Climate Change, AI, Post Scarcity

Writing, SolarPunk, Artificial Intelligence, Renewable Energy, Post-Scarcity

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The Cure for Disposable Plastic Crap Is Here—and It’s Loony

Stretchy seaweed, reverse vending machines, QR-coded take-out boxes: They’re how we can break society’s absurd addiction to single-use plast

The Cure for Disposable Plastic Crap: Stretchy seaweed, reverse vending machines, QR-coded take-out boxes?

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Iceland’s Ice Is Melting So Fast That It’s Boosting Hydropower

Melting glaciers are creating a green energy windfall in Iceland—but for how long?

Melting glaciers are creating a green energy windfall in Iceland.

Strange intersection of:

#climatechange #renewableenergy

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Utah geothermal plant gets big boost from California utility

Southern California Edison will purchase the cleanly-produced electricity from Fervo Energy, a Houston-based geothermal company with 125 wel

Utah geothermal plant gets big boost from California utility

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https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4703057-geothermal-energy-potential-beneath-western-eastern-us-map/

Potential for geothermal energy in US

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When are the insurance and finance companies going to figure this out...

Luxury homes on these beaches are losing value fast, as effects of climate change hit hard

As sea levels rise and storms intensify, coastal real estate is seeing flooding and erosion like never before, and it's impacting home value

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Zero-emission cement?

Zero-emission 'electric cement’ is an 'absolute miracle'

The new process involves arc furnaces and molten steel.

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Mobile #AI. You knew this was coming.

https://www.wired.com/story/pocket-sized-ai-models-unlock-new-era-of-computing/

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#Slop. The #llm equivalent of spam.

#ai

Slop is the new name for unwanted AI-generated content

I saw this tweet yesterday from @deepfates, and I am very on board with this: Watching in real time as “slop” becomes a term of art. the way

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"World’s top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target."

World’s top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target

Exclusive: Planet is headed for at least 2.5C of heating with disastrous results for humanity, poll of hundreds of scientists finds

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Lotta questions about this. How much waste water is there and how toxic? Are any greenhouse gases released?

In Texas, ex-oil and gas workers champion geothermal energy as a replacement for fossil-fueled power plants

Texas has become an early hot spot for geothermal energy exploration as scores of former oil industry workers and executives are taking thei

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Do champion trees have the best shot at sequestering carbon from the air?

Fighting climate change by cloning the world’s oldest trees

The Archangel Ancient Tree Archive has a bold mission: to clone and plant the planet’s greatest trees. Will it work?

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Eddie Heywood – Eddie Heywood

Soft Summer Breeze by Eddie Heywood

Listen now on your favorite streaming service. Powered by Songlink/Odesli, an on-demand, customizable smart link service to help you share s

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Mythic uses analog technology for its mobile #AI chips rather than digital.

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Ambiq Announces New Apollo5 SoC for Efficient AI - Embedded Computing Design

In a new release, semiconductor company Ambiq has revealed its Apollo510, the first member of the company’s Apollo5 SoC family, design

"How do you shrink a cloud’s worth of material into tiny, low power devices?” 

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Climate change is shifting the zones where plants grow. Here's what that could mean for your garden

With the arrival of spring in North America, many people are gravitating to the gardening and landscaping section of home improvement stores

#climatechange is shifting the zones where plants grow.

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Startup plans project to drill for 'million-year' energy source: 'Our technology allows us to access energy anywhere in the world'

A Massachusetts startup plans to drill more than 12 miles into the Earth to tap what experts call a “million-year energy source” beneath our

Deep Geothermal Energy

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1930s Shanghai: Why Was it Called the Paris of the East?

Undisputedly the most modern and technologically-advanced Chinese city in the 1930s, Shanghai was a seductive concoction of glamor and sin,

1930s Shanghai: Paris of the East

Undisputedly the most modern and technologically-advanced Chinese city in the 1930s, Shanghai was a seductive concoction of glamor and sin, prompting some to call it the Paris of the East.