Main conclusions coming from a 200-year-old theory that every engineer should pass the exam : Carnot factor: best way to heat : use renewable electricity and heat pumps.
François Marechal
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Professor in Ecole Polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), industrial process and energy systems engineering. Think systems ! Posts are my opinion My research group : http://ipese.epfl.ch
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With human intelligence it is easy to reach. With the economic value we give to it, it appears to be out of reach, because finance does not care about our future. It only cares about the playing with fears and hope, the way it did it in the last century. The problem is intelligence not artificial.
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Sure : www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Donald Trump's 'grab them by the p****' quotes in full
The presidential candidate talked about groping women and the right to do ‘whatever he wants’ as a ‘star’
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Since the Industrial Revolution, atmospheric CO₂ has risen 50%, hitting levels unseen in at least 1 million years. It’s essential for life, but too much of it is heating our planet.
Let’s discuss (thread) ⬇️
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➡️ Message aux politiciens qui s’abritent derrière le terme exceptionnel pour justifier notre impréparation aux fortes chaleurs. Exceptionnel ici par @meteofrance.com signifie "p/r à la variabilité climatique passée", pas imprévisible. Vider/réduire les mots de leur sens est une stratégie politique.
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god, people are utter shits on.ft.com/3JrnDB6
Italy outraged over men sharing intimate photos of their wives online
[FREE TO READ] Meta takes down Facebook group of 32,000 members who posted sexually exploitative content for three months
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Seventeen days ago, President Donald Trump made a dramatic claim in an interview on the business news channel CNBC. As part of his July trade agreement with the European Union, he said, the EU gave the United States a $600 billion present he could spend however he wanted. https://cnn.it/41hCEeM
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This article is catching eyes today so let me explain what it misses, no. 1 of which is COST
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Great chart from the FT showing the French nuclear fleet is now routinely flexing down, to accommodate rising solar generation
(People often talk about how some reactors CAN flex; but it's often assumed that they WON'T, due to economic incentives)
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Dear #BBubu, Stopping war in Ukraine is not sufficient to go to paradise … doing all that is under your BBPower to keep our Earth in the Safe Operating Space #SOS is another condition.
Des changements "abrupts" en cours en Antarctique alertent des scientifiques www.rts.ch/info/environ...
Des changements "abrupts" en cours en Antarctique alertent des scientifiques
L'Antarctique semble soumis à une série de changements "abrupts" qui se renforcent mutuellement, aux conséquences potentiellement catastrophiques pour le monde entier, alerte une équipe de recherche ...
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