Tag: cooling
As An Extreme Heatwave Hits, UK Homes With Solar Panels Power Equivalent Of 5 Hours Of “Free” Daily Air Con Use
As the UK experiences extreme temperatures, with forecasts above 37°C, think tank Ember finds that households with rooftop solar are powering the equivalent of five hours of air conditioning a day. Solar and air conditioning have similar seasonal patterns, meaning that when the need for cooling hits, solar is likely … [continued]
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Electricity Wins Because It Breaks The Fossil Fuel Chain
One of the easiest ways to get the energy transition wrong is to treat electricity as just another fuel. Coal, oil, gas, hydrogen, ammonia, methanol and electricity are often placed in parallel columns, as if the future is mainly a substitution table. That framing preserves too much of the fossil … [continued]
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How A Record-High “Energy Imbalance” Is Driving Global Warming
The planet is heating up more quickly than ever before. For decades, greenhouse gas emissions caused by human activity have been building up in the atmosphere and trapping ever-higher levels of heat. The resulting asymmetry between incoming solar energy and energy radiated back out into space — known as “Earth’s … [continued]
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Termination Shock — The Existential Danger Of Geoengineering
Four leading climate scientists are warning that geoengineering is a fool’s game with potentially catastrophic consequences.
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Is AI Doomed To Fail?
In 1995, computer scientist Niklaus Wirth published the article “A Plea for Lean Software” in the magazine Computer. Its thesis seems to suggest that AI based on neural networks may be doomed to fail, not because of a lack of electrical energy, but because of software inefficiency. The experience of … [continued]
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