There aren’t too much more than 20M Ukrainians left under Kiev control. Are they going to force the entire population at gunpoint to leave for Europe? Are Kiev forces going to demolish every single home on their way out? Because otherwise, most people, if they haven’t already left, will just stay where they are.

This is parody, right?

I’m skeptical too, mainly because i think energy losses are hard to prevent in a wireless charging system, but let me just play devil’s advocate here for a bit: what if you don’t want to get out of the car to plug the charger in? What about having less exposed components? Charging cables can be vandalized or stolen, no? And i’m sure some people are also considering the possibility of charging while driving if you put them under the roads (i personally think that is not going to be feasible in practice any time soon, but who knows?).

Who needs the AfD when Germany already has a fascist government that hates freedom of speech and loves genocide and war?

The post-Yugoslav order in the Balkans was always inherently unstable and is eventually going to fall apart when the Western imperialist forces propping it up decline and retreat out of the region. Bosnia is one of the most artificial and contrived constructs in a region full of nonsensical statelets. Maybe it won’t happen this year or the next, but it is inevitable that there will be a rebalancing of the situation and a redrawing of the borders to something that makes more sense when the Western occupiers and their bases are finally forced to pull out.

they’ve almost been completely pushed out of latin-america

This isn’t remotely true. China is the biggest trade partner of most countries in Latin America and this is only going to grow regardless which government is in charge. You can’t “push out” China when China is irreplaceable. The US is fighting a war they have already lost.

The irony being of course that the so-called “EU Disinfo Lab” is itself one of the worst purveyors of disinformation in the world. Nothing good happens in Nazi worshipping Lithuania and nothing good is sponsored by BruSSels demons. If you didn’t know anything else about this, those two facts alone should be sufficient red flags.

If you plan on travelling do it sooner rather than later, while it is still possible to travel. By this time next year there may be global fuel shortages.

Turns out Russia was right to pull out of the Bologna system. They warned us that this system was pulling European education down. We didn’t listen. Eastern Europe used to have the best education system in the world before the EU ruined it.

This very much sounds like a West-only AI cartel proposal and, in fact, if you read Dario’s essay - under the very telling “pacing within democracies” chapter - he specifically says he’d need the US government to issue an “antitrust waiver” for this.

The plan transparently looks like this: agree among themselves not to compete too hard, get an antitrust waiver to make it legal, and while they’re at it, get Washington - under the veneer of “safety” - to kneecap Chinese competitors because only “democratic” models can be in this “safe pacing” club.

I’m not even exaggerating: Dario pretty much writes this explicitly.

There are 3 steps to his plan and step 2 is literally: “Frontier AI companies within democratic countries coordinate to establish common safety standards as well as limits on the rate of unchecked AI progress” -> the “unchecked AI progress” that would need “limits” is simply AI progress that happens outside their agreement. Another word for it is simply competition.

He also explicitly writes that “a key part of pacing within democracies is to keep democracies’ AI lead over autocracies as large as possible.” You can’t possibly be clearer than this

https://nitter.kareem.one/RnaudBertrand/status/2099019556769656854

Yeah, good point.

Compressed air energy storage works by using excess electricity during off-peak hours to drive compressors that press air into underground storage caverns. When power demand rises, the compressed air is released to generate electricity.

As a form of physical energy storage, the technology can help balance supply and demand in the power grid and support the large-scale integration of renewable energy. Unlike fossil-fuel-based peaking plants, salt cavern compressed air energy storage does not rely on combustion, making it a low-carbon and environmentally friendly option.

The Jintan project makes use of deep salt caverns, which are regarded as ideal storage spaces because salt formations are dense and highly impermeable, reducing the risk of air leakage.

During periods of low electricity demand, surplus grid power is used to compress air to more than 130 atmospheres before injecting it into the salt caverns. During peak demand, the stored high-pressure air is released to drive turbines and generate electricity.

China has a growing number of salt cavern energy storage projects, but this facility stands out for both scale and technical complexity.

This is awesome. In other countries old salt caverns are used to store nuclear waste or are turned into tourist attractions (which is not a bad thing per se…if you have never visited a big salt mine i highly recommend you do at least once in your life, it is quite impressive being in such huge halls so deep underground), it’s nice to see that China can also use them to help with the integration of renewable energies.

According to CCTV News, the project also features Asia’s largest single-set thermal storage water tank matrix in the compressed-air storage sector. The system includes 16 spherical water tanks, each capable of holding 3,500 cubic meters of water, with a total volume of 56,000 cubic meters — roughly equivalent to 22 standard swimming pools.

These thermal storage tanks play a key role in the process by capturing heat generated during air compression and reusing it later to warm the released compressed air, improving efficiency and reducing energy loss.

This is exactly what I was hoping to read. One of my main concerns with compressed air energy storage as opposed to pumped hydro storage solutions is that the compression and expansion cycles necessarily involve a release of heat (physics makes this unavoidable) which means a loss of a percentage of the stored energy with each cycle.

If a part of that waste heat can be captured and recycled that’s great. I wonder though how the efficiency compares with pumped water reservoirs for energy storage. My intuition says the latter is probably still better.

If you drastically change the body geometry you need to also overhaul the control software, which would be a lengthy and costly process. The humanoid design has been extensively worked on already and you can more or less copy and paste chunks of the programming when designing a new application using that same geometry.

Phew…i misread that title for a moment as cop breeding. Glad to see it is just something cool and normal.