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"Brazil generates 88% of power from renewables in 2024"
#Brazil #Energy #Renewables

Brazil generates 88% of power from renewables in 2024
Brazil’s electricity mix was 88% renewable in 2024, with wind and solar supplying about 24% of total demand, according to new data from state-owned energy agency Empresa de Pesquisa Energetica (EPE).

„This year, over 11.7 million people applied for Schengen short-stay visas. Globally, demand rose by more than 13%.
But for African applicants, that just meant more money lost.
Analysts estimate Africans lost €60 million (around US$67.5 million) in visa fees in 2024 alone — just for rejections.“
Via Sham Jaff's excellent newsletter https:…

Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.07.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1014651 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

from my link log —
Why does Windows use backslash as its path separator?
https://www.os2museum.com/wp/why-does-windows-really-use-backslash-as-path-separator/
saved 2024-04-25

Green Bay Packers DL Kenny Clark says he played through 2024 foot injury: 'It was a tough year for me'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/gree…

Trevon Diggs progressing well in recovery from 2024 injury: 'All signs are positive' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/trevon-diggs-progressing-well-in-recovery-from-2024-injury-all-signs-are-positive…

The 2024 #Labour Budget allocated just £11.3 billion to climate change mitigation and adaptation—covering everything from carbon capture* and
nuclear energy* to tree planting and EV charging*—compared to
at least £58 billion for military spending.
NB, those with a * are fake climate mitigation.
#warmongering

South Africa to ban highly toxic pesticide Terbufos https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/07/south-africa-to-ban-highly-toxic-pesticide-terbufos/

South Africa to ban highly toxic pesticide Terbufos
In a decision welcomed by advocacy groups and researchers, South Africa’s Cabinet has approved a ban on the import of Terbufos, a highly toxic pesticide linked to the deaths of six children in a South African township in October 2024. On June 12, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, Minister of Presidency, said the ban will be accompanied by […]

It's so nice when companies only make small changes to their code of conduct. Google dropped the word "Don't" from their foundational guiding principle.
I guess that makes it easier to make money.
https://www.theguardian.com/t…

Jean-Sébastien Bach, Fantaisie BWV 542 - Pauline Klaus, violon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebA9HamBOy8
> Jean-Sébastien Bach, Fantaisie BWV 542Pauline Klaus, violonArrangement : Tedi PapavramiLive concert Eglise de Cordon, 2024

Assignment of collision-induced four-level double-resonance transitions in the 3${\nu}$${_3}$ ${\Leftarrow}$ ${\nu}$${_3}$ spectral region of methane
Kevin K. Lehmann, Isak Silander, Adrian Hj\"alt\'en, Michael Rey, Aleksandra Foltynowicz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13644

Assignment of collision-induced four-level double-resonance transitions in the 3$ν$${_3}$ ${\Leftarrow}$ $ν$${_3}$ spectral region of methane
Optical-optical double-resonance (OODR) spectroscopy using a narrow-linewidth pump and a frequency comb probe has previously been used to measure and assign sub-Doppler transitions in the 3$ν$${_3}$ ${\Leftarrow}$ $ν$${_3}$ spectral region [J. Chem. Phys. 161, 124311 (2024)] when pumping from the J = (7, A${_2}$) ground state. Doppler-broadened double-resonance transitions were also observed in those OODR spectra. In this paper, 68 of these Doppler-broadened transitions are assigned to four-l…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03074 has been replaced.
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GL-LowPopArt: A Nearly Instance-Wise Minimax Estimator for Generalized Low-Rank Trace Regression
We present `GL-LowPopArt`, a novel Catoni-style estimator for generalized low-rank trace regression. Building on `LowPopArt` (Jang et al., 2024), it employs a two-stage approach: nuclear norm regularization followed by matrix Catoni estimation. We establish state-of-the-art estimation error bounds, surpassing existing guarantees (Fan et al., 2019; Kang et al., 2022), and reveal a novel experimental design objective, $\mathrm{GL}(π)$. The key technical challenge is controlling bias from the non…

