Red
Forum Replies Created
-
Posts
-
@just-some-randomer
Thanks for that. Makes a bit of sense that way. The way it is presented in the article just didn’t make sense to my high school math abilities.” The 5% GDP target faced opposition from some NATO members. Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said his country could not allocate one-fifth of its state budget to defense,”
One fifth! 5% is one fifth? Must be politician math.
From AI:
China Electricity Sources
China’s electricity production is primarily sourced from a mix of fossil fuels, renewables, and other energy sources. In 2021, China produced 8,534 terawatt-hour (TWh) of electricity, which was approximately 30% of the world’s electricity production.
Most of the electricity in China comes from coal power, which accounted for 62% of electricity generation in 2021.
In 2023, China’s total installed electric generation capacity was 2.92 TW, of which 1.26 TW was renewable, including 376 GW from wind power and 425 GW from solar power.
As of 2023, the total power generation capacity for renewable energy sources in China is at 53.9%.
In May 2024, China’s electricity generation mix saw a significant shift away from fossil fuels. The share of coal-fired generation fell to 53%, down from 60% at the same time last year and the lowest share on record. Meanwhile, solar rose to 12%, up from 7% a year earlier and the highest on record. The remainder was made up of wind (11%), hydropower (15%), nuclear (5%), gas (3%) and biomass (2%).
In 2024, the share of wind and solar combined reached 18%, just ahead of the global average of 15% and above its neighbours Japan (11%) and South Korea (6%). The biggest shift in China’s electricity generation in 2024 was the continued explosive growth of solar.
China’s electricity production also includes contributions from nuclear power, which is a low-carbon source of electricity. In 2024, nuclear power contributed 5% to the electricity generation mix.
In addition to these sources, China also generates electricity from biomass, geothermal, and other renewable sources. In 2021, China produced 169 TWh of electricity from biomass, geothermal and other renewable sources of energy.
Overall, while China has made significant strides in increasing its renewable energy capacity, fossil fuels still provide a substantial portion of its electricity generation. In 2024, fossil fuels still provided 62% of China’s electricity.From “425 GW from solar power” to 4000 TW is quite a jump in a world of ever shrinking resources. One TW is 1000 GWs. Where exactly are the raw materials coming from for this jump not to mention the storage issue? A not to insignificant amount is also required for the storage bit. All of this needs FF to accomplish. Looks like more coal after the dams are finished. Oh ya and the dams aren’t built with solar and wind either. Sounds like more bullshit to me.
” The dam will have the yearly output of Germany.” Which year? Germany’s production of everything has fallen off a cliff.
Poppie #191227 Good read!
@noirette
” his Admin, are locked into strange shifting agendas, having no long term strategy, no clear goals (that are realistic imho, other story.)”With his leaning to Palantir and talking CBDC’s it looks and sounds more globalist than America first. All played out as saving the country. It’s for your safety/sovereignty right? Bring back manufacturing to the USSA , that will only take ten years if all goes well. They are also a net importer of electricity so they will need to create more or use less. I see using less as the fastest way to have more. Kill domestic demand and move it toward manufacturing.
Collapse early, avoid the rush.Topcat if it’s the second mouse that gets the cheese, is it the second socialist that gets your wallet?
DrD that’s the canadian medical service in a nutshell. What is not seen in analogies like that is the waste that is .gov bureaucracy behind the scenes. Procedure is to be followed at all cost. Just had my father to his GP for a regular visit. He’s 94 living at home with limited mobility, walker and permanent catheter. He has had the same GP for years and his catheter has been with him for a year now. Walk into his GP’s office and with his file up on the screen the first words out of the doc’s mouth; “how’s your peeing, is there any difficulty with it?”. Really? Now I’ve been with him for all his visits since he’s been with the walker, doc should be aware. So my reply was quick before dad could say anything, “no problem with his water works since the catheter was put in last summer”. JHC! What I’m thinking; You’ve seen him several times in the last year since this has become permanent. The least you could do would be to look at the screen to see where this patient is in their life cycle. Our GP’s are no longer doctors in any meaningful sense, they are interpreters only. You arrive with an issue and if they can’t issue a prescription they send you to a specialist and wait for the report, call you back for a follow up appointment to translate the report for you. Then issue that prescription. All this transpires in a mere 8 to 80 weeks, usually the high end. Procedure is more important than production. When things seem to be slowing or binding up .gov’s answer is always the same, more procedures should fix this. Hire more PMC’s to move the paper,(digital) faster. So stick another layer of do nothings in there with a high pay rate and benefits package that no one in the private sector can even dream of and there fixed. When I was an adolescent in the sixties standing around with my grandfather who was talking with his piers they said then that all the worry about the communists coming was too late, they were already here. We will soon be to the point of shooting our way out.
@dora
“It uses its Gotham software to flag fraud,”Interesting choice for a name “Gotham”. A city so corrupt that a billionaire (BILLIONAIRE!) has to become a vigilante to clean it up. Like a billionaire is going to clean their own shit.
