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The methane, alchohol, butane energy cycle using algae, yeast and bacteria
The Methane, Alcohol, and Butane Energy Cycle Using Algae, Yeast, and Bacteria
This bioenergy cycle explores how microorganisms—algae, yeast, and bacteria—can work together to produce renewable fuels like methane, ethanol (alcohol), and butane. These biofuels can be created in a closed-loop system that recycles waste and maximizes energy extraction.
Surveillance footage shows moment Ukrainian far-right MP is shot
Boiled Frogs: AI Slop, Phishing, Deep-Fakes, & Spam, Spam, Spam
Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,
We're frogs in a pot that's being heated so gradually that we no longer notice the sewage is extinguishing the utility of the Web.
The Big Beautiful Bill Brings Big Changes For Taxpayers
Authored by Sandra Block via Kiplinger's Perosnal Finance,
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed by President Trump on July 4, includes tax breaks for an expansive range of taxpayers, while scrapping credits for energy-saving vehicles and home improvements.
More broadly, the legislation makes the tax cuts in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act permanent, which means tax rates won’t increase after 2025. Here’s a look at how other provisions in the bill could affect your taxes.
Beware The AI Industrial Complex
What makes an industrial complex is frontier technology, with feedback loops powerful enough to steer both markets and public policy.
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Blabbering on tv is not the same thing as running a society. In fact, politicians don't "run the society", industrialists and operators run it. Lumberjacks run the society.
Running a society is hard work, men's work! If a woman wants to run a society, she needs to grow a pair of balls, and then "free time" will be a thing of distant dreams. WTF is "free time" anyway? My time is not free.
To scale this up to generate a single watt would cost $10.5B and weigh 15 tons.
Because the spacecraft was designed to travel far from the Sun where solar panels are useless, it required a nuclear power source.
Key Features of the Power System
The Fuel: The system uses Plutonium-238 in the form of plutonium oxide.
Heat to Electricity: The natural radioactive decay of the plutonium generates heat. Thermocouples then convert this thermal energy directly into electricity.
The Units: Voyager 1 carries three RTGs, which are mounted together on a long boom to keep radiation away from the sensitive science instruments.
Initial Output: At launch in 1977, the three RTGs combined produced about 470 watts of power.
Current Power Status: due to the radioactive half-life of the plutonium and the degradation of the thermocouples. The power output decreases by about 4 watts every year