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  1. #GB #grid #frequency is staying quite low (~49.9Hz) but there is only ~5% #fossil #thermal #generation so maybe #NESO / #Elexon is going for 0% ie #fossilFree on this sunny-ish windy-ish Sunday afternoon?

  2. Intense Groundwater Flow Destabilizes Ice In North America's Great Lakes, Simulations Show
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    phys.org/news/2025-09-intense- <-- shared technical article
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    doi.org/10.1029/2025WR040581 <-- shared paper
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    "KEY POINTS:
    • Groundwater inflow enhances winter lake ice thickness by stabilizing the water column and reducing vertical mixing
    • Ice responses to groundwater are strongest in coastal zones due to higher flux and shallow bathymetry
    • Including groundwater in coupled models improves understanding of ice formation and winter lake processes…”
    #water #hydrology #groundwater #flux #flow #GreatLakes #USA #LakeMichigan #LakeHuron #ice #climatechange #model #modeling #shoreline #coast #lakeice #melt #hydrodynamic #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #thermal #stratification #winter #bathymetry #coupledmodels #processes

  3. Tuesday, September 9, 2025

    Alaska summit with Trump gave Putin what he wanted -- 19th Russian top executive dies under suspicious circumstances since full-scale invasion of Ukraine --Russia planned large-scale offensive in Zaporizhzhia direction, but Ukraine thwarted it -- Ukrainian drones strike fuel pumping station supplying diesel to Moscow ... and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

  4. Applying Thermal Lining to Rocket Tubes Requires a Monstrous DIY Spin-caster - [BPS.space] takes model rocketry seriously, and their rockets tend to get bigger a... - hackaday.com/2025/09/02/applyi #chemistryhacks #rocketmotor #spincasting #toolhacks #bps.space #thermal

  5. New magnetic model explains why delta-plutonium shrinks when heated

    Most materials expand when heated. This happens because the rising temperature causes atoms to vibrate intensely, move further…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Physics #delta-plutonium #Energy&amp;Environment #LLNL #Nuclear #plutonium #Researchers #Science #Thermal
    newsbeep.com/us/77008/

  6. New magnetic model explains why delta-plutonium shrinks when heated

    Most materials expand when heated. This happens because the rising temperature causes atoms to vibrate intensely, move further…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Physics #delta-plutonium #Energy&amp;Environment #LLNL #Nuclear #plutonium #Researchers #Science #Thermal
    newsbeep.com/us/77008/

  7. New magnetic model explains why delta-plutonium shrinks when heated

    Most materials expand when heated. This happens because the rising temperature causes atoms to vibrate intensely, move further…
    #NewsBeep #News #Physics #AU #Australia #delta-plutonium #Energy&amp;Environment #LLNL #Nuclear #plutonium #Researchers #Science #thermal
    newsbeep.com/au/62136/

  8. New magnetic model explains why delta-plutonium shrinks when heated

    Most materials expand when heated. This happens because the rising temperature causes atoms to vibrate intensely, move further…
    #NewsBeep #News #Physics #AU #Australia #delta-plutonium #Energy&amp;Environment #LLNL #Nuclear #plutonium #Researchers #Science #thermal
    newsbeep.com/au/62136/

  9. Networked geothermal power could change cities:

    ‘Every building sits on a thermal asset’

    While temperatures above ground fluctuate throughout the year, the ground stays a stable temperature,
    meaning that it is humming with #geothermal #energy that engineers can exploit.

    “Every building sits on a thermal asset,” said Cameron Best, director of business development at Brightcore Energy in New York, which deploys geothermal systems.
    ⭐️“I really don’t think there’s any more efficient or better way to heat and cool our homes.”⭐️

    And now the big utilities are beginning to take a good hard look at that system.
    A couple of months ago #Eversource #Energy commissioned the US’s first 🔸networked geothermal neighbourhood 🔸operated by a utility, in Framingham, Massachusetts.

    Pipes run down boreholes 600-700ft (about 180-215 metres) deep,
    where the temperature of the rock is consistently 55F (13C).
    A mixture of water and propylene glycol (a food additive that works here as an antifreeze) pumps through the piping,
    absorbing that geothermal energy,
    then flows to 31 residential and five commercial buildings, where fully electric #heat #pumps use the liquid to either heat or cool a space.

    If deployed across the country, these geothermal systems could go a long way in helping decarbonise buildings, which are responsible for about a third of total greenhouse gas emissions in the US.

    Once a system is in place, buildings can draw heat from water pumped from below their foundations,
    instead of burning natural gas piped in from afar.
    🔹Utilities use the same equipment to deploy networked geothermal as they do for gas lines,
    and even the same kind of pipes
    – they are just circulating fluid instead of gas.

