Week 43
The Guardian: "Cop26: Humanity 5-1 down at half-time on climate crisis, says Johnson"
They likely went to Mexico
"Texas abortion numbers halved in month after ban took effect"
Hah. Goodbye FAANG, welcome MAANG, or MAMAA (MS, Alphabet, Meta, Apple and Amazon)
#madmoney
Saw a new hashtag #DeleteMeta
#Software #Nerd Hey I like this new build system meson
and ninja. It was only a matter of time make
was replaced with a đ based version, the snake excels at playing w files anyway.
NYT: "Hellishly Hot Tiny [AU] Town Offered âFreeâ Land... The town in Australiaâs outback, where the temperature can hit 113 degrees Fahrenheit, drew hundreds of global inquiries when it put out the call in a bid to expand its population"
Forget OPEC, one day there will be OGFEC, Organization of Green Fuel Exporting Countries where Saudi Arabia and Australia will bicker on fuel production quotas as to not collapse the price, bcz there'll be so much of the stuff to go around... If we make it that far.
That patch of 250 km by 250 km can generate 25 Petawatt-hours in a year. More than enough for the entire world. From vid.
Politico: "Ron Wyden said he hoped Democrats could still find a way to address rising prescription drug costs but acknowledged the power the pharmaceutical industry has shown so far to prevent even modest changes"
France-UK fishing row.. I will laugh my ass off if militaries get involved in this debacle
"Qatar and Korea will expand cooperation in the field of hydrogen with @qatar_energy and #H2Korea signing a new framework agreement to support development of the hydrogen value chain"
Al Dork got his ass kicked in Florida (2000) thanks to Nader because he wasn't left enough.. Hillary lost due to adverse effects of long-Clintonism (kinda like long-Covid, but worse). Dems should have practiced more partisanship, less triangulation.
Dems cant propose new legislation for fear of SCOTUS reversal? Well, got noone to blame but yourself.. In the past 40 years you were at least one President short, so now SC is stuffed with right-leaning judges.
The Intercept: "By 2013, the Obama administration had concluded that it could not charge WikiLeaks or Julian Assange with crimes related to publishing classified documents â documents that showed, among other things, evidence of U.S. war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan â without criminalizing investigative journalism itself. [.. DOJ] called this the âNew York Times problem,â because if WikiLeaks and Assange were criminals for publishing classified information, the New York Times would be just as guilty.
Five years later, in 2018, the Trump administration indicted Assange anyway. But, rather than charging him with espionage for publishing classified information, they charged him with conspiracy to commit a computer crime..
The alleged hacking not only didnât happen, according to expert testimony, but it also couldnât have happened"
"The UK hydrogen industry could see demands of 10TWh in 2030 and up to 37TWh by 2050"
"@HypersonixAU has placed an order with .. @Australia3d to manufacture a new 3D printed, hydrogen-powered scramjet engine to support clean emissions in the aerospace industry"
AFP: "EU court fines Poland 1 million euros daily in judiciary row"
"Fox Newsâs Neil Cavuto reveals his own viewers abused him in hate mail after he urged them to get vaccinated"
Many in the US right-wing like Hungary - and look at them..
Bloomberg: "Grappling with surging coronavirus cases and a stalled vaccination program, Hungary allowed companies to force staff to get a Covid-19 vaccine as a condition of employment"
Just the soccer fans?
Al Monitor: "Israelis fed up with racist, anti-Muslim behavior of soccer fans"
The map shared before says sunlight radiation at maximum is ~300 W/m2. The number we used previously ~1000 W/m2 is widely known, sun at its zenith, an ideal situation. For daily calculations you factor in sun availability, less direct sunlight, etc, you can probably arrive at the numbers seen in that map. For more accurate, region specific calculations that need a simple, daily number, I'd go with the numbers there.
"Pakistan will gain its first green #hydrogen production facility"
"[N]etwork of up to 25 refuelling sites is set to be developed across the UK by 2030 as a result of a new agreement inked.. between @bp and @DaimlerTruck" #H2
Sea surface has lots of potential.. That "hotspot" area on the Pacific, is at roughly latitude -10.0 longitude -120.0, map. Floating panels? Ship green ammonia, H2 from there to South America, or to Japan.
If carbon pricing can be made to work, how about "material usage pricing"? According to the rarity of materials used, price goes up or down... Does it make sense to "go green" if the country of Chile, or Bolivia gets destroyed [1, 2] in the process?
