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In this episode of The Hydrogen Podcast, we break down three massive hydrogen breakthroughs from around the world:

El coche más importante de Tesla tiene que resucitar a la empresa, y a Elon Musk parece que no le importa nada. Repasamos rápidamente el nuevo Model Y de Tesla, sus características, cambios y la gran diferencia entre su presentación y la del Cybertruck. Analizamos a fondo las ventas de Tesla en Europa y cómo la competencia está afectando el mercado de coches eléctricos, comentamos los desafíos y el crecimiento de Tesla en el mercado europeo y global, así como la competencia que enfrenta de marcas chinas. - Tesla's Model Y Refresh - The Little Things - Photos: 2025 Tesla Model Y | Motor1.com - The new Tesla Model Y refresh will be the first S3XY model ever to feature a powered frunk! - x.com/TroyTeslike/status/1877354877883486452 - Tesla receives 50,000 orders for new Model Y on first day, report says | Electrek - Electric Vehicle registrations in Europe: 15 countries, majority of BEV market - Electric Vehicle registrations in Europe: 15 countries, majority of BEV market - Max de Zegher on X: "Wild that with 1k new locations this year, @TeslaCharging is one of the fastest growing tenants and real estate dealmakers in the world. With 5.2 TWh (and growing ~30% YoY) also quickly becoming one of the largest corporate energy users. The CO2 and gasoline that we're offsetting" / X - Huawei unveils unmanned EV charging robotic arm [video] - El youtuber más famoso y fanático de Tesla y de Apple se compró una Cybertruck, pero la vendió a los 9 meses: "Prefiero una Rivian" - Big Tech Alert on X: "

Alors que Donald Trump moquait la France en la qualifiant de pays sans gaz ni pétrole, Emmanuel Macron lui a répondu avec une pointe d'humour. « Plug, baby, plug », a-t-il lancé lors du sommet sur l'intelligence artificielle. Une manière de rappeler que l'électricité décarbonée française, issue du nucléaire et des renouvelables, représente un atout stratégique pour l'IA et l'industrie. Car l'intelligence artificielle est très énergivore, et les géants du secteur cherchent à implanter leurs data centers dans des pays capables de répondre à cette demande croissante. EDF entend bien tirer parti de cette opportunité et a dévoilé une stratégie ambitieuse pour accueillir ces infrastructures en France. Avec des terrains disponibles, une électricité bas carbone et des infrastructures existantes, l'énergéticien français a de solides arguments pour séduire les acteurs du numérique.La France dispose aujourd'hui d'un avantage majeur : son mix électrique faiblement carboné et sa stabilité énergétique. EDF, troisième propriétaire foncier du pays après l'État et la SNCF, possède 45 000 hectares de terrain disponibles, de quoi attirer les investisseurs en quête d'espaces pour leurs infrastructures. À titre de comparaison, d'autres pays européens, comme l'Irlande, peinent à satisfaire la demande énergétique des centres de données. Aux États-Unis, la solution envisagée est encore la construction de nouvelles centrales à gaz. La France, elle, bénéficie d'une production électrique décarbonée à 95%, avec une hausse annuelle de 2% en moyenne.EDF a d'ailleurs déjà identifié six sites clés pour accueillir ces futurs centres de données. Parmi eux, des friches industrielles en Île-de-France, Grand Est et Rhône-Alpes, totalisant 150 hectares. Un atout considérable, ces terrains étant déjà raccordés au réseau électrique et équipés des transformateurs nécessaires. Une offre presque "clé en main", selon Le Figaro. Pour EDF, l'implantation de ces data centers représente bien plus qu'une simple opportunité. L'entreprise prévoit de diversifier ses revenus, non seulement grâce à la vente d'électricité, mais aussi par la location des terrains. Un appel à manifestation d'intérêt va être lancé auprès des opérateurs, avec des premiers chantiers prévus dès 2026. Les ambitions sont élevées : sur les seuls sites d'EDF, les capacités installées pourraient dépasser 2 GW, soit 17 TWh de consommation annuelle. Un chiffre supérieur aux prévisions initiales de 20 TWh pour l'ensemble des sites retenus par l'État. Un point mérite cependant d'être souligné : les data centers fonctionnent 24h/24, ce qui s'adapte parfaitement à la production continue des centrales nucléaires. Mais leur manque de flexibilité en cas de pics de consommation pourrait poser problème. EDF se veut rassurant et affirme pouvoir gérer cette contrainte sans compromettre l'approvisionnement des autres clients industriels. La France pourrait donc bien devenir un nouveau hub énergétique pour l'IA en Europe, avec EDF en premier fournisseur des géants du numérique. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

This week,Decouple Germany correspondent Noah Rettberg, a physics laboratory technician and precision machinist, talks about the potential to restart German nuclear reactors. Anew analysis from Radiant Energy Group examines Germany's potential to redeploy nuclear power using its existing reactor fleet. Through assessment of recently shuttered reactors, their report suggests Germany could restore up to 13 gigawatts of nuclear power to the European grid within eight years – potentially at much lower costs and faster speeds than new construction. As Germany's electricity imports have risen sharply – from 9 TWh in 2023 to 25 TWh by late 2024 – and its economy faces headwinds, the country's nuclear infrastructure might offer a path forward if the political will appears.

With DeepSeek and other LLMs achieving reduced energy intensity, data centers in the US can still add easily 40 TWh of power demand per year - under President Trump, some of this will be met by gas plants.Batteries have replaced gas plants in the new-build category in the Polish and UK capacity markets - but when will the capacity market be designed around long-duration storage instead?Western wind OEMs have posted restored profits and have returned to the pursuit of large-size turbine designs, after a multi-year period of cost pressure.

The rapid rise of data centers has put many power industry demand forecasters on edge. Some predict the power-hungry nature of the facilities will quickly create problems for utilities and the grid. ICIS, a data analytics provider, calculates that in 2024, demand from data centers in Europe accounted for 96 TWh, or 3.1% of total power demand. “Now, you could say it's not a lot—3%—it's just a marginal size, but I'm going to spice it up a bit with two additional layers,” Matteo Mazzoni, director of Energy Analytics at ICIS, said as a guest on The POWER Podcast. “One is: that power demand is very consolidated in just a small subset of countries. So, five countries account of over 60% of that European power demand. And within those five countries, which are the usual suspects in terms of Germany, France, the UK, Ireland, and Netherlands, half of that consumption is located in the FLAP-D market, which sounds like a fancy new coffee, but in reality is just five big cities: Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam, Paris, and Dublin.” Predicting where and how data center demand will grow in the future is challenging, however, especially when looking out more than a few years. “What we've tried to do with our research is to divide it into two main time frames,” Mazzoni explained. “The next three to five years, where we see our forecast being relatively accurate because we looked at the development of new data centers, where they are being built, and all the information that are currently available. And, then, what might happen past 2030, which is a little bit more uncertain given how fast technology is developing and all that is happening on the AI [artificial intelligence] front.” Based on its research, ICIS expects European data center power demand to grow 75% by 2030, to 168 TWh. “It's going to be a lot of the same,” Mazzoni predicted. “So, those big centers—those big cities—are still set to attract most of the additional data center consumption, but we see the emergence of also new interesting markets, like the Nordics and to a certain extent also southern Europe with Iberia [especially Spain] being an interesting market.” Yet, there is still a fair amount of uncertainty around demand projections. Advances in liquid cooling methods will likely reduce data center power usage. That's because liquid cooling offers more efficient heat dissipation, which translates directly into lower electricity consumption. Additionally, there are opportunities for further improvement in power usage effectiveness (PUE), which is a widely used data center energy efficiency metric. At the global level, the average PUE has decreased from 2.5 in 2007 to a current average of 1.56, according to the ICIS report. However, new facilities consistently achieve a PUE of 1.3 and sometimes much better. Google, which has many state-of-the-art and highly efficient data centers, reported a global average PUE of 1.09 for its facilities over the last year. Said Mazzoni, “An expert in the field told us when we were doing our research, when tech moves out of the equation and you have energy engineers stepping in, you start to see that a lot of efficiency improvements will come, and demand will inevitably fall.” Thus, data center load growth projections should be taken with a grain of salt. “The forecast that we have beyond 2030 will need to be revised,” Mazzoni predicted. “If we look at the history of the past 20 years—all analysts and all forecasts around load growth—they all overshoot what eventually happened. The first time it happened when the internet arrived—there was obviously great expectations—and then EVs, electric vehicles, and then heat pumps. But if we look at, for example, last year—2024—European power demand was up by 1.3%, U.S. power demand was up by 1.8%, and probably weather was the main driver behind that growth.”

Hydrostor has received a $1.76 billion loan guarantee from the Biden Administration for its compressed-air energy storage project in California - how does this technology compare to BESS? Australia's Victoria state is the latest government to slash solar feed-in tariffs, which will force distributed solar development into further battery adoption. China alone will manufacture 1.4 TWh of batteries this year, including almost 1 TWh of power batteries.

Munster Technological University's Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering hosted the first national PowerGRID2025 conference in the Bishopstown Campus last week. The event attracted 100 registered delegates from a wide range of power industries, technology and energy sectors to explore the challenges and opportunities of an evolving power grid. The high attendance reflects the importance of innovation and digitisation required for Ireland's grid infrastructure upgrade that is essential for the state to meet its energy transition goals. The power grid is undergoing a monumental transformation to meet growing electricity demands while supporting ambitious climate action goals. The goals include: Targeting a 51% reduction in emissions by 2030 through the Climate Action Plan. Increasing Ireland's power system from 75% integration of renewable energy sources will increase this to 95% by 2030. Ensure the modernised power grid must also support a projected increase in Irish electricity demand from 33 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2022 to 56 TWh by 2030 and 80TWh in 2050. To support this growth the electricity grid requires significant upgrades with a growing need for skilled professionals in designing, developing, and operating modern grid systems. MTU, with the support of industrial partners, has heavily invested in its power engineering training facilities, and the first graduate class from the MTU, Springboard Supported Postgraduate Certificate in Smart Sustainable Power Engineering, presented their work at the conference. This upskilling comes at a critical time as the digital technologies in modern grid and substation design require engineers to span both electronic, communication, cybersecurity and electrical engineering domains at a level not previously supported in university programmes. Commenting on the event, Ross Kelly, H&MV, said, "The skills needed to engineer a modern digital substation are so broad that no one person could know it all, so a new role is needed for a system integrator. This person needs to know a little bit about power systems, AC/DC, Battery/UPS, primary and secondary equipment, SCADA, protection schemes, networking, cyber and Level 3 and 4 commissioning.." Applications for the 2025 delivery of this programme are now open at https://springboardcourses.ie/details/13707.

Unser Gast auf der E-world steht fest! Stefan Kapferer (CEO von 50Hertz) wird uns in der Podcast Lounge besuchen. Kommt vorbei! Am Mittwoch, dem 12.02.2025, von 15:00 bis 15:45 Uhr (Link zum Ticketshop E-world). Überblick: Gasversorgung trotz Winter und Transit-Stopp durch Ukraine stabil, Deutsche Strompreise im Jahr 2024, Jahr 2024 1,6°C über dem vorindustriellen Mittel, Deutsche THG-Emissionen sinken 2024 dank Energiewirtschaft, 18,5 Milliarden Euro Einnahmen aus CO2-Bepreisung erzielt, Neuzulassungen elektrischer Autos sinkt um 27,4 %, Kosten für Engpassmanagement 2024 deutlich geringer als 2023, Power2Heat-Anlage nach dem Prinzip "Nutzen statt Abregeln" in Betrieb genommen, Bayerische Regierung möchte Klimaneutralität 2040 kippen (laut Aiwanger), Verkauf von Uniper in Erwägung gezogen, Zweite H2Global Ausschreibung genehmigt, Normen zu Anerkennung von RFNBOs final anerkannt, Daten der Abwärmeplattform veröffentlicht: ungenutzte industrielle Abwärme beträgt 160 TWh, Regulatorische Änderungen im Jahr 2025 Lesetipps: Agora Energiewende (2024): Klimaneutrales Deutschland Agora Energiewende (2024): Investitionen für ein Klimaneutrales Deutschland Quellen: 50Hertz (2025): Power-to-Heat: Leipziger Stadtwerke und 50Hertz nehmen Anlage zur effizienten Umwandlung von Ökostrom in Fernwärme in Betrieb Agora Energiewende (2025): Die Energiewende in Deutschland: Stand der Dinge 2024 BAFA (2025): Plattform für Abwärme BMWK (2025): Wichtiger Schritt vorwärts – EU-Kommission genehmigt zweite Ausschreibung in H2Global zum Ankauf von grünen Wasserstoffprodukten BR24 (2025): Bayerns Klimaziel im Kabinett schon vor Wochen gekippt Copernicus (2025): Global Climate Highlights 2024 DEHSt (2025): Berichtsphase EU-ETS 2 (2024-2026) FfE (2025): Deutsche Strompreise an der Börse EPEX Spot im Jahr 2024 Handelsblatt (2025): Bund lotet offenbar Komplettverkauf von Uniper aus IHK Mittlerer Niederrhein (2025): Neuerungen 2025 im Energie- und Umweltbereich KBA (2025): Fahrzeugzulassungen im Dezember 2024 - Jahresbilanz Maren Preuß (2025): RNFBO hydrogen activity Netztransparenz (2025): Marktwertübersicht Umweltbundesamt (2025): Einnahmen aus dem Emissionshandel erneut auf Rekordniveau Umweltbundesamt (2025): Einnahmen aus dem Emissionshandel erneut auf Rekordniveau Verbraucherzentrale (2025): Neues in 2025 Kontakt: X (redispatch_pod), LinkedIn (Redispatch)

We speak with Paul Tyrer, Global VP of IT Channel Ecosystem, Schneider Electric about the impact of AI on Data Centers in the coming years. Generative AI is expected to grow by US$158.6 billion by 2028, according to #canalys The growth of AI presents data center companies with opportunities to innovate, expand their service offerings, and cater to the evolving needs of AI-driven applications and enterprises. However, it also comes at a cost. Global data center capacity is projected to grow by over 120 GW by 2030, fuelled by AI demand, with energy consumption expected to double to ~1,400 TWh, compared to 1% of today's total. This growth outpaces current power demand trends, posing capacity and sustainability challenges. It requires data center companies to adapt in order to meet the evolving power needs of AI-driven applications effectively and sustainably.Recorded by MySecurity Media as media partners to the Canalys APAC Forum, Bali, 2-4 December 2024.#mysecuritytv #ai #datacenter #datacentre #schneiderelectric #canalys

I årets første episode har Jo besøk av kollega Andreas Strømsheim-Aamodt! Solåret 2024 ble ikke helt hva vi verken forventet eller ønsket oss. Andreas og Jo tar en nærmere kikk på hva vi forventer av nye solcelleinstallasjoner i 2025 og hvordan vi kan nå målet på 8 TWh innen 2030 - hvis det er mulig? Har du innspill til fremtidige episoder av Elektropodden? Send de inn her; https://forms.office.com/e/8JPFeWacgr Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Watch The X22 Report On Video No videos found Click On Picture To See Larger PictureGermany is now struggling, they are telling their people not to use so much gas. Germany is facing a very long recession. Biden preparing to ban off shore drilling. Trump sends out a message, we will be moving away from income tax and moving back tariffs. The [DS] sent a message to Trump and Elon. They are now planning to push chaos across the country. From the very beginning the [DS] knew they couldn't cheat in the election with [KH]. The [DS] events are now planned for before the inauguration and after. The [DS] used these two events as a distraction, they are now casing the stadium where the Super Bowl will be held. Sum of all Fears. This will strengthen Trump and the people will be behind him, even the D's.   (function(w,d,s,i){w.ldAdInit=w.ldAdInit||[];w.ldAdInit.push({slot:13499335648425062,size:[0, 0],id:"ld-7164-1323"});if(!d.getElementById(i)){var j=d.createElement(s),p=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];j.async=true;j.src="//cdn2.customads.co/_js/ajs.js";j.id=i;p.parentNode.insertBefore(j,p);}})(window,document,"script","ld-ajs"); Economy German energy official asks citizens to save gas  German households and businesses should save gas to avoid shortages, the country's energy regulator, the Federal Network Agency, has requested, Die Welt reported on Wednesday. According to an analysis by the agency, the country has been consuming significantly more gas this heating season than last year. The agency said total gas consumption in Germany rose by 5.8% from October to December 2024 against the same period the previous year, to 246 terawatt-hours (TWh). Industries recorded an increase in consumption of 9.1% compared to 2023, while the increase in households and businesses was more modest at 1.9%, the report noted. Source: rt.com https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1874803111015158123 https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1874864489264533821   https://twitter.com/KobeissiLetter/status/1874574095104295155  December 2012. Furthermore, delinquency rates on these loans are rising twice as fast as during the 2008 Financial Crisis. Overall, there were more than $2 billion in office loans that became newly delinquent in December 2024. The commercial real estate crisis is worsening.  https://twitter.com/DC_Draino/status/1874553952907436269  Political/Rights https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1874635685992583442 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1874670277973713293 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1874664089894695221     Geopolitical/Police State BREAKING: Mass Shooting Reported at New York Nightclub — At Least Eleven People Hurt  A mass shooting has been reported at a nightclub in Queens, New York. While details about the attack still remain scarce, it is said to have taken place at the Amazura event hall located near Jamaica Long Island Rail Road station. New York Metro reports: Law enforcement sources said the gunfire erupted near the Amazura event hall at 91-12 144th Place in Jamaica, within the confines of the 103rd Precinct, at about 11:20 p.m. on Jan. 1. At least three individuals wounded in the shooting walked into a local hospital seeking treatment, sources familiar with the investigation said.   The attack took place hours after the city of New Orleans was subject to an Islamist terror attack in which 16 people were killed by a car ramming. Source: thegatewaypundit.com War https://twitter.com/WallStreetMav/status/1874772626469724655 Cyber Attacks False Flags https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1874855734124687532 Did they just send out a message that it's time for the plandemic.  https://twitter.com/McCulloughFund/status/1874595028963590377  hospitalizations or deaths. Conjunctivitis was seen in 93% of cases.

