Great Falls Park, Virginia

A record year for temperatures in India and China #climatechange

Franceinfo

Crise climatique : 2024, une année record pour les températures en Inde et en Chine

Aucune région n'est épargnée par le dérèglement climatique et la hausse des températures en 2024. Ma...

Photovoltaic ceramic solar panels: 1,000 Times More Powerful than Solar Panels! These articles drive me crazy. How real is this? Is it production ready? Further research just leads further down the rabbit hole... #renewableenergy https://www.riazor.org/news/photovoltaic-ceramic-new-solar-panels/2892/

"In 1976, Stamatis Moraitis was given six months to live ... he left America to spend his last days on earth on the Greek island of Ikaria. Months became years. And as time passed, his health did not worsen. In fact, it improved." #ecopsychology

The man who forgot to die

In 1976, Stamatis Moraitis was given six months to live. His cancer had advanced; the doctors suggested he get his affairs in order, because the en...

"How do you shrink a cloud’s worth of material into tiny, low power devices?”  #analog #ai

Embedded Computing Design

Ambiq Announces New Apollo5 SoC for Efficient AI - Embedded Computing Design

In a new release, semiconductor company Ambiq has revealed its Apollo510, the first member of the company’s Apollo5 SoC family, designed to d...

It was once normal for economists to imagine a world with less work. What happened? #postscarcity #solarpunk

Vox

A utopian strand of economic thought is making a surprising comeback

It was once normal for economists to imagine a world with less work. What happened?

Bookmarking Alignment. You know who you are. #books #writing

Not a movie. #AI Deepfake scammer walks off with $25 million in first-of-its-kind AI heist

Ars Technica

Deepfake scammer walks off with $25 million in first-of-its-kind AI heist

Hong Kong firm reportedly tricked by simulation of multiple people in video chat.

Norway’s Deep-Sea Mining Legitimate lift for renewable energy or greenwashing? #solarpunk #renewableenergy

WIRED

Norway’s Deep-Sea Mining Decision Is a Warning

Politicians claim the move could provide vital minerals for the green transition. Critics say opening up exploration creates geopolitical headaches...

Vortex Bladeless has designed an upright cylindrical wind energy harvester that works by oscillating rather than using a rotating blade. Not sure how real this wind tech with prurient nickname is.

The Cool Down

Good vibes created by bladeless wind energy tech: Can a 'skybrator' contribute to wind energy generation?

Startup Vortex Bladeless has designed an upright cylindrical wind energy harvester that works by oscillating rather than using a rotating blade.

#solarpunk #renewableenergy

Don’t Fall for Big Oil’s Carbon Capture Deceptions #environmental #solarpunk #climatechange

Scientific American

Don

Carbon capture technology is a PR fig leaf designed to help Big Oil delay the phaseout of fossil fuels

AI and the Rise of Mediocrity "Because they cannot truly innovate, everything that predictive language and image models will produce will be a sequel to what came before: not an original idea, but a mash-up of our old tropes, repackaged for our consumption."

TIME

AI and the Rise of Mediocrity

'AI thrives when our need for originality is low and our demand for mediocrity is high,' writes Ray Nayler.

#llm #llms #chatgpt #ai

"Geothermal energy was once confined in theory to areas of geothermal activity, but if one drills deep enough, there’s extreme heat from the planet’s core essentially everywhere to be harnessed to make steam and drive turbines to create carbon-free electricity 24 hours a day when the wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t shining."

Good News Network

New Google Geothermal Electricity Project Could Be a Milestone for Clean Energy

, Google made an early bet on this enhanced geothermal technology, and partnered with the Utah-based Fervo Energy to deliver 3.5MW of power.

#solarpunk #geothermal #renewableenergy

Art Farmer – Farmer's Market

Songlink/Odesli

Farmer's Market (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) by Art Farmer

Listen now on your favorite streaming service. Powered by Songlink/Odesli, an on-demand, customizable smart link service to help you share songs, a...

