The Nuclear plant south of me (Houston metro) lost half its output during the '21 grid failure

How and why a nuclear reactor shut down in Texas cold snap when energy was needed most

The shutdown of a nuclear reactor in Texas has contributed to the state’s power shortage crisis caused by extreme cold weather.

One of two reactors shut down at the South Texas Nuclear Power Station an hour southwest of Houston, knocking out about half of its 2,700 megawatts of generating capacity.

The knowledge is free.

The skilled professionals to persuade the pupil whose civil rights include refusing to learn to absorb it are not.

You can lock a kid in a library but you can't make her think. When ignorance is virtue we have lost.

Delete those and I'll go another 10%.

Intel carefully launders the money through irreversible foreign LLCs and then successfully sues to get their shares back. The cash winds up in the pockets of the CxOs and Board as they wind down operations and convert to a patent troll that lives in a lawyer's filing cabinet.

I just checked Amazon for USB C headphones. After sorting by price Low to High the cheapest was $3.49, and the price for non-sponsored headphones does not exceed $7.95 for the first 10 pages.

The first set is on sale for $3.49, normally $6.99.

The next set for $3.99 is not on sale.

Last non-sponsored set on page 10 is $7.95.

This is the Prius hypermiler thing again.

Babies are impractical. They're noisy and they smell bad, except for their tiny pink toes which smell delicious.

All of this is held up by faith in the standard candle, which has recently been thrown into question. Type 1a supernovae might not be as consistent absolute brightness as previously believed. Without that? Shrug. We lack a yardstick to measure this.

If we knew how to deal with nuclear waste we would have done so. As of this moment effectively none of the US commercial nuclear spent fuel has ever been properly disposed of. In 77 years it adds up to a lot.

While China's CO2 output is the highest globally, per capita its output is just over half of the US. That's even without considering that much of China's output is as in this article, manufacturing pollution imported from other countries. The bill for this pollution should fall on the country that consumed the manufacturing output.

>the Nokia feature phone business from Microsoft, which had in turn bought the ailing brand in 2014.

No mention that Microsoft sent executive Stephen Elop to dismantle Nokia as its CEO in 2010. Nor that in 2014 as part of the deal to acquire Nokia's phone business leaving the rest of the company to soldier on, Nokia insisted that Microsoft repossess him.

Of how much invested? Published numbers show plans for $80B ai splash. Anybody got to-date numbers? I see $14B on OpenAI and $20B for Nuance Communications. That's $34B sunk.

Also, is this crowing about as reliable as any other marketing babble? They mean to sell this service.

Don't Look Up

Watch it again.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2FzicGxU5MfwE%3Fs...

The Slashdot discussion from crossing 400 ppm in 2013:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.slashdot.org%2Fstor...

This year's monthly average peak so far, and a new record, was 430.51 ppm in May.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgml.noaa.gov%2Fccgg%2Ftren...