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Week 39

WION: "Russia vetoes UN bid to condemn annexations of Ukrainian territory, India and China abstain"

The four regions of Ukraine, I guess now of Russia, below. RU has more war to execute on two - Donetsk, and Zaporizhia. Not surprising heavy fighting has been going on in Bakhmut.

geo = [[48.590869037477354, 38.00222462226966]] 
u.sm_plot_ukr1('ukrdata/alt1-0913.csv', geo)

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Methane gas leaks, errant viruses (still), wars that cannot be brought to an end - not looking too good for the humankind..

Haha

"@KimmyMonte

my glass coffin company 'remains to be seen' is not doing as well as i thought it would"

"@Math_Professor

[C]an also be used as an algorithm to convert any repeating decimal to a fraction.

E.g. if x=.121212…,

100x=12.121212…

And x=12/99=4/33"

"@RalphCrutzen

Let x = 0.9999...

10x = 9.9999...

10x - x = 9.9999... - 0.9999...

9x = 9

x = 1"

H2 View: "The State of West Virginia, US has revealed plans to develop a regional clean hydrogen hub in collaboration with gas producer EQT Corporation, Battelle, GTI Energy, and Allegheny Science & Technology (AST)...

According to the collaboration, existing infrastructure for natural gas production and storage, existing pipelines and transportations, and proximity to end-user markets in the Midwest and Northeast, will come be used as significant resources for ARCH2.

The announcement comes less than a week after the US Department of Energy (DOE) opened applications for its $7bn regional hydrogen hub funding programme which is set to fund six to 10 hubs across the US"

Bullet Train - fun movie. Five stars.

CNBC: "India's military relationship with Russia isn't going away it'll 'endure for decades,' [says Delhi-based think tank]"

Bonds are the safest inv mech there is, the coupon payment at certain date is guaranteed but if one were to sell them early one is at the mercy of the recent price which apparently fell.

CNBC: "[BOE intervened in the bond market bcz of] panic among pension funds, with some of the bonds held within them losing around half their value in a matter of days"

These F-16 upgrades are a thang aren't they?

US readies F-16 package to Pakistan and says "it is all counter-terrorism related". Indian FM was pissed says "you are not fooling anybody by saying these things" bcz obviously Pak's main rival in the region is India.

At the mid level K could be thousands, D could be millions, for small M and N, you end up with a small M by N matrix.

I bet some started to realize what the approach could be used for ;)

Can have probabilities on those transitions, and each cld represent a decision, each "type" of decision could be one level. Then example M by A in the beginning, leading to A by K, K by D, D by N... on and on, no matter how long the path is, simple multiplication will sum over all those paths you end up with likelihood of being at an N cell (decision) starting with an M starting point.

What's more, the paths can be as long as possible, mat mult will collapse them, will summarize "all paths".

That's true.

"Matrix multiplication corresponds to traveling along paths [of graphs]"

CNBC: "Russian pipeline leaks spark climate fears as huge volumes of methane spew into the atmosphere"

Senate Resolution 765 👍

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Al Jazeera: "Russia to formally annex four occupied Ukrainian regions.. Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia set to be incorporated into Russia at a ceremony in Moscow on Friday"

Al Jazeera: "Nicaragua leader calls Catholic Church a ‘dictatorship’.. Daniel Ortega describes priests as ‘killers’ and ‘coup plotters’ in a speech, accusing the clergy of working on behalf of ‘American imperialism’"

H2 Central: "Keir Starmer Promises Launch of State-Owned British Clean Energy Company, Eyeing Hydrogen"

H2 Central: "Plastic Omnium announces construction of Europe largest hydrogen vessels factory in Compiègne. During her visit to Plastic Omnium’s α-Alphatech research and development center, Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne.. is announcing public funding to support the entire French hydrogen mobility value chain. Funding includes €74 million to support Plastic Omnium’s growth strategy for hydrogen mobility in France"

H2 Central: "Posco, Apporium Team up to Produce Blue Hydrogen.. Under the agreement, the.. companies will invest a combined 200 billion won ($139 million) by 2026 into establishing facilities for hydrogen production. The annual production capacity is expected to reach 40,000 tons"

Iran helps #2 bombs #1. Someone else might help #1 bomb #2. Both areas are Kurds in Kurdish governates in Iraq. Welcome to the Middle East.

