Posts by simsa03@pleroma.site
(DIR) Post #9zdqM09eclhc9jmxzU by simsa03@pleroma.site
2020-09-28T19:01:47.216915Z
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Emmet Penney & Adrián Calderón, "We Need a Nuclear New Deal, Not a Green New Deal" https://www.thebellows.org/we-need-a-nuclear-new-deal-not-a-green-new-deal/[ Not only that. Nations need to invest heavily in R&D for carbon capture & storage technolgies and retrofit existing coal-fired power plants. These will run the next decades anyway regardless of which pace the energy transition may take.What nations shouldn't use are renewables, as these have no storage capacites — or need to use lithium based storage units which create their own environmental and human rights hazards — and need the same amount of "conventionally produced" electricity as provision. (Which may necessitate the import of electricity produced by nuclear and coal-fired power plants from neighbouring countries.) ]
(DIR) Post #9zdqM0N7ogTgpW5izI by simsa03@pleroma.site
2020-09-28T19:39:10.555312Z
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Justin Rowlatt, "Nuclear power: Are we too anxious about the risks of radiation?" https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-54211450[w/ good links to sources]
(DIR) Post #9zdqM0VHKN03EnuEhE by simsa03@pleroma.site
2020-09-29T05:33:28.063476Z
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Kotaro Hosokawa, Azusa Kawakami & Shuei Ochiai, "Mini nuclear reactors with key South Korean parts cleared by US" https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Energy/Mini-nuclear-reactors-with-key-South-Korean-parts-cleared-by-US« Each SMR [small reactor module] unit is capable of producing 50 megawatts of power, or about 5% that of a conventional reactor. An SMR is considered a safer alternative since it can be cooled in a water tank, cutting out the risk of an accident due to problems with water pumps or the electrical source. [...] SMRs also enjoy cheaper initial costs because they take less time to install. Critical components are finished entirely on the factory floor instead of being put together on-site. [...] SMRs are seen as a promising antidote to the trend away from nuclear power in Western countries, according to a source at a Japanese power company. »
(DIR) Post #9zfLmDUQxUMSmSRroe by simsa03@pleroma.site
2020-09-29T22:57:25.021137Z
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Now that they start in earnest to 3d-print residential houses, I wonder what the impact will be on the labour markets and future employment prospects of construction workers.Davide Sher, "PERI builds the first 3D printed residential building in Germany" https://www.3dprintingmedia.network/peri-builds-the-first-3d-printed-residential-building-in-germany/« Only two operators are required to run the printer. The print head and the print results are monitored by a camera. With a speed of 1 m/s, the BOD2 is currently the fastest 3D construction printer available on the market. »
(DIR) Post #A03YrZxGCAWI0m4wmO by simsa03@pleroma.site
2020-10-11T15:35:34.587630Z
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@verita84 You are wrong on that. And you're reading the structural features it aims to establish the wrong way.
(DIR) Post #A03ZKUEEZ2s8eLno1o by simsa03@pleroma.site
2020-10-11T15:40:45.781283Z
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Fascism is not a cult, it's a choice. That it has its own dynamics doesn't falsify that it is a choice, an intent, a form of organizing & materialising (the acting out of) hate.
(DIR) Post #A065B5bWKjwiWPB37A by simsa03@pleroma.site
2020-10-12T14:11:01.732988Z
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♪ Richard Thompson, "God Loves A Drunk" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJB_cOrxqf4
(DIR) Post #A065B8UXb995Tcw19U by simsa03@pleroma.site
2020-10-12T14:07:41.225036Z
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♪ Richard Thompson, "Walking Through A Wasted Land" https://youtube.com/watch?v=Aj92yV3wLDs
(DIR) Post #A065CeU68Qe0zTRzVo by simsa03@pleroma.site
2020-10-12T13:14:38.646185Z
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As the world is made not of facts or laws or math but of words, memories, which, not spoken but kept, then fade, some day forgotten—I hope I can, in the end, make it to 3 unwritten books, not for you not to read, but to fathom out what not to say of the world to keep her here.
