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Real innovation vs Silicon Valley nonsense

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If there was any area where we needed a lot of "innovation," it's in climate tech. We've already blown through numerous points-of-no-return for a habitable Earth, and the pace is accelerating.

Silicon Valley claims to be the epicenter of American innovation, but what passes for innovation in Silicon Valley is some combination of nonsense, climate-wrecking tech, and climate-wrecking nonsense tech. Forget Jeff Hammerbacher's lament about "the best minds of my generation thinking about how to make people click ads." Today's best-paid, best-trained technologists are enlisted to making boobytrapped IoT gadgets:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/24/record-scratch/#autoenshittification

Planet-destroying cryptocurrency scams:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/15/your-new-first-name/#that-dagger-tho

NFT frauds:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/06/crypto-copyright-%f0%9f%a4%a1%f0%9f%92%a9/

Or planet-destroying AI frauds:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/29/pay-no-attention/#to-the-little-man-behind-the-curtain

If that was the best "innovation" the human race had to offer, we'd be fucking doomed.

But – as Ryan Cooper writes for The American Prospect – there's a far more dynamic, consequential, useful and exciting innovation revolution underway, thanks to muscular public spending on climate tech:

https://prospect.org/environment/2024-05-30-green-energy-revolution-real-innovation/

The green energy revolution – funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act, the Inflation Reduction Act, the CHIPS Act and the Science Act – is accomplishing amazing feats, which are barely registering amid the clamor of AI nonsense and other hype. I did an interview a while ago about my climate novel The Lost Cause and the interviewer wanted to know what role AI would play in resolving the climate emergency. I was momentarily speechless, then I said, "Well, I guess maybe all the energy used to train and operate models could make it much worse? What role do you think it could play?" The interviewer had no answer.

Here's brief tour of the revolution:

2023 saw 32GW of new solar energy come online in the USA (up 50% from 2022);

Wind increased from 118GW to 141GW;

Grid-scale batteries doubled in 2023 and will double again in 2024;

EV sales increased from 20,000 to 90,000/month.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/blog/2023/12/19/building-a-thriving-clean-energy-economy-in-2023-and-beyond/

The cost of clean energy is plummeting, and that's triggering other areas of innovation, like using "hot rocks" to replace fossil fuel heat (25% of overall US energy consumption):

https://rondo.com/products

Increasing our access to cheap, clean energy will require a lot of materials, and material production is very carbon intensive. Luckily, the existing supply of cheap, clean energy is fueling "green steel" production experiments:

https://www.wdam.com/2024/03/25/americas-1st-green-steel-plant-coming-perry-county-1b-federal-investment/

Cheap, clean energy also makes it possible to recover valuable minerals from aluminum production tailings, a process that doubles as site-remediation:

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/toxic-red-mud-co2-free-iron

And while all this electrification is going to require grid upgrades, there's lots we can do with our existing grid, like power-line automation that increases capacity by 40%:

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/13/1187620367/power-grid-enhancing-technologies-climate-change

It's also going to require a lot of storage, which is why it's so exciting that we're figuring out how to turn decommissioned mines into giant batteries. During the day, excess renewable energy is channeled into raising rock-laden platforms to the top of the mine-shafts, and at night, these unspool, releasing energy that's fed into the high-availability power-lines that are already present at every mine-site:

https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/02/06/this-disused-mine-in-finland-is-being-turned-into-a-gravity-battery-to-store-renewable-ene

Why are we paying so much attention to Silicon Valley pump-and-dumps and ignoring all this incredible, potentially planet-saving, real innovation? Cooper cites a plausible explanation from the Apperceptive newsletter:

https://buttondown.email/apperceptive/archive/destructive-investing-and-the-siren-song-of/

Silicon Valley is the land of low-capital, low-labor growth. Software development requires fewer people than infrastructure and hard goods manufacturing, both to get started and to run as an ongoing operation. Silicon Valley is the place where you get rich without creating jobs. It's run by investors who hate the idea of paying people. That's why AI is so exciting for Silicon Valley types: it lets them fantasize about making humans obsolete. A company without employees is a company without labor issues, without messy co-determination fights, without any moral consideration for others. It's the natural progression for an industry that started by misclassifying the workers in its buildings as "contractors," and then graduated to pretending that millions of workers were actually "independent small businesses."