Jonathan Malone of Wilderness Journeys joins Jeremy to talk about the Northville-Placid Trail in the Adirondacks of upstate New York.  This 138-mile trail takes hikers deep into the forested wilderness of New York for a grand adventure that is only a few hours drive away from New York City.  Jeremy tells us about the history of the Adirondacks and the trail, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2024.Wilderness Journeys:  https://www.wildernessjourneys.org/TWH meal kit on Outdoor Herbivore:  https://outdoorherbivore.com/trails-worth-hiking-ct-combo/Questions, comments, or suggestions:  trailsworthhiking@gmail.comInstagram:  @trailsworthhikingpodcast

En cette période de fêtes, pendant que certains se demandent combien de guirlandes ajouter au sapin, d'autres s'interrogent sur comment garder les lumières allumées toute l'année. Comment décarboner: sobriété, nucléaire, renouvelables, des choix aussi cruciaux que le menu du réveillon ! Et ça tombe bien, une note du Shift sur la souveraineté énergétique sort du four. Jean-Marc Jancovici et Alexandre Barré vous en parle.La note en en intégralité c'est ici: https://theshiftproject.org/article/souverainete-energetique-renouvelables-nucleaire-sobriete/PS: dans les interviews, Jean-Marc et Alexandre ne donnent pas tout à fait les mêmes chiffres sur l'empreinte énergétique. Vous pouvez retenir qu'entre 2000 et 2500 TWh en énergie finale (principalement à base d'énergies fossiles) sont nécessaires chaque année pour assurer le mode de vie des Françaises et des Français.Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Munster Technological University (MTU), in collaboration with H&MV Engineering who delivers High Voltage design, engineering and construction services with a specialised focus in data centres, renewables, utility, commercial and industrial sectors and ABB, a global technology leader in electrification and automation, has launched a Digital Substation in the Power Academy Lab of MTU's Bishopstown campus. The investment of the Digital Substation is part of H&MV Engineering's and ABB limited sponsorship, worth more than €200,000, aims to further develop the training and research capacity of Ireland's grid infrastructure. The introduction of Digital Substations as part of Ireland's grid infrastructure upgrade is essential for the state to meet its energy transition goals, which targets becoming carbon neutral by mid-century with an interim target of 51% reduction in emissions by 2030 through the Climate Action Plan 2023. (Cap2024). Ireland's power system has achieved 75% integration of renewable energy sources and plans to increase this to 95% by 2030, highlighting the importance of state-of-the-art grid technologies. Irish electricity demand is also increasing rapidly with increased population, industry and data centre consumption and the transition to electric heating and transport. Total demand is projected to rise from 33 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2022 to 56 TWh by 2030 and 80TWh in 2050. To support this growth the electricity grid requires significant upgrades with a growing need for skilled professionals in designing, developing, and operating modern grid systems. The introduction of the Digital Substation at MTU as part of a joint ABB/H&MV investment positions MTU to upskill industry professionals from all sectors of the power engineering sector, including generation, distribution, transmission, and consumption to design, develop, commission, and operate the grid infrastructure required for the country's future development. Commenting on the investment, Dr Martin Hill, Head of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, stated that the industry support came at a critical time as the digital technologies in modern substation design required engineers to span both electronic, communication and electrical engineering domains at a level not previously supported in university programmes. This equipment allows students to work in an industry-standard environment with the current and future generations of smart grid protection equipment. MTU will demonstrate the panel operation with practical workshops on digital substation testing at the national PowerGRID 2025 conference in MTU in January 2025. www.powergrid.ie. The deadline for submission for MTU's "Smart Sustainable Power Engineering" course is January 25th, 2025. For more information, visit www.mtu.ie/courses/cresspe9/

Le système d'échange d'énergie électrique ouest-africain (WAPP) a été créé il y a 25 ans par la Cédéao. Objectif : créer un marché commun de l'électricité pour permettre aux gros producteurs de courant de fournir les États moins bien lotis. S'ils génèrent encore peu d'électricité (91 TWH en 2023), les 14 pays concernés sont interconnectés et forment désormais un réseau électrique unique. Une vingtaine d'interconnexions sont aujourd'hui opérationnelles en Afrique de l'Ouest : 5 700 km de lignes à haute tension de 225 000 à 330 000 volts, mises en service entre 2007 et 2023. Avec pour objectif de faire baisser les prix, mais pas seulement : « Ceci permet d'avoir un marché beaucoup plus important pour les investisseurs, souligne Mamadou Alpha Sylla, responsable guinéen du WAPP (West African Power Pool ou Système d'échange d'énergie électrique ouest-africain). Mais aussi d'avoir un réseau beaucoup plus robuste et résilient et un accès à une énergie électrique beaucoup plus compétitive. Cela a un impact sur nos économies, l'accès à une énergie fiable et abordable est un facteur essentiel pour le développement économique de nos États ».23 000 km de lignes en 2033 ?Parmi les interconnexions mises en service en fin d'année dernière figurent celles de l'Organisation de mise en valeur du fleuve Gambie (OMVG). Les quatre États-membres - la Guinée, le Sénégal, la Gambie et Bissau -, sont désormais reliés. Mais cela a eu un effet inattendu. La demande d'électricité a bondi dans la région sénégalaise de Tambacounda, bien plus qu'anticipé initialement, signe d'une fourniture plus stable d'énergie sur le réseau électrique et par conséquent d'une moindre utilisation des groupes électrogènes, d'après l'un des responsables du projet.Autre progrès selon cet expert : la Guinée-Bissau ne dépend plus du seul navire Metin Bey, la centrale thermique flottante du groupe turc Karpowership, réputée coûteuse et génératrice d'émissions de CO2.D'après son programme 2019-2033, le WAPP espère construire 23 000 kilomètres de lignes haute tension au total pour fiabiliser le réseau pour un coût estimé de 10 milliards de dollars américains. Pour cela, l'agence compte sur des financements de bailleurs de fonds internationaux, comme la Banque mondiale, la Banque africaine de développement ou l'Agence française de développement.Divisions diplomatiques et insécuritéPlusieurs interconnexions projetées ou bientôt mises en service passent par le Sahel, telles que la « Dorsale Nord », du Nigeria au Burkina Faso en passant par le Niger; la « Dorsale Trans-sahélienne » qui reliera, à terme, la Mauritanie au Tchad; l'interconnexion Ghana - Burkina Faso - Mali ou encore l'interconnexion Côte d'Ivoire - Burkina. Mais selon les experts du système d'échange d'énergie électrique, les relations actuellement complexes entre la Cédéao et l'Alliance des États du Sahel créée par les autorités de Bamako, Niamey et Ouagadougou, constituent un frein potentiel à leur développement. À cela s'ajoute l'insécurité dans la zone. « Il faut que les personnels en charge de l'installation soient en sécurité et ne soient pas victimes de terroristes », observe Serge Dioman, spécialiste du secteur de l'énergie. C'est délicat pour le WAPP d'évoluer correctement quand on est dans cette situation. »Produire plus de courantAu-delà des interconnexions, la production d'électricité est l'autre priorité du WAPP. La capacité installée dans la zone est actuellement de 27 gigawatts et est située à 48% au Nigeria. À moyen-terme, l'agence a donc pour objectif la construction d'une quarantaine de centrales pour la plupart des parcs solaires, éoliens ou des usines hydroélectriques. Un chantier de 26 milliards de dollars qui permettrait, sur le papier, à l'Afrique de l'Ouest de bénéficier de 16 gigawatts supplémentaires de capacité installée d'ici 2033.

Nvidia lança IA que cria vozes e sons a partir de texto A Nvidia apresentou uma nova IA, Fugatto, capaz de gerar vozes, músicas e efeitos sonoros personalizados a partir de texto. A ferramenta utiliza modelos avançados de aprendizado de máquina para criar áudio em alta qualidade, atendendo a indústrias como cinema, publicidade e até games. Além de modificar vozes existentes, a IA pode criar composições musicais e sons inéditos, permitindo que criadores de conteúdo experimentem novas possibilidades artísticas. A plataforma ainda não está aberta ao público  Tensão entre Holywood e IA  Modelos de IA como esses vão ajudar – e muito – estúdios e produções de cinema, contudo ainda há uma tensão na relação do mundo da tecnologia com as produções de Hollywood. Vale lembrar que a atriz Scarlett Johansson já acusou a OpenAI de imitar a sua voz, e após essa acusação, muitos se questionam sobre os limites das produções e interações com inteligência artificial.  Escassez de energia limitará data centers de IA no futuro O Gartner divulgou um relatório que aponta que o crescimento da demanda por data centers para inteligência artificial não está sendo acompanhado pela produção de energia. Segundo o relatório, 40% dos data centers de IA existentes estarão operacionalmente limitados pela disponibilidade de energia até 2027. O consumo de terawatts-hora (TWh) pelos data centers de IA dobrou de 2022 para 2023, e deve aumentar de forma incremental nos próximos anos, chegando a cerca de 500 TWh em 2027, volume que representa 2,6 vezes mais do que o nível de 2023.  O crescimento explosivo dos data centers e hyperscalers de IA está criando uma demanda “insaciável” por energia que irá superar a habilidade dos provedores de utilities de expandirem sua capacidade de atendimento. Isso ameaça desestabilizar a disponibilidade de energia e levar à escassez, o que limitará o crescimento de novos data centers para GenAI e outros usos a partir de 2026 Qual a solução? A sugestão dos especialistas é que as empresas avaliem os planos futuros, antecipando custos de energia mais altos, e negociem contratos de longo prazo para serviços de data center com taxas razoáveis de energia. As empresas também devem considerar aumentos significativos nos custos ao desenvolver planos para novos produtos e serviços, além de buscar abordagens alternativas que exijam menos energia.  Blip considera IPO após expansão global e investimentos A Blip está avaliando uma possível abertura de capital (IPO) após o aporte de US$ 60 milhões liderado pelo SoftBank e a Microsoft que já comentamos aqui pelo Morse! A companhia vem trabalhando para atender a todas as exigências do mercado de capitais norte-americano no que diz respeito a governança e transparência de processos. O objetivo é estar pronta no primeiro semestre de 2025 e então aguardar por uma janela do mercado propícia para o lançamento das ações. Em 2020/2021 era preciso uma receita acima de US$ 150 milhões para um IPO bem sucedido. Hoje o nível está próximo de US$ 300 milhões e a Blip ainda não chegou lá, mas está trabalhando para isso.  Zemo Bank capta R$ 2 milhões para se tornar banco digital B2B A fintech oferece soluções financeiras para pagamentos e fluxo de caixa para fornecedores de grandes empresas. O aporte servirá para fortalecer a presença da companhia no disputado mercado de bancos B2B – onde nomes “pesados” como Cora e Stark Bank competem. De acordo com a fintech, a injeção de capital ampliará sua capacidade tecnológica e de infraestrutura financeira para competir nesse segmento. WhatsApp no Brasil perde função de pagamentos em dezembro A opção de pagamento com cartão de débito no Whatsapp será desativada em dezembro. Com isso, os adeptos do mecanismo de pagamentos terão de recorrer a outras opções, como o Pix diretamente no mensageiro. A medida vale para o mercado brasileiro. De acordo com a empresa, o serviço WhatsApp Pagamentos será mantido. A função Pagamentos foi anunciada em junho de 2020, mas só chegou de fato ao aplicativo após liberação das autoridades, em abril de 2023. Instagram lança recurso de compartilhamento de localização O Instagram lançou um recurso que permite o compartilhamento de localização em tempo real entre amigos. A funcionalidade busca aumentar o engajamento na plataforma, especialmente entre o público jovem, ao oferecer uma nova forma de interação social. Essa funcionalidade está disponível apenas em alguns países até o momento, embora a rede social não tenha dito exatamente quais. A Amazon anunciou um novo aporte de US$ 4 bilhões na startup Anthropic Com essa estratégia, a empresa reforça o compromisso de se tornar uma das líderes no desenvolvimento de soluções tecnológicas baseadas em IA, intensificando a concorrência com grandes players do setor. A Anthropic, conhecida por sua atuação no campo da IA generativa, vem atraindo a atenção de gigantes da tecnologia. A startup se destacou pelo desenvolvimento de modelos avançados de IA que permitem soluções mais ágeis e precisas em áreas como processamento de linguagem natural e aprendizado de máquina. Com a injeção financeira da Amazon, a Anthropic busca expandir suas operações, explorar novos mercados e acelerar o desenvolvimento de tecnologias. E falando em Anthropic…  Anthropic propõe integração de dados com chatbots de IA A Anthropic lançou o Model Context Protocol (MCP), um padrão de código aberto para conectar assistentes de IA a sistemas onde os dados estão armazenados. O modelo facilita a criação de conexões bidirecionais entre fontes de dados e aplicativos baseados em IA, como chatbots. Com isso, os desenvolvedores podem configurar servidores MCP para expor dados e criar clientes MCP, como fluxos de trabalho e apps, que acessam essas informações sob demanda. Segundo a Anthropic, a iniciativa visa superar as limitações causadas pelos silos de dados e sistemas legados, permitindo a escalabilidade de sistemas realmente conectados e otimizados. Neuralink recebe aval para testar chip cerebral no Canadá A tecnologia promete ajudar pacientes com paralisia e condições neurológicas a recuperar movimentos e funções motoras. A startup de chips cerebrais informou que o estudo canadense tem como objetivo avaliar a segurança e a funcionalidade inicial do implante, que permite que pessoas com tetraplegia, ou paralisia de todos os quatro membros, controlem dispositivos externos com o pensamento. Nos Estados Unidos, a Neuralink já implantou o dispositivo em dois pacientes. A empresa afirma que o dispositivo está funcionando bem no segundo paciente do teste, que o tem usado para jogar videogames e aprender a projetar objetos em 3D.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nvidia lança IA que cria vozes e sons a partir de texto A Nvidia apresentou uma nova IA, Fugatto, capaz de gerar vozes, músicas e efeitos sonoros personalizados a partir de texto. A ferramenta utiliza modelos avançados de aprendizado de máquina para criar áudio em alta qualidade, atendendo a indústrias como cinema, publicidade e até games. Além de modificar vozes existentes, a IA pode criar composições musicais e sons inéditos, permitindo que criadores de conteúdo experimentem novas possibilidades artísticas. A plataforma ainda não está aberta ao público  Tensão entre Holywood e IA  Modelos de IA como esses vão ajudar – e muito – estúdios e produções de cinema, contudo ainda há uma tensão na relação do mundo da tecnologia com as produções de Hollywood. Vale lembrar que a atriz Scarlett Johansson já acusou a OpenAI de imitar a sua voz, e após essa acusação, muitos se questionam sobre os limites das produções e interações com inteligência artificial.  Escassez de energia limitará data centers de IA no futuro O Gartner divulgou um relatório que aponta que o crescimento da demanda por data centers para inteligência artificial não está sendo acompanhado pela produção de energia. Segundo o relatório, 40% dos data centers de IA existentes estarão operacionalmente limitados pela disponibilidade de energia até 2027. O consumo de terawatts-hora (TWh) pelos data centers de IA dobrou de 2022 para 2023, e deve aumentar de forma incremental nos próximos anos, chegando a cerca de 500 TWh em 2027, volume que representa 2,6 vezes mais do que o nível de 2023.  O crescimento explosivo dos data centers e hyperscalers de IA está criando uma demanda “insaciável” por energia que irá superar a habilidade dos provedores de utilities de expandirem sua capacidade de atendimento. Isso ameaça desestabilizar a disponibilidade de energia e levar à escassez, o que limitará o crescimento de novos data centers para GenAI e outros usos a partir de 2026 Qual a solução? A sugestão dos especialistas é que as empresas avaliem os planos futuros, antecipando custos de energia mais altos, e negociem contratos de longo prazo para serviços de data center com taxas razoáveis de energia. As empresas também devem considerar aumentos significativos nos custos ao desenvolver planos para novos produtos e serviços, além de buscar abordagens alternativas que exijam menos energia.  Blip considera IPO após expansão global e investimentos A Blip está avaliando uma possível abertura de capital (IPO) após o aporte de US$ 60 milhões liderado pelo SoftBank e a Microsoft que já comentamos aqui pelo Morse! A companhia vem trabalhando para atender a todas as exigências do mercado de capitais norte-americano no que diz respeito a governança e transparência de processos. O objetivo é estar pronta no primeiro semestre de 2025 e então aguardar por uma janela do mercado propícia para o lançamento das ações. Em 2020/2021 era preciso uma receita acima de US$ 150 milhões para um IPO bem sucedido. Hoje o nível está próximo de US$ 300 milhões e a Blip ainda não chegou lá, mas está trabalhando para isso.  Zemo Bank capta R$ 2 milhões para se tornar banco digital B2B A fintech oferece soluções financeiras para pagamentos e fluxo de caixa para fornecedores de grandes empresas. O aporte servirá para fortalecer a presença da companhia no disputado mercado de bancos B2B – onde nomes “pesados” como Cora e Stark Bank competem. De acordo com a fintech, a injeção de capital ampliará sua capacidade tecnológica e de infraestrutura financeira para competir nesse segmento. WhatsApp no Brasil perde função de pagamentos em dezembro A opção de pagamento com cartão de débito no Whatsapp será desativada em dezembro. Com isso, os adeptos do mecanismo de pagamentos terão de recorrer a outras opções, como o Pix diretamente no mensageiro. A medida vale para o mercado brasileiro. De acordo com a empresa, o serviço WhatsApp Pagamentos será mantido. A função Pagamentos foi anunciada em junho de 2020, mas só chegou de fato ao aplicativo após liberação das autoridades, em abril de 2023. Instagram lança recurso de compartilhamento de localização O Instagram lançou um recurso que permite o compartilhamento de localização em tempo real entre amigos. A funcionalidade busca aumentar o engajamento na plataforma, especialmente entre o público jovem, ao oferecer uma nova forma de interação social. Essa funcionalidade está disponível apenas em alguns países até o momento, embora a rede social não tenha dito exatamente quais. A Amazon anunciou um novo aporte de US$ 4 bilhões na startup Anthropic Com essa estratégia, a empresa reforça o compromisso de se tornar uma das líderes no desenvolvimento de soluções tecnológicas baseadas em IA, intensificando a concorrência com grandes players do setor. A Anthropic, conhecida por sua atuação no campo da IA generativa, vem atraindo a atenção de gigantes da tecnologia. A startup se destacou pelo desenvolvimento de modelos avançados de IA que permitem soluções mais ágeis e precisas em áreas como processamento de linguagem natural e aprendizado de máquina. Com a injeção financeira da Amazon, a Anthropic busca expandir suas operações, explorar novos mercados e acelerar o desenvolvimento de tecnologias. E falando em Anthropic…  Anthropic propõe integração de dados com chatbots de IA A Anthropic lançou o Model Context Protocol (MCP), um padrão de código aberto para conectar assistentes de IA a sistemas onde os dados estão armazenados. O modelo facilita a criação de conexões bidirecionais entre fontes de dados e aplicativos baseados em IA, como chatbots. Com isso, os desenvolvedores podem configurar servidores MCP para expor dados e criar clientes MCP, como fluxos de trabalho e apps, que acessam essas informações sob demanda. Segundo a Anthropic, a iniciativa visa superar as limitações causadas pelos silos de dados e sistemas legados, permitindo a escalabilidade de sistemas realmente conectados e otimizados. Neuralink recebe aval para testar chip cerebral no Canadá A tecnologia promete ajudar pacientes com paralisia e condições neurológicas a recuperar movimentos e funções motoras. A startup de chips cerebrais informou que o estudo canadense tem como objetivo avaliar a segurança e a funcionalidade inicial do implante, que permite que pessoas com tetraplegia, ou paralisia de todos os quatro membros, controlem dispositivos externos com o pensamento. Nos Estados Unidos, a Neuralink já implantou o dispositivo em dois pacientes. A empresa afirma que o dispositivo está funcionando bem no segundo paciente do teste, que o tem usado para jogar videogames e aprender a projetar objetos em 3D.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Conscients de l'impact négatif des énergies fossiles sur l'environnement, les Français semblent de plus en plus favorables à l'énergie d'origine solaire. En 2022, 21 térawattheures (TWh) étaient produits de cette manière, soit une augmentation de 31 % par rapport à l'année précédente. Mais l'installation de panneaux solaires, qui captent les rayons du Soleil, pourrait avoir un effet inattendu. C'est du moins ce que révèle une récente étude, publiée par des chercheurs indiens. Si l'on en croit ses conclusions, la pose de panneaux photovoltaïques sur l'ensemble des toits d'une ville provoquerait une hausse d'environ 1,5°C de la température diurne. Elle pourrait même aller jusqu'à 3,2°C supplémentaires durant les heures les plus chaudes de la journée. Ce serait l'inverse la nuit, la température baissant de 0,6°C en moyenne. Des villes entièrement équipées de panneaux solaires deviendraient ainsi de véritables îlots de chaleur. Et ce d'autant plus que, dans le micro-climat ainsi créé, les vents auraient plus de mal à apporter un peu de fraîcheur. De tels résultats concernent la ville de Calcutta, où les scientifiques ont mené leur étude. Mais ils ont étendu leurs travaux à d'autres agglomérations, comme Athènes ou Sydney, de manière à prendre en compte des conditions climatiques variées. Les résultats se sont montrés similaires. Une chaleur restant piégée au sein des villes Une ville dont tous les toits des maisons seraient équipés de panneaux solaires aurait un albédo plus faible. L'albédo désigne la capacité d'une surface à renvoyer le rayonnement solaire vers l'atmosphère. Cette étude montre en effet que les panneaux photovoltaïques réfléchissent moins la lumière du Soleil. Elle se concentre alors davantage dans un espace urbain qui a donc tendance à se réchauffer durant la journée. Les auteurs de l'étude ne remettent pas en cause le rôle essentiel des panneaux solaires dans la transition énergétique en cours. D'autant que la hausse des températures diurnes est en partie compensée par des nuits plus fraîches. Ils suggèrent plutôt des solutions pour abaisser les températures régnant dans ces villes. La végétalisation de l'espace urbain est l'une d'entre elles. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Happy Halloween! It's time to pit two members of the TWH crew against each other while another infuriates them to celebrate the holiday.

