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Texas is on track to be the leading generator of solar and wind energy in the entire country, and so, obviously, a Texas lawmaker has introduced a bill to make wind and solar power…illegal
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Luke Metzger @lukemetzger
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How much cleaner are the clean energy technologies such as renewables, electric cars, heat pumps, and hydrogen compared to the dominant technologies?
Significantly. Here’s a neat summary graph from @IEA’s Energy Technology Perspectives 2023.
iea.org/reports/energy…
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“Really?! Gain-of-function research; what if there’s a leak?”
“Don’t worry, virologists take plenty of precautions to avoid that”
“Hmm, even if there’s never been a leak before, it still seems like there could be a risk that in the future-“
“Oh, there have been many leaks before”
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idea: train a LLM on human knowledge as of august 2001 and see what predictions it get right out of sample
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Interesting that with everything happening in AI, Metaculus AGI timelines have actually ticked up slightly
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This is an unfortunate reminder that under China’s National Intelligence Law, any Chinese entity or *individual* is required to comply with the CCP’s intelligence requests AND do so secretly. This is precisely why the TikTok status quo cannot continue.
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Takeaways:
Sinema doesn't crack 25% on any of these polls despite being the incumbent, and she's more popular with Republicans than Dems
Gallego does better head-to-head against Lake and Blake
Independents like Gallego so far, not so much the others
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US plan to become world’s cleantech superpower
"revolution is under way in sectors incl. solar, nuclear, carbon capture, & green hydrogen — goals are profound: rejuvenate country’s rustbelt, decarbonize world’s biggest economy, & wrest control of energy supply chains from China"
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California is slightly larger than Japan, which has 120 million people, three times as many as California, despite the fact that most of Japan's land area is mountains
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Jenna Filmore @FilmoreJenna
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California also has nearly twice as much total fresh water resources as Japan (49 km^3 compared to Japan's 28 km^3).
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Left-NIMBYs screech about YIMBYs online and block housing in their neighborhoods
YIMBYs sue real estate companies for discrimination against the poor
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Aaron Carr @aaronAcarr
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This is a beautifully written paper.
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Nicholas says, NGDP Targeting Now! 🏳️🌈🌐🇺🇦 @captgouda24