It’s the most recent dataset “Energy Institute - Statistical Review of World Energy (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data. “Share of primary energy consumption that comes from oil – Using the substitution method” [dataset]. Energy Institute, “Statistical Review of World Energy” [original data].” If you look at the historical data you’ll notice that year over year changes are small. The reason coal is declining is because coal-intensive industrial processes have moved to other countries and because of the current transient natural gas glut due to oil fracking. This will not last.

The article talks about energy, while they mean just electricity generation. My graph was about primary energy demand.

I’ve seen a datapoint that an 8 hour business day with Claude is about 1 kUSD, so 20 business day month is some 20 kUSD. More with agentic AI.

If you’re burning 20 kUSD/month on Claude and way more if you’re using agentic AI it better be worth it.

Not quite https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-energy-source-sub?country=~USA

It’s not gigabit if you’ve got 110 Mbit/s upstream.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It's_Only_a_Paper_Moon

Where I live, you need artillery to shoot through a house wall. Plus, the part about gun safes, not storing loaded, and ammo stored and locked separately.

Tell me you’re american without telling me you’re american.

The radioactivity at ground zero can easily kill you within the first hours to days. Puking you guts out and ankle deep in bloody diarrhea, what a great way to go.

Yeah, for 4 and 8 bit quantization at least analog charge buckets or memristor-likes and analog multipliers would dramatically reduce substrate size, reduce power burn and speed up inference. Even better killer drones, here they come. Yay.

I hear you, but GPS trail snitching, constant OTA updates and car bricking because some cloud server somehere went down is a hard no. Apart from air conditioning I don’t need any extras. I bring my own navigation, and need no radio. I guess my next one will be a used car, unless I can find one without or disable onboard snitches.

As to 500 km, we drive 4000 km when on vacation, the charger network is thin enough so you have to plan your journey around it. Finding working gas stations within range is hard enough e.g. in rural France. Having to carry a dozen charging provider cards and manually picking the cheapest is for the birds. At work finding an underground parking with a charger is not easy. Lucky thing I telecommute and take public transport (which is barely working in Germany). There is perhaps some point having a small EV charged at home, but since I don’t commute it’s a needless luxury. Juice is some 0.3 EUR/kWh at home and looking at https://www.voltflow.net/blog/ev-charging-cost-germany-2026 EV is barely cheaper than a borderline efficient ICE.

bull

I’ve got a new Mitsubishi ASX 8 years (wow, time flies) ago without a cellular modem for some 17 kEUR, since we could’t get the 15 kEUR model. I could imagine an ICE car of that size goes for 20-25 kEUR these days.

An EV (not Chinese) without range anxiety (500+ km) and of about that size is probably 40-60 kEUR.

Since I cannot get anything new but a cloud-tied snitch on wheels I guess I need to buy used, or disable the cellular antenna.

Validate sustained 10:1 energy excess and tritium breeding excess, at an economically acceptable price point first.

You know, that 20000-30000 premium over ICEs does buy a lot of gas over lifetime. And I’d rather not rent computers on wheels which depend on random clouds.

I’ve used Copilot for ingesting documentation and iterative planning for daily KT under time pressure (operational continuity needed to avoid risk to human life) and constantly changing fact base. The result is definitely way beyond my own capacity, under above circumstances. So definitely worth it, even if the token burn was in the thousands (I don’t think it was, and it’s possible to reduce it by factor 2-4x without quality loss). YMMV.

No, this one can’t be bailed out. The scale is so big, it’s going to bring down the global financial system. And then burn through to the economics layer.

Too late, drones with target matching are already daily killing civilians. Nobody is giving a shit about such bycatch.

I have used Copilot to generate specialist job titles and their detailed job description for staffing, extracted directly from documentation and half a dozen knowledge transfer session, under severe time pressure. It did a much better job than I could possibly do.