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• Comment Link Sunday, 06 July 2025 08:24 posted by VincentTaimb

  “AI expends a lot of energy being polite, especially if the user is polite, saying ‘please’ and ‘thank you,’”
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  Dauner explained. “But this just makes their responses even longer, expending more energy to generate each word.”
  
  For this reason, Dauner suggests users be more straightforward when communicating with AI models. Specify the length of the answer you want and limit it to one or two sentences, or say you don’t need an explanation at all.
  
  Most important, Dauner’s study highlights that not all AI models are created equally, said Sasha Luccioni, the climate lead at AI company Hugging Face, in an email. Users looking to reduce their carbon footprint can be more intentional about which model they chose for which task.
  
  “Task-specific models are often much smaller and more efficient, and just as good at any context-specific task,” Luccioni explained.
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  If you are a software engineer who solves complex coding problems every day, an AI model suited for coding may be necessary. But for the average high school student who wants help with homework, relying on powerful AI tools is like using a nuclear-powered digital calculator.
  
  Even within the same AI company, different model offerings can vary in their reasoning power, so research what capabilities best suit your needs, Dauner said.
  
  When possible, Luccioni recommends going back to basic sources — online encyclopedias and phone calculators — to accomplish simple tasks.
  
  Why it’s hard to measure AI’s environmental impact
  Putting a number on the environmental impact of AI has proved challenging.
  
  The study noted that energy consumption can vary based on the user’s proximity to local energy grids and the hardware used to run AI models.
  That’s partly why the researchers chose to represent carbon emissions within a range, Dauner said.
  
  Furthermore, many AI companies don’t share information about their energy consumption — or details like server size or optimization techniques that could help researchers estimate energy consumption, said Shaolei Ren, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Riverside who studies AI’s water consumption.
  
  “You can’t really say AI consumes this much energy or water on average — that’s just not meaningful. We need to look at each individual model and then (examine what it uses) for each task,” Ren said.
  
  One way AI companies could be more transparent is by disclosing the amount of carbon emissions associated with each prompt, Dauner suggested.
• Comment Link Sunday, 06 July 2025 04:50 posted by AntioneMax

  “It’s true that both plants are not yet operating at the capacity we originally targeted,” said the Climeworks spokesperson.
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  “Like all transformative innovations, progress is iterative, and some steps may take longer than anticipated,” they said.
  
  The company’s prospective third plant in Louisiana aims to remove 1 million tons of carbon a year by 2030, but it’s uncertain whether construction will proceed under the Trump administration.
  
  A Department of Energy spokesperson said a department-wide review was underway “to ensure all activities follow the law, comply with applicable court orders and align with the Trump administration’s priorities.” The government has a mandate “to unleash ‘American Energy Dominance’,” they added.
  
  Direct air capture’s success will also depend on companies’ willingness to buy carbon credits.
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  Currently companies are pretty free to “use the atmosphere as a waste dump,” said Holly Buck, assistant professor of environment and sustainability at the University at Buffalo. “This lack of regulation means there is not yet a strong business case for cleaning this waste up,” she told CNN.
  
  Another criticism leveled at Climeworks is its failure to offset its own climate pollution. The carbon produced by its corporate activities, such as office space and travel, outweighs the carbon removed by its plants.
  
  The company says its plants already remove more carbon than they produce and corporate emissions “will become irrelevant as the size of our plants scales up.”
  
  Some, however, believe the challenges Climeworks face tell a broader story about direct air capture.
  
  This should be a “wake-up call,” said Lili Fuhr, director of the fossil economy program at the Center for International Environmental Law. Climeworks’ problems are not “outliers,” she told CNN, “but reflect persistent technical and economic hurdles faced by the direct air capture industry worldwide.”
  
  “The climate crisis demands real action, not speculative tech that overpromises and underdelivers.” she added.
  
  Some of the Climeworks’ problems are “related to normal first-of-a-kind scaling challenges with emerging complex engineering projects,” Buck said.
  
  But the technology has a steep path to becoming cheaper and more efficient, especially with US slashing funding for climate policies, she added. “This kind of policy instability and backtracking on contracts will be terrible for a range of technologies and innovations, not just direct air capture.”
  
  Direct air capture is definitely feasible but its hard, said MIT’s Buck. Whether it succeeds will depend on a slew of factors including technological improvements and creating markets for carbon removals, he said.
  
