Post by @moonshadow

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@Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works on sh.itjust.works Open parent

Only if we want more AI. And we don’t.

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@toothbrush@lemmy.blahaj.zone on lemmy.blahaj.zone Open parent

…and electric cars. And green energy.

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@Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works on sh.itjust.works Open parent

We’ve had electric car in a major capacity since the late 2010s, why is it all of a sudden this big problem? AI is a major energy consumer, requiring their own damn nuclear reactors.

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@Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip on lemmy.zip Open parent

We can cover the current population of EV used, but we couldn’t cover the full population of car users on evs. Which means we need to expand our power production. And given that most people are likely charging at night when production decreases…

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@moonshadow@slrpnk.net on slrpnk.net Open parent

…they should charge at work during peak solar and run their homes off their car batteries at night. That’s where you were going, right?

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@Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip on lemmy.zip Open parent

You going to force companies to provide chargers in their parking lots? Hell, plenty of people have to pay their employees to park their car at work already. You think they’re just going to give free electricity?

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@moonshadow@slrpnk.net on slrpnk.net Open parent

Mine was kinda that we do if we could adjust our patterns and habits a little bit to live with the world as it is vs imposing ourselves on it. Forcing “companies” (read corpos) to do something other than maximize extraction is a big part of that

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@Cort@lemmy.world on lemmy.world Open parent

A lot of grids have put battery storage into operation so there’s not nearly as much curtailment during the day time anymore

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moonshadow in !technology

@moonshadow@slrpnk.net · Dec 10

Heck yeah they have. Cheaper power during peak production is still very much a thing though, as it should be imo. Slurp up that juice as it pours in!

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