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Paul 💙
Paul 💙 • mastodon (AP)
I cannot see the need for some big projects that cost billions and provide little return in the future.. GBPower

HS2 from London to the North.. Destroy communities, cost more than planned, will be costly to use, used by only a few.. And won't be ready for decades.

Nuclear power.. expensive to build.. takes years to come on line and money to decommission.

But smaller changes now like cancelling the 2 child cap is what reaches those in need now

My grandad use to say small fish are far sweeter
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Europe Says
Europe Says • mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1361580/ Voter registration up over 35% in Virginia with VP Harris now leading Democratic ticket #Politics #U.S.Politics #UnitedStates
Voter registration up over 35% in Virginia with VP Harris now leading Democratic ticket

Voter registration up over 35% in Virginia with VP Harris now leading Democratic ticket - EUROPE SAYS

Voter registration up over 35% in Virginia with VP Harris now leading Democratic ticket https://www.wric.com/news/politics/capitol-connection/voter-registration-up-over-35-in-virginia-with-vp-harris-now-leading-democratic-ticket/
EUROPE SAYS (EUROPESAYS.COM)
#UnitedStates #Politics #U
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U.S. Politics in Real Time
U.S. Politics in Real Time • mastodon (AP)
Harris Taunts Trump After He Backs Out of Debates

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/kamala-harris-trump-backs-out-debates-1235068484/

Harris Taunts Trump After He Backs Out of Debates

After Trump vowed that he would debate the Democratic incumbent "ANYTIME, ANYWHERE, ANYPLACE," Trump backed out of that promise when faced with Harris
Charisma Madarang (Rolling Stone)
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Europe Says
Europe Says • mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1361576/ JO Paris 2024 : la SNCF se dit victime «d’une attaque massive pour paralyser le réseau» des TGV #Actualités #france #LActualitéAuQuotidien #L'actualitéAuQuotidien
JO Paris 2024 : la SNCF se dit victime «d’une attaque massive pour paralyser le réseau» des TGV

JO Paris 2024 : la SNCF se dit victime «d’une attaque massive pour paralyser le réseau» des TGV - EUROPE SAYS

JO Paris 2024 : la SNCF se dit victime «d’une attaque massive pour paralyser le réseau» des TGV…
EUROPE SAYS (EUROPESAYS.COM)
#france #L #actualités #lactualiteauquotidien
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Yogthos
Yogthos • mastodon (AP)
Netanyahu receives standing ovation in #US Congress while anti-genocide protesters brutalized at Capitol gates.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/07/25/netanyahu-receives-standing-ovation-in-us-congress-while-anti-genocide-protesters-brutalized-at-capitol-gates/
#US
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End Israeli Apartheid
End Israeli Apartheid • mastodon (AP)
#Gaza #Palestine
#IsraelWarCrimes

Israel should not participate in the Paris Olympics, Palestinian Olympic Committee President Jibril Rajoub said on Thursday, urging the International Olympic Committee to reconsider its decision and make the world aware of the atrocities committed in Gaza.

Speaking to reporters at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport, where he arrived for the Paris 2024 Olympics, Rajoub said Israel has lost the right to compete in the Olympics.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240725-israel-should-be-barred-from-olympics-like-south-africa-during-apartheid-says-palestinian-official/

✡️ 🇵🇸 ☮️
#Gaza #Palestine #IsraelWarCrimes
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Kailee ♾️ Voting Midterms God
Kailee ♾️ Voting Midterms God • mastodon (AP)
Let's be clear, Trump is a 78-year-old convicted fraud and rapist who stole classified documents from White House, incited an insurrection to overthrow an American election, and is completely incoherent and incapable of being President. And rants daily about a serial killer cannibal. Slept through his criminal trial. Criminal Trump also slept through the RNC convention, SLEPT through Vance's speech, & DonJrs' speech.

Where is the MSM reporting on this walking, talking National Security threat?