It's also the natural next step for an industry that hates workers so much that it will pretend that their work is being done by robots, and then outsource the labor itself to distant Indian call-centers (no wonder Indian techies joke that "AI" stands for "absent Indians"):

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/17/fake-it-until-you-dont-make-it/#twenty-one-seconds

Contrast this with climate tech: this is a profoundly physical kind of technology. It is labor intensive. It is skilled. The workers who perform it have power, both because they are so far from their employers' direct oversight and because these fed-funded sectors are more likely to be unionized than Silicon Valley shops. Moreover, climate tech is capital intensive. All of those workers are out there moving stuff around: solar panels, wires, batteries.

Climate tech is infrastructural. As Deb Chachra writes in her must-read 2023 book How Infrastructure Works, infrastructure is a gift we give to our descendants. Infrastructure projects rarely pay for themselves during the lives of the people who decide to build them:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/17/care-work/#charismatic-megaprojects

Climate tech also produces gigantic, diffused, uncapturable benefits. The "social cost of carbon" is a measure that seeks to capture how much we all pay as polluters despoil our shared world. It includes the direct health impacts of burning fossil fuels, and the indirect costs of wildfires and extreme weather events. The "social savings" of climate tech are massive:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/climate-and-health-benefits-of-wind-and-solar-dwarf-all-subsidies/

For every MWh of renewable power produced, we save $100 in social carbon costs. That's $100 worth of people not sickening and dying from pollution, $100 worth of homes and habitats not burning down or disappearing under floodwaters. All told, US renewables have delivered $250,000,000,000 (one quarter of one trillion dollars) in social carbon savings over the past four years:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/climate-and-health-benefits-of-wind-and-solar-dwarf-all-subsidies/

In other words, climate tech is unselfish tech. It's a gift to the future and to the broad public. It shares its spoils with workers. It requires public action. By contrast, Silicon Valley is greedy tech that is relentlessly focused on the shortest-term returns that can be extracted with the least share going to labor. It also requires massive public investment, but it also totally committed to giving as little back to the public as is possible.

No wonder America's richest and most powerful people are lining up to endorse and fund Trump:

https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2024-05-30-democracy-deshmocracy-mega-financiers-flocking-to-trump/

Silicon Valley epitomizes Stafford Beer's motto that "the purpose of a system is what it does." If Silicon Valley produces nothing but planet-wrecking nonsense, grifty scams, and planet-wrecking, nonsensical scams, then these are all features of the tech sector, not bugs.

As Anil Dash writes:

Driving change requires us to make the machine want something else. If the purpose of a system is what it does, and we don’t like what it does, then we have to change the system.

https://www.anildash.com/2024/05/29/systems-the-purpose-of-a-system/

To give climate tech the attention, excitement, and political will it deserves, we need to recalibrate our understanding of the world. We need to have object permanence. We need to remember just how few people were actually using cryptocurrency during the bubble and apply that understanding to AI hype. Only 2% of Britons surveyed in a recent study use AI tools:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c511x4g7x7jo

If we want our tech companies to do good, we have to understand that their ground state is to create planet-wrecking nonsense, grifty scams, and planet-wrecking, nonsensical scams. We need to make these companies small enough to fail, small enough to jail, and small enough to care:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/04/teach-me-how-to-shruggie/#kagi

We need to hold companies responsible, and we need to change the microeconomics of the board room, to make it easier for tech workers who want to do good to shout down the scammers, nonsense-peddlers and grifters:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/28/microincentives-and-enshittification/

