Leben (Life aka misc) The Planet (on, and off)
Heat Pumps Twice As Efficient As Fossil Fuel Systems In Cold Weather
Heat pumps are more than twice as efficient as fossil fuel heating systems in cold temperatures, research shows. Even at temperatures approaching -30C, heat pumps outperform oil and gas heating systems, according to the research from Oxford University and the Regulatory Assistance Project thinktank… Reports have spread that they do Read more…
Leben (Life aka misc) The Planet (on, and off)
Mosquitoes Are a Growing Public Health Threat, Reversing Years of Progress
The New York Times reports that a “squadron of young scientists and an army of volunteers” are “waging an all-out war on a creature that threatens the health of more people than any other on earth: the mosquito.” They are testing new insecticides and ingenious new ways to deliver them. Read more…
Leben (Life aka misc) The Planet (on, and off)
Will EVs Send OPEC Into a Death Spiral?
This week the UK’s conservative Daily Telegraph newspaper published an interesting perspective from their world economy editor. “Saudi and OPEC officials self-evidently do not believe their own claim that world oil demand will keep growing briskly for another generation as if electric vehicles had never been invented, and there was Read more…
Creativity Leben (Life aka misc) Technology
Elvis Is Back in the Building, Thanks to Generative AI – and U2
U2’s inaugural performance at the opening of Las Vegas’s Sphere included a generative AI video collage projected hundreds of feet into the air — showing hundreds of surreal renderings of Elvis Presley. The video collage is the creation of the artist Marco Brambilla, the director of Demolition Man and Kanye Read more…
Leben (Life aka misc)
Netflix Ships Its Last DVD
Netflix has shipped its last DVD. “For 25 years, we redefined how people watched films and series at home, and shared the excitement as they opened their mailboxes to our iconic red envelopes,” says Netflix in a blog post. “It’s the end of an era, but the DVD business built Read more…
Leben (Life aka misc) The Planet (on, and off)
Six Young People Take 32 Countries To Court Over Climate Change
What I felt was fear,” says Claudia Duarte Agostinho as she remembers the extreme heatwave and fires that ripped through Portugal in 2017 and killed more than 100 people. “The wildfires made me really anxious about what sort of future I would have.” Claudia, 24, her brother Martim, 20, and Read more…