The Keeling Curve and lately the isotopic composition is telling you everything you need to know. The only “good” news is that we’re at the extraction limit.

I wonder what the EROEI over projected lifetime is. Hopefully, comparable to generic hydro.

Great writeup.

That point was passed decades ago.

How much is a kWh in your parts? Noise, ambient temperature? You can buy very decent refurbished Lenovo tiny PCs with some 16 GB RAM and 6 cores and half a TB SSD which will run Proxmox and are low power and noise. You can go multi-node Proxmox later if you want to expand. k8s and related are also an option.

DIY few kWp solar payback is about 2 years.

In Germany consumer power is something like 0.4 EUR/kWh, so economics of running power-hungry hardware might be different. Solar PV might change the equation once again.

The alarmists are right. There is nothing we can do: we’re past peak extraction, and the peak is asymmetrical, so decline is fast. So a double shit sandwich: we cook and we starve, without any petro benefits. As a dingleberry on top you can add on wars.

To get that feeling back, have a go at https://richardcrim.substack.com/ That will add more nuance, and then some.

We are at over +1.5 if you ignore sliding decade average and multiple factors make +3 by 2050 reasonably likely. We got there because we erred on the side of climate sensitivity due to people like you, who told us disregard the “alarmists” and tnat we have plenty of time to act. Well, it looks like the “alarmists” were right.