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Design updates, financial shakeup prompt utilities to rethink nuclear project(utilitydive.com)
1 points by spenrose 6y ago|0 comments
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Performance Under Load (2018)(medium.com)
1 points by spenrose 6y ago|0 comments
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by spenrose 6y ago
When I spoke at the Open Source Conference Albania[1], I met a dozen Albanian young adults for whom OSM was an important bridge to developing professional technology skills. Kudos to OSM for providing a wonderful platform for personal growt
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by spenrose 6y ago
"Each plant would produce 440 megawatts of electricity - roughly enough to power Sheffield - and the hope is that, once the first few have been made, they will cost around £2bn each. The consortium says the first of these modular plant
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by spenrose 6y ago
That said, a decade is a long way out for the completion of the first plant, given the trajectories that wind, solar, and storage prices have taken. Perhaps as critically, most utilities are already done with the learning period needed to u
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by spenrose 6y ago
16 of 121 patients admitted to hospital with Covid, and who completed a survey, reported hearing problems about two months after discharge. "Munro said his team is now investigating the prevalence and causes of such problems, noting it
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by spenrose 6y ago
PDF from ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andy_Stirling/publicati...
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Abstract: "Two of the most widely emphasized contenders for carbon emissions reduction in the electricity sector are nuclear power and renewable energy. While scenarios regularly question the potential impacts of adoption of various te
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by spenrose 6y ago
China had ambitious plans for nuclear and didn't follow through: https://twitter.com/sampenrose/status/1162772916125126656
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by spenrose 6y ago
345MW for "$1B", which is presumably the delivered cost. Add another $1B for running, insurance, and decommissioning (or show me real numbers). Walney is a new nameplate 588MW offshore wind farm; it will average close to the same
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by spenrose 6y ago
The author, Naomi Oreskes, is a prominent scholar of science history who has written extensively on the corruption of research for political purposes by, for example, tobacco companies.
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by spenrose 6y ago
Your work is a gift to the rest of us: excellent scholarship on a crucial topic. Thank you. The "economics" essay underplays two important issues and elides a third. First, learning curves. You are reluctant to let go of "eco
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by spenrose 6y ago
Agreed (Mozilla employee 2013-2017). If I were going to add something, it's how important Mozilla was c. 2004-2010 when "the Internet" was dominated by OECD knowledge workers using Windows. When iPhone brought "the Inter
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by spenrose 6y ago
I worked at Mozilla from 2013-2017, then moved into clean tech. I currently manage software engineers for a technically-not-cleantech company that is extremely effective at selling life-changing products, especially solar energy, in the glo
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by spenrose 6y ago
Gigawatt-hours are coming online in the next few months: https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/say-hello-to-th...
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by spenrose 6y ago
"VotingWorks is a non-partisan non-profit building a secure, affordable, and simple voting system. Our vote-by-mail solution lets you scale vote-by-mail quickly and affordably. Our risk-limiting audit software ensures votes cast on any
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by spenrose 6y ago
http://archive.is/qfpdV "After a stormy, dependent youth, the wind-and-solar-energy industries have matured into boring, profitable middle age. This year’s plunging interest rates make that a more appealing proposition
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Why Investors Have Learned to Love Wind and Solar Power(wsj.com)
8 points by spenrose 6y ago|4 comments
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A summary of the virtuous cycle created by cheap renewables and hydrogen electrolyzation: https://www.carboncommentary.com/blog/2020/6/17/renewables-p... Lots of comments on this thread that reveal folks
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by spenrose 6y ago
"Abstract Simulation plays a central role in population genomics studies. Recent years have seen rapid improvements in software efficiency that make it possible to simulate large genomic regions for many individuals sampled from large
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Lessons learned from bugs in models of human history(biorxiv.org)
1 points by spenrose 6y ago|1 comments
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"The purpose of this note is to provide basic details of the major large-scale experiments and commercial projects in Europe and elsewhere that demonstrate that hydrogen can fully complement green electricity and will provide the energ
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'Renewables plus hydrogen' – almost all that we need(carboncommentary.com)
2 points by spenrose 6y ago|3 comments
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Password Manager Resources from Apple(github.com)
5 points by spenrose 6y ago|0 comments
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by spenrose 6y ago
As a fellow Kubernetes-hater, this is the best explanation I've read for its virality. Thanks!
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by spenrose 6y ago
Let me Google that for you: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=hump...
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New York City's Virus Lockdown for Rats(wsj.com)
1 points by spenrose 6y ago|0 comments
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Both
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Love ack for source code and text docs: https://beyondgrep.com
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Look for Elon Musk to Unveil a New Battery That Will Shake the EV Market(marker.medium.com)
14 points by spenrose 6y ago|3 comments

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