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Melting glaciers force Switzerland and Italy to redraw part of Alpine border (theguardian.com)
At least sixty-four dead and millions without power after hurricane Helene devastates south-eastern US states with landslides and flooding, washing away roads and bridges (theguardian.com)
Control structures (xavierleroy.org)
Great examples of explaining an algorithm (or even just a process)
Jenny Chase 2024 “opinions about solar” thread (mastodon.social)
The eye test image mystery (youtube.com)
Making an atomic trampoline (youtube.com)
Scores of papers by Eliezer Masliah, prominent US neuroscientist and top National Institutes of Health official, fall under suspicion (science.org)
Global average solar Levelized Cost of Electricity stood at $0.044/kWh in 2023, says IRENA (pv-magazine.com)
Where environmentalists went wrong / It’s time for “effective environmentalism" (yaschamounk.substack.com)
Patent law is broken (USA) and EU (sort of) (technologyreview.com)
Reproducible Data Science Environments with Nix (cran.r-project.org)
Southern Water, serving 4.7mn UK customers, in discussions with private supplier to tanker water from Norwegian fjords to mitigate against potential supply shortages and drought (ft.com)
Scientific rigor proponents retract paper on benefits of scientific rigor (science.org)
Modeling shows that reconductoring can quickly beef up US grids (spectrum.ieee.org)
Lawsuits allege deadly 2021 Texas blackouts were an inside job, that energy companies reduced energy supply before storm (thehill.com)
How cities run dry (yaleclimateconnections.org)
Parts of the Sahara Desert are turning green amid an influx of heavy rainfall (abcnews.go.com)
Even solar energy’s biggest fans are underestimating it (vox.com)
Comprehensive bipartisan plastics recycling bill tackles plastics pollution in US (americanchemistry.com)
Firebrick thermal energy storage could reach 170 GW in the US by 2050 (pv-magazine.com)
'Our plan worked': How Vienna prepared itself for a 5,000-year flood (bbc.com)
One Collatz Coincidence (sligocki.com)
Amazon DynamoDB: Evolution of a Hyperscale Cloud Database Service (2022) (infoq.com)
The UK helped usher in the coal era — now it’s closing its last remaining plant (theverge.com)
Modeling Dystopia (argmin.net)
Wrecked rain gauges. Whistleblowers. Million-dollar payouts and manhunts. Then a Colorado crop fraud got really crazy. (coloradosun.com)
An astrophysicist attempts to measure the physics of Outer Wilds (thephysicsmill.com)
Arithmazium (arithmazium.org)
Malaysian Palm Oil Council urges EU to delay implementation of deforestation law (nst.com.my)