  “At this point in time, no one really knows how large a role direct air capture will play in the future.”
• Comment Link Sunday, 06 July 2025 00:58 posted by WilliamTit

  Many left-wing preppers also have guns.
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  Killjoy is open about the fact she owns firearms but calls it one of the least important aspects of her prepping. She lives in rural Appalachia and, as a transgender woman, says the way she’s treated has changed dramatically since Trump’s first election. For those on the left, guns are “for community and self-defense,” she said.
  
  Left-wing preppers consistently say the biggest difference between them and their right-wing peers is the rejection of “bunker mentality” — the idea of filling a bunker with beans, rice, guns and ammo and expecting to be able to survive the apocalypse alone.
  
  Shonkwiler gives an example of a right-wing guy with a rifle on his back, who falls down the stairs and breaks a leg. If he doesn’t have medical training and a community to help, “he’s going to die before he gets to enjoy all his freeze-dried food.”
  
  “People are our greatest asset,” Killjoy said. When Hurricane Helene carved a path of destruction through Asheville, North Carolina in 2024, Killjoy, who used to live in the city, loaded her truck with food and generators and drove there to help.
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  Inshirah Overton also subscribes to the idea of community. The attorney, who came to prepping after enduring Hurricane Irene in 2011, owns a half-acre plot of land in New Jersey where she grows food and has beehives.
  
  She stores fruit, vegetables and honey but also gives them to friends and neighbors. “My plan is to create a community of people who have a vested interest in this garden,” she said.
  
  At one point, Overton toyed with the idea of buying a “bug-out” property in Vermont, somewhere to escape to, but desire for community for her and her two daughters stopped her. In Vermont, “no one knows me and I’m just a random Black lady, and they’ll be like: ‘Oh, OK, right, sure. You live here? Sure. Here’s the barrel of my shotgun. Turn around.’”
  This focus on community may stem in part from left-wing preppers’ growing fears around the climate crisis, predicted to usher in far-reaching ecological, social and economic breakdown. It cannot be escaped by retreating to a bunker for a few weeks.
  
  As Trump guts weather agencies, pledges to unwind the Federal Emergency Management Administration and slashes climate funding — all while promising to unleash the fossil fuel industry — climate concerns are only coming into sharper focus.
  
  They’re top of mind for Brekke Wagoner, the creator and host of the Sustainable Prepping YouTube channel, who lives in North Carolina with her four children. She fears increasingly deadly summer heat and the “once-in-a-lifetime” storms that keep coming. Climate change “is just undeniable,” she said.
  
  Her prepping journey started during Trump’s first term. She was living in California and filled with fear that in the event of a big natural disaster, the federal government would simply not be there.
  
  Her house now contains a week’s worth of water, long-term food supplies, flashlights, backup batteries and a solar generator. “My goal is for our family to have all of our needs cared for,” she said, so in an emergency, whatever help is available can go to others.
  
  “You can have a preparedness plan that doesn’t involve a bunker and giving up on civilization,” she said.
• Comment Link Saturday, 05 July 2025 23:08 posted by HarveyMuh

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  (environmental) cost of generating a response, people would maybe start thinking, ‘Is it really necessary to turn myself into an action figure just because I’m bored?’ Or ‘do I have to tell ChatGPT jokes because I have nothing to do?’” Dauner said.
  
  Additionally, as more companies push to add generative AI tools to their systems, people may not have much choice how or when they use the technology, Luccioni said.
  
  “We don’t need generative AI in web search. Nobody asked for AI chatbots in (messaging apps) or on social media,” Luccioni said. “This race to stuff them into every single existing technology is truly infuriating, since it comes with real consequences to our planet.”
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  With less available information about AI’s resource usage, consumers have less choice, Ren said, adding that regulatory pressures for more transparency are unlikely to the United States anytime soon. Instead, the best hope for more energy-efficient AI may lie in the cost efficacy of using less energy.
  
  “Overall, I’m still positive about (the future). There are many software engineers working hard to improve resource efficiency,” Ren said. “Other industries consume a lot of energy too, but it’s not a reason to suggest AI’s environmental impact is not a problem. We should definitely pay attention.”
  
