Another day, more evidence of the state being the ultimate criminal racketeering operation as Norway's Energy Minister admits to breaking the laws consistently
Setting aside the lack of wisdom in exploiting wind energy, there is no need to accept the inevitability of shattered blades. This is a matter of design, engineering and manufacturing quality. We don’t have jet airliners folding their wings, do we? That is because we wouldn’t accept them.
With decades of lower energy agenda, it is comical how quickly the system turned around when it comes to enormous energy requirements for computing power of emerging control grid (AI, etc). Microsoft is restarting the retired nuclear power station at Three Mile Island to power their AI data center. The biggest coal powered generating station in Pennsylvania (2gW) was retired last year. Its tall chimneys were demolished earlier this year. At this location they are building a massive (4.5 gW) gas powered station to provide energy for a data center which will be build on site. This is happening across the US and probably the rest of the world. Low energy agenda still applies to the rest of us, of course. Impoverished people don’t need as much energy, but the control grid to prevent proles from rising up gets all the energy it needs; no questions asked!
You'll be--amazed, flabbergasted, annoyed, and very angry at the same time. Given AI's global reach, nothing compares to this kind of wastefulness.
As an aside, I was looking for references to the US Fed using repo transactions for the first time (I read, albeit w/o footnotes, about that happening not before the US entered WW1): so I tried asking Grok, and I got three fake references that all looked real enough to fool the casual observer.
Whatever AI is, it's perhaps not as good as advertised.
Declare X "holy"; you will have holy everywhere. At least in India they can use the dung for fuel and as manure.
"By now, the list of things that are grave societal threats is so long and encompassing, it covers virtually every aspect of modern-day life, including what police calls ‘environmental crime’."
Well yes, isn't that logical when someone considers modern life to a crime? It's the logic of Judge Death, from the British 2000AD comic mag (sadly woke since 2010 or so):
All crime is committed by the living; therefore life is the crime.
Gave my first climate talk as a panelist on The Greenhouse Effect with Dr. William Kellogg at UNM. I posed that energy conservation and production with focus on Thoreauian Necessaries could reduce the issues far enough to even shutter nuclear power plants. Twenty eight years later it was still the way to go when I gave an update at a national convention using the material generated by the book Drawdown. Live, and learn. We don't need climate hysteria but we do need necessaries.
I fully agree with you on these issues; the insanity that got hold of Western elites is--frightening, to say the least.
The issue with the need for necessities, though, is: what is 'enough'?
A few years ago, I read somewhere that if Westerners went back to 1950s or 1960s lifestyles (in regards to consumption of resources), all of humanity would be able to live like that. While I personally doubt this--the US had 4-5% of the global population but consumed some 25% of the earth's energy back then--doing so spells the end of the power structure as-is, hence the very people who'd be implementing these policies would have to, in effect, abolish their own wealth, authority, and privileges.
Now, I don't know much about human nature, but that seems like the proverbial bridge too far…
Setting aside the lack of wisdom in exploiting wind energy, there is no need to accept the inevitability of shattered blades. This is a matter of design, engineering and manufacturing quality. We don’t have jet airliners folding their wings, do we? That is because we wouldn’t accept them.
Of course you're correct on this one.
Fun fact--somewhere in the piece the regulatory agency (sic) notes that windmills are basically irrelevant for the grid.
Shows how un-serious this all is: perhaps yet another sideshow...
With decades of lower energy agenda, it is comical how quickly the system turned around when it comes to enormous energy requirements for computing power of emerging control grid (AI, etc). Microsoft is restarting the retired nuclear power station at Three Mile Island to power their AI data center. The biggest coal powered generating station in Pennsylvania (2gW) was retired last year. Its tall chimneys were demolished earlier this year. At this location they are building a massive (4.5 gW) gas powered station to provide energy for a data center which will be build on site. This is happening across the US and probably the rest of the world. Low energy agenda still applies to the rest of us, of course. Impoverished people don’t need as much energy, but the control grid to prevent proles from rising up gets all the energy it needs; no questions asked!
https://www.npr.org/2024/09/20/nx-s1-5120581/three-mile-island-nuclear-power-plant-microsoft-ai
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/homer-city-gas-fired-power-station-data-center-firstenergy/744332/
Have you seen Kate Crawford's Atlas of AI (Camb. UP)?
I doubt there has ever been any human 'invention' that has been as wasteful as AI (sic).
I’ve placed a hold on the audio book version at one of the libraries I use.
You'll be--amazed, flabbergasted, annoyed, and very angry at the same time. Given AI's global reach, nothing compares to this kind of wastefulness.
As an aside, I was looking for references to the US Fed using repo transactions for the first time (I read, albeit w/o footnotes, about that happening not before the US entered WW1): so I tried asking Grok, and I got three fake references that all looked real enough to fool the casual observer.
Whatever AI is, it's perhaps not as good as advertised.
There is word for this they use in the official AI lingo - hallucinations.
I have not seen it.
Declare X "holy"; you will have holy everywhere. At least in India they can use the dung for fuel and as manure.
"By now, the list of things that are grave societal threats is so long and encompassing, it covers virtually every aspect of modern-day life, including what police calls ‘environmental crime’."
Well yes, isn't that logical when someone considers modern life to a crime? It's the logic of Judge Death, from the British 2000AD comic mag (sadly woke since 2010 or so):
All crime is committed by the living; therefore life is the crime.
Makes sense in this absurd way: all creates exhale CO2, hence to 'combat CO2', the simplest solution™ is to end all life that does so.
At this point, I do wonder how so many people have stayed sane so far…
Gave my first climate talk as a panelist on The Greenhouse Effect with Dr. William Kellogg at UNM. I posed that energy conservation and production with focus on Thoreauian Necessaries could reduce the issues far enough to even shutter nuclear power plants. Twenty eight years later it was still the way to go when I gave an update at a national convention using the material generated by the book Drawdown. Live, and learn. We don't need climate hysteria but we do need necessaries.
I fully agree with you on these issues; the insanity that got hold of Western elites is--frightening, to say the least.
The issue with the need for necessities, though, is: what is 'enough'?
A few years ago, I read somewhere that if Westerners went back to 1950s or 1960s lifestyles (in regards to consumption of resources), all of humanity would be able to live like that. While I personally doubt this--the US had 4-5% of the global population but consumed some 25% of the earth's energy back then--doing so spells the end of the power structure as-is, hence the very people who'd be implementing these policies would have to, in effect, abolish their own wealth, authority, and privileges.
Now, I don't know much about human nature, but that seems like the proverbial bridge too far…