Yesterday, a federal judge ruled that the FTC could hold Amazon executives personally liable for the decision to trick people into signing up for Prime, and for making the unsubscribe-from-Prime process into a Kafka-as-a-service nightmare:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/amazon-execs-may-be-personally-liable-for-tricking-users-into-prime-sign-ups/

Imagine how powerful a precedent this could set. The Amazon employees who vociferously objected to their bosses' decision to make Prime as confusing as possible could have raised the objection that doing this could end up personally costing those bosses millions of dollars in fines:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/03/big-tech-cant-stop-telling-on-itself/

We need to make climate tech, not Big Tech, the center of our scrutiny and will. The climate emergency is so terrifying as to be nearly unponderable. Science fiction writers are increasingly being called upon to try to frame this incomprehensible risk in human terms. SF writer (and biologist) Peter Watts's conversation with evolutionary biologist Dan Brooks is an eye-opener:

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-collapse-is-coming-will-humanity-adapt/

They draw a distinction between "sustainability" meaning "what kind of technological fixes can we come up with that will allow us to continue to do business as usual without paying a penalty for it?" and sustainability meaning, "what changes in behavior will allow us to save ourselves with the technology that is possible?"

Writing about the Watts/Brooks dialog for Naked Capitalism, Yves Smith invokes William Gibson's The Peripheral:

With everything stumbling deeper into a ditch of shit, history itself become a slaughterhouse, science had started popping. Not all at once, no one big heroic thing, but there were cleaner, cheaper energy sources, more effective ways to get carbon out of the air, new drugs that did what antibiotics had done before…. Ways to print food that required much less in the way of actual food to begin with. So everything, however deeply fucked in general, was lit increasingly by the new, by things that made people blink and sit up, but then the rest of it would just go on, deeper into the ditch. A progress accompanied by constant violence, he said, by sufferings unimaginable.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/05/preparing-for-collapse-why-the-focus-on-climate-energy-sustainability-is-destructive.html

Gibson doesn't think this is likely, mind, and even if it's attainable, it will come amidst "unimaginable suffering."

But the universe of possible technologies is quite large. As Chachra points out in How Infrastructure Works, we could give every person on Earth a Canadian's energy budget (like an American's, but colder), by capturing a mere 0.4% of the solar radiation that reaches the Earth's surface every day. Doing this will require heroic amounts of material and labor, especially if we're going to do it without destroying the planet through material extraction and manufacturing.

These are the questions that we should be concerning ourselves with: what behavioral changes will allow us to realize cheap, abundant, green energy? What "innovations" will our society need to focus on the things we need, rather than the scams and nonsense that creates Silicon Valley fortunes?

How can we use planning, and solidarity, and codetermination to usher in the kind of tech that makes it possible for us to get through the climate bottleneck with as little death and destruction as possible? How can we use enforcement, discernment, and labor rights to thwart the enshittificatory impulses of Silicon Valley's biggest assholes?

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/30/posiwid/#social-cost-of-carbon

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Technology's Use of Water

While water is renewable, it is finite. Its renewability depends on us using and managing our water resources responsibly.

Previous articles on this page have discussed hydropower and how it produces less waste and costs less than other resources. We have also briefly discussed how other energy sources consume water as a coolant or receptacle for waste. Entire university courses are dedicated to human uses of water.

Water Scarcity

Only 3% of water on Earth is freshwater. Of course, we need this to drink, but we need it for many more services beyond that.

Many plumbing fixtures are made of copper, which saltwater severely corrodes, same as lead and, over a longer time, PVC. Toilets on average use 1-5 gallons of water per flush. If we want to preserve freshwater by switching to saltwater plumbing, we would have to rethink and re-pipe entire plumbing systems.

We lose safe water in rain, as well. Supported by a study in Environmental Science and Technology, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in 2022 stated that rainwater is not safe to drink. Chemicals known as per-/poly-fluoroalkyl substances break down extremely slowly, and have leached from many products like cleaners, fabrics, and shampoo into the water cycle. Removing PFAS from water requires filters of activated carbon or reverse osmosis membranes, which also require frequent maintenance.

