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The proposed Joliet data center would cover 795 acres, about the size of 2.5 Grant Parks. At full buildout, it would consume 1.8 gigawatts of electricity. For reference, the entire City of Chicago uses about 3.45 gigawatts. One facility. More than half of Chicago's power.

Tell them to go to Kharg Island to take on water. Unironically, Shia Muslims take people in demand for water extremely seriously and have religious prohibitions on denying people water.

@mattbramanti If we ever fuck up and nuke ourselves future civilizations will have a very hard time finding any though It’s hard to even mine it from the gas giants with technology we’d consider sci-fi

by "running low" he means we have only 140 years

I've decided that not a single acre of mountain land, agricultural land, forest, or wild desert is worth sacrificing for AI data centers. No river, no lake, no reservoir should be touched to maintain them.

Arguably satellite manufacturing has been around since 2017 or so, and everything before that was bespoke ornate artisanal crafts, in much the way Ford was the first scale automotive manufacturer, despite cars existing before Ford.

23 years ago tonight, in an Oval Office address, George W. Bush announced the start of the Iraq War. 4,492 American service members were killed in the years that followed. 32,292 were wounded. At least 200,000 Iraqi civilians died. The humanitarian impact was immense. America wasted 9 years and 3 trillion dollars on a war that never should have happened—a war predicated on a lie, pushed by warmongering neocon politicians, and paid for by everyday people. Imagine what that $3 trillion could have bought here at home. Imagine the decade we could have spent focusing on America, our people, our place in the world. Imagine the lives our service members, stolen from us, would have lived. But instead, the president took us to war. Yet another costly quagmire in the Middle East. I voted against the Iraq War. I knew the White House would lie to Members of Congress and voters alike to manufacture the pretext for a conflict—and they did. Now, Iran is shaping up to be Iraq 2.0—new lies, new bloodthirsty politicians, still paid for by American families. Yesterday, we learned that Trump wants another $200 billion for his war. That's after Congress already gave the Pentagon more money than it even asked for in the budget. Enough is enough. It is not too late to learn from the past. Stop this madness. Bring our troops home. End this war.

There is no good solution for the active and agitated dementia patient.

'The Cambridge chemist Peter Wothers, delivering the Royal Institution Christmas Lecture in 2012, said: “...in 50 years’ time, our children will be saying: ‘I can’t believe they used such a precious material to fill balloons.’”' Party’s over: theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/s… #Helium

There is a seriousness of helium waste most people don't seem to comprehend. We can't make helium, there's no chemistry we can do - it's incredibly rare on Earth.

Kilopower, the little Martian reactor that could: A miracle of simplicity & sodium. NASA was given the brief to design a super-simple micro-reactor for future Martian settlement, and it did so brilliantly by doing it unconventionally. A normal Earthbound nuclear reactor is complex, with banks of pumps, water & steam injection pressurizers, control rod actuation, frequent movement of fuel during refuelling cycles, complex systems of valves, back-up emergency coolant and deluge systems, boron injection… it goes on & on & on. A terrestrial nuclear plant is a triumph of safety-conscious system engineering, but it’s a busy one, and Kilopower dispensed with all of this. The intention for the system is that you could set it up, get it started and just… forget about it, pretty much. It has a small, solid core with no moving pieces except for the control rod which is designed to be moved on startup and then kept in place, unmonitored, for a decade at a time. The small size & low power means that reactivity effects are dominated by thermal expansion and are extremely stable. Low power designs (less than 100 kiloWatts thermal energy) make thermal management and irradiation damage a non-issue that does not complicate system design. Very low power level designs (less than 10kW thermal) feature such low burnup reactivity that movement of the control rod becomes a ten-year interval. A literal ‘tin’ wedding anniversary, marked out by tweaks to the control rod. There’s a quirky Martian anniversary gift for you! Even at much higher power levels, the stability is such, and burnup so low, that control rod movement would be something you’d only have to do occasionally, every few months or annually. In essence this is a nuclear battery. In all cases, the reactor is designed to handle worst-case transients such as coolant loss passively without any need for control inputs, further simplifying the system. Truly, this is a zen ideal: Feng Shui engineering, where less is more and the system simplicity brings reliability and safety, all in one. Perfect for missions to space.

Remember in 2020 when lockdown diehards were shrugging off claims that their policies were leading to a global food crisis due to agricultural supply chain breakdowns? This is like that, but (as people have noted) on the supply side, not demand. Supply is tougher to replace.

Victory has been achieved, war is over Send the troops home now

That happened in earnest only after Biden's idiotic abandonment of Bagram in the dead of night. I believe the ANA would have fought harder for us if we hadn't slunk out of our fortress, sending a signal that all was lost, and the ANA guys weren't dumb. They switched sides in many cases ONLY AFTER we (in their eyes) abandoned them. BUT, yes, generally, I agree with you. Our proxies are shite.

The clown show continues. I'll say the upside in this whole disaster is that, just maybe, it will force a true gutting of the Defense Department's horrific procurement practices and the creative destruction of the unconstitutional, Soviet-like defense sector in the US. x.com/AryJeay/status…

we somehow live in a world right now where the entry level jobs paying barely survivable wages require 5 rounds of interviews with case studies and presentations while the roles that start with "head of" are just like heard good things about you. also nice tweets. start tomorrow?

they say that a consistent sex life is good for both your physical and mental health but idk if i'm feeling any positive effects from getting fucked daily by the us treasury when does the good stuff kick in usually

@FischerKing64 Nah, it's a gateway drug to get college students into the Apple ecosystem. You've also got the fact that Apple's M chips aren't eating themselves to death like Intel's have been since their gen 13 cpu's came out.

@ABC I live in the hotbed of solar and wind in Arizona. The amount of oil used to construct these installations is enormous. Non stop semi trucks hauling in freight, water, dozers, scrapers, compactors, cranes and every other machine you can imagine for years now without a break

There is a cult of personality quality to the 40% voting base. Whoever comes after Trump is not going to have an unshakable 40%. The rift opening up with the latest war is going to make the 2028 primaries brutal if it doesn’t wind up soon.

Can’t believe the Butlerian Jihad will start from regular-style jihad. Frank Herbert really did so much LSD it let him peer into the future.