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Same subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subject Sustainable energy alonewill not save humanity fromextinction events… EM Elon Musk — holds since 2026-08-30 After four more doublings of installed solar capacity, solar electricity will cost about 3 cents per kwh in the sunniest areas and 4.5 cents per kwh in moderately sunny areas. After four moredoublings of installed… RN Ramez Naam — holds since 2015-08-10 RN Ramez Naam — turned since 2020-05-14 Average solar electricity prices in sunny parts of the world will fall to one or two cents per kwh by 2030 or 2035. Average solarelectricity prices in… RN Ramez Naam — holds since 2020-05-14 Britain has a systemic problem building large infrastructure projects, including reservoirs Britain has a systemicproblem building large… HR Hannah Ritchie — holds since 2026-08-18 Concerns about the energy cost of an individual LLM prompt are no longer credible, though the environmental impact of the AI datacenter buildout remains a real worry. Concerns about theenergy cost of an… HR Hannah Ritchie — holds since 2025-05-06 SW Simon Willison — holds since 2024-12-31 Data centre opposition only pushes construction to the parts of America that regulate energy and pollution least. Data centre oppositiononly pushes… TP Thomas Ptacek — holds since 2026-08-10 Desalination for drinking and household water is cheap and uses less energy than commonly assumed. Desalination fordrinking and household… HR Hannah Ritchie — holds since 2026-08-31 Societies have a pattern of drastically overreacting to a problem after one emotionally vivid incident, as with DDT, Y2K, and nuclear power Societies have apattern of drastically… TC Tyler Cowen — holds since 2026-09-01 The best historical analogy for AI is not electricity or the industrial revolution but a new computing paradigm, because both are fundamentally about automating digital information processing. The best historicalanalogy for AI is not… AK Andrej Karpathy — holds since 2025-11-16
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