#election2024
Criminal Defendant Trump a. I don’t want anybody looking, I don’t want anybody looking through my boxes, I really don’t, I don’t want you looking through my boxes. b. Well what if we, what happens if we just don’t respond at all or don’t play ball with them? ¢. . Wouldn’tit be better if we just told them we don’t have anything here? d. Well look isn’t it better if there are no documents?
#Election2024
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muıııo
muıııo • mastodon (AP)
I love it how Spanish speakers pronounce Splunk as "Esploonk" 🥰
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muıııo
muıııo • mastodon (AP)
@panther_ Ma certo, ho vissuto lì e mi sono innamorato della lingua 😊
@panther 🎄
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muıııo
muıııo • mastodon (AP)
@panther_ Ai, is it wrong? I only got to B2 and then French and Spanish totally destroyed it 😅
@panther 🎄
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Wilshire
Wilshire • lemmy (AP)

An art installation in memory of Ukrainian athletes was opened in London. According to official data, 487 athletes have been killed since the beginning of the full-scale invasion.

https://t.me/astrapress/60432

An installation in memory of the murdered Ukrainian athletes was opened in London

At the center of the installation, painted in the colors of the national flag, is the number 487. This number symbolizes the number of athletes who, according to official data, were killed during the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. Around the numbers are equipment used in different sports.

The installation was organized by the British Foreign Office and the Freuds agency.

ASTRA

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OtownKim
OtownKim • mastodon (AP)
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CelloMom On Cars
CelloMom On Cars • mastodon (AP)
Thread on new finds of fossil fuels.

I don't know how, in this year of searing heatwaves, exploration is still allowed for oil and gas,. But here we are, and it keeps resulting in finds.

For comparison, I looked up the existing proven reserves of oil (barrels) and gas (cubic meters (m^3)).

Saudi Arabia
267 bn barrels, 9,500 bn m^3

North Sea
4 bn barrels

United States
48 bn barrels, 690 Tcf gas = 20,000 bn m^3

Venezuela
300 bn barrels, 195 Tcf = 5,500 bn m^3
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CelloMom On Cars
CelloMom On Cars • mastodon (AP)
Guyana

11 bn barrels

"The Bluefin discovery joins more than 30 already since 2015 in the Stabroek block, an 6.6 million acre (26,800 square kilometers) area that has been the site of more than 11 billion barrels of recoverable oil and gas."

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/exxon-led-group-strikes-new-oil-gas-discovery-off-guyana-2024-03-15/
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CelloMom On Cars
CelloMom On Cars • mastodon (AP)
"A surge in new oil and gas #exploration in 2024 threatens to unleash nearly 12bn tonnes of planet-heating emissions, with the world’s wealthiest countries – such as the US and the UK – leading a stampede of fossil fuel expansion in spite of their climate commitments

Five wealthy countries accounted for 56% of oil and gas licences since 2000.
#Australia, #Canada, #Norway, the #UK and the #US made up 71% of leases in 2023.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/24/new-oil-gas-emission-data-us-uk

Revealed: wealthy western countries lead in global oil and gas expansion

The US and the UK among countries with low dependence on fossil fuels criticized for ‘hypocrisy’ on climate pledges
Oliver Milman (The Guardian)
#uk #norway #Australia #Canadá #US #exploration
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CelloMom On Cars
CelloMom On Cars • mastodon (AP)
#petrostates

"The #US, #Canada, #Norway, #UK and #Australia are best placed to step up and help. They have the financial clout, the experience and the economic diversity to be frontrunners in the [energy] transition. Yet they are doing the opposite: criticising others and claiming to be environmentally friendly, even while they lift production targets for oil and gas."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/24/drill-us-petrostate-climate-crude-oil

‘Inexcusable’: should climate hypocrites get the petrostates label?

Suggestions definition of petrostate is too narrow as many rich countries that could phase out fossil fuels double down
Jonathan Watts (The Guardian)
#uk #norway #Australia #Canadá #US #petrostates
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CelloMom On Cars
CelloMom On Cars • mastodon (AP)
"To deliberately increase emissions in such circumstances is so obviously contrary to the public good that it suggests a capture of politics by a powerful minority that represents fossil-fuel interests – exactly the behaviour expected in a classic petrostate.""

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/24/drill-us-petrostate-climate-crude-oil

‘Inexcusable’: should climate hypocrites get the petrostates label?

Suggestions definition of petrostate is too narrow as many rich countries that could phase out fossil fuels double down
Jonathan Watts (The Guardian)
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CelloMom On Cars
CelloMom On Cars • mastodon (AP)
The US is now the world's top producer of oil and gas.

