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Subject:    Re: [Haskell-cafe] How are we helping? Climate Strike / Earth Strike fri 20, fri 27
From:       Olaf Klinke <olf () aatal-apotheke ! de>
Date:       2019-09-22 19:14:56
Message-ID: EF76741D-CB3A-463A-A598-B00B2139B63A () aatal-apotheke ! de
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Haskeller working in the renewable energy sector here. 

Richard O'Keefe has good points, it is hard for the average programmer to have a real \
impact on climate change. Power consumption of computing equipment, though, is indeed \
a huge part of our electricity usage, so any progress will be very welcome in this \
sector. Ask your cloud computing vendor where the data center sources its power. \
<shameless advertising> It ought to look like this. [*] </shameless advertising> My \
suggestion is to help make renewables the cheapest power source in the market. It \
already is in some countries, and both China and India are investing massively in \
wind and solar power, not beause of morale, but beause it is cheap.  So go ahead and \
develop good SCADA software, help the grid operators balance their volatile loads, \
use deep learning and so-called AI to make maintenance cheaper and life cycles \
longer. And, but this has nothing to do with programming, keep pestering your \
first-world governments. Even if your country's share in the global emissions is \
minute, showing that even industrialized countries can reduce their emissions \
hopefully leads to others following. But this is only going to work if saving the \
environment is also cheaper compared to going on as usual. 

Olaf

[*] http://windcores.de/en/homepage/#!/who
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