Notices tagged with infrastructure, page 9

Per Minna Ruckerstein via Rob Horning, the infrastructure of oppression (for instance, algorithms, but also, cars) is proffered and accepted as infrastructure of support or even comfort. We gaslight, and gas, ourselves. In re algorithms, we sell ourselves and give to billionaires.

#talkingtomyselflettingyoulisten #infrastructure #algorithms #oppression #gaslighting

#DistrictCooling and other #infrastructure and #archtectural changes can help increase the efficiency of #cooling #systems and radically reduce the #energy such systems use even as exponentially more people in more places are finally able to access the lifesaving benefits of artificially and more naturally cooled air.

Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #ClimateChange #solutions abound.

https://youtu.be/sKbEOMCsqaI

Damaging or destroying #ecosystems and natural #environments is NOT part of, and is directly antithetical to, a solid Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #ClimateChange mitigation strategy.

We must make all things better, not sacrifice one part to benefit another as that merely keeps us treading water.

#Government has a role to play in incentivizing better use of existing #infrastructure towards improving our #climate, like #ParkingLot and other #urban #SolarPower.

https://federated.press/@ClimateNewsNow/111173294716822683

"If we used #infrastructure in the #oceans and created #seaweed #islands, we would actually eliminate a lot of the #ClimateChange issues we have today."

"#Seaweeds are a platform of opportunity in #sustainability, #nutrition, and #innovation."

"There's many ways that seaweed as a new #material, or #food, or #feed on the planet can service a better #environment..."

#Kelp #CarbonCapture #CarbonSequestration

Everything, Everywhere, All at Once.

#link: https://youtu.be/t1pRaBt_EUw?si=Yaaz9jq-1UBR7cAU

On 8 October the nearby Balticconnector gas pipeline and a communications cable between Finland and Estonia were damaged due to “external activity”.

Who is sabotaging underwater infrastructure in the Baltic Sea? Russia is the prime suspect, but a Chinese ship may be involved.

https://www.economist.com/europe/2023/10/22/who-is-sabotaging-underwater-infrastructure-in-the-baltic-sea

#Finland #Estonia #Sweden #Russia #BalticSea #BalticConnector #NordStream #Infrastructure #Sabotage

Finally! For years I have used some of my talks to warn of disappearing #data. Now there is a study quantifying the risk:

"Disappearing #repositories -- taking an #infrastructure perspective on the long-term availability of #researchdata"

https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06712

by @dorothearrr

#openscience #opendata

Does anyone have an #infrastructure guide for complete beginners that you recommend?
Otherwise I’ll write one.

#IsraelKatz, the Israeli minister of #infrastructure, #energy & #water, confirmed Wednesday that #Israel has stopped the flow of water, #electricity & #fuel to #Gaza. Israel will “continue to tighten the #siege” of the Gaza Strip until the threat posed by #Hamas is “removed,” he said. #Humanitarian organizations have urged Israel to spare #civilians in Gaza from such a maneuver.

#war

”Climate breakdown has begun.”

Nationwide, record-breaking temperatures this #summer strained #infrastructure and human #health, warning of the new normal to come. Via our friends at @grist: https://www.texasobserver.org/record-summer-heat-2023/

#climate #ClimateChange #environment #HeatWave #weather #news

The #openTF (https://opentf.org/) community is building an open, trustworthy, and community-driven future for #infrastructure maintenance and management — we've pledged to support registry bandwidth to turbocharge all their future growth.

And we're THRILLED! ⏩

We're proud to support everyone building the good internet through our #opensource initiative, #FastForward — if you think we can help your project grow and scale, come join our community! (fastly.com/forward)

Right now, could you prepare a slice of toast with zero embodied carbon emissions?

Since at least the 2000s, big polluters have tried to frame carbon emissions as an issue to be solved through the purchasing choices of individual consumers.

Solving climate change, we've been told, is not a matter of public policy or infrastructure. Instead, it's about convincing individual consumers to reduce their "carbon footprint" (a term coined by BP: https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/23/big-oil-coined-carbon-footprints-to-blame-us-for-their-greed-keep-them-on-the-hook).

Yet, right now, millions of people couldn't prepare a slice of toast without causing carbon emissions, even if they wanted to.

In many low-density single-use-zoned suburbs, the only realistic option for getting to the store to get a loaf of bread is to drive. The power coming out of the mains includes energy from coal or gas.

But.

Even if they invested in solar panels, and an inverter, and a battery system, and only used an electric toaster, and baked the loaf themselves in an electric oven, and walked/cycled/drove an EV to the store to get flour and yeast, there are still embodied carbon emissions in that loaf of bread.

Just think about the diesel powered trucks used to transport the grains and packaging to the flour factory, the energy used to power the milling equipment, and the diesel fuel used to transport that flour to the store.

Basically, unless you go completely off grid and grow your own organic wheat, your zero emissions toast just ain't happening.

And that's for the most basic of food products!

Unless we get the infrastructure in place to move to a 100% renewables and storage grid, and use it to power fully electric freight rail and zero emissions passenger transport, pretty much all of our decarbonisation efforts are non-starters.

This is fundamentally an infrastructure and public policy problem, not a problem of individual consumer choice.

#ClimateChange #urbanism #infrastructure #energy #grid #politics #power @green