This is a very upsetting and triggering story - featuring a late former Met police officer who was reportedly (grooming and) abusing vulnerable victims of sexual offences and marrying one of them - she died in 'suspicious' circumstances bbc.com/news/articles/clyv03jr…
Australia Plains Cemetery, Australia Plains, Australia, Jul 2021.
Location: 431 Cemetery Rd, Australia Plains, within the Regional Council of Goyder.
While exact founding dates are elusive, the cemetery reflects settlement patterns from the late 19th century, tied to Lutheran communities and agricultural expansion in the area.
The region was historically home to German Lutheran settlers, and nearby sites like Emmaus Lutheran Church suggest the cemetery may have served that community.
The cemetery is modest in scale but rich in local heritage, with inscriptions that reflect family histories, migration stories, and the resilience of early settlers.
Right. So it's 100kW output, which is almost enough to pull the skin off a rice pudding. It also uses the brine from a desalination plant, so it's basically salinating fresh water to get some of the power back that was taken to desalinate it.
As a means of power production, it seems a bit pointless.
It generates 880.000kWh/year, where I live that enough for 180 families (2 adults, 2 kids) with an average consumption in a house, and almost 350 in apartments. That's not an insignificant amount IMO.
Doesn't sound all that economical compared with other energy sources. It probably needs to be compared to longer-term energy storage solutions that don't rely on geography like hot sand, the possibility to store the energy source (concentrated salt water) relatively cheaply is the most interesting part about it.
The upside is getting power from an otherwise waste-product. Yes it's low output compared with traditional turbine-driven power plants, but that doesn't mean in should be disregarded. Sure it's not applicable everywhere, but neither is hydro or geothermal. After all, why not use the geography of your location to your benefit? Not everywhere needs to get power in the exact same way, and what's most feasible is highly dependent on location.
Concentrated salt water might be a waste product, but the plant was built on purpose. How long does it need to operate before the costs amortisize? Even if we're looking at greenhouse gases, most building materials aren't exactly climate-friendly - concrete in particular is a huge emitter of greenhouse gases.
The people who designed built the plant probably calculated all this, but the article doesn't go into it and with novel technologies like this, it's generally not safe to just assume that a given plant makes any economical or environmental sense.
While I agree that the cost of operation and yield are a valid concern, the same argument could have been used against renewable energies like wind and solar only 30 to 40 years ago.
The price of these energy sources has come down a lot since, for a large part thanks to the modern day widespread use. We have a lot of experience generating power this way which drives down cost, and increases yield.
Novel techniques like the one described in the article don't yet benefit from that experience and scale. And if we don't try new things every now and then they never will.
That is not to say all novel techniques will be equally fruitful, but if you don't occasionally try new things you will never learn.
It’s a pop science article… they usually don’t cover things like life cycle analysis. It is however a first of its kind plant that makes its net effects less important as it kind of works as a proof of concept. It’s a relatively small scale plant that if it does work, great, lets build more of them; if it doesn’t work, that sucks, can we modify them in any way to make them work.
It is taking two ingredients that usually have to take extra energy to be able to dispose of them and combining them together to make electricity. That is really cool, and there is no reason to be overly negative about it because it might be bad based on info that you don’t have
This plant is part of a bigger chain. So while yes, on its own it seems waste of effort, as part of the entire chain it's a reasonable step to be more environmentally friendly and recover some energy in the process.
A local plant desalinates water, resulting in fresh water and a brine solution that has much higher concentration of salt in it than regular sea water.
Dumping the brine solution on its own would kill most plant and animal life around the dump site due to large saltwater concentration, so an alternative method must be found to dispose of the brine.
Waste water from other processes can be mixed with the brine to bring it more in line with seawater salinity, making it safe to reintroduce to the ocean without severe ecological impact. This waste water is deemed to difficult or intensive to purify and treat to bring it back up clean water standards, and I'm assuming tested or filtered so as not to introduce hazardous chemicals that could damage the reverse osmosis membranes as well as sea life.
