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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.

"Yuki's Revenge": Tarantino produziert neue "Kill Bill"-Szene in Unreal Engine
Quentin Tarantino hat einen Kurzfilm in der Unreal Engine produziert. "Yuki's Revenge" zeigt eine gestrichene Szene aus "Kill Bill".

⛐ 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.

"Australia projected to miss 2035 emissions reduction target ‘by a country mile’ unless it ramps up climate policies"
#Australia #Emissions #Climate

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

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 […]

#Agrivoltaics is the practice of purposefully shading agricultural crop lands with solar panels
in order to enjoy the dual benefits of solar electricity and increased food production.
A new study I
co-authored with my colleague, Uzair Jamil, found that
👍 partial shading to benefit crop production even works when the solar panels do not.
This has interesting policy ramific…

How shading crops with solar panels can improve farming, lower food costs and reduce emissions
Canada can meet its carbon emission reduction targets, make food cheap again and open up a gigantic trade surplus with the U.S. by shading farm crops with solar panels.

"They know how to eat methane,”
said Josh Silverman, the company’s CEO and founder.
“We’re not creating something new.
We’re not teaching them to do something they don’t normally do.
They’ve evolved for a million years to do this.”
https://www.w…

These pink microbes could help reduce planet-warming methane emissions
Microscopic organisms are being deployed to capture methane from sources such as farms and landfills, with the potential for reuse as fertilizer and fish food.