Week 41
"Red October" - nice (due to increased labor activity).
Good to see some action on this front..
DOJ: "Former Boeing 737 MAX Chief Technical Pilot Indicted for Fraud"
France nuke move makes sense for them.. H2 can be the clean, optimal carrier, but it has to be created somehow. If clean renewable generation isn't there 100%, and country wants to be self-sufficient, nuke can fill the gap. Not crazy abt it but.. it is what it is
This CCS partnership started much earlier right? And not much progress? I remember seeing a status paper from 2009.
"EU-funded CO2-capture in China to miss 2020 deadline"
Now we also know (from the aircraft carrier Ford stress test) 18 tons of TNT equivalent explosion on the sea registered as 3.9 mag EQ. Could be useful..
New monthly equake counts, since 2013. There's been a spike recently, undeniable.
Its biggest problem is deflation
"Why is Bitcoin not suitable as a currency?"
Tech CEO'ing isn't that hard.. Just try bunch of stuff constantly, take research, money, ppl from government.
This guy is actually stupider than Peter Thiel his Paypal pal
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"One of the world’s largest trucking companies, XPO Logistics, agreed Tuesday to pay $30 million to settle class-action lawsuits filed by hundreds of drivers who said they earned less than minimum wage delivering goods for major retailers from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach"
"[AU] Universities united on strengthening free speech policies.. Policies protecting free speech at universities are more robust across all Australian institutions than two years ago, says the federal government. The post Universities united on strengthening free speech policies"
Electrification falls short at nearly everything.. it cannot form the basis of a green infrastructure.
"Green fuel based solutions can help for cases where electrification falls short, such as steel making, aviation etc"
Most in the developed world discount the heating issue; for many it is 'just there'; it works, out sight out of mind. But this is the #1 pollutant in all consumption for the world. Heating is deadly serious.
Guy actually asked a good question.. Life does hover near to absolute zero.. That's why heating is key for us, we are constantly hovering above AZ and trying not to fall under it.
"Why is life so close to absolute zero?" (Doctor Asks Physics Questions)
'merica has some delusions of its own..
Still this is better than claiming you came from Atlantis, or Central Asia, you have sex with goats while you followed a gray skunk, through the cracks in the mountain, around that lake, down the hill -both ways- to reach your present lands.. a land without people, for people without a land (how fitting).. And when u die u go to Valhalla.. back to your Nature-God or whatever 🤨
"The American Revolution created the Columbus most of us over the age of 30 learned in grade school. Prior to the late 18th century, he was a historical footnote with no connection to the 13 colonies. An Italian, he sailed under a Spanish flag and landed in no part of the modern-day mainland United States. Yet when the need to develop a national history with no discernible connection to Britain arose during the Revolution, early Americans seized upon him"
Trimming the electrification stuff wld be great.. Wrong technology in an era when deep structural problems need solutions
"Big pressure on Biden, Dems to trim $3.5T federal overhaul"
Not making fun of the man, he calls himself "The Shat"
I recognize that flame color anywhere #LH2 #BlueOrigin #TheShat
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"Shell and the consortium partners—including McDermott's CB&I Storage Solutions, NASA's Kennedy Space Center, GenH2 and the University of Houston—have been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office to demonstrate that a large-scale LH2 tank, with a capacity ranging from 20,000 to 100,000 cubic meters, is both feasible and cost competitive at import and export terminals"
Some fall in natgas prices.. still very high
"Macron pushes nuclear, hydrogen power in €30 billion plan"
"New South Wales Reveals its 80 Billion Dollar Green Hydrogen Strategy. Strategy designed to speed up its transition to zero emissions by giving $3 billion in incentives & attracting 80 billion dollars in new infrastructure"
Not surprising at all; UK cons are eating into low-income votes, so taking votes from Labor, but then losing to Lib Dems for the same reason. This is really odd though.. The party of Thatcher? I dont care personally for it, but this is a good chunk of ideology that needs representation, right?