Because there is way to mix the waste water and brine through membranes that can be used to generate electricity, this process is utilized to recover some of the energy expended in purifing the original batch of seawater resulting in the brine.
It's not a perfect process but it is a means of getting some use out a waste product, similar to burning garbage or rotting food rather than just dumping it into a pit and letting it rot and release methane.
Its miles better than traditional desalination - requiring so much energy that burning fossil fuels is unavoidable. And brine is chucked back in the ocean. Basically an environmental catastrophe.
If you think of it on the scale of one community - providing potable water, dealing with treated wastewater AND getting a surplus of energy while treating the brine it is actually pretty clever.
If it makes you feel better you could probably slap some solar panels on those flat roofs too.
As desalination plant need a lot of power it is a plus. But there is always that question in background with this approach what are they gonna do with this salt ?
It's pretty common to produce table salt by dehydrating sea water. This saltwater electricity plant doesn't produce salt, though, since the basis of their electricity generation process is diluting concentrated salt water.
To my knowledge, desalination plants do not recover salt from brine. There is a European project that is studying this feasibility. Generally, brines are discharged into the sea, which is destructive for the environment due to their concentration.
Combine salt and water to create electricity to power a desalination plant that removes salt from water. I am sure there is more to it, but the article sounds like it’s one of those mad perpetual free energy schemes that defy the laws of physics.
If they're mostly using electricity or even combustion to evaporate the water (as opposed to sunlight), there's no chance that the concentrated saltwater creates more electricity than it costs - it's only maybe useful if the saltwater is actually a waste product.
They are just re-capturing some of the energy the system spent turning salt water into fresh. Because that results in extremely salty brine water waste, you can get some energy as it gets diluted back down to sea water concentration.
There no “new” energy in the system, it’s just wasting less.
So, they're using brine from a reverse osmosis plant and wastewater to run this process, both waste products, and probably producing something roughly the same as seawater.
The reason being that dumping the brine back into the ocean creates a dead zone wherever that dump point is, since the relative concentration of salts is higher compared to regular seawater.
They’re almost certainly recreating seawater just to help alleviate the dead zone effect and figured out how to get some free electricity out of it too
Right. It seems analogous to regenerative braking in a gas/electric hybrid car. The momentum is turned back into electricity to reclaim potential energy. Some of the energy was already spent in RO stage and this process gets some of it back.
I sounds more like it makes electricity out of fresh water, destroying it in the process (turning it into saltwater through osmosis/dilution). Sure… if there is some crazy salty water you have, and want to turn it into “still salty, but maybe less so”, you can indeed gather a tiny little fraction of the power.
But given that fresh water is also a precious resource in many places, this seems relatively niche.
From what the article says, it's actually a pretty cool way of improving desalination plants. They use the left over brine, from desalination, that has a very high concentration of salt, and use it as the high salt concentration side, with regular seawater being used on the other side. This both gives them free energy and reduces the side effects of pumping that extremely salty water into the sea by diluting it.
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should I intend developers among craftspersons? Is this an exception in the sense that, in that specific case, the issue is the job driving you to psychopathy, whatever your initial state?
Das Bild zeigt eine üppige Wildblumenlandschaft, die von Sonnenstrahlen durchbrochen wird, die durch die Blätter der Bäume im Hintergrund scheinen. Viele Pflanzen mit verschiedenen Blütenarten, darunter rosa und gelbe Blüten, wachsen dicht beieinander. Die Pflanzen sind hoch und dicht, und die Blüten sind in verschiedenen Stadien der Blüte. Im Hintergrund sind hohe Bäume zu sehen, die den Himmel mit ihren Blättern bedecken. Die Szene wirkt friedlich und natürlich, mit einer Vielfalt an Pflanzen und einer klaren, sonnigen Atmosphäre.
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* metadata allows protocological control. * music metadata is its own obscure industry. * platforms are places where art is flattened and de-vitalized.
