Links for 2022-07-15
Germany's Energy Catastrophe https://quillette.com/2022/07/14/germanys-energy-catastrophe/
Worldchanging Molten Salt Nuclear Energy https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2022/07/worldchanging-molten-salt-nuclear-energy.html
Nuclear power can help the democratic world achieve energy independence https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01733-9
South Korea is going to build four nuclear power plants. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-05/south-korea-to-build-nuclear-plants-to-meet-net-zero-targets
MIT Spinout Tapping Into the Million-Year Energy Source Below Our Feet https://scitechdaily.com/mit-spinout-tapping-into-the-million-year-energy-source-below-our-feet/
“Hydrogen efficiency will beat expectations...After spending the last six months looking at cutting edge hydrogen tech I believe that the prevailing view that hydrogen is inefficient needs an update. There’s much innovation to be excited about on the horizon.” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1545409816130207744.html
Rocket Lab Offers Next-Day Shipping to Space — “It wasn’t long ago that orbital launches were something that took years of planning and months of tests and careful preparation. But Rocket Lab’s new program will enable customers to show up at the launch site with their payload in the boot and have it in orbit 24 hours later. Premium next-day rates will apply, of course.” https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/06/rocket-lab-offers-next-day-shipping-to-space/
Autonomous Drones Challenge Human Champions in First ‘Fair’ Race https://spectrum.ieee.org/zurich-autonomous-drone-race
"This Fungus Has More Than 17,000 Sexes: Advances in sequencing technologies have finally allowed researchers to zero in on the genetic diversity underlying the incredible mating system of shelf fungi" https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/this-fungus-has-more-than-17-000-sexes-69930
That Ukraine is now able to hit various Russian ammunition depots is a stark reminder of how much the Russian armed forces suck in comparison to NATO.
The Russians knew ahead of time when the Ukrainian armed forces would be able to utilize HIMARS systems yet failed to move their ammunition out of range.
More importantly, Washington restricted the range of the supplied rockets to 70 kilometers rather than the possible 300 km range. In other words, Washington believes that this is the most Russia can handle without freaking out.