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Over the past year, I’ve written a few articles about the energy (and carbon) footprint of individual use of artificial intelligence, mostly in the form of asking LLMs (or chatbots) questions.

The problem is that until recently, the latest figures from...


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A very short post today.

Last week I was in London for the Unwin Award Ceremony. It was held at the Royal Institution. Special as it’s where they’d host the infamous Science Christmas Lectures I watched as a kid on television.

I was one of six authors ...


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Over the last few years, I’ve seen numerous graphics and social media posts similar to the ones below. They show what share of different countries’ railway lines are electrified. Most of the rest run on diesel.

The focus of the post is always one of a few things. First, surprise that India has almost fully electrified its rail networks, putting most of the rest of the w...


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