“This wasn’t a miracle of consensus or top-down diktat. It was a triumph of mechanism design: the science of designing rules that align self-interest with the collective good.”
- @hennyge.bsky.social
Carcassonne.
Grey/blue graphic showing Orion and the European Service Module arrays, cover of the ESA Forward To The Moon media kit
Check out our Moon media kit, covering #Artemis II step by step: launch, orbits, translunar injection, lunar flyby and return, highlighting Europe’s role at every stage. Explore how Europe is helping shape the next era of human spaceflight! @exploration.esa.int
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🛰️ The Orion spacecraft spreads its wings.
☀️ The four solar arrays on the European Service Module unfolded like a concertina.
🔋 They are starting to collect photons from the Sun to turn them into electricity for the Moon trip.
12 Canadian cleantech projects get funding from @natural-resources.canada.ca’s Energy Innovation Program
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morning walk / slight frost reckon it's maximum spring that magnolia at the top of Commercial Road is going full tilt - here, drawn crudely big colours - pink, green, blue - some yellow the sky is clear - might buy a tree later
21/3/26
The slump in EV production and sales is just temporary. As charging becomes as fast or faster than filling up with gas, the EV revolution will finally kick off.
No one wants to wait to charge. That's why people are holding off from buying ...
Generative battery charging VFX
by @glebich.bsky.social via @dribbble.bsky.social
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Figure of the day: Nine Minutes The time it takes BYD'd new electric car to fully charge.
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An international team of scientists & clinicians announced, in Science Advances, the launch of a new open-access 3D portal that allows users to explore intact human organs in unprecedented detail — from the whole organ down to individual cells @uclengineering.bsky.social
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Boiled eggs by @miguelgarest.bsky.social
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Boiled Eggs by @miguelgarest.bsky.social
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When the sun goes down, solar panels stop working. UCSB chemists have developed a solution that doesn’t require bulky batteries or electrical grids. Grace Han's team created a new material that captures sunlight, stores it within chemical bonds and releases it as heat: https://ow.ly/c7BP50YfhgX
The team, led by @gracegdhan.bsky.social and PhD students @hanpqnguyen.bsky.social and Benjamin Baker, proved the stored energy was intense enough to boil water under ambient conditions without the need for electricity.
Engineered molecule stashes enough sunlight to boil water months later
Researchers have created an organic molecule that stores a record amount of photon energy in its chemical bonds and releases it as heat on demand. cen.acs.org/energy/solar...
#chemsky 🧪
JUST IN: Us judge allows Orsted to resume building New York offshore wind project reut.rs/4kb8Us8
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We've finally reached a major historical crossing point. Emerging energy (wind, solar, geothermal) is now inexpensive and profitable; old arguments against them now fall flat. While legacy energy (carbon) will remain for a long time, its use will steadily decline—first slowly and then very fast.
Sea by Hunan
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Chart showing Fervo Energy’s geothermal drilling performance improvements over time. The graph plots depth (0-15,000 feet) against days to reach total depth (0-70 days). Multiple drilling attempts are shown with lines progressing from oldest (darkest) to newest (lightest red). The Utah site shows older wells reaching approximately 14,000 feet in 20-25 days. The Nevada site shows more recent wells reaching approximately 12,000 feet in 60-70 days, with the newest attempts demonstrating significantly improved drilling speeds. Source: Fervo Energy. Published in The Economist.“
Fervo Energy is speeding things up for Geothermal
- via @economist.com
“The International Energy Agency has revised its long-term forecast to suggest that the global potential of geothermal by 2050 is over 800gw, up from 15gw today. 2026 looks set to mark the start of the great geothermal renaissance.”
-via @economist.com
Area chart showing Northern Hemisphere sea ice extent in March from 1979 to present, measured in million square kilometers. The chart shows a clear declining trend from approximately 16.5 million square km in 1979 to around 14 million square km in recent years, with notable year-to-year variability throughout the period. The overall decline represents a loss of approximately 2.5 million square kilometers of spring sea ice coverage over roughly four decades.
Thought provoking infographics have so far been a regular feature of @bloomberg.com's Canada Daily newsletter. The 16 Dec '25 edition was no exception: a very clear picture of icy trends.
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