#jazz #music #vinyl #nowplaying Alto Saxophone – Gigi Gryce (tracks: C1 to C4) Art Direction – Tony Lane (2) Baritone Saxophone – Danny Bank (tracks: B3 to B5), Oscar Estell (tracks: B1, B2) Bass – Addison Farmer (tracks: C3, C4 to D4), Monk Montgomery (tracks: B1, B2), Percy Heath (tracks: A1 to A4, B3 to C2) Drums – Joe Jones* (tracks: C3, C4), Art Taylor (tracks: B3, B4, B5), Elvin Jones (tracks: D3, D4), Herbie Lovelle (tracks: D1, D2), Kenny Clarke (tracks: A1 to A4, C1, C2), Sonny Johnson (tracks: B1, B2) Engineer – Rudy Van Gelder Liner Notes [Summer 1973] – Dick Hadlock* Photography By [Cover] – Lee Tanner Piano – Duke Jordan (tracks: C3, C4), Horace Silver (tracks: A1 to A4, B3 to B5), Kenny Drew (tracks: D3, D4), Quincy Jones (tracks: B1, B2), Wynton Kelly (tracks: D1, D2) Producer – Bob Weinstock Remastered By – Mike Reese Tenor Saxophone – Charlie Rouse (tracks: B3 to B5), Cliff Solomon* (tracks: B1, B2), Hank Mobley (tracks: D3, D4), Sonny Rollins (tracks: A1 to A4) Trombone – Jimmy Cleveland (tracks: B1 to B5) Trumpet, Horns, Flugelhorn – Art Farmer

"Landing on the planet Regis III, navigator Rohan and his crew discover a form of life that has apparently evolved from autonomous, self-replicating machines — perhaps the survivors of a “robot war.” Rohan and his men are forced to confront the classic quandary: What course of action can humanity take once it has reached the limits of its knowledge?" https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/stanislaw-lems-prescient-vision-of-artificial-life/ #books #bookstr #scifi #StanislawLem

"In a post-scarcity society, why is the Federation so dull when it comes to eating? This suggests that the availability of any dish at any time via replicator has actually stifled the culinary traditions of Earth and perhaps the Federation at large." Finally, someone gets how evil post scarcity is.

Did Post-Scarcity Kill Earthlings' Culinary Traditions?

Let's look at why the culinary habits of 24th Century humans are stuck in the 20th.

#postscarcity #startrek #scifi

The 2023 U.S. Department of Agriculture's "plant hardiness zone map" is about 2.5 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the 2012 map across the contiguous U.S. https://www.npr.org/2023/11/17/1213600629/-it-feels-like-im-not-crazy-gardeners-arent-surprised-as-usda-updates-key-map #climatechange #solarpunk

Lee Morgan – The Sidewinder

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The Sidewinder by Lee Morgan

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#jazz #music #vinyl #nowplaying Bass – Bob Cranshaw Design – Reid Miles Drums – Billy Higgins Engineer – Rudy Van Gelder Liner Notes – Leonard Feather Mastered By – Ron McMaster Photography By [Cover] – Francis Wolff Piano – Barry Harris (2) Producer – Alfred Lion Tenor Saxophone – Joe Henderson Trumpet – Lee Morgan

"Bifacial solar panels capture diffused or reflected sunlight that hits the back of the panel, rather than only capturing solar energy on the sun-facing side ... Researchers are already exploring ways to enhance this ‘ground albedo’ effect with different types of ground coverings, including vegetation. That could lead to additional enhancements in solar cell efficiency on farmland." #solarpunk #renewableenergy

CleanTechnica

Bifacial Solar Panels To Unlock Agrivoltaic Potential

New bifacial solar panels could help make the economic case for agrivoltaic projects that help farmers conserve water and soil, too.

"Portugal produced more than enough renewable power to serve all its customers for six straight days."

Canary Media

Portugal just ran on 100% renewables for six days in a row

For nearly a week, the country of 10 million met customer needs with wind, hydro and solar — a test run for operating the grid without fossil fuels.