Anul 2025 se anunță a fi plin de incertitudini. Dar, într-o „mare” de necunoscute, România ar trebui să ofere predictibilitate legislativă măcar pentru un proiect esențial pentru economie: exploatarea resurselor energetice din Marea Neagră. Recent, publicația profit.ro a prezentat o statistică a producției de gaze naturale în Uniunea Europeană. Rezultatele sunt elocvente. Olanda, cel mai mare producător de gaze naturale din Uniunea Europeană, și-a redus în mod constant producția în ultimii patru ani. Motivele sunt fie legate de protecția mediului, fie de rațiuni mult mai pragmatice și anume din cauză că zăcămintele au ajuns la maturitatea exploatării și au devenit neprofitabile.Marea majoritate a statelor Uniunii Europene și-au redus producția de gaze naturale, cu puține excepții, printre care se află și România. În anul 2023, producția Olandei era de 96 TWh, iar cea a României a ajuns aproape de acest nivel, respectiv aproximativ 89 TWh.Gazele naturale au emisii de carbon mai scăzute decât alți combustibili fosili, ceea ce a făcut să fie incluse în categoria de tranziție. Dar, chiar și în această situație, producătorii din industrie vor trebui să respecte normele legale europene.Există un nou regulament al Uniunii Europene care introduce obligații de transparență și impune companiilor producătoare să reducă emisiile de carbon. De asemenea, sunt prevăzute sancțiuni pentru firmele care nu respectă legislația europeană.În acest context, industria energetică românească are nevoie de un aliat. Iar acest aliat ar trebui să vină din interior, adică din legislația românească. Anul viitor este caracterizat de multe incertitudini. Sunt factori interni și externi care contribuie la necunoscutele ce vor însoți anul 2025.Dar, proiectul Neptun Deep, exploatarea resurselor energetice din Marea Neagră, este esențial pentru România. Estimările specialiștilor arată că după anul 2027, când va începe producția din zona offshore, România va deveni cel mai mare producător de gaze naturale din Uniunea Europeană. România va deține o cotă de piață între 40% și 60%, la nivel european, în funcție de ritmul exploatării de la Neptun Deep și de nivelul scăderii producției în statele Uniunii Europene.Regulamentul european privind reducerea emisiilor de carbon va avea un impact semnificativ asupra companiilor care activează în această industrie, cum sunt Romgaz, OMV Petrom și Black Sea Oil & Gas (BSOG).De aceea, este nevoie ca actualul și viitorul guvern să înțeleagă nevoia unei legislații stabile și predictibile, inclusiv în ceea ce privește sistemul de taxare care se aplică industriei energetice. Regimul fiscal și stabilitatea legislativă în materie de taxe și impozite sunt esențiale pentru economie, dar mai ales pentru proiectele energetice de anvergura Neptun Deep. De asemenea, barierele puse prin supraimpozitarea sectorului energetic productiv ar trebui eliminate tocmai pentru a încuraja sectorul de exploatare și producție a materiilor prime energetice.Investițiile din Marea Neagră au un rol important în securitatea energetică și în stabilitatea economiei românești și de aceea, în următorii ani, dialogul cu reprezentanții industriei și predictibilitatea cadrului legislativ vor fi esențiale. Astfel de investiții au nevoie de un regim fiscal competitiv, de o cotă unică aplicată corect, pentru a atrage și a menține investitorii.Clasa politică românească a mai întârziat o dată proiectul din Marea Neagră, în anii 2017-2018, atunci când instabilitatea legislației i-a făcut pe investitori să amâne începerea exploatării. Acum, România este din nou contratimp, pentru că tranziția europeană în materie de gaze naturale se va încheia, probabil, în următorii 10-15 ani. Există, așadar, o fereastră de oportunitate de care statul român, companiile care vor exploata resursele din Marea Neagră, industria locală și economia românească trebuie să profite.Dar, în afară de cuvintele mari, este nevoie de rezultate concrete. În acest moment, industria energetică este suprataxată. Pentru ca proiectul energetic din Marea Neagră să poată fi demarat cu eficiență este nevoie ca între marile incertitudini ale anului viitor să se strecoare o insulă de predictibilitate legislativă în ceea ce privește exploatarea resurselor din Marea Neagră.

Quick heads up. I have made some video versions of recent articles. Here they are, in case you are a watcher rather than a reader:I don't know about you, but I use artificial intelligence (AI) all the time. ChatGPT has become my right-hand man. It gives me advice (really – and good advice too), it helps me make decisions, it gives me exercise workouts, recipes, it proofreads what I write, it helps me write titles, it even helps me write song lyrics. Midjourney does all the imaging for this newsletter. Even a simple Google search now involves lots of AI.I know I'm not alone. Almost everyone is using AI, consciously or not.Guess what? AI requires bucket loads of power. That's why Microsoft recently agreed to pay Constellation Energy, the new owner of America's infamous nuclear power station, Three Mile Island, a sizeable premium for its energy. There is cheaper wind and solar power to be had in Pennsylvania, but it isn't as reliable as nuclear, 24 hours a day.It's not just AI. The widespread political desire to rid ourselves of fossil fuels means the world needs electricity, and fast.Nuclear is the solution, of course. But nuclear takes a lot of time, even with AI now “re-routing” the anti-nuclear narrative. It takes especially long in the UK where any kind of infrastructure project requires billions to be spent on planners, lawyers and consultants before a brick is even lifted.It's so stupid of course. Nuclear power stations have been operating commercially for 70 years, providing reliable, affordable, and almost infinitely renewable “clean” electricity. Nuclear has the best safety record of any energy technology. Almost all environmental concerns, such as waste disposal, have been solved. But if you want to know the name of the point at which stupidity, hypocrisy, waste and weakness meet, it's called British Energy Policy.Layer upon layer of safety is demanded in nuclear plant design. The regulatory process is slow, cumbersome, and complex. There is a long lead time between planning, building, and operation, which adds to expense. Political uncertainty meant many proposals for nuclear power stations in the UK were shelved. It all drives away investment.But governments around the world are waking up to the fact that the silver bullet is nuclear-powered. Thus, the narrative is changing. The dawn of the new age of nuclear power is upon us, and it can't come quickly enough.That's why the focus has shifted to small modular reactors (SMRs). These have been operational for almost 70 years now in submarines, aircraft carriers, and ice-breakers, but in the last few years, land-based SMRs have been developed to generate electricity.They use simple, proven technology, and are safer than current nuclear power stations. They can be manufactured in factories and then rapidly erected on-site. Modular refers to the design principle of breaking down a system into small, independent, and interchangeable components, or “modules”, that can easily be combined, modified, or replaced without affecting the rest of the system. This flexibility means they are scalable. It aids manufacture, transportation, and installation while reducing construction time and costs.SMRs don't occupy much land, so they have little impact on the landscape. Some can even be constructed underground – surely preferable to wind turbines and solar farms. In the UK, they could be erected on the redundant sites of closed nuclear and coal-fired power stations, where grid connections are readily available. A 440 megawatt (MW) SMR would produce about 3.5 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity per year, enough for 1.2 million homes – or to provide power to Wales, the Northeast of England, or two Devons. It would require about 25 acres of land. A solar farm would need 13,000 acres for the same output; a wind farm, 32,000 acres. Three 440MW SMRs would be enough for London, which has around 3.6 million homes.What's more, their output is not dependent on the weather. Reliability is why Microsoft paid a premium of more than 85% for Three Mile Island's power. SMRs produce electricity that can easily be adjusted to meet the constant, everyday needs of the grid (baseload), and they can also ramp up or down to follow changes in demand throughout the day. They spin in sync with the grid, so they help keep everything stable. When they're running, they act like a steady hand, providing momentum that makes it easier to manage sudden changes in electricity supply or demand.Why not subscribe to this amazing publication?How To InvestThere are all sorts of ways to invest in nuclear power. The simplest and least risky is to buy the metal itself. Current demand for uranium stands at around 200 million pounds per year, while mining output totals only 140 million pounds. Another 25 million pounds comes from secondary sources, such as scrap and recycling. So there is a uranium supply deficit. I'm surprised the price isn't higher. London-listed Yellowcake (LSE:YCA) has been set up with this purpose in mind. It is, essentially, a uranium holding company. You buy the shares, and thus own a share of the uranium it holds. It makes up part of the Dolce Far Niente portfolio.You could also buy uranium miners, though I have to say I do not like the miners at all. There are the large producers, such as Cameco (Toronto: CCO) and Paladin Energy (Sydney: PDN). You can also gain exposure via large caps, such as Rio Tinto (LSE: RIO), but they are not pure plays. There are mine developers too, such as NexGen Energy (Toronto: NXE), whose Rook 1 project should be producing a whopping 30 million pounds a year by 2030, almost enough to solve the uranium supply deficit single-handedly.If you don't fancy your stock-picking skills, go for a fund instead. The London-listed Sprott Uranium Miners ETF (LSE: URNP) is an exchange-traded fund that gives you exposure to a basket of mining companies, as does closed-end fund Geiger Counter (LSE: GCL). Another popular ETF is the Global X Uranium UCITS ETF (LSE: URNU).Why don't I like uranium miners? About 90% of those listed in the funds do not have any production coming in the near future and are, therefore, huge vortexes into which capital will disappear. At present, they are fully valued. That's not saying they won't go up. But when the time comes for them to fall, they will bomb.When I last looked at SMRs in 2021, the companies I tipped were Rolls-Royce (LSE: RR) and Fluor Corp (NYSE: FLR). Both have been real winners. Rolls-Royce has built seven generations of SMRs for use in nuclear submarines and, with its modern designs for SMRs, has been winning contracts all over. Rolls-Royce is not a pure SMR play. But it has put its SMR business into a separate entity (Rolls-Royce SMR) and I presume this will be spun out and listed at some later stage.The stock has been going great guns under its new CEO, Tufan Erginbilgiç. I tipped it around the 100p mark and it's now at 530p and there's no stopping it. It was 1,350p in 2013, so there's plenty of upside left, and that was before there was any urgency about SMRs. I've taken my original stake off the table, and the rest I'm holding.I also mentioned NuScale, a US outfit, which in 2021 was unfortunately still private. There was a way to get exposure to NuScale, however: via majority shareholder and engineering company Fluor Corp. It has been a real winner too. We tipped it at $18. It's now $50. The stock remains a hold, although it is not a pure play. Worth $8.6bn, Fluor has $200m of free cash flow and trades at 42 times earnings.But the company we were looking at, NuScale Power Corporation (NYSE: SMR), has now listed – good ticker – and you can buy the stock at not far off the flotation price. Be warned, however: this is a volatile company. Since its initial public offering (IPO) at $10, the stock has been as high as $15 and as low as $2. It is now at $13.NuScale designs, develops, and commercialises SMR reactors for nuclear-power generation, aiming to provide a “safe, flexible, and scalable nuclear-energy solution”. Its flagship product is the NuScale Power Module, a self-contained pressurised water reactor (PWR) that is far smaller than traditional nuclear reactors. Each module has an electric capacity of about 60 megawatts, but they can combine to scale up.NuScale has partnered with various organisations, including the US Department of Energy (DOE) and global energy firms, but it does not yet have a solid sales pipeline, so it is hard to value. Instead, it's a bit of a meme stock that rises and falls when it gets tipped. NuScale has a market capitalisation of $1.2bn and revenues of $23m; it lost $273m last year. It now has $180m in negative free cash flow, $130m in cash and a burn rate of about $35m per quarter. (So it's got enough money for another year.) Caveat emptor.Another option is BWX Technologies (NYSE: BWXT), but again it's not a pure SMR play, more of a picks-and-shovels play. The company manufactures nuclear-reactor components, systems fuel, and other critical parts for the nuclear-power industry. It really is wide-ranging (think anything from naval nuclear propulsion to nuclear defence) and its history goes all the way back to the Manhattan Project.SMR developers will often rely on BWX's expertise and manufacturing capabilities to ensure the safety and functionality of their designs. As demand for SMRs grows, so will the appetite for BWX's products and services. BWX has a market value of $10bn and $1.2bn in debt. Earnings per share are just shy of $3, and the price/earnings (p/e) ratio is close to 40. But it is profitable and pays a yield just below 1%.If you want to go really small and speculative, there is always the mining exploration option (not recommended), or uranium enrichment firms. If this technology of enriching uranium to make it more powerful comes good, then the efficiencies of the industry will improve even further, and the problem of uranium supply deficits will quickly vanish, along with the high prices of many uranium miners. Silex Systems (Sydney: SLX) – market cap A$1.1bn (£565m), 50% owned by Cameco – is the market leader here, although Centrus Energy (NYSE: LEU), worth $1bn, is not far behind.We are still some years from successful enrichment, but it is coming. I doubt we will see it before the uranium price itself breaks to new highs above $140/lb, which it hit in 2006, and probably not until $200 uranium. High prices have a habit of accelerating everything. Uranium is now at $70/lb.That's when tiny-cap nuclear-fuel tech firms such as Lightbridge (Nasdaq: LTBR), worth $46m, could rocket. Lightbridge, looking to improve the safety, economics, and proliferation resistance of nuclear power, is developing a fuel that operates about 1,000 degrees cooler than standard fuel. It's got $27m in the bank, is losing $10m a year and, like NuScale, seems to rely on memes and tipsters. The stock costs $3 so there is plenty of upside. But be warned: this is an illiquid Nasdaq stock. Don't chase it.Amazing chart. From $4,000 - to $2. Talk about wealth destruction. It's like an NHS IT project. Looks like it might, finally, have bottomed though. This article first appeared in Moneyweek Magazine.I'll be MCing this year's Moneyweek Summit on Friday November 8th. Readers of the Flying Frisby can get a 20% discount by entering the code FRISBY20If you're interested in nuclear, Wednesday's piece might be of interest: I had an email from Nick Lawson, CEO of investment house, Ocean Finance, which has put together some research on Lightbridge. I share it here, in case of interest. And here once again are those vids: This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.theflyingfrisby.com/subscribe

