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U.S. Policy for Clean Energy Innovation
As U.S. federal agencies consider adopting a more comprehensive approach to supporting innovation in clean technologies, they should take note of what has worked well in the recent past. The post U.S. Policy for Clean Energy Innovation appeared...
A carbon tax is a great limited-government policy
How much revenue the government collects is a poor metric for the size of government, and more federal revenue should not stop lawmakers from pursuing a carbon tax. The post A carbon tax is a great limited-government policy appeared first on...
Grid Resilience Requires Grid Accountability
Our current electricity governance structure provides neither The post Grid Resilience Requires Grid Accountability appeared first on Niskanen Center.
Opinion | The Guardian
The police have their version of the Bristol protests. Locals tell a different story
With claims of violent mobs wreaking havoc, the public risks being misled about how events really unfolded in the cityLast Sunday, a peaceful demonstration in Bristol escalated sharply into clashes between protesters and riot police –...
Britain thinks it has won the gender equality war. That's a bad sign | Nesrine Malik
There have been key victories but a survey shows complacency setting in just as women face a post-pandemic crisisProgress can often be its own worst enemy. After a month in which the nation’s attention was diverted towards the inadequate...
How do faithless people like me make sense of this past year of Covid? | John Harris
Many of us yearn for meaning. But in our individualistic, secular society we lack even the flimsiest of narratives to guide usWhen my partner and I filled in our census form, we got to the section about faith, both ticked the “no religion”...
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Ontario lowers minimum age for vaccines in 10 more regions
Ontario is lowering the minimum age for COVID-19 vaccines in 10 more public health units.
Record rains cause flash flooding in Tennessee; 4 dead
Torrential rains across Tennessee flooded homes and at least one church and left roads impassable, prompting dozens of people to be rescued in the Nashville area. Authorities said four bodies were found Sunday in the flood's aftermath...
Alberta reports 644 new cases of COVID-19, variants more than one-quarter of active cases
Alberta reported another 644 cases of COVID-19 Sunday and 235 variant of concern cases.
Tallbloke's Talkshop
Just One Number Keeps the Lights On
Originally posted on Science Matters: David Wojick explains how maintaining electricity supply is simple in his CFACT article It takes big energy to back up wind and solar. Excerpts in italics with my bolds. (H/T John Ray) Power system design...
Super-cold thunderstorm sets temperature record
But that’s not the whole story. It seems from long-term data ‘that these super-cold thunderstorms may be increasing in frequency. There have been as many such events across the globe in the past three years as there were in the 13 years before...
EU’s top court rejects effort to force tougher climate rules
Speculative climate ‘lawfare’, a form of extortion via the courts, has overreached itself again and been declared out of scope. Any idea of weather control is an illusion. – – – BRUSSELS — The European Union’s top court on Thursday...
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TRAI writes to key ministries, associations, NIC, others on new norms for bulk SMS
The regulator has written to key stakeholders across sectors informing them at length about the rules, and urging them to advise entities and organisations under their jurisdiction to "strictly comply with the new regulatory requirement...
Unbelievable! iPhone works fine even after lying under a lake for 30 days
After losing her phone, she had given up hope of getting it back and she was upset about the fact that all the pictures of her trip were there on the phone. However, as luck would have it, Carriere took a few friends along with her and managed to locate...
WhatsApp Chat Threads feature available for select beta users on Android: Check how it works
WhatsApp Chat Threads is one such feature that will be launched later this year. However, the company has released this feature for select WhatsApp beta users. As per the website WABetaInfo, the Chat Threads WhatsApp feature is made available...
Zee News :Sci-Tech
Curious case of 'Spiders on Mars', NASA working on this weird mystery
Spiders or also knows as the Araneiforms, the strange-looking negative topography radial system of the dendritic troughs. These patterns resemble the tree branches. Araneiforms or spiders are not found on Earth...
Black Hole's magnetic field mapped for the first time, see spectacular images
Images released by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration revealed how the black hole, some 55 million light-years away at the centre of galaxy M87, appears in polarised light.
