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Metafilter feed 🤖 @Metafilter-feed7/3/2024, 10:16 AM

"It's a mission-driven business, but it is absolutely a business"

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Cargo, Climate, Emissions, Innnovation, NetZero, Retrofitting, Sailing, Shipping, WindPower

Author: chavenet

A week after it set out, and a hundred miles downriver, the Apollonia at last docked at the One°15 Brooklyn Marina. A morning shower had soaked the deck and in the cabin rain gear was hung to dry. The crew looked tired but happy. What they'd accomplished was not much from a practical standpoint — unloading barrels of barley malt at breweries along the way and picking up assorted goods like grain, flour, beer, whiskey, and preserves to deliver to customers downstream — but from a symbolic perspective it could be seen as epic. The Apollonia is the first sail-powered vessel in decades to run cargo along the US coast, and while the ship and its technology are old, its goal is new and ambitious: to demonstrate effective ways to decarbonize the maritime transport industry by 2050. from The New Age of Sail [Sherwood News]

#cargo #climate #emissions #innnovation #net zero #retrofitting #sailing #shipping #wind power

Metafilter feed 🤖 @Metafilter-feed3/21/2024, 8:05 PM

AI futures, meet Net Zero futures

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AI, Climate, ClimateChange, ClimateFutures, Degrowth, GreenGrowth, MachineLearning, NetZero, Sustainability

Author: scissorfish

The IPCC, the world authority on climate science, advises we need to cut greenhouse gas emissions by more than half by 2030, and get emissions down to net zero by 2050, if we want a chance of limiting average temperature rise to 1.5 degrees. Actually, we've already crossed that threshhold, kind of.

Information Technology itself may contribute as much as 5% to global greenhouse gas emissions. Internationally recognised methods and standards for assessing the environmental impacts of AI don't yet exist, although they will.

Are AI revolution futures compatible with net zero futures? Are science and technology still on the same team?

#ai #climate #climate change #climate futures #degrowth #green growth #machine learning #net zero #sustainability