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The Controversial Linear No-Threshold Model(jnm.snmjournals.org)
2 points by leonidasrup 13h ago|0 comments
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EU approves sending mountains of trash to Turkey despite environmental fears(politico.eu)
2 points by leonidasrup 15h ago|0 comments
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Renewable Data Center Fantasy(energybadboys.substack.com)
1 points by leonidasrup 1d ago|0 comments
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Can Europe build a competitive polysilicon industry?(pv-magazine.com)
2 points by leonidasrup 2d ago|0 comments
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by leonidasrup 3d ago
China still produced only 11% of electricity from solar, Germany 18%, so in this metric Germany is better, but import all of it PV panels. And electricity only a part of primary energy consumption in both in China and Germany. https:/
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by leonidasrup 3d ago
Cheap solar, yes you can now buy PV quite cheap. How much of this costs (research, developmemt, building large factories in China) was payed by German EEG money and different subsidies? Also subsidies in form of cheap Chinese coal electrici
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by leonidasrup 4d ago
Civil nuclear power plants accumulate funds for decommissioning and disposal of nuclear waste. It's part of the electricity costs. Sellafield in the UK, INL in the US are military/research facilities. "Asse II: A lesson that
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by leonidasrup 4d ago
Nuclear power plant after removal of nuclear fuel and decontamination is inert as abandoned fossil plant. Such cleaning at end of life has to be done also for many kinds of chemical plants, chemical storage tanks, otherwise you get a catast
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by leonidasrup 4d ago
Large customers buy directly on electricity markets at hourly market price, or have direct power purchase agreements with power suppliers. Most small customers are paying using average prices, but these average prices are calculated from th
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by leonidasrup 5d ago
On one hand Swedish government rejected applications for 11 offshore wind sites on national security grounds, on the other hand, wind investors state that they will not do wind investments in Sweden without subsidies. " risk-sharing
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by leonidasrup 5d ago
" In 2003, majority of Americans believed Iraqi-links to 9/11 conspiracy theory, which facilitated the Bush administration's agenda for the invasion of Iraq. " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War_
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by leonidasrup 5d ago
Death rates per unit of electricity production " Death rates are measured based on deaths from accidents and air pollution per terawatt-hour of electricity. " https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-fro
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by leonidasrup 6d ago
Chernobyl disaster was biggest nuclear accident, but not the biggest disaster related to energy production. In 1975 the failure of the Banqiao Reservoir Dam and other dams in Henan Province, China caused more casualties than any other dam f
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by leonidasrup 6d ago
What is carbon based proton catching mechanism?
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European gas prices keep climbing as IEA calls for emergency reserves(euronews.com)
1 points by leonidasrup 6d ago|0 comments
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by leonidasrup 6d ago
Microsoft has been participating in PRISM program (SIGAD US-984XN) since 2007. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM There are allegation that Microsoft changed Skype architecture (after buying Skype for $8.5 billion) to
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by leonidasrup 6d ago
Fritz_Haber, his inventions killed millions and his invention (Haber–Bosch process) helps to produce food for billions. " It is estimated that a third of annual global food production uses ammonia from the Haber–Bosch process, and that
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by leonidasrup 7d ago
"Capital stands as one of the most influential and controversial books ever written. Its legacy is multifaceted, shaping intellectual discourse, political movements, and the historical trajectory of the 20th and 21st centuries."
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by leonidasrup 7d ago
Economy are seats getting smaller, but also modern airplanes are much fuel efficient. "Between 1950 and 2018, efficiency per passenger grew from 0.4 to 8.2 RPK per kg of CO2" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel
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by leonidasrup 7d ago
" The central argument of Capital is that the motivating force of capitalism is in the exploitation of labour, whose unpaid work is the ultimate source of surplus value and profit. " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by leonidasrup 7d ago
> Rock and a hard place, We need to expand renewable's fast enough to reduce our demand for fossil fuels but we still have that demand while it is on-going (and we'll still have some demand even when we've built out the re
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Norwegian gas plant that could safeguard Europe from Trump(politico.eu)
10 points by leonidasrup 7d ago|2 comments
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by leonidasrup 7d ago
" The third-party doctrine is a United States legal doctrine that holds that people who voluntarily give information to third parties, such as banks and phone companies, generally have "no reasonable expectation of privacy" i
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by leonidasrup 7d ago
> - Tristan is suspicious of the timing, as only few others were trying this approach. OpenAI says the model didn't access his user data directly, but leaves unanswered whether Tristan's chat conversations were part of the trai
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Mapped: Europe's Biggest Budget Deficits(visualcapitalist.com)
1 points by leonidasrup 7d ago|1 comments
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by leonidasrup 8d ago
" Since 1990, The Walt Disney Company had lobbied for copyright extension. The legislation delayed the entry into the public domain of the earliest Mickey Mouse cartoons, leading detractors to the nickname "The Mickey Mouse Protec
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by leonidasrup 8d ago
It's really shame that in 21st century humanity is burning stuff to produce energy.
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by leonidasrup 8d ago
Frank Blome CEO of PowerCo SE majored in electrical engineering at the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences, which is a better then mechanical engineering (Volkswagen CEO). But as electrical engineer myself, chemical engineer would be a
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by leonidasrup 8d ago
Most Tier 1 network owners are U.S. companies or U.S. friendly companies, tapping undersea cables is not necessary in many cases, just ask the owner.
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by leonidasrup 8d ago
There is nothing magical about these NSA hacks: NSA putting implants into Cisco equipment before delivery to the customer. https://www.certificationkits.com/nsa-upgrade-process-cisco-... ANT catalogue from 2008 with hacking

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