Subj : Re: Chinese Scientists Cr
To   : Aaron Thomas
From : Kurt Weiske
Date : Fri Feb 21 2025 07:58:43

-=> Aaron Thomas wrote to Ron L. <=-

 RL> Our Tyrant Governor here in Michigan wanted to chop down large swaths of
 RL> forests to... get this... put up a solar farm.  Excuse: Fighting Climate
 RL> Change.  Now you know that Climate Change is a hoax.

That's one conclusion. Another is that climate change is real and
attempts to add renewable energy are a good thing - but to recommend
cutting 420 acres of forest to do so is idiocy.

 AT> The left just announced that we need to double our electric supply
 AT> "because of AI." So good thing Gretchen built that solar farm. That
 AT> ought to give us all the electric we need for this, right? lol

Not sure what one has to do with the other, as the Michigan efforts were
about clean energy, not AI. AI grid demands are not to be overlooked. I
wonder when we're going to reach a point when people argue about the
merits of AI based on the power draw it takes to create AI output?

We're in the early phases of AI, I think it depends on us moving to the
"killer app" phase. There's nothing really compelling, yet - just a lot
of potential.






 AT> I'm concerned about doubling the electric consumption. It sounds like
 AT> higher electric bills (but they're already out of whack) and we're also
 AT> going to double the amount of nuclear waste that we'll have to store.

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