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On Smart Heating For Small Buildings in the UK (2012) - What would be 'smart' heating circa 2012 for our homes, schools, community centres and shops? - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-smart-heating.html

On Smart Heating For Small Buildings in the UK (2012)
What would be smart heating circa 2012 for our homes, schools, community centres and shops?

As climate change causes stronger storms and melts the permafrost, the Trump regime took away the funding to protect this low-income Alaska Native community against the effects.
https://www.

E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant to Alaska, Parts of Which Just Flooded
The remote village of Kipnuk planned to use the money to protect against flooding. On Sunday, it was inundated.

"Thailand develops solar plan for community power supply"
#Thailand #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

Thailand develops solar plan for community power supply
Thailand’s Ministry of Energy says it is advancing a community solar plan to add up to 1.5 GW of capacity through small ground-mounted projects selling power to local consumers at THB 2.25 ($0.07)/kWh under long-term contracts.

Energy-Aware 6G Network Design: A Survey
Rashmi Kamran, Mahesh Ganesh Bhat, Pranav Jha, Shana Moothedath, Manjesh Hanawal, Prasanna Chaporkar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11289 ht…

Energy-Aware 6G Network Design: A Survey
6th Generation (6G) mobile networks are envisioned to support several new capabilities and data-centric applications for unprecedented number of users, potentially raising significant energy efficiency and sustainability concerns. This brings focus on sustainability as one of the key objectives in the their design. To move towards sustainable solution, research and standardization community is focusing on several key issues like energy information monitoring and exposure, use of renewable energ…

"Für jede Trafostation eine LEG" [‘A local energy community for every transformer station’]
It is fascinating how local energy communities are encouraged in Switzerland (so not governed by EU law, that also creates that role), and how the (local) utilities are also actively involved in this.
https://www.

"Für jede Trafostation eine LEG"
Winterthur - Stadtwerk Winterthur will mit lokalen Elektrizitätsgemeinschaften vor allem zur Erreichung der städtischen Klima- und Energieziele beitragen. Produktmanager Roland Hongler erklärt, wie das Modell gestaltet ist: Für die Teilnehmenden sollte es attraktiv sein und für das Stadtwerk zugleich wirtschaftlich tragfähig bleiben.

This sounds like a really cool sci-fi idea: a language model that is special-purpose, cheap and energy efficient and not connected to the internet so it can be built into household appliances. It might be the positive "residue" of an AI bubble crash.
But will those household appliance companies do it? They'd have to let go of their internet connected fridges and data collection. Maybe it'll be the FOSS and 3d-printing community who does it.

And when I'm talking about understanding the drives to violence, I did write about something similar recently.
https://write.as/hexmhell/algorithmic-violence
The drives behind this and the shooting last week are pretty radically different, but there's some overlap. People like Kirk are part a huge political machine slowly crushing people all over the world. There's a hopeless rage that would naturally drive even the most calm person to the edge of violence. You can't look at the world honestly and be OK. We want to do something. We want to react. But everything we do is silenced or must rmain silent. So it's easy to understand why someone might choose violence. Very different situation, but everyone is subject to the same national and international influences.
I don't promote violence, not because I disagree with it but because I think it's expensive. It takes time to plan, especially for those trying to get away. Guns are not cheap, nor are bullets, nor is the range time you need to get somewhat good under pressure. It's not cheap for the person doing it, and it's not cheap for the community that has to clean up. The community will face police repression (which, if we're honest, was gonna come anyway). The community will have to post bail, will lose a person for a while, will need to support the family, will go to hearings, will write reports, will do interviews.
Sun Tzu said that deploying one soldier to the front takes 7 in the field. Logistics are a huge invisible cost. Some of that time and energy could be reused. It's never bad to be armed and able to defend if needed. But a lot of that energy and time would be better spent planning a community pantry, a tool library, organizing a union, etc. We are living in a disaster, and we need to invest in thriving through the next crumble.
Kirk is replacable. They're almost all replacable, because they don't really care about human life. We do, so none of us are. It's not really a worth while trade, IMHO.

