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Integrating critical infrastructure systems more and more tightly by making them all digital and dependent on digital infrastructure increases the risk of catastrophic failure cascades. The risk profile has a phase transition with respect to increasing interconnectivity that, once crossed, makes such failure cascades comparatively highly likely.<br><br>The effect is not unlike nuclear fission reactions, which require a certain density of fissile material before they&#x27;ll be self-sustaining. An event that&#x27;d just sputter out at one density might become an out-of-control explosion at a slightly higher density. Likewise, what might be a small and isolated component fault at one level of connectivity could be a catastrophic cascading critical infrastructure failure at a slightly higher level of connectivity.<br><br>The possibility of cascading failures in the nuclear power system seems like something we should be putting considerable resources into avoiding, rather than actively courting.<br><br>In response to <a href="https://www.404media.co/nuclear-rian-bahran-iaea-international-symposium-on-artificial-intelligence/" rel="nofollow">‘Atoms for Algorithms:’ The Trump Administration’s Top Nuclear Scientists Think AI Can Replace Humans in Power Plants</a> at 404 Media.<br><br><a href="/tags/iaea/" rel="tag">#IAEA</a> <a href="/tags/nuclearenergy/" rel="tag">#NuclearEnergy</a> <a href="/tags/atomicenergy/" rel="tag">#AtomicEnergy</a> <a href="/tags/usenergy/" rel="tag">#USEnergy</a> <a href="/tags/usdoe/" rel="tag">#USDOE</a> <a href="/tags/nuclear/" rel="tag">#nuclear</a> <a href="/tags/energy/" rel="tag">#energy</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/criticalinfrastructure/" rel="tag">#CriticalInfrastructure</a> <a href="/tags/failurecascade/" rel="tag">#FailureCascade</a><br>

<p>Looking for some <a href="/tags/positivity/" rel="tag">#positivity</a> to end the week? I have recapped 42 notable <a href="/tags/positive/" rel="tag">#positive</a> <a href="/tags/environmental/" rel="tag">#environmental</a> and <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#ClimateChange</a> articles from past month including: the benefits of the <a href="/tags/ulez/" rel="tag">#Ulez</a> in <a href="/tags/london/" rel="tag">#London</a>, <a href="/tags/texas/" rel="tag">#Texas</a> setting a new record for <a href="/tags/renewable/" rel="tag">#Renewable</a> <a href="/tags/energy/" rel="tag">#Energy</a> generation and <a href="/tags/newdelhi/" rel="tag">#NewDelhi</a> creating seven new biodiversity parks on previously degraded land.</p><p><a href="https://primonatura.co.uk/positive-environmental-stories-012/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="primonatura.co.uk/positive-environmental-stories-012/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">primonatura.co.uk/positive-env</span><span class="invisible">ironmental-stories-012/</span></a></p>

<p>&quot;New servers are less energy-intensive.&quot; Really? 🤔</p><p>This is said so often that it could almost be taken as an absolute truth.</p><p>By extension, it is often said that each new generation of hardware consumes less energy than the previous one.</p><p>Manufacturers communicate pretty often about this, including HPE (1), Nvidia (2), etc..</p><p>A 🧵</p><p><a href="/tags/energy/" rel="tag">#energy</a> <a href="/tags/it/" rel="tag">#it</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/efficiency/" rel="tag">#efficiency</a> <a href="/tags/datacenters/" rel="tag">#datacenters</a></p>

<p>I’m a big fan of <a href="/tags/sandbattery/" rel="tag">#sandbattery</a> thermal <a href="/tags/renewable/" rel="tag">#renewable</a> <a href="/tags/energy/" rel="tag">#energy</a> storage technology. One of the first players in this market is the Finnish startup Polar Night Energy: <a href="https://polarnightenergy.com" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>polarnightenergy.com</a> If you do not know what sand batteries are, this article explains them quite well: <a href="https://natnavi.com/science-behind-sand-batteries/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="natnavi.com/science-behind-sand-batteries/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">natnavi.com/science-behind-san</span><span class="invisible">d-batteries/</span></a> <a href="/tags/renewables/" rel="tag">#Renewables</a></p>

