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Russia’s Economic Growth Slows for Third Straight Quarter – Ministry Data
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/10/30/russias-economic-growth-slows-for-third-straight-quarter-ministry-data-a90994

Russia’s Economic Growth Slows for Third Straight Quarter – Ministry Data
Russia’s economy has continued to lose momentum for the third consecutive quarter, according to new data from the Economic Development Ministry.

🔫 Earth needs more energy: Atlanta's Super Soaker creator may have a solution
#energy

Earth needs more energy: Atlanta's Super Soaker creator may have a solution
The old warehouse strip, reborn as the Lee + White development, is a popular destination for anyone seeking a bite or a beverage on the Atlanta Beltline's Westside Trail. But steps from the breweries and eateries inhabiting much of the space, serious science is taking place.

The US forms a $1B partnership with AMD to construct two supercomputers, Lux and Discovery, accelerating research in fusion energy, drug development, and more (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-d…

Wilders and his far-right PVV are losing in the Dutch polls. He's now polling at 23 seats (around 15%), down from 37 in the 2023 elections and 49 at his peak in the polls, early 2024.
Good development, but the real thing is tomorrow, when we finally get to vote!

Very happy to see Trump’s illegal block on wind farm development thrown out by a judge, along with the Orwellian justification given for it—a classic inversion of the truth. Every accusation is a confession, etc. (“The government argued that the states’ claims amount to nothing more than a policy disagreement over preferences for wind versus fossil fuel energy development that is outside the federal court’s jurisdiction.”)

Federal judge throws out Trump order blocking development of wind energy
A federal judge has struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order blocking wind energy projects, saying the effort to halt virtually all leasing of wind farms on federal lands and waters was “arbitrary and capricious” and violates U.S. law. Judge Patti Saris of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts vacated Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order. Saris ruled in favor of a coalition of state attorneys general from 17 states and Washington, D.C., led by New York's attor…

As expected, hurricane #Melissa has started its rapid intensification. Already a cat. 3 major hurricane now, with winds of 195 km/h. Forecasted to cause catastrophic damage on Jamaica and in Haiti in the coming few days.

Exasperation with the United States has been building in Vietnam.
Blow by blow, it has risen with the elimination of American aid for clean energy and H.I.V. prevention,
up-and-down tariffs,
indifference to requests for a leader-to-leader meeting,
a Trump family golf development near Hanoi that has enraged local residents,
and surprises like the new tax on U.S. imports of furniture
— one of Vietnam’s priority industries for growth.
It has been 50 ye…

Is the U.S. Losing in Vietnam? Russia, North Korea and China Are Gaining.
U.S. allies worry that American volatility and Russian outreach and arms sales, in particular, are driving Vietnam into a new phase.

One thing that's working in the Dutch energy transition (although further development of wind and solar is now slowing down). And we're not far from seeing this happen globally either.

"Spain awards 133 energy-storage projects totaling 2.4 GW and 10 GWh"
#Spain #Energy #Renewables

Spain awards 133 energy-storage projects totaling 2.4 GW and 10 GWh
Spain’s Institute for the Diversification and Saving of Energy confirmed €827 million ($961.4 million) in European Regional Development Fund co-financing for 133 energy-storage projects with a combined capacity of about 2.4 GW and 10 GWh.

Commonwealth Fusion Systems partners with Google DeepMind to use Google's open-source plasma simulator, TORAX, for accelerating fusion energy development (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/16/google-deepmind-clean-energy-fusion

Exclusive: Google DeepMind partners with fusion startup
Commonwealth Fusion Systems aims to speed up the development of clean energy.

It's good to see that GMCA has adopted a retrofit framework agreement that includes calculating embodied carbon.
As we showed in relation to GMCA's own Joint Development Plan, Places for Everyone, it's embodied carbon that's the big problem in building new homes etc. So at least try to make #retrofit and enetgy saving low carbon.
Taking a calculated risk: eliminating the …

A federal judge on Monday
struck down Donald Trump’s executive order blocking wind energy projects,
saying the effort to halt virtually all leasing of wind farms on federal lands and waters was
“arbitrary and capricious” and violates U.S. law.
Judge Patti Saris of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
vacated Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order blocking wind energy projects and declared it unlawful.
Saris ruled in favor of a coalition of…

Federal judge throws out Trump order blocking development of wind energy
A federal judge has struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order blocking wind energy projects, saying the effort to halt virtually all leasing of wind farms on federal lands and waters was “arbitrary and capricious” and violates U.S. law. Judge Patti Saris of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts vacated Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order. Saris ruled in favor of a coalition of state attorneys general from 17 states and Washington, D.C., led by New York's attor…

From Bill McKibben
The tsunami of tech spilling from China’s factories has changed the country’s energy landscape—and its physical one, too. For decades China’s development was synonymous with coal, which produced choking air pollution and massive carbon emissions, still greater than those of all other developed nations combined. Now, solar panels carpet deserts and the high, sunstruck plateau of Tibet, and wind turbines up to 300m tall guard coastlines and hilltops

The Crucial Years | Bill McKibben | Substack
Working on Winning the Climate Fight. Click to read The Crucial Years, by Bill McKibben, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.

