I think AI could have a good tool for specific purposes and also a very lucrative business if only they had not thrown all that money at it.

The extreme investments forced them to roll it out prematurely over a much larger market that it could ever supply in a meaningful way.

They’re trying to force a camel through the eye of a needle.

I think fertilizer production is one of those things where we already have a solution that works on renewable energy, but it’s more expensive than the conventional methods.

It basically boils down (pun intended) to pressure cooking organic materials. This requires a lot of energy. In my opinion it would make sense to decentralize the production and make it smaller and closer to the also decentralized sources of renewable energy.

About 50% of the price of conventional fertilizer comes from the transportation anyway, so it would make a lot of sense to make it closer to where it’s needed. This is not economically feasible with the conventional production though.

I wonder how long it would take to rebuild society without oil, if we were to cut it from one day to the next.

I don’t think it would be long. Lots of solutions already exist but are infeasible only because oil is cheaper.

Now I gotta know the tactical reason for the 2 key to also have the 2 symbol?