It's worth remembering that a segment of the boomers did exactly that, become barefoot hippies going off to live in peace with nature in an ashram. They did things like found the Whole Earth Catalog and build home-made solar water heaters.

But the ones who didn't... took the reins of power. Turns out living in a yurt without television or electricity doesn't build the kind of resume that preps you for a career in politics.

Ay, there's the rub. They can put up data centers quickly. Electrical capacity expansion takes time.

They want the electricity now, not "when the electrical utilities get to it."

Hmm. Probably originally implemented to enable Kremlin surveillance of Russians (in Russia), but there was no reason to remove the surveillance back door for the export version/

That turns out not to be the case.

Really, air conditioners are not the problem (or at least, they are such a tiny part of the problem that they can be ignored.)

However, they are also not the solution to the problem.

Bonus karma for Futurama reference. I was actually amazed that the ñ displayed correctly on my post here. Slashdot usually garbles non-English characters.

(Maybe I'll try posting about topology next, and I can see if "Möbius strip" displays correctly.)

The first line of the summary:

Falling prices have made grid-scale storage batteries more attractive...

It's not the batteries that are the bottleneck. It is the equipment to connect them into the net, and the skilled labor to do so.

"Should" is not really a useful word in economic analysis. The cost of expanding capacity is a cost that has to be paid now, while the income from selling electricity is an income that occurs in the future. If this were an unregulated free market, if the data centers are offering slightly more per kilowatt hour for the power than the current price for the consumer, they win the bid for power, and everybody's prices go up.

Electrical power is not an unregulated free market; it's vastly more complicated. But the overall law of supply and demand still drives prices up, although the maze of regulations complicates how the costs are distributed among customers.

("scarcity drives prices up" is only in the short-term, of course. In the long term, scarcity drives new suppliers into the marketplace, which may lower prices.)

Depends on what you mean by "point of no return." Yes, the carbon dioxide we have already put into the atmosphere will continue to result in Earth being warmer by something like 2 C, and this will last for at least a hundred years, possibly more.

But, no, we have not yet reached a point of cataclysmic climate change. It is not too late to avoid worse results.

The longer we wait to start implementing solutions, however, the worse it will be.

The post you're replying to was making fun of the lack of a tilde (~). There is no Spanish word "nino", it doesn't mean anything.

El Niño, not El Nino.

The deaths weren't due to heat prostration. The deaths were due to mass starvation because of weather pattern changes resulting in crop failures.

How does staying hydrated and seeking shelter protect you against starvation?

The 1877-78 El Niño deaths occurred from disrupted global weather patterns, triggering severe, prolonged droughts, extreme flooding, and heatwaves that destroy crops and spread disease.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Yes, you can.

The administration asserts that a green card or a visa can be revoked for individuals who are adversarial to the foreign policy and national security interests of the United States of America under the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1996. At no point did it add "...except, of course, this can't be done at the border."

Different details, but the overall point is that a green card can be revoked instantly, and no evidence is required to do so.

You missed one
-If your beliefs "compromised U.S. foreign policy interests" according to allegations by the State Department with no evidence needed.

https://www.nyclu.org/commenta...

No. Primarily you're pimping for a troll, driving engagement and raising his prominence so that people pay more attention to him, and working to make half the threads on /. all about him, not the topic at hand. You're making even threads that he's not in about him.

But you are also yourself trolling.

Please go away. And stop engaging.