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 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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yes, it’s possible, and at least solar wind and storage has fallen dramatically along the cost curve, but still if you look out on the road, you see cars nearly all of which must be replaced with evs, we are less than half renewables, materials /agriculture is carbon intensive...
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