"[6/2021] Lib Dems seize Chesham and Amersham seat off Tories"
"[5/2021] Conservatives hail historic Labour defeat in Hartlepool"
That would be a license to kill.. U dont want to be on those boats
"[UK] Border Force staff who enact .. plans to 'push back' migrant boats in the Channel could be given immunity from conviction"
"@StartsWithABang
Two years ago, the obituaries in my local newspaper were filled with 80+ year olds, battling cancer and heart disease. Now they're all 40-70 year olds, mostly men, mostly healthy, with undisclosed causes. (Likely COVID-19 and unvaccinated.) Enough preventable deaths. Please"
Of course, let's not forget about Hunger Games, came out in 2012, the year of peak inequality.
It's all there in the stats.. It's crazy.
The Mandarin: "US prepares for potential $1.3b sale of navy helicopters to Australia"
This tech can form the basis of a portable, plug-and-play heating infrastructure wout fossil, or electricity. CHP can handle the rest.
Lavo: "BBQ functions in a unique manner by relying on heat exchange technology, a chemical reaction between hydrogen and oxygen to create heat and disperse it to the hotplate. This solution delivers a barbeque that operates without flames, only producing heat and steam as a by-product, the portable BBQ hotplate can reach 200 degrees Celsius"
UNSW and Lavo already created a prototype for that H2 BBQ machine. Excellent.
Here's an idea: don't unclog it.
"The commercial pipeline that each year brings $1 trillion worth of toys, clothing, electronics and furniture from Asia to the United States is clogged and no one knows how to unclog it"
Spotify... FYI, Focker is an early investor there.
The gateway drug into the corrupt liberterian circles funded by Thiel money seem to be anti-Wokeism (SJW is a problem but no need for these muckers to fight it), and an excessive distaste for any governance, electoral politics, etc.. The shtick attracts ppl from left or right -- noone bright fortunately
Green groups naturally object. The plant in q is one of the biggest polluters in UK.
Here's a way to look at it; Carbon was taken off the air, why put it back in?
"[P]lans are being pioneered by [UK] Drax Group, which claims that burning wood pellets is carbon-neutral because trees absorb as much carbon dioxide when they grow as they emit when they are burnt. Capturing the carbon emissions from biomass power plants would then effectively create 'negative carbon emissions', according to Drax"
Tech CEOs.. These guys mostly throw stuff into a bowl and see what comes out.. some are better at it than others, like Jobs. Genius inventors? By even as late as 2006 Apple was trying to stuff a phone into an iPod. Imagine that, trying to dial people with that wheel..
"Steve Jobs was a genius. How dare you? He invented the iPhone"
So that governments can fuel the research that companies like theirs feast off regularly.
"Why should companies pay their taxes, like Apple?"
Down with the suit
"@TeleFashion
NecktieSuit sales are in decline.
Even before Covid, major companies were relaxing their policy on wearing suits to the office.
Now, the pandemic has driven another nail into the coffin"
"Researchers Develop Leaf-Like Catalytic Structures for Solar-Driven Production of Green Hydrogen & Ammonia - IIT Mandi, IIT Delhi"
"Toyota Mirai Sets Guinness World Records Title With 845 Mile Zero Emission Journey - Driven on a single, 5 minute fill during a roundtrip tour of Southern California"
2011/12 was the peak, absolute bloddy worst, worst of times.. This is the year of Occuppy Wall Street BTW (the Zuccotti Park again), shortly before the Pope started jumping up and down on inequality, and Pikketty book was published on the same theme.
Latest inequality GINI stat, major fall. Biden's term looking good on that score so far,
Da Damn Phreak Noize Phunk - Blueberry View #music
Good. I am glad.. such a weirdo. He kept asking the EU to ditch the Green Deal during the pandemic.. bcz of the pandemic.. ??
WSJ: "Czech Prime Minister Loses His Bid for Re-Election"
Another book incorrectly analyzing why countries make war, lacking numerical analysis - The Tragedy of Great Power Politics by Mearsheimer. Just as "balance of power" analysis' are insufficient, so is "maximizing power for safety". Every decision a leader makes is influenced by nominal selectorate, the real selectorate, and the winning coalition. The size of each of these groups determine the war/piece decision.
BBC is promoting String Theory? Their docu/science dept really went down the hill didn't it?
"It" as in a big chunk of astrophyics.
It sounds like if you disprove Kirchoff's Law, and truly make that fact visible to everyone, it will all come undone. This is he weak spot. Smash.