Quick heads up. I have made some video versions of recent articles. Here they are, in case you are a watcher rather than a reader:I don't know about you, but I use artificial intelligence (AI) all the time. ChatGPT has become my right-hand man. It gives me advice (really – and good advice too), it helps me make decisions, it gives me exercise workouts, recipes, it proofreads what I write, it helps me write titles, it even helps me write song lyrics. Midjourney does all the imaging for this newsletter. Even a simple Google search now involves lots of AI.I know I'm not alone. Almost everyone is using AI, consciously or not.Guess what? AI requires bucket loads of power. That's why Microsoft recently agreed to pay Constellation Energy, the new owner of America's infamous nuclear power station, Three Mile Island, a sizeable premium for its energy. There is cheaper wind and solar power to be had in Pennsylvania, but it isn't as reliable as nuclear, 24 hours a day.It's not just AI. The widespread political desire to rid ourselves of fossil fuels means the world needs electricity, and fast.Nuclear is the solution, of course. But nuclear takes a lot of time, even with AI now “re-routing” the anti-nuclear narrative. It takes especially long in the UK where any kind of infrastructure project requires billions to be spent on planners, lawyers and consultants before a brick is even lifted.It's so stupid of course. Nuclear power stations have been operating commercially for 70 years, providing reliable, affordable, and almost infinitely renewable “clean” electricity. Nuclear has the best safety record of any energy technology. Almost all environmental concerns, such as waste disposal, have been solved. But if you want to know the name of the point at which stupidity, hypocrisy, waste and weakness meet, it's called British Energy Policy.Layer upon layer of safety is demanded in nuclear plant design. The regulatory process is slow, cumbersome, and complex. There is a long lead time between planning, building, and operation, which adds to expense. Political uncertainty meant many proposals for nuclear power stations in the UK were shelved. It all drives away investment.But governments around the world are waking up to the fact that the silver bullet is nuclear-powered. Thus, the narrative is changing. The dawn of the new age of nuclear power is upon us, and it can't come quickly enough.That's why the focus has shifted to small modular reactors (SMRs). These have been operational for almost 70 years now in submarines, aircraft carriers, and ice-breakers, but in the last few years, land-based SMRs have been developed to generate electricity.They use simple, proven technology, and are safer than current nuclear power stations. They can be manufactured in factories and then rapidly erected on-site. Modular refers to the design principle of breaking down a system into small, independent, and interchangeable components, or “modules”, that can easily be combined, modified, or replaced without affecting the rest of the system. This flexibility means they are scalable. It aids manufacture, transportation, and installation while reducing construction time and costs.SMRs don't occupy much land, so they have little impact on the landscape. Some can even be constructed underground – surely preferable to wind turbines and solar farms. In the UK, they could be erected on the redundant sites of closed nuclear and coal-fired power stations, where grid connections are readily available. A 440 megawatt (MW) SMR would produce about 3.5 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity per year, enough for 1.2 million homes – or to provide power to Wales, the Northeast of England, or two Devons. It would require about 25 acres of land. A solar farm would need 13,000 acres for the same output; a wind farm, 32,000 acres. Three 440MW SMRs would be enough for London, which has around 3.6 million homes.What's more, their output is not dependent on the weather. Reliability is why Microsoft paid a premium of more than 85% for Three Mile Island's power. SMRs produce electricity that can easily be adjusted to meet the constant, everyday needs of the grid (baseload), and they can also ramp up or down to follow changes in demand throughout the day. They spin in sync with the grid, so they help keep everything stable. When they're running, they act like a steady hand, providing momentum that makes it easier to manage sudden changes in electricity supply or demand.Why not subscribe to this amazing publication?How To InvestThere are all sorts of ways to invest in nuclear power. The simplest and least risky is to buy the metal itself. Current demand for uranium stands at around 200 million pounds per year, while mining output totals only 140 million pounds. Another 25 million pounds comes from secondary sources, such as scrap and recycling. So there is a uranium supply deficit. I'm surprised the price isn't higher. London-listed Yellowcake (LSE:YCA) has been set up with this purpose in mind. It is, essentially, a uranium holding company. You buy the shares, and thus own a share of the uranium it holds. It makes up part of the Dolce Far Niente portfolio.You could also buy uranium miners, though I have to say I do not like the miners at all. There are the large producers, such as Cameco (Toronto: CCO) and Paladin Energy (Sydney: PDN). You can also gain exposure via large caps, such as Rio Tinto (LSE: RIO), but they are not pure plays. There are mine developers too, such as NexGen Energy (Toronto: NXE), whose Rook 1 project should be producing a whopping 30 million pounds a year by 2030, almost enough to solve the uranium supply deficit single-handedly.If you don't fancy your stock-picking skills, go for a fund instead. The London-listed Sprott Uranium Miners ETF (LSE: URNP) is an exchange-traded fund that gives you exposure to a basket of mining companies, as does closed-end fund Geiger Counter (LSE: GCL). Another popular ETF is the Global X Uranium UCITS ETF (LSE: URNU).Why don't I like uranium miners? About 90% of those listed in the funds do not have any production coming in the near future and are, therefore, huge vortexes into which capital will disappear. At present, they are fully valued. That's not saying they won't go up. But when the time comes for them to fall, they will bomb.When I last looked at SMRs in 2021, the companies I tipped were Rolls-Royce (LSE: RR) and Fluor Corp (NYSE: FLR). Both have been real winners. Rolls-Royce has built seven generations of SMRs for use in nuclear submarines and, with its modern designs for SMRs, has been winning contracts all over. Rolls-Royce is not a pure SMR play. But it has put its SMR business into a separate entity (Rolls-Royce SMR) and I presume this will be spun out and listed at some later stage.The stock has been going great guns under its new CEO, Tufan Erginbilgiç. I tipped it around the 100p mark and it's now at 530p and there's no stopping it. It was 1,350p in 2013, so there's plenty of upside left, and that was before there was any urgency about SMRs. I've taken my original stake off the table, and the rest I'm holding.I also mentioned NuScale, a US outfit, which in 2021 was unfortunately still private. There was a way to get exposure to NuScale, however: via majority shareholder and engineering company Fluor Corp. It has been a real winner too. We tipped it at $18. It's now $50. The stock remains a hold, although it is not a pure play. Worth $8.6bn, Fluor has $200m of free cash flow and trades at 42 times earnings.But the company we were looking at, NuScale Power Corporation (NYSE: SMR), has now listed – good ticker – and you can buy the stock at not far off the flotation price. Be warned, however: this is a volatile company. Since its initial public offering (IPO) at $10, the stock has been as high as $15 and as low as $2. It is now at $13.NuScale designs, develops, and commercialises SMR reactors for nuclear-power generation, aiming to provide a “safe, flexible, and scalable nuclear-energy solution”. Its flagship product is the NuScale Power Module, a self-contained pressurised water reactor (PWR) that is far smaller than traditional nuclear reactors. Each module has an electric capacity of about 60 megawatts, but they can combine to scale up.NuScale has partnered with various organisations, including the US Department of Energy (DOE) and global energy firms, but it does not yet have a solid sales pipeline, so it is hard to value. Instead, it's a bit of a meme stock that rises and falls when it gets tipped. NuScale has a market capitalisation of $1.2bn and revenues of $23m; it lost $273m last year. It now has $180m in negative free cash flow, $130m in cash and a burn rate of about $35m per quarter. (So it's got enough money for another year.) Caveat emptor.Another option is BWX Technologies (NYSE: BWXT), but again it's not a pure SMR play, more of a picks-and-shovels play. The company manufactures nuclear-reactor components, systems fuel, and other critical parts for the nuclear-power industry. It really is wide-ranging (think anything from naval nuclear propulsion to nuclear defence) and its history goes all the way back to the Manhattan Project.SMR developers will often rely on BWX's expertise and manufacturing capabilities to ensure the safety and functionality of their designs. As demand for SMRs grows, so will the appetite for BWX's products and services. BWX has a market value of $10bn and $1.2bn in debt. Earnings per share are just shy of $3, and the price/earnings (p/e) ratio is close to 40. But it is profitable and pays a yield just below 1%.If you want to go really small and speculative, there is always the mining exploration option (not recommended), or uranium enrichment firms. If this technology of enriching uranium to make it more powerful comes good, then the efficiencies of the industry will improve even further, and the problem of uranium supply deficits will quickly vanish, along with the high prices of many uranium miners. Silex Systems (Sydney: SLX) – market cap A$1.1bn (£565m), 50% owned by Cameco – is the market leader here, although Centrus Energy (NYSE: LEU), worth $1bn, is not far behind.We are still some years from successful enrichment, but it is coming. I doubt we will see it before the uranium price itself breaks to new highs above $140/lb, which it hit in 2006, and probably not until $200 uranium. High prices have a habit of accelerating everything. Uranium is now at $70/lb.That's when tiny-cap nuclear-fuel tech firms such as Lightbridge (Nasdaq: LTBR), worth $46m, could rocket. Lightbridge, looking to improve the safety, economics, and proliferation resistance of nuclear power, is developing a fuel that operates about 1,000 degrees cooler than standard fuel. It's got $27m in the bank, is losing $10m a year and, like NuScale, seems to rely on memes and tipsters. The stock costs $3 so there is plenty of upside. But be warned: this is an illiquid Nasdaq stock. Don't chase it.Amazing chart. From $4,000 - to $2. Talk about wealth destruction. It's like an NHS IT project. Looks like it might, finally, have bottomed though. This article first appeared in Moneyweek Magazine.I'll be MCing this year's Moneyweek Summit on Friday November 8th. Readers of the Flying Frisby can get a 20% discount by entering the code FRISBY20If you're interested in nuclear, Wednesday's piece might be of interest: I had an email from Nick Lawson, CEO of investment house, Ocean Finance, which has put together some research on Lightbridge. I share it here, in case of interest. And here once again are those vids: This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.theflyingfrisby.com/subscribe

**Summary** In dieser Episode des Energiezone Podcasts diskutieren Alex und Ilan über die Herausforderungen und Chancen der Energiewende in Deutschland. Sie beleuchten Themen wie Netzdienlichkeit, die Rolle von Windkraft und Biogas, die Wasserstoffwirtschaft sowie die Sicherheit von Batterietechnologien. Zudem teilen sie ihre Erfahrungen von der Windmesse und diskutieren die Notwendigkeit von Innovationen und politischen Narrativen in der Energieversorgung. **Takeaways ** - Netzdienlichkeit ist komplex und erfordert individuelle Entscheidungssignale. - Die Windkraft hat Potenzial, benötigt jedoch einen besseren Netzausbau. - Biogas kann eine kosteneffiziente Lösung für Dunkelflauten bieten. - Wasserstoffwirtschaft hat viele Herausforderungen und ist nicht die einzige Lösung. - Batterietechnologie entwickelt sich schnell, aber Sicherheitsfragen bleiben. - Die Digitalisierung der Netze bietet großes Potenzial für die Energiewende. - Politische Narrative beeinflussen die Wahrnehmung der Energiewende. - Die Windmesse hat viele neue Erkenntnisse gebracht. - Innovationen sind notwendig, um die Herausforderungen der Energiewende zu meistern. - Die Infrastruktur, die wir haben, sollte besser genutzt werden. **Links** - [Biogas Studie](https://www.biogas-ist-zukunft.de/2024/09/fachverband-biogas-veroeffentlicht-studie-der-fau-erlangen-nuernberg/) - Günstige Speicher bei MyDealz: [5,12 kWh Speicher PV Solar LiFePO4 Lithium Stromspeicher Akku 51.2V LUX-E-48100 ](https://www.mydealz.de/deals/512-kwh-speicher-pv-solar-lifepo4-lithium-stromspeicher-akku-512v-lux-e-48100-2428706) - [Flex-Power ist mega - äh giga](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cfpflexpower_flex-giga-gigawatt-activity-7236299151498498048-GuH4?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop ) (1 GW im Portfolio, handeln 11 TWh und machen 100 Mio Umsatz) - Energiewende: [Letztes britisches Kohlekraftwerk schließt](https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2024-09/grossbritannien-kohle-kraftwerk-schliessung-ratcliffe-on-soar) Webseite: [https://www.energiezone.org](http://www.energiezone.org) Community: [https://forum.energiezone.org](https://forum.energiezone.org/) Feedback: team@energiezone.org Alexander Graf: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandergraf/](http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandergraf/) Ilan Momber: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/imomber/](http:///www.linkedin.com/in/imomber/)