Bacteria found on International Space Station gets named after Indian scientist Ajmal Khan
According to a study published in the Frontiers in Microbiology, four strains from the family of Mytholobacteriaceae were found on various locations on the International Space Station (ISS) across two consecutive flights on Monday...
Zee News :World
Nepal Army receives 1 lakh COVID-19 vaccine doses from Indian Army
India, which has provided made in India vaccines to several countries, has provided 1 million doses to Nepal in January.
Indonesia church bombing: Suspected suicide bombers hit Sunday Mass, 14 wounded
Two suspected suicide bombers attacked a Catholic church in the Indonesian city of Makassar on Sunday, wounding fourteen people on the first day of the Easter Holy Week, officials said.
One dead, five wounded in stabbing at Canada's Vancouver public library, suspect in custody
One woman was killed and five others were wounded in a stabbing at a public library located near a busy shopping area of a Vancouver suburb in Canada.
Zee News :India National
Indian Railways Recruitment 2021: 716 vacancies notified, 10th pass students can apply on mponline.gov.in
A total of 716 vacancies have been released. Interested candidates, who wish to build a career in the Indian Railways, can apply on the official website on mponline.gov.in.
Lockdown will be imposed if people do not follow COVID-19 rules: Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope
Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope warned that if people do not follow laid out COVID-19 rules then a total lockdown will have to be imposed.
Kendriya Vidyalaya Admissions 2021: Online registration schedule for Class 1 released on kvsangathan.nic.in
The application process would be done through online mode. The registration for admission can be done through the official website of KVS on kvsangathan.nic.in.
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North Korea accuses UN Security Council of 'double standard' over missile tests
SEOUL: North Korea said on Monday (Mar 29) that the United Nations Security Council showed a double standard as its sanctions committee criticised the country's recent missile test as a violation of UN resolutions. North Korea launched a...
UN chief criticises wealthy countries for COVID-19 vaccine 'stockpile'
MONTREAL: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres criticised developed countries for creating a "stockpile" of COVID-19 vaccines, and called on them to share with the rest of the world to help end the pandemic. "I'm very concerned...
Snap lockdown ordered in Australia's Brisbane after COVID-19 outbreak
More than two million people in Brisbane were ordered into a three-day lockdown Monday after a cluster of coronavirus cases was detected in Australia's third-biggest city.
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South Korea's expert panel says Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine safe, effective for approval
A panel of South Korean advisers said that a COVID-19 vaccine from Johnson & Johnson was safe and effective, the food and drug safety ministry said on Monday (Mar 29), moving the single-dose shot a step closer to receiving regulatory...
North Korea accuses UN Security Council of 'double standard' over missile tests
SEOUL: North Korea said on Monday (Mar 29) that the United Nations Security Council showed a double standard as its sanctions committee criticised the country's recent missile test as a violation of UN resolutions. North Korea launched a...
China reports 15 new COVID-19 cases
BEIJING: China reported 15 new COVID-19 cases in the mainland for Sunday (Mar 28), up from eight a day earlier, the country's national health authority said on Monday. The National Health Commission, in a statement, said all the new cases were...
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Malaysian celebrity Neelofa’s wedding under investigation for possible COVID-19 SOP breach
Photos and clips of the Saturday (Mar 27) ceremony have been making their rounds online with one showing dozens of people sitting in close proximity with many of them not wearing masks.
Signalling fault causes morning rush hour delays on North-South Line
SINGAPORE: A signalling fault caused delays along the North-South Line during the morning rush hour on Monday (Mar 29). Line operator SMRT first posted on social media at 5.47am about the delay. It advised commuters on the North-South...
North Korea accuses UN Security Council of 'double standard' over missile tests
SEOUL: North Korea said on Monday (Mar 29) that the United Nations Security Council showed a double standard as its sanctions committee criticised the country's recent missile test as a violation of UN resolutions. North Korea launched a...
- Meanwhile the US and UK renew old nuclear WMD missile stockpiles. 'Double standards' ? What you talk ?
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