#AI In The Renewable Energy

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Real innovation vs Silicon Valley nonsense

This is the LAST DAY to get my bestselling solarpunk utopian novel THE LOST CAUSE (2023) as a $2.99, DRM-free ebook!

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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Envision Our Energizing-Vibrant Renewable Future Now

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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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I would just like to make this article 100x louder.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/27/business/ai-nuclear-power-stocks.html

However you feel about AI, be aware of its consumption. It is a ravenous beast, looming in the shadows in a time where we are actively trying to cut down on carbon and energy waste.

Every. Query. Uses a huge amount of electricity, and requires a significant amount of cooling power.

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Daily writing promptThe most important invention in your lifetime is…View all responses Picking the “most important” invention is like choosing a favourite child … almost impossible and totally subjective! But between 1969’s moon landing and today’s AI marvels, some contenders deserve a shoutout, in my opinion: The Internet (1969): Launched as a whisper on October 29, 1969, when computers at…

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A Look Inside Elon Musk's Rygar Enterprises

Learn about Elon Musk's Rygar Enterprises, its history, projects, and plans for the future of technology. Discover about rygar enterprises.

Introduction: Who hasn’t heard of Elon Musk? His name is practically inseparable from concepts such as innovation, ambition, and an unyielding pursuit of progress. This titan of the industry has a long and storied career, from his founding of PayPal to his more recent ventures like Tesla, SpaceX, and The Boring Company. But now, he’s made yet another move that’s sure to shake things up: the…

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Renewable Energy Jobs in Saudi Arabia: A Growing Opportunity

Saudi Arabia's renewable energy sector is expanding rapidly, paving the way for exciting renewable energy jobs in Saudi Arabia. As part of the nation’s Vision 2030 plan, there’s a significant shift toward sustainable, low-carbon energy solutions, including solar, wind, and green hydrogen projects.

If you’re interested in contributing to this transformation, here’s an overview of key roles and salary ranges in this thriving sector:

1. Renewable Energy Engineer

Renewable energy engineers design and optimize solar, wind, and hydropower systems, ensuring compliance with safety and efficiency standards. Salary Ranges:

Entry-level: $60,000 - $75,000 annually

Mid-career: $85,000 - $100,000 annually

Senior level: $110,000 - $140,000+ annually

2. Solar Project Manager

Solar project managers oversee projects from planning to completion, focusing on timeliness, cost efficiency, and adherence to regulations. Salary Ranges:

Entry-level: $55,000 - $70,000 annually

Mid-career: $80,000 - $100,000 annually

Senior level: $105,000 - $130,000+ annually

3. Wind Turbine Technician

Technicians handle wind turbine installation, maintenance, and repairs, playing a critical role in ensuring optimal functionality. Salary Ranges:

Entry-level: $45,000 - $60,000 annually

Experienced: $65,000 - $80,000 annually

4. Energy Storage Specialist

These professionals develop energy storage systems, ensuring a stable and reliable renewable energy supply. Salary Ranges:

Entry-level: $50,000 - $70,000 annually

Mid-career: $75,000 - $90,000 annually

Senior level: $100,000 - $125,000+ annually

5. Green Hydrogen Engineer

Green hydrogen engineers develop cutting-edge systems to produce hydrogen from renewable sources, advancing clean energy solutions. Salary Ranges:

Entry-level: $65,000 - $80,000 annually

Mid-career: $90,000 - $110,000 annually

Senior level: $120,000 - $150,000+ annually

6. Environmental Consultant for Renewables

Environmental consultants ensure renewable projects comply with sustainability and environmental standards. Salary Ranges:

Entry-level: $50,000 - $65,000 annually

Mid-career: $70,000 - $90,000 annually

Senior level: $100,000 - $125,000+ annually

With competitive salaries and opportunities to shape a sustainable future, renewable energy jobs in Saudi Arabia are not only transforming the energy sector but also offering meaningful career paths.

Explore your potential in this booming industry and be part of Saudi Arabia’s journey toward a greener tomorrow!

