[1/x] Happy to announce the publication of “RETROFIT DECARBONIZATION of COAL POWER” (open access https://t.co/JxrMtLS9gf, @energies_mdpi). A riveting 39-page article (+ 44p S.I.), obviously makes for excellent holiday/wknd reading :) Here's an attempt at a tweet-summary-thread!

[2/x] Out of ~2 TWe of coal power plant capacity, more than half is less than 14 years old. Can this infrastructure play a role in decarbonized power systems or must it all be stranded? We try to look at ALL options in this work, supported by @EnvDefenseEuro & Rodel Foundation.

[3/x] Capacity-averaged age of all coal power in operation today is ~18 years. Committed emissions from existing and under-construction coal power is ~300 GTCO2-eq (294 is our central estimate, IEA say ~328). Each new 1 GW-plant commits to ~0.2 GT additionally.

[4/x] We define the term RETROFIT DECARBONIZATION to include _anything_ done to keep existing some coal plant equipment in operation (>5 % of org. plant capex), approx. maintaining its function (>50 % of org. annual generation) while eliminating emissions (<50 gCO2-eq/kWh).

[5/x] Many retrofit options were assessed (some shown here). Emissions reqs. put tough pressure on biomass & CCS. Putting wind & solar at former coal sites is a great idea, but power dens. diff. mean they don't qualify as retrofit decarb. What really works? Geothermal & Nuclear!

For those of you interested in what edu-geeks of times past argued about, here's a selection of journal articles* from the 70s:

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1. It is not illegal in the U.K. to wear clothes described as for the opposite sex.

2.The GRA, the sex-role stereotype recognition Act, does not serve to right a legislative injustice but rather to entrench a world-view.

3. The sex-role stereotype recognition Act, this creed is one where women’s oppression is natural and desired, same-sex attraction is bigotry which can be unlearnt and individual men get to define reality based on their

4. The notion of sex-role discomfort disorder (gender dysphoria) presupposes that sex-role stereotypes are innate to all of us and is based on woo woo. Do you agree with Benjamin:

5. We need to stop approving their ideology and the idea that if you are uncomfortable with discrimination then you have a mental

✨✨Dear Patriots✨✨

I love you all. ♥️ So it pains me deeply to tell you, I must be going. Someone must do this, for all of Humanity. I took the job before I knew what it truly meant. But accepted it once I knew what it meant.

How Dark Forces Hurt & Influence People.
Dark v Light.

A THREAD.

There are two equal & opposite errors into which our race can fall about Evil, or the devils.
1. to disbelieve in it or their existence.
2. to believe, and to feel an excessive & unhealthy interest in them.

18 EVERYDAY ITEMS YOU DIDN'T KNOW THEIR PURPOSE

Thread..

1.The Mini Pocket On Your Jeans

When you buy a Jean trouser, don't you wonder what this pocket is for? Well, today is your lucky day! It's where you were supposed to keep your pocket watch when jeans were first invented

2. The Hole In Your Pan Cap

Kids might likely put this covers in their mouths so manufacturers took measures to prevent them from suffocating by placing a hole in the cover so that if it gets stuck in someone's throat, they'll still breathe air into their lungs

3. The Hole In Your iPhone

You'll notice a little hole next to the camera on your rearfacing camera. It is actually a microphone. It allows you to record sound when your camera is turned around

4. Hole in padlocks

The hole is made for pouring engine oil inside the padlock to enable it to be lubricated if rusty

5. They basicaly let your fingers know where the home key is without looking down so you can type quicker than usual

Here's the gig from what I can make out.. #1, The majority of the masses failed the initiation test miserably... I mean, if there could have been a little bit of a whimper, or somebody yelling at the top of their lungs... But nothing... The test scores are in and the ...cont

Governments have won rounds 1-6. Because of that, a scared and frightened public, is now even more scared, frightened and confused. The way they see it, best to go with the flow for now until "THIS STUPID COVID BULLSH#! PASSES. Not so fast. That's because nothings passing..,cont

They moved into position quickly as soon as the Bullsh#! was in peoples head about a deadly virus.. Complete makeovers featuring facilities and safety equipment for Covid19.. I kept telling you to pay attention, now they've infiltrated this stuff into everything...cont

At this point, they have successfully removed anything and everything that made life worth livin.. THINK ABOUT THAT !!. I find myself getting highly frustrated when talking to people, and they have no idea whats going on.. Vaccine?? what vaccine.. If they hadn't seen me ...cont