  Sign up for CNN’s Life, But Greener newsletter. Our limited newsletter series guides you on how to minimize your personal role in the climate crisis — and reduce your eco-anxiety.
• Comment Link Saturday, 05 July 2025 21:48 posted by Phillipfus

  “We’re asking everyone to take it slow, avoid driving through standing water, and use alternate routes when possible,” Rosenlund urged.
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  Rainfall in Grand Island began Wednesday afternoon but the intensity picked up quickly after dark, falling at more than an inch per hour at times.
  
  A total of 6.41 inches of rain fell by midnight, which made it the rainiest June day and the second rainiest day of any month in the city’s 130-year history of weather records.
  
  The National Weather Service issued a flash flood emergency — the most severe form of flood warning — at 11:45 p.m. CDT Wednesday for Grand Island that continued for several hours into Thursday morning, continuously warning of “extensive flash flooding.”
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  Multiple rounds of heavy storms tracked over the area late Wednesday into early Thursday morning and ultimately dumped record amounts of rainfall. A level 2-of-4 risk of flooding rainfall was in place for Grand Island at the time, according to the Weather Prediction Center.
  
  More than a month’s worth of rain – nearly 4.5 inches – fell in only three hours between 10 p.m. CDT Wednesday and 1 a.m. CDT Thursday. Rainfall of this intensity would only be expected around once in 100 years, according to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data.
  
  Climate change is making heavy rainfall events heavier. As the world warms due to fossil fuel pollution, a warmer atmosphere is able to soak up more moisture like a sponge, only to wring it out in heavier bursts of rain.
  
  Hourly rainfall rates have intensified in nearly 90% of large US cities since 1970, a recent study found.
• Comment Link Saturday, 05 July 2025 20:44 posted by Johnnysaf

  ‘Extraordinary rainstorm’ floods Nebraska city, triggers water rescues
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  An entire June’s worth of rain fell in just a few hours over Grand Island, Nebraska, Wednesday night, triggering life-threatening flash flooding that inundated neighborhoods, stranded motorists and forced water rescues.
  
  Crews have responded to dozens of calls to assist motorists stuck in flooded roads since torrential rain began Wednesday night, according to Spencer Schubert, the city’s communications manager. The flooding has also displaced an unspecified number of residents from their homes.
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  “At this time we have no injuries to report,” Schubert said early Thursday morning, noting some rescues were ongoing.
  
  Torrential rain caused sewers to back up into several homes and sent floodwater running into basements, according to a Thursday news release from the city. Some affected residents took shelter at local hotels or with friends and family.
  
  “This was an extraordinary rainstorm and is very similar to the historic rains seen in the 2005 floods,” Jon Rosenlund, the city’s emergency director said. “We will be actively monitoring rivers, creeks and other drainage areas over the next few days for future flooding issues.”
  
  Flooding in 2005 turned streets into rivers in Grand Island. At one point, the city tore up a major road to open up a channel to drain flooding away from homes, CNN affiliate KHGI reported.
  
  The central Nebraskan city is home to around 53,000 people and is about 130 miles southwest of Omaha. The rain came to an end around sunrise Thursday, but the danger remains, with a flood warning in effect until 7 p.m. CDT.
• Comment Link Saturday, 05 July 2025 06:38 posted by Johnnyhoini

  Магазин расходных материалов для столярного производства
  Специализированный магазин, предлагающий расходные материалы для станков и электрических и пневматических инструментов для столярного и мебельного производства, деревянного домостроения есть в Москве на Волоколамском шоссе. В интернете его можно найти, как магазин «Абразивы и щётки». Профессиональные пользователи по достоинству оценили ассортимент и качество товаров.
  Качественные абразивные материалы и технические щетки играют ключевую роль в деревообработке, строительстве, металлообработке и других отраслях. В этой статье разберем, что было бы полезно покупателям увидеть на полках профильного магазина.
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  1. Ассортимент: ключевые категории товаров
  Абразивные инструменты
  • Шлифовальные круги для болгарки:
  o На липучке, лепестковые торцевые, фибровые
  o по древесине, лаку, краске, металлу, нержавейке, алюминию, камню.
  • Отрезные круги:
  o По металлу, нержавейке, алюминию, камню
  • Шлифовальные ленты:
  o Для ленточных шлифовальных шлифмашин, напильников, станков.
  • Наждачная бумага:
  o Рулоны, листы на тканевой и бумажной основе.
  Технические щетки
  • Корщетки для УШМ и дрелей:
  o Стальные (проволока), нейлоновые, комбинированные.
  • Ручные щетки:
  o С деревянной/пластиковой ручкой.
  • Дисковые щетки:
  o Для обработки кромок и снятия заусенцев.
  • Щетки для станков:
  o Для промышленного применения.
  Сопутствующие товары
  • Полировальные пасты и войлок.
  • Алмазные сегменты для шлифовки бетона.
  • Опорные тарелки для шлифкругов.
  