Prediction of the SVOM MXT camera end of life spectral performance based onproton irradiation results
Clara Plasse, Diego G\"otz, Aline Meuris, Miguel Fernandez Moita, Philippe Ferrando, Leo Favier, Francesco Ceraudo
#toXiv_bot_toot

Worst to first for 49ers? Ranking 8 last-place teams’ chances to win division in 2025 https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/worst-first-49ers-ranking-8-last-place-teams-chances-win-division-2025

Intellectual Property Rights and Entrepreneurship in the NFT Ecosystem: Legal Frameworks, Business Models, and Innovation Opportunities
Pranav Darshan, Rohan J S, Raghuveer Rajesh, Ruchitha M, Sanika Kamath, Manas M N
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00172

Intellectual Property Rights and Entrepreneurship in the NFT Ecosystem: Legal Frameworks, Business Models, and Innovation Opportunities
Non Fungible Tokens have changed digital ownership and how creators earn money. Between 2021 and 2024, the market value exceeded 40 billion. However, the fast growth of the NFT ecosystem has revealed serious issues in managing intellectual property rights. There is a lot of confusion about the difference between owning an NFT and owning the copyright for the underlying content. This research looks at the gap between traditional copyright laws and blockchain-based transactions. We use a mixed me…

Six-yr SPIRou monitoring of the young planet-host dwarf AU Mic
J. -F. Donati, P. I. Cristofari, C. Moutou, A. L'Heureux, N. J. Cook, E. Artigau, S. H. P. Alencar, E. Gaidos, A. Vidotto, P. Petit, A. Carmona, T. Ray, the SPIRou science team
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01746

Six-yr SPIRou monitoring of the young planet-host dwarf AU Mic
In this paper we revisit our spectropolarimetric and velocimetric analysis of the young M dwarf AU Mic based on data collected with SPIRou at the Canada-France-Hawaii telescope, over a monitoring period of 2041 d from 2019 to 2024. The longitudinal magnetic field, the small-scale magnetic field, and the differential temperature of AU Mic, derived from the unpolarized and circularly-polarized spectra, were clearly modulated with the stellar rotation period, with a pattern that evolved over time.…

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Decay of correlation for edge colorings when $q>3Δ$
We examine various perspectives on the decay of correlation for the uniform distribution over proper $q$-edge colorings of graphs with maximum degree $Δ$. First, we establish the coupling independence property when $q\ge 3Δ$ for general graphs. Together with the work of Chen et al. (2024), this result implies a fully polynomial-time approximation scheme (FPTAS) for counting the number of proper $q$-edge colorings. Next, we prove the strong spatial mixing property on trees, provided that $…

Festivals Camps in der Nacht aus 2024. Aufgenommen beim Musikschutzgebiet und Open-Flair Festival.
#openflair #of #msg #musikschutzgebiet

Today in “silly billboards in my community”. The first is by the very “truthful” (/s) people at LNGfacts.ca. Of course, the word "LNGfacts" does not appear anywhere in the dictionary because it's made up nonsense. Just like the "fact" that LNG “makes Canada stronger”... like we're going to win the war in Ukraine with our LNG or fend off #TheAmericanFascist. (Note: LNG is a tool of fascists not the other way around)
This billboard used to say “BC LNG WILL REDUCE GLOBAL EMISSIONS”... with a link to ‘bclnghelps.ca' but that was so clearly a lie that they were forced by the courts to remove it and delete their website, but I made a website instead in their honour called: bclngburns.ca
Back to today's billbboard though... Here's a fact from February 2025: “European LNG imports fell by 19% in 2024 as gas consumption reached an 11-year low, thanks, in part, to renewable energy additions.” (#BCPoli #BCLNG #ClimateAction #ClimateEmergency #ExtinctionRebellion #LNG #NaturalGas #Europe #EU #Ukraine #Russia