By chance, and knowing me, if I find someone who'll listen I'll talk their ears off. Not trying to be rude, it's just to me, the information is something they need to know. Problems arise when it's discovered they have zero knowledge about any of it. Information is being withheld

@LetsTalkZorro @zjcat7 @Julie76983198 @ggbrokensilence
1. Why did Epstein want Zorro Ranch?
* 23 miles away is Santa Fe.
"This was once a drugstore, Zook’s Pharmacy, that doubled as a base for Russian espionage; in between filling prescriptions and ringing up customers, deep

2. cover Stalinist spies here plotted the death of Leon Trotsky and later coordinated efforts to steal the secrets of the atomic bomb from Los Alamos (distance from Zorro Ranch: 50 miles)"
*There’s the Armand Hammer United World College of the American West, a selective

3. international boarding school in Montezuma founded by Armand Hammer and PRINCE CHARLES, originally a resort hotel built on a hot springs sacred to the Jicarilla Apache, the previous inhabitants of the Sangre De Cristos
*There are also the sites where the Catholic Church hid

4. pedophile priests in local parishes, until a tsunami of lawsuits from victims forced New Mexico’s largest diocese to file for bankruptcy last June. One of those places is in Jemez Springs (Distance from Zorro Ranch: 50 miles.)

5. Here, the Catholic Church still operates one of two treatment centers in the United States for pedophile priests
* A little over 80 miles northwest of Zorro Ranch is Trementina Base, a bunker and vault complex owned by the Church of Spiritual Technology—an elite order within

@danielpunkass Fair warning, this might get long:

The most obvious aspect is that the time drawn out supposedly "teaching" was really not worth it in proportion to the simplicity of the task.

The first thing I noticed reading that thread was that she was already hungry at the beginning.

That would have been my first clue to go, okay, hm, maybe another time. You could always demonstrate the use of the can opener (observation is one really great way to learn, after all!) for the child, and then get into the mechanics once tummies were filled.

Let's say we missed that chance, though, and were deep into the question-and-answer session. At that point there's a good chance I would think 'Well, there's no going back now' and let my stubbornness see this through, as OP did in his thread.

But that's very much based on *my* reactions and urges as an adult, not what is best for the child. This might be a cultural difference, but in New Zealand (where I live) we try to put the child first.

The OP's daughter clearly communicated her needs (and her frustration) -

sighs, asking politely, rolling her eyes, removing herself from the situation to avoid esclation... When those were ignored, she had to resort to yelling and tears (fair enough, if you ask me!). It really sucks that the adult in the situation decided to steamroll ahead,

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What surviving my first bereaved Christmas taught me about handling Christmas in a pandemic:

Mindset: Christmas is nostalgia, tradition, togetherness. But it's also just one day. When things get tough tomorrow, remember this is a Friday & a big chicken dinner.

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Expectations: Let yourself feel what you feel. It is beyond sh*t that people will be alone & that families are separated this Christmas. You don't have to pretend. It's ok to be sad, angry, resentful. Let yourself feel what you feel without expectation to feel otherwise.

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No guilt: It's also ok to have fun on the day. To laugh, smile & enjoy lovely moments even though you miss a relative who can't be with you in order to keep safe from the virus. No guilt. Allow those moments. For you can hold both sadness & joy at the same time.

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Chunk it down: This Christmas Day may feel very long when you're lonely for loved ones who are in another house. Think of the day in sections. Have a focus for each section. Focus only on the section in front of you. Breakfast. Walk. Video call loved ones. Dinner. Movie.

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Allow for differences: Not everyone handles things the same, so don't judge others if they're dealing with the day differently to you tomorrow. Let everyone get through this strangest Christmas Day the best they can. Let everyone find their own way.

Instacart is a great example of a company that as it exists today is a interim, not end state business. There will be opportunities to change that positioning, but they will face some critical choices ahead.

Supermarkets are built purposely in prominent locations to catch retail eye & the layout is designed to offer a wide range of SKUs while drawing attention to the highest margin and/or velocity ones.

1st problem: the supermarket's sprawling layout is suboptimally designed for efficiently picking & packing your order.

2nd problem: Instacart doesn't have perfect visibility into the SKUs at a given supermarket in a given day, so the inefficiency for a picker is twofold-can't find items, then have to wait for your approval for replacement goods before checking out.

