Sam Altman Says AI Using Too Much Energy, Will Require Breakthrough Energy Source
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"There's no way to get there without a breakthrough," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said, arguing that AI will soon need even more energy.
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Man, if only there was some sort of energy source that is not only green and renewable, but also outputs a ton of energy rather efficiently…
Oh man, I clicked that link really hoping you were going to link to a Dyson Sphere.
Elon will probably start taking preorders for Dyson spheres soon
"guys it'll totally be a ready by 2030 i promise"
The most efficient use of nuclear energy.
Nuclear isn’t renewable, it’s just green. We don’t have supernovas on earth making new uranium or thorium.
yes, but extremely toxic and radioactive waste tho.
thorium could be an option
fusion could be an option
or... ya know, we just continue expanding solar and wind energy until we have one of the above.
Yeah, no reason to ever think of alternate options. Just push one or two things until they magically work for everything somehow.
How about we build the reactors that can consume the extremely toxic waste so that we can get rid of it?
i think we would've done that.
We can. You can blame the "Greens" for it not happening.
Thorium fuel cycle is nearly the same as the uranium fuel cycle in regards to downsides. It just requires breeders, which you could use with uranium too. The only real benefit of thorium is that it's more plentiful, but the cost in nuclear power isn't in Uranium.
Toxic/Radioactive waste is obviously toxic and radioactive, but how bad that really is is kind of overblown especially if you compare it to the harm caused by popular existing methods like coal/etc. When adjusted based on energy produced, there's more than one study out there showing how Nuclear is significantly safer than coal by a very wide margin. Coal ash is also radioactive and coal plants have very limited requirements to prevent it from escaping to the environment.
Even 'Radioactive Waste' really only feels scary because all of the bad stuff is condensed into a much smaller package when you adjust based on energy produced again.
yes, absolutely. we germans should've shut down coal plants first. but there's no point in reactivating the nuclear power plants, especially because we are literally producing more power than we can use. 60% of which is renewables. some providers will give you energy for basically free, as long as you use it at night when everything shuts down.