L'intelligence artificielle, souvent perçue comme gourmande en énergie, pose un défi majeur aux géants de la tech qui multiplient, en parallèle, les engagements en faveur de la décarbonation. Face à cette contradiction, une tendance se dessine : l'adoption croissante de l'énergie nucléaire, une source puissante et sans émissions de CO2. Microsoft a ouvert la voie, avec des accords en France et aux États-Unis, tandis qu'OpenAI a fait un pas de plus en créant sa propre filiale dans le nucléaire, la start-up Oklo. Aujourd'hui, Nvidia, leader dans la fabrication de puces IA, se joint au mouvement.« Le nucléaire est une source d'énergie merveilleuse et durable », a déclaré Jensen Huang, PDG de Nvidia, lors d'une interview accordée à Bloomberg. Il a souligné que cette énergie ne serait pas la seule solution, mais qu'elle jouerait un rôle crucial dans un mix énergétique équilibré, où coût, disponibilité et durabilité seraient en constante évaluation. La question de l'alimentation des centres de données, vitaux pour l'IA, devient de plus en plus centrale. BlackRock et Microsoft ont ainsi lancé un fonds d'investissement de 30 milliards de dollars, destiné à soutenir les projets de data centers et à sécuriser leur approvisionnement énergétique.Selon l'Agence internationale de l'énergie, la consommation mondiale d'électricité des centres de données pourrait doubler entre 2022 et 2026, passant de 460 TWh à une fourchette comprise entre 650 et 1 050 TWh. Ce boom énergétique attire de plus en plus d'acteurs vers l'énergie nucléaire, perçue comme une solution de choix pour répondre aux besoins croissants de l'IA, tout en respectant les engagements climatiques. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Ainda pouco conhecida do grande público, a poluição digital ganha novas proporções com a inteligência artificial. Uma pesquisa feita por IA gera pelo menos 10 vezes mais impacto ambiental que um buscador comum. Mas, ao mesmo tempo, a tecnologia também é uma aliada poderosa do meio ambiente. Depois de e-mails, mensagens e streaming, agora são as emissões de gases de efeito estufa da inteligência artificial que causam preocupação aos cientistas, mas também ao mundo empresarial – incitado a publicar balanços de CO2 das suas atividades. Na corrida pelo net zero (estratégia de descarbonização), entretanto, aparece uma barreira colossal: a IA, ao processar uma quantidade imensa de dados, tem o potencial de esfacelar qualquer meta de redução de emissões, sobretudo das empresas de tecnologia.Dois exemplos resumem bem o que está em jogo: em julho, o Google divulgou que as suas emissões cresceram quase 50% nos últimos cinco anos, depois que a companhia passou a investir pesado em inteligência artificial. Dois meses antes, a Microsoft havia revelado um resultado ainda mais perturbador ­– alta de 30% em apenas um ano.Na França, o Ministério da Transição Ecológica e a Associação Francesa de Normatização (Afnor), especialistas em desenvolvimento sustentável, elaboraram um documento com metodologias de cálculo de impacto e recomendações de boas práticas para estimular o uso "frugal" da inteligência artificial – ou seja, o mais ambientalmente responsável possível."A IA frugal não vai necessariamente buscar uma meta específica, mas vai modular o nosso objetivo em função dos recursos que temos, e tendo em mente a redução dos impactos ambientais. O consumo desmedido de energia se tornou cada vez mais caro e as empresas precisarão buscar um consumo eficiente dessa tecnologia”, disse Anna Médan, chefe de projetos da Afnor que codirigiu a iniciativa.Por que o impacto ambiental é alto? O desenvolvimento dessas ferramentas multiplica de maneira exponencial a necessidade de realização de cálculos complexos. Quanto mais sofisticado é o comando – como no caso da IA generativa, que cria novos textos ou imagens a partir da análise de milhões de dados existentes –, maior será a demanda de energia, de infraestruturas, como centrais de armazenamento de dados e servidores, e de outros equipamentos de informática, como placas gráficas. Assim, a IA contribui também para o aumento da procura por minerais raros como silício e cobalto."Hoje, temos IA generativas cujos servidores são estocados em data centers muito longe das empresas, e que necessitam uma grande quantidade de água para refrigerá-los. Esse sistema está chegando ao limite”, adverte Médan."Para os hardwares e placas, estamos vendo os processadores de cálculos sendo colocados diretamente nos computadores das pessoas, nas empresas. A divisão entre quem realiza a potência de cálculo e quem a solicita será cada vez mais fluida no futuro – o que significa que, se quisermos mensurar exatamente os impactos ambientais para os produtores e os consumidores de IA, precisaremos de metodologias de cálculo bem precisas", observa.O tema é levado com a maior seriedade pela Agência Internacional de Energia (AIE), que na suas perspectivas sobre a demanda de eletricidade até 2026, alertou sobre um aumento de mais de 30% ligado à inteligência artificial e às criptomoedas. A entidade afirma que esses dois setores gastaram 460 TWh em 2023, ou 2% do consumo mundial. Mas em dois anos, esse número deve disparar para 1.000 TWh – o equivalente ao consumo de um país desenvolvido como o Japão.Uso responsável por internautas O desafio é de peso para empresas, governos, organizações e instituições. Mas quando faz uma pergunta banal para o ChatGPT, os internautas também não costumam se preocupar com os recursos mobilizados para concretizar as ações virtuais – que têm consequências bem reais, ao serem levados à escala de bilhões de usuários. Trinta anos depois da popularização da internet, a conscientização sobre a poluição digital ainda caminha a passos lentos.A IA generativa consome dezenas de vezes mais energia por ser polivalente – combina outras inteligências artificiais especializadas, capazes de executar diferentes tarefas como procurar, traduzir, combinar, resumir, escrever e criar novos dados. Deve-se, portanto, evitá-la para realizar comandos simples.“Os internautas são o último estágio de uma cadeia que consome imensamente mais do que eles, mas mesmo assim, os pequenos gestos contam. Eles precisam ter em mente que os grandes modelos de IA generativa funcionam na base de cálculos de probabilidade, que são muito eficientes para determinados usos. Entretanto, modelos mais especializados em uma tarefa são, com frequência, bem menos gastadores de recursos e mais precisos na resposta”, salienta a especialista.“E também acho que será necessária uma resposta de mercado para o uso: talvez chegue o momento em que o Chat GPT vai dizer que custa muito caro manter essas IA e vai limitar a sua oferta gratuita."Impulso à inovação e pesquisa ambientalEste universo, cujos potenciais recém-começaram a ser desenvolvidos, também traz uma série de benefícios para a sociedade. A inteligência artificial já é uma aliada importante do planeta, graças aos mais variados usos: otimiza a eficiência energética de prédios, na construção civil e nas operações de transportes, por exemplo. Pode detectar escapamentos de metano na indústria fóssil, além de identificar irregularidades em diferentes atividades, como o desmatamento ou a pesca ilegais. Diversas iniciativas são descritas no coletivo Climate Change AI, alimentado por especialistas e pesquisadores."Tem start ups francesas, europeias e internacionais fazendo coisas realmente incríveis pelo planeta, principalmente na área de computer vision, que é a análise de imagens com IA”, nota Anna Médan.As ferramentas deram um grande impulso ao desenvolvimento das pesquisas relacionadas ao meio ambiente. Na climatologia, por exemplo, facilitaram o acesso a registros históricos de eventos climáticos e a relação entre os fenômenos extremos que ocorrem agora com as mudanças do clima. Auxiliam, ainda, nas projeções dos eventos que estão por vir – o que pode salvar vidas.É este equilíbrio entre danos e benefícios que ainda precisa ser encontrado. Os especialistas têm convergido na orientação de que as ferramentas de IA devem continuar a ser desenvolvidas, mas o seu uso não necessariamente precisa ser generalizado. Pelo contrário, deve ser cada vez mais especializado.

Dürrekatastrophen, tödliche Stürme, sintflutartige Regenfälle: Künstliche Intelligenz sammelt Daten über extreme Wetterphänomene. Mit ihnen entwickelt Klimaforscher Laurens Bouwer Risikomodelle zu den Auswirkungen des Klimawandels. Er berechnet, wo in Deutschland künftig am ehesten die Keller volllaufen und erklärt, wie gute Stadtplanung das verhindern kann. Im Schneller Schlau-Spezial „Hereon Academy“ befragen ihn Tech-Journalistin Svea Eckert und Torsten Fischer vom Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon. +Das Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon unterstützt den Podcast „P.M. Hereon Academy“ mit der wissenschaftlichen Recherche und stellt Audio-Dateien zur Verfügung. +Shownotes: Laurens Bouwer, Bio und Kontakt: https://www.gerics.de/about/team/077939/index.php.de +Klima Atlas: https://interaktiv.morgenpost.de/klimawandel-hitze-starkregen-deutschland-karte/ +Forschung von Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS) zu KI: https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/machine-learning-helps-to-improve-climate-services/175686/ +Wie Klimawandel krank macht, GERICS/ BKK Studie: https://www.gerics.de/about/news_and_events/news/103043/index.php.de + Weitere Studien und Fakten aus dem Podcast: Hitze in Deutschland: https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/Gesundheitsmonitoring/Gesundheitsberichterstattung/GBEDownloadsJ/Focus/JHealthMonit_2023_S4_Hitze_Sachstandsbericht_Klimawandel_Gesundheit.pdf?__blob=publicationFile +Wissenschaftler der Universitäten Stanford und Colorado State haben im Rahmen einer Studie künstliche Intelligenz eingesetzt, um den kritischen Zeitpunkt der Erderwärmung vorherzusagen: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/30/climate-crisis-global-heating-artificial-intelligence + Zu dem Stromverbrauch von KI und dem Vergleich mit Island: „In 2021, Google's total electricity consumption was 18.3 TWh, with AI accounting for 10%–15% of this total.2 The worst-case scenario suggests Google's AI alone could consume as much electricity as a country such as Ireland (29.3 TWh per year)”: https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(23)00365-3 + Forschende nutzten ein Deep-Learning-System, um mehr als 100.000 wissenschaftliche Studien zu den Auswirkungen des Klimawandels auszuwerten. Eines der Ergebnisse der Metaanalyse: Über 80 Prozent der globalen Landfläche sind inzwischen nachweislich vom menschengemachten Klimawandel betroffen. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-021-01168-6.epdf?sharing_token=fW-UnjSySsP1mzP0QlX2WdRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0PwAcRfhcoupIk0A95eY8_-lUvstnryI-SR9UaIsiFOg2CdF-TlyNfOb92Bx8kLLL-nQOKc4717hfAPmNx1_oS6R3_2i9sabnYtUpZgvBnMIrT_bGVCm4G2qUSkVsDAak5iCQmR7OTXL6q1Mj9LbK1zKW0gmBhAkb4x8pTH-hICzr8DOjr4H827iuDa_uRnPuY%3D&tracking_referrer=www.derstandard.de + Eine Studie untersuchte die klimatischen Verhältnisse von vier Messstationen in Berlin für den Zeitraum 2001-2015 anhand der beiden Kenngrößen „Heiße Tage“ und „Tropennächte“. Während an den unterschiedlich gelegenen Stationen die Anzahl Heißer Tage vergleichbar hoch war, traten Tropennächte an der innerhalb dichter, innerstädtischer Bebauungsstrukturen gelegenen Station wesentlich häufiger (mehr als 3 mal so oft) auf, als auf Freiflächen. https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/sites/default/files/medien/4031/publikationen/uba_krug_muecke.pdf + KI ist auch in der Klimaforschung voreingenommen - mit schwerwiegenden Folgen, beispielsweise falschen Prognosen für CO2-Emissionen: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44168-023-00056-3 +++Unsere allgemeinen Datenschutzrichtlinien finden Sie unter https://art19.com/privacy. Die Datenschutzrichtlinien für Kalifornien sind unter https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info abrufbar.

Global energy-intensive, high-temperature processing industries such as cement, steel and glass are losing more than 50% of their energy as waste heat during production. This amounts to approximately 400 TWh of power each year, which is almost one-seventh of the total European electrical power demand. Despite the availability of technologies to convert waste heat into electricity, the adoption of these solutions at an industry scale has been poor. INFERNO, a Horizon Europe-funded project, is tackling specific barriers, such as the efficiency and cost of renewable technologies, with the aim of developing a new hybrid platform system based on the integration of solid-state devices. This development will significantly contribute to sustainable energy harvesting from industrial waste heat. The project is led by Dr. Kafil M. Razeeb at Tyndall in collaboration with Technological University Dublin, Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, IFW Dresden, Universite de Technologie de Troyes and F6S Ireland Limited. This collaboration between European experts in materials research, modelling, cell fabrication, thermoelectricity, and electronics, aims to develop new materials and systems for thermal power to electricity conversion. Development efforts target improvements regarding infrared sensitive low bandgap thermophotovoltaic cells, photonic metamaterials, as well as high-performance thermoelectric generator devices made of earth-abundant materials. Thermophotovoltaics is the direct conversion of radiant power into electricity using the photovoltaic effect, whereas thermoelectrics uses temperature gradient into electricity using Seebeck effect. This development will allow this new waste heat recovery system to operate over a wider range of temperatures, from 400 to 800°C, at least 25% more efficiently than the current state of the art systems. The primary advantage of the new system is its modularity without involving any major moving parts. The INFERNO project will deploy a modular, hybrid energy harvesting system that can be easily integrated into production lines, helping hard-to-decarbonize industries improve their system efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Three pilot demonstrations in Ireland, Germany and France will test the integrated hybrid system and its components. Dr Kafil M. Razeeb, Advanced Energy Materials Group, Tyndall, said: "Our aim is to develop a system combining different thermal to electrical energy harvesting technologies, which will be tested in real industrial setup. We hope to deploy a system that can be cost-effectively retrofitted and integrated for electricity production from industrial waste heat." More about Irish Tech News Irish Tech News are Ireland's No. 1 Online Tech Publication and often Ireland's No.1 Tech Podcast too. You can find hundreds of fantastic previous episodes and subscribe using whatever platform you like via our Anchor.fm page here: https://anchor.fm/irish-tech-news If you'd like to be featured in an upcoming Podcast email us at Simon@IrishTechNews.ie now to discuss. Irish Tech News have a range of services available to help promote your business. Why not drop us a line at Info@IrishTechNews.ie now to find out more about how we can help you reach our audience. You can also find and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat.

Listener and experienced Florida hiker Richie Mulligan (aka Pecky Bird) joins Jeremy to talk about his hike with his father on the Ocean to Lake Trail in Southern Florida.  This amazing hike from the Atlantic Ocean to Lake Okeechobee takes hikers through a wide variety of Southern Florida's diverse habitats.  And of course there are alligators.  Also learn about the unique Everglades environment in Southern Florida.New discount for TWH listeners from Outdoor Herbivore, our sponsor:  https://outdoorherbivore.com/Questions, comments or suggestions:  trailsworthhiking@gmail.comInstagram:  @trailsworthhikingpodcast

Listener Wade Tonkin and comedian Sean Keane join Jeremy to talk about their treks to Everest Base Camp.  This amazing trek in Nepal takes hikers high in the Himalayas to the base camp where climbers get ready to ascend the tallest mountain on earth.  Wade tells about his inspiring story of getting fit for this difficult trek and Sean tells us about the stand-up comedy performance he did during the trek.  Listen to the end to hear clips from the actual performance.  And Jeremy fills us in on Mt. Everest, Sherpas, and of course, the base camp itself.Sean's latest comedy release:  https://seankeane.bandcamp.com/album/americas-uncle-dadOutdoor Herbivore, where you can purchase the 2024 TWH meal kit: https://outdoorherbivore.com/trails-worth-hiking-combo/Questions, comments, or suggestions:  trailsworthhiking@gmail.comInstagram:  @trailsworthhikingpodcast

A napokban Németországban a Bundestag elé került az a törvényjavaslat amivel tovább akarják gyorsítani a napelemek németországi terjeszkedését. Magyarországon legutóbb viszont elkaszálták azt a zöldenergiás kapacitásbővítési csomagot, amely az évtized végére akár további 10 GW megépítése előtt nyitotta volna meg a beruházási lehetőségeket. Kiss Ernőt, a Magyar Napelem és Napkollektor Szövetség MNSzSZ) elnökét kérdeztük. Főbb részek: Intro (0:00) A kormány támogatja... (1:43) Meglett (aztán elveszett) a jó kapcsolat (3:50) Tavaly 20 TWh volt az import (7:22) Az önellátás az áramtermelési cél (11:21) Az eu-s napelemes bővülés 3 százaléka a magyar (14:20) Az újabb beruházások nem kapnak teret (19:25) Kép forrása: Getty ImagesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, host Dr. I. David Daniels will speak with Dr. Lili Tenney, the associate director for outreach and programs at the Center for Health, Work & Environment and an assistant professor at the Colorado School of Public Health, where she teaches graduate courses in the Department of Environmental & Occupational Health. She is also president of the Society for Total Worker Health. The origins of TWH can be traced back to the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) initiative called “Steps to a Healthier US”. In 2014, NIOSH created the Office for TWH Coordination and Research Support (Office for TWH) to coordinate and advance these efforts. The comprehensive nature of Total Worker Health (TWH) approaches requires innovative thinking to design and inform current policies, programs, and practices that advance worker well-being. NIOSH funds ten academic Centers of Excellence for Total Worker Health to inspire innovation in the field. One of these centers is located at the Colorado School of Public Health. The school is built on the collective expertise and vision of faculty at three leading educational and research institutions: the University of Colorado, Colorado State University, and the University of Northern Colorado. The Center for Work, Health, and Environment focuses on research, education, and practice. In this episode, Dr. Tenny will share her view on the concept of Total Worker health and share some of the work on-going at the Center for Health Work & Environment.