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  1. Ассортимент: ключевые категории товаров
  Абразивные инструменты
  • Шлифовальные круги для болгарки:
  o На липучке, лепестковые торцевые, фибровые
  o по древесине, лаку, краске, металлу, нержавейке, алюминию, камню.
  • Отрезные круги:
  o По металлу, нержавейке, алюминию, камню
  • Шлифовальные ленты:
  o Для ленточных шлифовальных шлифмашин, напильников, станков.
  • Наждачная бумага:
  o Рулоны, листы на тканевой и бумажной основе.
  Технические щетки
  • Корщетки для УШМ и дрелей:
  o Стальные (проволока), нейлоновые, комбинированные.
  • Ручные щетки:
  o С деревянной/пластиковой ручкой.
  • Дисковые щетки:
  o Для обработки кромок и снятия заусенцев.
  • Щетки для станков:
  o Для промышленного применения.
  Сопутствующие товары
  • Полировальные пасты и войлок.
  • Алмазные сегменты для шлифовки бетона.
  • Опорные тарелки для шлифкругов.
  Фрезы концевые
  o Для фрезерных станков
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  2. Приоритеты в работе магазина
  1. Качество и надежность
  • Предложить покупателям широкую линейку товаров рассчитанную на профессиональных мастеров, а так же для единоразовых работ.
  • Торговые марки производителей: Klingspor, 3M, Mirka, Osborn, Lessmann.
  • Сертифицированная продукция (ISO, ГОСТ).
  2. Широта ассортимента
  • Охватывать все типы обработки: от грубой зачистки до финишной полировки.
  • Иметь в наличии расходники для разных инструментов (УШМ, дрели, станки, в.ч. редких размеров ).
  3. Экспертные консультации
  • Помогать клиентам подбирать абразив под конкретные задачи:
  o Какой круг на липучке выбрать для смолистой, твердой древесины, шпаклевки?
  o Какая щетка лучше удаляет ржавчину?
  o Чем отполировать перила из нержавеющей стали?
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  3. Вывод
  Успешный магазин "Абразивы и щетки" должен сочетать:
  ? Широкий ассортимент (от дешевых расходников до премиум-инструмента).
  ? Экспертный подход (консультации, тестовые образцы).
  ? Гибкие условия (опт, доставка, сервис).
  Если планируете открыть такой магазин или расширить ассортимент – делайте ставку на качество и сервис! ??
  Какой абразив вы используете чаще всего? Делитесь в комментариях! ??
• Comment Link Saturday, 05 July 2025 04:09 posted by JamesItete

  A nuclear fusion power plant prototype is already being built outside Boston. How long until unlimited clean energy is real?
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  In an unassuming industrial park 30 miles outside Boston, engineers are building a futuristic machine to replicate the energy of the stars. If all goes to plan, it could be the key to producing virtually unlimited, clean electricity in the United States in about a decade.
  
  The donut-shaped machine Commonwealth Fusion Systems is assembling to generate this energy is simultaneously the hottest and coldest place in the entire solar system, according to the scientists who are building it.
  
  It is inside that extreme environment in the so-called tokamak that they smash atoms together in 100-million-degree plasma. The nuclear fusion reaction is surrounded by a magnetic field more than 400,000 times more powerful than the Earth’s and chilled with cryogenic gases close to absolute zero.
  
  The fusion reaction — forcing two atoms to merge — is what creates the energy of the sun. It is the exact opposite of what the world knows now as “nuclear power” — a fission reaction that splits atoms.
  
  Nuclear fusion has far greater energy potential, with none of the safety concerns around radioactive waste.
  
  SPARC is the tokamak Commonwealth says could forever change how the world gets its energy, generating 10 million times more than coal or natural gas while producing no planet-warming pollution. Fuel for fusion is abundant, derived from deuterium, found in seawater, and tritium extracted from lithium. And unlike nuclear fission, there is no atomic waste involved.
  