(DIR) Post #A0A1RmEUw2zlrJNQlU by simsa03@pleroma.site
2020-10-14T18:02:58.070734Z
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Steven Phillips, "Why Africa leads the world in COVID-19 performance" https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/520901-why-africa-leads-the-world-in-covid-19-performance« Africa’s low illness and the death toll has allowed earlier reopening of societies and revitalizing hard-hit economies and jobs. »
(DIR) Post #A0hQInnLEW60UcJ0GO by simsa03@pleroma.site
2020-10-30T20:08:07.944391Z
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@6gain @mangeurdenuage I'm fond of them too. And to both of you, have a look into this wonderful blog regrettably now defunct as its latest entry is from 2014) https://electricthrift.com/ Still great posts...
(DIR) Post #A0lohcdf1W0YfFz8Yz by simsa03@pleroma.site
2020-11-02T00:01:50.816258Z
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I wonder which angle Doomers might use to blame me, a very late Boomer, for my “privileges”. I don’t own a fridge nor a car, flew by airplane only 3x in my life, use a fraction of the average amount of electricity… Privileges? I clean the lavatories you guys use when going out.
(DIR) Post #A0tVda9ZNWr87QOlqi by simsa03@pleroma.site
2020-11-05T16:59:24.235882Z
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Had a walk in the fields in the late afternoon October sun, near the expressway. Passed a small field of apple trees. Picked up a few from the ground and carried them home. Tasty.
(DIR) Post #A0uEQBUkF6iXoZHxcu by simsa03@pleroma.site
2020-11-06T01:24:09.474088Z
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Walt, I subscribe to both of your accounts @lnxw37a2 and @lnxw48a1 . The posts from your pleroma.soycaf account come through nicely, but I don't receive any posts from nu.federati.net for quite some time now. Do you have any idea why this is so?
(DIR) Post #A0uEliZsR93YV4xPTE by simsa03@pleroma.site
2020-11-06T01:30:06.228852Z
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@lnxw37a2 would de-subscribe and re-subscribe from my end help?@lnxw48a1
(DIR) Post #A0uIBPNcjetsLrAS4u by simsa03@pleroma.site
2020-11-06T01:33:13.792260Z
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@lnxw37a2 Why would they drop support for GS protocol...? @lnxw48a1
(DIR) Post #A1YzFRzy74I4AZHqeO by simsa03@pleroma.site
2020-11-25T13:45:20.342205Z
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Victoria Song, "You Need to Opt Out of Amazon Sidewalk" https://gizmodo.com/you-need-to-opt-out-of-amazon-sidewalk-1845750268People should indeed be sensitive about Amazon using their (and their neighbours') devices to create a network. Same applies to Microsoft: If people didn't explicitly opted out their machines are already part of a bot net that connects all Windows 10-running machines to mutually provide Microsoft Updates. Same vulnerabilities, I guess.h/t @tek
(DIR) Post #A1awEUX3IRe2BvX4Hg by simsa03@pleroma.site
2020-11-26T12:33:06.100670Z
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@tek Thank you for pointing that out. As a layperson I am only superficially familiar with the differences of both technical set ups. Still, I I guess that in both a malevolent actor could sneak in harmful code.Anyway, my comment was more in the direction of: When people already have no concerns with allowing MS to use their machine as part of a botnet for MS Updates, why should they have concerns with allowing Amazon to use their wifi and Sidewalk to share bandwith?
(DIR) Post #A1d4cRwRlcH13aGWQK by simsa03@pleroma.site
2020-11-27T16:26:24.930828Z
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Had a video chat w/ my little nephew on jitsi. We used the screen keyboard & Win+. for the list of emojis and inserted them into the chat program of the conference. Taking turns we selected an image and together developed a little story about a rabbit finding a carrot, then walking to the circus... very funny.
(DIR) Post #A1fasG3pIGKXgvDdDM by simsa03@pleroma.site
2020-11-28T21:49:23.080397Z
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In case your laundry smells too intensely like washing powder and fabric softener, and a second or third washing without detergents doesn't do the trick, use two tablespoons of sodium bicarbonate in the main wash cycle and two tablespoons of vinegar concentrate instead of the fabric softener. The smell should be gone. (Worked nicely with my winter jacket which had an unbearable stench.)