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No nicotine product is risk-free for the heart #health

No nicotine product is risk-free for the heart
Nicotine injures blood vessels by two routes at once, and only quitting entirely, not switching to a vape or pouch, clears the risk.

China is flooding the world with electric cars.
https://carnewschina.com/2026/09/11/byd-orders-10-more-vessels-with-capacity-for-9200-cars-each-report-says/

BYD orders 10 more vessels with capacity for 9,200 cars each, report says
Combined capacity 92.000 cars.

"Can we stop ships from killing the Mediterranean’s last great whales?"
#Mediterranean #Whales #Animals

Can we stop ships from killing the Mediterranean’s last great whales?
Collisions with ships are a leading anthropogenic killer of the Mediterranean’s two endangered large-bodied cetacean species, sperm and fin whales. In 2025, thousands of vessels traveled through the Mediterranean’s key whale habitats at speeds above 15 knots (28 km/h), the threshold at which vessel strikes are almost always fatal, according to an analysis by Magma […]

Russia has been forced to suspend shipping in the Sea of Azov
after 90 vessels were targeted by Ukrainian drones in less than a week.
Ukraine’s drone forces chief, Robert Brovdi, said on Sunday that
his units had hit 10 tankers and four ferries overnight,
as well as a major oil refinery in the city of Syzran.
There had been several strikes on electricity substations in occupied Crimea, he added.
“The technological humiliation of the [Russian] empire conti…

Ukrainian drone strikes force Russia to suspend shipping in Sea of Azov
Vital maritime corridor closes after 90 vessels – including shadow fleet oil tankers – are attacked in under a week

Kraken Technology, which designs and builds autonomous maritime platforms, such as uncrewed subsurface vessels, raised a $175M Series B at a $1B valuation (John Reynolds/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2026/07/09/maritime-defence-startup-kraken-technology-…

Maritime defence startup Kraken Technology hits unicorn status
British-founded maritime defence startup Kraken Technology today said it had achieved unicorn status. The startup, founded in 2020 by former speedboat racer Mal Crease, said it had raised $175m in a Series B funding round at a $1bn valuation, according to a press release. The funding round was led by Digital Transformation Capital Partners (DTCP), with support from the British Business Bank, NATO Innovation Fund (NIF), Rheinmetall, Inocea group as well as VC firms Hico Ventures, Thesiger Capita…

Far out in the Pacific Ocean, Ecuadorean fishermen have been attacked by unidentified “gringos” using drones, survivors say,
spurring a mystery over whether the American military, the armed forces of another country or private military contractors were behind the strikes.
One fishing boat has been lost at sea since January, the U.N. says, with eight people still missing and presumed dead.
The survivors of two other vessels said they came under attack in March by English-spe…

Ecuadorean Fishing Boats Hit by Mystery Attackers
Ecuadorean crews plying the waters of the Pacific have been targeted by a mysterious outfit equipped with drones. Some sailors appear to have lost their lives.

Vessel transits via the Strait of Hormuz fell on Wednesday to seven from 12 the previous day,
preliminary ship-tracking data showed on Thursday, with levels also below the 10-day average of 14.
Out of these seven ships, four vessels exited and three entered, according to the data.
Some vessels could be sailing through the waterway with their transponders turned off and would not be counted toward the totals.
Of the exits, one was a very large crude carrier – Finland Pr…

Hormuz Shipping Traffic in Single Digits, Data Shows
Vessel transits via the Strait of Hormuz fell on Wednesday to seven from 12 the previous day, preliminary ship-tracking data showed on Thursday, with levels also below the 10-day average of 14.

Iran greift zwei Schiffe an.
Starke Schäden, aber laut Berichten keine (körperlich) Verletzten
https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/2026/07/07/iran-fires-missiles-at-two-commercial-ships-in-strait-of-hormuz/

Iran fires missiles at two commercial ships in Strait of Hormuz
Oil climbs on fears of renewed risk to vessels

Russia’s UAV Campaign Over Europe.
"Our key judgement is that Europe’s current counter-UAV architecture does not yet match the threat despite NATO, the European Union and national governments focusing more attention on the issue: detection is uneven, legal authorities are fragmented, response options are often disproportionate and attribution remains too slow to support timely deterrence."

Russia’s UAV Campaign Over Europe
Russia’s UAV campaign over Europe, likely enabled by shadow-fleet vessels operating in international waters, exposed critical gaps in allied air defences, legal authority and political cohesion, revealing that the threshold for collective response is higher than European deterrence has assumed.

The line of cyan markers runnung WNW from approx Roscoff in Brittany shows vessels working on the new France-Ireland electrical connector. Cables already on the seabed.
From Sibiril to Youghal!

