i should be smarter than to argue with bitcoin maximalists about the energy intensity of bitcoin, but seriously, technologists, the industry has a problem with energy usage *even at this scale*. if it 'actually' scaled to replace everything it would be catastrophic.
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i brainfarted out ‘big electricity super high’ (was i having a stroke?) but i mean major investment renewables and storage. we’re still really far off and i don’r really think we have disposable energy. try to model how we are supposed to get to 0 carbon http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/#funding-private …pic.twitter.com/YOQCMes38X
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I recently read David Wallace-Well's "Uninhabitable Earth," really scary shit - is solving this in any way really possible? Seems like the mother of all coordination problems - meanwhile the US is obsessed with great power competition instead of cooperation on climate change.
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