That's problematic, because it is also the most important thing.

To a point.

https://storelectric.com/net-z... (these people are selling something but their facts are valid)

Net zero by 2050 is a pipe dream everywhere.

Wait till you hear about Facebook and X.

"It's funny because it is true" - H. Simpson

The part I just don't get is how someone so incredibly vain and narcissistic in life can have no consideration whatsoever for how he will be remembered. A significant majority of the free world will one day celebrate his death with dancing and drink specials. Hundreds of years from now school children will read about America's laughing stock era and their clown president, perhaps illustrated with a still from South Park. It is hard to imagine anyone could possibly arrange a more horrible legacy if they set out and purposely tried.

I'm in MB and our hydro dams and HVDC are quite reliable at a grid scale. Even in the city though outages still happen due to aging equipment, lightning strikes, poles hit by cars, squirrels in the transformers, etc. Most outages are brief and I have quite a few UPSes for that. But if the power is out more than 5 minutes that probably means it will be out for hours. In those rare cases if I'm home for sure I will take to opportunity to fire up the generator, makes sure the battery is charged and it runs properly, use some gas that I would otherwise have to drain and use in other tools. I think of it sort of like actually testing your backups, in case the power ever really did go out for days.

Did they mention those allies' reciprocal tariffs on American products? I bet they didn't!

I hate to break this to you but it mostly works the exact opposite. Large consumers pay less per unit at wholesale rates than your typical residential user.

Indeed that is what they are doing and we are discussing. How is that working out?

I initially thought the article said they were being overwhelmed by gamers and furries.

Apparently requires JavaScript. Somehow they just don't seem like the most clueful bunch of activists.

IDK, China seems not far off in per capita usage from much of Europe. A bit less than Germany, which is also industrialized, around the same as Ireland.

https://ourworldindata.org/gra...

In any case, if China wants a new reactor to power their AI supercomputer, they will have one, and if Google wants a reactor to do the same, meh, probably not. Cause they have a nice slope, and you have an effectively flat line. If you both keep doing what you are doing the world will look very different a generation from now. No pun intended.

The US, and most western countries, barely add any net new generation capacity from year to year. Most new builds are simply replacing aging or dirty infrastructure rather than providing for massive growth. This is why practically every week we read right here on /. about Google or Amazon or Meta or whoever making splashy announcements about their investments in some future energy vaporware or another, but mostly they are just going to compete for what is available with you.

Can't speak to the veracity of Wikipedia's graphs, but the shape of the curves pretty much sums it up almost without needing numbers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

No question China is not trustworthy, but the reactors, dams, wind farms and fields of solar panels are probably not all fake. We certainly know the factories are not fake cause they make a lot of our stuff.