There are only few places where intense solar exposure (dark red) happens to fall on land. Africa (Chad, Sudan), Southwest China, Saudi Arabia, and Oz.
Average solar radiation map 1990 -2004, shows which regions get the most sunlight. Took it from McFarlane presentation
Prototech AS, a Norwegian company has solid NH3 know-how. Also Israeli GenCell. Notable researchers on the subject, Bill David at Oxford, D. MacFarlane at Oz Monash.
Rudolf Diesel, before he made diesel engines, made ammonia engines. It almost became the shit
Same vid talks about an ammonia fuel-cell prototype
Commit to a simple, efficient base chemistry, options multiply.. We transport green ammonia, on the other end "crack it", get H2. Or combust it for turbines. Japan has the technology.
CPUs still have some life left in them..
"ETH Zurich Team Unveils RISC-V-Based Snitch Processor, Boasts of Sixfold Performance Gains"
No I dont judge Baldwin for using guns in movies.. There is no 'gotcha' here. Reagan, a conservative, used guns on the big screen, and he was for gun control. Films are escapism.
"[An] armorer with a decadeâs experience in film.. said he has anticipated an accident, such as the one on the set of 'Rust,' for six months. The demand for content, stemming from a rise in streaming platforms, has productions working under tight and rushed schedules"
TDB: "It has been a summer of scrutiny for the ultra-richâand now the billionaires are fighting amongst themselves. The culprit: a so-called 'Billionaire Income Tax', that Democrats in Congress are reportedly mulling to help finance Bidenâs agenda. The proposal would only target several hundred of the wealthiest Americans by taxing the rising values of certain assets, like stocks, even before they are sold...
'I know a lot of people that⌠have accumulated massive, massive wealth, and then they take loans against that to live on. And that's tax free. And I think itâs bullshit' [.. one] said"
"Plans for the UKâs first hydrogen distribution pipeline have taken a significant step forward"
"UK-based ATOME Energy is set to develop a brand new large-scale green hydrogen and ammonia production project in Paraguay with a capacity of 50MW by the end of 2024"
Not just plant based stuff.. people will burn whatever, wood, cheap coal.. They'll burn bleeping cow dung. And that shit (!) has lota methane my friend
People in Northern Syria use olive oil extract to make a flammable product for heating (by "eco-friendly" they mean that carbon neutralness again, but it is still harmful). I bet stuff like this contributes a lot to the CO2 uptick during the winters. Lay in the pipe for these places for renewable gas, or send canisters, make'm cheap, done.
Report shows 90% carbon capture rates both for coal and natgas.
US DOE: "Steam reforming of natural gas for hydrogen production costs vary from 1.43/kg to 2.27/kg [dollars] with CO2 capture and storage (CCS).. Numerous studies report the cost of hydrogen from gasification [from coal] to vary between 1.16/kg and 1.63/ kg for coal and between 1.31/kg and 2.06/kg for coal/biomass/waste plastic with CO2 capture and storage"
In 2019, EU's gross electricity production was 2904 TWh. In output capacity terms,
"%d GW" % (2904000 / 365.0 / 24)
Out[1]: '331 GW'
The planned H2 capacity compares well with the number above.. The plan will likely encourage others to jump in, it wld be great to equal that 331 GW.
Green Tech Media: "The EU wants 40 gigawatts of electrolyzers installed within its borders by 2030"
"@amazingmap
Amazingly comprehensive map of every country in the world that uses the MMDDYYYY format"
Someone told the crew "get me some code!" they got it, but to make it look dense, "hi-tech" they removed the indentation. It's all for the looks right? Holywood...
#upgrade
But the indentation is all wrong.. 𤣠Py wont work without the right indentation.
#upgrade
And that's Python đ
#upgrade
Saw guy type sudo shutdown -h now on screen
#upgrade #unix #geek
Recommender chose Upgrade 2018. Fine mov.. Obviously, technically, beyond the realm of possibility given the direction of curr tech but hey -- good cinema
Oz Net Zero Plan. Heavy on clean fuel usage.
"@LucasKunceMO
They call this a 'free market' â I call it a cartel"
Too many extra dickwads in NATO, EU is partly going its own way?
"Five European countries propose EU rapid reaction force"
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AP: "The phrase 'Letâs go Brandon' refers to a meme that emerged earlier this month from a video of an interview with NASCAR driver Brandon Brown after he won an Xfinity Series race at Alabamaâs Talladega Superspeedway.
