How Can Expedited Permits Unlock 2000 Gigawatts of Clean Energy?

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The discussion centers on the Governator's participation in the Austria world initiative on climate change, where he emphasized the potential for developing "2000 Gigawatts of clean energy" if the permitting process is expedited. A notable point is the initial error in the video captions, which mistakenly referred to "Gigabytes" instead of "Gigawatts," highlighting the importance of accurate communication in environmental discussions. The conversation critiques major environmental organizations for focusing more on obstruction rather than promoting practical solutions for clean energy development. The mention of AI's role in correcting the caption underscores the evolving nature of technology in communication.
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Our Governator is attending the Austria world initiative on climate change. He wants us to know that we have "2000 Gigabytes of clean energy" waiting to be developed if only the permit process can be expedited. Lucky us. Listen to the video at about t = 2:20 and rejoice.

https://link.theplatform.com/s/rksN...ect&Tracking=true&Embedded=true&formats=MPEG4

It is interesting to note that that the captions underneath initially read "Gigabytes" as written by an AI auto-transcriber which was later corrected (presumably by a human) to "Gigawatts".
 
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Even if he had said it wrong (I don't think he did), his point is a good one. "Environmentalism", by major "environmentalist" organizations, has long been focused more on obstructing things they don't like (everything?) than supporting/promoting things they do, and being pragmatic about it.
 
kuruman said:
the captions underneath initially read "Gigabytes" as written by an AI auto-transcriber which was later corrected (presumably by a human) to "Gigawatts".
Its CPU is a neural net processor, a learning computer. It corrected itself.
 
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