On the energy efficiency of sparse matrix computations on multi-GPU clusters
Massimo Bernaschi, Alessandro Celestini, Pasqua D'Ambra, Giorgio Richelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02878

On the energy efficiency of sparse matrix computations on multi-GPU clusters
We investigate the energy efficiency of a library designed for parallel computations with sparse matrices. The library leverages high-performance, energy-efficient Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) accelerators to enable large-scale scientific applications. Our primary development objective was to maximize parallel performance and scalability in solving sparse linear systems whose dimensions far exceed the memory capacity of a single node. To this end, we devised methods that expose a high degree …

Arctic sea ice extent is still at a record low for this time of the year, around a million km² below the average in the 2010s.
From zacklabe.com, by @…

Development of a projectile charge state analyzer and 10 kV bipolar power supply for MeV energy ion - atom/molecule collision experiments
Sandeep Bajrangi Bari, Sahan Raghava Sykam, Ranojit Das, Rohit Tyagi, Aditya H. Kelkar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18707

🌿 Oxford’s TIDE Centre launches the Nature’s Intelligence Studio at #COP30 — turning 3.4 billion years of evolution into solutions for today’s climate and energy challenges. Innovation inspired by the Amazon, for the planet. 🌍✨

Oxford's TIDE Centre launches Nature’s Intelligence Studio at COP30 | University of Oxford
The University of Oxford’s TIDE Centre (Technology and Industrialisation for Development Centre) has launched the Nature’s Intelligence Studio, a new programme to translate principles observed in biological systems into technologies that support the energy transition and wider sustainability goals, while ensuring fair benefit-sharing with communities in biodiverse regions.

This is so damning. The top of the CBC story (JP Tasker reporting)
“Smith said she got Carney to back down on most of the Trudeau-era "nine bad laws," as she calls them, that restricted oil and gas development in Alberta.
Carney, meanwhile, says he got Alberta to buy into the Pathways carbon capture project to try and decarbonize the oil pumped out of the province.”
It would be like Putin saying he got Zelenskyy to back down on Donbas and Crimea, but Zelenskyy says Putin agreed to security guarantees from Russia and the USA.
Carney = Capitulator
Also... YOU CAN'T DECARBONIZE OIL.
ffs. what a stupid statement.
Maybe Putin will De-TNT his Ballistic Missiles.
#baitandswitch #climateEmergency #ABPoli #CanPoli #CdnPoli #RussiaUkraineWar
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/livestory/alberta-ottawa-memorandum-of-understanding-energy-deal-pipeline-bc-9.6993431

Federal judge throws out Trump order blocking development of wind energy (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-wind-power-offshore-attorney-general-a8c2f1201ac6b0607e8c4a1c36e651ba
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p138#a251208p138

"Korean bank backs Guam’s largest solar project"
#Korea #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

Korean bank backs Guam’s largest solar project
The Export-Import Bank of Korea is investing in a 132 MW solar plus 325 MWh battery energy storage project in Guam, under development by a consortium of Korean developers.

A new Trump administration program is sidestepping the regulatory system that's overseen the nuclear industry for half a century.
The program will fast-track construction of new and untested reactor designs built by private firms,
with an explicit goal of having at least three nuclear test reactors up and running by the United States' 250th birthday, July 4, 2026.
If that goal is met, it will be without the direct oversight of America's primary nuclear regulat…

Trump's rush to build nuclear reactors across the U.S. raises safety worries
A new program at the Department of Energy is pushing the development of nearly a dozen new reactor designs at breakneck speed.

🗜️ A Review of the Research and Development of Brayton Cycle Technology in Nuclear Power Applications with a Focus on Compressor Technology
#energy

Here are my favourites from the National Portrait Gallery's Portrait Award 2025. It's a fantastic selection this year, and free to see as always.
#art #portraits #painting

"Benin puts solar power at the heart of its energy policy"
#Benin #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables…

Benin puts solar power at the heart of its energy policy
The government of Benin is focusing on building solar power plants as part of a policy to make renewable energy the main source of the country’s energy supply by 2030. When it met in July, the Council of Ministers approved an updated National Renewable Energy Development Policy (PONADER) for 2020-2030. The policy renews the government’s […]

Moody Urbanity - UP 🆙
情绪化城市 - 上面 🆙
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Ambient-Stable Transfer-Free Graphdiyne Wafers with Superhigh Hole Mobility at Room Temperature
Beining Ma, Jianyuan Qi, Xinghai Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09998 https://…