Kingston Community Energy (2012) - Creating non-for-profit community (solar PV) energy schemes was undermined by whiplash changes in government support. #community #microgen -

Kingston Community Energy (2012)
Creating non-for-profit community (solar PV) energy schemes was undermined by whiplash changes in government support. #community #microgen

> As currently constructed, AI is an oligarchy-enriching, worker-immiserating, energy-depleting, brain-rotting economic bubble in waiting. Democrats can get on the public’s side here.
I haven't even read the article but (considering how strongly I agree with the premises here) I'm mostly just sad about how clearly this highlights the financial capture of the DNC
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Democrats Must Oppose the AI Industry - The American Prospect

Democrats Must Oppose the AI Industry
As currently constructed, AI is an oligarchy-enriching, worker-immiserating, energy-depleting, brain-rotting economic bubble in waiting. Democrats can get on the public’s side here.

Education and Outreach Across Seventeen Countries of the Pierre Auger Collaboration
Fabio Convenga (for the Pierre Auger Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11850 https://…

Education and Outreach Across Seventeen Countries of the Pierre Auger Collaboration
The Pierre Auger Observatory, dedicated to measuring ultra-high energy cosmic rays, has been promoting for more than two decades educational and scientific outreach activities to make its results known in an understandable language to diverse audiences. Among its most notable efforts, we can mention the creation of a visitor center at the Observatory site in Malargüe, Argentina, the production of brochures, posters, videos, talks, and special actions with the community in the site of the Obser…

Data center buildout is so large that Siemens have troubles with scaling up a production of turbines that are required for all of those gas power plants that has to be built to power them
https://www.404media.co/a-black-hole-of-en

'A Black Hole of Energy Use': Meta's Massive AI Data Center Is Stressing Out a Louisiana Community
Details about how Meta's nearly Manhattan-sized data center will impact consumers' power bills are still secret.

Conceptual Design Report of Super Tau-Charm Facility: The Accelerator
Jiancong Bao, Anton Bogomyagkov, Zexin Cao, Mingxuan Chang, Fangzhou Chen, Guanghua Chen, Qi Chen, Qushan Chen, Zhi Chen, Kuanjun Fan, Hailiang Gong, Duan Gu, Hao Guo, Tengjun Guo, Chongchao He, Tianlong He, Kaiwen Hou, Hao Hu, Tongning Hu, Xiaocheng Hu, Dazhang Huang, Pengwei Huang, Ruixuan Huang, Zhicheng Huang, Hangzhou Li, Renkai Li, Sangya Li, Weiwei Li, Xuan Li, Xunfeng Li, Yu Liang, Chao Liu, Tao Liu, Xiaoyu L…

Conceptual Design Report of Super Tau-Charm Facility: The Accelerator
Electron-positron colliders operating in the GeV region of center-of-mass energies or the Tau-Charm energy region, have been proven to enable competitive frontier research, due to its several unique features. With the progress of high energy physics in the last two decades, a new-generation Tau-Charm factory, Super Tau Charm Facility (STCF) has been actively promoting by the particle physics community in China. STCF holds great potential to address fundamental questions such as the essence of c…

Optimal Sizing of Community Photovoltaic and Battery Energy Storage Systems with Second-Life Batteries in Peer-to-Peer Energy Communities
J\'ulia Monar, Fernando Garc\'ia-Mu\~noz, Natalia Jorquera Bravo, Joaqu\'in Aballay Araya, Vicente Castro Burgos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18082

Optimal Sizing of Community Photovoltaic and Battery Energy Storage Systems with Second-Life Batteries in Peer-to-Peer Energy Communities
This article presents a mixed-integer second-order cone programming model to determine the optimal sizing of a community-shared photovoltaic and battery energy storage system (PV-BESS) within a peer-to-peer (P2P) energy trading framework. The model accounts for heterogeneous users who may already own individual PV or PV-BESS systems and aims to enhance the overall energy autonomy of the energy community. A key feature of the model is the explicit comparison between first-life (FL) and second-li…

Small is Sufficient: Reducing the World AI Energy Consumption Through Model Selection
Tiago da Silva Barros, Fr\'ed\'eric Giroire, Ramon Aparicio-Pardo, Joanna Moulierac
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01889