Göteborgs LS bjuder in alla medlemmar till facklig grundkurs söndagen den 31sta augusti kl. 10-16 i våra lokaler.
Inga förkunskaper krävs!
Förhandlingskommittéen kommer gå igenom grunderna i arbetsrätt och arbetsplatskamp.
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Pace e bene Presidente Giorgia Meloni. Ho ascoltato il suo intervento al Meeting di Rimini e avrei alcune considerazioni da fare non per sterile polemica ma perché la dialettica aiuta la comprensione dei fatti e in un onesto dialogo favorisce la crescita del pensiero. Oggi di fronte alla questione palestinese l’equidistanza ci rende complici e quello che Israele sta compiendo è un infame genocidio che utilizza perfino la fame quale strategia di oppressione e sterminio di un popolo. Una carneficina che non è dettata solo dalla reazione al 7 ottobre ma pare motivata da una mira espansionistica che vuole letteralmente spazzare il popolo palestinese. Non è saltato il “principio di proporzionalità”, così come lo chiama, perché la costruzione della pace è un percorso mai proporzionale e richiede un anticipo di gratuità nel perdono per ripartire, perché la pace non ha un prezzo da saldare. Quella altrimenti sarebbe una tregua frutto della sottomissione dettata dal più forte. Quando Lei fa riferimento all’attuale necessità di fermare le mira espansionistiche dell’insediamento coloniale in Cisgiordania le ricordo che questo non accade da oggi ma è una storia pluridecennale che, addirittura, è iniziata già nel 1967 dopo la guerra dei sei giorni. Finalmente oggi ci prendiamo il permesso di parlarne, ma no l’Italia non è “la Nazione europea che si è spesa di più”, le ricordo che ancora oggi le nostre fabbriche forniscono armi e supporto tecnologico all’apparato militare israeliano, quello che fa saltare per aria ospedali così come civili tra cui diciottomila bambini e oltre duecento giornalisti. Il fatto che siano state colpite le Comunità cristiane non aggiunge nulla a quanto già abominevole era in atto, la misura era già colma da un pezzo. Giusto un altro passaggio mi pare equivoco. Lei cita il cardinale Sarah a proposito del diritto a non dovere emigrare, così afferma: “Chi ritiene le migrazioni necessarie e indispensabili compie di fatto un atto egoistico, se i giovani lasciano la loro terra che ne sarà della storia e della cultura del paese che hanno abbandonato?” Le chiedo: ma quale egoismo c’è in chi cerca di salvarsi la vita e non morire a motivo delle destabilizzazioni politiche e dei conseguenti regimi militari sostenuti dai Paesi occidentali in cambio di concessioni alle nostre multinazionali? O, ancora, che colpa c’è in chi vive le conseguenze del cambiamento climatico imputabile certo ai Paesi più sviluppati, che procura la desertificazione e, di conseguenza, la carestia in intere regioni? Se il diritto alla vita è da difendere allora questo vale per tutti e non solo per chi dovrà nascere nella società occidentale dove la “politica della sicurezza” vuole garantire ogni sorta di comfort. Riguardo ai mattoni posati sul fronte delle migrazioni, quando afferma che ora la cornice è “serietà e rigore”, mi chiedo cosa intenda. Se serietà e rigore significa mandare le navi delle organizzazioni umanitarie con a bordo i naufraghi soccorsi in porti di sbarco distanti centinaia di miglia dal luogo del salvataggio questo mi pare privo di senso. Sappiamo che le ragioni addotte sono quelle della ripartizione degli sbarchi su tutto il territorio nazionale ma in questo modo si sottopone ad un ulteriore supplizio, con altri due giorni di navigazione, chi è stremato