Ambient-Stable Transfer-Free Graphdiyne Wafers with Superhigh Hole Mobility at Room Temperature
Graphdiyne (GDY) is recognized as a compelling candidate for the fabrication of next-generation high-speed low-energy electronic devices due to its inherent p-type semiconductor characteristics. However, the development of GDY for applications in field-effect transistors (FETs), complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS), and logic devices remains constrained by the relatively low carrier mobility reported in current experimental studies. Herein, the synthesis of layer-controlled hydrogen-s…

Multi-Scale Land Use Impacts on Fossil Fuel-Related CO$_2$ Emissions in the United States
Jason Hawkins, Mehrnoosh Zare
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08611 https://

Multi-Scale Land Use Impacts on Fossil Fuel-Related CO$_2$ Emissions in the United States
Anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions exhibit spatial variation owing to differences in development patterns, local climate, economic composition, energy sources, and other factors. Many of these factors - and therefore their contribution to GHG production - are influenceable through spatial planning and economic policy. Recent advances in environmental data reporting and climate flux measurement have produced high fidelity GHG emissions estimates at detailed spatial and temporal resolut…

Replaced article(s) found for hep-ex. https://arxiv.org/list/hep-ex/new
[1/1]:
- WISPFI Experiment: Prototype Development
Josep Maria Batllori, Michael Frosz, Dieter Horns, Marios Maroudas

Efficient Training of Spiking Neural Networks by Spike-aware Data Pruning
Chenxiang Ma, Xinyi Chen, Yujie Wu, Kay Chen Tan, Jibin Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04098 https://

Efficient Training of Spiking Neural Networks by Spike-aware Data Pruning
Spiking neural networks (SNNs), recognized as an energy-efficient alternative to traditional artificial neural networks (ANNs), have advanced rapidly through the scaling of models and datasets. However, such scaling incurs considerable training overhead, posing challenges for researchers with limited computational resources and hindering the sustained development of SNNs. Data pruning is a promising strategy for accelerating training by retaining the most informative examples and discarding red…

Design and Scientific Prospects of the POLAR-2 Mission
Merlin Kole, Nicolas de Angelis, Jiang He, Hongbang Liu, Jianchao Sun, Fei Xie, Jimmy Zaid
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02016

Design and Scientific Prospects of the POLAR-2 Mission
The POLAR-2 mission consists of 3 instruments designed with the combined aim of producing a deeper understanding of Gamma-Ray Bursts. To achieve this, POLAR-2 relies on polarisation measurements and, for the first time will provide these using 2 separate polarimeter detectors. The first of these is a payload optimised to perform Compton polarimetry measurements in the 40-1000 keV energy range using a combination of plastic scintillators and SiPMs. The development of this payload, the design of …

Investigating the need for a robust ultraviolet filter set aboard the Habitable Worlds Observatory
Kyle Cook, Benne Holwerda, Clayton Robertson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02054 …

Investigating the need for a robust ultraviolet filter set aboard the Habitable Worlds Observatory
High resolution, ultraviolet imaging is often unavailable across the sky, even in heavily studied fields such as the Chandra Deep Field - South. The Habitable Worlds Observatory is one of two upcoming missions with the possibility of significant UV capabilities, and the only one early enough in development to consider suggestions to its design. In this paper, we conduct an initial study of how current common UV filter sets affect the results of spectral energy distribution fitting for the estim…

Insights into the OER, ORR, and HER Activity of a New MXene-Family SnSiGeN4 Photocatalyst for Water Splitting: A First-Principles Study
Chhatra Bahadur Subba, Bhanu Chettri, Amel Laref, Zeesham Abbas, Amna Parveen, Dibya Prakash Rai, Zaithanzauva Pachuau
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09538

Insights into the OER, ORR, and HER Activity of a New MXene-Family SnSiGeN4 Photocatalyst for Water Splitting: A First-Principles Study
The development of efficient and cost-effective catalysts for clean energy conversion remains a central challenge in materials science. Although platinum serves as the benchmark catalyst, its scarcity and high cost hinder large-scale deployment. In this study, we propose a newly predicted SnSiGeN4 MXene-family monolayer as a promising candidate for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER), oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), and hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). Using first-principles calculations, we…

Pursuing decarbonization and competitiveness: a narrow corridor for European green industrial transformation
Alice Di Bella, Toni Seibold, Tom Brown, Massimo Tavoni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08199

Pursuing decarbonization and competitiveness: a narrow corridor for European green industrial transformation
This study analyzes how Europe can decarbonize its industrial sector while remaining competitive. Using the open-source model PyPSA-Eur, it examines key energy- and emission-intensive industries, including steel, cement, methanol, ammonia, and high-value chemicals. Two development paths are explored: a continued decline in industrial activity and a reindustrialization driven by competitiveness policies. The analysis assesses cost gaps between European green products and lower-cost imports, and …

"New England says goodbye to coal as Merrimack Station powers down"
#US #USA #America #FossilFuels
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New England Says Goodbye to Coal as Merrimack Station Powers Down - Inside Climate News
After decades of operation, Merrimack Station’s closure marks the region’s final exit from coal—and the start of a new chapter in renewable energy development.