David Rolnick on how machine learning can help tackle climate change
The Robot Brains Podcast
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Is Machine Learning a Good Way to Go?
It's not as simple as saying that we have the technology to produce energy in a low carbon way. There are also very, one of the reasons why machine learning can be useful in this kind of situation is because it can help boost adoption or mitigate bottlenecks for new technologies. If you don't have a sense of exactly how much power is going to be generated by a solar panel or a wind turbine, these are variable sources of electricity. How do you know that you're going to match supply? What happens currently is electrical grids have fossil fuel turbines running as backup generators in case the sun goes behind a cloud or the wind stops blowing. That kind of situation will need to change
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