Fukushima nuclear disaster: Activists march against Tokyo's waste plan
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As per the intro, this whole article is only about southern Europe with extreme heat. Same for the solar output, which across Europe fell in July 2023 compared to 2022. It's just higher in southern countries compared to 2022.
In most of Europe, this summer is cold, wet and windy. So for most of Europe, without that much sun in summer, it's the very windy conditions causing the cold summer, that pumps most of the renewable electricity. Just last week, wind generated 22% more electricity compared to the week in 2022.
So overall it's split and respectively the other renewable technology having large gains, depending on where in Europe you look.
In the 1st paragraph is a link to the previous article of the same experiment a few months ago, that has some more details mentioned:
researchers have managed to release 2.5 MJ of energy after using just 2.1 MJ to heat the fuel with lasers.
the positive energy gain reported ignores the 500MJ of energy that was put into the lasers themselves.
The 'Fremantle Highway' is already very close to the Eemshaven port. We can follow the ships movements by tracking the tug boats, as its own transponder failed days ago during the fire.
E.g this tug boat 'Waterlines' https://www.vesselfinder.com/?imo=9881770 is in a group with other tug boats, pollution control vessels and law enforcement. They are accompanying the burning ship to its destination.
Some paragraphs for tl;dr:
The discussions with China, Saudi Arabia, and on climate issues with Russia had been "complicated", he added.
Major oil producers fear the impact of drastic mitigation on their economies, and Russia and Saudi Arabia were blamed for the lack of progress in Goa.
Reports of Saudi and Chinese resistance, he added, "fly in the face of their claims of defending the interests of developing countries".
It should be clear that most of the information in the news is quoted from Putin.
That also explains why someone who just bombed grain silos in multiple Ukrainian port cities and ended the U.N. grain deal, blames the West for screwing poor countries over.
Or he blames western sanctions for food shortages, while at the same time bragging about exporting 60 million tonnes of grain last year and expecting a record grain harvest this year. Which again is a cynical remark, as Russia was caught stealing tonnes of Ukrainian grain to sell it as their own.
There is not a lot of sense or truth in Putin's statements.
Those are various ideas regarding charging problematic.
I'm still on the range topic that people apparently see as the main problem with EVs but I don't. I'd be even fine with less range than the current top models offer.
Regarding the range problem, that is my personal conspiracy theory. It makes a lot of sense but no way that I or anyone can ever prove it.
Theory: Range was never a real problem and car manufacturers seeded that topic to journalists/press, as the companies already had the solution available before communicating the problem.
More range is done with a larger batteries, usually higher quality cells/chemicals. So making the car bigger and more expensive. That's what manufacturers desire to do and sell anyways.
It never was or is a real problem. They can just charge the customers more and it's solved.
As I've already seen posted, the real problem that cannot be easily solved is the charging time. Right now I 'charge' 0% to 100% in 1-2 minutes. No preparation, no special fuel, no special fees or subscriptions, no fuel stations only for specific brands, no apps, summer or winter same 1-2 min, no strain on the fuel tank by filling fast, sometimes waiting lines at the stations but they move quickly with 1-2 min per vehicle.
I don't see battery or charging tech anywhere close to that in the next 5, 10 or even 20 years.
That's hard to advance, with decades of research behind us and decades ahead, so car manufacturers focus on their favorite topic: range, where they can just throw their customers money at to solve it immediately.
Hm I have not heard about such an issue so far but I also don't have as many UPS as you.
I see you holding a red cable which could be +. When I switch UPS batteries, I do it the same way as it's recommended for car batteries to avoid sparks/arcs. Remove - (black) first, as it won't spark/arc. Then remove + (red) as it can't get a circuit closed any more, so also no spark/arc.
When plugging a car battery in, it's the other way around. + (red) goes in first and only then you connect - (black) to avoid spark/arc for both connectors again that way.
The title is total clickbait but the article is more thinking of theoretical options of events to come. E.g. how the end(s) of the war could look like.
Petr Pavel, Czech president & former general, already stated that at the end of the year, the window of opportunity might be closed for Ukraine and Ukraine should try to gain as much ground as possible before the winter. Not because of the weather, but because of elections coming in Russia, the USA and Ukraine in 2024.