A lot of water is also not available to us because it is in ice caps and glaciers, which are estimated to be about 68% of Earth’s freshwater. This water is also being lost, because as glaciers melt at increasing rates, that freshwater becomes saltwater in the ocean.

These limitations mean that water is not necessarily renewable yet, especially because treating water produces its own waste and pollution. We have to be responsible with the small percentage of water we have access to.

Irresponsible Use

There are a ridiculous amount of ways in which we waste water. Leaks, watering lawns, and leaving taps running are some of the big household wastes of water. While individual accountability and changes can still make a big difference, I want to focus on bigger impacts.

One example is in nuclear power production. Nuclear power plants use water to cool down used fuel when it is done being used in the reactor. This results in radioactive and thermal water pollution.

Agriculture is another common cause of water pollution. Excess water from rain or artificial watering runs off of agricultural fields and flows towards streams and bodies of water. This runoff often includes amounts of fertilizers and pesticides ranging from minimal to extremely harmful. This leads to improper levels of oxygen, nitrogen, and hydrogen within the water. Like water contaminated by pharmaceuticals, this is not safe to drink, and something not safe for skin contact.

Technology is also a major factor of water demands. Artificial Intelligence and cryptocurrency are heavy water consumers.

AI is beneficial within waste management, as it is able to quickly analyze information and identify issues, potential problems, and potential areas of improvement. Unfortunately, AI training requires a large amount of water. One study states that training GPT-3 alone can evaporate 700,000 liters of freshwater. In 2027, AI is predicted to consume 4.2 to 6.6 billion cubic meters of water. In comparison, Denmark nationally consumes around one billion cubic meters in a year.

Cryptocurrency is even worse. It goes through a process called mining in which transactions are verified and new ‘coins’ are generated into the system. This process is extremely water-demanding. For example, in 2021, mining of Bitcoin consumed more than 1,600 gigaliters of global water. On average, each cryptocurrency transaction consumes 16,000 liters of water in cooling down the computer equipment and the power plants that provide the electricity.

Saltwater as an alternative in these situations does exist; however, this process has the disadvantages of one-time use, large water intake, sewage discharge, and ocean pollution. Technology has begun to improve on this method with seawater circulation cooling technology, which reduces sewage discharge and water intake, but remains an imperfect solution.

Technology has the potential to drastically improve environmental management and restoration, but still has a long way to go before we offset the huge impacts we have made. Freshwater is taken for granted by many people, and the systems that disproportionately consume the most of it are not held accountable. This cycle must stop if we want to make water a truly renewable resource.

Additional Resources

1. Water Renewability

2. Corrosion on Plumbing

3. Treating PFAS

4. Household Water Waste

5. Nuclear Water Waste

6. AI Helping Water Management

7. AI Water Consumption

8. Crypto Mining Water Consumption

9. Seawater cooling technology

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The AI Power Conundrum: Will Renewables Save the Day? 

The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies is transforming industries and driving unprecedented innovation. However, the surge in AI applications comes with a significant challenge: the growing power demands required to sustain these systems. As we embrace the era of AI power, the question arises: can renewable energy rise to meet these increasing energy needs? 

Understanding the AI Power Demand 

AI systems, particularly those involving deep learning and large-scale data processing, consume vast amounts of electricity. Data centers housing AI servers are notorious for their high energy requirements, often leading to increased carbon emissions. As AI continues to evolve, the demand for energy is expected to skyrocket, posing a substantial challenge for sustainability. 

The Role of Renewable Energy 

Renewable energy sources, such as solar, wind, and hydroelectric power, present a viable solution to the AI power conundrum. These sources produce clean, sustainable energy that can help offset the environmental impact of AI technologies. By harnessing renewable energy, tech companies can significantly reduce their carbon footprint while meeting their power needs. 

