If the sun burbs in the wrong direction we would be fucked. My fav is KILLER ASTEROID HEADED FOR EARTH! Only to find out the closest approach is a million miles away. Nothing is sacred Roger, not even the end of the world!
space dot com smells a bit of chumbucket at times.
I live in a rural setting, and no.
You live where they filmed breaking bad FFS and if ya can't burn sand yer out of luck!
Also, the state of California takes a dim view of people burning wood. Air quality.
One of the things I like about EV and electric farming is the independence it could give to farmers as far as energy costs are concerned a 100 kilowatt wind turbine and solar with energy storage backed up by the grid could meet their energy requirements and that makes up a big part of their costs. An electric tractor could save a lot of money in fuel, provided battery costs are reduced and capacity increased. Something like biogas or biomass might be used by some to supplement renewables, rural power rates tend to be higher so there is an incentive.
The only reason I would favor it is as a temporary fix while we transition to renewables. Quite simply, it is better than coal for power generation and produces less carbon. I think other uses like heating and gas stoves should be phased out ASAP and the only time gas might be used is to make up for temporary shortfalls in renewables.Greenpeace to take European Commission to court over controversial gas and nuclear greenwashing - Greenpeace European Unit
Greenpeace will take the European Commission to the European Court of Justice over the inclusion of fossil gas and nuclear energy in the EU’s Taxonomywww.greenpeace.org
As I mentioned a few times before, natural gas is not a suitable green transition energy. It’s another lie pushed by the fossil fuel industry and governments who care more about the national economic effects (and thus power) than the future of our planet. I don‘t oppose nuclear power plants but I agree with their argument it takes too long to build and too much money that could and should be spend on renewables instead.
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all of this kind of research concerns me. we were NOT ready for the impact that the internet would have on society, and we did nearly nothing to regulate it, or control the damage it was and is causing.Just think in a few decades they could be up to cockroach level neural net processing, then they could do simulations of magats! Maybe processing power will be rated by the natural analogue, like flea, louse, ant, etc. Kinda like neural net horsepower, but with more variety...
Researchers Discover a More Flexible Approach to Machine Learning | Quanta Magazine
“Liquid” neural nets, based on a worm’s nervous system, can transform their underlying algorithms on the fly, giving them unprecedented speed and adaptability.
Roger we were not ready for gunpowder, or sharp objects even. We are on a technological ride into the future with no getting off unless our global culture collapses or we wipe ourselves out. It will be Heaven or Hell with not much in between and even Heaven can become a Hell for some. 2120 will be a much different world, one way or another, we might not have started out with a God, but we could very well end up creating one...
so just blindly throw the throttle to the wall and barrel into more stupidity? sounds like a plan....not a good one, but a plan...
To blindly go where no one has gone before... At least there is progress Roger, there are many things about our society that need to change, socially and technologically, neither is sustainable as things now stand, move or die Roger.
Five words oppose your counsel of caution:
sure, destroy the people the military are meant to protect. then you won't need the military any more.
It’s Darwin at its nakedest. You get fewer smarter apes.
an upside, after all...