per un viaggio in cui ha già subito ogni sorta di violazione della propria dignità. Inoltre non si tiene affatto conto dei costi che l’imbarcazione umanitaria dovrebbe affrontare per un viaggio così lontano come quando viene intimato di raggiungere il porto di Genova anziché attraccare a Trapani e, tantomeno, della sua assenza nel Mediterraneo per diversi giorni quando tanti naufraghi potrebbero avere bisogno di soccorso. Questo sembra, è la mia percezione, un accanimento contro gli equipaggi che per senso umano scelgono di sbarcare le persone salvate in mare nel porto più vicino per ricevere, così, soccorsi e cure opportune. Chiaramente a questo atto di disobbedienza civile segue il fermo amministrativo della nave, le sanzioni pecuniarie e la denuncia a carico del comandante. E’ uno scenario scoraggiante e, forse, vorrebbe scoraggiare le organizzazioni umanitarie o anche gli stessi profughi che per mancanza di un supporto in mare potrebbero tornare indietro. Eppure assistiamo ad un atto di resistenza da parte di entrambi: i primi tornano a pattugliare il Mediterraneo nell’intento di rimanere umani rispondendo alla legge del mare e della nostra Costituzione e, per i secondi, continuare a lanciarsi nel viaggio oltre ogni speranza per “rischiare di sopravvivere”. Piuttosto mi sarei aspettato “serietà e rigore” nell’affrontare il gesto criminale della guardia costiera libica che domenica scorsa sparava per venti minuti sulla Ocean Viking dopo che questa aveva recuperato a bordo ottantasette naufraghi. Mi sarei aspettato “serietà e rigore” nel difendere il diritto umanitario internazionale in uno scenario che oggi pare avere perduto ogni tipo di codice etico. Sembra lo stesso paradosso che si sta realizzando a Gaza dove rimaniamo sgomenti per la devastazione a cui abbiamo comunque contribuito con le nostre armi. Se la guardia costiera libica - dotata delle motovedette donate dall’Italia e con un corpo militare addestrato dal nostro - ritiene opportuno sparare ad una nave umanitaria che si trova in acque internazionali, a Gaza lo sfollamento forzato minacciato dalle bombe trova il silenzio assordante del nostro Governo come se fosse un fatto di poco conto. Il silenzio in realtà, domenica scorsa, era già cominciato quando al grido di mayday e ai tentativi di contatto con la Nato e la Marina militare la nave di SOS MEDITERRANEE non aveva trovato alcuna risposta… Se, ora, la procura di Siracusa apre un’inchiesta per appurare la realtà dei fatti non è per un pregiudizio ideologico ma perché la giustizia va tutelata senza compromessi. Se il soccorso civile è diventato così prepotente è perché tutte le persone che si trovano in pericolo in mare hanno il diritto di essere soccorse e noi il dovere di attivarci per la loro protezione. Domenica partivo dal porto Lampedusa con un gruppo di giovani che si erano spesi per una settimana a servizio di chi arrivava nell’isola, nel mentre che salpavamo verso Porto Empedocle nel molo Favaloro arrivava la nave ong Nadir, con a bordo cinquantaquattro migranti e tre minorenni che erano decedute… Presidente Giorgia Meloni credo che per “ricostruire una società amica della famiglia e della natalità” così come Lei dice, sia necessario ripartire dagli ultimi del nostro tempo, da quanti hanno bisogno di una mano amica e dunque disposta a compromettersi per condividere il dono della vita. Se vuole davvero ispirarsi ai valori del Vangelo, dunque, non c’è alternativa, è necessario contaminarsi facendo spazio fino a restituire voce ai piccoli di questo mondo.
Pace e bene Presidente Giorgia Meloni.