De l'industrie à la santé, en passant par le transport ou le commerce, l'intelligence artificielle est utilisée dans des domaines toujours plus nombreux. Mais sa mise en œuvre n'est pas sans poser certaines difficultés. L'un de ces problèmes récurrents est la consommation d'énergie nécessitée par l'utilisation de l'IA. Elle est d'ores et déjà considérable et ne peut qu'augmenter dans les années à venir. En effet, selon une récente étude, les dispositifs d'IA pourraient consommer de 85 à 134 térawattheures (Twh) à l'horizon 2027. Soit autant que certains pays. Pour répondre à ces besoins énergétiques croissants, l'utilisation d'énergies fossiles, comme le gaz, le pétrole ou le charbon, ne serait pas très opportune. En effet, elle se traduirait par une forte émission de gaz à effet de serre. C'est pourquoi il semble urgent de trouver une autre solution. Qui passe, selon Sam Altman, le cofondateur, avec Elon Musk, de la société OpenAI, par ce qu'il appelle une "percée énergétique". Autrement dit l'existence d'une source d'énergie efficace et sans danger pour la planète, qui soit en mesure de satisfaire les besoins énergétiques plus importants que prévu de l'IA. Dans l'esprit de Sam Altman, il pourrait s'agir de l'énergie solaire, mais elle est encore très coûteuse. Il place donc ses espoirs dans la fusion nucléaire, un processus dans lequel deux noyaux d'atomes légers s'unissent pour en former un plus lourd. Cette fusion se traduit par une très puissante libération d'énergie. Un contrat a d'ores et déjà été conclu entre une entreprise informatique américaine et Helion Energy, un groupe spécialisé dans le développement de la fusion nucléaire. De fait, l'énergie dont elle a besoin devrait lui être fournie, à l'horizon 2028, par une centrale fonctionnant avec ce procédé. Or, Sam Altman a investi d'importants capitaux dans Helion Energy. Ce qui montre le crédit qu'il porte à la fusion nucléaire. C'est en effet une technique propre et sécurisée, capable de produire des quantités illimitées d'énergie. De quoi couvrir les besoins de l'IA sans augmenter une empreinte carbone déjà notable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

De l'industrie à la santé, en passant par le transport ou le commerce, l'intelligence artificielle est utilisée dans des domaines toujours plus nombreux. Mais sa mise en œuvre n'est pas sans poser certaines difficultés.L'un de ces problèmes récurrents est la consommation d'énergie nécessitée par l'utilisation de l'IA. Elle est d'ores et déjà considérable et ne peut qu'augmenter dans les années à venir.En effet, selon une récente étude, les dispositifs d'IA pourraient consommer de 85 à 134 térawattheures (Twh) à l'horizon 2027. Soit autant que certains pays.Pour répondre à ces besoins énergétiques croissants, l'utilisation d'énergies fossiles, comme le gaz, le pétrole ou le charbon, ne serait pas très opportune. En effet, elle se traduirait par une forte émission de gaz à effet de serre.C'est pourquoi il semble urgent de trouver une autre solution. Qui passe, selon Sam Altman, le cofondateur, avec Elon Musk, de la société OpenAI, par ce qu'il appelle une "percée énergétique".Autrement dit l'existence d'une source d'énergie efficace et sans danger pour la planète, qui soit en mesure de satisfaire les besoins énergétiques plus importants que prévu de l'IA. Dans l'esprit de Sam Altman, il pourrait s'agir de l'énergie solaire, mais elle est encore très coûteuse.Il place donc ses espoirs dans la fusion nucléaire, un processus dans lequel deux noyaux d'atomes légers s'unissent pour en former un plus lourd. Cette fusion se traduit par une très puissante libération d'énergie.Un contrat a d'ores et déjà été conclu entre une entreprise informatique américaine et Helion Energy, un groupe spécialisé dans le développement de la fusion nucléaire. De fait, l'énergie dont elle a besoin devrait lui être fournie, à l'horizon 2028, par une centrale fonctionnant avec ce procédé.Or, Sam Altman a investi d'importants capitaux dans Helion Energy. Ce qui montre le crédit qu'il porte à la fusion nucléaire. C'est en effet une technique propre et sécurisée, capable de produire des quantités illimitées d'énergie. De quoi couvrir les besoins de l'IA sans augmenter une empreinte carbone déjà notable. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

At its recent Net Zero Forum, Smart Energy Decisions conducted live interviews with energy customers at various stages of their decarbonization strategies. This episode of the Heard at NZF mini-series focuses on energy customers in healthcare. The interviews feature Scott Czubkowski, the National Director of Energy and Facility Performance at Medxcel Facilities, and Cory Pouliot, the Senior Director of Facilities Operations at Boston Medical Center. You will want to hear this episode if you are interested in... National solutions for sustainable healthcare [02:05] Making data-based decisions [07:41] Sustainability and DEI in healthcare facility construction [11:25] Bringing the community on board [13:43] Click here for detailed show notes Connect with Scott Czubkowski On LinkedIn Scott Czubkowski PE, CHC is the Director of Energy and Facility Performance at Medxcel.  His specialties include large-scale demand side reduction strategies resulting in utility savings and lower carbon emissions (GHG), supply side management procurement strategies that leverage large portfolio aggregation which supports RE strategies and facility performance programs that optimizes existing assets while optimizing maintenance costs.  Mr. Czubkowski entered the energy arena in 1990 as a nuclear plant construction engineer on 688 Los Angeles Class submarines and has supported hospital demand side programs since 1994 through various roles as a BAS controls engineer, HVAC system design builder, professional MEP consultant. Most recently, he manages over 1.9 TWh of emissions. He is a licensed trainer for Florida CILB continuing education programs, an adjunct professor for DeVry University and has spoken at regional engagements related to energy and HVAC system operations.   Geographical regions served: SE & Central US, Caribbean Islands, Switzerland, Holland, France and Canada. Connect with Cory Pouliot On LinkedIn Cory Pouliot is the Senior Director of Facilities Operations at Boston Medical Center. Cory possesses strong leadership and organizational competencies combined with strategic planning skills to ensure functional and sustainable program development and implementation, for both clinical and ancillary support/service areas. Cory holds a Master's degree in Facilities Management from the Massachusetts Maritime Academy and a MBA in Healthcare Administration from Anna Maria College.  Additionally, he holds a Bachelor of Science in Marine Engineering and Facilities and Plant Engineering; both from the Massachusetts Maritime Academy.  Cory is a Fellow with the American College of Healthcare Executives.   Cory is also an Adjunct Professor at Wentworth Institute of Technology, teaching various courses in numerous undergraduate and graduate programs in their Facilities Management and Construction Management programs.   Connect With Smart Energy Decisions https://smartenergydecisions.com   Follow them on LinkedIn Subscribe to Smart Energy Voices If you're interested in participating in the next Smart Energy Decision Event, visit smartenergydecisions.com or email our Community Development team at attend@smartenergydecisions.com

Pour écouter ActuApple Podcast:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/choses-%C3%A0-savoir-actu/id1668258253Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/3jGBHbZGDe8U51nLDXAbcoPour écouter La RumeurApple Podcast:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/faits-divers/id1634132713Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/206pWa4UKAgDLTLgx5l9ch?si=ac8911da8028483b________________________Malgré les efforts déployés pour maîtriser la consommation d'énergie, le monde en utilise toujours plus. En effet, en 2022, la demande mondiale d'énergie a progressé de 1,1 % par rapport à 2021.Ce qui représente une augmentation de 2,8 % par rapport à la consommation d'énergie enregistrée en 2019, la dernière année avant le déclenchement de l'épidémie de Covid.Ceci étant, cette hausse, pour 2022, marque le pas, si on la compare aux 5,5 % d'augmentation constatée en 2021 qui, juste après le Covid, était certes une année exceptionnelle.De grandes disparitésCette hausse globale de la consommation mondiale d'énergie cache cependant des disparités. En effet, la part, dans cette consommation, de certaines régions du globe, est plus modérée.C'est notamment le cas de l'Europe, où la demande énergétique a diminué de 3,8 % entre 2021 et 2022. Elle représente actuellement un peu plus de 13 % de la demande mondiale d'énergie.De son côté, l'Amérique du Nord consomme environ 20 % de l'énergie mondiale, dont près de 16 % pour les seuls États-Unis. Mais c'est l'Asie-Pacifique, avec 46 % de la demande mondiale d'énergie, qui occupe la première place dans ce palmarès. Et, dans cette partie du monde, la Chine, à elle seule, représente plus de 26 % de la demande mondiale d'énergie.Plus d'électricité en FranceEn France, c'est la production d'électricité qui devrait le plus augmenter. En 2022, les Français ont consommé environ 460 térawattheures (TWh) d'électricité, un Twh correspondant à 1.000 milliards de Wh.Or, les prévisions pour 2035 sont comprises entre 580 et 640 TWh. En effet, l'électricité est de plus en plus amenée à remplacer, comme source d'énergie, le gaz et le charbon, responsables d'une trop forte émission de gaz à effet de serre.De leur côté, les particuliers devraient utiliser de plus grandes quantités d'électricité, notamment pour alimenter des véhicules électriques destinés à remplacer progressivement les voitures thermiques.Pour répondre à ces besoins, la production électrique devrait croître au rythme de 10 TWh par an sur la décennie 2025-2035. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Pour écouter Actu Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/choses-%C3%A0-savoir-actu/id1668258253 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3jGBHbZGDe8U51nLDXAbco Pour écouter La Rumeur Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/faits-divers/id1634132713 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/206pWa4UKAgDLTLgx5l9ch?si=ac8911da8028483b ________________________ Malgré les efforts déployés pour maîtriser la consommation d'énergie, le monde en utilise toujours plus. En effet, en 2022, la demande mondiale d'énergie a progressé de 1,1 % par rapport à 2021. Ce qui représente une augmentation de 2,8 % par rapport à la consommation d'énergie enregistrée en 2019, la dernière année avant le déclenchement de l'épidémie de Covid. Ceci étant, cette hausse, pour 2022, marque le pas, si on la compare aux 5,5 % d'augmentation constatée en 2021 qui, juste après le Covid, était certes une année exceptionnelle. De grandes disparités Cette hausse globale de la consommation mondiale d'énergie cache cependant des disparités. En effet, la part, dans cette consommation, de certaines régions du globe, est plus modérée. C'est notamment le cas de l'Europe, où la demande énergétique a diminué de 3,8 % entre 2021 et 2022. Elle représente actuellement un peu plus de 13 % de la demande mondiale d'énergie. De son côté, l'Amérique du Nord consomme environ 20 % de l'énergie mondiale, dont près de 16 % pour les seuls États-Unis. Mais c'est l'Asie-Pacifique, avec 46 % de la demande mondiale d'énergie, qui occupe la première place dans ce palmarès. Et, dans cette partie du monde, la Chine, à elle seule, représente plus de 26 % de la demande mondiale d'énergie. Plus d'électricité en France En France, c'est la production d'électricité qui devrait le plus augmenter. En 2022, les Français ont consommé environ 460 térawattheures (TWh) d'électricité, un Twh correspondant à 1.000 milliards de Wh. Or, les prévisions pour 2035 sont comprises entre 580 et 640 TWh. En effet, l'électricité est de plus en plus amenée à remplacer, comme source d'énergie, le gaz et le charbon, responsables d'une trop forte émission de gaz à effet de serre. De leur côté, les particuliers devraient utiliser de plus grandes quantités d'électricité, notamment pour alimenter des véhicules électriques destinés à remplacer progressivement les voitures thermiques. Pour répondre à ces besoins, la production électrique devrait croître au rythme de 10 TWh par an sur la décennie 2025-2035. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Please take our listener survey.Stay up to date with the latest solar, wind, and energy storage news and analysis. Join co-hosts Tim Montague, solar & storage expert, and John Weaver, PV Magazine journalist, as they reflect on the latest tools, technologies, and trends driving the energy transition forward. With a strong commitment to decarbonizing the economy and building a safer, healthier future for humanity, this show is a must-watch for any energy professional looking to stay ahead of the game. Don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, rate and review us on Apple or Spotify, and join us live every Thursday at 12 noon EST / 9 AM Pacific. Contact us at tim@cleanpowerhour.com or visit www.CleanPowerHour.com to learn more.This week John Weaver and I discuss :1. Energy Vault completes 25 MW project in China 2. Limitless ocean-based solar power near the equator due to flat oceans - for instance - Indonesia could generate ~35,000 TWh/yr via floating solar = current global electricity generation Energy Storage leaders join us for Creating Cost-Competitive Energy Storage Systems - Aug 24, 10 AM Central.https://events.reutersevents.com/renenwables/cost-competitivesystems?utm_source=clean%20power%20hour%20social%20post%20wb2 Support the showConnect with Tim Clean Power Hour Clean Power Hour on YouTubeTim on TwitterTim on LinkedIn Email tim@cleanpowerhour.com Review Clean Power Hour on Apple PodcastsThe Clean Power Hour is produced by the Clean Power Consulting Group and created by Tim Montague. Contact us by email: CleanPowerHour@gmail.com Corporate sponsors who share our mission to speed the energy transition are invited to check out https://www.cleanpowerhour.com/support/The Clean Power Hour is brought to you by CPS America, maker of North America's number one 3-phase string inverter, with over 6GW shipped in the US. With a focus on commercial and utility-scale solar and energy storage, the company partners with customers to provide unparalleled performance and service. The CPS America product lineup includes 3-phase string inverters from 25kW to 275kW, exceptional data communication and controls, and energy storage solutions designed for seamless integration with CPS America systems. Learn more at www.chintpowersystems.com