@topcat
The bots do seem to be taking stupid to levels even humans struggle to achieve.“..was coaxed from a Palantir counter-intelligence algorithm..”
I believe AI will be its own destroyer. As more and more incorrect info is created by itself and then referred to as fact by yet more AI and then expanded upon it will become completely wrong. As more fake everything hits the web it will be viewed with a grain of salt by most. Even shit sent from friends and neighbours will start to be viewed with some skepticism.
I believe it is evolutionary, meaning it is speeding up its own demise. With the speed it is growing at, it looks exponential. Think about all the things that are now less accurate then they used to be, i.e. weather forecasting. Not to mention financial. With trust fading at every turn this shouldn’t take too many more years. Take a look at the evolution of climate science: the ice and sentiment cores all point to the warming first, followed by the rise of CO2 and then rapid cooling. Nowhere do I see this in the modelling, with modelling being the young version of AI. Now with this ass first vision built in you can’t expect any accurate assessment going forward.
As stated here you feed in the answer you want, stand back and wait for your solution to a problem that is framed wrong in the first place. Now run this at millions of times per second and what could possibly go wrong?
My half assed opinion on where AI is headed.“Neuralink will be doing the first implants for vision, where even if somebody’s completely blind, they be able to see.”!
Maybe they should start with high level bureaucrats and politicians. Just saying…..From Zerosum’s AI:– Atmospheric debris: At hypersonic speeds, even tiny particles like dust or rain can cause serious damage. A concept called “dust defense” proposes dispersing engineered particles into the atmosphere to disrupt or degrade incoming hypersonic missiles. The idea is that repeated impacts with these particles could destabilize or destroy the missile mid-flight.
I may be wrong here but I understood that at hypersonic speeds the bow shock was a build up of plasma.
It was due to this plasma build up that radar was absorbed rather than bounced back which is what made them hard to detect. Again if true than I don’t see “dust” as much of a problem. The heat from the plasma would vaporize it. Wouldn’t it?“Talking about doing oneself in, Iran takes the cake. Reminds me of Putin. Putin kept Russia sitting on its passive butt for eight years self-deceiving himself with his “Minsk Agreement,” while Washington built and equipped a large Ukrainian army.”
Or just maybe he was also building up his arsenal?
Wes yeah I know common sense has nothing to do intelligence, or does it? It would seem the more letters after the name the harder it is to find any reasonable amount of it. Most seem to believe that perpetual growth in a finite space is a reasonable assumption. Common sense is incorrectly named, it ain’t so common. Perhaps uncommonly sensible would be better.
TDK: “it’s so horrible to see intelligent people still trusting assholes.”
“intelligent people” now that is funny! I spend way too much time around so called intelligent people, you know the lettered people with the big “D”. Some degree from some university not worth the paper it was printed on. Most of them jabbed many times and are now coming down with some crazy illnesses. Intelligent yet unable to connect very obvious dots. Intelligent? not so much!
“President Trump cannot claim he was uninformed. The Jerusalem Post reports that an Israeli government official told the Post that “There was full and complete coordination with the Americans.”
“Israeli government official told the Post”
They have never lied! Not saying Trump didn’t know, just really an “un-named” official? They all just want war on their terms because it is about the only thing left in this “Industrial Civilization” that will give a return on their monies invested.
“Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner ”
I notice in the videos that there are a number of pieces of what are obviously plane parts. Unlike the ones not in the pics of the pentagon. Just sayin’.#15 the space between the ears of western bureaucrats, politicians and so call diplomats is called
the void.Dr.d: “We seem to have had a “Carrington” event and nothing happened. Remember Northern Lights down to Florida last year?”
Lol, if you think that was a carrington event….well. Very telling.
Speaking of AI:
https://livingearth.substack.com/p/solving-the-mesozoic-conundrum-albedo
For my birthday, today, I clicked the “Submit” button of the “Eartharxiv” site, submitting to them this paper. A true birthday gift for me! And thanks to Grok, which helped me a lot.
Grok3 generated this image of “herself” offering a birthday cake to Ugo Bardi on the occasion of the publication of a study on the Mesozoic Climate.
Do take care Raúl.
“China has launched the first cluster of satellites for a planned AI supercomputer array. The first-of-its-kind array will enable scientists to perform in-orbit data processing.”
Where is a good Carrington event when you need one!
I said at the beginning that Russia was going to take what it wanted. I mentioned to any who would even listen to draw a line between the northern end of Transnistria and Chernobyl everything east of that will be under Russian control. Few would listen and those that did never thought it was possible.
Why is lying to yourself worse than lying to others?
Rod Dreher recently reflected on this question, answering: because it reveals a deeper failure to confront reality. He pointed to two cases—the refusal of many Democrats and media figures to acknowledge President Biden’s cognitive decline late in his presidency, and his own failure to challenge the Bush administration’s false WMD narrative. In both, he saw not ignorance, but something more insidious: motivated reasoning.
