• partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    AI-powered searches consume roughly ten times more energy than standard Google searches.

    When you’re Googling something add “-ai” (without the quotes to the end of your search string. It will skip processing the search with and AI and answer and presumably drop your Google search CO2 footprint by 90%.

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    2 days ago

    It can’t go with out commenting that the current US Administration is actively and irrationally hostile to any alternative forms of energy.

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      12 hours ago

      That regime is also against anything and anyone that threatens the oligarchy and inhibits profit-making.

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        I mean, Trump has a weird vendetta against wind power after some wind turbines were built near one of his golf courses.

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          He paid to stop the construction of a wind farm in Germany because that’s what the oil execs want even if it means destroying ecosystem

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            I think you are confusing something here. He paid a German company to stop a wind power construction project in the US.

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          weird vendetta against wind power

          It’s not weird, it’s extremely simple. He’s a child. He doesn’t like the look of them, so he hates them. And since he hates them, they’re bad. Even if they’re in the middle of nowhere.

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    This is 100% green energy because they bought enough green certificates on the market.

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    Very good, considering how much Google’s revenue has risen over that time.

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        13 hours ago

        Envinronment.

        Google is now able to generate 43% more value to the society (revenue) per unit of pollution. Their profits rose by 93% (market cap by 66%) adjusted to pollution.

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            12 hours ago

            You can’t just call things fake.

            Money is the best thing to measure value.

            Notice how I’m not even including emissions reduced by Google claiming parts of the market (so, for example, if Bing had 20% of search engine market share and generated 2X pollution, while Google had 80% and generated 8X pollution, Google taking over the whole market wouldn’t change total pollution output, because total pollution stays at 10X).