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'Wofür mein Herz schlägt' | iPhone 16 Pro #FotoVorschlag
Mein Herz schlägt für meinen Gravelhobel, fürs Fotografieren im Allgemeinen und Sonnenuntergänge im Speziellen und fürs in der Natur, weg vom Alltag sein.
niht, f.n: night (as opposed to day); night, darkness (as opposed to light); a unit of measurement (instead of counting days). (NI’HT / ˈnɪxt) Image: Livre de la Vigne nostre Seigneur; France, c. 1450-1470; Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 134, f. 49v. #OldEnglish #WOTD
Loftus-Cheek e Pulisic firmano il successo rossonero: Allegri conquista i primi tre punti Il Milan rialza la testa dopo il ko all’esordio con la Cremonese. Al Via del Mare i rossoneri battono 2-0 i…
@NOELreports: SitRep - 29/08/25 - The Kuybyshev oil refinery has halted operations An overview of the daily events in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The Kuybyshev oil refinery in Samara has halted operations after a ...…
Iniziate con l’obiettivo di chiedere aumenti salariali, le proteste stanno crescendo in tutto il Paese dopo la morte di un tassista che sarebbe stato investito…
« 10 applications #Linux qui n’ont plus rien à envier à celles d’Apple en terme d’ergonomie »
Une sélection de #LogicielsLibres faite par @louisderrac qui constate – et je partage cet avis – que d'une manière générale, l'ergonomie de très nombreux logiciels libres utilisables sous Linux s'est améliorée depuis quelques années.
J'ajoute que je ne connaissais pas un seul de ces 10 logiciels, et j'adore cette richesse et ce foisonnement dans le monde du libre !
Depuis trois ans maintenant que je travaille exclusivement sous Linux (plus précisément sous Fedora et l’environnement de bureau Gnome), j’ai découvert, testé et approuvé des dizaines de logiciels que j’utilise désormais quasi quotidiennement.
Après plus de 10 ans avec Ubuntu (et donc Gnome), je suis depuis 5 ans avec Linux Mint Cinnamon. J'ai arrêté Ubuntu à cause des Snap, et je n'aime pas du tout les paquets Snap ou Flatpack, etc. c'est toujours des trucs gigantesques à télécharger. Exemple avec l'éditeur de texte minimaliste Eloquent qui te fait télécharger en truc de 1,2 Go !!! (cf. image). Pour un outil minimaliste, c'est un comble.
Je ne veux pas (ou le moins possible) de trucs de ce genre.
@tanavit Vous êtes dans l'environnement Gnome ? Parce que je pense que c'est un vrai prisme. Et sinon je les ai découverts via Flathub notamment. Et nombre de ces logiciels sont assez récents 😀
Ni flat, ni snap pour moi, non mais ho j'veux des .deb épicétout ! Quelques appimage a la rigueur. Trop de sort proposent flat par défaut sans rien d'autres. Tant pis, je ne les utiliserait pas. Même engeance pour moi que ceux qui ne te proposent que du docker... 🤢
A US Appeal Court has found on the broad/blanket country focussed tariffs (not the sectorial tariffs) that President Trump exceeded his constitutional authority... however, the Judges agreed to leave the tariffs in place while the Administration organised its appeal of the decision.
How this plays out will indicate some more about the strength or weakness of the checks & balances of the US political system.
It may also reveal Trump's next constitutional move.
Ripubblichiamo l’intervista dopo la sentenza di primo grado all’uomo che ha portato le tariffe di Trump davanti ai giudici. Oggi quella decisione è stata ricon…
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some #microfiction courtesy of my 9 year old: This little man is candy. *Conspiratorially* he is secretly made of meat. I have cast a spell to give him regeneration powers and feed him to my dinosaur.
Oh no, I used the wrong spell, now he is alive, but only while being chewed on.
Although it may seem like a common thing to persecute the right party, it really hurt me when the BlueSky community closed all my accounts, and when I sent them an email telling them that they made a mistake in closing my accounts and that it is the only platform on which I share my poetry and they ignored it, but it really affected me, I became very frustrated because I am fighting two wars inside Palestine and on social media #palestine @palestine @aral #genocide
En dix années, les politiques de baisse d’impôts ont fait perdre 450 milliards d’euros à la collectivité. Un immense gaspillage qui a contribué à la hausse de la dette publique. Le point de vue (...)
The birth of pro-gaming was a fun moment; its continued existence is a problem. This shit wouldn't exist if cheating would get you at most bragging rights, instead of millions in sponsorships and ads revenue.
