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Midwest Emu 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 @phlkn.bsky.social · 2h

My favorite evolutionary dead end for energy generation is the Mercury turbine. Maybe we could combine it with a nuclear reactor to make a truly toxic combination?

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Mercury vapour turbine - Wikipedia

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Midwest Emu 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 @phlkn.bsky.social · 2h

This is the approach used for woodgas - it is too explosive to store so it is made on demand. I do not know re hydrogen. I suspect insufficient area available for sufficient PV.

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Midwest Emu 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 @phlkn.bsky.social · 3h

Because Hydrogen would need to be at the scale of all fuel being produced. Nuclear waste handling only handles the waste.

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Midwest Emu 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 @phlkn.bsky.social · 3h

Sure, but on a much smaller scale.

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Midwest Emu 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 @phlkn.bsky.social · 3h

It is has a lower flammability limit of 4% in air and an upper flammability limit of 75%. Compared to methane which is 5% to 14%. And therefore leaks are much more likely to become flammable/explosive
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Flammability limit - Wikipedia

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Midwest Emu 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 @phlkn.bsky.social · 3h

Hydrogen diffuses into steel, so different more exotic materials are required that don't suffer from hydrogen embritlement. It must be stored and transported at much higher pressures so the pipes or tanks to handle it get much thicker, harder to manufacture and will suffer more catastrophic failures

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Midwest Emu 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 @phlkn.bsky.social · 3h

Look I haven't done a lifecycle analysis on all the detrimental effects, and I am not qualified to, but I can't picture the catastrophic disaster (to end all disasters) that has been referenced.

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Midwest Emu 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 @phlkn.bsky.social · 3h

Is green hydrogen from hydrolysis? If so then what has been holding it back is, the huge electricity production needed to generate it, the difficulty in storing and transporting it.

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Midwest Emu 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 @phlkn.bsky.social · 3h

I actually think an accident at sea would be much much safer than an accident in port or near land. I don't see a mechanism to irradiate the cargo, you would have to somehow bring a substantial portion of containers into contact with the reactor. I think major oil spill is more ecologically damaging

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Midwest Emu 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 @phlkn.bsky.social · 3h

Haha, yeah more accurate

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Midwest Emu 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 @phlkn.bsky.social · 3h

Let me clarify, I simply disagree with you that is a bad idea. What is the scenario you are picturing when you say "the marine disaster to end all marine disasters."?

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Midwest Emu 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 @phlkn.bsky.social · 3h

Predates containers but they were doing their best

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Midwest Emu 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 @phlkn.bsky.social · 3h

molten salt reactors are much safer than light water reactors and I would rather have nuclear cargo ships than US nuclear naval ships sailing near me

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Stephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social · 2d

I'm sorry, it's actually embarrassing that a senior minister of the Crown is resorting to op eds to get her point across without critique

If your policy is defensible, defend it under questioning by an actual journalist, without a paywall in the way

Bevan Holloway @bevanholloway.com · 2d

Hi, my name is Erica Stanford, and instead of having the guts to got through the proper regulatory process and make my case to the sector, I'm going to use sneaky, undemocratic means to strike at the heart of what it means to be a learner in New Zilund, and then hide behind my media mates.

Erica Stanford: Why I'm removing Treaty rules for schools

OPINION: The move reverses a 2020 change.

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💢Marx was right.🕊 @paulwalker44.bsky.social · 2d

GENOCIDE IN SUDAN, THE ROLE OF THE UAE, AND THE COMPLICITY OF THE WEST

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CAAT - Genocide in Sudan, the role of the UAE, and the complicity of the west

The Rapid Support Forces militia is committing genocide in Darfur in western Sudan, in the course of its civil war with Sudan's military rulers. The RSF is armed by the United Arab Emirates, a western...

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Sparkle @serenesparkle.bsky.social · 3d

This is from 2005. Before Hamas came to power in Gaza.

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💢Marx was right.🕊 @paulwalker44.bsky.social · 2d

The forced burials are part of a wider pattern of extreme violence, including mass killings, summary executions, burning people alive, widespread sexual violence, and ethnic cleansing.

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💢Marx was right.🕊 @paulwalker44.bsky.social · 2d

Multiple credible reports from sources including the Sudan Doctors Union, the UN Human Rights Office, and various news and organizations, confirming that people in #Sudan are being subjected to horrific human rights abuses, including being forced to dig their own graves and then being buried alive.

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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 3d

How The Media Normally Report On A Mass Atrocity

If they had been reporting on Gaza in the same way these last two years, the west’s support for Israel would have completely collapsed by now.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/how-the-me...

How The Media Normally Report On A Mass Atrocity

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

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Eye on The Horn @eyeonthehorn.bsky.social · 3d

Sudan slams RSF ‘war crimes’ in el-Fasher as survivors recount killings #AlJazeera #Sudan

Sudan slams RSF ‘war crimes’ in el-Fasher as survivors recount killings

Envoy says Sudan will not take part in talks to end the conflict if the UAE is involved in negotiations.

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ahmedwaj120.bsky.social @ahmedwaj120.bsky.social · 4d

Please help us. My children and I sleep among the ruins — hunger and disease are killing us. We need your help
Link support 🙏
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Midwest Emu 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 @phlkn.bsky.social · 3d

Hemisphere issue

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 4d

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Moutaz💌🍉 @moutaz-96.bsky.social · 4d

This morning we were shocked to discover that our house,all our farmland, and our entire source of income are located within the Green Line We now own nothing.Our house has been demolished, and now our land is being confiscated for an unknown reason We have no other land or work🍉💔
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Eye on The Horn @eyeonthehorn.bsky.social · 4d

Al Jazeera reports from Sudan displacement camp as thousands flee el-Fasher #AlJazeera #Sudan

Al Jazeera reports from Sudan displacement camp as thousands flee el-Fasher

Tens of thousands of people in Sudan have fled el-Fasher and the advance of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in the

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