<p>“You Feel Like You’re Being Cheated”: Oil Companies Unfairly Take Millions, North Dakota Mineral Owners Say<br>—</p><p>Oil companies are holding back a large portion of revenue payments to the people they lease drilling rights from, often with little explanation. But the industry has an outsize influence in the state, and public officials have refused to take action.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/north-dakota-mineral-owner-royalty-deductions?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/north-dakota-mineral-owner-royalty-deductions?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/nor</span><span class="invisible">th-dakota-mineral-owner-royalty-deductions?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/northdakota/" rel="tag">#NorthDakota</a> <a href="/tags/oil/" rel="tag">#Oil</a> <a href="/tags/gas/" rel="tag">#Gas</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/energy/" rel="tag">#Energy</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a></p>

<p>Utah Leaders Are Hindering Efforts to Develop Solar Despite a Goal to Double the State’s Energy Supply<br>---</p><p>Solar power accounts for two-thirds of the new projects waiting to connect to the state’s power grid. Utah Republicans’ hard turn against solar mirrors President Donald Trump’s hostile approach to the industry.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/utah-solar-energy-operation-gigawatt-spencer-cox?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/utah-solar-energy-operation-gigawatt-spencer-cox?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/uta</span><span class="invisible">h-solar-energy-operation-gigawatt-spencer-cox?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/utah/" rel="tag">#Utah</a> <a href="/tags/solar/" rel="tag">#Solar</a> <a href="/tags/energy/" rel="tag">#Energy</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#Environment</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a></p>

<p>Frustrated by oil companies mysteriously withholding large amounts of royalties, North Dakota mineral owners lobbied for change.</p><p>Instead, lawmakers provided an oversight program that, owners say, fails to address the issue it was created to solve.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/north-dakota-oil-gas-oversight-mineral-rights?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/north-dakota-oil-gas-oversight-mineral-rights?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/nor</span><span class="invisible">th-dakota-oil-gas-oversight-mineral-rights?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/northdakota/" rel="tag">#NorthDakota</a> <a href="/tags/oil/" rel="tag">#Oil</a> <a href="/tags/gas/" rel="tag">#Gas</a> <a href="/tags/energy/" rel="tag">#Energy</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a></p>

<p>“I hope that the people in North Dakota wake up and realize how much money should be in their pockets instead of industry’s pockets,” said Tom Huber, leader of West Virginia’s royalty owner association.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/north-dakota-oil-mineral-rights-comparison?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/north-dakota-oil-mineral-rights-comparison?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/nor</span><span class="invisible">th-dakota-oil-mineral-rights-comparison?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/northdakota/" rel="tag">#NorthDakota</a> <a href="/tags/oil/" rel="tag">#Oil</a> <a href="/tags/gas/" rel="tag">#Gas</a> <a href="/tags/mineral/" rel="tag">#Mineral</a> <a href="/tags/energy/" rel="tag">#Energy</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a></p>

<p>Oregon liberals, opposed to nuclear power in the 1970s, created a complex process for getting new energy projects approved.</p><p>It’s now being used to stall developments in wind and solar — with a 76-year-old activist leading the charge.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/irene-gilbert-oregon-solar-green-energy-policy?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/irene-gilbert-oregon-solar-green-energy-policy?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/ire</span><span class="invisible">ne-gilbert-oregon-solar-green-energy-policy?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/energy/" rel="tag">#Energy</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#Environment</a> <a href="/tags/solar/" rel="tag">#Solar</a> <a href="/tags/oregon/" rel="tag">#Oregon</a> <a href="/tags/cleanenergy/" rel="tag">#CleanEnergy</a></p>

<p>Béton, métal, chaleur, vapeur 🎵</p><p>Ce n&#x27;est pas un nouveau titre de Daft Punk, mais le titre de ma prochaine conférence sur l&#x27;IA générative. On peut se le dire, ça passe beaucoup moins bien en français 😁 </p><p>Le contenu devrait toujours être d&#x27;intérêt:</p><p>- des vues aériennes de Datacenters, explications à la clef<br>- une visite (virtuelle) de l&#x27;intérieur<br>...</p><p><a href="/tags/ia/" rel="tag">#ia</a> <a href="/tags/datacenter/" rel="tag">#datacenter</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#genai</a> <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#ClimateChange</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#environment</a> <a href="/tags/energy/" rel="tag">#energy</a></p>

