Global Warming
The real questions about stopping global warming have less to do with science and more to do with procreation.
The earth now has two nations with over 1 billion in population, China and India, showing no signs of conscious effort to slow population growth. Those two nations consume almost HALF of the world's energy and almost 40% of the world's water. Their carbon emissions dwarf all other nations combined.
If the earth cannot slow its human growth rate, and keeps extending lifespan, we will eat up any cushion of time that may have existed, for humans to safely exit earth into new homes in space. And the worst offenders are not even trying.
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We deliver accurate, actionable intelligence and analysis to support public policy formation, and government and private sector response on some of this world's toughest challenges.
Choosing to be part of the solution, not part of the problem, it's a conscious choice. It may not seem fair for a few to carry the burden of the many - for the US and western nations to prioritize Global Warming, birth control, and responsible energy and water use.
But there is no alternative. These are areas where sanctions and trade can also contribute to world cooperation involving everyone. Here is how we can help your agency or business entity or practice optimize its resource conservation and responsibility:
Removing China & Russia from Supply Chains
China is one of the leading electronics suppliers to the world, but use of Chinese electronics not only carries consumer privacy and national security risk; it creates huges jumps in energy consumption, due to China's use of inferior materials the conduct higher heat levels and create more off-gassing, due to lack of the same US environmental controls.
We provide specialized supply chain audit, intelligence, and sanctions intelligence targeting China, India, and Russia in US military and scientific supply chains. And we have since 2022 led the nation in private discovery and identification of Russian entities and sanctions violators impacting US vendors, consumers, and government agencies.
We also were integral to the Bloomberg expose of Super Micron and Chinese 'spy chips' built into phones and computers shipped to the US; we supported the US DOJ indictments of Huawei with forensic cyber and supply chain research; and we were a year ahead of the DOD grounding of F-35 fighter jets, in flagging to the US Department of Defense, findings of inferior-grade Chinese electronics that jeopardized safety and inflamed energy usage.
The Real Price of Chat GPT and Evolving AI, AR
The increasing use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is leading to a significant rise in energy consumption, primarily due to the massive computational power required to train and run complex AI models, often resulting in a substantial increase in electricity demand for data centers where AI operations are housed.
- The amount of electricity required by AI data center racks is estimated to require seven times more power than traditional data center racks.
- Goldman Sachs estimates there will be a 160% increase in demand for power propelled by AI applications by the end of this decade.
- At 2.9 watt-hours per ChatGPT request, AI queries are estimated to require ten times the electricity of traditional Google queries.
Potential solutions to mitigate AI's energy footprint include:
1. Optimized Data Model Design - Use of more efficient AI architectures and training methods that reduce computational demands. Currently, chat models routinely pull from massive amounts of unstructured data. And whilst Claude and Chat GPT and other AI generally stick within the national boundaries of the user, they still pull a fair amount of useless data and all of that takes energy.
2 . Data Center Efficiency - Use of energy conserving practices within data centers, like cooling optimization and load balancing; and moving to on-demand rather than always-on usage models, as Amazon and Google Clouds pioneered roughly a decade ago, will dramatically reduce grid demands.
3. Public Policy - Constraints to limit access to Chat GPT and other open source or inexpensive AI. It's got to happen - we can't have it all. We cannot reduce global warming whilst exponentially expanding our use of technology energy. That will require hard choices and global cooperation, beginning immediatly.
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How We Can Help
We support alternative AI and Cyber architecture development and model formation to optmize unstructured data lake / data search worldwide. From DODAF, the US Military Architectural modeling framework, to speciaized financial trading and law enforcment AI architectures, and including Alphabet and Harvard Hospital pandemic modeling for AI portals to speed treatment and cure testing - designs led by our CEO; we bring clients a broad foundation in strategic use of AI and AR devleopment within responsible parameters.
We also were a pioneering leader in the open source modeling of deep web search, in partnership with Spanish Intelligence, and US Navy and CIA colleagues, for law enforcement and counter-terrorism use.
