Carbon emission reduction: News and technology

[Brian Peacock]

Where did I promise courtesy ??....especially to someone who is notoriously shit disturbing for it's own sake.

Why have you got such an itchy arse about this? I'm not disputing what you quoted - I would just like to know where it's from/who said it/published it. And it's not a courtesy to me necessarily or specifically, but to your fellow forum members generally.

I think what you find disturbing is simply having your assumptions challenged tbh.

Either do your homework and counter argue or get dissed for vacuous claims like

But the economics shows us that renewables are a net addition to energy capacity rather than a replacement for fossil.

Renewables are already replacing fossil fuels on a global scale and will continue to....

Well now I know you definitely haven't been paying attention - to anything but your own guff:

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[Brian Peacock]

I think Brian is anti-energy as it represents consumerism. He's a commie, after all.

Nope. Distributive energy and science are the underpinning architecture of our civilization. I'm not a communist - more of a Library Socialist.

What I'm anti is suffering - specifically needless suffering willfully inflicted on the vast majority of living creatures simply to secure and maintain the social status of a perpetually insecure and unhappy few.

[Svartalf]

well, even commies need energy to warm their communal dens in winter and watch Big Brother's TV allocutions

[pErvinalia]

You can burn rich people for energy.

[Svartalf]

bhah, not enough of those to fulfill the needs of the Masses, and burning them releases too much bad stuff anyway.

[Brian Peacock]

You can burn rich people for energy.

[macdoc]

150 years of carbon free power

White elephant? Hardly – Snowy 2.0 will last 150 years and work with batteries to push out gas
Published: October 22, 2025 4.02pm AEDT
On sunny and windy days, Australia now regularly produces more electricity than it can use. As a result, wholesale electricity prices can become negative. This means energy storage companies are being paid to take and store excess electricity.

https://theconversation.com/white-eleph ... gas-267413

[pErvinalia]

150 years? In 10 years we'll be in an AI hellscape. AI won't need hydro power. They'll use us as living power cells.

[Brian Peacock]

But seriously. The finance around AI has a very similar vibe to the conditions before the 2007/8 crash. AI companies are massively talking up annualised revenues to attract investment (debt) while burying the stupendous training, inference and compute costs in opaque structures like revenue exchanges (e.g. Open AI gives a % of it's income to Microsoft and Microsoft in turn gives a % of its income from Bing AI back to Open AI) and collateralised debt obligations (e.g. a kind of pawning relationship where a company loans AI infrastructure and/or ip rights to a third party for cash, then uses that cash to lease/license it back from the people they've lent it to).