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atcclears writes:
The drought in Europe is revealing stones carved centuries ago to give future generations a warning of hard times ahead.
Locals said the centuries-old boulders, known as "hunger stones", reappeared last week as rivers in Europe ran dry due to drought conditions. One such stone is on the banks of the Elbe River, which begins in the Czech Republic and flows through Germany. The boulder dates back to 1616 and is etched with a warning in German: "Wenn du mich seehst, dann weine" – "If you see me, then weep," according to a Google translation of the phrase.
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atcclears writes:
The challenge is daunting. “High-level” nuclear waste, which includes spent nuclear fuel, stays radioactive for hundreds of millennia, so a waste facility must keep it safely away from aquifers, violent weather, war, plane crashes, sea level rise, future ice sheets, volcanic activity, and even curious future humans for a time span that dwarfs all of previous human history.
Ultimately, it’s the geology of a proposed disposal site that determines if it's a safe place to entrust nuclear waste for millennia.
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atcclears writes:
Chile is hailed as the Saudi Arabia of Lithium with a California-sized chunk of terrain that represents a whopping 55% of the world's known deposits of Lithium.
The Chilean Supreme Court has now stated that the Government failed to consult with indigenous people first.
Chilean officials and environmentalists worry about the impact on water supplies. Willy Kracht, Chile’s undersecretary of mining, said recently that up to 2,800 cubic meters of water are needed to produce one ton of lithium in Chile, versus 70 cubic meters for a ton of copper.
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atcclears writes:
German voters can see the toll of Mr. Putin’s war in Ukraine and the cost of Berlin’s failed 20-year green-energy transition, and they are opening to reality. The country’s economic prospects, and Europe’s, depend on whether their leaders will follow that example. Some 78% of respondents support running the three remaining nuclear power plants at least until summer 2023
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atcclears writes:
Hadoop is great if you’re a data scientist who knows how to code in MapReduce or Pig, Johnson says, but as you go higher up the stack, the abstraction layers have mostly failed to deliver on the promise of enabling business analysts to get at the data.
