[–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

Your comment six hours ago had a claim that eastern Canada and New England were cooled by the amoc. I think that was the only thing the other poster was going against. Your recent comment now agrees that eastern Canada and New England would be colder without the amoc.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    I'm not in favor of megawatt data centers being used for mostly-bullshit AI in general, but as I said "if they're going to be built anyway", then they'll do less harm in the ocean than most other places.

    (That's assuming they can avoid problems due to saltwater corrosion.)

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    The effects of heat are all due to temperature, which is reduced by dilution.

    The alcohol molecules represent heat energy (Joules), and the ABV% represents temperature (Kelvin).

    Rivers are small enough to be negatively affected by data center waste heat, but oceans really aren't. They are being affected by the greenhouse effect though, because that is on a scale of petawatts, a million times the gigawatt scale of all global data centers together.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    About half of solar energy passes through the atmosphere, that factor of two isn't a good enough reason to use space-based solar panels for ground-based power grids.

    Even though the microwave receiver power station in SimCity 2000 looked so cool.

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