#Ireland’s #datacentres overtake #electricity use of all urban homes combined
Statistics raise concerns that rise in demand for #data processing driven by #AI could derail #climate targets
Research published in Nature Geoscience has found that polymetallic nodules—the subject of highly controversial plans for deep sea mining for technology metals—are a source of oceanic oxygenation.
The paper suggests the nodules electrolyse seawater due to their positive charge (up to 0.95V). These geological deposits, formed over millenia and now sought after for their battery metals, are already producing electrical phenomena with an ecological value.
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Also on this call he had to tell them we're getting married so this was a real rollercoaster of a day
https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-82/ this week in sentences: Werewolf Month, first theft, gendered, exhausting, rectangles and, hackers, worms
live now at https://youtube.com/live/DOK8fS_JxX0?feature=share, will start reading names in a few minutes
Project 2025 will have extensive impacts on lands, waters, wildlife and tribes in the West.
In fact, the entire energy section was written by Kathleen Sgamma, of oil and gas industry group Western Energy Alliance.
Here are some highlights:
-Expanding oil and gas extraction onshore and off
-Delisting grizzlies, wolves
-Un-protecting wetlands from farmers
-Increasing timber sales on public lands
-Moving the BLM (again) and the American Indian office to the West
More 👇
https://www.hcn.org/articles/project-2025s-extreme-vision-for-the-west/
Why should I be excited to have Kathy Hochul involved in my relationship via paperwork I ask you
As the grad student in the relationship I so rarely get to be the one bringing financial benefits to the household so that's nice but god I don't want to make a thing of it
https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-81/ this week in sentences: the assembling of machines, a frozen head, filled with amethyst, life without history, incredible, boundaries to disappear
the only voice on it at the moment is my own, but the memorial is designed to receive contributions from the world
https://contribute.gaza.memorial/
the idea is to record the names of the dead of gaza in all the voices and accents of the world. a small gesture of global solidarity with the oppressed in the face of zionism and the attempted erasure of Palestine.
if you feel moved to participate, the memorial will be more complete with your voice, and i would appreciate it greatly.