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How do you decarbonize IT workloads in a trivial way?
by quickthrower2 3y ago
How do you decarbonize IT workloads in a trivial way?
- aziaziazi 3y agoBy reducing the workload, eg. using lower resolution video
- jeffbee 3y agoAnything that is already purely electric is trivial to switch to non-fossil energy.
- quickthrower2 3y agoIf it is trivial, why are we still using coal and gas to power electricity grids?
- schrodinger 3y agoMoney?
- jwells89 3y agoAlso, in some cases various types of obstructionism. I've heard several stories (including some from my home state) of wind farms being fought against tooth and nail, even in cases where the negative impact is somewhere between tiny and minimal (e.g. the only town nearby would see them as 1" tall on the horizon). Some of this is no doubt thanks to campaigns from incumbent energy providers and other underhanded methods like weaponization of environmental regulations.
- two_handfuls 3y agoParent used the mathematician’s definition of ”trivial”, which is: “we know how to do it.” This is different from the layman use,for us “trivial” means “Super easy.”
- quickthrower2 3y agoI thought it meant “super easy” for mathematics too? Interesting.
- defrost 3y agoNever trust a mathematician wrt trivial | left as an exercise to the reader : "One day Shizuo Kakutani was teaching a class at Yale. He wrote down a lemma on the blackboard and announced that the proof was obvious. One student timidly raised his hand and said that it wasn't obvious to him. Could Kakutani explain? After several moments' thought, Kakutani realized that he could not himself prove the lemma. He apologized, and said that he would report back at their next class meeting. After class, Kakutani, went straight to his office. He labored for quite a time and found that he could not prove the pesky lemma. He skipped lunch and went to the library to track down the lemma. After much work, he finally found the original paper. The lemma was stated clearly and succinctly. For the proof, the author had written, 'Exercise for the reader.' The author of this 1941 paper was Kakutani." Mathematical Apocrypha Steven Krantz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shizuo_Kakutani https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shizuo_Kakutani
- himinlomax 3y agoBecause Greenpeace and the likes defamed nuclear power. To wit, German coal plants currently emit 10 times as much CO2 as the whole French airline industry.