About fossil gas a replacement fuel for #nuclear power:
You need 20 giant LNG tankers, to produce the 10 TWh of electricity that one German nuclear plant produces anually.
The nuclear power plant needs only 60 tons of fuel rods, which fits in 3-4 trucks.
Also, the gas will release ~40x more greenhouse gases per each kWh produced.
Sri Lanka hired organic & natural advisors such as Vandana Shiva to reform its agricultural sector... and ended up banning "chemical fertilisers" and pesticides.
As result, it saw a tragically low harvest which results in food shortages and threatens whole branches of Sri Lankan industry.
Protests of farming and scientific community who predicted this failure were ignored.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/9/1/organic-food-revolution-sri-lanka-tea-industry
The official plan for Belgium #Energiewende transitions from 12 gCO2eq/kWh fuel to... 400 gCO2eq/kWh fuel. Just as in Germany, someone has completely missed the point - it was reduction of CO2 that was the primary goal of Energiewende!!!
By publishing this nonsense about Westinghouse contract in Ukraine, Russian state media do irreparable harm to its own #nuclear industry βRosatom still provides fuel and services to Ukraine.
Ukraineβs state owned nuclear utility Energoatom signed an exclusive a $30 billion dollar agreement with Westinghouse to complete construction of Khmelnitsky.
In Nalchik, Russia a disabled activist was sentenced to 2 years suspended sentence for attack on a policeman.
In the original complaint the policemen witnessed the suspect grabbed one of them and tried to suffocate. This caused a bit of confusion when the suspect came to the court and it became evident his disability is... lack of hands.
After initial confusion the court promptly fixed the witness statement to a more doable version, where the suspect hits the policeman with his head.
Roe v Wade case specifically isn't the best symbol or example in the human rights debate, as it has been driven by deceit and lies from the very beginning, on both sides. I understand this is how the US precedent law worked, but still.
> McCorvey was no longer claiming her pregnancy was a result of rape, and later acknowledged that she had lied about having been raped, in hope to circumvent a Texas law that banned abortions except when the woman's life is in danger
1 September 1983 #USSR shot down South Korean passenger KAL 007. For a week USSR denied it completely. Then they argued it was not a civilian plane but a spy plane. The plane was shot down in international air space and USSR shortly identified the place of the crash and dragged remains using trawlers. Only in 1992 USSR declassified documents and transcripts from the military command showing the shoot down was done in mistake.
According to HTTP Archive 62% out of top 1m websites load vulnerable JavaScript libraries. There's a significant drop from 2020 where the average was ~80% (!), apparently mass-scale web attacks taught some lessons https://httparchive.org/reports/state-of-the-web
Phil Valentine, Anti-Vax and Anti-Mask Radio Host, Dies at 61 of COVID Complications
Right-wing, anti-masker radio host Phil Valentine had mocked the vaccine prior to his lengthy battle with the virus.
https://www.thewrap.com/phil-valentine-anti-vax-anti-mask-radio-host-dies-covid-complications/
Marc Bernier, Anti-Vax Florida Radio Host, Dies at 65 From COVID-19
https://www.thewrap.com/marc-bernier-anti-vax-radio-host-dies-from-covid-19/
Polish expat into UK. Information security engineer. Caver & cave rescuer (thus the bat). NHS volunteer & blood donor.