"While the vast, diverse US economy doesn’t hinge upon oil and gas like Libya’s and Kuwait’s economies do, some regions have become hooked on industry incomes, research shows."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/24/fossil-fuel-liquified-natural-gas-louisiana

“We don’t really have a Gulf coast in the US,” said Allaire. “We have the east coast, the west coast and the carbon coast. This is simply a sacrifice zone for the oil and gas industry.”
Four part graph, production (left column) and exports (right column) of fossil gas (top) and oil (bottom) for various countries.

‘This used to be a beautiful place’: how the US became the world’s biggest fossil fuel state

No country has ever in history produced as much oil and gas as the US does now and Louisiana is ground zero
Oliver Milman (The Guardian)
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Mac Knowles
Mac Knowles • mastodon (AP)
Meanwhile in Texas....
The Permian Basin with the most fossil fuel extraction has so much dirty water pumped in that it now has earthquakes. Lots of earthquakes.
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JustAFrog
JustAFrog • mastodon (AP)
Ah, yes.

That thing, which the IPCC said to never, ever do again?

Let's keep doing that without any restraint, because "economy" and "growth"!
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CelloMom On Cars
CelloMom On Cars • mastodon (AP)
@justafrog

"The rich people's yacht money", amirite.
@JustAFrog
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Space Information Aggregator
Space Information Aggregator • hubzilla (AP)

CASSINI Business Acceleartor - Application Webinar

EU Agency for the Space Programme: CASSINI Business Acceleartor - Application Webinar

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Space Information Aggregator
Space Information Aggregator • hubzilla (AP)

Luxembourg Space Week

EU Agency for the Space Programme: Luxembourg Space Week

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Space Information Aggregator
Space Information Aggregator • hubzilla (AP)

GNSS, Earth Observation and SatCom – a space-based triathlon to Olympic glory

EU Agency for the Space Programme: GNSS, Earth Observation and SatCom – a space-based triathlon to Olympic glory



From the training pitch to the medal ceremony, EU Space is a driving force behind this summer’s Olympic Games.
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Radical Anthropology
Radical Anthropology • mastodon (AP)
Encyclopedia entry by Joe #Henrich on his coinage #WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich, 'Democratic') and its disproportionate influence in sample populations in experimental behavioral sciences, including psychologists, cognitive scientists, and economists.

'Because many researchers grew up in WEIRD societies, or at least trained in WEIRD universities, the WEIRD coinage reminds them to question their intuitions, assumptions, and expectations. Most societies over human history, well back into our evolutionary past, lacked money, schools, supermarkets, insurance, clean water, phones, police, antibiotics, hospitals, courts, democracies, jobs, universities, or even diverse occupations'

I would query lack of 'democracies' in the above.

#anthropology

https://oecs.mit.edu/pub/spow8trw/release/1

WEIRD

Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science
#Anthropology #weird #Henrich
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Radical Anthropology
Radical Anthropology • mastodon (AP)
For example, what is not democratic -- best kind of participant democracy -- about hunter-gatherer consensus decision making?

https://aeon.co/essays/what-the-ju-hoansi-can-tell-us-about-group-decision-making
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schtschur 🍉 boop
schtschur 🍉 boop • mastodon (AP)
I'm in real financial shit right now and if you're feeling generous, I could use some help. Unfortunately, I have damaged a rented property. It wasn't really my fault - it just sort of happened on its own without my input. But I'm the one to pay for it.

You can support me on https://ko-fi.com/szczursky

I'm really sorry I have to ask for this, but it's getting more and more difficult.

Thank you. #mutualaid @mutualaid

Boosts welcome.
#mutualaid @mutualaid group
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Tom :damnified:
Tom :damnified: • mastodon (AP)
Happy #sysadminDay ! 🥳
#sysadminday
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Sue Stone
Sue Stone • mastodon (AP)
Secure Boot is completely broken on 200+ models from 5 big device makers | Ars Technica

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/07/secure-boot-is-completely-compromised-on-200-models-from-5-big-device-makers/
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Hans-Cees 🍋🌲🦔🦦🐝🦋🐛🚅🇸🇳🇵🇾🇹🇬🇹🇲
Hans-Cees 🍋🌲🦔🦦🐝🦋🐛🚅🇸🇳🇵🇾🇹🇬🇹🇲 • mastodon (AP)
In a public GitHub repository committed in December of that year, someone working for multiple US-based device manufacturers published what’s known as a platform key
#infosec #secureboot #securitybooted
#infosec #SecureBoot #securitybooted
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Kernou
Kernou • mastodon (AP)
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Richard Murphy
Richard Murphy • mastodon (AP)
Starmer’s choice: to facilitate an apartheid state, or not? https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/07/20/starmers-choice-to-facilitate-an-apartheid-state-or-not/ Israel has found to be an apartheid state by the International Criminal Court. What will Starmer do in response? He has to make up his mind now. Does he still back it, or not?

