@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-02 20:21:13
Donald Trump said that his party should seize control of elections in ‘at least 15 places’
and brazenly repeated a number of blatant lies about his electoral history in Minnesota and Georgia
during a Monday phone interview with a right-wing podcaster who briefly served in a top FBI role last year.
Trump, who continues to falsely insist that he won the 2020 election despite having lost to successor-turned-predecessor Joe Biden by wide margins in both the popular and electora…
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social2025-12-04 09:53:06
Can you guess which country's EV charging strategy prioritises market-based price signals to guide charging and discharging?
#V2G
@jerome@jasette.facil.services2026-01-04 15:40:52
What’s key to understand in Venezuela is that the US did a coup and got the president Maduro out.
But the regime is still there. The VP took power. Chavismo is still in charge. The armed forces, paramilitary, everyone is still around. The opposition, that likely won the last election, is still not in charge.
It’s really unusual. And shows the US, as usual with Trump, might not have much of a plan.
Good article on the new president Delcy Rodríguez
@gwire@mastodon.social2026-03-03 12:36:05
@arXiv_physicsinsdet_bot@mastoxiv.page2026-02-02 09:14:39
High-bandwidth frequency domain multiplexed readout of transition-edge sensors for neutrinoless double beta decay searches
M. Adami\v{c} (McGill,LBNL), M. Beretta (UCB,INFN), J. Camilleri (LBNL,Virginia Tech), C. Capelli (LBNL,Zurich U.), M. A. Dobbs (McGill), T. Elleflot (LBNL), B. K. Fujikawa (LBNL), Yu. G. Kolomensky (LBNL,UCB), D. Mayer (MIT), J. Montgomery (McGill), V. Novosad (ANL), A. M. Sindhwad (UCB), V. Singh (UCB), G. Smecher (t0.technology), A. Suzuki (LBNL), B. Welliver (UCB)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.23106 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.23106 https://arxiv.org/html/2601.23106
arXiv:2601.23106v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The next-generation of cryogenic neutrinoless double-beta decay experiments require increasingly fast readout in order to improve background discrimination. These experiments, operated as cryogenic calorimeters at $\sim$10 mK, are usually read out by high-impedance neutron transmutation doped (NTD) thermistors, which provide good energy resolution, but are limited by $\sim$1 ms response times. Superconducting detectors, such as transition-edge sensors (TESs) with a time resolution of $\sim$100 $\mu$s, offer superior timing performance over NTD semiconductor bolometers. To make this technology viable for an application to a thousand or more channels, multiplexed readout is necessary in order to minimize the thermal load and radioactive contamination induced by the readout. Frequency-domain multiplexing readout (fMux) for TESs, previously developed at Berkeley Lab and McGill University, is currently in use for mm-wave telescopes with detector sampling rates in the order of 100 Hz. We demonstrate a new readout system, based on the McGill/Berkeley digital fMux readout, to satisfy the higher bandwidth and noise requirements of the next generation of TES-instrumented cryogenic calorimeters. The new readout samples detectors at 156 kHz, three orders of magnitude faster than its cosmology-oriented predecessor. Each multiplexing readout module comprises ten superconducting resonators in the MHz range and a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID), interfaced to high-bandwidth field programmable gate array (FPGA)-based electronics for digital signal processing and low-latency feedback.
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@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz2026-02-26 09:29:12
An excellent explanation on why the hype about LNG and the claim from conservatives that 'renewables raise electricity prices"... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk0Zm_xpk3c Interesting to hear about this from the US side. And yeah, who's to blame? Yup. Private power corporations, powe…
@denmanrooke@mastodon.ie2026-02-27 20:30:48
Galway City Tribune article announcing my run for the Galway West bye-election.
As most working people know, the current way society is structured is driving us to working long hours often for little pay. It's time that working hard meant having a good life with a secure home.
The successive governments of Fine Gael & Fianna Fšil have put the interests & profits of landlords and investment funds over the needs and housing security of ordinary people.
I've …
@compfu@mograph.social2026-01-31 15:43:51
Right below this post there‘s another one in my timeline about how Germany‘s electricity will get more expensive because we intend to build LNG power plants. The minister responsible for it used to work for the industry that will reap the profits. It’s all so sad how Germany‘s racism makes us vote against our interests again and again. This year two states will probably go full hard right in their elections.
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2025-12-28 12:45:58
Interestingly a simple kWh/HDD regression for our full electricity imports fits reasonably well R^2>0.75) and gives a total year prediction close to that of our electricity supplier #Ecotricity partly because almost all imports are in winter for space heat...
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-25 17:44:07
Liz Shuler, president of the AFL-CIO, said Unions are gearing up to challenge the US president’s “Billionaire First” agenda in 2026
– and drive candidates in key elections to stand up for “struggling” Americans.
In an interview with the Guardian, she described how the federation has pushed to restore collective bargaining rights for federal workers,
-- and filed lawsuits against the Trump administration’s efforts to weaken unions and worker protections.
“People were …