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RE: https://mastodon.social/@Datagraver/115838941958659188
Watch Tesla's rise and fall (dark green bar) in Dutch new car sales. BYD just popping up here (last picture, at the bottom).

The Year in Physics
Physicists spotted a “terribly exciting” new black hole,
doubled down on weakening dark energy,
and debated the meaning of quantum mechanics
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-year-in-physics-20251217/

The Year in Physics | Quanta Magazine
Physicists spotted a “terribly exciting” new black hole, doubled down on weakening dark energy, and debated the meaning of quantum mechanics.

Dark Energy Survey Year 6 Results - Cosmological Constraints from Galaxy Clustering and Weak Lensing: #DarkEnergy come together in a single experiment for the first time. Also Dark Energy Survey - DESI-Independent Angular BAO Measurement: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14864. And CosmoSlider - An educational tool for cosmology: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.16919

Benny Johnson says there was "dark spiritual energy" during 2020 election: "My wife swears that she saw a demon" (Media Matters for America)
https://www.mediamatters.org/benny-johnson/benny-johnson-says-there-was-dark-spiritual-energy-during-2020-election-my-wife
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p69#a260129p69

On Website Technicals (2021-02) - Tech updates: image preview tweak for dark mode, DNS secondary fun. - https://m.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-45.html

On Website Technicals (2021-02)
Tech updates: image preview tweak for dark mode, DNS secondary fun.

“As we consider these three risks, we don’t have to speculate about how AI data centers might affect Massachusetts. Consider Ireland, a country with a similar population size, where AI has driven a data center boom. Warehouses full of servers are on pace to use one-third of Ireland’s electricity, drawing from fossil-fuel power plants and wind farms alike. That keeps old, dirty plants on the grid, sucks up renewable energy that otherwise would help replace fossil fuels, and drives up costs fo…

Merry Christmas to all of you!
Little lights shining in the dark.

A dark Christmas looms in Odesa Oblast as Russia hammers energy facilities, bridges, ports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/22/a-dark-christmas-looms-in.html

This system captures solar energy and, rather than converting it into electricity, uses it to produce hydrogen fuel on demand—even in darkness.
The new system provided twofold benefits: it made solar energy available even when the sun isn't shining, and it eliminated the need to transport hydrogen in dangerous, high-pressure tanks.
https://techxplore.com/news/2026-01-demand-hydrogen-fuel-production-dark.html

Grid managers have instructed the country’s largest electricity providers to postpone routine maintenance on power plants and lines
to ensure that those resources are available during and after the storm.
Heavy snow and freezing rain weigh down tree branches and power lines, causing failures that can cripple energy systems.
Frigid cold also drives up electricity demand as heating appliances require more energy and run longer

Storm Poses Big Threats to Power Grids Across U.S.
Managers of electric grids say freezing temperatures and ice and snow could lead to power outages in many places, potentially leaving millions in the dark.

This is not good. The energy that is required to heat the volume of one of the world's largest lakes by an extra 3°C is enormous. Excellent comments by colleagues Jay Austin and Maggie Xenopoulos on the anomalous heating of Lake Superior. Coinciding with the anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, this will likely also extend the shipping season, adding late season risks.

From ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#AnnafromUkraine⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
ENERGY COLLAPSE INSIDE #RUSSIA: BELGOROD ORYOL IN THE DARK Vlog 1284: War in #Ukraine
500,000 Russians without power in $Belgorod a…

The DECADE #CosmicShear project - a new weak lensing shape catalog of 107 million galaxies: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.17674 -> UChicago astrophysicists test a new piece of the sky to probe dark matter and dark energy: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1108575