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Was there a massive leak of a dangerous greenhouse gas in Iceland🇮🇸 in 2011 - or was it just a data📈 reporting error? European emission databases show that the Norðuršl aluminium factory🏭 in Iceland released 60 tons of SF₆ in 2011 — but no such emissions in any other year. It's so much that it is hard to believe this really happened. And that is not the only odd thing I found in emission databases.

Errors and Inconsistencies in European Emission Data
Factories that suddenly have emissions a thousand times lower than before, unexplained data gaps, and inconsistent CO₂ emissions from different data sources are some of the issues one finds when having a closer look at the European Union's emission databases.

Reiche-Ministerium plant Einschnitte bei der Solarförderung
Das Bundeswirtschaftsministerium will ernst machen: Bei der Solarförderung soll gekürzt werden. Das soll kleine Solaranlagen betreffen.
https://www.…

⛐ This 1931 Ford Model A Hot Rod Bridges a Generational Gap With a Civic Type R Engine
https://www.thedrive.com/news/this-1931-ford-model-a-hot-rod-bridges-a-generational-gap-with-a-civic-type-r-engine

This 1931 Ford Model A Hot Rod Bridges a Generational Gap With a Civic Type R Engine
A lot of these came stock with four-bangers, but this Civic Type R engine makes about seven times as much power as the factory lump.

from my link log —
The case of the missing DNS packets.
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/inside-google-cloud/google-cloud-support-engineer-solves-a-tough-dns-case
saved 2020-05-13

A Google Cloud support engineer solves a tough DNS case | Google Cloud Blog
How a Google Cloud support engineer found one customer’s missing DNS packets

Looks like (unsurprisingly) I have to look to Poland for inspiration, once again. Some loonies there have managed to supercharge and twin-turbocharge the BMW M73 V12. The scarcity of the M73B54 and difficulty cracking the ECUs has left a lot of untapped potential in these engines for 30 years. https://engineswapdepot.com/?p=108361&

A San Francisco jury finds former Google engineer Linwei Ding guilty of stealing trade secrets related to AI chip technology to build a startup in China (Isaiah Poritz/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/esg/ex-google-engineer-guilty-…

Ex-Google Worker Guilty of Stealing AI Tech for Chinese Firm (1)
A former Google engineer was convicted Thursday of economic espionage and trade secrets theft for taking hundreds of the company’s confidential documents on AI chip technology to build a startup in China.

Donald Trump signed into law this month a measure that 👉 prohibits anyone based in China and "other adversarial countries" from accessing the Pentagon’s cloud computing systems.
The ban, which is tucked inside the $900 billion defense policy law,
was enacted in response to a ProPublica investigation this year that exposed how Microsoft used China-based engineers to service the
Defense Department’s computer systems for nearly a decade
— a practice that left s…

Trump Signs Defense Bill Prohibiting China-Based Engineers in Pentagon IT Work
The measure, which emerged in response to a ProPublica investigation, bars Microsoft engineers in China and other adversarial countries from servicing sensitive Pentagon cloud computing systems.

Record fossil fuel emissions in 2025 despite renewables buildout, report says https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/12/record-fossil-fuel-emissions-in-2025-despite-renewables-buildout-report-says/

Record fossil fuel emissions in 2025 despite renewables buildout, report says
Global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion are projected to reach a record 38.1 billion metric tons in 2025, an increase of 1.1% from 2024, according to the 2025 Global Carbon Budget. The report, now in its 20th edition, was released Nov. 13 as a preprint. It compiles national energy and emissions data from […]

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Reiche-Ministerium plant Einschnitte bei der Solarförderung

Vodafone Jugendstudie: Einsame Jugendliche – analog schlägt digital
Analoge Kontakte helfen besser gegen Einsamkeit und werden auch eher aufgesucht. Wer Social Media zur Linderung nutzt, kann dort versacken ohne Besserung.