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Uncharted Territory, rapid warming greatly exceeds models' forecasts
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<blockquote data-quote="eclipsenow" data-source="post: 77657588" data-attributes="member: 274355"><p>Given solar is doubling every 4 years and wind not far behind it, and given battery prices are still on the way down, and given the world has 100 times the potential off-river pumped hydro it could need for days or weeks of storage - I'm optimistic that 2% of CO2 emissions will just be a rounding error - not even a speeding ticket - on our way through to a Bright Green SolarPunk future.</p><p></p><p>Your post inspired me to muck around with google Gemini - trying to draw a bright green Solar Punk city with both quaint old buildings and a huge data server tower at the end of the street. Gemini decided the data centre is just hanging there - a bit like a HG Wells Martian tripod but operating on force-field legs like the 1950's Sci-Fi movie. I then gave exactly the same text to bing ai and it turned it into a children's book style.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]346770[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]346769[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I think the third go got it almost right. It's like a little town in Austria landed somewhere on Coruscant! (Man - Jar Jar Binks had better not be hiding in that lily pond!) Anyway - the point of all this silliness? Thinking about climate change opens up the idea of post-carbon, post-car cities. Not that we're banning the car. But we should definitely look at domesticating it. American and many Australian cities have by and large forgotten what designing for community is like.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]346771[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>The best talk I've heard about the history of cities through to suburbia through to New Urbanism is by JHK. But LANGUAGE WARNING applies! It's also one of the funniest -and at the same time the angriest TED talks I think I've ever heard.</p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]Q1ZeXnmDZMQ[/MEDIA]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="eclipsenow, post: 77657588, member: 274355"] Given solar is doubling every 4 years and wind not far behind it, and given battery prices are still on the way down, and given the world has 100 times the potential off-river pumped hydro it could need for days or weeks of storage - I'm optimistic that 2% of CO2 emissions will just be a rounding error - not even a speeding ticket - on our way through to a Bright Green SolarPunk future. Your post inspired me to muck around with google Gemini - trying to draw a bright green Solar Punk city with both quaint old buildings and a huge data server tower at the end of the street. Gemini decided the data centre is just hanging there - a bit like a HG Wells Martian tripod but operating on force-field legs like the 1950's Sci-Fi movie. I then gave exactly the same text to bing ai and it turned it into a children's book style. [ATTACH=full]346770[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" align="left" width="426px" alt="Gemini_Generated_Image_lopr17lopr17lopr.jpeg"]346769[/ATTACH] I think the third go got it almost right. It's like a little town in Austria landed somewhere on Coruscant! (Man - Jar Jar Binks had better not be hiding in that lily pond!) Anyway - the point of all this silliness? Thinking about climate change opens up the idea of post-carbon, post-car cities. Not that we're banning the car. But we should definitely look at domesticating it. American and many Australian cities have by and large forgotten what designing for community is like. [ATTACH type="full" alt="440875371_10163451468412589_7869570346100172097_n.jpg"]346771[/ATTACH] The best talk I've heard about the history of cities through to suburbia through to New Urbanism is by JHK. But LANGUAGE WARNING applies! It's also one of the funniest -and at the same time the angriest TED talks I think I've ever heard. [MEDIA=youtube]Q1ZeXnmDZMQ[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]
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