Daily Shaarli
January 25, 2021
WANDA: I listen to actual scientists, and they say your idea will never work.
DILBERT: If a chipmunk listens to scientists, should I trust the chipmunk to understand what he heard?
WANDA: I don't get your point.
DILBERT: And yet you do understand science?
Trump prohibited,
utilities that supply critical defense facilities (CDF) from procuring from the People’s Republic of China, specific BPS [Bulk Power System] electric equipment that poses an undue risk to the BPS, the security or resilience of critical infrastructure, the economy, national security, or safety and security of Americans. //
Well, you and I may agree with Trump’s Secretary of Energy here, but apparently Joe Biden or whoever’s pulling his strings demurs.
Think about that for a second. One of Joe Biden’s first acts in office was to cancel an EO that Trump’s administration used to stop China from being able to sabotage our power grid.
Collaboration suite,
encrypted and open-source
Rich text
Code
Presentation
Sheet
Poll
Kanban
Whiteboard
CryptDrive
Private by design
CryptPad is built to enable collaboration while keeping data private. All content is encrypted and decrypted by your browser. This means documents, chats, and files are unreadable outside of the session where you are logged in. Even the service administrators do not have access to your information.
High CPU usage is a common problem with Window systems which slows down the system. At times, it is due to insufficient RAM, and at other times, due to an interfering program. Rather, if the system is running slow, there’s a high possibility that the disk utilization is high. Here’s how you check it:
In a 22 year period from 1977 to 1999 France built a generating system containing 58 reactors.
Its capacity was of similar size to Australia’s but generates only 40 gr CO2/kwh or less that a 20th of Australia’s emissions intensity. //
The initial scoping of the Australian Nuclear for Climate Project will reference the Westinghouse AP1000 of the type shown in Figure 1 with its electrical capacity of 1117MWe. This is based upon its recognised design merits within the Chinese and US markets, its current design approval in the US, Europe and China, its lower generating capacity and ready acceptance of US technology within Australia. This does not exclude other designs with similar power output.
HOW MANY REACTORS ARE REQUIRED?
Electricity Generation
In the remainder of this section we will provide a “broad brush” scoping of the size of the project which will be determined in detail within the actual study. The initial sites would utilise existing coal and gas generating sites and would also need to meet evolving environmental requirements.
Imapsync is an IMAP transfer tool. The purpose of imapsync is to migrate IMAP accounts or to backup IMAP accounts. IMAP, IMAP4 in fact (started December 1994), is one of the three current standard protocols used to access mailboxes, the two other being POP3 (started November 1988) and HTTP (started May 1996) with webmails, webmails are often tied to an IMAP server.
The latest imapsync published release 1.977 was written on Monday, 23-Dec-2019 20:18:02 CET
Imapsync is a command-line tool that allows incremental and recursive IMAP transfers from one mailbox to another, both anywhere on the internet or in your local network. Imapsync runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X. "Incremental" means you can stop the transfer at any time and restart it later efficiently, without generating duplicates. "Recursive" means the complete folders hierarchy can be copied, all folders, all subfolders etc. "Command-line" means it's not a graphical tool, on Windows you have to run imapsync from a batch file. Anyway there is a visual online service, you can try imapsync online at https://imapsync.lamiral.info/X/
Investors: We'd like to build zero-emissions, baseload power stations to provide affordable electricity to consumers.
Politician: There's no market for that in Australia. //
This article by James Fleay of DUNE – Down Under Nuclear Energy looks at investment in nuclear energy on the National Electricity Market.
Nuclear energy is clean, cheap, reliable and safe.
Like many advocates for nuclear energy in Australia, my colleagues and I believed that if the Federal Government would only repeal the ban on nuclear power, business or state governments would eagerly build nuclear power plants (NPPs) to rapidly cut emissions, reduce power prices and improve network reliability. In fact, this belief prompted the creation of DUNE a company formed to study the investment case and present the facts to politicians and power market participants.
After all, being thus informed, they would hasten to repeal said law…right? How wrong we were.
The federal ban is only the first challenge to deploying clean, cheap and reliable power in Australia. The second, and much bigger problem, is our liberalised, energy-only National Electricity Market (NEM) and the out-of-market subsidies that provide additional revenue to solar and wind generators. Dr Kerry Schott, the chief advisor the Energy Security Board (ESB) recently confirmed this in an article in The Australian. Among other things, she confirmed that the NEM was not functioning to attract much needed new investment in “always on” power generation. Despite high power prices and a need for investment in “always on” generation, our NEM market design will not support NPP investment[1].
The World's 101 Best Islands
Edited by Farhad Vladi
published by teNeues 2013
Size: 25 x 32 cm / 9 7/8 x 12 2/3 in.
220 pp., Hardcover with jacket
344 color photographs
Text in English, German, French, and Russian
• An indispensable guide to the most exciting island destinations of the world!
• Now everyone can find a dream island to call their own for a while!