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Re: Joseph Tainter: The Collapse of Complex Societies (Book Review)

jacopogio — Mon, 30 May 2022 10:31:38 -0000

Interesting. When I ear of the Collapsing of the Roman Empire, I think : is Rome still a capital ? Are we speaking in Europe (and rest of the world) languages (italian, Spanish, French...) derived by Latin ? Is Latin still used in institutions like The Church, Jurisdiction, Natural sciences ? Is The Catholic Church still a reality ? Do we use everyday legacies of the Roman Institutions like, Family names, Tribunals, Senators, Written Laws, Mariage contracts,... ?
Of course, the original institutions and societies are no more the same, but everything has evolved not disappeared... ;-)

Re: Chiara Marletto: The Science of Can and Can’t (Book Review)

jacopogio — Mon, 17 May 2021 17:01:56 -0000

Thanks for this introduction to what looks like a "revolution".
The fact that Chiara is of Italian origin is another plus 😉

Re: Atmospheric Carbon: The Ultimate Global Commodity

jacopogio — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 10:53:28 -0000

Good start!

Re: Calling All Billionaires: Fund Fusion Now

jacopogio — Sat, 11 Jan 2020 11:22:48 -0000

Well, on that I can only trust you .-)

Re: Calling All Billionaires: Fund Fusion Now

jacopogio — Sat, 11 Jan 2020 11:01:45 -0000

Not oppose of course, just, I start from the point of of view that capital ressources even for billionaires are scarce so I would but some priorities ...
And here, in your post, you just push for fusion ;-)

Re: Calling All Billionaires: Fund Fusion Now

jacopogio — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 09:20:18 -0000

Albert, we agree on almost on everything except Nuke ;-)
Even if Fusion was available as a working prototype today, and it isn't, it would take 20 years minimum to have it on commercial scale and even more just to have it on significant scale!
At the same time: Renewables are already on crossing price with no subsidies even with cheapest fossils (aka coal) and Storage will be developed faster than Fusion and for a fraction of the Investment.
Thinking as Fusion as the Ultimate Energy is like thinking that Main Frames are the Ultimate of Computation... #Anachronism
(writing this on smartphone: costing, consuming an infinite fraction of an old style main frame et probably with more computing power)
Best

Re: An Agenda for the 2020s: Inventing the Knowledge Age

jacopogio — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 16:37:51 -0000

Of course

Re: An Agenda for the 2020s: Inventing the Knowledge Age

jacopogio — Wed, 01 Jan 2020 16:27:15 -0000

Agree, as usual with everything, except your bullish side on new nuke! ;-) Best and cheapest way is to invest in renewables and in storage.

Re: Electricity and the Climate Crisis: Moving to EVs

jacopogio — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:27:56 -0000

Sorry but Auke does cover Mining and Transportation as they are included in the Production Costs => " the best and most recent source in the literature (from 2019) pegs it at 106 kg/kWh. And from industry insiders, I hear that large state-of-the-art factories are already at 65 kg/kWh."
https://innovationorigins.c...

Re: Electricity and the Climate Crisis: Moving to EVs

jacopogio — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 10:00:55 -0000

Albert, what is need at this point is a time frame... If you want to convert all Combustion Engines to EV it will take years and perhaps decades and so the effort will be different

Re: Electricity and the Climate Crisis: Moving to EVs

jacopogio — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 09:58:48 -0000

#Fake "We could compare the Tesla Model X with a car his own size. Then the Model X is greener than his counterpart (we took the Porsche Cayenne) after 35 thousand km => https://innovationorigins.c...
and here a video for explanations
https://www.youtube.com/wat...
By the way, Auke Hoekstra is THE European Expert on EV
https://twitter.com/AukeHoe...

Re: Nuclear Power and the Climate Crisis (Introduction)

jacopogio — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 17:19:14 -0000

It's effectively just a huge risk until now. But if it so, why the owners of nuke reactors are not able to insure for that kind of risks? Why the risk has to be supported by the Government that means by the tax payers ? #TrueCostOfNuke

Re: Nuclear Power and the Climate Crisis (Introduction)

jacopogio — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 17:16:19 -0000

Well, before you built faster you will have to build some and those built those days have been on the 10 years schedule not counting the delays.
In France, Finland, Turkey and even China...

Re: Nuclear Power and the Climate Crisis (Introduction)

jacopogio — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 13:08:14 -0000

Hi, thanks for posting at start your position on #nuke.
Here my position on how nuke won't help the Transition to Renewable Energies RE that are the best ways to reduce our emissions in energy production.

