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Former Google CEO says climate goals are not meetable, so we might as well drop climate conservation — unshackle AI companies so AI can solve global warming (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Plus nuclear fusion. If AI could give us Fusion that would massively help so I suppose that would be useful I'm just not sure that it would be useful enough given the fact that we will probably be able to achieve Fusion on our own eventually.

Of course AI could come along and give us, negative mass energy extractors or something, but that's deep in the realm of Sci-Fi so who really knows.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If we had a fusion reactor developed today that showed net energy gain for the entire facility, it would be 10 years before it could be designed into a practical commercial reactor. So no, that's not going to save us at this point either way.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Allow me to present the most frustrating graph in the world:

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Have we tried using the energy generated by spinning dead scientists?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

and in 10 years time, it's gonna be 10 years away

Just use solar (and renewables in general, but not everybody has a river or wind), there's no need to create more energy from fusion when you can just harness the energy created and shoved to us by the sun

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

HVDC solves the "not everybody has a river/sun/wind". The longest one in the world is in Brazil, and goes for 1300 miles. Similar builds in the US would mean wind in Nebraska could power New York City, and solar in Arizona could power Chicago, and hydro anywhere can store power from anywhere.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

but not everybody has a river

Ah, but just wait a few years...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

more of a flood then a river /s

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If AI could give us nuclear fusion, it would have already. Instead, we're burning the world down so Google's AI Overview can give me a grab bag of bad advise.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Well no because if AI could give us Fusion in the future it wouldn't have already done so in the past.

I don't understand what you're saying