Jim

“Perovskite”
― Bill McKibben, Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization

“about 12 percent of homes in Arizona have solar panels on the roof, compared with about 16 percent in cold and northern Vermont.”
― Bill McKibben, Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization

“Sometime in the early part of the 2020s we crossed an invisible line where the cost of producing energy from the sun dropped below the cost of fossil fuel. That’s not yet common knowledge—we still think of photovoltaic panels and wind turbines as “alternative energy,” as if they were the Whole Foods of power, nice but pricey. In fact—and more so with each passing month—they are the Costco of energy, inexpensive and available in bulk.”
― Bill McKibben, Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization

“The problem that Yudkowsky sees is that”
― Adam Becker, More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity