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Lower numbers in Flensburg🇩🇪 are always desirable - whether it's points for German drivers (traffic fines) - or district heating temperatures. By reducing the need for 95°C heat from 10 > 1%, it's much easier to let heat pumps take over most of the heat supply. That's what the local utility will do.

Transformation in Flensburg: low temperatures for efficient heat pumps
As an innovative public utility company, Stadtwerke Flensburg is committed to decarbonisation and CO2 neutrality. To achieve this goal, the municipal utility company is working with Gradyent to reduce temperatures in the district heating system. As part of the partnership, the two companies have found a way to reduce the necessary annual heat share with a temperature above 95°C from around 10% to 1%. This means that heat pumps can be used to a higher extent and operated efficiently.

"... the flames of the #McConnell Fire jumped from place to place, fanned by the gale-force winds of autocracy and intolerance. In almost every soul-crushing story, I could practically smell the senator’s presence amid the rubble and ashes."
#mitchmcconnell

Mitch McConnell is the arsonist who set America on fire and ran away
A corrupt Supreme Court, looming dictatorship and a "Handmaid's Tale" society is the America Mitch McConnell created and runs away from.

Seymour's second neighbourhood conjecture: random graphs and reductions
Alberto Espuny D\'iaz, Ant\'onio Gir\~ao, Bertille Granet, Gal Kronenberg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02842

Seymour's second neighbourhood conjecture: random graphs and reductions
A longstanding conjecture of Seymour states that in every oriented graph there is a vertex whose second outneighbourhood is at least as large as its outneighbourhood. In this short note we show that, for any fixed $p\in[0,1/2)$, a.a.s. every orientation of $G(n,p)$ satisfies Seymour's conjecture (as well as a related conjecture of Sullivan). This improves on a recent result of Botler, Moura and Naia. Moreover, we show that $p=1/2$ is a natural barrier for this problem, in the following sense: f…

“For millennials and the younger generation Z and Alphas, who may never be able to afford to buy a home or retire at a reasonable age, there is a growing feeling online that hard work is fortifying a system that, at best, is giving them nothing back and, at worst, is actively screwing them over. […] The goal of a softer life is more time and energy for what makes you happy and as little time as possible focusing on what doesn’t.”

Materials research for hiper laser fusion facilities: chamber wall, structural material and final optics
J. Alvarez, A. Rivera, R. Gonzalez-Arrabal, D. Garoz, E. Del Rio, J. M. Perlado
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01542

Materials research for hiper laser fusion facilities: chamber wall, structural material and final optics
The European HiPER project aims to demonstrate commercial viability of inertial fusion energy within the following two decades. This goal requires an extensive Research & Development program on materials for different applications (e.g., first wall, structural components and final optics). In this paper we will discuss our activities in the framework of HiPER to develop materials studies for the different areas of interest. The chamber first wall will have to withstand explosions of at least 10…

Sources: The Center for Public Integrity is considering merging with a competitor or shutting down, after falling ~$2.5M short of its $6M budget goal for 2023 (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/28/busines

Center for Public Integrity Weighs Merger or Shutdown Amid Dire Financial Straits
The nonprofit had a budget shortfall of roughly $2.5 million last year amid a difficult market for fund-raising.

Leo Varadkar to announce he will stand down as Taoiseach and Fine Gael leader
https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/03/20/leo-varadkar-poised-to-make-shock-announcement-on-government/
Wonder what prom…

Leo Varadkar to announce he will stand down as Taoiseach and Fine Gael leader
Fine Gael leader makes shock announcement following Cabinet meeting

Check out my latest article:
If "change is hard"…is "exponential change" harder? Or easier? https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/change-hardis-exponential-harder-easier-gil-friend-flmcc

If change is hard"…is "exponential change" harder? Or easier?
"Change is hard." But "hard" is an interpretation—not the truth. "Hard" drives some people away—and it invites some people to buckle up & dive in. Why?

@… I did a gel-cut DNA ladder sequencing run yesterday. Here are my experiment notes:
http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.35994.82880

Leo Varadkar to announce he will stand down as Taoiseach and Fine Gael leader
https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/03/20/leo-varadkar-poised-to-make-shock-announcement-on-government/
Wonder what prom…

Leo Varadkar to announce he will stand down as Taoiseach and Fine Gael leader
Fine Gael leader makes shock announcement following Cabinet meeting