| Official | https:// |
| Support this service | https://www.patreon.com/birddotmakeup |
For interest and reference:
World Health Organization: COVID-19 Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) (Feb 2020)
Over the first 6 weeks of the new decade, the novel coronavirus, known as COVID-19, has spread from the People’s Republic of China to 20 other countries. On 30 January 2020 following the recommendations of the Emergency Committee, the WHO Director General declared that the outbreak constitutes a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC).
In view of the urgency of this outbreak, the international community is mobilising to find ways to significantly accelerate the development of interventions.
> The damage to global economy from the spiking oil prices, unpredictability - and the very real poverty this will push people into.
To expand on that - the southern hemisphere harvest is over, now it's edging into seeding time to get the next round of crops started.
More than one farm is struggling to secure the volume of fuel required to seed.
With significant refineries offline for ~ 5 years, impacted fertilizer (agriculture) and sulphar (mineral processing) production deeply impacted ... this "little excursion" is set to cast a long shadow across the entire globe for quite some time.
The 23 Janus trucks hauling cement in Australia - they're likely doing a few more by now.
That's been going on for three years now, so they'd have some data.
Addendum: Found battery change footage from a year past- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj9pdB9cYVQ
Rio Tinto (runs fleets of 100 tonne+ haul paks at many global sites) is running EV heavies in China and Australia with an eye to expand that usage:
* https://australianminingreview.com.au/news/rio-drives-electr...
* https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251204183951/en/BHP...
Mobile electric shovels for loading haul paks straight off the blasted shelf have been a thing for 50+ years now: https://www.komatsu.com.au/equipment/electric-rope-shovels
OpenBSD: PF queues break the 4 Gbps barrier
CEO Asks ChatGPT to Void $250M Contract, Ignores Lawyers, Loses Terribly
"We" (here in W.Australia) got sued by a US company for doing math once - took six years of legal back and forth to "win", eight years out of people's lives from disruption, and essentially destroyed a company that innovated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LizardTech,_Inc._v._Earth_Reso....
