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Dalahraun #eruption.

Photo credit: Igor Koroliov

#Iceland #Volcano #Grindavík #Svartsengi #BlueLagoon

Work on continues building up the L3 barrier as lava nears its top, by adding more material straight atop the crusted-over active flow. (photo: Stefán Jón Ingvarsson).

If this thing keeps on going for years (shield-forming eruptions), the #BlueLagoon and #Svartsengi are going to look like a crater..

#Iceland #Volcano #Eruption

The #BlueLagoon's emergency communication to guests seems to be... subpar.

(Silica Hotel is at the Blue Lagoon)

#Iceland #Volcano #Eruption

They're apparently aiming to reopen the #BlueLagoon a week from now. How? I have no bloody idea...

I mean, first off, are they scheduling the end of the #eruption? I mean, one eruption lasted 54 days. Active lava flows block the route from the north. Are they planning to come in through #Grindavik

#Iceland #Volcano

This "small" #eruption is proving to be much more of a pain than the last "big" eruption. :Þ The lava has nearly reached the height of the berms around the #BlueLagoon and the #Svartsengi thermal plant. Workers will be working all night to raise them.

Photos: RÚV / Ragnar Visage ; Stefán Jón

#Iceland #Volcano

"Nothing to see here. Move along."

#Iceland #Volcano #Eruption #BlueLagoon

Sometimes it feels like the whole #Musk clan wants to end up in prison.

#ElonMusk #MayeMusk #USPolitics #Politics #Election #Election2024 #VoterFraud

Meme accomplished.

#TomSawyer #Twitter #Elon #ElonMusk #Musk #Politics

Further work on my #Tesla voting spreadsheet to find how extreme the votes would need to break for #Musk to get or not get the new compensation package. The numbers look a lot worse for Musk now

A breakdown.

1) Known entities, such as Leo Koguan, #ARK, #CALPERS, & the protest letter senders are in.

2) #Vanguard voted AGAINST in 2018. I can't imagine that they'd vote FOR now. Not as sure how their mutual funds will vote, or what %.

#stock #investment #Business #markets #stockmarket #ESG #elon

Well, the new owners of #TheOnion are off to a good start ;)

https://www.theonion.com/iranian-president-stoned-to-death-with-mountain-1851488487

#Iran #Raisi #EbrahimRaisi

8. "What #mineral, produced by #subglacial #eruptions and spread via #aeolian distribution, is a problem for farmers in #Iceland, and why?"

#ChatGPT3 #GPT3 failed this (admittedly difficult) question (the answer is allophane, which binds phosphorus and other minerals, water, and reduces soil cohesion).

@starkmiriam #Musk ended up mortgaging everything he had to save the company that #Eberhard nearly ran into the ground. And thankfully, it worked (mainly due to an investment by #Daimler to build an electric Smart car - if it had come a week later, paychecks would have bounced).

#ElonMusk kept resisting becoming the CEO because he was busy with #SpaceX; after the company's third CEO left, he finally accepted (becoming the fourth) it in late 2008.

A #LFP #battery is a #steel can containing primarily (A) #graphite (synthetic or natural), and (B) #iron #phosphate (which is basically fertilizer). The next largest component is #electrolyte, primarily organic carbonates (a #petrochemical #solvent - on the lower toxicity end as far as solvents go). Next most common are the metal foils (#alumium and #copper). Next is the (#plastic) separator membrane.

In tiny quantities at the bottom of the list? Electrolyte additives and the #lithium itself.

@cnishina You do realize that in the #US a #car catches fire *every three minutes*, right?

Per mile driven, #EVs are an order of magnitude less likely to catch #fire. Because they're not sitting on a tank of highly flammable liquid with no #FireSuppression systems at all , plumbed up to a hot #engine block and past an #exhaust hot enough to ignite dry #grass and surrounded by friction sources.

Also, see that "tslaq of the world"? $TSLAQ is a short-seller group.

@filmcritic Also, the fact that you think that #Tesla fans aren't familiar with #Eberhard... I mean, where to even start? That's like saying, "#Apple fans don't know that there was this guy named #Wozniak...."