Starmer’s choice: to facilitate an apartheid state, or not?

I wrote this on Twitter yesterday in response to the International Court of Justice decision on Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian Territories: It is not easy on occasion to hang on in quiet desperation, believing that there is a sane …
Funding the Future
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Richard Murphy
Richard Murphy • mastodon (AP)
Labour could end no-fault evictions https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/07/20/labour-could-end-no-fault-evictions/ The Tories said they would end no-fault evictions from private-sector accommodation but failed to deliver. Labour could deliver this reform now, and end this threat hanging over millions of people. They have said they will, but will they do it properly?
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Richard Murphy
Richard Murphy • mastodon (AP)
Wes Streting can’t blame the NHS for its failings: that’s all down to political choice and he’s now responsible for them https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/07/26/wes-streting-cant-blame-the-nhs-for-its-failings-thats-all-down-to-political-choice-and-hes-now-responsible-for-them/ Wes Streeting is saying the NHS has failed. But that's not true. Tory decision-making on the NHS failed. Now, he has to show he can make better decisions, and not blame NHS staff if he can't.

Wes Streting can’t blame the NHS for its failings: that’s all down to political choice and he’s now responsible for them

The Guardian has reported this morning that: Wes Streeting has called England’s healthcare watchdog “not fit for purpose” after an interim report found significant failings were hampering its ability to identify poor performance at hospitals, care h…
Funding the Future
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taz
taz • diaspora
Sommerpressekonferenz

Scholz hat die Symbolik umgekehrt


Von Cem-Odos Güler

Wo Merkel einst ihren berühmten Satz sagte, kündigt der Kanzler nun Abschiebungen nach Syrien an – und hat damit den Anschluss zur Mitte verloren.

#taz #tageszeitung #Olaf #Scholz #Gaza #SPD #Ampel-Koalition #Abschiebung

Sommerpressekonferenz: Scholz hat die Symbolik umgekehrt

taz.de
#Gaza #sPD #taz #tageszeitung #Abschiebung #Scholz #olaf #Ampel-Koalition
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Aladár Mézga
Aladár Mézga • diaspora
Und Gernot Hassknecht hatte noch so über seine Nominierung gelacht:
https://youtu.be/HN2Gwh8sHdU
02:50
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virgil tibbs
virgil tibbs • diaspora
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taz
taz • mastodon (AP)
Ein Gericht entscheidet, dass ein abgeschobener Marokkaner doch nicht zurückgeholt wird. Gleichzeitig gestehen Behörden erstmals Fehler ein. https://taz.de/!6025971

Behörden ignorierten Gerichtsbeschluss: Wende in Chemnitzer Abschiebefall

taz.de
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muıııo
muıııo • mastodon (AP)
I was just in a morning call in Spanish and I was told my Spanish has improved a lot recently, so YAY!
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Heidi Li Feldman
Heidi Li Feldman • mastodon (AP)
What a day. We are still fundraising fiercely at https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mastodon-for-harris. I took time to set up #MastodonBlueWave at https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mastodonbluewave. But what has kept me busiest - apart from getting ready for out-of-town visitors - is that I’m starting to make modest inroads with people in and adjacent to the #HarrisForPresident campaign. This is a painstaking process, lots of emails, calls, texts, everybody sounding each other out. 1/

I just gave to Kamala Harris!

