@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2026-07-22 19:51:03
On Local Bytes Power Monitoring Smart Plug: Review - Learn how I set up and used this device preflashed with Tasmota! #powerMeter #cutCarbon #frugal -
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2026-07-22 19:51:03
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social2026-06-22 07:56:21
On the face of it, a technical detail – but aren’t details like that what make Europe a superpower? A single market for V2G, for example, absolutely requires these harmonised network codes - technical specifications for electricity - as a prerequisite.
https://www.e…
@zachleat@zachleat.com2026-08-19 21:16:29
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social2026-08-18 14:51:20
“If all projects that have signed connection agreements were implemented in full over the coming years, they would increase Finland’s electricity consumption by nearly 40 per cent compared with the 2025 level.”
https://www.fingrid.fi/en…
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange2026-08-19 02:51:52
Has there ever been a scifi movie or series set in a universe where project PACER became the dominant means of power production? Regardless of whether it was central to the plot or just mentioned in passing
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-08-01 17:25:51
A look at the deluge of AI computing power set to come online in the coming years; Epoch AI expects the number of AI chips in use to double every nine months (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactiv…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-08-12 16:43:24
Tech Goliaths are scrambling to build as much AI computing capacity as they possibly can, come hell or low water.
One of the dominant players in the space, Amazon Web Services, has its heart set on an AI data center so enormous that it could easily become 💥the largest source of carbon dioxide emissions in the United States.
According to the New York Times, Amazon has confirmed its investment in a massive gas-burning power plant in Texas, meant to supply up to 7.65 gigawatts of ene…
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2026-07-01 12:52:49
The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) is no stranger to solar power records, and it’s just set another one. Via its own III-V germanium solar PV module, the institute reached 34.4 percent solar module efficiency.
https://cleantechnica.com/2026/06/12/m
@pre@boing.world2026-07-17 11:43:07
Content warning: UKPol Burnham Made Labour Leader
Burnham has been made leader of the Labour party then. No other candidates got the required number of nominations so it's a coronation.
He has a few things to say.
He's proud. The party is united, he says, and now they'll put that power of unity to give people hope back. And he is ready to build on Kier's foundation. Thanks Kier, for all the NHS work and renters rights and rebuilding the nation's reputation (??).
He does like to name-check all the various towns and unions of the country. Just listing them. They made Labour, apparently.
We must recognize that this generation of politicians, including Burnham himself, have failed. Four decades of neoliberalism have not been kind to all those places he listed.
He pledges to be better, and will do five things.
1) Work relentlessly to build a culture of one Labour team. No infighting. Wants to eradicate the split. End factional politics.
I guess end Starmer's war on the left then? 🤨
2) Work to build a new politics. This is the last chance for change, and we must take it together. Tell people what Labour will do, not just pick fights with other parties. Seek consensus with those other parties instead, to improve the political discourse.
3) Change political direction: know exactly where he stands and set a direction that is distinctively Labour. No out-greening greens or out-reforming reform or wearing tory clothes. Boldly confidently authentically Labour.
Housing, water, energy, transport, all broken due to privatization and concentration of wealth and power.
Four decades of political power draining from regions to corporations and central government ends now.
Take back the slogan "take back control" from the right, who gave away power to corps and quangos.
Life should be more affordable.
4) Be a leader for the north, south, east and west, for Scotland and Northern Ireland (aw, shame for the midlanders 🤣 ).
Gonna do to everywhere what he done for Manchester he reckons.
Kids shouldn't have to leave their home towns to prosper.
5) Take power back from westminster and give it to the place where you live.
More power for regions, to run trains for passengers not shareholders. Improve high-streets, and back shops and pubs, and education, and reindustrialization.
He's gonna be pro-business.
Add all that together and he reckons we'll bring back hope.
Thanks a few people in particular.
He says he knows what he believes and what he wants to do, he has a plan. He wants change, to be close to the people.
He wants it to be Andy 4 us. Labour 4 us. Bring back hope.
#ukpol #burnham #labourParty
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social2026-06-29 04:29:48
I plugged the new set of power slugs into my inlines this morning, first time I’d had to in over a year of hard riding. Those things have morphed everything everywhere that needed power. But inline skates were my choice for getting around on my day job, delivering shit all over. Nobody knows where they came from either. Just showed up. Aliens is my bet. Sneaky bastards, they are.
#FlashFiction
@kornel@mastodon.social2026-07-04 10:42:49
My smartest #HomeAutomation: power cycle microwave at midnight.
Now the microwave's clock is set correctly, every day!
@drgeraint@glasgow.social2026-06-07 11:03:36
Scotland is subsidising English power generation through grid connection fees.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/26172853.scottish-wind-farms-pay-1bn-use-uk-grid-new-figures-reveal/
@Dragofix@veganism.social2026-07-07 02:34:42
Europe's deadly heat wave scorches east, Slovakia hits record #Europe
@primonatura@mstdn.social2026-07-02 15:00:15
@cdarwin@c.im2026-08-10 22:27:47
Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee are set to launch an investigation into the decision to criminally charge David Hearn and others over the Reflecting Pool fiasco.
Although Democrats are in the minority, their probe offers a blueprint for what they’ll pursue with subpoena power if they control the House in six months.
This week, Representative Jamie Raskin—the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee and potentially its future chair—will formally demand that the Justic…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-06 12:25:31
Anthropic signs a 20-year, $19B lease to use a TeraWulf data center in Kentucky, set to have a ~400MW capacity, with the first power delivery in H2 2027 (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/06/anthropic-terawulf-data-center-ai.html
@edintone@mastodon.green2026-06-30 12:56:44
Doesn't "No 10 North" sound like 'working from home'? https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/29/andy-burnham-no-10-north-nerve-centre-rewired-britain
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange2026-05-28 05:42:21
Today set another new record for solar generation, 87.4 kWh - well over half of my total power demand for the day.
Up to 1.6 MWh for the month. Not bad.
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-26 22:41:46
Donald Trump has discovered limits on his power that he could have scarcely imagined as he began full combat operations on Feb. 28,
when he set out goals for a swift end to Iran’s nuclear program and the overthrow of the country’s government.
Five months later, those goals remain almost entirely unaccomplished.
And Trump,
once confident that overwhelming force would enable him to pursue in Iran what he proudly called the “Venezuela model”
— a change of governme…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-05-30 08:45:53
Memory chip makers are leveraging their newfound power to secure long-term agreements, a move set to reshape the industry's business model and stabilize prices (Dan Gallagher/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai-has-made-memo…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-08-07 16:01:38
Trump's firings of federal officials set stage for next test of presidential power (Melissa Quinn/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-firings-federal-workers-presidential-power/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260807/p50#a260807p50
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-07-24 18:48:19
Wrt to Codeberg kicking out slop:
“How may the compulsive programmer be distinguished from a merely dedicated, hard-working professional programmer? First, by the fact that the ordinary professional programmer addresses himself to the problem to be solved, whereas the compulsive programmer sees the problem mainly as an opportunity to interact with the computer.
The ordinary computer programmer will usually discuss both his substantive and his technical programming problem with others. He will generally do lengthy preparatory work, [...] He develops his program slowly and systematically. When something doesn't work, he may spend considerable time away from the computer, framing careful hypotheses to account for the malfunction and designing crucial experiments to test them.
[...]
When he has finally composed the program he set out to produce, he is able to complete a sensible description of it and to turn his attention to other things.
The professional regards programming as a means toward an end, not as an end in itself. His satisfaction comes from having solved a substantive problem, not from having bent a computer to his.”
—Joseph Weizenbaum, Computer Power and Human Reason, 1976