A reporter said on air that fans behind him were chanting 'Letâs go Brandon,' when video footage indicates the actual chant was 'F--- Joe Biden.' Some people have suggested the reporter purposefully misinterpreted the crowdâs chant and the quote has become a catchphrase among critics of Biden"
"@GoodPoliticGuy
Capitalists will literally expand child labor before offering people living wages
'Wisconsin's Senate approves a bill allowing 14 year olds to work as late as 11 pm., and supporters say it could help plug the labor shortage'"
"@JamesVGrimaldi
Who killed President Bidenâs plan to provide two years of free community college tuition? Lobbying against it were four-year colleges"
Bust the Filibuster
NYT: "[A]fter a Republican filibuster on Wednesday blocked the Democratsâ latest proposal to combat the voting-rights restrictions proliferating in red states, [Dems] now squarely faces the choice that many activists consider an even more existential decision: whether it will reform the filibuster to pass that legislation"
AP: "Bulgaria, EU's least vaccinated nation, faces deadly surge"
Simple data analysis, again, logistic regression. They actually focused on biology (imagine that) to gauge individual pieces that cld be important.
"This New Nasal Swab Test Can Predict Whether COVID Patients Will Be Hospitalized"
Hah
"@iamlubos
Programming in Fortran today. God help me"
Dune wasn't cuck. In fact they even reversed some stuff from elsewhere; Oscar Isaac was cucked on Disney Star Wars, he was uncucked. Movie had freaking Thanos. Momoa, obviously. There was that action chick a lot of men like, with T. Cruise stamp of approval. The movie was pretty balanced actually, it felt like a pre-derangement flick ..
Bull Moose Jackson - I Know Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well #music
Transportation of goods and people account for 25% of world energy consumption. Only 5% of WEC can be handled by li-on batteries. 25% is greater than 5% - simple math. This sorry excuse of a tech can't even handle all of transportation.
"[2019] The US militaryâs logistical train is slowly snaking toward China... the center of military policy is increasingly gravitating toward U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, according to U.S. government officials. [T]he challenge is how to quicken the pace because the logistical tail of warfare takes time to put in place and because the Pacific theater is one of the most difficult environments for moving supplies"
Janes Defense: "UK sets sights on interim strategic sealift capability"
"@INEOS as it plans to Invest $2.3 bln on Green Hydrogen Production. First plants will be built in Norway, Germany and Belgium"
"Saudi Arabian Oil Keynote address .. Planning one of worldâs biggest green hydrogen plants with partners"
"Shell and Partners are Promoting the Integrated Hydrogen Economy in the Transport Sector. @Shell & partners presented 1st medium-duty fuel cell truck at ITS World Congress in Hamburg"
NYT: "In 1984 [an actor] accidentally shot himself in the head and died while playing Russian roulette on set; the force of a blank roundâs explosion fractured his skull.And there was an accident on a movie set in 1993 in which the actor Brandon Lee, Bruce Leeâs son, was shot and killed during a scene when a bullet that was lodged in the barrel of a gun was discharged along with a blank cartridge"
Because battery charging is slow, they need to apply too much power, to recharge faster. That will overburden the grid, also degrade the battery. Finally ka-boom!
National Geographic: "At high charging speeds lithium batteries can overheat, causing them to degrade over time.. [N]ot only can that drastically reduce the batteryâs capacity... dendrites can grow across the electrolyte, touch the cathode and create a short circuit, causing the battery to catch fire or explode"
These things keep catching fire..
I bet it has something to do with fast charging.
"After a major fire in Stuttgart: Munich pulls eight battery buses out of service... other transport companies are drawing conclusions. The MĂźnchner Verkehrsgesellschaft (MVG) is now taking eight electric buses out of service as a precaution.. In Stuttgart, the electric charging station was destroyed in the fire on September 30th. Therefore, no electric buses are currently in use"
Yahoo News: "A top NIH official admitted in a Wednesday letter that U.S. taxpayers funded gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses in Wuhan .. The revelation vindicates Republican senator Rand Paul, who got into heated exchanges with National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease director Anthony Fauci during his May and July testimonials before Congress over the gain-of-function question"
Vanity Fair: "In Major Shift, NIH Admits Funding Risky Virus Research in Wuhan"
TDB: "Margaret Atwood, the celebrated author of feminist dystopian novel The Handmaidâs Tale, angered some of her fans this week when she tweeted out an op-ed by another writer titled, 'Why canât we say âwomanâ anymore?'"
"French education ministerâs anti-woke mission.. Emmanuel Macron's government is making the fight against woke theories a cornerstone of its push to rally supporters from the left and the right"