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HUMAN FORM (EXERCISE 3 DRAFT 2) Imagining what the Human Form would be 80 years in the future

Food Food will be personalized through smart “nutrition pods” in homes, which analyze health data and create meal capsules using nutrient-dense algae, lab-grown proteins, and tailored micronutrients. 3D food printers will produce dishes based on dietary needs, reducing food waste. Urban rooftop farms and biomes will produce seasonal vegetables and herbs, allowing for hyper-local and fresh food without the need for long-distance shipping.

Water Communities will operate on closed-loop water systems, capturing, purifying, and recycling all water within each district. Buildings will feature “dew collectors” that harvest water from the air, supplementing traditional sources. Smart sensors will analyze water quality and suggest conservation tips through community apps, ensuring every drop is used efficiently and safely.

Housing Homes will be built from regenerative materials that naturally absorb carbon dioxide. Living walls and roofs will support biodiversity by housing pollinator plants and providing nesting spaces. Community living spaces will be modular and transformable, adapting to residents’ needs over time and minimizing waste in construction. Neighborhoods will include shared gardens and social spaces that foster a sense of belonging.

Education Education will be globally accessible through immersive virtual classrooms and AI mentors that adapt to each student’s learning style. Learning will emphasize empathy, critical thinking, and collaboration with other cultures, creating a well-rounded, globally-aware population. Students will have experiential learning options like virtual field trips to historical events and hands-on labs in sciences, arts, and engineering.

Healthcare Healthcare will be deeply personalized, with AI continuously monitoring health through implanted or wearable micro-devices. Homes will have wellness capsules for preventive care, where individuals can track vitals, administer diagnostics, and even dispense treatments for minor issues. Gene therapies and nano-medicine will target diseases before symptoms appear, while mental health AI will provide ongoing support for emotional well-being.

Social Equity A focus on equity will ensure universal access to resources, with AI tools identifying and addressing systemic disparities in real-time. Community resource centers will provide free access to essential services, from legal aid to education. Basic income and shared ownership models will empower people to lead fulfilling lives without financial strain, ensuring a high quality of life for everyone.

Gender Equality Gender-neutral policies will govern workplaces, education, and healthcare, where systems automatically adapt to prevent discrimination and ensure equal access. Public life will embrace all gender identities, with AI-driven bias detection in policy-making, hiring, and healthcare to create a supportive, equitable environment.

Work & Income Work will focus on societal and environmental impact, with people choosing meaningful projects aligned with their values and talents. Automation will handle routine tasks, and flexible, short-term contracts will allow individuals to work on various projects without traditional career limitations. Basic income will provide security, and jobs will focus on creative and intellectual growth.

Energy / Electricity Energy sources will be entirely renewable, drawing from an interconnected global grid that relies on solar satellites, fusion power, and advanced wind and tidal systems. Every building will generate some power, whether through solar windows, kinetic floors, or wind-capturing facades. AI-managed grids will balance supply and demand globally, ensuring clean, constant power for all.

Peace & Justice Justice will focus on proactive solutions, with AI mediators analyzing and preventing conflicts before they escalate. Legal decisions will be guided by AI to eliminate bias, with a focus on rehabilitation and community repair. Peace will be maintained through citizen-driven councils and data-informed governance, ensuring justice that serves both individuals and society.

Transportation Transportation will be rapid, silent, and eco-friendly, with electric air taxis, maglev trains, and autonomous pods that communicate to optimize routes and reduce traffic. Walkways, bike paths, and green public transit will be woven into city layouts, reducing the need for private vehicles and encouraging low-carbon travel options.

Political Voice Blockchain voting will make democratic processes secure, with real-time community polling allowing citizens to weigh in on local and global decisions continuously. Digital transparency will hold leaders accountable, and citizens will participate in policy discussions via interactive forums, creating a fluid, engaged democracy.

