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More colourful mushrooms. Velvety up close #sporespondence #photography

European Commission has just published the final version of #EUSustainableTaxonomy regulations regarding #nuclear and fossil gas.

For nuclear power, the activities in scope for the taxonomy are:

Research, development and deployment of advanced technologies (“Generation IV”) that minimise waste and improve safety standards
New nuclear plant projects with existing technologies for energy generation of electricity or heat (“Generation III+”)
Upgrades and modifications of existing nuclear plants for lifetime extension purposes

In addition, there are strict technical requirements on safety and waste managements for these projects to qualify.

On fossil gas:

Electricity generation from fossil gaseous fuels
High-efficiency co-generation of heat/cool and power from fossil gaseous fuels
Production of heat/cool from fossil gaseous fuels in an efficient district heating and cooling system

Most importantly, fossil gas projects:

must meet specific emission thresholds, should replace an existing coal facility which cannot be replaced by #renewablenergy, should achieve certain targets in terms of emissions reductions, and fully switch to renewable or low-carbon gases by 2035

There was quite a lot of criticism from “green” activists about inclusion of nuclear (these were outright anti-scientific) and fossil gas, which were kind of justified in theory, but hypocrisy in practice, because in practice most countries that increase share of renewables also increase use of fossil fuels to compensate for intermittency.

In general, the taxonomy can be seen as a great win for climate and science-based policy in the first place.

https://ec.europa.eu/info/publications/220202-sustainable-finance-taxonomy-complementary-climate-delegated-act_en

A recent photo of #PsyLink prototype 9 :)

A 19-year-old built a flight-tracking Twitter bot. Elon Musk tried to pay him to stop. https://www.protocol.com/elon-musk-flight-tracker

A SpaceX rocket slamming into the Moon is a reminder to clean up our deep space junk

https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/27/22904427/spacex-falcon-9-rocket-second-stage-moon-collision-deep-space-junk

#Verge #RSS #News #Bot

via https://diaspora.psyco.fr/posts/8136264

#comic #sorry #thankyou #Baopu #wisdom

i'm dirty dan.

Thich Nhat Hanh composed the phrase “Man is not our Enemy” in his 1966 letter to Dr King entitled “In Search of the Enemy of Man”...

“Our enemies are not man”, he wrote, but “intolerance, fanaticism, dictatorship, cupidity, hatred and discrimination which lie within the heart of man. I believe with all my being that the struggle for equality and freedom you lead in Birmingham, Alabama… is not aimed at the whites but only at intolerance, hatred and discrimination. These are real enemies of man — not man himself.
In our unfortunate fatherland we are trying to yield desperately: do not kill man, even in man’s name. Please kill the real enemies of man which are present everywhere, in our very hearts and minds. ”

The above is tough to swallow like how eliminating things can seem right (including people) but a fine-tuning of this means a deeper look at what and where things comes from which is a might longer fix... some would say arguably right to 'kill' in certain ways especially if those people know what they do the same way as they know what we do and try to kill us or make us pay for our peace perpetuating our prison.

A fine-tuning which I will think about.

Rest in peace Thich Nhat Hanh and let us find how to rid / heal ourselves of things in life while still almost paradoxically practising certain rules for which there maybe is only rarely exception but mostly not.

Here is a nice photo of the sky.

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