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Bookmark The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud | The MIT…
Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate draws on five years of research and ethnographic fieldwork in server farms to illustrate some of the diverse environmental impacts of data storage. The Cloud is not…

February 28 2022, 12:52am | Comments
Bookmark Is Ornamenting Solar Panels a Crime? - Architecture - e-flux
We’re Solarpunk because the only other options are denial or despair. —Adam Flynn1 By now, dystopia may have become a luxury genre. Indulging in miserable future scenarios is not something everyone…

February 4 2021, 12:55pm | Comments
Bookmark ‘Tsunami of data’ could consume one fifth of global electricity by 2025…
The communications industry could use 20% of all the world’s electricity by 2025, hampering attempts to meet climate change targets and straining grids as demand by power-hungry server farms storing digital…

October 9 2018, 9:50am | Comments
Bookmark How much electricity is consumed by Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Litecoin, and…
I recently created a thread that on Twitter regarding the lower-bound estimates for how much electricity the Bitcoin blockchain consumed using publicly available numbers. The first part of this post is…

August 28 2018, 5:33am | Comments
Bookmark Is Ornamenting Solar Panels a Crime? - e-flux Architecture - e-flux
We’re Solarpunk because the only other options are denial or despair. —Adam Flynn1 By now, dystopia may have become a luxury genre. Indulging in miserable future scenarios is not something everyone…

April 10 2018, 12:38pm | Comments
Bookmark The Thermodynamic Theory of Ecology | Quanta Magazine
The Western Ghats in India rise like a wall between the Arabian Sea and the heart of the subcontinent to the east.

January 12 2018, 3:11am | Comments
Bookmark The Ridiculous Amount of Energy It Takes to Run Bitcoin - IEEE…
Bitcoin “miners” are electromagnetic alchemists, effectively turning megawatt-hours of electricity into the world’s fastest-growing currency.

November 26 2017, 7:30am | Comments
Bookmark 50 Years Ago Big Oil Bragged About Being Able To Melt Glaciers,…
Newly-released oil industry documents push back the start date of the world’s most successful disinformation campaign to the 1960s, if not earlier.

September 11 2017, 7:32am | Comments
Bookmark Controversial New Theory Suggests Life Wasn't a Fluke of Biology—It Was Physics…
The biophysicist Jeremy England made waves in 2013 with a new theory that cast the origin of life as an inevitable outcome of thermodynamics.

August 6 2017, 11:35am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Singularities and Sisyphean Spikes in literature and film Looking for literary/filmic examples of singularities, infinite pits, wormholes, whirlpools, bore holes, large spacetimes in tiny crevices. But also... Peaks too high to navigate, infinite ascents, Sisyphean feats of endurance, energy spikes set to break reality, very tall towers.

July 2 2017, 7:32am | Comments
Bookmark A Grand New Theory of Life's Evolution on Earth - The Atlantic
A series of energy revolutions—some natural, some technological—built upon one another to give us our rich, diverse biosphere.

May 20 2017, 6:35am | Comments
Bookmark Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index (Beta) - Digiconomist
Key Network Statistics *The assumptions underlying this estimate can be found here. Did you know? Ever since its inception Bitcoin’s trust-minimizing consensus has been enabled by its proof-of-work algorithm.

January 13 2017, 5:50am | Comments
Bookmark Nuclear Power Is Too Safe to Save the World From Climate Change…
Later this year, a nuclear power reactor will open in the US for the first time in two decades. But this reactor, called Watts Bar Unit 2—one of two near Spring…

April 17 2016, 6:02am | Comments
Bookmark Fossil Fuels Just Lost the Race Against Renewables - Bloomberg Business
The race for renewable energy has passed a turning point. The world is now adding more capacity for renewable power each year than coal, natural gas, and oil combined. And there's…

March 6 2016, 7:20am | Comments
Bookmark Paul Beatriz Preciado: Feminism beyond humanism, ecology beyond the environment | Autonomies
During one of his “infinite interviews”, Hans-Ulrich Obrist asked me to pose an urgent question to which artists and political movements must answer together.

February 19 2016, 2:57pm | Comments
Bookmark Growing Marijuana Uses 1 Percent of America’s Total Electricity, Industry Says |…
The problem of massive energy consumption by legal marijuana-growing operations is not getting any better—and it’s poised to get worse. And this already high number is poised to rise along with…

February 19 2016, 4:15am | Comments
Bookmark Bitcoins are a waste of energy - literally - The Drum (Australian…
Vast amounts of electricity go into feeding the Bitcoin delusion. Fortunately, it's unlikely that the digital currency will survive long enough to generate the environmental disaster that would arise if it…

December 27 2015, 6:51am | Comments
Bookmark Oil unlikely to ever be fully exploited because of climate concerns – BP…
The world’s oil resources are unlikely to ever be fully exploited, BP has admitted, due to international concern about climate change.

October 18 2015, 8:10am | Comments
Bookmark Futurist Ray Kurzweil isn’t worried about climate change | Need to Know…
Author, inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil famously and accurately predicted that a computer would beat a man at chess by 1998, that technologies that help spread information would accelerate the collapse…

October 8 2014, 1:54am | Comments
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April 30 2014, 12:58pm | Comments
Bookmark Evolution, Entropy, and Information
There are really two points. The first is a bit of technical background you can ignore if you like, and skip to the next paragraph. It’s the idea of “relative entropy”…

June 15 2012, 5:19am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Sloppy MicroChips: Can a fair comparison be made between biological and silicon entropy? Was reading about microchips that are designed to allow a few mistakes (known as 'Sloppy Chips'), and pondering equivalent kinds of 'coding' errors and entropy in biological systems. Can a fair comparison be made between the two? OK, to setup my question I…

June 5 2012, 10:05am | Comments
Bookmark The Arrow of Time (Debategraph)
The debate about the nature of time and its passage is a long and venerable one. The issues addressed by pre-Socratic philosophers such as Heraclitus and Parmenides about whether time 'flows'…

May 11 2012, 8:12am | Comments
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The Fundamental Physical Limits of Computation

June 1 2011, 11:44am | Comments
Bookmark The last stand of the Amazon
The best way to think about the remaining tribes in 2011 is to imagine a series of concentric circles, all of which interact on each boundary. There are the tribes that…

April 4 2011, 12:07pm | Comments
Bookmark Why the Basis of the Universe Isn’t Matter or Energy—It’s Data
Information flows everywhere, through wires and genes, through brain cells and quarks. But while it may appear ubiquitous to us now, until recently we had no awareness of what information was…

March 6 2011, 3:43am | Comments
Bookmark Frameworks for citizen responsiveness, enhanced: Toward a read/write urbanism
Provided that, we can treat the things we encounter in urban environments as system resources, rather than a mute collection of disarticulated buildings, vehicles, sewers and sidewalks. One prospect that seems…

April 27 2010, 6:35am | Comments
Wikipedia Oklo Oklo is a region near the town of Franceville, in the Haut-Ogooué province of the Central African state of Gabon. The discovery in September 1972 of several natural nuclear fission reactors in the uranium mines situated there has fired the imagination and aroused…

September 28 2009, 9:07am | Comments

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