Air Pollution Green technology like air-purifying trees and advanced filtration towers will neutralize urban pollutants. Smart pollution-monitoring systems will detect and address air quality issues in real-time. All vehicles and factories will run on clean energy, making urban air as pure as natural reserves.

Noise Pollution Cities will be designed to minimize noise, with sound-absorbing materials in streets, buildings, and transportation. Noise-reduction sensors will monitor and adjust sound levels in real-time, allowing for dynamic control of city noise. Nature corridors and quiet zones will provide spaces of calm within busy cities.

Non-Human Life Urban planning will prioritize habitats for non-human species, with green corridors, sky gardens, and biodiverse public spaces. AI-driven conservation initiatives will protect local ecosystems, monitor animal populations, and balance human activity with the needs of wildlife, fostering cohabitation.

Chemical Pollution Production processes will rely on sustainable, non-toxic materials, and manufacturing facilities will be carbon-neutral. Specialized filtration systems in factories will remove pollutants from water and air, while decentralized recycling will ensure efficient, eco-friendly waste management. Policies will enforce “green chemistry” standards, replacing harmful chemicals with biodegradable options.

Water Bodies & Supply Water sources will be safeguarded with advanced filtration and AI-monitored purity systems. Large-scale desalination plants, powered by renewable energy, will make ocean water a primary source of drinking water. Floating wetlands and bioengineered plants will support marine biodiversity and maintain water ecosystems' health.

Waste Management Waste will be a thing of the past as a circular economy takes hold. AI-powered sorting systems will redirect waste materials to recycling, composting, or repurposing channels, creating a closed-loop system. Biodegradable packaging and products will eliminate plastic waste, and waste-to-energy systems will provide additional renewable energy sources.

Land Use, Streets & Public Spaces Public spaces will be vibrant, with urban parks, walkable pathways, and shared green areas. Streets will prioritize pedestrian and cyclist accessibility, reducing car dependency. Public squares will host events, cultural activities, and community markets, creating hubs of social and economic engagement within neighborhoods.

Ocean Pollution Autonomous clean-up drones will patrol and cleanse oceans, capturing plastic and pollutants. Coral and marine life restoration projects will rebuild biodiversity in damaged areas, while biodegradable materials will prevent future pollution. Global cooperation will enforce ocean protection zones, fostering healthy marine ecosystems.

Effects of Climate Change Cities will adapt to climate extremes with buildings designed to withstand storms, floods, and extreme heat. Urban forests, wetlands, and green roofs will help regulate temperature and manage water flow. Reforestation and carbon capture technology will mitigate CO2 emissions, while predictive AI will help prepare for natural disasters.

Urban Agriculture & Greenification Cities will integrate agriculture into every available space, from rooftop farms and vertical gardens to community plots. Bioengineered plants will improve air quality and reduce urban temperatures, while automated irrigation systems will optimize water use. Green spaces will create a cooler, more livable environment for all.

Gender & Sexuality Gender inclusivity will be ingrained in every institution, with healthcare, education, and public spaces respecting and supporting all identities. Inclusive laws and policies will ensure that everyone can express themselves authentically without societal restrictions, creating a world of acceptance.

Diversity & Inclusion AI will ensure representation across all sectors, proactively identifying and addressing any bias or inequality. Policies will promote equal opportunity, and educational institutions will prioritize cultural, ethnic, and neurodiverse awareness, fostering communities that celebrate all identities.

Accessibility Universal design will make every environment accessible, with real-time AI assistance guiding individuals with disabilities. Public spaces, transportation, and technology will prioritize accessibility, using innovations like automated wayfinding, speech-to-text devices, and sensory-friendly environments.

Sustainability Sustainability will be a core tenet of all systems, with regenerative practices embedded in production, architecture, and daily life. Circular economy principles will guide product design, and global collaboration will drive environmental protection, creating a society that flourishes alongside the planet.

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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

1. Dream: Bigger, Better, & More Beautiful Solutions

2. Imagine: Inspiring & Empowering New Worlds

3. Revolve: on Renewable Energies of Love