Australia Sees Key Role for Batteries as Coal-Fired Plants Close Australia’s biggest grid sees a major role for household batteries as it calls for A$122 billion ($81 billion) in annual investments to offset the closing of aging coal-fired power stations and meet ... 06/25/2024 - 2:44 pm | View Link
Nuclear reactor build could cost up to $600 billion Hundreds of billions could be spent building the opposition's nuclear power plants as critics urge the coalition to publish the costings and energy predictions. 06/22/2024 - 1:24 pm | View Link
PM spent ‘$6.5 billion’ trying to make ‘$275 reduction’ in power bills: David Littleproud Nationals leader David Littleproud has criticised Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for spending “$6.5 billion” in trying to make his “$275 reduction” in energy bills election promise. 06/22/2024 - 11:40 am | View Link
The real reason Peter Dutton wants nuclear power There is no Coalition nuclear plan, except to get re-elected (“Dutton hits the nuclear button”, June 20). No nuclear power plants will ever be built here. 06/19/2024 - 10:01 am | View Link
Australia seeking input on low carbon liquid fuels program NEWCASTLE, AUSTRALIA — The Australian government is seeking input on what is needed to establish a low carbon liquid fuels (LCLF) program as part of its Future Made in Australia Act to support the ... 06/13/2024 - 3:38 am | View Link
The economists say Trump’s economic plans would reignite inflation, in part because of his pledge to impose stiffer tariffs on Chinese imports, which they say will hike prices on many goods bought by U. S. consumers.
Sixteen Nobel prize-winning economists signed a letter on Tuesday warning that the U. S. and world economy will suffer if Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump wins the U.
The streaming-only Xbox would have looked like a smaller, squarer relative of the Series S. [credit:
Microsoft ]
Microsoft's mid-generation plans for the Xbox Series S and X consoles looked a whole lot different a couple of years ago than it does now. A leaked slide deck from the FTC v.
Enlarge / A Diamond Shruumz chocolate bar, which comes in a variety of flavors. (credit: diamondshruumz.com)
The US Food and Drug Administration has identified a synthetic psychedelic compound as well as compounds from a potentially toxic plant in the Diamond Shruumz-brand microdosing candies linked to a growing number of severe illnesses nationwide that have included seizures, intubation, and admissions to intensive care units.
As of June 25, the case total has grown to 39, including 23 hospitalizations, across 20 states, the FDA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.
It remains unclear what is in the candies and what may be causing the severe illnesses.
Enlarge / Top row: individual steps in the reaction process. Bottom row: cartoon diagram of the top, showing the position of each DNA and RNA strand. (credit: Hiraizumi, et. al.)
While CRISPR is probably the most prominent gene-editing technology, there are others, some developed before and since. And people have been developing CRISPR variants to perform more specialized functions, like altering specific bases.
When a door-to-door salesman showed up at Christine Palmer’s door in 2022 telling her she could save money by going solar, she and her husband decided to make the investment.
Two years later, the panels have never been switched on and the company that installed them—Titan Solar—has abruptly gone out of business, leaving Palmer with a shiny but useless array on her roof.
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On Wednesday, the Supreme Court tossed out claims that the Biden administration coerced social media platforms into censoring users by removing COVID-19 and election-related content.
Complaints alleging that high-ranking government officials were censoring conservatives had previously convinced a lower court to order an injunction limiting the Biden administration's contacts with platforms.