Not even talking about the possible election outcomes and possible consequences for the war, already the election campaigns with their goals, promises, propaganda and unique selling points might have influence on the events and further planning. Just imagine Trump (or successor) starting a new mesh of lies and getting supported by Putin, which will get soaked up by their followers and complicate support by the USA - the largest military supporter of Ukraine so far.
Ah thanks, I didn't see the connection in the Reuters article with the Russian war and recent inflation but it's right there in the middle part:
In May, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said France's cap on electricity prices would be phased out and end at the end of next year.
Lots of countries have subsidised energy because of the war, so nothing unusual happening. When I read the news, I was thinking about the overall debt that EDF is collecting over the years and thinking about price increases to help here. But that is completely unrelated.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1342612/debt-of-edf-group/
The 10% increase is much lower than the one proposed by the French Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE), which - based on current market prices - recommended an increase of 74.5%.
So the current regulated price and the price after the increase are below the market prices.
Do they directly subsidise the difference or let the state-owned electricity company work at a loss? Or partly both?
Well did they announce it months back or not? Did they deliver or not?
Announcing it now makes it look like they did not deliver or follow through months ago, which is why I am asking here for more information. This announcement is a bit irritating.
This announcements irritates me. Didn't France announce it right after the UK announced it, months ago?
I remember after the first reported Storm Shadow hits and discovered wreck pieces, everyone was eager to see if there are English or French markings on them.
I'm quite disappointed by most comments so far talking about RAID and data loss. That is not what RAID is for at all.
RAID is for uptime/availability. When a drive fails, the system will keep running and working. For companies, that would lose thousands of currency per hour with a downtime, this is super important that the system keeps running. At home, it's convenience that you can order a new drive and replace without hours of setting up and copying before you can watch the next episode again.
Backups are against data loss. If a single drive fails, a RAID fails or you get some encryption malware or an employee destroys stuff on purpose, then everything is destroyed. It doesn't matter if it was a single, any RAID, HDD or SSD. You order a new drive, make a new volume and restore the data from your backup.
No one gets kicked off or picked. This is a quite regular occurrence in air traffic and the crew is then simply asking if someone would be willing to take a later flight. Those passengers also get some money for their inconvenience. This happens all the time.
Hm but that adds a lot more complexity, as then every single network item has to have an UPS as well, right? Certainly not a problem for a company with server room and racks. But at home in a house, the hardware might be spread out across rooms and floors. If there is a switch somewhere without UPS, it will cut off certain clients from receiving the signal via network upon power outage.
Is this doable with one UPS? I'm thinking of the signal wire so the device knows it's running on battery and has to shut itself down sooner or later. We have 2 (who need shutdown, +1 can just lose power I guess) different devices mentioned here.
I have one older APC UPS on the PC and one newer Eaton UPS on the NAS. Each UPS has a signal port with a cable connected to the main device that runs some software to notice when it's on battery and supposed to shut itself down after X minutes battery time.
The NAS UPS also has the router, phone and zigbee hub connected, but only the NAS will shut itself down, the rest will just lose power at some point, but those don't matter.
How do you get the server and NAS to both get the signal and both shut down after X minutes? Is there a specific UPS features required?
I understand this is a positive news in the first week of the counter offensive, but to me - it makes me feel depressed.
It makes me look at the size of Ukraine and the occupied areas. There are thousands or probably ten thousands of occupied settlements and villages. Reporting 5 of e.g. 18.000 liberated... it is positive, it is a news, it makes me depressed looking at the scaled of what lies ahead in this war to get Russia out of Ukraine.
The thing I am hoping for and expecting, that this is not a continuous speed. In the past, we have seen Russian lines disintegrate, troops flee in civilian clothing and the front lines moved tens of kilometers within a single day.
Always nice to see the discussions about throwing waste into the ocean.
Technically, throwing any waste in the ocean is save. We started doing it decades ago, as it seemed a good plan. It gets diluted below appreciable levels as the ocean is large.
Yet our current plans are to reduce and not do it, as rivers, lakes, oceans are no trash cans. We learned that over the last decades, as once allowed and accustomed, it just gets more and gets accepted as common practise. Everyone starts doing the same, as it's such an easy way out.
The problem now is the reverse on that intend – obviously due to the lack of a better or any good alternative at all. But just because all options are bad, it doesn't make this one good. No officially declared waste disposal strategy should involve throwing it in the water.