Renewables are currently only fossil fuel multipliers. Mining, transport, high temperature industrial processes and 24/7 industrial processes can’t be run on variable electricity sources, especially expensive ones with borderline EROEI.
And, of course, if we’d get the cheap abundant magic energy sources we would just reach resource exhaustion and ecosystem crash even sooner.
Newer research indicates it might get drier and hotter summers instead.
Now show me that moss growing in perchlorate-salted soil at 6 mbar oxygen-free CO2, say, at Mars equator, and you might have a story.
Can you run your own spidering if selfhosted?
https://www.debian.org/ports/mips/ supports Loongson 3 so it seems everything I’d need is in the green.
In a Linux distribution for a particular architecture all code is compiled to the underlying CPU architecture. Packages can also be built from source.
Proprietary software is different since it doesn’t give you the freedom to build things from scratch. There are emulators, of course, but they all fundamentally suck.
I would buy it. No US fed backdoors, just Chinese ones, and I’m not in China.
If it runs Linux no need to translate anything. It’s been a while since I ran Unix on a MIPS CPU but it should just work.
Given https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/ not really surprising. Weather is a heat engine, and there’s a lot of energy in the system.
Given that we now seem to have baked in at least 4 K warming, possibly as early as end of this century, humanity (what is left of it) is going to see something way outside of historic records.
Some bloggers still do. But most people are energy blind, so they fail to see its significance.
But even fracking is on its last legs, yes. And seems the first bottleneck is diesel and bunker fuel, since tight oil is so light while the fracking rigs burn a lot of diesel per unit extracted.
This time he doesn’t mention declining EROEI which further reduces available net energy per capita.
Relevant passage:
Applying our model to today’s atmosphere-ocean state with an enhanced anthropogenic P flux from land in a sustained 130% excess over average Phanerozoic continental P weathering rates will ultimately trigger the anoxia-P-dependent cascade again in a manner that locks the oceans into an extensively anoxic state for more than half a million years. The oceanic redox state passes a tipping point when the oceanic P/O2 ratio is ∼2.3 and continues into a eutrophic ocean state with 3.5 times higher P/O2 than today and sustained high productivity and organic C burial. The Earth system tips back into the oxic ocean state as atmospheric O2 levels rise and cause oceanic P/O2 ratio to decline below the tipping point (Figure 4). The dynamics of the event depend critically on the formulation of the anoxia function, which is assumed represented by a sigmoidal function with parameters calibrated in 3D (GENIE)64 and 1D (CANOPS)65 Earth System models. The new sedimentation-dependent formulation of the benthic P flux does make the oceans more sensitive towards runaway anoxia when anoxia develops in shallower depths, but our model still requires a long period (>104 years) of sustained P input to pass the tipping point for global marine anoxia today. With oceanic P input at a sustained 130% excess over average Phanerozoic continental P weathering rates for ∼120 ka, anthropogenic forcing will eventually trigger the anoxia-P-dependent cascade in a manner that locks the oceans into an extensively anoxic ocean state for more than 0.5 Ma until oceanic P/O2 begins to decline as a result of rising atmospheric O2 levels (Figure 4).
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Looks fine to me. I’m an ordinary human just like you.
If you look at the numbers, we’re not transitioning away from fossil to renewable. We’re increasing fossil use while adding renewable on top of it. The fraction of fossil in the primary energy use remains about the same.
The top level issue is overshoot (of the global ecosystem carrying capacity), and the climate catastrophe is but one facet of it.
Thanks. Hopefully this will fix the broken images on some links.
Still doesn’t help if there’s not enough diesel, bunker fuel and fertilizer.