Iranian Kurd was probably like 'lemme move away from the Iranian border little bit so they don't invade my ass overnight' but Iran got'em anyway - with missiles.

Pt #2, Qandil, is where Anatolian Kurdish rebels live.. Rebels like the border areas don't they?

Three Iraqi Kurdish governates in red. Iran hit pt #1

# kama, qandil
geo = [(36.087341966, 44.630878934),(36.5414427, 44.987436019)]
u.sm_plot_kurd1(geo)

Iran strikes Kurds In Iraq.. Serious..

Al Monitor: "Iran unleashed a wave of missiles and drones on the headquarters of three separate Iranian Kurdish opposition groups based in Iraqi Kurdistan [Kama] today"

NYT: "[09/25] The woman who died after being swept up by Iran’s notorious morality police was a member of Iran’s Kurdish minority, which has long suffered discrimination, and the group’s rage in recent days reflects its longstanding grievances"

Col Macgregor: "Moscow’s determination to destroy Ukrainian forces at the least cost to Russian lives prevailed. Ukrainian casualties were always heavier than reported from the moment Russian troops crossed into Eastern Ukraine, but now, thanks to the recent failure of Ukrainian counterattacks in the Kherson region, they’ve reached horrific levels that are impossible to conceal...

The recent Ukrainian advance to the town of Izium, the link between Donbas and Kharkiv, seemed like a gift to Kiev. U.S. satellite arrays undoubtedly provided Ukrainians with a real-time picture of the area showing that Russian forces west of Izium numbered less than 2,000 light troops (the equivalent of paramilitary police, e.g., SWAT and airborne infantry).

The Russian command opted to withdraw its small force from the area that is roughly 1 percent of formerly Ukrainian territory currently under Russian control. However, the price for Kiev’s propaganda victory was high—depending on the source, an estimated 5,000 to 10,000 Ukrainian troops were killed or wounded in a flat, open area that Russian artillery, rockets, and air strikes turned into a killing field...

Given Washington’s inability to end the war in Ukraine with the defeat of Russian arms, it seems certain that the Beltway will try instead to turn the ruins of the Ukrainian state into an open wound in Russia’s side that will never heal. From the beginning, the problem with this approach was that Russia always had the resources to dramatically escalate the fighting and end the fighting in Ukraine on very harsh terms. Escalation is now in progress.

Washington always mistook Putin’s readiness to negotiate and limit the scope and destructiveness of the campaign in Ukraine as evidence of weakness, when it was clear that Putin’s aims were always restricted to the elimination of the NATO threat to Russia in Eastern Ukraine"

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The Guardian: "[A]t least 1,733 land and environmental defenders were murdered between 2012 and 2021, figures from Global Witness show, with Brazil, Colombia, the Philippines, Mexico and Honduras the deadliest countries"

Giorgia can say this or that now on Russia, maybe she'll play nice with anti-RU crowd. But they could just have the Salvini play the "bad guy". Then it will be oh well coalition partner is against, what can we do? Mamma mia!

Low temperature made Titanic's steel brittle, which causes cracks to form, the whole thing basically fractured #MechanicsofMaterials

"@LizWFab

If you really wanna rile up older faculty, tell them we need to teach the students we have, not the students they think we should have"

#XKCD Not far off from the mainstream discussion on the subject.

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H2 View: "A BMW Group-led consortium has launched a research project to develop 18-tonne and 40-tonne hydrogen combustion engine trucks in Germany, backed by €11.3m ($10.7m) of state funding"

90 mil tonnes of H2 translates into 90 * 1e6 * 1000 * 33.6 / (365 * 24 * 1e6), which is 354 Gigawatts. A sizable chunk of energy.

