That would only be a problem if there were still rule of law in the US. If that were the case, they wouldn’t be able to run all those gas turbines either.

European data is an option too.

I guess the US will have to become more dependent on European earth and climate observation systems then, because a lot of industries actually need those. (unless they prefer other foreign services of course)

Like I said, it counts almost double. Aviation makes up 4% of the impact when 90% of the global population isn’t even flying in a year. Traveler numbers are tiny compared to other modes yet it causes a 4% chunk.

Aviation is outright terrible in its impact compared to rail, on corridors where both are an option. Of course, for many travels, only aviation is in option. That is a reality but doesn’t make aviation any better.

The reason why aviation emissions are so bad is not so much the amount but where exactly they are emitted.

The equivalent of dinosaurs are mammals, not humans. But the biomass of humans isn’t really the issue, resource consumption and pollution are. Even if we transition to 100% renewable energies, which we have to sooner or later, unless civilization collapses before fossile fuel runs out, we rely on countless finite resources. The more people the more of a problem that becomes.

Agriculture is part of this issue, a lot of it is currently running on depleting soil snd much of the yield multiplier is coming from oil (fertilizer and fuel). Just because in recent time agriculture performance could keep up with population explosion, doesn’t mean this will be the case forever, especiall as car centric utban planning eats up fertile land at an excelerating rate and usable land for agriculture is already pretty much maxed out.

Providing everyone with a good live just gets harder with every billion more in the planet as resources are finite and exponential progress can’g go on forever.

Turns out moving magnetic fields against each other is damn efficient and hard to beat.

I am late to the party. What’s wrong with boiling water? That said, my favourite power plants don’t do it: photovoltaic, wind power and hydropower (though wet).

If you can’t check all your sources and/or can’t trust your co-authors, maybe science just isn’t for you?

Human created data poisining is low volume and easily spotted. AI slop is high volume and actions like this one make it easier to spot and discard.

This is not more than the wild claims of some gas turbine lobbyist and focus mainly on the UK. The EU is currently trying hard to reduce the reliance on gas, that lobbyist won’t change that as it is a pretty fundamental strategic requirement.

I was not talking about erhical companies just companies that can’t just go bankrupt without a trace. Google and Co do actually care about billions of fines. Why do you think US tech fascists are so hysterical about EU regulations. If they didn’t care they would just ignore them

You’d be surprised. When fines are commonly in the billions, they start to care as a matter of fact. At least proper companies do. Criminals with scam businesses are a different story of course.

Having to calculate your final price of your meal, is a hidden price. A transparent price is when you pay concrete prices for concrete services, without any x% surcharge on everything. Maybe you like it that way, but exactly that should be illegal in the EU because it serves no purpose other than making prices appear smaller than they are by having a smaller number there that is not the full price.

In the US maybe, I doubt this is legal in the EU. It is most definitely illegal with sensitive data like health data.

Because hiding prices in obscure surcharges is deliberately misleading customers. Given that they are surely having a special menu for the occasion they can easily print the true prices instead of fake prices. I would avoid shady places doing that. If they fool customers when it comes to paying who knows how the fool them in the kitchen.

I’d hope flat x % surcharges are a violation of price transperancy rules in the EU but it could be that it is possible like in the UK. But it shouldn’t.

They have taken over technological lead with EVs a good while ago. Regarding batteries themselves they always have been in the lead anyway.

Yet many people do pay the 145 EUR for Win 11 home in other PC products, not reading the fine print in the few alternative cases where one actually get the option to not get Windows pre-installed. Yes, I know that large producers can get much cheaper licenses, but that doesn’t mean that they don’t charge you big for it anyway, either openly or just hidden in the final price.

Who knows. Their target group is usually perfectly capable of installing an OS themselves. But Framework is also a popular hardware brand among Linux users, because their hardware is already built with Linux in mind. If you look at their forum, it does not feel like everyone is just installing Windows on their hardware.