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That was a lot of existential dread in such a short nugget.

Good times! Thanks again to you both! :-)

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Our specialty, apparently. ;)

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The pathology of former Google CEO Eric Schmidt comes through loud and clear; he is a reflection of the billionaire class at the helm of our runaway freight train!

I have a High Voltage Switching and Protection Certification from the London Electricity Board, I have some experience in this field. In the mid 1890's, I was the electrical engineer at Lennox Wood Computer center in the South of England, we pumped chilled water through Mainframe Computers to cool them down.

The fact that more modern data centres still require water cooling, indicates huge amounts of energy is being used and as usual is wasted as heat as a byproduct.

That old entropy devil and the uncomfortable laws of thermodynamics really are a pain in the butt!

I've added this analysis to my blog post titled "Science Snippets: Much of North America Faces Electricity Shortages this Year- 2024" which contains a previous analysis on this aspect of our predicament from Guy as well!

Clearly the super organism that is Industrial Civilisation is hell bent on pedal to the metal and full speed ahead!

Pretending that the Seneca Cliff doesn't exist is mandatory in this set of living arrangements!

The Cognitive dissonance is astounding!

https://kevinhester.live/2024/03/09/science-snippets-much-of-north-america-faces-electricity-shortages-this-year-2024/

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The billionaires run the show, as always. Thank you for your informed comment, Kevin. I must say, you look younger than a man who was an electrical engineer in the mid-1890s.

Also, thank you for sharing my work. You're right about entropy and the Laws of Thermodynamics. We need to determine how to conquer them!

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