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  • I have a room that I want to add 1000w per hour of heat energy to

    I have the options of:

    • burning 1050W of gas per hour
    • running a 1000W theoretically lossless electric resistive heater per hour
    • running a 600W heat pump per hour

    Sure, the gas is combusting, the resistive is radiating, and the pump is moving the heat, but functionally they’re all trying to add that 1000W to the room continually for an hour. One of them is doing it a whole lot more efficiently.






  • Agreed, but 2 important things in my eyes.

    1 - renewable surpluses. As wind and solar keep ramping , hydrogen is a fantastic way to store that energy. Sure, there are efficiency losses but it’s transportable, able to be stored long term, and able to be used from small scale to grid scale applications.

    2 - total life cycle cost. There is an incredible amount of emissions embodied in evs. Haven’t seen a comprehensive analysis of a h2 vehicle but I would imagine a few hundred kilos of missing lithium is a good thing.




  • Not having any issues understanding you, and you keep refusing to acknowledge my points.

    Let’s say we create a general AI. Let’s say it’s gone full skynet, and we’ve given it a billion years in the universe to grow, learn, expand, etc.

    It will still end at the heat death of the universe right? It will still have to navigate within the forces of nature right?

    Doesn’t sound very God like. If the moment general AI dropped, gravity changed, the wave particle duality collapsed, etc, then I’d be a believer. But general AI is merely mirroring our own brains, but with the distinct advantage of having their brain be modular and scalable.