▲ 18 r/EnergyAndPower+1 crossposts

Energy / Electricity Shortages?

This idea came to mind in regard to first world quality of life, and planetary care, which to me don't seem to align and would like to share.

I am personally all for AI and it's use to assist humanity grow to our fullest potential, yet this came with the cost of pushing the electrical grids to their maximum. No doubt, this will cause increased demand, and rising costs for the average citizen (ie, share holder profits), but also potentially raise revenue for individual retirement portfolios... but what about the planet? What about the average citizen day to day, check to check, and the well being of Earth?

With all the billions being thrown around so loosely, why is nobody invested in fixing ALL of the aforementioned and seemingly focusing solely on profit of trade insiders and government lobbies / groups?

The reason I say this is because WE HAVE the technology to improve the efficiency of the electrical power grid, reduce heat, reduce use, reduce waste heat, INCREASE availability to data centers and individuals, and also increase revenue generation for companies by increasing capitol flow through efficiency improvements through efficiency improvements.

This came to mind when talking to the owner of MISSION IGNITION SYSTEMS LTD., where the owner has a method of improving electrical transmission efficiency of the existing grid by 20-35%, with minimal replacing of existing infrastructure, and what is being done? Nothing.

Is it me, or is this the same, beaten to the ground, status quo thinking and mindset? Are insiders and shoulder rubbers focused purely on greed, unsustainable models contributing to the very issues they bring up daily such as greenhouse gases, carbon footprints, heat generation, and have offered no solutions other than continually asking the average individual to reduce our "carbon footprint", while we reduce consumption, and pay more, while trying to assist the planet, and data centers hog the available remainder electricity.

How is it the average individual are tasked with giving and shouldering the responsibility to correct and reduce consumption, pay more for electricity, yet, when small innovators, creators, and companies, who offer viable solutions and are ignored?

The idea of "increase market revenue", is accomplished through efficiency improvements by selling more with reduced loss, reducing waste heat, and improving sustainability. Shouldn't we be asking questions as to motives, insider shoulder rubbing, and the direction leadership is taking in these initiatives?

My random thoughts, would enjoy hearing yours, take them for what it's worth.

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u/markdrk — 1 day ago

Assistance updating blockchain with odd quirk last couple years.

I run a full node and store my currency offline... but the last two updates I have noticed that monrod does not automatically start. Anyone with tips? Pressing the "Start Daemons button" does nothing, and I need to goto the directory and double click the monrod.exe, or the monrod.bat file.

The only thing I have done before the issue started is locate the bitmonero folder to a separate drive. I have the blockchain location in the GUI set there, and the wallet in the C: drive.

I have also tried to manually point the file location using --data-dir K:\Monero\bitmonero and then manually hitting the "start daemon" from the settings page, but nothing ever happens when clicking the button. I MUST manually double click the file to get the daemon to run.

Other than that, it seems to work, and the GUI notices when I manually start, and things start working fine.

Anyone with some pro tips?

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u/markdrk — 23 days ago

Probably a useless idea... but...

I was getting tired of trying to run through some sub menus to get to control panel and some other random commands... added them to a "MOCK" Control Panel... which are just a bunch of shortcuts to the actual Control Panel, and some other useful commands which I use often, but are not found without digging through some of the tiled overlays for touch screen support in WIndows 10 and 11.

Figured it might be of use to others... here it is if you are interested in a download... if not... meh...

https://limewire.com/d/R3M7E#Mys8mluMWD

https://preview.redd.it/n41xxp7ota6h1.png?width=2560&format=png&auto=webp&s=e49fc226bd4cb23ee5f8094960512fbce1351495

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u/markdrk — 27 days ago