  The biggest hurdle is building a machine powerful and precise enough to harness the molten, hard-to-tame plasma, while also overcoming the net-energy issue – getting more energy out than you put into it.
  “Basically, what everybody expects is when we build the next machine, we expect it to be a net-energy machine,” said Andrew Holland, CEO of the Fusion Industry Association, a trade group representing fusion companies around the globe. “The question is, how fast can you build that machine?”
  
  Commonwealth’s timeline is audacious: With over $2 billion raised in private capital, its goal is to build the world’s first fusion-fueled power plant by the early 2030s in Virginia.
  
  “It’s like a race with the planet,” said Brandon Sorbom, Commonwealth’s chief science officer. Commonwealth is racing to find a solution for global warming, Sorbom said, but it’s also trying to keep up with new power-hungry technologies like artificial intelligence. “This factory here is a 24/7 factory,” he said. “We’re acutely aware of it every minute of every hour of every day.”
• Comment Link Friday, 04 July 2025 20:42 posted by JaimeHaign

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  Если верить официальному сайту Emcd Io, у компании более 300 тыс. клиентов, ежедневно выполняется более 2,7 млн транзакций. Но эта статистика не подтверждается финансовыми отчетами, которые обычно публикуют крупные компании с хорошей деловой репутацией.
  
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  Контора заявляет, что работает честно и прозрачно, но тщательно скрывает юридическую информацию. Ее можно найти исключительно в тексте оферты. Платформа Emcd Io работает от имени двух компаний. EMCD Tech Limited зарегистрирована в Гонконге, отвечает за работу криптовалютной майнинг-фермы. Сервис пассивного дохода и криптокошелек действуют на базе лицензии Сейшельских островов, выданной компании EMCD Struct LTD.
• Comment Link Friday, 04 July 2025 14:56 posted by Bradleypab

  Beirut, Lebanon
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  A deadly Israeli airstrike on Hezbollah’s stronghold in southern Beirut on Friday has left over a dozen people dead, including a high-ranking Hezbollah commander, sharply escalating the conflict between the two sides and raising fears of all-out war.
  
  Senior Hezbollah commander Ibrahim Aqil, part of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force, was assassinated along with “about 10” other commanders, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesperson Daniel Hagari said, accusing them of planning to raid and occupy communities in Galilee in northern Israel.
  
  Hezbollah confirmed Aqil’s death on Friday, saying he was killed “following a treacherous Israeli assassination operation on 09/20/2024 in the southern suburbs of Beirut.”
  
  According to Hagari, the targeted commanders were “underground underneath a residential building in the heart of the Dahiyeh neighborhood, using civilians as a human shield” at the time of the attack.
  
  Lebanon’s health ministry said at least 14 people were killed and 66 others injured in the airstrike, which leveled a multistory building in a densely populated neighborhood.
  
  Aqil had a $7 million bounty on his head from the United States for his suspected involvement in the 1983 strike on the US Embassy in Beirut, which killed 63 people, as well as the bombing of the Beirut Marine barracks, which killed 241 US personnel later that year.
  
  A CNN team on the ground in Beirut saw a frantic effort to rescue people from underneath the rubble and rush the wounded to hospital. Witnesses said nearby buildings shook for nearly half an hour after the strike, which the IDF said it had carried out at around 4 p.m. local time.
  
  
  A week of surprise attacks
  Friday’s strike marked the fourth consecutive day of surprise attacks on Beirut and other sites across the country, even as Israeli forces continued deadly strikes and operations in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
  
  The first major attack against Hezbollah this week came Tuesday afternoon when pagers belonging to the militant groups’ members exploded near-simultaneously. The pagers had been used by Hezbollah to communicate after the group’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, encouraged members to switch to low-tech devices to prevent more of them from being assassinated.
  
  Almost exactly 24 hours later, Lebanon was rocked by a second wave of explosions, after Hezbollah walkie-talkies detonated in Beirut and the south of the country on Wednesday.
  
  At least 37 people were killed, including some children, and more than 3,000 were injured in the twin attacks.
  
  In a United Nations Security Council meeting on Friday, UN human rights chief Volker Turk on Friday warned that the detonation of communication devices could violate international human rights law.
  
  Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib and Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon clashed at the heated meeting, with Bou Habib calling on the council to condemn Israel’s actions and Danon slamming the Lebanese envoy for not mentioning Hezbollah.