@neo@Ozwel@GossiTheDog what are the computer resource implications of this? A screenshot every 5 minutes, even with OCR might not be too terrible, but does it have to re-run AI learning on it, and everything previous, every time it gets that 5 minutes update? ChatGPT was well known for not knowing about anything recent because it was so expensive to run.
@urlyman I read Limits to Growth when I was studying at University. As a BA Technological Economist I found it's feedback model approach pretty persuasive. It predicted that with exponential growth we would start to run out of (economically extractable) resources within my lifetime. It's big ommision was fossil fuelled CO2 emissions and the consequent feedback cycle screwing with climate. Needless to say I was being sponsored at Uni by BP and then joined the NCB when I graduated. Slow learner.
@urlyman in mitigation I did spend my last 6 years (2009-15) working at DECC trying to improve the UK's response to climate change: I was modelling the UK's energy and emissions and how these could be reduced by policy. Needless to say soon after I retired and with the 2015 Tory election victory the department was abolished and a lot of the good policies initiatives (home insulation, Zero carbon new homes) were then also minimised or postponed.
@inanimatecarbongod@hildabast there are another set of standards for this - the EL Reg units. However for celestial bodies the largest volume unit the 'Olympic swimming pool' is still a bit small so I expect we would need to invoke k, m, g and t multipliers as well. They also have walnuts, grapefruit, chicken's eggs and footballs. The weight measures are a bit more exotic: badgers, great white sharks, skateboarding rhinos, Australian trams and LINQ hotel recycling.
@goatsarah@helenczerski@tinaquilts flying within the UK can seem cheaper and faster: if you ignore the cost and time of getting to the nearest airport and the time to check-in, load and take-off. Al least most train stations are in the centres of town and cities.
10 years or so ago I was trying (for another government department, DECC) to get DfT and HS2 to tell me how much carbon they expected HS2 to save by displacing other means of transport such as road and air. They didn't know. So presumably their CBA didn't account for the potential fuel savings.
@goatsarah@helenczerski@tinaquilts thinking London-Edinburgh there's also the real costs of doing the trip by air (which in money terms is cheaper). Note our deranged gov't recently abolished the APD levy on domestic flights while elsewhere the French have banned their short haul flights.
"Carbon emissions from UK rail travel lower than previously thought"
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