This seems written by billionaire propagandist sources. 90% of emissions come from 100 companies. Seems to me they like everyone else to dial down the A/C instead of stop businesses from doing their part. Will legislators tell AI companies to turn off their power consumption while their servers are in the midst of a heat dome? I doubt it. So people gotta turn off A/C so that Ai can make an image of a dog eating an ice cream cone
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Now I have said this for years.
So I did the following:
1. Went off grid solar and batteries on an island using diesel generators. I didn’t want to use the power due to massive pollution the local power company was causing. They switched to NG which while not the best is an incremental improvement. They just opened a second small solar field but the solar and wind on the island could easily power everything and some batteries would make it 90-95% of the time renewable. Maybe just make some green hydrogen at the desal plant with excess solar to make up the 5-10% of the time generation is needed.
2. Got super efficient heat pumps not just for AC but also hot water.
The really good part is all of this was not that expensive and paid back quick because on an island power is 42 to 50 cents per KWH. Total even with some issues I’m about 35% paid back already. Once we have a few of the last bugs out of the system should pay off in another 2-3 years. Its a unique case due to the location.
So while AC is not the best I saved money and minimized the damage.
My hope is the island will more quickly move to wind/solar and batteries. But local corruption has slowed the process.
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This seems written by billionaire propagandist sources. 90% of emissions come from 100 companies. Seems to me they like everyone else to dial down the A/C instead of stop businesses from doing their part. Will legislators tell AI companies to turn off their power consumption while their servers are in the midst of a heat dome? I doubt it. So people gotta turn off A/C so that Ai can make an image of a dog eating an ice cream cone
Now I have said this for years.
So I did the following:
1. Went off grid solar and batteries on an island using diesel generators. I didn’t want to use the power due to massive pollution the local power company was causing. They switched to NG which while not the best is an incremental improvement. They just opened a second small solar field but the solar and wind on the island could easily power everything and some batteries would make it 90-95% of the time renewable. Maybe just make some green hydrogen at the desal plant with excess solar to make up the 5-10% of the time generation is needed.
2. Got super efficient heat pumps not just for AC but also hot water.
The really good part is all of this was not that expensive and paid back quick because on an island power is 42 to 50 cents per KWH. Total even with some issues I’m about 35% paid back already. Once we have a few of the last bugs out of the system should pay off in another 2-3 years. Its a unique case due to the location.
So while AC is not the best I saved money and minimized the damage.
My hope is the island will more quickly move to wind/solar and batteries. But local corruption has slowed the process.