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Asia Highway Route Map
Wondering what the Pangaea Continent's Highway Route Map looked like...
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Evolution of sanitation throughout human history
Evolution of sanitation throughout human history, from 'Early civilization and the middle ages Era', to the 'sanitary awakening and advent of water-borne sanitation era', through to the 'waste water reclamation and eutrophication control Era', and possible future 'Ecological sanitation Era'. Source: Redrawn from Gumbo (2005).
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Especially when dealing with shinny new technological tools/toys, today's systems designers tend to neglect doing a thorough and honest Cost-Benefit Analysis. The "Anything that can be done, must be done" philosophy is highly wasteful and destructive.
#Design #Economics #Technology #Infrastructure #Philosophy #Comment #Ideas
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All the metals the world mined in 2021 to scale. (Squint to find cobalt and lithium)
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China's provincial announced wind and solar installed targets add up to *874GW* in the current five-year plan period (2021-2025), according to industrial news portal in-en.com. China has delivered 103GW in 2021 and is expected to add 150GW in 2022. China is planning to add 200GW per year of solar and wind capacity until 2025. For an order of magnitude, this is the equivalent of adding almost the TOTAL US wind and solar capacity installed to date (260GW)... but EVERY YEAR until 2025 .
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Synthetic people living in artificial realities, powered by real energy
We are in the middle of a global energy crisis, people in the EU struggling to keep their houses warm, and the technology community is hyper-scaling their totally mindless use of electricity mostly for entertainment purposes. SNAFU. WTF. (Image generated with Stable Diffusion - prompt: "A woman warms herself up with her Nvidia Geforce RTX 3090")
#Technology #ML #Generative #Crypto #Infrastructure #Comment
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Seneca Lake BTC mining facility, New York - You realize you all completely lost your mind, right?
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The interior of the Orient Express Train, created in 1883.
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Global chip supply chain increasingly vulnerable to massive disruption, study finds (reuters)
About 75% of semiconductor manufacturing capacity, as well as many suppliers of key materials—such as silicon wafers, photoresist, and other specialty chemicals—are concentrated in China/East Asia, a region significantly exposed to high seismic activity and geopolitical tensions. All of the world’s most advanced semiconductor manufacturing capacity—in nodes below 10 nanometers—is currently located in South Korea (8%) and Taiwan (92%).
These are single points of failure that could be disrupted by natural disasters, infrastructure shutdowns, or international conflicts, and may cause severe interruptions in the supply of chips. If Taiwan were unable to make chips for a year, it would cost the global electronics industry almost half a trillion dollars in revenue, the report found: “The global electronics supply chain would come to a halt.”
Related: The Chip Wars of the 21st Century - by Steve Blank
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The arrogance of space: “18 bikes can be parked in the place of one car, 30 of them can move along in the space devoured by a single automobile..."
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Microbiome-Inspired Green Infrastructure (MIGI)
"Considerations for the microbiome (from the ground up) need to be central in urban ecosystem management. Microbes are foundational to healthy ecosystems yet are rarely considered (apart from human pathogens = <0.0001% of all microbes)"
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"Peer-to-Peer Networks Applied to X" - What is your X?
#P2P #CrowdIntelligence #Networks #OpenSource #Infrastructure #Regenerative
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"Amateurs Study Tactics. Professionals Study Logistics" - Omar Bradley
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In India there is a tribe who learned to make living bridges out of ficus tree roots. They take 15-30 years to make, last about 500 years and can stretch 15-250 feet over rivers and gorges.
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Without Net Neutrality, Is It Time To Build Your Own Internet? (Inverse)
Here's what you need to know about mesh networking.
