Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

On Tue, 7 Jan 2025, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 07/01/2025 10:43, D wrote:

Cooling kills 10x the people than warming. That is how cooling is worse than warming. As for lack of water, desalination exists and works well. Desalination can be combined excellently, with solar power to drive down cost.
 

It is suitable for intermittent sources, yes. Nuclear is even better.

This is the truth! But I am curious if solar would be a good option in say, southern spain to drive desalination, and in order to build the plants quicker, due to the politicians doing their best to still stop nuclear with the power of various regulations?

It is being used with great success on the swedish island of Gotland, to mitigate water shortage.

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I've been there. Strange place.
Always reminded me of Andreas Brevik...

You mean Anders Breivik, of socialist killing fame? How come?

As with many technological revolutions, it all happens as a result of some technology becoming so absurdly cheap you use it wherever you can.
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Cheap gasoline and diesel paved the way for massive transport expansion and globalisation. Plus  aircraft and the rise of suburban living.
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The transistor paved the way for digital everything, up to and including chips the size of a thumbnail that do more than an IBM mainframe could do in the 1950s. That you can fit in a washing machine.
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Massively cheap electricity and free heat from reactors will solve the energy crisis and open up huge new possibilities in energy intensive industrial processes.
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Bring it on.
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