Reuters: "More than 20 countries, led by Japan, have agreed to boost output of low-emission hydrogen to at least 90 million tonnes a year by 2030 from 1 million tonnes now, the Japanese industry ministry said on Monday"

"@JSEllenberg

Explained in class today that delta means a small positive number you choose and epsilon means a small positive number your enemy chooses"

"@jaztrophysicist

Half of a physicist's life is about fixing minus sign errors and the other two-thirds is about normalising stuff correctly"

Jane's Defense: "Routine USCG patrol notes presence of Russian and Chinese naval vessels in US Alaskan EEZ"

Al Monitor: "Qatari oil, gas exports up 100% in 2022"

Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning - funky directing; shot on a shoestring budget? Excellent work, considering

Gutfeld from Fox News is beating bunch of other late night shows.. Stephen Gruyère, Fallon, Kimmel..? All beaten by a show at Fox News - what are they doing wrong?

This is sad but was anyone physically hurt by these AJ followers? Should freedom of speech be sacrificed for their grieving?

"Alex Jones trial.. Sandy Hook mother tells jury she was sent pictures of dead kids by hoax believers"

H2 Fuel News: "Cummins has.. unveiled a medium-duty concept truck using an H2-fueled internal combustion engine (ICE), which drew substantial attention in Germany at the IAA Transportation exhibition. Similarly, Westport Fuel Systems also unveiled its own HPDI hydrogen ICE engine for heavy duty vehicles earlier this month...

There are a number of benefits that hydrogen combustion engines have to offer over fuel cells. To start, the technology used by ICE is already familiar to engineers and mechanics worldwide who provide maintenance and repairs to trucks and other medium- and heavy-duty forms of vehicle, equipment and machinery. The technology could be incorporated into a spectrum of types of vehicles and machinery, not just trucks...

Cummins demonstrated the ease of H2 ICE deployment by exchanging a Mercedes-Benz Atego 4×2 truck’s diesel engine for a 6.7-liter H2 ICE engine. Performance, cargo capacity and payload were all fully preserved.

Westport has gone so far as to say that its own H2 ICE engine offers a notable increase in performance when compared to its diesel equivalent, including 20 percent more power and 18 percent improved torque.

By using diesel engine architecture and engine manufacturing infrastructure already in place, Westport has said that its engine offers the lowest-cost opportunity for achieving CO2 reduction target compliance. This could also help to minimize a company’s transition cost while decarbonizing.

'We like to think of it as a game changer without the change,' said Westport Fuel Systems CEO David Johnson when referring to hydrogen combustion engines"

H2 Central: "Volvo Trucks begins initial testing phase for hydrogen fuel cell truck"

H2 Central: "[Researchers at the University of Sannio, in southern Italy] have built the first hydrogen powered house in Europe... The fuel cells fully powered by hydrogen generate the electricity and heating needed to meet the building’s needs, according to the team at the University of Sannio"

H2 Central: "Quantron is Joining Forces with ETO Motors for Indo-german Collaboration, to Introduce Hydrogen Technology Vehicles and Infrastructure"

H2 Central: "Traditional energy companies broadly support H2 and are spending big in its pursuit... Hydrogen fuel production is expected to change the shape of the US energy sector, and fossil fuel giants are among its lead supporters, pouring millions lobbying congress on its behalf"

Doc recommends soak walnuts (in salt water, overnight) to remove lectin, and for dehyd use 50-55 C (which is optimal for vitac on fruitage anyway). Could be useful.

Nordstream 1,2 leaks at three points.. Likely sabotage. Cui bono? Who doesn't want energy links between Russia and Europe, especially between RU-DE?

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They buy from Australia, Canada, Kazakhstan, I see. Uranium energy output is astronomical justifies its price tag surely. A lot of bang -ahem- for the buck.

It looks like Japan doesn't have uranium (either)..

Minerals Map

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Certain H2 setups can generate heat as a by-product, fuel-cells, LOHC dehydrogenation process... One demo setup shows liquid carrier dehyd heating an entire swimming pool.

Think the whole ecosystem too - clean gas is transmitted 10 times faster at 8th the cost. Even if fuel generates electricity at end points heat-pumps runs on that, overall perf would be more optimal than the naive pure-grid scenario.