Shipping lanes thread through Indonesia’s Mahakam River
Image credit, more info and higher resolution here:
https://eu-space.europa.eu/components/earth-observation-copernicus/image-of-the-day/shippi…

"Two 118 MWh systems will be installed at the ports of Aarhus and Sjællands Odde, powering Molslinjen's new electric mega-catamarans on the Kattegat crossing; vessels currently under construction at the Incat shipyard in Australia, with the first expected in service in spring 2028."

Hybrid Greentech appointed technical advisor on the world's largest maritime electrification project
Hybrid Greentech has served as technical advisor for the battery energy storage systems (BESS) scope to Molslinjen throughout the development of the world's largest maritime electrification project and will continue in that role through to delivery and operation.Molslinjen, Denmark's largest ferry operator, has selected Hybrid Greentech as technical advisor to scope and specify the battery energy storage systems for its landmark maritime electrification project. Two 118 MWh systems will be insta

No surprise, those drones detected in Europe had to be launched from somewhere.
https://apnews.com/projects/russian-drones-shadow-fleet/?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campai…

Russian drones and the shadow fleet
Russian drones have been spotted over nuclear power plants, military bases and other sensitive sites in Europe. Some appear to have been launched from Russian shadow fleet vessels.

U.S. boat strikes across the Caribbean and eastern Pacific have killed at least 221 people since September
-- the Trump administration has provided no evidence linking the vessels or their passengers to drug trafficking.
Ecuadorian prosecutor Alexandra Bravo was fatally shot on June 14 by a hitman in the city of Manta.
Bravo had been investigating U.S. strikes on three Ecuadorian boats in which 36 passengers survived,
many of them recounting alleged torture by Americ…

“Zero Accountability”: Ecuadorian Prosecutor Assassinated While Investigating U.S. Boat Strikes
U.S. boat strikes across the Caribbean and eastern Pacific have killed at least 221 people since September, while the Trump administration has provided no evidence linking the vessels or their passengers to drug trafficking. Ecuadorian prosecutor Alexandra Bravo was fatally shot on June 14 by a hitman in the city of Manta. Bravo had been investigating U.S. strikes on three Ecuadorian boats in which 36 passengers survived, many of them recounting alleged torture by American gunmen in U.S. milita…

Trump demands shipping vessels pay 20% if they want to get through the Strait of Hormuz (Brent D. Griffiths/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-strait-hormuz-blockade-cargo-fee-2026-7
http://www.memeorandum.com/260713/p57#a260713p57

Taste the Mendoza Special and more at Raiders games this season — PHOTOS https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/taste-the-mendoza-special-and-more-at-raiders-games-this-season-photos-3869541/

Gut bacteria may unlock a hidden benefit of vegetables #nutrition

Gut bacteria may unlock a hidden benefit of vegetables
Gut bacteria can transform nitrate and plant-based iron from vegetables and other foods into protective molecules that may benefit the heart and metabolism. In experimental models, higher levels of these compounds were linked to lower blood pressure, better blood sugar control, healthier blood vessels, and less liver fat.

Following the success of its small-lift vehicle, Electron,
Rocket Lab is developing its partially reusable Neutron vehicle.
The medium-lift rocket features a radical design on its fairing halves, which are usually expended or collected by vessels with other launchers.
The company’s innovative “Hungry Hippo” fairings are permanently attached to the first stage of Neutron,
and open during flight to deploy the second stage.  
This concept completely removes the need…

Following “a careful review” of classified information he has seen so far, Sen. Tim Kaine told the White House on Monday,
that he US military’s strikes on alleged drug boats have likely
illegally killed “individuals who are not involved in narcotrafficking,”
“They are murder victims,” the Virginia Democrat wrote in a letter to Donald Trump.
So far, the US military has killed at least 221 people and destroyed at least 67 vessels in the “Operation Southern Spear” campa…

‘They are murder victims’: Senator suggests US strikes have killed people who weren’t involved in drug trafficking
The US military’s strikes on alleged drug boats have likely illegally killed “individuals who are not involved in narcotrafficking,” Sen. Tim Kaine told the White House on Monday, following “a careful review” of classified information he has seen so far.

