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    From john larkin@3:633/10 to All on Thursday, April 02, 2026 19:19:31

    I asked Google AI "how many joules does a google AI query use" and it
    says the mean is 864. That's not worth a lot.




    John Larkin
    Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
    Lunatic Fringe Electronics

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  • From john larkin@3:633/10 to All on Saturday, April 04, 2026 04:11:51
    On Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:19:31 -0700, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>
    wrote:


    I asked Google AI "how many joules does a google AI query use" and it
    says the mean is 864. That's not worth a lot.




    John Larkin
    Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
    Lunatic Fringe Electronics


    Google

    what is the time of day pattern of google ai queries

    There are two daily peaks, between 8 AM and 10 AM and 6 PM to 9 PM.

    The late peak looks bad for using wind or solar power. AI is going to
    make a lot of CO2.


    John Larkin
    Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
    Lunatic Fringe Electronics

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  • From Lasse Langwadt@3:633/10 to All on Sunday, April 05, 2026 02:23:24
    On 4/4/26 13:11, john larkin wrote:
    On Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:19:31 -0700, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>
    wrote:


    I asked Google AI "how many joules does a google AI query use" and it
    says the mean is 864. That's not worth a lot.




    John Larkin
    Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
    Lunatic Fringe Electronics


    Google

    what is the time of day pattern of google ai queries

    There are two daily peaks, between 8 AM and 10 AM and 6 PM to 9 PM.

    The late peak looks bad for using wind or solar power. AI is going to
    make a lot of CO2.


    have you tried some of the good(paid) AI? I was skeptical, but I must
    admit some of if feels like nearly magic


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  • From john larkin@3:633/10 to All on Saturday, April 04, 2026 18:00:05
    On Sun, 5 Apr 2026 02:23:24 +0200, Lasse Langwadt <llc@fonz.dk> wrote:

    On 4/4/26 13:11, john larkin wrote:
    On Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:19:31 -0700, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>
    wrote:


    I asked Google AI "how many joules does a google AI query use" and it
    says the mean is 864. That's not worth a lot.




    John Larkin
    Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
    Lunatic Fringe Electronics


    Google

    what is the time of day pattern of google ai queries

    There are two daily peaks, between 8 AM and 10 AM and 6 PM to 9 PM.

    The late peak looks bad for using wind or solar power. AI is going to
    make a lot of CO2.


    have you tried some of the good(paid) AI? I was skeptical, but I must
    admit some of if feels like nearly magic

    No, but some of my guys have used it for coding.

    I'm designing a series of little PoE timing boxes and need fake
    pictures for preliminary data sheets and manuals. One of my people
    took pics of some other boxes and asked some AI thing to change the
    text and model numbers, and it just did. Looks fine.


    John Larkin
    Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
    Lunatic Fringe Electronics

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  • From Cursitor Doom@3:633/10 to All on Monday, April 06, 2026 17:46:51
    On Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:19:31 -0700, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>
    wrote:


    I asked Google AI "how many joules does a google AI query use" and it
    says the mean is 864. That's not worth a lot.

    I asked Grok what the stupidest question he'd been asked so far was.
    'He' provided a shortlist and couldn't pick one in particular. But *I*
    felt there was one outstanding candidate, so did: "Why can't I charge
    my phone by rubbing it on my cat?"

    Now we know why so many folks have bought into the climate change
    hoax: they're brainless.





    John Larkin
    Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
    Lunatic Fringe Electronics

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  • From Bill Sloman@3:633/10 to All on Tuesday, April 07, 2026 03:35:55
    On 7/04/2026 2:46 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:
    On Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:19:31 -0700, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>
    wrote:


    I asked Google AI "how many joules does a google AI query use" and it
    says the mean is 864. That's not worth a lot.

    I asked Grok what the stupidest question he'd been asked so far was.
    'He' provided a shortlist and couldn't pick one in particular. But *I*
    felt there was one outstanding candidate, so did: "Why can't I charge
    my phone by rubbing it on my cat?"

    Now we know why so many folks have bought into the climate change
    hoax: they're brainless.

    Cursitor Doom isn't brainless, but he doesn't use what brains he's got particularly well.

    He regards a bunch of shoddy and not all that accurate numbers published
    in 1890s as proof positive that the atmospheric CO2 levels haven't gone
    up since then, while Charles Keeling work in the late 1950's was the
    first that took enough samples to show that you had to put your sampling station somewhere pretty remote to get stable and consistent values,
    which were around 313ppm when he got started, and are over 400ppm now.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeling_Curve

    There is hoax data on the subject, paid for by the fossil carbon
    extraction industry, and gullible twits like Cursitor Doom and John
    Larkin do appear to take it seriously. You can get paid for spreading it
    - Rupert Murdoch appears to make quite a lot of money out of featuring
    it ins his newspapers.

    --
    Bill Sloman, Sydney

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  • From john larkin@3:633/10 to All on Monday, April 06, 2026 10:50:20
    On Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:46:51 +0100, Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com>
    wrote:

    On Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:19:31 -0700, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>
    wrote:


    I asked Google AI "how many joules does a google AI query use" and it
    says the mean is 864. That's not worth a lot.

    I asked Grok what the stupidest question he'd been asked so far was.
    'He' provided a shortlist and couldn't pick one in particular. But *I*
    felt there was one outstanding candidate, so did: "Why can't I charge
    my phone by rubbing it on my cat?"


    Grok's response:

    Have you tried?

    Now we know why so many folks have bought into the climate change
    hoax: they're brainless.





    John Larkin
    Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
    Lunatic Fringe Electronics

    John Larkin
    Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
    Lunatic Fringe Electronics

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