Spinnaker_
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A handful of student's expenditure covers a teacher's salary. Where does the expenditure for the other 25 kids in the class go?
Companies like terraform industries are doing something similar, but creating natural gas. With enough cheap solar, all hydrocarbons are pretty much on the table as well.
It'll be a decade or more until this is scaled up and not dependent on subsidies.
S-curves are hard to predict. Basically every time someone attempts to do it, they are way off. This [0] is a neat paper that addresses the question. We've blown past every single prediction.
[0] https://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/files/energy_transition_paper-INET...
When the public (and even policy makers who know should know better) see these numbers, they fairly assume that the sources are being measured by the same criteria.
2nd paragraph starts with: "We used Claude and Allium"
And later on: "With that obligation written down, Claude traced every path that runs after gyros_busy is set to true"