    ♦️The networks don’t need special geology to operate, so they can be set up almost anywhere.
    The project in Framingham, then, could be the start of something big.

    To scale up, a geothermal loop such as Framingham’s might connect to an adjacent neighbourhood, and that one to another.
    “In the end, what we would like is if the gas utilities become #thermal #utilities,” said Audrey Schulman, executive director of the nonprofit climate-solutions incubator #HEETlabs
    (a spin-off of the climate nonprofit HEET, which began pitching the idea to Eversource and other utilities in 2017).
    “Each individual, shared loop can be interconnected, like Lego blocks, to grow bigger and bigger

    theguardian.com/environment/ar

  10. [#EarthDay] "It's not a day — it's a movement. Earth Day Every Day"

    This slogan perfectly sums up the day-to-day commitment of #IRAP and its staff to making the best choices - in terms of #mobility, #purchasing, #thermal renovation of buildings, #waste sorting, etc. - to minimize the #environmental footprint of our activities.

    #Earth is the only planet capable of harboring #life. Let's take care of our Earth by reducing the impact of each of our actions!

  11. [#EarthDay] "It's not a day — it's a movement. Earth Day Every Day"

    This slogan perfectly sums up the day-to-day commitment of #IRAP and its staff to making the best choices - in terms of #mobility, #purchasing, #thermal renovation of buildings, #waste sorting, etc. - to minimize the #environmental footprint of our activities.

    #Earth is the only planet capable of harboring #life. Let's take care of our Earth by reducing the impact of each of our actions!

  12. [#EarthDay] "It's not a day — it's a movement. Earth Day Every Day"

    This slogan perfectly sums up the day-to-day commitment of #IRAP and its staff to making the best choices - in terms of #mobility, #purchasing, #thermal renovation of buildings, #waste sorting, etc. - to minimize the #environmental footprint of our activities.

    #Earth is the only planet capable of harboring #life. Let's take care of our Earth by reducing the impact of each of our actions!

  13. [#EarthDay] "It's not a day — it's a movement. Earth Day Every Day"

    This slogan perfectly sums up the day-to-day commitment of #IRAP and its staff to making the best choices - in terms of #mobility, #purchasing, #thermal renovation of buildings, #waste sorting, etc. - to minimize the #environmental footprint of our activities.

    #Earth is the only planet capable of harboring #life. Let's take care of our Earth by reducing the impact of each of our actions!

  14. [#EarthDay] "It's not a day — it's a movement. Earth Day Every Day"

    This slogan perfectly sums up the day-to-day commitment of #IRAP and its staff to making the best choices - in terms of #mobility, #purchasing, #thermal renovation of buildings, #waste sorting, etc. - to minimize the #environmental footprint of our activities.

    #Earth is the only planet capable of harboring #life. Let's take care of our Earth by reducing the impact of each of our actions!

  15. #Materials with enhanced #thermal #conductivity are critical for the development of advanced devices to support applications in #communications, clean energy and #aerospace. But in order to #engineer materials with this property, scientists need to understand how #phonons, or #quantum units of the vibration of atoms, behave in a particular substance.
    #Physics #QuantumScience #MaterialScience #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2023/12/phy12152301

  16. #Hydrogen substitution is an innovative strategy for boosting the performance of #thermoelectric oxide #SrTiO3, find researchers at Tokyo Tech. Their latest study reveals that the approach lowers the #thermal #conductivity and also realizes high #electronic conductivity
    #MaterialScience #Chemistry #Environmental #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2023/04/ms04202301.

  17. 📆 March 15, 2023 10 #European 🇪🇺 #SpaceTech startups

    • The #ExplorationCompany 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 - reusable #SpaceCapsules
    #ClearSpace 🇨🇭 - #SpaceDebris removal
    #Neuraspace 🇵🇹 - #SpaceTraffic management
    #Solstorm 🇳🇴 - #SpaceDebris propulsion by magnetic 🧲 field
    #SatelliteVu 🇬🇧 - infrared and #thermal 🌡️ imaging
    #MissionSpace 🇱🇺 - #SpaceWeather monitoring
    #Skyrora 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 - #rocket 🚀 with #3Dprinted engines
    #Descartes 🇫🇷 - #data to protect assets against natural #catastrophes
    #Mavuno 🇩🇪 🇹🇿 - #Agriculture 🌱 #satellite data
    #Entocycle 🇬🇧 - create sustainable #insect 🐜 protein from organic #waste

    eu-startups.com/2023/03/to-inf

  18. Side-Channel Attacks Hack Chat with Samy Kamkar - Join us on Wednesday, March 25 at noon Pacific for the Side-Channel Attacks Hack Chat with Samy Kamk... more: hackaday.com/2020/03/23/side-c #hackadaycolumns #electromagnetic #sidechannel #thehackchat #coldboot #security #thermal #audio #dslr