<p>Stories by Oregon Public Broadcasting and ProPublica identified bottlenecks that have stalled green energy projects in Oregon.</p><p>The governor aims to accelerate efforts through a series of mandates. Here&#x27;s where they stand.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/oregon-renewable-energy-legislative-progress?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/oregon-renewable-energy-legislative-progress?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/ore</span><span class="invisible">gon-renewable-energy-legislative-progress?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/oregon/" rel="tag">#Oregon</a> <a href="/tags/green/" rel="tag">#Green</a> <a href="/tags/energy/" rel="tag">#Energy</a> <a href="/tags/climate/" rel="tag">#Climate</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#Environment</a> <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#ClimateChange</a> <a href="/tags/wind/" rel="tag">#Wind</a> <a href="/tags/solar/" rel="tag">#Solar</a></p>

<p>Oregon Accelerates Green Energy Projects Before Trump Phase-Out of Tax Credits<br>---</p><p>Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek told state agencies to take “any and all steps necessary” to expedite solar and wind permits before federal green energy tax credits expire next year. The order prioritizes high-priority projects to begin by July 2026.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/oregon-renewable-energy-trump-tax-credits?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/oregon-renewable-energy-trump-tax-credits?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/ore</span><span class="invisible">gon-renewable-energy-trump-tax-credits?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/oregon/" rel="tag">#Oregon</a> <a href="/tags/green/" rel="tag">#Green</a> <a href="/tags/energy/" rel="tag">#Energy</a> <a href="/tags/solar/" rel="tag">#Solar</a> <a href="/tags/wind/" rel="tag">#Wind</a> <a href="/tags/renewableenergy/" rel="tag">#RenewableEnergy</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a></p>

<p>ARE WE NEARLY THERE YET?</p><p>Soon, soon we will be in 2026!</p><p>Here are some of our home energy stats and story for the year so far!</p><p><a href="https://www.earth.org.uk/saving-electricity-2025.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.earth.org.uk/saving-electricity-2025.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.earth.org.uk/saving-electr</span><span class="invisible">icity-2025.html</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/energy/" rel="tag">#energy</a> <a href="/tags/fossilfree/" rel="tag">#fossilFree</a> <a href="/tags/efficiency/" rel="tag">#efficiency</a> <a href="/tags/heatpump/" rel="tag">#heatPump</a> <a href="/tags/homeheating/" rel="tag">#homeHeating</a></p>

N. Korea drums up renewable energy use amid sanctions-caused electricity shortage <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://lemmy.zip/post/56844394">See Original Page</a> </small>

<p>New Mexico’s lawsuit accuses three Texas oil executives of pocketing revenue from oil and gas wells and offloading cleanup costs to the public.</p><p>A 2024 ProPublica and Capital &amp; Main investigation uncovered some of their companies’ business dealings.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/new-mexico-oil-orphan-wells-cleanup?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/new-mexico-oil-orphan-wells-cleanup?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/new</span><span class="invisible">-mexico-oil-orphan-wells-cleanup?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/newmexico/" rel="tag">#NewMexico</a> <a href="/tags/oil/" rel="tag">#Oil</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/fraud/" rel="tag">#Fraud</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#Environment</a> <a href="/tags/energy/" rel="tag">#Energy</a></p>

<p>NEW: Our Reporting Showed <a href="/tags/washington/" rel="tag">#Washington</a> Ranks Last in Green Energy Growth. Now the State Is Working to Speed It Up.</p><p>The state’s departing commerce director said there’s added urgency to get the projects done after an Oregon Public Broadcasting and ProPublica investigation showed states like <a href="/tags/iowa/" rel="tag">#Iowa</a> and <a href="/tags/texas/" rel="tag">#Texas</a> have made more progress in renewable energy growth.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/washington-renewable-energy-projects-grid-upgrades" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/washington-renewable-energy-projects-grid-upgrades"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/was</span><span class="invisible">hington-renewable-energy-projects-grid-upgrades</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#environment</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#government</a> <a href="/tags/energy/" rel="tag">#energy</a></p>