@[email protected] @Aznorth @stux This is based on:

* Obviously, colour (#jasper is just "any red #chalcedony", chalcedony being semiprecious #flint/#chert - that is, cryptocrystaline #quartz)

* Availability in large sizes

* #Conchoidal fracture

* Brittle

Obviously I can't do any more tests than that from here!

@[email protected] @dominicvfx Also always left out of this story: #Eberhard was independently wealthy. He had just sold off his company NuvoMedia to Gemstar for $187M. Yet he put very little of his own money into the company; it was #Musk who risked everything he owned to save it, having to clean up Eberhard's mess.

Literally, Eberhard was telling the board that the cars were going to cost a little over half what his actual numbers said they were going to cost.

@[email protected] @dominicvfx Tesla did not "come from the work of #Eberhard and #Tarpenning". When #Musk and Eberhard/Tarpenning joined forces, (A) Musk was already working on exactly the same project, even with the same ACP powertrain (only on a Noble chassis), and (B) Tesla was a shell company with no tech of its own and not even the legal rights to its own name. And they did not "step down"; Eberhard was fired by the board (even his own appointee) for stringing them along on a pack of lies.

@ross Play #KerbalSpaceProgram for a while, you'll get a much better understanding of the (very counterintuitive) nature of #OrbitalDynamics :)

Oh, and how did they calculate things in the #1960s? While final trajectories were analyzed with (compute-intensive) #NBodySimulations, rough trajectories were created with "#PatchedConics", which basically sort of converts a trajectory into a #geometry problem.

@mcfellaface Oh man, I forgot all about the #Demoscene! Haven't watched a #demo since the mid/late 1990s - #FutureCrew and all of them. What people managed to fit into a couple dozen K (or even just a few K) was staggering, and simultaneously (A) inspirational and (B) giving a sense that I'll never be that good at coding ;)

@Timmy ... (#plastic) separator membrane. Beyond all this, there's a variety of minor additives, as well as the small amount of #lithium itself.

The main limiting factor in scaleup however is none of this; it's plant capacity. And in particular, film synthesis for the jelly rolls. Traditionally this is done with a wet-phase process, but this requires #VacuumOven.s the length of a football pitch for each line to extract the #solvent.

@Timmy While there's lots of #nickel out there, the rate of scaling up battery-grade nickel production is believed to be slower than the capability to scale up #LFP production, hence the expected shift to LFP in the coming years.

So we've now covered the #anode and #cathode. The next greatest bulk comes from the casing (#steel) and the #electrolyte (mainly organic carbonates - a #petrochemical product). After this comes the #alumium and #copper current collector foils, then the...

@Timmy (2) #cobalt is already used in a wide variety of things, even #oil refining itself.

#Nickel is the bulk of the long-range #cathode.s, and indeed, its limiting mineral. Most of it today goes towards making #StainlessSteel, where it's a major alloying agent (alongside #chromium). Globally, #Indonesia is the biggest producer; in #NorthAmerica, #Canada is the biggest, thanks to the #Sudbury bolide deposit. #Australia has the largest resources.

@Timmy Of course, pointing out that #liion #batteries are only 1-3% #lithium automatically raises the question, "Okay, then what are they made out of?" And there's two major groupings at present. Shorter-range #EVs tend to use #LFP (Lithium Iron Phosphate) while longer-range EVs tend to use #NMC (Nickel Manganese Cobalt) or #NCA (Nickel Cobalt Alumium). These terms describe the #cathode - the anode in each case is #graphite (either natural or synthetic)

@[email protected] Ah, you were thinking of home scale #BatteryStorage, while I was thinking of utility-scale #GridStorage. :)

@tomstoreboe @elonmusk The average #EV contains 5-10kg of lithium, the vast majority of which is recycled at the end of its life.

The average #ICE vehicle burns its *entire weight in oil* every single year of its ~20 year lifespan. No recovery.

#Lithium is produced from sun-dried saltwater (#salar) or from super-concentrated ore mainly in a single mine in Australia (#spodumene / #Greenbushes). #Oil is one of the most polluting things humans produce.

Luddites are the problem, not the solution.

@rmattila74 What does the #Nordpool human-readable data look like? Is it possible to automate?