Re:Addressing AI’s energy cost
by cameldrv on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @02:12AM
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That’s possible. However there are also a huge number of things that would be great for the environment like really complete recycling, very land efficient agriculture, ocean cleanup, etc, that would become economically feasible if energy were really cheap.
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> like really complete recycling, very land efficient agriculture, ocean cleanup, etc, that would become economically feasible if energy were really cheap
Do you have any resources on those topics? I'd like to learn more about that how cheap electrical energy enables those.
I think the YouTuber Isaac Arthur has a video (or possibly many videos) on that, but he does so many videos and they’re so long I don’t want to risk linking to the wrong one.
Here’s his channel: https://youtube.com/channel/UCZFipeZtQM5CKUjx6grh54g
The TLDR summary for your quotation is: Complete recycling — with enough energy you can break everything into atoms; Very land efficient agriculture — the cost of glass and metal for greenhouses and desalination is mostly energy, likewise most of the stuff needed to make vertical farming worth considering.
(I don’t remember Isaac Arthur mentioning ocean cleanup, but that may just be flawed memory).