1) to invest in NeW Nuke means you will have to wait minimum 10 years before seeing the first Mw , 10 years where emissions could have been reduced.
2) Cost of New Nuke is already higher that actual RE and will continue to increase.
3) Existing Nuke is considered low carbon emitter but not a single reactor has been dismantled in 70 years since the first commercial production in any OECD country or even Russia. So we do not know what are the real emissions and real costs of a nuke reactor, it could be much more even of modern gas
4) Existing nuke has not been conceived and built to rump up and down at short notice, so it has to function as Base Load in continuity also because of its high capital cost structure. The continuous Base Load requested by nuke prevents RE to get in the market at full capacity, so they become less productive and delay Transition.
5) Existing nuke, doesn't emit only CO2 but produces also radioactive waste that will remain so for millennia and that after 70 years since the first commercial production we do not know how to dispose safely and at what costs and that in any OECD country
6) if we reduce nuke, we need in the short-medium term to use modern gas as it is the fastest to built and to rump up/down at acceptable cost but, yes, there is an increase of C02 but as the RE increase the use will come down because there is no economic or technical need for base load for gas
7) The concept of constant supply of energy by a central organisation is an early XXth century when, say, the MainFrame was also conceived. We are already in a new era, we need multiple decentralized, sustainable, resilient sources of energy. Like the internet
8) We need also to reduce global demand of energy by distributing better the consumption with Demand Response actions, Energy savings, Carbon Tax, Exchanges, Storage,...
9) The S curve of RE is still at the very beginning and it shows already amazing results and we have just to support it's development...
10) The sooner we start without nuke the better

Best, ;-)

Re: Climate Crisis: Greta Thunberg

jacopogio — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 09:36:57 -0000

excerpt:

"...The popular idea of cutting our emissions in half in 10 years only gives us a 50% chance of staying below 1.5C degrees, and the risk of setting off irreversible chain reactions beyond human control.

Maybe 50% is acceptable to you. But those numbers don’t include tipping points, most feedback loops, additional warming hidden by toxic air pollution or the aspects of justice and equity. They also rely on my and my children’s generation sucking hundreds of billions of tonnes of your CO2 out of the air with technologies that barely exist. So a 50% risk is simply not acceptable to us – we who have to live with the consequences.

To have a 67% chance of staying below a 1.5C global temperature rise – the best odds given by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – the world had 420 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide left to emit back on 1 January 2018. Today that figure is already down to less than 350 gigatonnes. How dare you pretend that this can be solved with business-as-usual and some technical solutions. With today’s emissions levels, that remaining CO2 budget will be entirely gone in less than eight and a half years."

Re: Climate Crisis: Greta Thunberg

jacopogio — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 09:33:58 -0000

for those who prefer to read Greta's speach, here is the same text as she published it on The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com...

Re: Climate Crisis Part 4: What to Do?

jacopogio — Tue, 13 Aug 2019 01:51:51 -0000

No less energy, but lesser consumption! So, how could the all internet and in general the digital system be less voracious of energy. Thinking at servers, bitcoin, apps ...

Re: Climate Crisis Part 4: What to Do?

jacopogio — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 14:37:17 -0000

As you speak about tech and startups, I would like you to start by analyzing the energy consumption of the internet ;-)
https://scholar.google.com/...

Re: The Lesson from the Amazon HQ2 Fiasco

jacopogio — Sat, 16 Feb 2019 11:16:13 -0000

Yes, but more specially on the resentment that people feel, when it looks like that Amazon is choosing which community to benefit, when, perhaps that should left to the people that we choose to govern us , well let's say before and after Trump ;)

Re: The Lesson from the Amazon HQ2 Fiasco

jacopogio — Sat, 16 Feb 2019 11:14:31 -0000

It could occur to you that the Law is not always in favour of normal citizens... So yes Amazon is not legally not paying a single dollar but that does not help normal people and other small businesses think that there is some inequality in the Law. And yes you can continue to call those people and me "Stupid simpletons" as many in the history did, when on the right side, they called, women, black people, youngs, immigrants that way...

Re: The Lesson from the Amazon HQ2 Fiasco

jacopogio — Fri, 15 Feb 2019 10:27:09 -0000

could also be related to this post : "Amazon Will Pay a Whopping $0 in Federal Taxes on $11.2 Billion Profits"
http://fortune.com/2019/02/...

Re: Therapeutic Computing

jacopogio — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 11:35:56 -0000

Big Brother will no more watching you, he will be in your keyboard ! ;)

Re: World After Capital: Laying a Foundation (Needs)

jacopogio — Tue, 24 Apr 2018 11:57:20 -0000

sorry ;)

Re: World After Capital: Laying a Foundation (Needs)

jacopogio — Tue, 24 Apr 2018 09:54:29 -0000

Acceptable for ideas and projects but what about a new one: Sleeping and Rest ?

I think that with Dreaming, Sleeping is also an individual human (animal) need as we spend 1/3 of all our life sleeping and some part of it dreaming.

And, as you said for Oxygen, Water, Calories ,... => Sleeping and Dreaming "they are keeping our bodies powered".

Re: World After Capital: Laying a Foundation (Needs)

jacopogio — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 17:29:43 -0000

Just to end in beauty.... what about the following special human only needs:

1) Dreams
2) Ideas
3) Projects

All the best,
Jacopo ;)!