Tech Giants Leading the Way 

Several tech giants are already paving the way by integrating renewable energy into their operations. Companies like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft are investing heavily in renewable energy projects to power their data centers. For instance, Google has committed to operating on 24/7 carbon-free energy by 2030. These initiatives demonstrate the potential for renewable energy to support the massive energy demands of AI power. 

Challenges and Opportunities 

While the integration of renewable energy is promising, it comes with its own set of challenges. Renewable energy sources can be intermittent, depending on weather conditions, which can affect their reliability. However, advancements in energy storage solutions and smart grid technologies are addressing these issues, ensuring a more stable and dependable supply of renewable energy. 

The synergy between AI and renewable energy also presents unique opportunities. AI can optimize the performance of renewable energy systems, predict energy demand, and enhance energy efficiency. This symbiotic relationship has the potential to accelerate the adoption of renewable energy and create a more sustainable future. 

Conclusion 

The AI power conundrum is a pressing issue that demands innovative solutions. Renewable energy emerges as a crucial player in addressing this challenge, offering a sustainable path forward. As tech companies continue to embrace renewable energy, the future of AI power looks promising, with the potential to achieve both technological advancement and environmental sustainability. 

By integrating renewable energy into the AI ecosystem, we can ensure that the growth of AI technologies does not come at the expense of our planet. The collaboration between AI and renewable energy is not just a possibility; it is a necessity for a sustainable future. 

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Renewable Energy Jobs in UAE: Paving the Way to a Sustainable Future

The UAE is rapidly becoming a global leader in renewable energy, offering a wealth of opportunities for professionals looking to make a meaningful impact in the sustainability sector. With ambitious initiatives like the UAE Energy Strategy 2050 and the Dubai Clean Energy Strategy, the region is transforming its energy landscape, creating a surge in demand for skilled professionals in renewable energy jobs in UAE.

Why Renewable Energy is Thriving in the UAE

The UAE’s commitment to sustainability is driving exponential growth in renewable energy. Government-led initiatives aim to diversify energy sources, reduce carbon emissions, and integrate clean energy into the national grid. Iconic projects like the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park highlight the UAE's dedication to becoming a hub for green energy innovation.

Top Renewable Energy Jobs in the UAE

Here are some of the most in-demand roles in the UAE’s renewable energy sector:

Solar Energy Engineers

Design and optimize solar power systems.

Skills: Engineering expertise, project management, CAD software.

Wind Energy Specialists

Conduct site assessments and maintain wind turbines.

Skills: Wind turbine tech, mechanical engineering, project management.

Energy Storage Experts

Focus on advanced battery technologies and grid integration.

Skills: Electrical engineering, energy management systems.

Sustainability Project Managers

Lead renewable energy projects ensuring timely and budgeted execution.

Skills: Project management, budgeting, renewable energy tech knowledge.

Environmental Consultants

Evaluate ecological impacts and ensure compliance with environmental standards.

Skills: Environmental science, regulatory knowledge.

How to Start Your Career in Renewable Energy in UAE

Breaking into the renewable energy sector requires the right skills, certifications, and a proactive approach. Here’s how you can prepare:

Acquire Relevant CertificationsPursue certifications in renewable energy technologies, solar power systems, or environmental science to boost your expertise.

Network with Industry LeadersAttend conferences, seminars, and job fairs to connect with professionals in the UAE's renewable energy sector.

Tailor Your CV for Green JobsHighlight experience, skills, and certifications relevant to renewable energy. Emphasize any projects or internships that showcase your expertise in the field.

Update Your Profile on avuaRegularly update your avua profile with the latest skills and certifications to stand out to recruiters hiring for renewable energy jobs in the UAE.

Why Choose Renewable Energy Jobs in UAE?

Working in the UAE’s renewable energy sector offers more than just a job—it’s an opportunity to be part of a global movement towards sustainability. Professionals in this field enjoy competitive salaries, career growth opportunities, and the satisfaction of contributing to a cleaner, greener future.

