I'm still doing what I can, which really isn't a whole lot as a conservationist consumer when you look at the big picture.

I was researching the climate crisis over 32 years ago in college when it was still this rough concept called global warming. I really hate saying this, but...it's too late.

Maybe we can mitigate and delay it some, but the time to act was over a century ago. And the uber wealthy that own the industries and everything else, who are in bed with the politicians, knew damn well where this was all headed.

That's the real problem, we cannot overcome our selfishness and greed. It's in our nature.

We need someone to take the lead on space exploration and the US is only interested in profit. Glad to see EU moving in that direction.

I imagine budgets will be a massive factor. Space is not cheap and Europe has A LOT going on right now.

I’m thinking this will flounder on the shoals of finance.

Which is exactly the argument everybody uses to do nothing.

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Not when so many are still ignorant, in denial or just don't give a damn.

Alexa, tell me ____.

Ok. In order to figure that out, I will need to solve a second order linear partial differential equation using the context you gave me and making some assumptions. Here is your answer...

And lord knows that has always meant so much for actual qualifications. I wonder what degrees the congressman asking if TikTok "connects to the home wifi network" have?

I don't give a shit what degrees you have. You have a vested interest in benefiting from a system and zero interest in the people suffering from it. That makes you nobody.

Besides, we've all seen business majors, buddy. Nobody's impressed. Well, except y'all, evidently.

Fremont, California-based Amprius announced it has verified the performance of its silicon anode battery cells with third-party tester Mobile Power Solutions. The results indicate that this cell model provides 504 Wh per kg and 1321 Wh per L at 25 degrees C.

Amprius said the silicon anode cell is roughly half the weight and volume of leading conventional commercially available lithium-ion cells.

The cells have applications in the fast-growing electric aviation space and could later be integrated with electric vehicles. Together, electric aviation and light-duty EV battery demand is estimated to exceed over $100 billion globally by 2025, said the company.

The Amprius cells offer a run time of 200% compared to leading graphite battery cells, while being lighter and smaller than other batteries with the same energy content.

“...technology that will ultimately revolutionize how high we fly, how far we travel and how long we can use our devices,” said Jon Bornstein, president of Amprius Labs.

The battery cells are planned to be integrated with the AALTO Zephyr, a high-altitude platform station (HAPS). The solar-electric telecommunications aircraft offers persistent earth observation with 18cm ground sampling distance, near-real-time video and imagery from the stratosphere, day and night.

Amprius operates a research and development laboratory in Fremont, California. It recently signed a letter of intent for a 774,000 square foot facility in Brighton, Colorado that would provide up to 5 GWh of manufacturing capacity.

The Department of Energy (DOE) targets improvements in battery performance to stabilize the critical materials supply chain and offer attractive products to vehicle buyers. “While a number of electric drive vehicles are available on the market, further improvements in batteries could make them more affordable and convenient to consumers,” according to the DOE.

So how about we go ahead and do that, then?

In this model that I'm proposing, the AI is the one that would be making the questions, generally speaking. Let me give you a short example.

Subject: I think that being a woman in Spain has more advantages than being a man.

AI: When you say that women have more advantages, what factors are you taking into consideration?

Subject: Well, for starters, women have legal advantages (affirmative action) that men don't have access to.

AI (after a search): In terms of laws, it is true that women have some advantages over men. I think that in order to critique the validity of these discriminatory measures, we could start by taking one example and start from there. Could you give me one example?

Subject: Sure. Women have more incentives to become freelancers or entrepreneurs.

AI: Could you be more specific? Try to specify what kind of incentives are we talking about.

And so on...

We shrunk the ozone hole. We can act when the problem (look at this hole) and the solution (reduce certain types of emissions) are well defined.

The problem with climate change is that it's too nebulous: "This weather is getting weird because we enjoy too many modern conveniences." Like seriously, wtf does that mean? It's like the modern secular version of, "God will smite us because we have sinned."

The following submission statement was provided by /u/nastratin:

>My fellow IPCC authors and I have spent years combing through the evidence, and have found that there are things we can do right now across all areas of life—including the basic choices you and I make every day—that can cut greenhouse gas emissions by more than half by 2030.

>That’s the short-term target required to keep us on track to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius—the global target outlined in the Paris Agreement—which science has a identified as a key threshold to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

>Many of these solutions will result in cleaner air and more jobs, but can also save money for governments, businesses and consumers.

Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/120uvpy/there_is_still_plenty_we_can_do_to_slow_climate/jdj2tla/

If I asked AI can the existence of God be proved or disproved, what answer might I expect to receive.

I wonder if a „true“ artificial intelligence (whatever that means) will come about by accident because multiple of our current „AIs“ (again quotation marks because they aren’t AIs but are just marketed as such) are connected.

Our own brains are collections of different systems that communicate with each other after all and our consciousness is just a small layer on top of them.

Yeah, as a European, I'd love for us to stand on our own feet more. I want this to succeed.

But it'll cost us, and agreeing in these kind of things is hard.

Yeah, as a European, I'd love for us to stand on our own feet more. I want this to succeed.

But it'll cost us, and agreeing in these kind of things is hard.

Thought: if consciousness is dreaming limited by perception, perhaps ai hallucinations are an essential property of their emergent systems. Why shouldn't these systems be confused, over confident and superstitious? Worked for us... These things are less Einstein, more "Cliff" from Cheers.

Lol you guys thought the US government blows money on bloated projects.

At least we solved our space bloat with fix cost contracts aka spaceX….the ESA needing to making sure every country is happy will bleed money to make sure certain jobs stay in certain countries.

If europe wants to be competitive they have to switch to fix cost contracts with no strings.

Simply x money to perform y tasks.

Excellent news.

Innovation improves with more minds working on problems. Concurrently solving the same problems is perhaps not the most efficient approach, but it should lead to the greatest volume of innovation.

Not to mention that means another space station, which means more zero-g science.

>My fellow IPCC authors and I have spent years combing through the evidence, and have found that there are things we can do right now across all areas of life—including the basic choices you and I make every day—that can cut greenhouse gas emissions by more than half by 2030.

>That’s the short-term target required to keep us on track to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius—the global target outlined in the Paris Agreement—which science has a identified as a key threshold to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

>Many of these solutions will result in cleaner air and more jobs, but can also save money for governments, businesses and consumers.

You can already do that! I forgot exactly what I asked Alexa, but it was something to the effect of ‘Are you connected to an AI chat program like ChatGPT’. Alexa said that it wasn’t connected to ChatGPT but it is connected to another research chat bot and asked if I wanted to be connected to it. I said yes and carried on a short conversation. It was cool, not sure I’d do it again though.

Australia perspective - outlook is grim and I’m an optimist. Here’s why: Trade - supply chain issues - transport costs. Tourism - cost of travel to and from and high cost in Australia to see the whole country - large areas of Aust are damaged by extreme weather and still recovering EG floods. Immigration - despite being multicultural and having job vacancies, 9 years of conservative gov has seen the archaic White Aust Policy feel like it’s still active even though no longer ratified. Aust needs to rid itself of its redneckery.

As I pointed out to someone who recently responded to you, this excellent article points out that such models are already power-seeking.