Data center #energy scam · We must calculate the true & total long-term costs to our environment—to the water, the air, the soil, the biodiversity, the climate.
🌊 ⚗️ Key Details About China’s Deep-Sea Station: Depth: Anchored 2,000 meters (6,562 feet) below the ocean surface. Purpose: Long-term scientific research missions lasting up to one month. Main Goals: Studying cold seep ecosystems, methane hydrate reserves, seismic activity, and deep-sea biology. Resource Potential: The South China Sea is estimated to hold 70 billion tons of methane hydrate, a potential future energy source. Completion Timeline: Expected to be operational by 2030.
As #Japan#LNG imports peak, #China’s growth is likely to dominate imported #naturalgas. This will have profound implications for #climate & the #energy transition for countries in South and #Southeast Asia will grapple with this change in reign remains unanswered.
☀️ LIHEAP is already underfunded, and now with summer approaching, the Trump administration has unlawfully terminated all U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Agency LIHEAP staff and aim to potentially defund the program entirely.
✅GOOD NEWS: @WEACT4J led 65 organizations to urge full funding and restored staff for the essential, bi-partisan, and popular cooling and heating #energy relief program LIHEAP >> https://bit.ly/3FuwtfI
https://www.europesays.com/2135620/ How Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ hits wind, solar and batteries. From spiraling job losses to spiking energy prices, analysts say slashing clean energy tax credits would be a dramatic shift in US energy and industrial policy. Yet Republicans will be under pressure to toe the Trump line. #Energy
…The #US#aluminum industry is too small to replace imports from #Canada without massive expansion & investment.
Century Aluminum, a US aluminum maker, said last year that it would build the first new #AluminumSmelter in the United States in half a century, doubling domestic production. But the United States would remain dependent on imports for most of its aluminum.
https://www.europesays.com/2125273/ Energy Department scuttles $3.7B in clean-energy projects. It’s among the biggest and most specific cases yet of Trump pulling the plug on the Biden awards for low-carbon energy. “The abrupt termination of $3.7 billion in clean energy investment is shortsighted and malicious.” #Energy
#NY had blocked both pipelines over #environmental concerns. But Trump has made clear that he wants more #oil & #gas infrastructure, including in the Northeast, where pipelines had become so hard to build that companies had all but given up on them.
💻 **AI could account for nearly half of datacentre power usage ‘by end of year’**
“_The IEA estimates that all data centres – excluding mining for cryptocurrencies – consumed 415 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity last year. De Vries-Gao argues in his research that AI could already account for 20% of that total._”
A question: if there was a cataclysm like in "Station Eleven" where 99% of humanity was wiped out, what would happen to #nuclear reactors and weapons? Are there doomsday scenarios for power plants in the event of something happening to the humans? Could such a site be decommissioned manually? How long would such a site last before it is dangerous?
The first person I thought to ask is @bojacobs but would love boosts for more thoughts!