did a significant bias toward minimal growth.

Yesterday I looked at their projections for our mining and minerals needs for example and they were so pessimistic and already demonstrably wrong.

I'm a casual reader on this sub with a systems engineering background and don't understand most of those headlines. I do understand a few and the implications of those are huge.

Let's hope humanity somehow manages to adapt to this.

Our current laws and governance structures are so slow they won't be able to do much. It will be like shooting at a bunny based on where it was a week ago.

1 was Shayle Kann, doing the Katalyst podcast. I was taken aback when he said that, so I hope he covers what he meant in a coming episode.

2- both conventional and green hydrogen have to be transported.

I thought hydrogen with renewables is meant to get cheap enough to outdo conventional hydrogen. Headlines have been saying 2030 2035, without subsidies.

With the current range of American subsidies one informed podcaster said that hydrogen will cost $0 in a couple of years. I can imagine that being unpopular!

I'm guessing the water used would be minimal compared to that used by agriculture. Even in a large production plant.

Could you cite source for your claim? The wiki article included only a positive affirmation of the approach. "Food Yields and Nutrient Analyses of the Three Sisters: A Haudenosaunee Cropping System"

I'd be happy to have a few cubic meters in a box in my garage ready to supply hot air when I need it. Haven't seen this suggested as an approach at all and can imagine industrial and commercial would be the most obvious target.

I'm impressed that we are at 5% but a quick look had me like positive.

>Currently, the vast majority of CDR uses conventional methods, managing land so that it absorbs and stores atmospheric carbon dioxide — for example by planting trees, restoring damaged forests or replenishing soil so that it stores more carbon.

I'm guessing we can't increase that 20 times and there is a limited amount that can be stored there.

Maybe we should just stop making greenhouse gas emissions instead....

I could imagine some of us cheeky sods topping up the battery at work during the day and selling a good portion in the evening when we get home.

Hopefully the projected growth in the plastics industry doesn't undermine our aspirations. This says it might triple and that will be an awful lot of emissions. https://www.oecd.org/environment/global-plastic-waste-set-to-almost-triple-by-2060.htm

I think propaganda is quite different between those two groupings.