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The AI Boom Runs on an Even More Dangerous Machine (Part 2)
Yves here. This post continues an analysis of how tech advances, and now AI, are deployed as vehicles…
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – The Lonely Voice of Ted Postol
For more than three decades, Theodore Postol, a physicist and professor emeritus at MIT, has been an unusually…
The Next Energy Crisis Could Be a Water Crisis
Yves here. Even though this article highlights how production of electricity nearly always depends on water (either for…
Iran War: Trump Threatens to Bomb Oman as Iran Attacks on Shipping Notch Up, WSJ Reports Planning for Bigger Escalation; Debate Over Covert Transits
[Today’s Iran war post launched before complete because I had to run out. It should be done by…
Iran War: Bloomberg Claims High Oil Flows Through Hormuz as Iran Threatens for Real Closure; Diesel Stress Rises as Canada Oil Exports to Fall Near Term; Investors Diss Bessent Treasury Meddling, Finger Inflation as the Issue
[Today’s Iran war post launched largely done but I had to go out. Please return at 8:30 AM…
Sunscreen for Lakes and Dams: Could a Thin Floating Layer of Nanomaterial Shield Water from Evaporation?
Yves here. Yours truly has Luddite, or more politely, risk-averse tendencies, and so the idea of geoengineering gives…
