Where Climate Change Policies Should Hit a Brick Wall
I wrote custom software code for my last two employers, plus a couple of decades in my basement office for customers and clients throughout Montana and other locations. The Internet was indispensable in providing communication and transporting this latter service. The irony of this occupation is that I was never educated in any associated software tasks. I had to learn several languages throughout the journey.
Since it was, at all times, custom software, there was no handbook or instruction manual specific to the applications that I wrote. When it came to a complex condition that gave me extraordinary trouble, I would first pull my hair out, and eventually, as darkness arrived, and the candle burned down to its holder, I would go to bed. Ironically, I awoke most mornings with the remedial answer to the code.
Programmers now have it much easier – simply explain the situation to Artificial Intelligence, and the code you have already written, and it will provide the solution.
We all use Artificial Intelligence (AI) - we are usually unaware of this activity. The linked article from Enterprise Nation explains the common, yet oblivious, use of AI as a personal tool. The linked Tableau story reveals some of the more common usages of today and the future conventions of Artificial Intelligence.
President Donald Trump claims to have received pledges for investments to the tune of $10 trillion (10,000,000,000,000) – both domestic and foreign. Much of this investment will be put towards infrastructure building, servers, and workstations to create and generate AI. While one would think a lot of this money will be used to create AI, a major expenditure would be servicing AI centers with electricity – a lot of electricity, much of which we do not produce at present.
Gemini AI summarizes the process of its creation as, “defining the problem, choosing the right AI model, collecting and preparing data, selecting a framework or tool, training the model, and deploying it. While that might appear simple, the actual work is quite complex, as outlined in a related article by Revelo linked here.
Even after AI is functional, querying it consumes approximately 10 times the energy in comparison to a straightforward browser search such as Google.
Meta (Microsoft) to create AI has signed a 20-year agreement to restart a reactor on Three Mile Island in Middletown, Pennsylvania. An article in Popular Science entitled “Massive AI energy demand is bringing Three Mile Island back from the dead” explains this situation in detail. The nuclear facility operated for 2 decades after the 1979 incident involving a partial nuclear meltdown, but was moth-balled for economic reasons 6 years ago. Meta boasts that, using nuclear power, they are creating their AI with no carbon emissions. Constellation Electric of Baltimore, Maryland, will take on the $1.6 billion task of refurbishing the nuclear portion of the facility into working order for use by Meta.
To create AI, early energy requirements analyzed that growth needed to advance by approximately the entire energy usage of the State of Utah – later analysis asserts it would require quick augmentation of electrical energy to power 13 cities the size of New York. It has been predicted that, by 2050, electrical energy requirements would need to grow by 50% - linked article here.
AI, as well as being employed for the applications listed by the Tableau article above, is essential for national security, national defense, and the protection of all American citizens and the safety of allied nations.
The battle to win AI supremacy is imperative. Windmills, solar panels, biomass and pie in the sky are not going to triumph in that battle. The main adversary, China, is already producing AI using every source of energy they have and are building more and more coal plants – they feel no sorrow for the shedding of tears by the climate change faithful.
In taking the AI conflict head-on, Donald Trump has signed the “National Energy Emergency”. As Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum has said, “America is facing an alarming energy emergency because of the prior administration’s Climate Extremist policies.
This is a high time for the progressives of this country to get off their moronic high horse and listen to sound reason. Climate change is an instrument of fictitious and fraudulent fear. Lack of energy promoted by those who instill this fear is real fear.