Canada has the Highest per Capital Water Consumption Rates Worldwide
While India uses the most freshwater every year, followed by China; Canada has the highest annual water withdrawal per capita, 959.96 m3 of water. 75.92% of that is used by industries, 13.43% by municipalities, 10.65% for agriculture. Canada possesses a vast amount of renewable freshwater from lakes, rivers, and snowpack, making it one of the world's "water-rich" nations. But this has also led Canadians to take water for granted, and waste it.
However, global warming risks changing Canada's abundance to draught: hotter temperatures, insufficient snow accumulation, faster snowmelt, glacier loss, and reduced precipitation over time due to global water usage will plunge our northern neighbor into scarcity, if the government cannot change its water consumption patterns.
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Most of Canada's industrial water use is to cool thermal power plants. We are able to advise power companies or industrial clients on innovation strategies to reduce water and energy consumption. And how to partner with US resources - like a former US:Canadian partnership we helped pilot and lead, with the US Department of Energy at Oakridge Labs - to transfer US government power and water technology into commercial sectors, for dramatic conservation impact.
Cruelty-Free Diets Also Help the Planet
The United Nations lists humanity's global obsession with eating meat as the third largest contributor to climate change. That is significant: our DIETS - that our bodies were clearly never designed for - are killing our planet, and making 1 in 4 Americans officially "Obese" in 2025. If humans were designed to eat meat, we would be like every other carnivore and have fangs and enjoy the taste of raw meat.
The World Animal Foundation reported in March 2024 that roughly 22% of the world's population - 1.5 billion humans - are vegetarian. Almost 40% of India is vegetarian, followed by:
Israel - 13%
Taiwan - 12%
Italy - 10%
Mainland Europe & the UK - 9%
Brazil - 8%
Australia - 5%
US, other - 1%
Eating more vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, nuts, and seeds, and less meat and dairy, can significantly lower methane gas production and other environmental impacts of the meat industry. Producing plant-based foods generally results in fewer greenhouse gas emissions and requires less energy, land, and water.
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Our CEO is not only a vegan-vegetarian, she has supported and helped initiate UK and US efforts to educate consumers and parents in the health and environmental benefits of avoiding meat and other animal products.
Global Wildfires are Tied to Water Consumption
Climate change, as we all know, causes warmer temperatures and dryer natural environments. Extreme heat waves are five times more likely today than they were 150 years ago. But more importantly, over consumption of available water source for power usage - not just for sustaining life or raising crops, as nature likely intended it to be used for - is dramatically lowering global surface water and aquifer levels and interrupting the rain:evaporation cycles that kept moisture and humidity at safe levels.
California MUST stop exporting its precious municple and spring water for consumer use; and US consumers must make a conscious shift, supported by US industry, to processes for water purification that are reliable and resilient, that recycle water rather than depleting it.
Creating Public-Private Partnerships to 'Buy' Cooperation from Consumers
Helping power entities and other commerical users design and implement energy-conscious operations and computing facilities
The US ranks just behind China and India in energy and water use. The high demands of US military and scientific technology, and high expectations of a sophisticated consumer base, elevate US energy usage much higher than other per capita rates for Western nations. (Except for Canada) The US remains a very car- and travel-dependent country, where consumers tend to have multiple communications and media devices, multiple computing devices, and multiple cars per household: all energy hogs, compared to minimalist electronics usage, in many other nations.
Industry Incentives and Public Policy
Pepco, an electrical energy provider in Washington DC and Maryland, has launched savings programs that reward business and residential customers who choose to cut their Air Conditioning off for a few minutes a week or day, depending on demand, with lower rates. Home customers can save $30-$40 a month during summer high season, by voluntarily limiting the temperature they set their AC to. This is just one example of informed public policy and provider incentives helping to change habits and attitudes - and dramatically reduce power or water usage.
Our portfolio includes
CalWEA (California Wind Energy), Duke Energy, and the US Department of Energy (DOE) - Battelle Labs.
Constraining space, satellite, and military use of methane fuels and other pollutants
Methane, although not toxic, is a gas commonly found in nature - emitted from livestock, swamps, the sea, and almost anything that decomposes - and is used to power everything from power plants to rockets. Methane and methanol, a derivative, are used heavily in missile, jet, hypersonic, and rocket fuels. Our portoflio includes design and leadership for sustainable jet fuel and biofuel alternatives for the US Department of Energy and the US Navy.
