Statistical significance is an arbitrary threshold anyway, especially when the textbook 5% is used as if there's some fundamental law of the universe that gives 5% a special relationship to causality, when it was actually just a default number plugged in that should set off alarm bells if it hasn't been changed.
First we have to compare two types of flaring, just releasing the gas unburned where the methane goes directly into the atmosphere and acts as a powerful greenhouse gas (rarely done these days...intentionally, anyway), and flaring and burning it where the methane is ignited into an open flame that mostly converts it to CO2, a longer-lasting but much less powerful greenhouse gas. Previously the energy wasn't used at all, just wasted, but that was an energy waste issue rather than an emissions issue.
Burning the gas in a turbine converts it to CO2 more efficiently than an open flame, so the environmental improvement over the first scenario is obvious, compared to the second the improvement isn't as huge but still significant. I'd guess the 63% CO2-equivalent emissions is the difference between the total effective GHG output of running the gas through a turbine vs. burning it in an open flame, since some of the methane can still escape that way.
It doesn't take more energy than the fossil fuel produced to capture all of its CO2 output and more, so it's not a violation of thermodynamics any more than a catalytic converter on a car is.
This is much better for the environment than just flaring the gas but it's about the least useful thing that could be done with that energy. Training/running AIs would be somewhat better. Some even better uses I could think of:
- Putting the energy into grid storage (maybe even just local grid for the oil rig equipment)
- Running an atmospheric CCS plant, or even CCS on the exhaust of some of the nearby oil rig equipment
- Running a traditional data center (even better usefulness per watt/hour than AIs)
- Running some beneficial distributed computation work like WCG or F@H
I wonder why they're saying he was in "custody" if the only thing he needed to escape was another passport. Seems he didn't need to break out of jail first, and was likely in Executive Time Out with some limitations on where he was allowed to go, like Carlos Ghosn. And it seems like he may have been allowed to go to the airport.
It would also help to switch from regular git to radicle:
Well sure, you can run any OS on a VM in a container on any OS...
Containers aren't a newer replacement for VMs, they're different technologies that could be used to do similar things in some situations. You can't run Windows in a container on a Linux host for example. I'm actually more bothered by the resource waste of using containers instead of just installing a couple of software packages than people using a VM where a container could do the job...
That was my first thought as well. My second was that this theory sounds similar to this incident:
https://www.theregister.com/20...
It seems odd that airrcraft don't have as many safety lockouts on their power seat controls as modern cars do. Most cars won't let the driver's seat be adjusted unless it detects a parked condition. Maybe the aircraft controls should use a seat occupancy sensor with an override button that's hard to reach.
I always thought that the simplest and most likely explanation was that the plane's lithium battery pack caught fire (an issue the model was later grounded for IIRC?), they tried to turn back but immediately suffered a massive electrical failure that shut down the plane and eventually caused it to crash.
Nope, still using spinning rust for that due to lower cost and more gradual and forgiving failure modes. But I've been using flash storage since the days when a 16MB USB1 drive was a significant investment, and I haven't seen one lose data from a lack of power yet...
Something like an SSD is only going to last a couple of years without power, and we're well beyond that.
LOLWUT? SSDs do not need any power to retain data, only RAM does. Find your oldest, dustiest USB flash drive or SD card and give it a try.
This will make Texas safer...from the potential embarrassment of Ted Cruz accidentally sharing another porn video on TwitX on the anniversary of 9/11. One less site he can view it on!
BTW I checked into it and humans are only 17~60% banana depending on the criteria used:
Turns out that their customers are all rapidly transitioning to KVM (on Proxmox):
UNIX is hot. It's more than hot. It's steaming. It's quicksilver lightning with a laserbeam kicker. -- Michael Jay Tucker
