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AppleInsider said:

Kuo's comment correlates with Mark Gurman's October 15 claim that new MacBook Pro and MacBook Air lines running on M3 are at important stages of mass production, but won't surface until early 2024.

"...are at the DVT stage. Standing for Design Validation Test, the stage is one that's close to the start of the models entering mass production."

toddzrx said:

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chasm said:

I like technology companies (and their suppliers) that work to make sure the planet is still livable for me and future generations.

Perhaps you are not aware of the enormous increase in mining we will need in order to live the renewable energy dream, and the environmental toll it will take, along with the problem of disposing of all these spent batteries, solar panels, and turbine blades in the future. 

It’s just not as cut and dried as they make it seem. 

No, you were misinformed. Fossil fuel waste is about 3 orders of magnitude more than renewables, at least. That's not 3x, that's 1000x more. Here is an example comparing coal ash waste to solar panel waste for the next 30 years.



The biggest issue is not shown. If it is was just solid waste, people would just deal with it. But burning fossil fuels releases CO2 into the atmosphere and that will cause the atmosphere to heat up. That heat will transfer to the oceans, lakes and land and heat them up. If we continue on a path of burning fossil fuels, it will threaten our current cultures and political states, and there is a possibility of threatening humanity itself.

Also not shown as that wind turbines and solar panels will increasing become recyclable. A lot of municipal waste is compostable and will degrade. The e-waste can be mined. Even the plastic has a chance of being composted and degraded properly, but coal ash? It's just going to sit there, lifeless, waiting on the toxicity and radioactive chemicals to leech and dilute into the surrounding environment. CO2 in the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels? The worst part. Those are thousand year problems without human treatment of some kind.

Batteries will be recycled. PV panels will be recycled. Carbon-fiber wind turbine blades are inert solid waste, but even with that, there will eventually be ways to recycle them.

Really, renewables is a gigantic improvement over fossil fuels, especially solar+PV. The waste is solid, most of the product can be recycled, and just not having the gaseous and solid waste from fossil fuels will be a big boon for public health and the vitality of society.

Great talking points and graphics; terrible science. Go back and learn some physics. An all electric and renewable future is a complete pipe dream. 

Honkers said:

Wow, they really didn't try to hide the roots, did they?  If it wasn't for the clearly Star Trek races I'd have just said that's Stellaris.  Seems like it probably could have just been a DLC.

22july2013 said:

Based on a quick web search, the Hittite empire appears to be the current territory of Turkey+Syria+Lebanon, while Canaan was the current territory of Israel+Lebanon. I hope there are no Hittites or Canaanites here who are offended by this approximation.