Archive for May, 2017
Switzerland Votes to Phase Out Nuclear Power
May 25th, 2017Via: MIT Technology Review: It’s a tough time to be in the nuclear business. In Europe, Germany banned construction of new plants following the Fukushima disaster in 2011, and Austria stopped the practice long ago. The U.S., meanwhile, has a fleet of aging and costly reactors, and recent attempts to build new ones have been […]
Microsoft Has a Plan to Add DNA Data Storage to Its Cloud
May 25th, 2017This will probably be viable when you can hook up a Mr. Fusion to your Tesla, but it’s an interesting read anyway. Via: MIT Technology Review: The plans signal how seriously some tech companies are taking the seemingly strange idea of saving videos, photos, or valuable documents in the same molecule our genes are made […]
Baking Soda Shortage?
May 25th, 2017A cartel combined with absurd government regulations can look a lot like a doomed socialist state at times. In Venezuela, for example, there are shortages of food, toilet paper, medicines etc. Pretty standard stuff, Comrade. But in the U.S., how is it possible that the there’s a shortage of solutions of sodium bicarbonate? Key words […]
Thai Company to Build a Tesla Style Lithium Ion Battery Factory
May 25th, 2017Via: Bloomberg: A little-known company from Thailand with grand ambitions in clean energy wants to take on Tesla Inc. at its own game. Energy Absolute Pcl, which has morphed in recent years from a producer of biodiesel to Thailand’s leading renewable energy company, is eyeing a major push into energy storage with plans to develop […]
Two People Had Called Government Hotline to Report Manchester Bomber
May 25th, 2017Via: BBC: It has also emerged two people who had known Abedi at college made separate calls to a hotline to warn the police about his extremist views.
UK to Deploy Troops After Attack
May 23rd, 2017Via: Reuters: Britain’s armed forces will be deployed to boost security, Prime Minister Theresa May said on Tuesday, as the country raised its terror threat to the highest level of “critical” after a suicide attack in Manchester that killed 22 people, including children. May said members of the armed forces would be positioned at key […]
Daimler Begins Construction on Lithium-Ion Battery Factory in Germany
May 22nd, 2017Via: Ars Technica: On Monday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited the site of a future lithium-ion battery factory in the eastern German town of Kamenz. The factory is being developed by Mercedes-Benz manufacturer Daimler, which will devote approximately €500 million (or $562 million) to churning out batteries for electric vehicles and stationary storage. If the […]
Manchester Arena Blast
May 22nd, 2017Update: BBC: Twenty-two people have been killed and 59 injured in what Theresa May called an “appalling, sickening, terrorist attack” at Manchester Arena. A lone male suicide attacker set off a homemade bomb in the foyer at 22:33 BST on Monday at the end of a concert by US singer Ariana Grande. — Via: Guardian: […]
Kim Dotcom Claims Seth Rich Was WikiLeaks Source
May 22nd, 2017Via: Kim Dotcom / Twitter: I knew Seth Rich. I know he was the @Wikileaks source. I was involved. https://t.co/MbGQteHhZM — Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) May 20, 2017
U.S.-Saudi Arabia Weapons Deal Worth $350 billion Over 10 Years
May 21st, 2017Update: Ivanka Trump’s Women Entrepreneurs Fund Takes $100 Million from Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates From BAE to Settle Bribery Cases for More Than $400 Million: This is right out of Yes, Minister – The Moral Dimension. Here’s an audio clip from that episode. Note that the name of the “fictional” company is BES, […]