Boiler Hut: "1kg of hydrogen releases the same energy as 2.8kg of natural gas."

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H2 based heating is efficient as H2 HHV is more than twice that of natgas.

You either blow the fuse at home or at the local transformer. The tech is crap. It needs to be abandoned asap.

Quartz: "Many homes aren’t ready to charge electric cars without blowing the fuse"

De-Phazz - Trash Box #music

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The capitalist is such a little bitch. Everything needs to be the way they want, their playground needs to be all nicely defined, with nice toys in it, be monitored, but ew dont interfere too much, until something bad happens, then interfere big time and make it go away.

Market competition my ass.. Big pharma pushed for the inclusion of this clause in 2003 bcz they did not want the buyer (government) to negotiate, as any buyer would in any trade (sure gov is a big buyer but can't there be big customers in the market?). IRA is amending that no? Negotiation ability can help people..

"Medicare Part D [included] a “noninterference clause” that protects market competition and patient access by prohibiting the government from interfering in negotiations among insurers, drug manufacturers, and pharmacies"

Earlier write-up on the tech

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The HDS product suite handles conversion of H2 to LOHC (hydrogenation) and taking H2 out of LOHC (dehydrogenation). Storage capacity of the products isn't even listed; IMO storage is practically unlimited, anywhere diesel is stored, the organic carrier can be stored. Conversion rates are reported (2018), 400 m3/h hyd, and 640 liter/h dehyd.

Could oil pipelines can be repurposed to carry LOHC since it is an oil-like substance? Natgas pipelines with some refurb carry H2 gas, oil pipelines carry this liquid.

LOHCs, Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carriers, have seen some commercial development lately, there is a suite of products from a company called Hydregenious, partnered with MAN Diesel&Turbo (known name in the petro-chemical industry). If advertisement is true, H2 can be transported as an oily, diesel-like substance, at room temperature, inert.. Therefore any infra (trucks, trailers) that can carry oil can be used to carry LOHC.

"A report.. [claims] that the bulk of the.. hydrogen [transport] around the world will be split between pipelines and liquid organic hydrogen carriers (LOHC), often transported in ships"

For 2025 it predicts Sunni-Shite war. Not good. It is likely too, these aren't empty predictions.

Then Camilla and Charles can say We Wuz Kangs 😂

It does predict that.. It also says Charles will abdicate and the younger son will become Kang

WION: "Nostradamus book sells like hot cakes after prophecy on Queen’s death proves correct"

@internetOfShit #TV

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Renewable Energy Magaine: "A report out this week from Rethink Energy.. shows that the bulk of the effort to transport hydrogen around the world will be split between pipelines and liquid organic hydrogen carriers (LOHC), often transported in ships..

By 2050 [they] forecast that 735 million tons of green hydrogen will be produced each year.. The trade routes that have long defined the global energy map will have to be redrawn.. LOHCs – with reduced packing costs – come in at between 1.48 and 1.86 USD per kilogram over distances between 7,000 and 20,000 kilometres"

Euronuclear: "Polish Nuclear Research Centre Signs Agreement To Implement HTGR Project"

WNN: "UK selects HTGR for advanced reactor demonstration"

"Russia Says Production Using HTGR Could Begin In 2030.. Russia is planning to develop a 'commercially effective' solution for the production of green hydrogen using a high-temperature gas-cooled reactor unit.. [VP] Anton Moskvin.. at JSC Rusatom Overseas.. said.. at the Russian Energy Week conference [he added] a first such facility could be in place by 2030"

Japan Forward: "[03/2022] The results of international joint testing have proven the safety of the high-temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR)... [which] proved that it would not melt down even in the event of a total power failure... The [plant]’s response was unfaltering. With only the built-in safety features [..the] reactor shut down automatically without using control rods, and natural cooling of the core proceeded.