Motivated reasoning is a cognitive bias that allows us to reshape facts to protect beliefs we’re emotionally attached to. It’s not that people didn’t see Biden’s lapses—they reinterpreted them. Long silences became quirks, verbal missteps became signs of stress or fatigue, and serious cognitive warning signs were softened into normal aging. The narrative—Biden as the only bulwark against Trump—was preserved by filtering perception itself.
Dreher recalled doing something similar after 9/11, when fear and national grief led many—including himself—to accept weak intelligence as proof that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. Doubt felt disloyal. The desire for coherence overrode the need for evidence.
More:
https://www.artberman.com/blog/quantum-decision-theory/Germ: “They knew: why didn’t the unvaccinated do more to warn us?”
“The unvaccinated knew what we didn’t. Some of them said too little. Most said nothing at all. A lot of blood is now on their hands.”It’s always someone else’s fault.
“• Western Canada Puts the Rest of Canada on Notice (David Solway)
This article intentionally skips Manitoba several times. Why?
Home of the NDP you know socialists, maybe.
” Are you FINALLY going to give up on Authority?”
Gave up on that before I was out of elementary school.Unconditional ceasefire, wrong term, unconditional surrender is what it will be.
“How is the top doctor in the US supposed to give medical guidance and advice to the nation when she doesn’t even have an active medical license in the state where she allegedly practiced medicine?”
Can’t be any worse than Fauci can it?
tboc I’m happy or is that content with my life as it now is, does that count? I find amusement now with the global goings on. Having figured out long ago how to live comfortably on minimal income has paid off over the long run. My main working theme learned before I was twenty was to know the difference between a need and a want. Practicality baby, practicality! Even my few hobbies are streamlined, archery and fly fishing, I have good gear but I don’t look like I’m straight from the pages of Field and Stream. More like I just came from the good will store. I do get a kick out of the ones who think the gear and outfit make the fisher.
@tboc: I don’t really pay any attention to economists or their analysis. I view them with the same amusement I view astrologists.
Wes yesterday: “Warren Buffet’s success meant millions of Americans had to became poorer to support Warren in the style he became accustomed to.’
I’ve said it before never trust a millionaire!
“That I helped move civilization forward, added to the store of knowledge and capability — that I helped to understand the universe.”
Think much of yourself?“President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency is responsible for nearly half of all job cuts announced this year, according to a new report.”
While employed by .gov you aren’t paying taxes, you’re giving some back! So unemployment payments are a major decrease in .gov’s payout. Lay enough off and soon we’re talking real money.“Boeing’s problems are all over the company. Engineers used to run the company; now it’s accountants.”
As with most companies now. Let the bean counters and lawyers at the helm and sit back with your popcorn. It will be quite the show. It takes some time but the decline will be very obvious. Redundancy is a four letter word for these types. Stuff doesn’t break very often. Why pay a tool and die guy on the shift if you can just call another company when one is required? They’ll send one over in just a couple of ???? Certainly not hours as seen in real time.
@michael-reid From yesterday:
“I am thinking the government is not your friend.”
Congratulations you win a prize! .gov has never been the friend of the general population. It can’t be because general pop is seen as the enemy by .gov. Always was and always shall be. .gov is in the business of looking out for itself, first and foremost. Yes our country is looking in a worse position with Carney. However on the optimistic side he has a weak minority government which have been the least damaging to the electorate historically.Under CBC estimates, the Liberals have an 83% shot at an outright majority and a 13% shot at winning a plurality, while the Conservatives reportedly have a 2% chance of taking the most seats.
CBC estimates! Jesus H Christ! The CBC gets its funding from .gov. 1.4 billion a year, and they want another billion/yr going forward. The Conservatives are promising cuts to the CBC, personally I like to see them cut it all and make them fund on their own merit. Global and Bell also got major cash infusions from .gov during the shut up and shoot campaign over the last five years. Think they’re going to say anything anti Liberal? Talking with people around my hood it doesn’t seem very Liberal leaning. No campaign signs around on lawns either, none of any stripe. The advance polls are seeing a major influx, unusual. The last time it happened it was a change the .gov movement to make sure Harper didn’t get back in. Careful what you wish for. We went from Harper to Trudeau, makes one worry a little that change may not work out so well.
“Not gonna lie, China trolling the White House is hilarious.”
That is funny, is it really from China or are they just showing the “knock off” that’s from China.“Since then, prices have tumbled around 16%, as concerns grow that a global trade war could damage growth and reduce fuel consumption.”
Shouldn’t the net zero people be rejoicing about this? Isn’t cutting out the carbon their main goal?
Or do they think that can happen without any effect on their retirement portfolios? Net zero, what a joke. According to their own “science” the last time the human race was net zero was pre agriculture. You know: hunter gathers.“Christ, the inhumanity for the lower classes but Trump’s Tide is gonna raise all boats in the harbor.”
If the tide is coming in, it won’t be before we know which ones are holed below the waterline.
Chinese nationals!? Were did the North Koreans go? Please.
Something about the ASEAN that may help with the tariffs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX_Id7J2Ee0
