Climate News: part 3

[Bamaro]

Climate, debt, AI, population. We're screwed for the future. All in our own making.

 

[UAH]

I'm of the opinion that next gen nuclear is our best single option. Along with a backbone of renewable.

That will make for a very interesting discussion.

 

[crimsonaudio]

I'm of the opinion that next gen nuclear is our best single option. Along with a backbone of renewable.

Fusion is likely to make even renewables wasteful and it's right around the corner. We're on pace to have fusion online in less than a decade.

 

[arthurdawg]

That will make for a very interesting discussion.

Fusion is likely to make even renewables wasteful and it's right around the corner. We're on pace to have fusion online in less than a decade.

Indeed. Fusion would be an excellent edition and if practical, would likely dominate the industry in the future.

 

[Elefantman]

https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/noaa-predicts-below-normal-2026-atlantic-hurricane-season

 

[Bamaro]

Fusion is likely to make even renewables wasteful and it's right around the corner. We're on pace to have fusion online in less than a decade.

I hope you're right but I wont be holding my breath on that one.

 

[UAH]

I hope you're right but I wont be holding my breath on that one.

It is difficult for me to be hopeful on the US doing much to develop alternative power generation with a dictatorial regime in charge that believes the future is in coal and big oil. Meanwhile China's lead grows in alternative energy development.

Just today I found that China is pushing ahead with underwater AI data centers that use half the power for cooling. Microsoft first developed this concept but it hasn't moved forward here.

 

[crimsonaudio]

It is difficult for me to be hopeful on the US doing much to develop alternative power generation with a dictatorial regime in charge that believes the future is in coal and big oil. Meanwhile China's lead grows in alternative energy development.

Trump has followed in Biden's footsteps in opening the door WIDE OPEN for modern nuclear.

Beyond that, there are mulitple private US companies working on fusion in the US alone. Far more are working on fission micro-reactors. Nuclear power is going to mushroom (har!) in the US over the next decade.

 

[UAH]

Trump has followed in Biden's footsteps in opening the door WIDE OPEN for modern nuclear.

Beyond that, there are mulitple private US companies working on fusion in the US alone. Far more are working on fission micro-reactors. Nuclear power is going to mushroom (har!) in the US over the next decade.

At one point in my life I was involved in Nuclear Plant Construction. I was involved in starting up a nuclear plant construction site. I put everthing into the job and you might imagine how it feels to see all of that mothballed. Hartsville near Nashville was an incredible site for a planned three reactors. Unless you were there it difficult to appreciate the scope of construction that was undertaken. Last year they demolished the multi-million dollar cooling towers constructed there. Incredible for me to see that.

I am aware that we have modular nuclear plants in naval vessels but I have to ask at what cost? Not commercially viable at all.

I am also aware that modular plant s are commercially available from China that can be loaded on a transport ship and literraly dropped into any prepared site around the world. Can the US achieve that price point? Not sure.

The larger issue is the US power grid that is totally inadequate to support that needed for AI roll out. That will require a time frame and trillions of dollars to fix. Can we get there? Maybe but not in my lifetime.

 

[CrimsonJazz]

It's the 20th Anniversary of Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth."

NONE of his scary predictions have come true.

Mt. Kilimanjaro still has snow and Glacier National Park still has glaciers.

Here's why we are not doomed:

https://twitter.com/x/status/2058589089536860306

 

[Bamaro]

It's the 20th Anniversary of Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth."

NONE of his scary predictions have come true.

Mt. Kilimanjaro still has snow and Glacier National Park still has glaciers.

Here's why we are not doomed:

https://twitter.com/x/status/2058589089536860306

Maybe some predictions were off by a bit but to think everying if fine with anthropogenic climate change is very delusional.

 

[UAH]

Maybe some predictions were off by a bit but to think everying if fine with anthropogenic climate change is very delusional.

Yes! One has to wonder what this world will look like when the Atlantic current slows significantely or ceases altogether. Perhaps impossible to predict. Will it bring a new ice age to the northern hemisphere or end up flooding major coastal cities? One way or another there will be major impacts.

 

[92tide]

Yes! One has to wonder what this world will look like when the Atlantic current slows significantely or ceases altogether. Perhaps impossible to predict. Will it bring a new ice age to the northern hemisphere or end up flooding major coastal cities? One way or another there will be major impacts.

and many people will be waving their arms around claiming it isn't actually happening

 

[arthurdawg]

Glacier has shrunk considerably and rapidly. There will be ice there until 2100... But no active glaciers on the current route.

Predicting is very difficult in this arena, but to deny the effect of humanity on the planet is unwise at best, disastrous at the worst. Tis better to study carefully and try to ameliorate the damage done than to remediate.

 

[TIDE-HSV]

At one point in my life I was involved in Nuclear Plant Construction. I was involved in starting up a nuclear plant construction site. I put everthing into the job and you might imagine how it feels to see all of that mothballed. Hartsville near Nashville was an incredible site for a planned three reactors. Unless you were there it difficult to appreciate the scope of construction that was undertaken. Last year they demolished the multi-million dollar cooling towers constructed there. Incredible for me to see that.

I am aware that we have modular nuclear plants in naval vessels but I have to ask at what cost? Not commercially viable at all.

I am also aware that modular plant s are commercially available from China that can be loaded on a transport ship and literraly dropped into any prepared site around the world. Can the US achieve that price point? Not sure.

The larger issue is the US power grid that is totally inadequate to support that needed for AI roll out. That will require a time frame and trillions of dollars to fix. Can we get there? Maybe but not in my lifetime.

I was once involved in maintenance of fission plants also. I co-founded a company named "Digital Engineering." Competition is great, except when it's not. We'll never be able to build a grid/plant system for each company wanting to jump into AI to have their own dedicated system. I'd suggest a TVA for AI. I know. I'm prepared to be pelted with rocks with "socialism" labels on them, but I don't care. Texas is the prime example of over-competition in an area which practically screams "general welfare." Don't believe them when they say they're solved their problems. They've said that before. TVA has its faults, but I was never so happy as when I could move back to TVA country and get away from Alabama Power and the corruption in the PSC. Have you noticed the candidates for the PSC?

 

[UAH]

I was once involved in maintenance of fission plants also. I co-founded a company named "Digital Engineering." Competition is great, except when it's not. We'll never be able to build a grid/plant system for each company wanting to jump into AI to have their own dedicated system. I'd suggest a TVA for AI. I know. I'm prepared to be pelted with rocks with "socialism" labels on them, but I don't care. Texas is the prime example of over-competition in an area which practically screams "general welfare." Don't believe them when they say they're solved their problems. They've said that before. TVA has its faults, but I was never so happy as when I could move back to TVA country and get away from Alabama Power and the corruption in the PSC. Have you noticed the candidates for the PSC?

Your post generated many thoughts on my part . The first is the Inestimable benefit TVA has provided our valley! The second is the almost total lack of a national policy supporting industrial, infrastructure and scientific development in the US.