In 2022, JAEA will begin designing hydrogen production equipment that will use the near 1,000 degrees Celsius high temperature of the [the design]. The plan is.. mass production of hydrogen that uses only iodine, sulfur, and water, and does not emit any carbon dioxide. The HTGR at the practical use stage would be the ultimate decarbonized power source as it would produce green hydrogen"

US Congress, WH apparently did some stuff on nuclear hydrogen in 2005.. See Energy Policy Act of 2005.

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Recommending Death Wish. The last good movie Willis made before he went spaz?

Before the state creation, they asked Otto to give land for Israel - Otto was bunch of backward Romanesque inbred boneheads but even they smelled a problem, refused.

Israel of today continues to be a useful tool for the outer alliance, justifying Britain's long-term investment.

Pakistan - India conflict? Created by the Brits as an imperial project through their infamous partition (making sure to leave behind a constant struggle that could be exploited later).

Israel-Palestine conflict? Created by the Brits as an imperial project - the religious aspects on both Christian and Jewish believers were utilized for strategic means.

H2 View: "One key zero-emissions product Cummins revealed at IAA is its fourth-generation hydrogen fuel cell engine. Designed to meet the duty-cycle, performance and packaging requirements of medium- and heavy-duty trucks and buses, the fuel cell technology is available in 135 kW single and 270 kW dual modules"

When they say "smart", "connected", I hear "overly dependent", "fragile".

"@arstechnica

[Laundry Sensor] SmartDry will become a tiny brick inside your dryer this September when its servers shut down"

"Loop Energy.. will unveil its landmark 120 kW fuel cell system at IAA Transportation 2022 in Hannover, Germany [..This] efficiency enables [a vehicle] to deliver up to 54% fuel to wheel efficiency compared to the typical fuel to wheel efficiency delivered by a diesel engine powered vehicle of 20% to 25%"

Some collated info on HTGRs

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"Poland amended laws to speed investment in nuclear energy In September last year, it was announced that six large pressurized water reactors with a combined installed capacity of 6-9 GWe could be built by 2040 as part of Poland's plan to reduce its historic heavy reliance on coal.

S. Korea will raise nuclear power to one third of energy supply.. France [is looking to] build up to 14 new nuclear reactors by 2050.. China alone expects to invest some $400 billion over the next 15-20 years to build –hold on to your seat– 150 new nuclear reactors.

But what does make Japan a special case is that it had been one of the most anti-nuclear countries of the last decade. And at the same time, also one of the most serious about nuclear research, before Fukushima of course. Thanks to this situation, one of the major players in the Japanese plan is now the so-called High Temperature Engineering Test Reactor, the HTTR [or HTGR], which Japan wants to be the type of reactor that will shape the long-term future of nuclear energy in the country..

In fact, [HTTR] reactor, which is located in Ibaraki Prefecture, has been undergoing tests for more than two decades. And now it seems that its time has come..

[We talked about] three main types of hydrogen: gray, blue and green. Well, the truth is that there is another one, a fourth type of hydrogen: pink hydrogen. Which is, precisely, the one produced with nuclear energy..

Japan is one of the countries that is taking the hydrogen issue most seriously. And as you can now see, their new civil nuclear program has a lot to do with it. And if we’re talking about hydrogen and Japan, we are not talking about an idea or a futuristic pipe dream, but a fact..

Japan's Strategic Energy Plan, approved in October 2021, states that precisely this type of high-temperature gas-cooled nuclear reactor will be used to produce hydrogen. In addition, the Green Growth Strategy to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, dated June 2021, states that HTTR reactors will be required to produce emission-free hydrogen in large quantities and at low cost by 2030. Which, in strategic infrastructure terms means it’s just around the corner"

"[O]ne of the major players in the Japanese plan is now the so-called High Temperature Engineering Test Reactor, the HTTR, which Japan wants to be the type of reactor that will shape the long-term future of nuclear energy in the country... The main peculiarity of this helium-cooled reactor is that it does not need water, which means that it can be located practically anywhere on the planet. What’s more, due to its design, the core cannot go into fusion. So, in theory, it is a revolution. In addition, and this is very important, it can operate at very high temperatures, over 900 degrees. And so [with high heat], it is able to produce large amounts of hydrogen"

#Nuclear #Hydrogen #Japan

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