Bingo. When I hear this given as a political speech, or a sermon in church about "our brothers' keepers", I'll be checking to see if I still have a pulse or if I've "moved on to my reward". Here's a practical application of the manner in which 'haves, and ,have-nots' get further and actually sorted: ( I know something of this, having decades of working experience with municipal electric cooperatives) Delivery lead times for electric line transformers: Six months to two years. Delivery lead times for electric transmission transmission transformers: Years to Never. And that report was from before two hurricanes destroyed distribution in the southeast. Sam Altman has been before Congress yammering about the brave new world that will come to pass as soon as the US is leading on AI, but, oh, by the way, they'll need a lot more electricity to run all the data centers. As in, "let's re-energize Three Mile Island's remaining reactor, and build a bunch more nuke stations." And let's leave the coal-fired units that should've been de-commissioned in the prior decade because they're just worn out without even discussing 'carbon footprint'. New solar and wind? Where do you think all that hardware's gonna come from? And how are you going to integrate it into the already spluttering transcontinental grid? Maybe the Boy Scouts can start a used-drop cord recycling program, since copper resources aren't in our Friends and Family network anymore. Here's what I suspect it'll look like. "Base-rate" users, like steady-state data centers, will get a preferential Kw rate, and residential users will see large rate increases to carry the cost of of all the infrastructure; or, they'll be able to "accept" an "interruptible" rate, so that in times of peak over-cap loads, they'll be remotely shut off, and left sweltering. And then the same people who are profiting from all this will get on Xitter and convincingly blame the environmentalists. Meanwhile, I'm improving my woodshed's capacity, and picking up another tin of Kerosene so I can have lights and heat when I'm "interrupted". Sheesh.
Well said, Jared! Will you please let us know what we can do to increase the chances of turning this
march towards a collapsing state around? And can you please include some hopeful things in your writings? It's all so frightening that I fear many people will be immobilized.
Climate change is, unfortunately, not an existential crisis anymore—it is a real and present danger. The impact of the climate crisis is nonlinear. You can see that in Asheville, which was supposedly a refuge from the heat events but got destroyed by flooding from a supercharged hurricane.
And while we argue over how to respond to the latest disaster the debate never gets around to the real cause of our worsening situation, which is burning fossil fuels to sustain our economy. We need to get off of fossil fuels as soon as possible or none of the blue/red battle will matter at all. Faciscts die in a climate disaster too.
Bingo. When I hear this given as a political speech, or a sermon in church about "our brothers' keepers", I'll be checking to see if I still have a pulse or if I've "moved on to my reward". Here's a practical application of the manner in which 'haves, and ,have-nots' get further and actually sorted: ( I know something of this, having decades of working experience with municipal electric cooperatives) Delivery lead times for electric line transformers: Six months to two years. Delivery lead times for electric transmission transmission transformers: Years to Never. And that report was from before two hurricanes destroyed distribution in the southeast. Sam Altman has been before Congress yammering about the brave new world that will come to pass as soon as the US is leading on AI, but, oh, by the way, they'll need a lot more electricity to run all the data centers. As in, "let's re-energize Three Mile Island's remaining reactor, and build a bunch more nuke stations." And let's leave the coal-fired units that should've been de-commissioned in the prior decade because they're just worn out without even discussing 'carbon footprint'. New solar and wind? Where do you think all that hardware's gonna come from? And how are you going to integrate it into the already spluttering transcontinental grid? Maybe the Boy Scouts can start a used-drop cord recycling program, since copper resources aren't in our Friends and Family network anymore. Here's what I suspect it'll look like. "Base-rate" users, like steady-state data centers, will get a preferential Kw rate, and residential users will see large rate increases to carry the cost of of all the infrastructure; or, they'll be able to "accept" an "interruptible" rate, so that in times of peak over-cap loads, they'll be remotely shut off, and left sweltering. And then the same people who are profiting from all this will get on Xitter and convincingly blame the environmentalists. Meanwhile, I'm improving my woodshed's capacity, and picking up another tin of Kerosene so I can have lights and heat when I'm "interrupted". Sheesh.
Well said, Jared! Will you please let us know what we can do to increase the chances of turning this
march towards a collapsing state around? And can you please include some hopeful things in your writings? It's all so frightening that I fear many people will be immobilized.
Thanks, Tada. Like you, I wonder “what are the action steps to take” to combat this. It’s got to be much more than GOTV.
So true
Climate change is, unfortunately, not an existential crisis anymore—it is a real and present danger. The impact of the climate crisis is nonlinear. You can see that in Asheville, which was supposedly a refuge from the heat events but got destroyed by flooding from a supercharged hurricane.
And while we argue over how to respond to the latest disaster the debate never gets around to the real cause of our worsening situation, which is burning fossil fuels to sustain our economy. We need to get off of fossil fuels as soon as possible or none of the blue/red battle will matter at all. Faciscts die in a climate disaster too.
Europe addresses it my hope is we create resilient areas