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🇩🇰 #Denmark is deploying floating drones on the Baltic Sea to protect undersea infrastructure and bolster maritime surveillance amid the growing threat of hybrid attacks from #Russia

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/19/denmark-to-deploy-saildrones-in-baltic-to-protect-undersea-cables-from-russian-threat

Denmark deploys ‘saildrones’ in Baltic to protect undersea cables from Russia

US-made unmanned vessels will monitor maritime activity as part of trial, amid criticism over closer ties with America

The Guardian

Stephen Shankland 1d ago

Cool-as-heck thing I learned about Commonwealth Fusion Systems cranes in Tokamak Hall: why we have two of them instead of just one with a higher lifting capacity. This is one of my favorite bits of CFS engineering trivia.

#FusionEnergy #Science #Magnets #Engineering
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/P4b2LmlS-mA

Inside CFS with Brandon: Episode 3

YouTube

Stephen Shankland Jun 10

On the shortcomings of levelized cost of energy (LCOE) as a single metric to compare power generation costs, e.g. solar vs nuclear vs coal vs wind. This is why LCOE tracker Lazard has added a "firming" costs qualifier. https://heatmap.news/energy/levelized-cost-solar #Grid #LCOE

Everyone’s Favorite Energy Cost Metric Is Wrong, Environmental Group Says

Forgive me, for I have cited the levelized cost of energy.That’s what I was thinking as I spoke with Kasparas Spokas, one of the co-authors of a new paper from the Clean Air Task Force that examines this popular and widely cited cost metric — and found it wanting.Levelized cost of energy, or LCOE, i...

Heatmap News

Stephen Shankland Jun 7

House finch this morning on an oak tree by our house. They suffer from being very common (at least in my eyes — "oh, just another house finch, move along"), but their songs really are very nice. #birds #birding #California #NaturePhotography

Stephen Shankland Jun 6

JPEG XL image support in Windows 11... if you go manually fetch it from Microsoft. https://www.pcworld.com/article/2625216/microsoft-adds-jpeg-xl-support-to-windows-11-with-a-quick-download.html

Microsoft adds JPEG XL support to Windows 11 with a quick download

Microsoft has made the JPEG XL image extension available in the Microsoft Store. It's the next evolution of the ubiquitous JPEG format and it offers some major advantages.

PCWorld

Stephen Shankland Jun 1

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Ian Kluft ✅🖥️📡Jun 1

The status of #PermanentStandardTime legislation in western states' 2025 sessions...

Arizona & Hawaii: Permanent Standard Time is law since late 1960s
Oregon: SB-1038 passed Senate, died in House
Nevada: AB81 passed Assembly, died in Senate
California: SB-51 approved by a Senate committee, stalled in another, deadline June 6
Alaska: complicated
bills died in originating chamber in WA UT ID MT
no 2025 bills in NM CO WY

Current list of legislation by @SaveStandard is at https://savestandardtime.com/current/

CURRENT LEGISLATION | Save Standard Time

Current legislation for permanent Standard Time and Daylight Saving Time.

Stephen Shankland Jun 1

Precita Ave. murals in San Francisco. Some of these are really good. I love organic art galleries like this. #Art #SanFrancisco

Stephen Shankland May 22

Which Hollywood measurement unit unleashes your inner pedant more?

#StarWars #PedantsCorner

1.21 "jiggawatts," Back to the Future

34.6%

Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs, Star Wars

65.4%

Poll ended at May 23 at 2:06am.

Stephen Shankland May 2

A pine siskin perched on a wire near Alpine Meadows ski area a couple weeks ago.

#bird #birding #NaturePhotography #bokeh #SierraNevada #California #LakeTahoe

Stephen Shankland Apr 26

Cory Doctorow Apr 26

Rare pristine tty

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