Show your support with a contribution.
ActBlue
#harrisforpresident #mastodonbluewave
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Chuck
Chuck • mastodon (AP)
There was a weird glitch with it but I think the agent got it sorted out. Worst case it got doubled. 😃
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Heidi Li Feldman
Heidi Li Feldman • mastodon (AP)
@ChuckMcManis Act Blue will refund if the agent didn’t fix it.
@Chuck
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Space Information Aggregator
Space Information Aggregator • hubzilla (AP)

U.S. military urged to embrace smallsat revolution

SpaceNews: U.S. military urged to embrace smallsat revolution (Sandra Erwin)



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Mitchell Institute report: Now is the time for the United States to fully leverage the unique attributes of small satellites

The post U.S. military urged to embrace smallsat revolution appeared first on SpaceNews.
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Emeritus Prof Christopher May
Emeritus Prof Christopher May • mastodon (AP)
it now seems clear that GB Energy, to be set up in the next few months by the Labour Govt. will focus on expanding the provision of off-shore wind power generation, by working closely with the Crown Estates (already doing well from the sector) and seeking to de-risk investment in the sector.

Of course, off-shore wind in many ways is more expensive than its onshore version, but does side-step the planning friction(s) often encountered... but interconnection issues remain!

#energy #wind
h/t FT
#Wind #energy
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Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷
Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷 • mastodon (AP)
One thing I’ve often wondered about, but not seen data on, is whether offshore wind is more reliable than onshore? That could be a good reason to support the option.
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Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖
Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ • mastodon (AP)
Reliable in terms of wind being there to power the turbines, or reliable as in uptime/MTBF and frequency of maintenance? Wind is easier to model over expanses of sea as there is little to block it, cause turbulence or take the energy out. On land you need to factor the topology far more carefully, whether you’re placing turbines on the coast at sea level or inland on hills and moors. Putting turbines on hilly land does have the advantage of..
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Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖
Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ • mastodon (AP)
..raising the turbine blades into the faster and more reliable wind flow above 100 meters, whereas offshore turbines have at least part of their swept area close to sea level. Power output varies with the cube of incident wind velocity so tapping into faster wind flow really matters for power factors. Windy.com allows you to see separate wind layers and I’ve found that very instructive. It’s worth noting that a great deal of Scotland’s wind output..
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Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖
Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ • mastodon (AP)
..comes from onshore installations in the northern highlands. The highlands benefit over the rest of the UK mainland in that prevailing westerlies come straight from the Atlantic whereas, further south, the English west coast is sheltered by Ireland being in the way. We get the best winds from the south west, barrelling up the Irish Sea. The south west peninsula is similarly blessed but wind (offshore and onshore) has been held back there by NIMBYism.
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Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖
Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ • mastodon (AP)
The crown estates have also been slow to auction sea bed in the south west, perhaps anticipating the outcry, but there is also the problem of getting power out of the peninsula and onto the core grid. Notice that a whole new grid connection has had to be built for the 3.5GW coming out of Hinkley.
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Hen Gymro Heb Wlad
Hen Gymro Heb Wlad • mastodon (AP)
I'm all for more wind power but the Bristol Channel remains one of the best UK locations for reliable tidal energy.

I recall there were plans to build relatively low-impact tidal lagoons with smaller turbines, which would have been delivering energy fairly quickly, while the network could be extended over time depending on resources/requirements.

Not sure why the plan was dropped - Tory hostility to "green crap"? Instead they're still building another nuke.
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Emeritus Prof Christopher May
Emeritus Prof Christopher May • mastodon (AP)
Likewise Morecambe Bay, up here - tidal power in both would be a major thing.... but seems like a pipe dream
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Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖
Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ • mastodon (AP)
And then there’s the Menai Straits and the body of water between Scrabster and Orkney in the far north of Scotland.
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Estarriol, WU Dragon
Estarriol, WU Dragon • mastodon (AP)
the lack of action on these plans is deliberate, it is what huge fossil fuel profits can buy with bribes....

Ways to keep the money flow running. Of course no planet to spend it on....
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Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖
Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ • mastodon (AP)
The failure to tap into the absolutely predictable twice-a-day movement of water in the Severn estuary is shocking.
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Hen Gymro Heb Wlad
Hen Gymro Heb Wlad • mastodon (AP)
I think one problem was the fixation on a massively environmentally damaging and colossally expensive barrage that would take decades to deliver any benefit to anyone except the contractors, if ever.

The idea of building smaller tidal lagoons that could deliver energy sooner with far less cost and damage, plus flexibility for growth and upgrades over time, seemed like a winner to me.