So what is Instacart? The two things they do efficiently are:

1) own the customer & monetize the data that comes along w/ that.

2) Efficiently deliver last mile logistics.

Today's front page features our story on the loosely connected, QAnon-believing network of 'patriots' that spent weeks organizing and crowd-sourcing money for mass action at the Capitol on Jan. 6: https://t.co/Kc1BL9JqFv w/ @ddknyt @mmcintire

Keith Lee, an Air Force veteran, was one of the far-right, low-budget agitators trying to 'Stop the Steal'. More than an hour before Trump's speech: “If you died today and you went to heaven, can you look George Washington in the face and say that you’ve fought for this country?”

Just listened to the latest episode of @DWTWR, about Aliens of London, partly because @sjcAustenite and @KyleDAnderson are funny and insightful critics, but mostly to hear my monthly name-check.

But I think the satire in this story lands better than they give it credit for. 1/

At one point, Erik raises and dismisses the possibility that Russell might want to say that inside all our politicians are evil monsters bent on destroying us — but I think that’s absolutely what Russell wants to say. Here’s why. 2/

Russell really hates Tony Blair. He is found dead in a cupboard early on in Aliens of London, and he will return in a new form as Harold Saxon in the finale of Season 3. Russell will kill the current or former British PM (or President) literally every year during his era. 3/

(He will also kill the PM in the form of Boris Johnson in Revenge of the Nestene, the story he wrote to accompany the lockdown rewatch of Rose in March 2020.) 4/

In 1997, Blair’s Labour promised a “third way” between capitalism and socialism. This seemed new and exciting, but was basically just a shift to the right, to accommodate the sort of neoliberalism that kept getting Margaret Thatcher elected. 5/

1/13 One quarter of young academics have been bullied. I am one of them. I am sharing this letter and chain of tweets to ensure future student and staff safety. I wish I didn’t have to.

My statement https://t.co/jRooscrLhx

@AcademicChatter #PhDChat @ThesisWhisperer

2/13 I experienced and witnessed years of bullying and harassment by Professor James E.M. Watson (@cyclonewatson) at the University of Queensland and on Wildlife Conservation Society projects he supervised

@TheWCS @UQ_News @UQ_CBCS @UQ_SEES @fairwork_gov_au @arc_gov_au

3/13 The bullying had detrimental impacts on the health and wellbeing of myself and other victims. The bullying was serious enough to cause me anxiety and complex trauma, a form of PTSD. This was confirmed by independent #mentalhealth professionals.

4/13 My story highlights a deep bullying issue in academia. The system lacks transparency and doesn’t account for power imbalances. Silence is not neutral. It is complicit with a culture of secrecy and fear conducive to bullying. We must change the system and speak out

5/13 I am going public as a last resort. For the last year I have been unable to make progress through formal complaint channels. I don’t believe UQ has done enough to protect former, current and future staff and students. So I want to set the record straight.

Any thinking that the only way forward is to sweep all of this criminality, treason, & genocide-by-pandemic under the rug - without investigation & punishment - with the application of our laws as equally to the most powerful as we’ve done to the most vulnerable... is madness. /1

2/ It’s the madness of blind belief in the nation’s “exceptionalism”.

The language of “America is the greatest nation...” is always wielded by those who inherit the power to hold a criminal predecessor to account, but fail to do so.

They’re in a self-defeating belief loop...

3/...that actually damages the core of what makes America exceptional in the first place.

It’s cowardice.

We’re not angry children, who are just wailing about vengeance from our own place of grievance.

We are America itself. And we were near mortally wounded.

4/ The election was triage. A rush of action at the scene of massive crash site. The jaws of life were used, tourniquets applied, and the body placed in the ambulance - on its way to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

Now, we need a series of surgeries (investigations) to survive, and...

5/... a long rehab just to get ambulatory again.

It will likely take 30 yrs to restore the damage done by these criminal traitors. And I’m not talking about just steering a ship in one party’s direction over another. That’s the kind of false flag whining that conservatives do...

This is a public service announcement. The most valuable commodity in the world is human attention.

Human attention gives value to everything from currencies, to real estate to precious metals.

Human attention is the hard currency of politics and political power. Without it, no politician or party can last for one minute.

I witnessed something yesterday and made an observation which I must share with you here.

Judging from the sheer tidal wave of attention given to President Trump yesterday, and the complete lack of attention being given to Joe Biden, the Democrats and the Swamp should be very afraid. We know who won. They know who won.