Awesome stuff you see on the internet
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@nzzp said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@nzzp said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@antipodean said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
t’s enough to power 22% of US households each year.
that was potnetially misleading.
In NZ households only consume 11% of total power according to Google - I couldn't find that for the USA. So 22% of a low-ish number isn't a massive number. Industry consumes a lot of power.
They also don't set out what activity the AI could displace. If it makes a task more efficient, that could easily offset the energy.
Found this - says US households use 11.8% of total power (in 2023). So that's about 3% of total power usage.
That's total energy, not electrical - which according to your source 43% of home energy consumption comes from electricity.
According to the EIA, the residential sector's use of electricity (38.4%) is higher than either commercial or industrial. https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/data-and-statistics.php
Presuming that the terminology is directly translatable (i.e. households = residential) etc. then according to chatgpt to meet an additional residential electricity demand of 332 billion kWh annually, you would need approximately:
- 41 1000 MW nuclear plants, or
- 113 600 MW combined-cycle natural gas plants, or
- 129 600 MW coal plants, or
- 431 large wind farms (250 MW each), or
- 1,510 utility-scale solar farms (100 MW each)
I get the feeling those efficiencies may be some time away yet.
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Genius
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@MiketheSnow feels like Stevenage is a big loser there!
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@Bones said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@MiketheSnow feels like Stevenage is a big loser there!
They got paid
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Cold go in lots of threads
Harvard Fires Star Business Professor for Faking Her Findings on Honesty
Francesca Gino was accused of manipulating the data to support her hypotheses about how to make people more honest.
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Oh the irony.
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@MiketheSnow that looks like MS Flight Simulator.
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Awesome driving, stupid/trusting spectators
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@antipodean "the permanent expression of a dog that's just been shown a magic trick"
Superb video, brilliantly done.
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Somebody learned a new trick...
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Some pretty cool AI content being produced (still works if you click through)
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That is such a cool story and a fun read. Hard to find the story on the site, so the link is below...
“When we arrived at the airport, we were met by one of (Steaua’s) representatives who came in quite a swish coach with a sign saying ‘Dorchester Gladiators’ in the window,” recalls Mark. “We thought ‘well this is very nice, this just must be how it is!’. But then after we’d all got on the coach the representative said, ‘do you want to go to train at the stadium this evening?’ At first, we looked at each other and thought, ‘Train Stadium? Is that the name of a bar?’
.Dorchester - Rugby Journal
The Dorchester Gladiators arrived for the tour match wearing heavily the impact of the night before, which had ended only a few hours earlier. As they stepped from the bus, they found themselves facing photographers and TV crews. On the pitch, things got worse, as they faced the 24-time Romanian cha
