Tootfinder

This is part of the overall assault on knowledge that the administration is undertaking.
Everything that has made this nation a shining beacon in any way whatsoever is being dismantled
-- with the worst aspects of American history being held up as aspirational.
Please call Congress if you are able.
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Facts look different in different contexts...
Nigeria, Libya, Caspian Sea, and other oil patches in impoverished places are effectively without the concept of environmental regulation. They flare whatever wherever they want. In Nigeria the rampant theft of unrefined oil and "fire pit refining" is beyond anything done by regulated refiners in TX.
Not that we want to emulate Nigeria or Azerbaijan or Libya...

On the Deployment of Multiple Radio Stripes for Large-Scale Near-Field RF Wireless Power Transfer
Amirhossein Azarbahram, Onel L. A. L\'opez, Petar Popovski, Matti Latva-aho
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21640

On the Deployment of Multiple Radio Stripes for Large-Scale Near-Field RF Wireless Power Transfer
This paper investigates the deployment of radio stripe systems for indoor radio-frequency (RF) wireless power transfer (WPT) in line-of-sight near-field scenarios. The focus is on environments where energy demand is concentrated in specific areas, referred to as 'hotspots', spatial zones with higher user density or consistent energy requirements. We formulate a joint clustering and radio stripe deployment problem that aims to maximize the minimum received power across all hotspots. To address t…

🍫 Cacao agroforestry in Belize hits the sweet spot for people and nature
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/cacao-agroforestry-in-belize-hits-the-sweet-spot-for-people-and-nature/

Cacao agroforestry in Belize hits the sweet spot for people and nature
The Maya Golden Landscape in southern Belize is a patchwork of protected areas, agricultural lands and small communities, part of the greater Maya Forest, the second-largest tropical forest in the Americas, after the Amazon. It’s a haven for predators like jaguars (Panthera onca) and pumas (Puma concolor), and threatened species like Baird’s tapirs (Tapirus bairdii) […]

Flow-dependent tagging of $^{214}$Pb decays in the LZ dark matter detector
J. Aalbers, D. S. Akerib, A. K. Al Musalhi, F. Alder, C. S. Amarasinghe, A. Ames, T. J. Anderson, N. Angelides, H. M. Ara\'ujo, J. E. Armstrong, M. Arthurs, A. Baker, S. Balashov, J. Bang, J. W. Bargemann, E. E. Barillier, K. Beattie, T. Benson, A. Bhatti, T. P. Biesiadzinski, H. J. Birch, E. Bishop, G. M. Blockinger, B. Boxer, C. A. J. Brew, P. Br\'as, S. Burdin, M. C. Carmona-Benitez, M. Carter, A. Cha…

Flow-dependent tagging of $^{214}$Pb decays in the LZ dark matter detector
The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment is searching for dark matter interactions in a liquid xenon time projection chamber (LXe-TPC). This article demonstrates how control of the flow state in the LXe-TPC enables the identification of pairs of sequential alpha-decays, which are used to map fluid flow and ion drift in the liquid target. The resulting transport model is used to tag $^{214}$Pb beta-decays, a leading background to dark matter signals in LZ. Temporally evolving volume selections, at a cost …

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