Lugh

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Not quite there when it comes to speed just yet, but in another year or two they will be. I'm guessing we'll see robots like this everywhere in the 2030s.

[–] Lugh 3 points 5 months ago

The EU has set itself ambitious decarbonization targets. It aims for Europe to have net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, and has enshrined those targets in law in the territory's 27 countries.

The bloc has used its European Green Deal to speed up decarbonization, and while these results are impressive, this report points out they will need to accelerate further to meet the 2050 targets.

[–] Lugh 15 points 5 months ago

This was done under the auspices of the ITER international consortium funded by China, the European Union, India, Japan, Russia, South Korea and the United States.

[–] Lugh 2 points 5 months ago

This was done under the auspices of the ITER international consortium funded by China, the European Union, India, Japan, Russia, South Korea and the United States.

[–] Lugh 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The report highlighted a continued decline in fossil fuel dependency, with gas generation falling for the fifth consecutive year and overall fossil-fueled power dropping to a historic low of 29%.

Even when Russia makes it back to international markets with their natural gas, no one in Europe is going to want it.

[–] Lugh 5 points 5 months ago

I don’t expect the EU or India, or other countries to catch up soon on the level and price of green tech that China now has.

Europe would be smart to mandate some of the billions they are going to spend on this, come from Euro-sources. It makes it much easier to match Chinese manufacturing economies for Euro-exports elsewhere.

[–] Lugh 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Yes, the US political system is now even more corrupt than before. At least the Democrats were making some effort, and I'm sure blue states like California still will.

[–] Lugh 31 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (6 children)

The US is just 16% of Chinese exports. Any tariff disruption will be made up for many, many times over by being OPEC of 21st century renewable energy to the rest of the world.

https://wits.worldbank.org/countrysnapshot/en/chn

[–] Lugh 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

True. Like Bitcoin, when something is hyped to the moon this much, its to feed the casino and get the price higher to take profits before it all crashes.

[–] Lugh 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

Will OpenAI ever make a dime in profit? At every turn, open-source matches it, but for free. It's competitors aren't fools, part of the push to open-source is to bleed out competitors. I'll be surprised if their isn't a major stock market correction during Trump's term. A lot of this AI investor money could go up in smoke.

[–] Lugh 33 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Banning gasoline cars isn't that radical a step for Norway - 90% of new cars sold there are already EVs. This also doesn't mean the disappearance of ICE cars from Norwegian roads, the old stock will have to gradually disappear as it ages out.

The EU (which Norway isn't in) has set 2035 as the date for banning the sale of new gasoline cars there. However, many think most car makers will have stopped selling them in Europe before that date. As their market share shrinks, it will become unprofitable to make them anymore.

[–] Lugh 4 points 5 months ago

It's interesting to wonder how many hitherto unseen patterns in science and nature AI will find.

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