Peter Bloem

https://sigmoid.social/@pbloem

Assistant prof. at the Learning and Reasoning group, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

website: https://peterbloem.nl
github: https://github.com/pbloem
group: https://lr.cs.vu.nl
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2026-02-26 08:36:55 UTC

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David MacKay discusses this in Sustainable Energy without the Hot Air, and it's pretty disappointing (for fundamental rather than technical reasons). The UK can get at most 1.6% of its energy budget from geothermal.
If you divide the amount of heat the earth dissipates by the number of people, the resulting number is simply pretty low.
It works for places like Iceland, because a large area's worth of heat comes out at one point where the population is low.
https://www.withouthotair.com/c16/page_96.shtml

2024-09-20 13:10:49 UTC

I agree that #AI has an environmental problem, but Mastodon's default position of "anything to do with AI is inherently evil" does not feel particularly productive.
I find a lot of AI plenty useful, even LLMs. If I'm going to take the environmental costs seriously as a user, I need to talk about it much more precisely, and carefully than what's happening now.
Saying "AI is an environmental crime of gigantic proportions." is so over-the-top, there's no meaningful conversation left to have.