Requires a top end card that will only fit in a tower case. More portable than a datacenter, I guess.

Give it a couple days. Not to be outdone, Anthropic will be begging Alabama to investigate them too.

--thanks for the correction, by the way.

Yes, I think you're right -- when I do the calculation with your numbers, I get the same result.

I'm too lazy to go through my calculation and see what I did wrong, but probably somewhere in the conversion from units of BTU-hours and tons of ice to kilojoules and seconds.

Interesting calculation. I think the efficiency loss in trying to cool all the way down to ice is probably not worth the benefit of a lower amount of water used.

Water heat capacity is about 4.2 kJ/kg per degree, so if we cool the water, say, ten degrees (C), for 4 kW of cooling for 12 hours we'd need about 4 tons of water (*). Seems like a lot, but water is cheap, and the tank would be a cylinder .64 meters radius at the base by 2 meters high, bigger than a home water heater, but still not too huge to put in your basement.

Ice would be better; the lower temperature would make heat transfer faster. On the other hand, you could circulate the cooled water in the same loop as baseboard hot-water heating, so in some ways it's simpler.

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*(unless I screwed up the calculation, which is easily possible.)

Ah, this again. Are you being paid by oil companies, who want to do anything possible to stop electrical vehicles?

No. The main pollution is not tire particulates, and electric cars are not particularly harder on tires than any American SUV. There turn out to be incentives to making cars larger and heavier. Eliminating these incentives would help, but (spoiler alert) it's not electric cars that are the problem.

No, it's partly right. Air conditioning loads tend to peak in the late afternoon, when solar power is still available (but not at its peak), but have another peak when people get home from work, which continues on into the evening and loads typically only drop below average around midnight, when solar is not abundant. Look up "duck curve"> .

This could, in principle, be easily solved-- air conditioners could easily store coolness. Water has a high heat capacity, and you could cool water during the solar peak, and use it to cool your living area in the afternoon. Water has low watt-hours per kilogram, but for residential or commercial use, that's not a big deal. But most of the US doesn't have time-dependent electricity rates, so there's no reason for consumers to want this.

Absolutely right, if by "renewables" you mean "solar". If we did have time dependent electrical rates, the cheap power is midnight to 6AM, not the solar peak at all.

But this may change as more and more solar gets emplaced.

The problem is that there aren't enough of the little appliance-size batteries to economically recycle, but there are enough that sometimes they cause fire.

How many batteries per week do you think people in Britain discard?

We already know that there is water in permanently shadowed craters near the lunar poles. This has been well-proven by multiple missions, including the LCROSS mission that actually impacted the pole.

What we don't know is what the physical state is. Sheets of ice? Ice-coated grains of regolith? Deeply hydrated minerals? Fluffy snow? Layers of dust alternating with rock-like layers of minerals cemented together with cryogenic ice?

"Screen time" is a pointless metric, what matters is what's on the screen.

More like "If any little disruption happens in the Middle East for any petty reason over the next several decades regardless of who the President of the USA is".

But hey, if you want to give Trump the credit for pushing the world away from burning Middle East oil and releasing all that carbon into the atmosphere then go right ahead. I'm sure he'd bask in the attention.

Well, it isn't as simple as that, and I don't know how much power either party has on the matter. It would take legislation at the state level to really block it state-wide, and there are probably too many other things that would be affected for them to blanket ban something like this. Of course legislation wouldn't say "Flock cameras are not allowed". It would have to ban ALPR in general, and then you get into things with private property and so on. If I have a business and a security camera sees the street in front of it, how can I not be allowed to record it or do whatever I want with the images I collect? That street is a public space, and there are myriad laws and court cases allowing that to be photographed or otherwise recorded.

Also, any commercial entity can order flock cameras. Lowes (a huge home improvement chain the USA) has them at all their locations if the state laws allow. The one in our town as three of them in a cluster covering not only their parking lot, but the streets beside it.

Our sheriff's department has a number of them throughout our town and county (maybe 5 or 6). I guess technically our sheriff can be voted out, but in actuality there isn't much competition running for that office in rural communities or people with the credentials to run for sheriff - they ten to hold office for a very long time, and have moved up through the local ranks. Pretty much everyone hates flock, but that is not nearly enough motivation to vote out a sheriff, and that is under the huge assumption someone would actually run using that as a platform (I will take down the 5 flock cameras in the county - vote for me!).

My point is that these things are paid for and placed across a very wide variety of locations and not just on public property.

You're not paying me to be your research assistant. So far I've given four links-- you have given none-- and for three of them you explained why you're not going to read them, and one you simply ignored. Since you show not even a casual interest in the links I already gave, I see no reason to spend any of my time giving you more links to ignore.

The one you ignored is this one:

As for

Yes, I've noticed that deniers don't like being called deniers.

I'll add that the greenhouse effect is the tool we use to understand the temperatures of ALL planets with atmospheres (and one moon), not just Earth.

(In fact, I can say that I have personally measured the infrared downwelling from the atmosphere on Mars (using the mini-Thermal Emission Spectrometer on the Mars Exploration Rovers).)