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Interesting study commissioned by European Commission's DG ENER on smart and bidirectional charging of EVs.
Smart charging is already mature tech and ready for use. It is important to use time-varying energy and network prices, and for TSOs and DSOs to remove barriers to small-scale flexibility.

Study on the assessment of use cases and business models for smart and bidirectional recharging in the context of energy system integration - Publications Office of the EU
demand patterns across the European Union. As electrification progresses across private, commercial, and fleet segments, charging behaviour has become a material factor for peak demand, grid utilization, and system balancing. Within this context, smart charging (SC) and bidirectional charging (BDC) have growing relevance as demand-side flexibility and energy-system integration instruments. This study first assesses the system relevance, maturity, and deployment conditions of SC and BDC across t…

JWST Reveals How #BlackHoles are Fed - Kiloparsec-scale Multiphase Filaments Feed Subkiloparsec Circumnuclear Disks: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae81ae -> UK researcher helps solve longstanding black hole mystery / How do supermassive black holes 'feed' themselves? https://research.uky.edu/news/uk-researcher-helps-solve-longstanding-black-hole-mystery / https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2026/07/09/how-do-supermassive-black-holes-feed-themselves

"Only a minority of UK wants EV transition to slow down, poll finds"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #EV #ElectricVehicles

Retired Eagles star says new Cowboys defensive coordinator hurt his feelings by crossing NFC East lines https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/darius-slay-reacts-christian-parker-cow…

¿Ya probaron los gelatos de Corazón Contento?
#CostaRica

"This also implies that we've been wildly undermining the true scale of the crushing impact colonization had on Indigenous populations."
We Were Wildly Off About Pre-European Indigenous Populations in Australia
https://gizmodo.com/we-were-wildly-off-about-pre-european-indigenous-populations-in-australia-2000812532

Wer wirklich krank ist, muss natürlich nicht zum Arzt. Nur die ganzen Blaumacher*innen! Die müssen hin. Ob Du in die eine Kategorie oder in die andere fällst, kannst Du ganz einfach persönlich in Deiner Arztpraxis erfragen. Im Zweifel wird Dir dann rückwirkend gestattet, nicht zum Arzt gegangen haben zu müssen.
Klar soweit?
#Krankschreibung

SPD-Spitzen rudern zurück: Klingbeil zur Attestpflicht: "Niemand soll ab dem ersten Tag zum Arzt müssen"
Die Koalition will die Regeln bei Krankschreibungen verschärfen. So soll bereits ab dem ersten Tag eine Bescheinigung des Arztes erforderlich sein. Die SPD meldet bereits Klärungsbedarf an. Natürlich müsse man das Vorhaben vernünftig gestalten, sagen die Parteichefs.

Shell Recharge UK is introducing cheaper charging rates for electric cars around midday during the summer months and at night all year round.
Available only via their app – not for roaming users or adhoc users – unfortunately!
https://www.shell.co.uk/electric-vehicle-c

@… is getting ready to party at Donaukanal #Wien. Cool boat!

The environmental dependence of the circumgalactic medium in a high-resolution cosmological simulation
Georg Herzog, Rajeshwari Dutta, Michele Fumagalli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.08654 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2609.08654 https://arxiv.org/html/2609.08654
arXiv:2609.08654v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: There is increasing evidence from observations that the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of galaxies depends on the large-scale structure in which they are embedded. When probing the CGM in absorption using quasar sightlines, studies find an enhanced sky coverage in the CGM of galaxies in overdensities compared to galaxies in isolation. However, the exact reason for this environmental dependence is still unclear. In this work we aim to model for the first time the influence of the large-scale structure on the cool and warm ($T\sim10^{4-5}$ K) gas phases of the CGM. We use a high-resolution ($m_{gas}\approx 4.5\times 10^4$ M$_{\odot}$, $m_{dm}\approx 2.4\times 10^5$ M$_{\odot}$) cosmological simulation based on the EAGLE model of galaxy formation. We select all galaxies at $z=0$ with stellar mass $M_*>10^8$ M$_\odot$ and split them into galaxies in overdensities (group galaxies) and galaxies in isolation using a Friends-of-Friends algorithm. For these two samples, we investigate how the large-scale structure influences the physical properties of the CGM and the measured covering fractions of the cool and warm gas phases. When the two samples of group and isolated galaxies are matched in stellar mass, halo mass, and we use only central galaxies, we do not find any significant difference in the physical properties of the CGM and the measured covering fractions. However, when satellite galaxies are included, we recover the observational trends in the difference of covering fractions with the environment. The difficulty of recovering the observational trends shows the complexity of capturing the multiphase CGM in simulations. However, since our results concerning the admixture of satellites are independent of the employed subgrid physics, this work shows that central galaxies and satellites need to be disentangled in observational studies to clearly discern the role of the environment on the CGM.
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