This is Garrison Hardie with your CrossPolitic Daily News Brief for Tuesday, June 27th, 2023. Fight Laugh Feast Conference - Ark Encounter This year, our Fight Laugh Feast Conference is at the Ark Encounter in Kentucky on The Politics of Six Day Creation. The politics of six day creation is the difference between a fixed standard of justice and a careening standard of justice, the difference between the corrosive relativism that creates mobs and anarchy and the freedom of objectivity, truth, and due process. The politics of six day creation establishes the authority and sufficiency of God’s Word for all of life: from what is a man or a woman, when does human life begin, and how is human society best organized? Come hear Ken Ham, Pastor Doug Wilson, Dr. Ben Merkle, Dr. Gordon Wilson, me and more, and of course a live CrossPolitic show! Mark your calendars for October 11th-14th, as we fight, laugh, and feast, with beer & psalms, our amazing lineup of speakers, our Rowdy Christian Merch, and a Sabbath Feast to wrap up the occasion. Maybe an infant baptism while we’re at it! Visit fightlaughfeast.com for more information! https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/anniversary-roe-v-wade-being-overturned-gop-rep-promotes-bill-help-expectant On anniversary of Roe v. Wade being overturned, GOP Rep. promotes bill to help expectant mothers On the anniversary of Roe v. Wade being overturned, Minnesota Republican Congresswoman Michelle Fischbach promoted a proposed bill titled "The HOPE Act" that promotes helping expectant mothers. "It is crucial that women are supported when facing an unexpected pregnancy, which is why I have introduced The Health, Opportunity, Protecting Life, Education (HOPE) Act, which improves access to prenatal telehealth care, supports positive alternatives to abortion, and improves access to information for expectant mothers, providing tangible ways to help women feel confident during and beyond their pregnancy," Fischbach wrote in an opinion piece published by The Hill. On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled to overturn Roe v. Wade, ending the constitutional right to abortion and allowing individual states to decide for themselves on whether to restrict or allow abortions. The HOPE Act would provide funding for grants and other activities related to maternal care. It would also establish informed consent and parental notification requirements for abortion providers. "The HOPE Act creates a pilot grant program to provide support and equipment like blood pressure monitors, scales, and portable fetal heart rate monitors to community health providers," Fischbach wrote. "Increasing telehealth options gives expectant mothers the flexibility they need to receive the care they deserve." It would also prohibit any government funding going to Planned Parenthood. https://www.foxnews.com/media/bud-light-sponsors-toronto-pride-parade-naked-men-children Bud Light sponsors Toronto Pride parade attended by naked men, children Bud Light is serving as an official sponsor of the Toronto Pride parade, where video footage shows naked men standing around and riding bicycles in clear view of children attending the event. The footage, captured by Beth Baisch of the Post Millennial, shows dozens of attendees riding past a large cheering crowd. The fully naked bikers, some covered in paint or tattoos, wave back at the crowd. One naked man high-fives an onlooker while another peddles a recumbent bike with a gold blow-up swan adorned around his neck. A second video shows a group of naked men with hats standing in a circle amidst the crowd. Several children walk past the group of men with their families. Another clip shows a person wearing a giant penis costume that covers his entire head. The camera captures a young girl sitting in a stroller and staring toward the phallic-costumed individual. Other videos show a group of naked men playing and rinsing themselves off alongside a fountain surrounded by kids. Meanwhile, a stage, clearly adorned with Bud Light branding, featured scantily clad dancers wearing fishnets, nipple stickers and strange sock-like masks. The company's website notes that this year's sponsorship is representative of a longstanding partnership with the Pride event. "Bud Light Canada has been a proud partner of Pride Toronto for the last 10 years. This year, we're commemorating this milestone with Pride Toronto by featuring them on our can design, as well as continuing as the official beer sponsor of the festival," the beer brand's website states. According to the website, Bud Light Canada also provides $100,000 to various organizations that support the LGBTQUA2S+ community across Canada and has created a range of commemorative Pride beer cans to celebrate the collaboration. The partnership comes nearly three months after Bud Light received massive backlash for partnering with trans activist Dylan Mulvaney. The decision angered consumers and the brand saw a significant decrease in sales, resulting in billions of dollars in lost market value. In early April, Anheuser-Busch CEO Brendan Whitworth attempted to douse the flames with a lengthy statement to customers. "We never intended to be part of a discussion that divides people. We are in the business of bringing people together over a beer," he said in part. "My time serving this country taught me the importance of accountability and the values upon which America was founded: freedom, hard work and respect for one another. As CEO of Anheuser-Busch, I am focused on building and protecting our remarkable history and heritage." Despite losing business, Bud Light continued to anger customers for co-sponsoring an "all-ages Pride event" in Flagstaff, Arizona, on June 17. The party, called "Pride in the Pines," included drag queens and other performers, and listed Bud Light as one of the companies sponsoring the June 17 event. (Bud Light was initially mentioned prominently in one of the posters.) The event is listed as a "family festival event" and a family-friendly, "safe space" for all visitors. https://www.foxnews.com/us/colorado-springs-club-q-nonbinary-shooting-suspect-pleads-guilty-murder-charges Colorado Club Q 'nonbinary' shooter sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to murder Club Q shooting suspect Anderson Lee Aldrich was sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to murder and attempted murder charges during an arraignment hearing Monday morning, avoiding the prospect of a public trail just seven months after the deadly Colorado attack. Aldrich, who public defenders have said identifies as nonbinary and prefers to be described using they/them pronouns, is accused of fatally shooting five people and wounding 17 others at the LGBTQ+ nightclub Club Q in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Nov. 19, 2022. The suspect, whom the judge referred to as "Mx. Aldrich" during Monday’s arraignment hearing, accepted a plea agreement for a life sentence without the possibility of parole in exchange for pleading guilty to five counts of first-degree murder. Aldrich also pleaded guilty Monday to 46 counts of attempted murder in the first degree. The suspect pleaded no contest to felony and misdemeanor charges of bias-motivated crimes. "Because of the evidence presented I believe there is a high probability of being convicted at trial to those counts, and so I am pleading no contest or nolo contendere," Aldrich told the court Monday, explaining the no contest plea. In an interview from jail, Aldrich reportedly admitted to The Associated Press to being on a "very large plethora of drugs" and abusing steroids at the time, expressing regret for the attack and adding that suggesting the shooting was motivated by hate was "completely off base." In court hearings earlier this year, law enforcement testified that Aldrich ran a neo-Nazi website and used gay and racial slurs while gaming online, while the defense countered that Aldrich's sometimes abusive mother forced the suspect to frequent LGBTQ+ clubs. Two veterans out at Club Q reportedly helped thwart the attack by disarming Aldrich, who was beaten by patrons and displayed a bruised and bloodied face in his initial mugshot and court appearance. Aldrich was facing more than 300 state counts, including murder and hate crimes. The Justice Department is also considering pursuing federal hate crime charges, according to a senior law enforcement official who spoke to the AP. However, the charges against Aldrich were thrown out in July 2022 after Aldrich's mother and grandparents, the victims in the case, refused to cooperate with prosecutors, evading efforts to serve them with subpoenas to testify, according to court documents unsealed after the shooting. Other relatives told a judge they feared Aldrich would hurt the grandparents if released, painting a picture of an isolated, violent person who did not have a job and was given $30,000 that was spent largely on the purchase of 3D printers to make guns, the records showed. Aldrich was released from jail then and authorities kept two guns -- a ghost gun pistol and an MM15 rifle – seized in the arrest. But there was nothing to stop Aldrich from legally purchasing more firearms, raising questions immediately after the shooting about whether authorities should have sought a red flag order to prevent such purchases. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/nearly-half-bee-colonies-died-2023 Nearly half of honey bee colonies died in 2023 after three tumultuous years From April of last year to April of this year, 48% of honey bee colonies prematurely died off. University of Maryland and Auburn University have collaborated with nonprofit Bee Informed to track and report on managed bee colonies every year since 2007. Last year saw losses of 48%, the previous year’s loss was 39%, and the year before that, it was 50.8%. The average loss over the last 12 years is 39.6%. The cause of these losses is a mix of the parasitic mite, varroa destructor, which helps spread viruses between bees, increased use of pesticides, which inhibit the bee's ability to stave off diseases, and dramatic changes in the environment. When it becomes warmer than usual during the winter, bees will leave their colonies to begin pollinating many of the crops we eat, as well as other plants, but when the weather chills again, the bees die off. Still, the most commonly reported cause of death during the winter was the varroa. During the rest of the year, the most common report revolved around issues with the queen bee. "High levels of losses do not necessarily result in a decrease in the total number of colonies managed in the United States because beekeepers can replace lost colonies throughout the year," the report read. This report comes from a self-reported survey of 3,006 beekeepers from across the United States who collectively manage 314,360 colonies, the majority of which are commercially operated. This is only 12% of the estimated 2.70 million managed honey-producing colonies in the country in 2022, per the report. The collaboration, known as "the Bee Informed Partnership," is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving honey bee colony health in particular. https://www.conservativereview.com/unable-to-rely-on-wind-and-solar-sweden-ditches-100-renewable-target-and-bets-big-on-nuclear-power-2661896744.html Unable to rely on wind and solar, Sweden ditches 100% renewable target and bets big on nuclear power The Swedish parliament determined last week that in order to ensure the country has a "stable energy system," it will have to abandon its goal of "100 per cent renewable electricity production by 2040." To satisfy electricity demand, which is set to double to around 300 TwH by 2040, Sweden's right-of-center government announced June 20 that it would instead lean more heavily on nuclear energy and subsidize the construction of new nuclear plants — plants green-lit in 2016 but sidelined for fear they would be too expensive, reported Reuters. The country, home to just over 10.5 million people, presently has three nuclear plants with six nuclear reactors in commercial operation. The state-owned Vattenfall aims to bring the tally up to eight reactors and refurbish extant facilities. While Sweden's heightened nuclear focus is consistent with the country's commitment to shifting entirely off fossil fuels in a way that doesn't altogether cripple the nation, this bullishness on carbon-free nuclear power represents a significant about-face on atomic energy, which the country decided in a 1980 referendum to phase out. Swedish support for nuclear energy is presently at a record high of 56%, up from 42% in 2022, reported Bloomberg. The jump in support has been attributed in part to the energy crisis that overwhelmed Europe in concert with the invasion of Ukraine and the revelation that renewable energies are not tenable as alternatives. A 2021 study published in the journal Nature Communications indicated, "If future net-zero emissions energy systems rely heavily on solar and wind resources, spatial and temporal mismatches between resource availability and electricity demand may challenge system reliability." The researchers indicated that "the most reliable renewable electricity systems are wind-heavy and satisfy countries' electricity demand in 72-91% of hours ... Yet even in systems which meet >90% o demand, hundreds of hours of unmet demand may occur annually." These lost hours could prove too dear in a country where temperatures routinely drop below freezing several months out of every year. Even the former energy minister for the defeated leftist Social Democratic Party, was cognizant of the country's strained energy situation, warning last August of "strains on the power system this winter," both in terms of outages and high prices. The U.S. Department of Energy indicated that nuclear energy is the most reliable energy source on this side of the Atlantic Ocean. Each nuclear reactor typically produces the same amount of power as 431 utility-scale wind turbines or 3.1 million solar panels. According to the Swedish government, roughly 75% of its electricity comes from hydroelectric (43%) and nuclear (31%) power. 16% of the electricity comes from wind power. Approximately 9% comes from combined heat and power plants, largely powered by biofuels. Solar energy has yet to crack 1% of total supply. Finance Minister Elisabeth Svan-tesson of the Moderate Party said, "We need more electricity production, we need clean electricity and we need a stable energy system." Since wind and solar won't cut it, "This creates the conditions for nuclear power," said Svantesson.

This is Garrison Hardie with your CrossPolitic Daily News Brief for Tuesday, June 27th, 2023. Fight Laugh Feast Conference - Ark Encounter This year, our Fight Laugh Feast Conference is at the Ark Encounter in Kentucky on The Politics of Six Day Creation. The politics of six day creation is the difference between a fixed standard of justice and a careening standard of justice, the difference between the corrosive relativism that creates mobs and anarchy and the freedom of objectivity, truth, and due process. The politics of six day creation establishes the authority and sufficiency of God’s Word for all of life: from what is a man or a woman, when does human life begin, and how is human society best organized? Come hear Ken Ham, Pastor Doug Wilson, Dr. Ben Merkle, Dr. Gordon Wilson, me and more, and of course a live CrossPolitic show! Mark your calendars for October 11th-14th, as we fight, laugh, and feast, with beer & psalms, our amazing lineup of speakers, our Rowdy Christian Merch, and a Sabbath Feast to wrap up the occasion. Maybe an infant baptism while we’re at it! Visit fightlaughfeast.com for more information! https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/anniversary-roe-v-wade-being-overturned-gop-rep-promotes-bill-help-expectant On anniversary of Roe v. Wade being overturned, GOP Rep. promotes bill to help expectant mothers On the anniversary of Roe v. Wade being overturned, Minnesota Republican Congresswoman Michelle Fischbach promoted a proposed bill titled "The HOPE Act" that promotes helping expectant mothers. "It is crucial that women are supported when facing an unexpected pregnancy, which is why I have introduced The Health, Opportunity, Protecting Life, Education (HOPE) Act, which improves access to prenatal telehealth care, supports positive alternatives to abortion, and improves access to information for expectant mothers, providing tangible ways to help women feel confident during and beyond their pregnancy," Fischbach wrote in an opinion piece published by The Hill. On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled to overturn Roe v. Wade, ending the constitutional right to abortion and allowing individual states to decide for themselves on whether to restrict or allow abortions. The HOPE Act would provide funding for grants and other activities related to maternal care. It would also establish informed consent and parental notification requirements for abortion providers. "The HOPE Act creates a pilot grant program to provide support and equipment like blood pressure monitors, scales, and portable fetal heart rate monitors to community health providers," Fischbach wrote. "Increasing telehealth options gives expectant mothers the flexibility they need to receive the care they deserve." It would also prohibit any government funding going to Planned Parenthood. https://www.foxnews.com/media/bud-light-sponsors-toronto-pride-parade-naked-men-children Bud Light sponsors Toronto Pride parade attended by naked men, children Bud Light is serving as an official sponsor of the Toronto Pride parade, where video footage shows naked men standing around and riding bicycles in clear view of children attending the event. The footage, captured by Beth Baisch of the Post Millennial, shows dozens of attendees riding past a large cheering crowd. The fully naked bikers, some covered in paint or tattoos, wave back at the crowd. One naked man high-fives an onlooker while another peddles a recumbent bike with a gold blow-up swan adorned around his neck. A second video shows a group of naked men with hats standing in a circle amidst the crowd. Several children walk past the group of men with their families. Another clip shows a person wearing a giant penis costume that covers his entire head. The camera captures a young girl sitting in a stroller and staring toward the phallic-costumed individual. Other videos show a group of naked men playing and rinsing themselves off alongside a fountain surrounded by kids. Meanwhile, a stage, clearly adorned with Bud Light branding, featured scantily clad dancers wearing fishnets, nipple stickers and strange sock-like masks. The company's website notes that this year's sponsorship is representative of a longstanding partnership with the Pride event. "Bud Light Canada has been a proud partner of Pride Toronto for the last 10 years. This year, we're commemorating this milestone with Pride Toronto by featuring them on our can design, as well as continuing as the official beer sponsor of the festival," the beer brand's website states. According to the website, Bud Light Canada also provides $100,000 to various organizations that support the LGBTQUA2S+ community across Canada and has created a range of commemorative Pride beer cans to celebrate the collaboration. The partnership comes nearly three months after Bud Light received massive backlash for partnering with trans activist Dylan Mulvaney. The decision angered consumers and the brand saw a significant decrease in sales, resulting in billions of dollars in lost market value. In early April, Anheuser-Busch CEO Brendan Whitworth attempted to douse the flames with a lengthy statement to customers. "We never intended to be part of a discussion that divides people. We are in the business of bringing people together over a beer," he said in part. "My time serving this country taught me the importance of accountability and the values upon which America was founded: freedom, hard work and respect for one another. As CEO of Anheuser-Busch, I am focused on building and protecting our remarkable history and heritage." Despite losing business, Bud Light continued to anger customers for co-sponsoring an "all-ages Pride event" in Flagstaff, Arizona, on June 17. The party, called "Pride in the Pines," included drag queens and other performers, and listed Bud Light as one of the companies sponsoring the June 17 event. (Bud Light was initially mentioned prominently in one of the posters.) The event is listed as a "family festival event" and a family-friendly, "safe space" for all visitors. https://www.foxnews.com/us/colorado-springs-club-q-nonbinary-shooting-suspect-pleads-guilty-murder-charges Colorado Club Q 'nonbinary' shooter sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to murder Club Q shooting suspect Anderson Lee Aldrich was sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to murder and attempted murder charges during an arraignment hearing Monday morning, avoiding the prospect of a public trail just seven months after the deadly Colorado attack. Aldrich, who public defenders have said identifies as nonbinary and prefers to be described using they/them pronouns, is accused of fatally shooting five people and wounding 17 others at the LGBTQ+ nightclub Club Q in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Nov. 19, 2022. The suspect, whom the judge referred to as "Mx. Aldrich" during Monday’s arraignment hearing, accepted a plea agreement for a life sentence without the possibility of parole in exchange for pleading guilty to five counts of first-degree murder. Aldrich also pleaded guilty Monday to 46 counts of attempted murder in the first degree. The suspect pleaded no contest to felony and misdemeanor charges of bias-motivated crimes. "Because of the evidence presented I believe there is a high probability of being convicted at trial to those counts, and so I am pleading no contest or nolo contendere," Aldrich told the court Monday, explaining the no contest plea. In an interview from jail, Aldrich reportedly admitted to The Associated Press to being on a "very large plethora of drugs" and abusing steroids at the time, expressing regret for the attack and adding that suggesting the shooting was motivated by hate was "completely off base." In court hearings earlier this year, law enforcement testified that Aldrich ran a neo-Nazi website and used gay and racial slurs while gaming online, while the defense countered that Aldrich's sometimes abusive mother forced the suspect to frequent LGBTQ+ clubs. Two veterans out at Club Q reportedly helped thwart the attack by disarming Aldrich, who was beaten by patrons and displayed a bruised and bloodied face in his initial mugshot and court appearance. Aldrich was facing more than 300 state counts, including murder and hate crimes. The Justice Department is also considering pursuing federal hate crime charges, according to a senior law enforcement official who spoke to the AP. However, the charges against Aldrich were thrown out in July 2022 after Aldrich's mother and grandparents, the victims in the case, refused to cooperate with prosecutors, evading efforts to serve them with subpoenas to testify, according to court documents unsealed after the shooting. Other relatives told a judge they feared Aldrich would hurt the grandparents if released, painting a picture of an isolated, violent person who did not have a job and was given $30,000 that was spent largely on the purchase of 3D printers to make guns, the records showed. Aldrich was released from jail then and authorities kept two guns -- a ghost gun pistol and an MM15 rifle – seized in the arrest. But there was nothing to stop Aldrich from legally purchasing more firearms, raising questions immediately after the shooting about whether authorities should have sought a red flag order to prevent such purchases. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/nearly-half-bee-colonies-died-2023 Nearly half of honey bee colonies died in 2023 after three tumultuous years From April of last year to April of this year, 48% of honey bee colonies prematurely died off. University of Maryland and Auburn University have collaborated with nonprofit Bee Informed to track and report on managed bee colonies every year since 2007. Last year saw losses of 48%, the previous year’s loss was 39%, and the year before that, it was 50.8%. The average loss over the last 12 years is 39.6%. The cause of these losses is a mix of the parasitic mite, varroa destructor, which helps spread viruses between bees, increased use of pesticides, which inhibit the bee's ability to stave off diseases, and dramatic changes in the environment. When it becomes warmer than usual during the winter, bees will leave their colonies to begin pollinating many of the crops we eat, as well as other plants, but when the weather chills again, the bees die off. Still, the most commonly reported cause of death during the winter was the varroa. During the rest of the year, the most common report revolved around issues with the queen bee. "High levels of losses do not necessarily result in a decrease in the total number of colonies managed in the United States because beekeepers can replace lost colonies throughout the year," the report read. This report comes from a self-reported survey of 3,006 beekeepers from across the United States who collectively manage 314,360 colonies, the majority of which are commercially operated. This is only 12% of the estimated 2.70 million managed honey-producing colonies in the country in 2022, per the report. The collaboration, known as "the Bee Informed Partnership," is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving honey bee colony health in particular. https://www.conservativereview.com/unable-to-rely-on-wind-and-solar-sweden-ditches-100-renewable-target-and-bets-big-on-nuclear-power-2661896744.html Unable to rely on wind and solar, Sweden ditches 100% renewable target and bets big on nuclear power The Swedish parliament determined last week that in order to ensure the country has a "stable energy system," it will have to abandon its goal of "100 per cent renewable electricity production by 2040." To satisfy electricity demand, which is set to double to around 300 TwH by 2040, Sweden's right-of-center government announced June 20 that it would instead lean more heavily on nuclear energy and subsidize the construction of new nuclear plants — plants green-lit in 2016 but sidelined for fear they would be too expensive, reported Reuters. The country, home to just over 10.5 million people, presently has three nuclear plants with six nuclear reactors in commercial operation. The state-owned Vattenfall aims to bring the tally up to eight reactors and refurbish extant facilities. While Sweden's heightened nuclear focus is consistent with the country's commitment to shifting entirely off fossil fuels in a way that doesn't altogether cripple the nation, this bullishness on carbon-free nuclear power represents a significant about-face on atomic energy, which the country decided in a 1980 referendum to phase out. Swedish support for nuclear energy is presently at a record high of 56%, up from 42% in 2022, reported Bloomberg. The jump in support has been attributed in part to the energy crisis that overwhelmed Europe in concert with the invasion of Ukraine and the revelation that renewable energies are not tenable as alternatives. A 2021 study published in the journal Nature Communications indicated, "If future net-zero emissions energy systems rely heavily on solar and wind resources, spatial and temporal mismatches between resource availability and electricity demand may challenge system reliability." The researchers indicated that "the most reliable renewable electricity systems are wind-heavy and satisfy countries' electricity demand in 72-91% of hours ... Yet even in systems which meet >90% o demand, hundreds of hours of unmet demand may occur annually." These lost hours could prove too dear in a country where temperatures routinely drop below freezing several months out of every year. Even the former energy minister for the defeated leftist Social Democratic Party, was cognizant of the country's strained energy situation, warning last August of "strains on the power system this winter," both in terms of outages and high prices. The U.S. Department of Energy indicated that nuclear energy is the most reliable energy source on this side of the Atlantic Ocean. Each nuclear reactor typically produces the same amount of power as 431 utility-scale wind turbines or 3.1 million solar panels. According to the Swedish government, roughly 75% of its electricity comes from hydroelectric (43%) and nuclear (31%) power. 16% of the electricity comes from wind power. Approximately 9% comes from combined heat and power plants, largely powered by biofuels. Solar energy has yet to crack 1% of total supply. Finance Minister Elisabeth Svan-tesson of the Moderate Party said, "We need more electricity production, we need clean electricity and we need a stable energy system." Since wind and solar won't cut it, "This creates the conditions for nuclear power," said Svantesson.