Small is Sufficient: Reducing the World AI Energy Consumption Through Model Selection
The energy consumption and carbon footprint of Artificial Intelligence (AI) have become critical concerns due to rising costs and environmental impacts. In response, a new trend in green AI is emerging, shifting from the "bigger is better" paradigm, which prioritizes large models, to "small is sufficient", emphasizing energy sobriety through smaller, more efficient models. We explore how the AI community can adopt energy sobriety today by focusing on model selection during inference. Model se…

A Novel IaaS Tax Model as Leverage Towards Green Cloud Computing
Benedikt Pittl, Werner Mach, Erich Schikuta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02767 https://arxiv…

A Novel IaaS Tax Model as Leverage Towards Green Cloud Computing
The cloud computing technology uses datacenters, which require energy. Recent trends show that the required energy for these datacenters will rise over time, or at least remain constant. Hence, the scientific community developed different algorithms, architectures, and approaches for improving the energy efficiency of cloud datacenters, which are summarized under the umbrella term Green Cloud computing. In this paper, we use an economic approach - taxes - for reducing the energy consumption of …

Job yield from industrial renewable capture systems is low. There's a need for a coherent policy approach using community and public ownership to build the ecological replacement economy.
Wind energy jobs ‘one in a million’ warns STUC | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk…

Debunking myths about Scotland's wind energy production and high energy bills - understanding the importance of modernizing grid infrastructure for long-term affordability and reliability. #climatechange #climatesolutions

Community calls out misguided theory about electricity supply: 'You simply aren't understanding'
Scotland once again finds itself at the heart of a spirited online debate over its wind energy.

What you truly need to vibe and thrive is simple, some good food to nourish your body, clean water to keep your spirit flowing, a little movement to keep the energy dancing, and a cozy spot to rest your head. When you’re living in community, sharing the love and looking out for each other, all that falls beautifully into place.
What you don’t need is a giant screen flashing noise at you, the newest shiny gadgets or games, or getting caught up in the endless swirl of political drama. Re…

This week, GÉANT hosted the first WFO Users Developer Days in Amsterdam—bringing together current and future adopters from across the global NREN community and beyond: @…, Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), HEAnet, GARR, CESNET, CANARIE, NCSC-NL, and Nomios.
The event showed how WFO is maturing into a global, open-source, community-driven programme.
👏 Thanks to…

Integration of Silica in G4CMP for Phonon Simulations: Framework and Tools for Material Integration
Caitlyn Stone-Whitehead, Israel Hernandez, Connor Bray, Allison Davenport, Spencer Fretwell, Abigail Gillespie, Joren Husic, Mingyu Li, Andrew Marino, Kyle Leach, Bismah Rizwan, Wouter Van De Pontseele, Grace Wagner
https://arxiv.org/abs/251…

Integration of Silica in G4CMP for Phonon Simulations: Framework and Tools for Material Integration
Superconducting detectors with sub-eV energy resolution have demonstrated success setting limits on Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) physics due to their unique sensitivity to low-energy events. G4CMP, a Geant4-based extension for condensed matter physics, provides a comprehensive toolkit for modeling phonon and charge dynamics in cryogenic materials. This paper introduces a technical formalism to support the superconducting qubit and low-threshold detector community in implementing phonon simul…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@burger_jaap/115507554790052374
“the idea of “sharing” energy or providing “free” electricity when it is abundant signals that the transition is a whole-of-community endeavour, not just a collection of individual decision-ma…

Guidance and Control Neural Network Acceleration using Memristors
Zacharia A. Rudge, Dario Izzo, Moritz Fieback, Anteneh Gebregiorgis, Said Hamdioui, Dominik Dold
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02369

Guidance and Control Neural Network Acceleration using Memristors
In recent years, the space community has been exploring the possibilities of Artificial Intelligence (AI), specifically Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), for a variety of on board applications. However, this development is limited by the restricted energy budget of smallsats and cubesats as well as radiation concerns plaguing modern chips. This necessitates research into neural network accelerators capable of meeting these requirements whilst satisfying the compute and performance needs of the…

"UK offshore wind developers set to pay more for staff training and community development"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #WindTurbines

Causal perturbation theory and scattering amplitudes
H. A. C. Grande, J. C. A Barata
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20573 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.20573

Causal perturbation theory and scattering amplitudes
Motivated by the limited interaction between the mathematical physics community and theoretical physicists - particularly in high-energy theory - we present a computation that is typically the first example in QFT courses but, to our knowledge, does not appear in the literature: the scattering amplitudes of the $λϕ^4$ model in four-dimensional space-time, derived within the framework of causal perturbation theory. Our aim is to introduce this mathematically rigorous formalism in the most acce…

Ampion revolutionizes solar power accessibility with new cross-state service, promising savings and clean energy for all. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Company reveals incredible service to deliver new-age energy sources across state lines: 'Accessible everywhere, for everyone'
Ampion has announced an impressive advancement in its community's solar power service.

