NASANASA Administrator to Visit, Sign Agreement with Peru’s Space Agency https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-administrator-to-visit-sign-agreement-with-perus-space-agency/ #NASA #OfficeOfInternationalAndInteragencyRelationsOIIR #BillNelson
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Isle of EiggEigg isn't connected to the UK national grid. Instead we generate 90% to 95% of our electricity from wind, sun, & water (hydro). Community-owned Eigg Electric was switched on in 2008. Islanders are trained and employed to manage it. Electricity costs 28p per unit/kWh. Before 2008 each property had its own diesel generator. Now we have 24kW of wind, 110kW of hydro, 170kW of solar PV, storage batteries, and a back up generator. Next challenge is #netzero #renewables #eigg http://isleofeigg.org/eigg-electric/
Eigg Electric - The Isle of Eigg
Eigg is not connected to the mainland electricity supply. After decades of diesel generators, Eigg Electric provided 24 hour power for the first time in February 2008. Eigg Electric is a community owned, managed and maintained company which provides electricity for all island residents from the renewable sources of water, sun, and wind. No more pouring smelly […]
AI-screened eye pics diagnose childhood autism with 100% accuracy
Researchers have taken photographs of children’s retinas and screened them using a deep learning AI algorithm to diagnose autism with 100% accuracy. The findings support using AI as an objective screening tool for early diagnosis, especially when access to a specialist child psychiatrist is limited.
Richard MurphyTaxing Wealth Report 2024: The UK needs an Office for Tax Responsibility https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2023/12/19/taxing-wealth-report-2024-the-uk-needs-an-office-for-tax-responsibility/. The governance of the UK's tax system is dire. HMRC is unaccountable. There is no direct ministerial line of responsibility. Parliament does not have the power to investigate, and HMRC marks its own work when preparing tax gap data. We need an Office for Tax Responsibility reporting to the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee to create necessary accountability.
Are there ways out of war?
As the FT has noted this morning: Netanyahu is good at starting wars, but it’s ending them that matters It is a comment I agree with. I must especially agree because, as far as I can see, there is no reason for a war against Iran at the moment, except for Netanyahu's desire...
Steve Carter
Jean GautierUne hirondelle de rivage en vol
#photographie #photography
D’autres photos ici sur mon nouveau site :
https://www.superbe-nature.fr/oiseaux/mesanges-orites-et-hirondelles
#photographie #photography
D’autres photos ici sur mon nouveau site :
https://www.superbe-nature.fr/oiseaux/mesanges-orites-et-hirondelles
Peter Gray (per/per) 🚲🏞🎷🏠🌿Fourth para from the end...
The UK water industry is broken from nearly 35 years of privatisation, Steve Reed.
Alice Dubiel 🔬💉🦠😷🌬☮️To confront injustice, we can teach children media literacy. Media literacy in public school curricula legislation will begin in California next year. Media Literacy Now indicates Texas, New Jersey and Delaware have passed “strong media literacy laws.” #confrontinjustice #criticalthinkingskills https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-11-19/california-commits-to-media-literacy-classes
Peter CranieOn the one hand business as usual leads to civilisation at risk and a Hobbesian future, on the other, we change the system, stop investing our pensions in the oil/gas/coal industries and get that economics don’t trump planetary capacity. As a species, I’m not optimistic we can, but we have to try. To not try is to fail. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/20/restaurants-pets-holidays-how-uk-well-off-have-outsize-carbon-footprints