In this episode, Mary Conquest speaks with Dr L. Casey Chosewood, Director of Total Worker Health (TWH) at the American National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), which is part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).Dr Chosewood provides a comprehensive overview of the origins and purpose of the TWH initiative - an emerging discipline that he hopes will change the way Safety professionals practice.In this uplifting interview, he discusses his role in promoting the protection and improvement of workers' health, safety, and wellbeing through research, intervention, development and partnerships.Casey discusses the key workplace safety initiatives his team is implementing and shares essential tools for EHS practitioners who want to learn more about TWH.Total Worker Health isn't just focused on helping organizations keep their workforce safe. Additionally, it aims to improve workers' health and wellbeing. Dr Chosewood explains how this benefits everyone - including wider society - and shares his inspiring vision for people to go home from work healthier than they arrived.Learn more about Total Worker Health:https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/twh/totalhealth.htmlTo contact Casey and his team:twh@cdc.govThe TWH Essential Guide:Fundamentals of Total Worker Health Approaches | NIOSH | CDCThe NIOSH Worker Well-Being Questionnaire:Worker Well-Being Questionnaire (WellBQ) | NIOSH | CDCDr L. Casey Chosewood on LinkedIn:L. Casey Chosewood, MD MPH | LinkedInSafety Labs is created by Slice, the only safety knife on the market with a finger-friendly® blade. Find us at www.sliceproducts.comIf you have any questions, please email us at safetylabs@sliceproducts.com

Listener Angela Kaplar joins Jeremy to talk about her thru hike of the Waitukubuli Trail on the Caribbean island nation of Dominica.  This trail of more than 100 miles traverses mountainous, dense, tropical jungle and crosses the entire island.  Angela and Jeremy also discuss some of the interesting flora and fauna of Dominica, as well as its welcoming people.Angela's website (still under construction as of publication date):  https://howwehikedit.com/through the end of May 2023, TWH meal combo at Outdoor Herbivore: https://outdoorherbivore.com/trails-worth-hiking-combo/Questions, comments, or suggestions:  trailsworthhiking@gmail.com

Today's guest on Cleaning Up is Marco Alverà, CEO of TES. TES are hoping to accelerate the clean energy transition by supplying green hydrogen at scale to clients in the mobility, industry and power sectors. TES' first major project is Wilhelmshaven Green Energy Hub, which hopes to supply 250 TWh per year of carbon-neutral energy to Germany by 2045. By 2030, TES hope to have produced one million tonnes of what they call ENG, or electric natural gas, as a like-for-like replacement for LNG. Michael had plenty of questions about ENG, TES' ambitious plans, and the generous subsidies they're set to take advantage of through the US' Inflation Reduction Act.Make sure you like, subscribe, and share Cleaning Up. We're growing fast on LinkedIn, and we'd love for you tell your professional network about us: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cleaning-up-with-michael-liebreich/ You can find everything you need to keep up with Cleaning Up here: https://linktr.ee/mlcleaningup  Further Reading and Related EpisodesLearn more about TES here: https://tes-h2.com/TES plan to produce 5.5 million tonnes of hydrogen each year at Wilhelmshaven: https://tes-h2.com/wilhelmshaven-green-energy-hub/The Financial Times reported on TES' latest funding round: https://www.ft.com/content/e0b366d6-5dbe-41eb-96f7-e49c24f9a2c4The New York Times wrote a profile on Marco late last year: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/11/business/green-natural-gas.htmlWatch Cleaning Up Episode 115 with Jorgo Chatzimarkakis here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NCiEhprSOcWatch Cleaning Up Episode 107 with David Cebon here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K61ZXd_F6QoWatch our whole Hydrogen playlist on YouTube here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLe8ZTD7dMaaC57hgJGekXX0m1zegQelkeWatch all of our Audioblogs on YouTube here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLe8ZTD7dMaaAGobfBqd5eRQfeb5l9vPLG Guest BioMarco has more than 20 years' experience in the energy sector. He began his career working at Goldman Sachs before starting and selling a telecom company, and joining Enel, one of the world's largest green electricity companies. He subsequently worked for Eni, the oil and gas major, for over 10 years in senior positions, and from 2016 to 2022 was CEO of Snam, where he positioned the company as an international leader in green gas and green gas infrastructure. Since 2017, Marco has been non-executive director of S&P Global, where he is also chair of the Finance Committee. Macro is also Co-Founder of Zhero, a company focused on developing new energy projects. Marco holds a degree in Philosophy and Economics from the London School of Economics, and is the author of The Hydrogen Revolution, one of the FT's books of the year in 2021.

Friend of the show Tony Wong joins Jeremy to talk about their hike together on the Tahoe Rim Trail, a 165-mile loop around Lake Tahoe, the largest alpine lake in North America.  This adventure has everything: deep forested wilderness, amazing views of the lake, granite backcountry, and passing through resort areas where you can resupply at markets along the way.Also, for the month of May 2023 only, you can buy a special meal package from our sponsor, Outdoor Herbivore, of Jeremy's favorite three meals that he eats when he is backpacking.  The package is offered at a 20% discount off the regular price for those meals, and a limited number of the packages even come with a TWH sticker.  To check out the package, click here:   https://outdoorherbivore.com/trails-worth-hiking-combo/ Questions, comments, or suggestions:  trailsworthhiking@gmail.com

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TESLA'S ROADMAP TO A RENEWABLE ENERGY ECONOMY: INSIGHTS FROM INVESTOR DAY Tesla's recent Investor Day and Battery Day presentations highlighted the company's commitment to transitioning the world to a sustainable energy economy. The expanded Master Plan 3 aims to create a renewable energy economy using storage, renewable power, and manufacturing expense. Tesla estimates that achieving this goal will require 240 TWh of storage, 30 TW of new solar/wind, and about $10T. Elon Musk outlined an ambitious plan for global decarbonization, emphasizing the role that batteries and electric vehicles can play in making this transition possible. Tesla's next-generation vehicles and radically reinvented assembly process were also showcased, positioning the company well in the race for electrification. In terms of reducing the cost of producing electric vehicles, Tesla plans to produce its own batteries and reduce the cost by as much as 56 percent. The company's new battery design, which incorporates a tabless electrode, will increase energy density by up to 5 times and reduce the cost of manufacturing by up to 14 percent. Tesla is also working on electrifying high-temperature industrial processes and reducing the total cost of ownership of electric vehicles. The company aims to reduce the cost of its next-gen vehicle by 50 percent compared to the Model 3. Overall, Tesla's presentations demonstrated the company's commitment to driving innovation and cost reduction to make sustainable energy and electric vehicles more accessible to consumers. The focus on reducing costs throughout the supply chain and improving end-use efficiency will enable exponential growth in volume, making a sustainable energy economy within reach.

Anthony Jared is a 30-year Navy veteran and who has operated nuclear reactors on both nuclear submarines & aircraft carriers. In this interview, we discuss the truth about nuclear energy, the safety concerns and why there has been such a prolific anti-nuclear movement. - - - - Nuclear energy is a contentious issue. And yet… In terms of death rates per unit of electricity production, accounting for accidents and conservative pollution assessments, nuclear energy is the second safest source of energy: solar has 0.02 deaths per TWh, nuclear 0.03, Oil 18.43, coal 24.62, and brown coal 32.72. This equates to someone dying prematurely as a result of nuclear every 33 years in a town of 150,000, whilst in the same town as a result of coal 25 people per year would die prematurely. Nuclear is the cleanest energy source. Per GWh, nuclear produces 3 tonnes of greenhouse gases, solar 5 tonnes, natural gas 490 tonnes, oil 720 tonnes, and coal 820 tonnes. Little nuclear waste is generated, particularly where waste is reprocessed: in France, less than 0.2 of the waste is high level. US Oak Ridge National Laboratory estimates coal-powered plants carry 100 times more radiation than nuclear power plants into the surrounding environment. Further, nuclear has the potential to be the cheapest energy source. A cost comparison is complex: for every analysis stating nuclear is the most economical energy source, there's a report stating the opposite. However, nuclear investment has dropped considerably. In 1979 234 reactors were under construction around the world. In 2022 there were 59. Innovation and economies of scale haven't benefited nuclear. Rather, it's been beset by increasing regulatory costs. Why is nuclear energy a contentious issue and what is the truth?

“I don't like to call myself an environmentalist because that's such a subjective term, but I'm very, very, very conscientious of the environment... I try extremely hard to make sure that my carbon footprint is very small, and I'm telling you, Nuclear is 100% the answer... there is nothing even comparable, not even in the ballpark by an order of magnitude.”— Anthony JaredAnthony Jared is a 30-year Navy veteran and who has operated nuclear reactors on both nuclear submarines & aircraft carriers. In this interview, we discuss the truth about nuclear energy, the safety concerns and why there has been such a prolific anti-nuclear movement.- - - - Nuclear energy is a contentious issue. And yet…In terms of death rates per unit of electricity production, accounting for accidents and conservative pollution assessments, nuclear energy is the second safest source of energy: solar has 0.02 deaths per TWh, nuclear 0.03, Oil 18.43, coal 24.62, and brown coal 32.72. This equates to someone dying prematurely as a result of nuclear every 33 years in a town of 150,000, whilst in the same town as a result of coal 25 people per year would die prematurely.Nuclear is the cleanest energy source. Per GWh, nuclear produces 3 tonnes of greenhouse gases, solar 5 tonnes, natural gas 490 tonnes, oil 720 tonnes, and coal 820 tonnes.Little nuclear waste is generated, particularly where waste is reprocessed: in France, less than 0.2 of the waste is high level. US Oak Ridge National Laboratory estimates coal-powered plants carry 100 times more radiation than nuclear power plants into the surrounding environment.Further, nuclear has the potential to be the cheapest energy source. A cost comparison is complex: for every analysis stating nuclear is the most economical energy source, there's a report stating the opposite. However, nuclear investment has dropped considerably. In 1979 234 reactors were under construction around the world. In 2022 there were 59. Innovation and economies of scale haven't benefited nuclear. Rather, it's been beset by increasing regulatory costs.Why is nuclear energy a contentious issue and what is the truth? - - - - This episode's sponsors:Gemini - Buy Bitcoin instantlyLedn - Financial services for Bitcoin hodlersBitcasino - The Future of Gaming is hereLedger - State of the art Bitcoin hardware walletCasa - The leading provider of Bitcoin multisig key securityWasabi Wallet - Privacy by default-----WBD614 - Show Notes-----If you enjoy The What Bitcoin Did Podcast you can help support the show by doing the following:Become a Patron and get access to shows early or help contributeMake a tip:Bitcoin: 3FiC6w7eb3dkcaNHMAnj39ANTAkv8Ufi2SQR Codes: BitcoinIf you do send a tip then please email me so that I can say thank youSubscribe on iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | SoundCloud | YouTube | Deezer | TuneIn | RSS FeedLeave a review on iTunesShare the show and episodes with your friends and familySubscribe to the newsletter on my websiteFollow me on Twitter Personal | Twitter Podcast | Instagram | Medium | YouTubeIf you are interested in sponsoring the show, you can read more about that here or please feel free to drop me an email to discuss options.

“The fact that you had the opportunity to even consider becoming an energy generator, that's purely because solar panels as a technology became so cheap and so accessible…in the hands of every person soon is going to be the ability to participate in the energy system and to be self-sovereign.”— Nima TabatabaiNima Tabatabai is co-founder of Optimize Infrastructure. In this interview, we discuss how battery technology for energy grids, solar's overwhelming economic case, energy sovereignty, and how combining batteries, Bitcoin and solar results in the most flexible energy assets possible.- - - - In 2010 solar power generated 34 terawatt hours (TWh) per year across the globe. By the end of 2021, this has increased to 1,033 TWh per year. There are a number of reasons for this dramatic increase, but a prime driver is a reduction in costs. Between 2009 and 2019 the price of electricity from solar declined by 89%. The International Energy Agency in 2020 declared solar power offered the “cheapest…electricity in history”.As Nima Tabatabai states in this podcast, this drop in price is perhaps the greatest example of Jeff Booth's assertion that technology is deflationary. Research and development of solar technologies have been affected positively and negatively by crises and political dogmas. Nevertheless, since the 1970s there has been a strong ‘learning effect' across the whole production process resulting in an exponential reduction in costs.Nevertheless, the discussion of solar energy as a reliable part of the energy mix still stirs strong negative responses. Intermittency is a major concern: solar can't work at night, and it's deemed to be materially ineffective in cloudy weather and at high latitudes. Essentially, detractors state solar power supply can't efficiently fit demand. There are also issues around land requirements, input materials and waste. But, are these concerns valid? Can solar be a reliable and sizeable source of energy? If so, what are the constraints and limitations? Could battery technology resolve concerns over intermittency? What would be needed to complement solar energy? Are our energy grids ready to assimilate decentralized power sources? And, what needs to be done to maximise the potential of Bitcoin in subsidising solar? - - - - This episode's sponsors:Gemini - Buy Bitcoin instantlyLedn - Financial services for Bitcoin hodlersBitcasino - The Future of Gaming is herePacific Bitcoin - Bitcoin‑only event, Nov 10 & 11, 2022Ledger - State of the art Bitcoin hardware walletWasabi Wallet - Privacy by defaultTexas Blockchain Summit - Nov 17-18, 2022 | Austin, TexasBCB Group - Global digital financial Services-----WBD561 - Show Notes-----If you enjoy The What Bitcoin Did Podcast you can help support the show by doing the following:Become a Patron and get access to shows early or help contributeMake a tip:Bitcoin: 3FiC6w7eb3dkcaNHMAnj39ANTAkv8Ufi2SQR Codes: BitcoinIf you do send a tip then please email me so that I can say thank youSubscribe on iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | SoundCloud | YouTube | Deezer | TuneIn | RSS FeedLeave a review on iTunesShare the show and episodes with your friends and familySubscribe to the newsletter on my websiteFollow me on Twitter Personal | Twitter Podcast | Instagram | Medium | YouTubeIf you are interested in sponsoring the show, you can read more about that here or please feel free to drop me an email to discuss options.

Nima Tabatabai is co-founder of Optimize Infrastructure. In this interview, we discuss how battery technology for energy grids, solar's overwhelming economic case, energy sovereignty, and how combining batteries, Bitcoin and solar results in the most flexible energy assets possible. - - - - In 2010 solar power generated 34 terawatt hours (TWh) per year across the globe. By the end of 2021, this has increased to 1,033 TWh per year. There are a number of reasons for this dramatic increase, but a prime driver is a reduction in costs. Between 2009 and 2019 the price of electricity from solar declined by 89%. The International Energy Agency in 2020 declared solar power offered the “cheapest…electricity in history”. As Nima Tabatabai states in this podcast, this drop in price is perhaps the greatest example of Jeff Booth's assertion that technology is deflationary. Research and development of solar technologies have been affected positively and negatively by crises and political dogmas. Nevertheless, since the 1970s there has been a strong ‘learning effect' across the whole production process resulting in an exponential reduction in costs. Nevertheless, the discussion of solar energy as a reliable part of the energy mix still stirs strong negative responses. Intermittency is a major concern: solar can't work at night, and it's deemed to be materially ineffective in cloudy weather and at high latitudes. Essentially, detractors state solar power supply can't efficiently fit demand. There are also issues around land requirements, input materials and waste. But, are these concerns valid? Can solar be a reliable and sizeable source of energy? If so, what are the constraints and limitations? Could battery technology resolve concerns over intermittency? What would be needed to complement solar energy? Are our energy grids ready to assimilate decentralized power sources? And, what needs to be done to maximise the potential of Bitcoin in subsidising solar?