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byq_e_t
26 @02:12PM
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Attached to: Doomsday Clock Ticks To 85 Seconds Before Midnight, Its Closest Ever
I don't think anyone's considering putting AI's finger on the nuclear button.
Not until we've closed the mineshaft gap.
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byq_e_t
26 @02:00PM
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Attached to: World Not Ready For Rise In Extreme Heat, Scientists Say
What on earth has any change in my life or affordability got to do with prevalence of climate change denial as espoused by, for example, politicians?
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byq_e_t
26 @09:56AM
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Attached to: World Not Ready For Rise In Extreme Heat, Scientists Say
I thought that was a regular Montreal winter? :)
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byq_e_t
26 @09:50AM
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Attached to: World Not Ready For Rise In Extreme Heat, Scientists Say
It's truly bizarre that people think they can tell people who lived through events that those events didn't happen.
I lived through it too. You are talking nonsense.
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byq_e_t
26 @09:49AM
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Attached to: World Not Ready For Rise In Extreme Heat, Scientists Say
The odd thing is that when I was a kid and we were going to enter The New Ice Age
Not according to science of the time (1970s), no.
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byq_e_t
26 @09:48AM
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Attached to: World Not Ready For Rise In Extreme Heat, Scientists Say
There seems to be an upsurge in outright denial of it happening. Ten years ago there seemed to be more acceptance of it being a reality, just a lack of interest in dealing with it due to cost.
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byq_e_t
26 @09:47AM
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Attached to: World Not Ready For Rise In Extreme Heat, Scientists Say
The next 50 years will perhaps be a meter/one yard ... if at all.
That's a severe issue for a lot of coastal or tidal cities, which is a large proportion of the most important cities in the world. It would have a large economic impact.
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byq_e_t
26 @05:22AM
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Attached to: AI is Hitting UK Harder Than Other Big Economies, Study Finds
and various inflation busting public and private sector payrises
Those occurred in many instances several years ago, but also after years of rises less than inflation which, by your logic, should have been a boost to the economy but didn't seem to be.
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byq_e_t
26 @05:14AM
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Attached to: AI is Hitting UK Harder Than Other Big Economies, Study Finds
It started rising in 2022, before the recent tax changes. The rate of change has been largely constant since then. This is also before significant inroads by AI. This suggests a different underlying cause to either AI or tax changes.
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byq_e_t
2026 @07:08AM
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Attached to: Bank of England 'Must Plan For a Financial Crisis Triggered By Aliens'
Non sequitur of the week
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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byq_e_t
26 @12:11PM
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Attached to: Bank of England 'Must Plan For a Financial Crisis Triggered By Aliens'
But not a skillset that includes looking at something, and instantly determining it is a vehicle of extraterrestrial source.
Clearly, pilot training is utterly inadequate.
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byq_e_t
6 @10:21AM
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Attached to: Two More Offshore Wind Projects in the US Allowed to Continue Construction
(I am sure The Netherlands by now has some big wind turbines powering pumps in addition to the cute ones).
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byq_e_t
6 @10:21AM
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Attached to: Two More Offshore Wind Projects in the US Allowed to Continue Construction
Indeed. I find Dutch windmills cute and the local wind turbines majestic. There are probably people who coo over the look of cooling towers at a coal plant too as everything has an devotee somewhere.
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byq_e_t
6 @07:46AM
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Attached to: Two More Offshore Wind Projects in the US Allowed to Continue Construction
Dinorwic in Wales was built to provide peak power for what was primarily coal generation as the coal generation couldn't adequately follow demand without overbuilding at too great a cost.
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byq_e_t
6 @07:45AM
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Attached to: Two More Offshore Wind Projects in the US Allowed to Continue Construction
There are various options, and pumped storage is one of them. Austria has the geography to take advantage of it and then sell it back into the grid. Similarly, the Nordic states are trading other forms of energy to better match demand and supply. Some form of storage and/or always on power will be required, but it has to be in the context of an entire system, national security concerns (potential autarchy), costs, and the length of expected disruptions, the ability to have forms of production with no common factor (they don't all fail at once if the sun stops shining) and geographical distribution of production. It's not simple. What is clear, though, is that suggestions from 15 years ago (e.g. David MacKay's book) that wind can only supply X% of demand (or solar, etc.) don't seem to be correct as, with a good grid, those percentages have now been exceeded. There will be a limit depending on the criteria chosen for reliability of supply, cost, etc., but it is higher than was previously thought.
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