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We still need to install a large diversity and amount of energy storage though. But good to see. Too bad AI is gonna set us back years in the transition.
Part of the problem with a for-profit energy grid. Base load is always someone else's problem. The spread between production cost and retail sale is all I really care about.
We're going to have these enormous commitments to new energy infrastructure and then someone on Wall Street sneezes, equity prices crash, and now you've got mountains of surplus hardware to clean up.
Zuckerberg wants a data center as big as Manhattan Island just a few years after he sank billions in his failed Metaverse experiment.
But hey! Remember to separate your recyclables! We need to do something to help the planet.
This mentality is incredibly irritating. There is no silver bullet of any sort that is going to solve our many environmental issues. The actual solution is going to be an accumulation of thousands of small "meaningless" actions. So quit with the nihilistic bullishit.
Humans are a very "follow the leader" kind of species. If our leaders (political, technological or cultural) don't care about the environment, as in only talk but no action, the general population will also care a lot less. That's how it works.
That’s why we need newer leaders who arise to the challenges of today sidestepping the nonsense of fascism and neoliberalism.