China's fossil fuel usage increases year by year , at least up to 2024
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Do you mean to tell me the much heralded AI revolution was hype? Heartbroken I am. Those poor billionaires and bagmen.

I would have thought it is bleeding obvious that whatever is posted on Wiki is freely available to anyone.

P 123 It shows the good fit of the climate models to the period 1850-1990 ignoring the fact that that is the data the models are trained on. Great the models fit their training data. big fucking whoop.

If one applied a tiny bit of thought to the article the headline number 8.2%, is largely explained by the Canadians who previously formed 28% of visitors dropping by 25%, since I'm sure you remember that 28%*25%=7%.

..but also a lot of graduate level jobs are going to be eliminated by AI, and those that are still open will be taken by displaced mid career employees desperate for work. I must admit I'm in two minds as to whether this is a realistic scenario, in general, but specifically I'd have thought a lot of database and coding jobs will be lost due to AI, even if it advances little further than its current state. I've often wondered about how someone who has used AI for 4 years will cope in their final exams, where, obviously(?) they won't have AI. OTOH if they do land a job then they'll be well trained in using AI.

When the SAE defined the levels for AVs the immediate feedback was that L3 in particular didn't seem like a great idea, as the manufacturer has the liability for accidents, yet the driver is supposed to take over when requested.

GBR is on the cold limit for colorful coral. So when it is hit with cold water due to the Pacific Oscillation, the colorful hot coral organisms die or flee, to be replaced by the drab cold water ones. Then when the warm water current resumes the cold water corals get out-competed by the warm water corals. So what they call bleaching is more accurately a mixture of bleaching and replacement of of hot by cold water corals. Most of these surveys are aerial, and cannot differentiate between bleaching and species substitution.

Nature beat you to it, Hawaii has reefs in sheltered bays that happily survive water temperatures much higher than the GBR sees.

Various volunteer groups do kill crown of thorns, there's a bit of discussion whether CoT primarily attacks diseased coral, ie may be more of a symptom than a cause. I'm not well read on this, but given their voracious appetite and coral's lack of defensive mechanisms, it seems unlikely.

11 weeks is the estimated long term storage requirement to avoid 1 in 37 years (the length of the good weather records) in the UK system blacks, according to the Royal Society's report. The fact the greeny advocates have not performed a similar estimate for other proposed wind and solar and battery and hydro grids tells you everything you need to know.

Sorry, I forgot the conclusion... therefore all surrounding grids that rely on reliable energy sources will find they are rendered uneconomic by the often free but usually non existent unreliable power sources the CA grid has encouraged.

The lived experience of the Australian East Coast grid is that whacking in loads of unreliables (solar wind) with inadequate storage (11 weeks worth) will kill the economics of the fossil fuel and nuclear plants, which work best as baseload providers, not infilling for the unreliables.

30 kW is a very small car engine. Not a 20 tonne container.

I'm not a huge fan of windmills, but this does seem like a better idea than offshore turbines. It does of course use vastly more material per MWh than a standard onshore turbine,even allowing for the higher availability. I very much like that it can be installed among existing wind turbines rather than destroying even more woodland and farms.