Exploring the Most Extreme Blazars: New Insights from MAGIC
L. Foffano (for the MAGIC Collaboration), C. Arcaro (for the MAGIC Collaboration), A. Arbet-Engels (for the MAGIC Collaboration), F. D'Ammando (for the MAGIC Collaboration), P. Da Vela (for the MAGIC Collaboration), J. Jormanainen (for the MAGIC Collaboration), D. Linder (for the MAGIC Collaboration), S. Menon (for the MAGIC Collaboration), E. Prandini (for the MAGIC Collaboration), S. Ventura (for the MAGIC Collaboration)…

Exploring the Most Extreme Blazars: New Insights from MAGIC
Extremely high-peaked BL Lac objects (or extreme blazars) are unique extragalactic laboratories where particle acceleration processes are pushed at their physical limits. In these blazars, synchrotron emission peaking above keV energies is reprocessed to very-high-energy (VHE, energies > 100 GeV) gamma rays, often resulting in very hard TeV spectra. Over the past two decades, they have attracted a growing interest from the scientific community, both experimentally and theoretically, as crucial …

Why Compressed Metal Hydrides are Near-room-temperature Superconductors
Warren E. Pickett
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18429 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.18429…

Why Compressed Metal Hydrides are Near-room-temperature Superconductors
This contribution provides a partial response to the titular statement since, it will be claimed,the ``why'' is not yet understood, but there is a pathway for achieving a more complete understanding. The sense of the community has been that, given a prospective metal hydride and pressure, the energy landscape can be surveyed computationally for thermodynamic and dynamic stability, the Eliashberg spectral function with its required input (energy bands, phonon modes, coupling matrix elements) can…

Are neural scaling laws leading quantum chemistry astray?
Siwoo Lee, Adji Bousso Dieng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26397 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.26397

Are neural scaling laws leading quantum chemistry astray?
Neural scaling laws are driving the machine learning community toward training ever-larger foundation models across domains, assuring high accuracy and transferable representations for extrapolative tasks. We test this promise in quantum chemistry by scaling model capacity and training data from quantum chemical calculations. As a generalization task, we evaluate the resulting models' predictions of the bond dissociation energy of neutral H$_2$, the simplest possible molecule. We find that, reg…

Piecing together formic acid isomerism in dark clouds. Detection of cis-formic acid in TMC-1 and astrochemical modeling
G. Molpeceres, M. Ag\'undez, M. Mallo, C. Cabezas, M. Sanz-Novo, V. M. Rivilla, J. Garc\'ia de la Concepci\'on, I. Jim\'enez-Serra, J. Cernicharo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18315

"In Malawi, a rural community shines bright with 100% solar power milestone"
#Malawi #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

In Malawi, a rural community shines bright with 100% solar power milestone
LILONGWE — Four years ago, a U.K.-based charity, SolarAid, set out to provide solar-powered electricity to every home in Kasakula, a village around 90 kilometers, or 56 miles, from Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe. The project was aimed at demonstrating the potential for distributing and maintaining renewable energy in rural Africa. Today, SolarAid says it has installed […]

Building an Open CGRA Ecosystem for Agile Innovation
Rohan Juneja, Pranav Dangi, Thilini Kaushalya Bandara, Zhaoying Li, Dhananjaya Wijerathne, Li-Shiuan Peh, Tulika Mitra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19090

Building an Open CGRA Ecosystem for Agile Innovation
Modern computing workloads, particularly in AI and edge applications, demand hardware-software co-design to meet aggressive performance and energy targets. Such co-design benefits from open and agile platforms that replace closed, vertically integrated development with modular, community-driven ecosystems. Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Architectures (CGRAs), with their unique balance of flexibility and efficiency are particularly well-suited for this paradigm. When built on open-source hardware…