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@ncoca@social.coop
2026-09-19 22:04:30

Woody biomass is being framed as a #green alternative to coal, but the hidden costs include repeated fires, explosions, and deforestation in #SoutheastAsia.
My new deep dive for @…

Concerns grow over ‘green’ biomass power in Japan after spate of accidents
For the past decade, Japan has been expanding the use of woody biomass for power generation to replace or be mixed and burned with coal. The country is now the second-largest wood pellet consumer in the world after the U.K. But there are concerns that burning wood pellets or palm kernel shells to generate electricity […]

@ncoca@social.coop
2026-09-16 12:00:00

Are we trading one #environmental catastrophe for another under the disguise of #EnergySecurity? The reality on the ground at #Japan’s biomass plants include dangerous

Concerns grow over ‘green’ biomass power in Japan after spate of accidents
For the past decade, Japan has been expanding the use of woody biomass for power generation to replace or be mixed and burned with coal. The country is now the second-largest wood pellet consumer in the world after the U.K. But there are concerns that burning wood pellets or palm kernel shells to generate electricity […]

@saraislet@infosec.exchange
2026-10-10 00:56:47

I got ahead of some scaling and quota issues, but I ran into some accidents
I didn't realize that calling RunInstances with DryRun=True would also use up the RunInstances burst capacity. I was using dry runs as a readiness check for fresh glider instances. So I burned my burst capacity quota on dry runs. Whoops. 🙃
I switched to a functional readiness design: if an instance is capable of provisioning children, then it is healthy and ready