Above, Republican pollster Frank Luntz posts about recent Ukrainian attacks on Russian Data Centers, and the effect on internet bot accounts. Here, I’m posting a number of the “X” posts following this and noting the effects on different slices of the Right Wing messaging machine in the US and Europe.
None of this should come as any surprise.
Below, AfD (Alternative for Deutshland) party is a hive of climate denial and clean energy opposition.
Unprecedented high tidal events have caused states of emergency to be declared in Southern California. The high water is being driven by a combination of El Niño-warmed ocean waters, underground Kelvin waves, heavy southerly swells, and seasonal high-tide cycles.
Reports from several sources indicate that coastal communities make-shift defenses against higher tides are not holding.
In some cases, efforts to hold back the ocean waters have been not just ineffective, but counterproductive.
I was lucky enough that Bob Thompson, President of the Michigan Farmer’s Union, invited me to take part in a small event in rural Michigan where Senate candidate Abdul El Sayed got the Farmer’s Union endorsement, and, flanked by tractors, cornfield, and wind turbines, held a press conference on Ag issues with former long time Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow, a major champion for Farmers.
I pulled some of the attending farmers aside to ask them about how Clean energy plays in to the local farm economy.
Continue reading “Flanked by Wind Turbines, Abdul Receives Farm Endorsement”It’s called “curtailment”. Explainer above.
When there is more than enough energy on the grid, and not enough transmission lines to carry it away, or batteries to store it, what happens is generation gets shut down, “curtailed”, in the language of the industry.
Obviously one near term solution is more batteries, but these sometimes get bogged down in permitting. Transmission lines are famously slow to get approval.
One AI company has a suggestion. Onsite, modular AI-grade processing units, that are interconnected with networks of similar units to make larger “virtual” data centers.
“I don’t think I’ve ever seen the water coming off the beach at this kind of level.. definitely starting to damage the properties out here..”
No mention of climate change, as an El Niño stoked Kelvin wave raises sea level another 6 inches to a foot on top of existing sea level rise. The tone of the report is “Oh well, it’s a beach town so this stuff will happen…”
Currently getting savage reviews, but the trailer looks amusing, and the plot is apparently very climate-engaged, so I’ll put this on my list for the weekend.
Oil markets starting to get it that the Strait of Hormuz crunch is not just a transient inconvenience.
Above, market expert Jeff Currie outlines the pressure points in the market that are now responding.
President Trump’s Executive order to allow Truckers access to “off road” grade Dyed Diesel, will not have much positive effect.
New reporting from Bloomberg points out that, although some oil is moving from the Persian Gulf, the cost of operation has skyrocketed.
Continue reading “Running Out of Options to Keep Oil Prices Down”Serendipity in the Algorhythm.
Spiritual twin of “Take 5”, you’ll think it IS take 5 at the beginning, but it is very much its own thing.
Above, AI uber-critic Ed Zitron interviewed by ABC News.
Zitron has been a sharp dissenting voice in the recent storm of apocalyptic ideations following the so-called Hugging Face attack, where AI agents escaped containment and broke into corporate computer systems.
Zitron’s sharpest warnings, however, are on the financial side. In a new post, he has some lacerating prose spiked with concerning data.
Ed Zitron – Hater’s Guide to AI Debt:
To reiterate what I’ve been saying for a while, big tech has a few issues with the AI buildout:
