Comment Re:Relative to a baseline without climate impacts (Score 1) 111
Then again, maybe AI will discover cold fusion and cheap carbon sequestration.
Then again, maybe AI will discover cold fusion and cheap carbon sequestration.
Don't you just love those meetings that could have been resolved by email?
"Could have" if only human nature were different than it actually is?
Everything in my experience tells me that the vast majority of people will never mentally process a complex email message. They don't even pretend to. "I told you (in an email)" carries zero weight.
"California Tops US EV Adoption: 25% EV Share Of Total Sales In H1 2023"
https://www.newsweek.com/texas...
And yet, electricity in Texas cost 11.36 cents / kWh vs 19.90 cents / kWh in California in Jan 2024.
https://www.electricchoice.com...
So where does that leave the idea that renewable energy must be very expensive?
Also I'm curious where 40 cents above came from.
As long as renewables are just cutting into demand for fossil fuels, you don't have to worry about storage / demand shaping / discarding energy. But now California has reached that point.
Apart from three years in prison, Ahmed was also sentenced to three years of supervised release, and ordered to forfeit $12.4 million "and a significant quantity of cryptocurrency and pay restitution to the Crypto Exchange and Nirvana in the amount of over $5 million," according to the prosecutors' press release.
Not sure whether he actually has all he stole +$5M, or if this constitutes a financial death sentence.
I hope some of this federal incentive is being used to grow competition.
Maybe we need to have a fiber network as a regulated infrastructure monopoly, and have competition for internet service over that infrastructure.
Traffic flow data were obtained from the Caltrans Performance Measurement System (PeMS). (44) Data for 693 PeMS observation sites within the BEACO2N region of influence as of 2018 were included in our assessments. We calculated vehicle miles traveled (VMT) as the product of the vehicle count at each PeMS site and the segment length to the next PeMS site...
For fVMT, the PEMS data set was used as a proxy for vehicle miles traveled in the region. (44) Preprocessing of the two data sets is described in Section 2.7. We conduct a simple multiple linear regression (MLR) to derive the coefficients m1, m2, m3, and c, using the posterior derived hourly anthropogenic emissions as emsanthro. The value of m1 was 2.3, which means about half of the observed seasonal trend is explained by the PG&E reported natural gas consumption. The constant emissions (c = econstant) were 156 tC/h. The term m2t + m3 can be factored out, and the rate at which this value changes over the 5-year study period is a reasonable proxy for the rate of change of overall vehicle fleet efficiency (average CO2 emissions per vehicle mile traveled).
Secondly, the WWII wunderwaffe was invented, but at Los Alamos. Beating us to the Atom Bomb and making even a few dozen really would have been a game changer. I hate to think of the British Isles. Could it have happened? The first paragraph of this reference has a nice long-list of people who probably would have been helping them instead of us, had Naziism not chosen to drive them away.
https://digitalrepository.unm....
True, that was the greatest wunderwaffe in all of history. No doubt it influenced, maybe distorted, our views.
If we have a major conflict anytime soon and our lead in stealth turns out to be not as big as thought or not very durable, and the F35 is quickly rendered vulnerable, we're going to be in a world of hurt.
Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem in relation to a bigger problem. -- P.D. Ouspensky