What is CHDK? Canon Hack Development Kit CHDK is a unique software application developed by enthusiasts that enables extra features for ported Canon™ "Point&Shoot" cameras. (Note: it will not run on DSLR cameras, see Magic Lantern for that.
@dec23k @themaritimegirl @tarheel @pluralistic I captured this with my Nikon D600 about 10 years ago. The old "continuous shooting mode, hold the shutter button down and hope" approach. I think I filled two SD cards and got ~4 usable images.
Manual mode. Make the shutter time as long as possible (30s), low ISO, small aperture (clean your lens and check results for sensor dust). Underexpose (a shot without lightning should be just barely above black).
Shoot RAW if you can. Shoot in continuous shooting mode.
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There was quite a #thunderstorm last night!
I set up the camera, but forgot to tune for underexposure. In the end, a handful of the 100+ shots were white, but I got a few overexposed but acceptable shots.
The image is a four-panel comic strip. In the first panel, a seal is partially submerged in water, with its head and part of its body visible above the surface. The second panel shows a splash in the water with the word "SPLASH" written above it, indicating the seal has moved. The third panel features an orange cat on a rock, looking towards the water with a surprised expression, and a thought bubble saying "Holy crap." The fourth panel shows the cat's head with a thought bubble saying "A MERMAID," suggesting the cat has mistaken the seal for a mermaid. The background is a simple blue for the water and sky, with white clouds.
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Lucerne Festival. Stefan Dohr, horn, and the Orchestre de Paris– Philharmonie conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen play:
STRAUSS: Don Juan op. 20.
Esa-Pekka SALONEN: Horn Concerto, world premiere.
SIBELIUS: Symphony No. 5 in E fla...
"Those of us who care about a humane, inclusive #Britain have to get strategic, get organized, and get loud --- not just in Westminster or on TV, but on doorsteps, at work, and in every corner of the country.
We must offer a vision that speaks to people’s hearts, not just their heads"
We could do with having a realistic alternative strategy. Given the state of the country, peoples disillusionment with the main parties, something has to happen.
Ideally any MPs for any new party need to be on here, get the culture and engage with people, they also need to understand software freedom as we get that on here, but also get that we shoud be in more control of our devices.
I still wonder how a proven bastard of lies (Brexit/NHS) can collect so many votes. Are Farage's voters all mentally disabled? I'm asking for a friend...
Das Bild zeigt eine prächtige, rote Nelke in voller Blüte, die auf dem Wasser einer Pfütze oder eines Teiches liegt. Die Nelke hat viele detaillierte, leuchtend rote Blütenblätter, die sich um einen gelben Staubkelch schließen. Neben der Nelke liegt ein großes grünes Blatt, das typisch für Nelkenpflanzen ist. Ein weißer Vogelfedern liegt auf dem Wasser rechts neben der Nelke, was dem Bild eine ruhige und natürliche Atmosphäre verleiht. Der Hintergrund ist dunkel und unscharf, was die Nelke und das Blatt hervorhebt.
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Ich habe früher immer diese #Zombieserien nicht verstanden, wo alle nur mehr röchelnd und apathisch durch die Gegend trotten, aber seit ich #TikTok kenne erscheint mir das ganze #Genre durchaus schlüssig und wegweisend.
Meta removed AI chatbots of virtual celebrities including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez that were "flirty" and "routinely made sexual advances," after a Reuters report found that they were created without the celebs…
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So many have tried and tested this little box, with all kinds of varying results, I thought I’d have a go myself .. 🙂
It’s really not too bad on the noise side and I won’t be using it at high loads for sensitive circuits anyway. PSU noise measurements have a lot of pitfalls, I’ve seen people being disturbed by their overhead (LED) bench light strips, wondering what was going on 😂🤷🏼♂️
Correct probe attachment and measurement bandwidth (most new scopes have a 20MHz option) is essential for tests like these.
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