energy
- TC
1 Sept 2026
Tyler Cowen quoted
Yet each time, we drastically overreacted, letting ourselves get swept up in a climate of fear after one emotionally vivid incident
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- HR
31 Aug 2026
Hannah Ritchie quoted
Our readingDesalination for drinking and household water is cheap and uses less energy than commonly assumed.
Supplying drinking and household water through desalination is really quite cheap, and uses far less energy than I’d have guessed.
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- HR
18 Aug 2026
Hannah Ritchie quoted
Our readingBritain has a systemic problem building large infrastructure projects, including reservoirs
I think Britain has a real problem with building almost anything, from train lines to houses, and reservoirs to energy infrastructure.
↗The UK needs to build more reservoirshannahritchie.substack.com
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- TP
10 Aug 2026
Thomas Ptacek quoted
It seems pretty clear that the only thing data center opposition is doing is pushing data center construction to the (many) places in America that won't regulate energy or pollution. Weird thing to pat oneself on the back for.
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- AK
16 Nov 2025
Andrej Karpathy quoted
AI has been compared to various historical precedents: electricity, industrial revolution, etc., I think the strongest analogy is that of AI as a new computing paradigm (Software 2.0) because both are fundamentally about the automation of digital information processing.
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- UL
10 Sept 2025
Ursula von der Leyen quoted
This must be Europe's Independence Moment. I believe this is our Union's mission. To be able to take care of our own defence and security. To take control over the technologies and energies that will fuel our economies.
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- HR
6 May 2025
Hannah Ritchie quoted
Unless you’re an extreme power user, asking AI questions every day is still a rounding error on your total electricity footprint.
↗What's the carbon footprint of using ChatGPT?hannahritchie.substack.com
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- SW
31 Dec 2024
Simon Willison quoted
There’s still plenty to worry about with respect to the environmental impact of the great AI datacenter buildout, but a lot of the concerns over the energy cost of individual prompts are no longer credible.
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- EM
25 Apr 2024
Emmanuel Macron quoted
And so yes, the era when Europe bought its energy and fertilizers from Russia, had its goods manufactured in China, and delegated its security to the United States of America, is over.
↗Speech on Europe, Sorbonne, 25 April 2024 (Elysee English transcript)elysee.fr
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- RN
14 May 2020
Ramez Naam quoted
This incredible pace of solar cost decline, with average prices in sunny parts of the world down to a penny or two by 2030 or 2035, is just remarkable.
- RN
14 May 2020
Ramez Naam quoted
Our reading · no longer heldAfter 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.
Both of those forecasts were wrong. Solar has plunged in price faster than anyone – including me – predicted.
SaidBoth of those forecasts were wrong. Solar has plunged in price faster than anyone – including me – predicted.
- 5 years earlier
- RN
10 Aug 2015
Ramez Naam quoted
And beyond that, by the time solar scale has doubled 4 more times, to the equivalent of 16% of today’s electricity demand (and somewhat less of future demand), we should see solar at 3 cents per kwh in the sunniest areas, and 4.5 cents per kwh in moderately sunny areas.