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Dirty power
Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced at the COP26 summit in Glasgow that India will install 500 GW of non-fossil-fuel energy generation capacity by 2030. In his analysis of Modi’s speech for The Wire Science, Kabir Agarwal wrote that the phrasing … Continue reading
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Christopher Nolan’s explosion
In May, Total Film reported that the production team of Tenet, led by director Christopher Nolan, found that using a second-hand Boeing 747 was better than recreating a scene involving an exploding plane with miniatures and CGI. I’m not clear … Continue reading
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Tagged AMD, AMD FirePro, carbon credits, carbon emissions, CGI, Christopher Nolan, climate change, Furmark benchmark, fx, GPU, graphics processing units, Interstellar, negative externalities, Nvidia, Nvidia Quadro, One Health, special effects, Tenet
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