<p>To dramatically increase the amount of energy available to power artificial intelligence, the Trump administration is rewriting thousands of pages of nuclear power regulations while downplaying safety issues and focusing on industry incentives.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-nuclear-power-nrc-safety-doge-vought?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/trump-nuclear-power-nrc-safety-doge-vought?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/tru</span><span class="invisible">mp-nuclear-power-nrc-safety-doge-vought?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/nuclear/" rel="tag">#Nuclear</a> <a href="/tags/energy/" rel="tag">#Energy</a> <a href="/tags/doge/" rel="tag">#DOGE</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#Technology</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#Tech</a> <a href="/tags/safety/" rel="tag">#Safety</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a></p>

<p>Well well well...<br>- - - - -</p><p>Nonilex -- <span class="h-card"><a href="https://masto.ai/@Nonilex" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Nonilex</span></a></span></p><p>In his message, written entirely in capital letters, <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> said he had instructed ⁠the <a href="/tags/defense/" rel="tag">#defense</a> dept to postpone the strikes pending the outcome of the talks. He also told <a href="/tags/foxbusinessnetwork/" rel="tag">#FoxBusinessNetwork</a> that <a href="/tags/iran/" rel="tag">#Iran</a> wanted badly to make a deal, which could come inside 5 days.</p><p>A source briefed on ​<a href="/tags/israel/" rel="tag">#Israel</a>&#x27;s <a href="/tags/war/" rel="tag">#War</a> plans said <a href="/tags/washington/" rel="tag">#Washington</a> had kept it informed of its talks with <a href="/tags/tehran/" rel="tag">#Tehran</a>, &amp; that <a href="/tags/israel/" rel="tag">#Israel</a> was likely to follow Washington in suspending any targeting of <a href="/tags/iranian/" rel="tag">#Iranian</a> <a href="/tags/power/" rel="tag">#power</a> plants &amp; <a href="/tags/energy/" rel="tag">#energy</a> infrastructure.</p><p>- - - - -<br>And, at Teh Tweeters:<br>- - - - -</p><p>Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) -- adamscochran</p><p>5 minutes before Trump’s announcement:</p><p>* $1.5B notional worth of S&amp;P500 (ES) futures are bought in a single clip.</p><p>* $192M notional of oil futures (CL) sold.</p><p>More than 4x-6x any other trade size during the market close.</p><p>Insiders profited from his lies in broad daylight!</p><p>- - - - -</p><p>And once again, with <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a>, there will be no consequences whatsoever for his actions</p>

<p>📧 The March issue of e-EPS is out!<br>Enjoy your reading 👇<br><a href="https://www.epsmail.org//w/Bkb3WVoHwqoZFjMZKHh2kA" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.epsmail.org//w/Bkb3WVoHwqoZFjMZKHh2kA"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.epsmail.org//w/Bkb3WVoHwqo</span><span class="invisible">ZFjMZKHh2kA</span></a><br><a href="/tags/physics/" rel="tag">#physics</a> <a href="/tags/condensed/" rel="tag">#condensed</a> <a href="/tags/matter/" rel="tag">#matter</a> <a href="/tags/energy/" rel="tag">#energy</a> <a href="/tags/conference/" rel="tag">#conference</a> <a href="/tags/europe/" rel="tag">#Europe</a> <a href="/tags/cern/" rel="tag">#cern</a> <a href="/tags/teaching/" rel="tag">#teaching</a> <a href="/tags/solar/" rel="tag">#solar</a> <a href="/tags/erc/" rel="tag">#ERC</a></p>

<p>Aaron Szabo, the Trump EPA official leading an effort to loosen rules on methane pollution, was an unnamed author of key oil industry arguments against those same rules just four years ago when he was an oil and gas lobbyist, metadata shows.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-epa-methane-deregulation-aaron-szabo-oil-gas-axpc?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/trump-epa-methane-deregulation-aaron-szabo-oil-gas-axpc?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/tru</span><span class="invisible">mp-epa-methane-deregulation-aaron-szabo-oil-gas-axpc?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/epa/" rel="tag">#EPA</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#Environment</a> <a href="/tags/oil/" rel="tag">#Oil</a> <a href="/tags/gas/" rel="tag">#Gas</a> <a href="/tags/energy/" rel="tag">#Energy</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a> <a href="/tags/methane/" rel="tag">#Methane</a></p>