"@FortescueFuture & Queensland Plan One of World’s Largest Hydrogen Equipment Manufacturing Hubs"
It's wild
"@Rainmaker1973
YouTube user Dakd Jung created this ferrofluid audio-visualizer where the ferrofluid dances to the audio"
Less than a billion ppl live in Southern Hemisphere, most are in the North. That's why their (our) winter matters more, and why we can suspect heating for this type of seasonal increase.
Platinum used in fuel-cells are highly recyclable (same report) plus less of it is needed to make FCs work. Also you are committing to a simple base chemistry as an energy carrier, further inno around which is easier; eg there are solid-oxide FCs for stationary use.
World Bank Report: "[S]ome recycling processes cause losses in the material itself and it may not be technically or economically feasible to recover material suitable for recycling from some applications. This is especially the case now with Li-ion batteries helping explain the low recycling rates for lithium [less than 1%]"
Excerpts from The Rare Metals War by Pitron.
An image for the history books #WHO
"The State Department .. emphasized that the United States supports 'stability' in the region. You can translate this diplomatic language to say American forces will stay in eastern Syria to protect the autonomous [Kurdish] administration"
"@keribla
Remember the Texas prisoner who sued for a cotton blanket because he was allergic to the prison's blankets and officials refused to give him a cotton one instead? I got records showing the state spent [more than] $20,000 fighting his case instead of giving him a blanket"
Great docu on "green policy gone wrong". The full video cld be found on streaming. Highly recommended.
"More than 130 countries agreed to set a minimum tax rate of 15 percent as governments look to end a race to the bottom on corporate taxation"
How much debt is enough? It varies from country to country. In the absence of clear economic thresholds, politics will decide, one side can be for 60% the other 120%, ending up at 90%.
AP News: "Los Angeles leaders on Wednesday approved one of the nation’s strictest vaccine mandates — a sweeping measure that requires the shots for everyone entering bars, restaurants, nail salons, gyms or even a Lakers game"
Knocker-upper.. that used to be a job.
Hopefully 'teaching' follows the same fate.
"@Iearnhistory
Mary Smith, a 'knocker-upper' who earned sixpence a week shooting dried peas at windows to wake people for work (East London, 1930s)"
After Azeris took Karabakh region w TR help, Iranians suspected Israel, and US motives behind it. Then TR-Paki-Azeri joint military drill happened, then the Azeri tax on the Iranian trucks passing through Karabakh. That road was apparenly a major trade route for the Iranians, which the Azeris captured. Then Iran did exercise near AZ.
The situation can escalate to a proxy war, involving all the parties listed. Maybe the war would be preferred by the US planners, Iran gave US a hard time in Iraq, this wld be the payback, possibly leading to toppling of Iranian regime, and completing the bigger plan triggered by the invasion of Iraq. Dont care abt the f-ing mullahs but cld be problematic for my tigger. Homie can barely take care itself as it is.
"Iran’s military has launched a large military drill near the country’s border with Azerbaijan, in a show of force amid tensions with its neighbouring country partly linked to the latter’s close ties with Israel...
Iran is also concerned about the presence of fighters that Azerbaijan brought in during last year’s fighting over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Tensions between the two neighbours also rose after Azerbaijan imposed a 'road tax' on Iranian trucks moving through the Karabakh region, and detained two Iranian lorry drivers last month"
This is a good one by Manchin, can't deny
"Senators Manchin, Capito Announce $1,000,000 for #Hydrogen Research Project With @NETL_DOE"
"The CSIRO has discovered a sterilisation technique to suppress and eradicate populations of mosquitoes carrying dengue, yellow fever and Zika"
German FDP is also pro-green. But US's corrupt liberterians, including Focker himself are actively undermining the green agenda. R U in the đź‘Ś circle of trust, Focker?
FDP could be considered Germany's liberterians. Their positions are, no surprise, liberty-centric.. In US though, a lot of "free-market leaning purists", especially the ones visible in the media (thanks to that shady Thiel money) approach the issue differently. They must be there to help the single-party rule to persist by providing semi-intellectual cover for the culture war.
DW: "[DE has a] prohibition on doctors advertising pregnancy terminations .. [The] Free Democrats (FDP), which emphasizes individual civil liberties, put forward a resolution to repeal [it] entirely"