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Will artificial intelligence accelerate or delay the race between nuclear energy technology budgeting and net-zero emissions?

This study explores the impact of nuclear energy technology budgeting and artificial intelligence on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in 20 OECD economies. Unlike previous research that relied on conventional panel techniques, we utilize the Method of Moment Quantile Regression panel data estimation techniques. This approach provides quantile-specific insights while addressing issues of endogeneity and heteroscedasticity, resulting in a more nuanced and robust understanding of complex relationships. A novel aspect of this research work is introducing the moderating effect of artificial intelligence on the relationship between nuclear energy and CO2 emissions. The results found that the direct impact of artificial intelligence on CO2 emissions is significant, while the effect of nuclear energy technology budgeting is not. Additionally, artificial intelligence moderates the relationship between nuclear energy technology budgeting and CO2 emissions, aiding nuclear energy in reducing carbon emissions across OECD countries. Our findings indicate that transitioning to a low-carbon future is achievable by replacing fossil fuel energy sources with increased integration of artificial intelligence to promote nuclear energy technologies. This study demonstrates that energy innovations can serve as effective climate-resilience strategies to mitigate the impacts of climate change.

econ.GN

Articulating the role of nuclear energy in the circular economy of China: A machine learning approach

Nuclear energy is increasingly recognized as a critical component of circular economy frameworks due to its capacity to provide a stable, low-carbon energy source. Reducing dependency on fossil fuels promotes sustainable practices and aligns with circular economy goals such as resource efficiency, pollution reduction, and waste minimization. The existing literature has primarily focused on the contribution of nuclear energy to decarbonization, whereas the potential of nuclear energy in facilitating a circular economy has been largely neglected. In light of this context, this paper explores the impact of nuclear energy on the circular economy, thereby offering strong econometric evidence. The study used the advanced econometric tool Dynamic Auto-Regressive Distributive Lag (DYNARDL) method for empirical estimation to obtain long- and short-run estimates. The regression estimates, derived from a sample of China spanning 1990 to 2017, support the hypothesis that nuclear energy negatively impacts the circular economy in both the long- and short-run. Advanced econometric tests confirm the stability of the models, homoscedasticity, and the absence of serial correlation, ensuring the reliability of our findings. The study emphasizes the importance of policy strategies, including expanding nuclear energy adoption, advancing environmental technologies, and the effective use of nuclear energy by integrating comprehensive datasets and methodologies; this paper provides a foundation for scalable and equitable solutions as China moves toward a greener and more sustainable future.

econ.GN

Want Answers? A Reddit Inspired Study on How to Pose Questions

Questions form an integral part of our everyday communication, both offline and online. Getting responses to our questions from others is fundamental to satisfying our information need and in extending our knowledge boundaries. A question may be represented using various factors such as social, syntactic, semantic, etc. We hypothesize that these factors contribute with varying degrees towards getting responses from others for a given question. We perform a thorough empirical study to measure effects of these factors using a novel question and answer dataset from the website Reddit.com. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first such analysis of its kind on this important topic. We also use a sparse nonnegative matrix factorization technique to automatically induce interpretable semantic factors from the question dataset. We also document various patterns on response prediction we observe during our analysis in the data. For instance, we found that preference-probing questions are scantily answered. Our method is robust to capture such latent response factors. We hope to make our code and datasets publicly available upon publication of the paper.

cs.CL