The closure of the strait of Hormuz has created conditions for an extreme global biodiversity threat,
with scientists warning that thousands of stranded ships could spread invasive marine species across the world’s oceans once they begin sailing again.
More than 1,500 commercial vessels have been stuck in the Gulf since the strategic waterway closed on 28 February after the outbreak of the US-Israel war on Iran.
An international team of marine biologists said that with the …

Ships stuck in strait of Hormuz pose ‘super-spreader’ biodiversity threat, scientists warn
Biologists say cargo ships stranded in Gulf may carry highly potent invasive species around the world as trade resumes

U.S. airstrikes at sea are killing Mexican citizens
Eight fishermen from Mexico’s Nayarit state vanished after U.S. missile strikes on suspected drug boats.
The Trump administration labels targets ‘narco-terrorists,’
while legal experts and human rights advocates warn the airstrikes amount to extrajudicial killings.
In coastal towns, some people acknowledge that fishermen have been drawn into the world of cartels
and provide fuel for drug boats making long jo…

The U.S. has killed at least 13 Mexicans in strikes on fishing boats
Mexican vessels carrying Mexican citizens have been hit in U.S. airstrikes against alleged drug boats, a Times investigation found.

The US military has resumed its campaign of bombing
alleged drug-trafficking vessels
after a two-month pause in a campaign that many legal experts and human rights groups believe 
constitutes a murder spree.
In a Monday social media post,
US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) said it carried out a
“lethal kinetic strike on a low-profile vessel operating along established narco-trafficking routes”
in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday.
Two people were killed a…

‘Lawless killing spree at sea resumes’ as US announces fresh boat bombings
With the latest two casualties, the Trump administration’s boat bombing spree has now claimed the lives of at least 223 people.

Looks like we’re now polluting space with satellites so much that stuff is just washing up on beaches. Great.
Here’s another for your collection
@…
Here’s an Australia news story on it.
#spacePollution #spaceX #satellite #space

For months, Washington has threatened to bomb cartel targets in Mexico,
-- a scenario Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum firmly rejects.
“The Mexican people,” she has said, will never accept “violations of Mexican territory, whether by land, sea or air.”
Yet U.S. airstrikes have already struck Mexican vessels carrying Mexican citizens in international waters off the country’s coast, according to a Times investigation.
That includes the fatal strikes on Feb. 16 on th…

CNN: Track vessels in the Strait of Hormuz. 🛳️
Me: Why, is my Amazon package on one of those vessels? 😏
#sarcasm #headlines #CNN #hormuz

Here is the B.C. Ferries web page about the “New Major Vessels” project. (There was stupid controversy because “omg not China” but that has died down now thankfully)
They want up to 7 (which makes sense… to be able to retire all the Queens and add one for new capacity), they asked for 5, they got 4 approved to be built by 2031. The most interesting graphic is this age graphic showing the age of ships on the major routes. Eventually, these ships WILL have to be replaced, regardless of political footballs…
#BCFerries #bcferries #ev #electric #transportation #bcpoli #ferry #boats #ships #battery

Some really interesting electric power math here for #BCFerries upcoming large transitional hybrid-to-full electric ferries. They will be known as the “Summit” class. 2100 passengers and crew, almost 400 cars. These are big ships.
Equivalent to the biggest Spirit Class between Victoria and Tsawwassen. So would be replacing the last of the 1970s Queens and possibly one of the Spirit or Coastal ships? We’ll see.
Anyway: They will initially have 10Megawatt Hours (MWh) of battery capacity as hybrid diesel/electric which is interesting, not natural gas like some of the other recent hybrids. (Which always felt like a stupid political decision to show off LNG, not a sound engineering decision)
They will then, once docks are upgraded for electric charging, be refit with 60MWh of batteries (total 70MWh) to “enable 2 hours of emissions free sailing”. In distance terms, that’s the one-way sailing time between Duke Point Terminal in Nanaimo and Tsawwassen in Vancouver, about 40 nautical miles (74km).
For comparison, my Kona EV car has a 65kilowatt hour battery… 1000x less capacity!.. giving a range of 450km.
That’s a very heavy ship!!🛳️
It’s a pretty tight capacity window considering the major routes are all between 1.5hrs and 2hrs. But they could be being conservative in the press release, indicating they would comfortably fit those timelines, or they will be still using hybrid power and shore docking ports to augment and ensure they have adequate power. They will always need lots of reserve and backup for safety.
I also imagine in the 30-60 year lifetime of the ships, we could see the energy density of batteries in general increase, so a refit in 2040 or 2050 could replace 70MWh with 100 or 140MWh in the same physical space.
What seems sure though is that B.C. Ferries is going to have some, if not the, largest fully electric capable ferries in the world. That’s a good thing.
First ship of 4 will arrive from China in 2029. Last of the class arrives in 2031. So hopefully we get our first ride in 2030! Looking forward to it!
#bcferries #ev #electric #transportation #bcpoli #ferry #boats #ships #battery