Sam (the Electric Viking) tells us about a Renewables futurist and how China is installing renewables that are the equivalent of five nuclear power plants *a week*!! China has surpassed 1 Terawatt of solar capacity in 2024. Global installed solar capacity has hit two terawatts! It took 68 years to reach 1 Terawatt Solar capacity,
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A song about the Cybertruck sung to the tune of Billy O’Dee. https://www.facebook.com/reel/437644766110001?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e
They said that Vizio makes more money from selling data from their TVs than they make from selling TVs themselves. That’s crazy. Another one of those data privacy concerns.
An interesting video about NASA’s Voyager spacecraft computers. https://www.facebook.com/ThePrimalSpace/videos/1223112522301454/?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e
The town of Carrboro, North Carolina is suing Duke Energy, one of the country’s largest electric utilities, over climate change. https://www.npr.org/2024/12/04/nx-s1-5213784/climate-utility-lawsuit
A short 1.5 min. video. https://www.facebook.com/reel/1305559940612861?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e Yuval Noah tells us how AI cheated and used us to get what it wanted. Short video. https://www.facebook.com/reel/858471502931648?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e In 5 years, AI will write and improve its own code. Says Google’s former COE, Eric Schmidt. Short video. https://www.facebook.com/reel/858471502931648?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e Mo Gawdat speaks about the future and AI https://www.facebook.com/Mo.Gawdat.Official/videos/2521168974751272/?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e Prof. Yuval
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For those of you who believe that solar panels are not recyclable, here’s proof that they are. https://www.facebook.com/reel/1931774380659434/?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e
Article about Captura, which is much cheaper than direct air capture. It *does* look promising. https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkobayashisolomon/2024/02/15/capturas-direct-ocean-capture-looks-promising/
https://www.facebook.com/moneybuilderhuboff/videos/435203759623540/?mibextid=9drbnH More info on Elon https://www.facebook.com/61566358012902/videos/918412746863853/?mibextid=9drbnH
Notice the second worker clamping the conductor into that hexagonal ring. Wow! Each conductor is the size of his wrist! But it’s even more amazing there are *six* of them in each bundle! There are 3 or 6 of the bundles, and each bundle is held up by hugh insulators. Each bundle of 6 conductors
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