Former Google CEO says climate goals are not meetable, so we might as well drop climate conservation — unshackle AI companies so AI can solve global warming - eviltoast
“We’re not going to hit the climate goals anyway…” says former Google chief Eric Schmidt.
  • frezik@midwest.socialEnglish
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    2 months ago

    HVDC solves the “not everybody has a river/sun/wind”. The longest one in the world is in Brazil, and goes for 1300 miles. Similar builds in the US would mean wind in Nebraska could power New York City, and solar in Arizona could power Chicago, and hydro anywhere can store power from anywhere.