Take the First Step Today!The demand for renewable energy professionals in the UAE is skyrocketing. Don’t miss the chance to be part of groundbreaking projects shaping the future of energy. Update your profile on avua and explore the latest renewable energy jobs in UAE today!

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🌞 The Power of Positive Change: Rising With Your Sunny Climate News

I think it’s so important that we come from a place of revolutionary love.

That source of love helps you…you don’t just give up on people. You don’t just give up on the movement. You don’t just give up on anything because it’s coming from a place that doesn’t tire you out but rather keeps you going.” —Mitzi Jonelle Tan

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2. Imagine: Inspiring & Empowering New Worlds

3. Revolve: on Renewable Energies of Love

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How AI is Shaping the Future of Renewable Energy in 2024 and Beyond?

The energy mix of the world is changing rapidly with increasing preference for green energy production through solar, wind, and hydropower. However, these sources are well-known for their intermittent production of energy that inconveniences power supply demands. Artificial Intelligence (AI) appears to be a valuable approach for reaching these objectives and achieving the potential that exists in renewable energy. Renewable energy enhancement by AI is likely to become a major reality in the year 2024 and beyond.

Optimizing Renewable Energy Generation

Artificial intelligence has a significant contribution to making energy generation a more effective process. In this way, AI is already being used to look at real-time data in weather patterns, intensity of the sun and wind speed and accurately predict energy production. This predictive capacity can help renewable energy systems to get more flexible so that they can make optimum energy production from available resources irrespective of the fluctuating ambient factors. For example, smart wind turbines deployed with the assistance of AI can change their blade angles based on analyzed wind speed.

Smarter Energy Storage Solutions

Energy storage is a critical piece of the renewable energy puzzle because it mediates between energy production and energy utilization. In energy storage, AI is enhancing the battery management system (BMS) as a driver. BMS using AI makes intelligent decisions of charging and discharging of batteries hence increasing battery life. Further, using machine learning algorithms, energy demand is forecasted, and thus storage capabilities are synchronized with the most frequent power demand.

Intelligent Grid Management

However, the use of renewables in implementation increases the challenges involved in balancing demand and supply. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN GRID Modern grid management systems use artificial intelligence methods to predict energy demand and disturbances in grids and control power flows in grids. AI also supports DERs by changing its basic stricture to decentralised systems in which homes and businesses with roof-based solar panels and storage can also contribute towards the stability of the grid.

Predictive Maintenance for Renewable Infrastructure

With related skills in failure prognosis and failure avoidance, AI is currently transforming the maintenance culture within the renewable energy industry. This is because embedded sensors in solar panels, wind turbines, and other structures record their performance, and artificial intelligence programs help determine problems that are likely to emerge. For instance, the technology is able to identify microcracks on panels for solar installations or strange vibrations in wind turbines enabling their operators to take corrective measures before the faults escalate. This also enhances the quality of the whole system and cuts down on time spent on fixing and maintenance.

AI-Driven Energy Trading Platforms

Artificial intelligence is powering the growing elements of energy retail that will allow peer-to-peer (P2P) energy exchange. Solar panel and battery owners are able to use AI digital platforms to sell the excess energy they produce to neighbours or feed it back into the grid. These platforms then use AI to facilitate buyers and sellers in real-time, adjust energy prices as well as determine fair means of distributing energy.

Improving Policy and Decision-Making

Governments and organizations use AI in analyzing renewable energy policies and investments. AI models deal with large datasets to see demand patterns and future energy requirements and measure the implications of a range of policies. Its rationale is based on the provision of an array of relevant data to support wiser decisions towards the promotion of RE.

Overcoming Challenges with AI Nonetheless, AI has issues that its application poses in renewable energy like data privacy constraints, high costs of implementation and the necessity for infrastructural support. However, as has been seen previously, these barriers are likely to reduce with time as AI technologies become cheaper and more widespread. Expenditures on AI research and development are the key reasons that have seen advancements in renewable energy systems that are sustainable, reliable, and able to expand.