But perhaps not so tempting to the big contractors and their Tory mates?
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Emeritus Prof Christopher May
Emeritus Prof Christopher May • mastodon (AP)
Crikey, Christine that was a much fully & more detailed repose than I expected this morning - really interesting - thanks (and boosted)
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MarjorieR
MarjorieR • mastodon (AP)
not sure how much can be mopped up by local demand. At the moment it's mostly coming into the penisula.
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Steve Woods
Steve Woods • mastodon (AP)
The connection to which all of N. Somerset objected...
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beemoh
beemoh • mastodon (AP)
Windy looks interesting.

Seems to be a bit much for mobile, but I'll be giving that a look later on.
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Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖
Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ • mastodon (AP)
There’s a mobile app which is a delight to us3 on iPad.
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Quixoticgeek
Quixoticgeek • mastodon (AP)
do we have data on the MTBF of onshore Vs offshore? Operating something with moving parts in a salty environment is an engineering challenge. Personally I don't understand why we aren't filling the north sea with 20mw giant wind turbines. It avoids the eyesore objections. And we need all the wind we can get.
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Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖
Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ • mastodon (AP)
I don’t know what the MTBFs are. All I’ve seen are descriptions of how each turbine is closely managed from shore. I believe the emphasis is on timely intervention to deal with any sign of degradation before failure occurs. The height of the newest 13-15MW units is such that spray is less likely to reach the hub and the insides of the nacelle. YouTube features maintenance visits a lot. The great thing is that, whereas repairs..
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Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖
Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ • mastodon (AP)
..on a thermal generating plant (coal or gas or nuclear) can take a large slice of it offline for months, the distributed nature of wind farms means that maintenance can be done on a rolling basis. Losing 13MW out of 1500MW is a mere blip. In the very worst case you can send in a ship, pop off the blades and nacelle, and have it back in action in days.
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The Penguin of Evil
The Penguin of Evil • mastodon (AP)
Ukraine is the worked example. They are building huge wind farms because their distributed nature makes them far less vulnerable

Home solar and batteries is even better for this but would require the UK put sensible amounts of solar on roofs not the G98 regulation driven 3.68KW (by comparison sunny Australia averages 9KW)
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Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖
Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ • mastodon (AP)
An onshore wind farm is also a lot quicker to build than a replacement coal or gas fired power station. And, yes, it’s interesting to speculate how the UK’s power system would look if a more significant number of homes and small business units had solar and batteries. A sizeable chunk of demand would ‘disappear’ on the DNO side of the meter and, with surpluses exported, grid demand would change.
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Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖
Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ • mastodon (AP)
The other thing we shouldn’t lose sight of is that further out in the North Sea, eg on Dogger Bank, wind is much more of an international effort. Big chunks of the North Sea are being turned over to wind farms and the companies operating them have the choice how to balance where they send the power and, indeed, how they distribute between adjacent wind farms. Outside national jurisdictions they are far less controllable by states.
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Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖
Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ • mastodon (AP)
Something else to add: All this wind farm rollout is proving beneficial to marine species. Fish benefit because trawlers aren’t allowed within the boundary of a wind farm. That gives them space to recover their numbers from over-fishing. Shellfish are also rather liking the piles on which turbines are built.
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Matěj Cepl 🇪🇺 🇨🇿 🇺🇦
Matěj Cepl 🇪🇺 🇨🇿 🇺🇦 • mastodon (AP)
Should I be surprised that Microsoft's ChatGPT is broken with #Firefox ?
#Firefox
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Matěj Cepl 🇪🇺 🇨🇿 🇺🇦
Matěj Cepl 🇪🇺 🇨🇿 🇺🇦 • mastodon (AP)
@vyskocilm

Tried twice to create an account and failed twice when the confirmation URL ended up in nowhere. No error, just a blank page.
@Michal Vyskočil
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Michal Vyskočil
Michal Vyskočil • mastodon (AP)
can't confirm - my signup attempt I did right now ended up with https://platform.openai.com/onboarding and I was able to access a chat.

Firefox 128 from a flathub.

