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March, 2019:
"The fourth industrial revolution - it's a fusion of the physical, the digital & the biological world. It's changing not only what we are doing, it's changing who we are."
- Klaus Schwab, founder of World Economic Forum
#GreatReset
Schwab: "The speed is mind boggling. What I'm particularly concerned about, is how little the world is prepared."
Satya Nadella, #Mircosoft: "It's really the notion of digital technology pervasively impacting every walk of life & every [] industry, in all parts of the globe."
"A Cloud for Global Good"
"Tech for Good"
"Responsible AI"
Holistic linguistics. Marketing terms. Branding content.
Lies packaged as beautiful illusions:
https://t.co/D2MV9o9Aws
"Harnessing this revolution requires the involvements of all #stakeholders. From #public & private sectors, to #academia & civil society."
March 2019: 4 centers: US, India, Japan, China. Present: affiliate centers (currently 9), to form a global network, will roll out at scale.
Sept 24, 2019: Aker group & WEF announced establishment of the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution #Norway (#C4IRNorway). The Centre officially opened Jan. 1, 2020.
One area of focus will be #ocean #mining, #deepseamining.
Website:
"The fourth industrial revolution - it's a fusion of the physical, the digital & the biological world. It's changing not only what we are doing, it's changing who we are."
- Klaus Schwab, founder of World Economic Forum
#GreatReset
Schwab: "The speed is mind boggling. What I'm particularly concerned about, is how little the world is prepared."
Satya Nadella, #Mircosoft: "It's really the notion of digital technology pervasively impacting every walk of life & every [] industry, in all parts of the globe."
"A Cloud for Global Good"
"Tech for Good"
"Responsible AI"
Holistic linguistics. Marketing terms. Branding content.
Lies packaged as beautiful illusions:
https://t.co/D2MV9o9Aws
"Harnessing this revolution requires the involvements of all #stakeholders. From #public & private sectors, to #academia & civil society."
March 2019: 4 centers: US, India, Japan, China. Present: affiliate centers (currently 9), to form a global network, will roll out at scale.
Sept 24, 2019: Aker group & WEF announced establishment of the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution #Norway (#C4IRNorway). The Centre officially opened Jan. 1, 2020.
One area of focus will be #ocean #mining, #deepseamining.
Website:
Some people want us to believe there's not enough solar energy available to cover our worldwide energy needs
They often use EROI (Energy Return On Investment) as their metric
This is a rant against these EROI people misinforming the debate, based on a rebuttal of a 2020 paper
In essence the approach of the paper is straightforward:
1) Discard water and 96% of land because it's supposedly unavailable
2) Assume solar cells on just 1/5th of the remaining 4%
3) Complain that production of solar panels takes a lot of
About 1) (available land)
Discarding 96% of land seems pretty extreme:
30% of the world's land is barren
40% of the world's land is used for meat
I think we could find more than 4% if we tried
(but we don't have to: we need less than 1%)
https://t.co/rJZiNWcu7F
About 2) (using 1/5th of available land)
If cells are expensive and land is dirt cheap, covering 20% with solar cells is logical
But with cheap cells you maximize land use: 80% is easily possible
New paper headline:
"Global available solar energy over 10 times what we need"
About 3) (20% of energy is needed for production)
This is something @MLiebreich and I often complain about:
If you get more energy out than you put it, that's FINE
If you get five times more energy out, that's GREAT
EROI is a USELESS metric. Let's STOP using it. At all.
They often use EROI (Energy Return On Investment) as their metric
This is a rant against these EROI people misinforming the debate, based on a rebuttal of a 2020 paper
In essence the approach of the paper is straightforward:
1) Discard water and 96% of land because it's supposedly unavailable
2) Assume solar cells on just 1/5th of the remaining 4%
3) Complain that production of solar panels takes a lot of
About 1) (available land)
Discarding 96% of land seems pretty extreme:
30% of the world's land is barren
40% of the world's land is used for meat
I think we could find more than 4% if we tried
(but we don't have to: we need less than 1%)
https://t.co/rJZiNWcu7F
About 2) (using 1/5th of available land)
If cells are expensive and land is dirt cheap, covering 20% with solar cells is logical
But with cheap cells you maximize land use: 80% is easily possible
New paper headline:
"Global available solar energy over 10 times what we need"
About 3) (20% of energy is needed for production)
This is something @MLiebreich and I often complain about:
If you get more energy out than you put it, that's FINE
If you get five times more energy out, that's GREAT
EROI is a USELESS metric. Let's STOP using it. At all.
Priyamvada Gopal is part of a class of elite academics in the imperial core who teach the ruling class, and use woke radlib rhetoric to justify current Western imperial aggression.
She echoes propaganda against Syria, Iran, and China and is silent about Venezuela, Nicaragua, etc
Anti-anti-imperialist Cambridge University Professor @PriyamvadaGopal smears opponents of the Western neocolonial war on Syria as "Assadists"
Would she ever call liberal imperialist Obama a "blood-soaked cretin"? He has exponentially more blood on
The CIA spent over a billion dollars per year arming and training "rebels" who massacred and ethnically cleansed Syrian civilians, especially religious minorities.
But anti-anti-imperialist @PriyamvadaGopal insists these CIA-backed contras are
This was elite anti-anti-imperialist Cambridge University gatekeeper @PriyamvadaGopal's response right after colonial powers the US, UK, and France bombed Syria in April 2018 on bogus lies that have since been
Of course anti-anti-imperialist Cambridge Professor @PriyamvadaGopal's is also a supporter of the neoliberal imperialist European Union -- one of the key institutions of European necolonialism
She echoes propaganda against Syria, Iran, and China and is silent about Venezuela, Nicaragua, etc
Far too much of the 'left' is into a joke version of "anti-imperialism" which denies state atrocities in the global south.
— Priyamvada Gopal (@PriyamvadaGopal) January 14, 2021
Anti-anti-imperialist Cambridge University Professor @PriyamvadaGopal smears opponents of the Western neocolonial war on Syria as "Assadists"
Would she ever call liberal imperialist Obama a "blood-soaked cretin"? He has exponentially more blood on
Let us be in no doubt: there is nothing anti-imperialist about supporting a blood-soaked cretin like Assad. https://t.co/nuzJE6xUy5?
— Priyamvada Gopal (@PriyamvadaGopal) February 21, 2018
The CIA spent over a billion dollars per year arming and training "rebels" who massacred and ethnically cleansed Syrian civilians, especially religious minorities.
But anti-anti-imperialist @PriyamvadaGopal insists these CIA-backed contras are
Deeming non-ISIS Syrian resistance CIA stooges: embarrassing, insulting and patronising
— Priyamvada Gopal (@PriyamvadaGopal) November 29, 2015
This was elite anti-anti-imperialist Cambridge University gatekeeper @PriyamvadaGopal's response right after colonial powers the US, UK, and France bombed Syria in April 2018 on bogus lies that have since been
Am truly glad that a lot of people are 'holding Syria in their thoughts' since last night. Was there a reason they weren't being 'held in your thoughts' since 2011 when Assad crushed a popular uprising and kept bombing his own people with Russian assistance?
— Priyamvada Gopal (@PriyamvadaGopal) April 14, 2018
Of course anti-anti-imperialist Cambridge Professor @PriyamvadaGopal's is also a supporter of the neoliberal imperialist European Union -- one of the key institutions of European necolonialism
Worth your realising that over this, over Syria, over Brexit, you are swiftly losing enthusiastic support we once offered you
— Priyamvada Gopal (@PriyamvadaGopal) November 9, 2016