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Packers' sideline heaters malfunction during first half in Chicago https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6907546/2025/12/20/packers-bench-heaters-malfunction-bears/

February 19, 2026 -- In the United Kingdom this morning, Thames Valley Police arrested ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-19-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260220/p44#a260220p44

Luxembourg-based Hydrosat, which builds AI-based thermal infrared satellite tech to provide data for water resource management and more, raised a $60M Series B (Ingrid Lunden/Resilience Media)
https://resiliencemedia.co/hydrosat-rais…

Hydrosat raises $60M for its thermal satellite imaging tech
A startup building AI-based thermal infrared satellite technology to provide data for water resource management, public safety and defence applications

A breakthrough in green hydrogen just happened in South Australia. Sparc Hydrogen achieved sustained hydrogen production using only sunlight and water—no electrolyzers, no electricity grid needed.
Their photocatalytic process uses concentrated solar energy to split water directly. With green hydrogen markets projected to hit $1.4 trillion annually by 2050, this could be the scalability breakthrough the industry needs.

Sparc hits production milestone at hydrogen pilot plant in Australia
Fortescue-backed startup Sparc Hydrogen has begun producing green hydrogen directly from water using concentrated solar at what it describes as a “first-of-its-kind” pilot plant in South Australia.

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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

On February 3, 2023, a Norfolk Southern train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed in the small town of East Palestine, Ohio.
Three days later, Norfolk Southern pressured local authorities to dump and burn five tanker cars full of chemicals,
blasting a mushroom cloud of toxic phosgene and hydrogen chloride into the air.
Nearly three years later, residents like Jami Wallace and her family are still suffering the toxic fallout

Residents in this small town ‘left for dead’ after industrial disaster
“It's not fair. We're people, our lives matter. My daughter's life matters. And that's what everybody is telling me: ‘You guys are just the cost of doing business. We can kill a whole community and who cares?’”

Cutting-Edge Facility Generates Pure Water and Hydrogen Fuel from Seawater for Mere Pennies https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/cutting-edge-facility-generates-pure-water-and-hydrogen-fuel-from-seawater-for-mere-pennies/

Cutting-Edge Facility Generates Pure Water and Hydrogen Fuel from Seawater for Mere Pennies
This new installation beats out previous flagship desalination plants in Saudi Arabia and California in terms of cost-effectiveness.

December 19, 2025 -- This past week feels like the final, chaotic days of a political era. (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-19-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251220/p17#a251220p17

OpenAI rolls out an update to let users adjust ChatGPT's characteristics, including how warm or enthusiastic it is, and its use of headers, lists, and emojis (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/848435/openai-chatgpt-characteris…

ChatGPT will now let you pick how nice it is
OpenAI is making it easier to edit emails with ChatGPT, too.