According to the IEA [1], 43% of the energy consumption is oil (transportation, heating), 18% is natural gas (mostly heating), and 25% is electricity. Switching to resistive heating would require doubling the electricity production. Using heat pumps is much more efficient.
It is undisputed that Willingham's kids slept in the room where the fire broke out, while he slept in a different room. This is a pretty solid explanation for what happened.
This doesn't make any sense. Germany has storage for more than a season's worth of natural gas. The price went up because Russia stopped selling cheap gas to western Europe after its attack on Ukraine.
Myself I'm not affected by this. It's used too much as a counter argument, it's not universally applicable - even in Germany. The price spikes were happening before the war too.
£54 bn over eight years is around 0.2% of the UK's GDP. A lot of money, but doesn't sound unreasonable for a major overhaul of a central price of infrastructure.
Ruling out the possibility of storing energy at industrial scale might also not age terribly well.
Especially if the energy being stored is heat. Heat is embarrassingly storable, much more cheaply per unit energy than electrical energy. Any industry that uses heat can be a target for thermal storage of renewable energy.
The same devices were put up among others in Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Portland with zero incidents. So yes, it is surprising that the Boston police decided to treat them like IEDs.
QKD is only safe against MITM if you have pre-shared keys between the parties. At that point you might as well use symmetric cryptography which is immune against hypothetical quantum computers and infinitely more efficient than QKD.
Some of the regional elections in Germany have comically large ballots with dozens of options and a very complicated counting system (16 votes that can be split between individuals or party lists). The hand-counted results are generally available by the next morning. There is really no excuse for using electronic voting. In Germany it has been ruled unconstitutional since it cannot be checked by the voters.
* M24 erroneously claims that the EHTC methodology does not account for the point-spread-function (PSF) of the observation. In fact, the EHTC hybrid imaging approach explicitly corrects for the PSF through the CLEAN algorithm. Other algorithms implicitly incorporate PSF effects into the reconstruction algorithms. Furthermore, non-imaging (e.g., model fitting) methods confirm the ring-like structure is the most likely simple model that fits the data. Note that the EHTC methods recover non-ring structures in both synthetic data tests as well as real data that has the same PSF, for example when imaging the non-ring-like polarization of the black holes M87* and Sgr A* (10).
* M24 erroneously claims that the EHTC did not release uncalibrated raw data. In fact, all of 2017 EHTC raw and calibrated data have been publicly available since May 2022 (11).
[1] https://www.iea.org/countries/france/energy-mix
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