Maybe it's some extension that breaks the process?
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Europe Says
Europe Says • mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1361561/ Oil Kills International Uprising continues in Canada with redecoration of Montreal Airport #Climate
Oil Kills International Uprising continues in Canada with redecoration of Montreal Airport

Oil Kills International Uprising continues in Canada with redecoration of Montreal Airport - EUROPE SAYS

Oil Kills International Uprising continues in Canada with redecoration of Montreal Airport Oil Kills International Uprising continues in…
EUROPE SAYS (EUROPESAYS.COM)
#Climate
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Today I learned
Today I learned • mastodon (AP)
TIL The word "man" was originally gender-neutral, hence "one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind". In Old English "wæpman" = male, "wifman" = female, "man" = gender-neutral

https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/man-woman
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1eci5sa/til_the_word_man_was_originally_genderneutral/

man / woman / wife

3 May 2021 There were three basic Old English words for male and female humans, man , wer , and wif . And from these came two compounds also meaning man and woman, wæpman and wifman .
David Wilton (Wordorigins.org)
#TIL #todayilearned
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muıııo
muıııo • mastodon (AP)

Content warning: Literal thirst trap, look away

#martesdebarbas
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Naughty Gil
Naughty Gil • mastodon (AP)

Content warning: Literal thirst trap, look away

@muıııo
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taz (inoffiziell)
taz (inoffiziell) • friendica (via ActivityPub)
US-Präsident Biden betont die Notwendigkeit einer schnellen Einigung zur Geisel-Freilassung. Harris unterstützt das Recht auf israelische Selbstverteidigung.#BenjaminNetanjahu #KamalaHarris #JoeBiden #Geisel #Geiselnahme #Hamas #Nahost-Konflikt #Nahost #Politik #Schwerpunkt

+++ Nachrichten im Nahost-Krieg +++: Harris und Biden treffen Netanjahu

taz.de
#politik #KamalaHarris #JoeBiden #Hamas #Schwerpunkt #Nahost-Konflikt #Geisel #Nahost #Geiselnahme #BenjaminNetanjahu
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NPR News (unofficial)
NPR News (unofficial) • diaspora

COVID is having a summer wave. Here's what it means for older people


What's with the uptick in COVID cases? There's a pattern that's been repeated each year since COVID started -- a late summer wave. Older people and those who are immuno-compromised should be careful.

#news #npr #publicradio #usa
posted by pod_feeder_v2
#USA #News #NPR #publicradio
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earendil
earendil • diaspora
#socialjustice

#PuertoRico

(https://apnews.com/article/puerto-rico-hair-discrimination-law-afros-diversity-7b20110027e8a20b2192c233e502de8d)
#PuertoRico #socialjustice
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The Register
The Register • mastodon (AP)
Customer bricked a phone – and threatened to brick techie's face with it

There's a difference between a warranty and insurance. In this story the latter could fight back On Call Friday is the day the working week goes to die for most people – unless, like many a Reg reader, they're on call to provide tech support at all hours. Which is why we use this day to celebrate those hardy souls with a fresh instal…
#theregister #IT
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/07/26/on_call/
#IT #TheRegister
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Tony Novak
Tony Novak • mastodon (AP)
Most of the people in my life who I love, enjoy being with, and admire have the opposite beliefs from mine on almost every issue ranging from religion, politics, education, and human rights. That includes my family, friends, neighbors, work peers, and clients. I love, respect and support them all.

But this support and respect is not reciprocal. I follow a simple and clear Acceptable Public Behavior Policy in all public and business dealings to avoid overt bigotry. I have received death threats and been physically attacked for my public advocacy of beliefs. I have been rejected for work and community leadership positions because of my fundamental beliefs. I am scared for our future.
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Lisa Stranger
Lisa Stranger • diaspora
I'm here for 6 months of Dark Brandon

'Major prongs of Project 2025 have already been enacted': legal expert


Although Joe Biden on Sunday, July 21 dropped his bid for reelection, the president has promised to implement US Supreme Court reform during his final six months in office.

Last week, The Washington Post reported that Biden urged the Congressional Progressive Caucus on a phone call to "back his Court reform plan, which he hinted would soon be made public."

The president said, "I’m going to need your help on the Supreme Court, because I’m about to come out — I don’t want to prematurely announce it — but I’m about to come out with a major initiative on limiting the court … I’ve been working with constitutional scholars for the last three months, and I need some help."

https://www.alternet.org/project-2025-trump-courts/

backup: https://archive.ph/hOumP

'Major prongs of Project 2025 have already been enacted': legal expert

Maya Boddie (Alternet.org)
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Hans
Hans • mastodon (AP)
Der Baccardi steht auch nur noch im Schrank Rum. 🤔 #nurmalso
#nurmalso
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Gondoliere
Gondoliere • mastodon (AP)
Dito. Ist das Alter.
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Sue Stone
Sue Stone • mastodon (AP)
The Life and Death of the ‘Biden Is Dead’ Conspiracy Theory

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-life-and-death-of-the-biden-is

The Life and Death of the ‘Biden Is Dead’ Conspiracy Theory

We should not let politicians and influencers memory-hole their crazed speculations about the president’s health.
Cathy Young (The Bulwark)
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Skip Lacaze
Skip Lacaze • mastodon (AP)
“Can we demand some proof of life from Boebert’s brain?”
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Claas Gefroi 🎗️
Claas Gefroi 🎗️ • mastodon (AP)
Das geht leider gerade völlig unter: Die Frankfurter Polizist*innen, die in einer Chatgruppe übelsten Rassismus und Volksverhetzung teilten, werden nicht strafrechtlich belangt, weil es in einer geschlossenen Gruppe passierte und der "Belustigung" diente. https://www.faz.net/aktuell/rhein-main/frankfurt/beschwerde-zurueckgewiesen-rassistische-polizeichats-nicht-strafbar-19857514.html
Um ein Verbreiten im strafrechtlichen Sinn handele es sich erst, wenn die „konkrete, durch tatsächliche Anhaltspunkte belegbare Gefahr vorliegt, dass der Inhalt an eine unbestimmte Anzahl von Personen weitergegeben wird und der Täter dies billigend in Kauf nimmt“. Dass eine Whatsapp-Nachricht leicht weitergeleitet werden kann, reicht dem Gericht zufolge „unter Berücksichtigung verfassungsrechtlicher Anforderungen“ nicht aus, um ein „Verbreiten“ beim Einstellen von inkriminierten Inhalten in eine Whatsapp-Gruppe anzunehmen. Artikel 5 des Grundgesetzes, der die Meinungsfreiheit garantiere, erfordere vielmehr konkrete Anhaltspunkte dafür, dass der Empfänger den Inhalt weitergebe und der Sender dies billigend in Kauf nehme. Im Fall der Polizeichats hingegen lägen keine konkreten Anhaltspunkte dafür vor, dass die Chatgruppenmitglieder damit gerechnet und es billigend in Kauf genommen hätten, dass die Inhalte weitergegeben und damit einer „nicht mehr überschaubaren Anzahl von Personen“ übermittelt werden würden, argumentierte das Gericht. Im Gegenteil: Ihnen sei bewusst gewesen, dass eine Weiterleitung vor allem der nationalsozialistischen und ausländerfeindlichen Inhalte dienstrechtliche Konsequenzen hätte haben können. Zweck der Gruppe sei es gewesen, durch Einstellen schockierender Inhalte die Chatmitglieder zu „belustigen“, führte der Senat aus. Darauf weise bereits der Gruppenname „Itiotentreff“ hin.

Beschwerde zurückgewiesen: Rassistische Polizeichats nicht strafbar

Im Fall der Chatgruppe „Itiotentreff“ hat das Oberlandesgericht Frankfurt nun entschieden: Die fünf Polizisten des 1. Frankfurter Reviers müssen sich wegen ihrer rassistischen Ausfälle nicht vor Gericht verantworten.
Elena Zompi (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)
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Gondoliere
Gondoliere • mastodon (AP)
@vatolin @silbaer @EngelMichelmann als ob eine Krähe der anderen ein Auge ausmacht...
@EngelMichelmann 👼 Antifaschist @silbaer
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silbaer
silbaer • mastodon (AP)
@vatolin @EngelMichelmann Wenn Rassismus in einer geschlossen Gruppe (strafrechtlich) nicht verboten ist, dann ist es erlaubt. Dass das in keinem Fall ok ist, steht leider auf einen anderen Blatt. Und das an Beamte da strengere Maßstäbe angesetzt werden sollten ist eigentlich keine Frage. IMO hat jeder Polizist der sich an solch einer Chatgruppe beteiligt seine Eignung zum Staatsdienst verwirkt.
Ändert aber nichts an meiner Aussage. Laut Artikel hat das OLG Frankfurt entschieden.
@EngelMichelmann 👼 Antifaschist
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