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www.nytimes.com A Decade-Long Search for a Battery That Can End the Gasoline Era

Can a small Massachusetts start-up perfect a battery that would make electric vehicles cheaper and more convenient than conventional cars?

A Decade-Long Search for a Battery That Can End the Gasoline Era
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www.nytimes.com A Decade-Long Search for a Battery That Can End the Gasoline Era

Can a small Massachusetts start-up perfect a battery that would make electric vehicles cheaper and more convenient than conventional cars?

A Decade-Long Search for a Battery That Can End the Gasoline Era
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Head of FEMA removed after saying the agency should not be abolished

> The administration replaced Cameron Hamilton as acting administrator of the embattled disaster response agency, which Trump has suggested dismantling.

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www.wbur.org Boston-area climate activists report visits from the FBI

Local climate activists are on edge after people claiming to be FBI agents visited at least six at their homes on the same day in Greater Boston in March. Weeks later, the motivations behind these visits remain a mystery.

Boston-area climate activists report visits from the FBI
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talkingpointsmemo.com The NIH Funds-Ghosting, A Follow Up Report

Two days ago I wrote about a pattern operating largely under the...

The NIH Funds-Ghosting, A Follow Up Report
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www.nytimes.com U.S. Government to Stop Tracking the Costs of Extreme Weather

It would be harder for insurers and scientists to study wildfires, storms and other “billion dollar disasters,” which are growing more frequent as the planet warms.

U.S. Government to Stop Tracking the Costs of Extreme Weather
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States Sue Over Freeze on Funding for Electric-Vehicle Charging: A lawsuit led by Washington, Colorado and California accuses the Trump administration of unlawfully withholding funds for new charging
www.nytimes.com States Sue Trump Administration Over Funding Freeze for EV Charging

A lawsuit led by Washington, Colorado and California accuses the Trump administration of unlawfully withholding funds for new charging stations.

States Sue Trump Administration Over Funding Freeze for EV Charging
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www.nytimes.com Opinion | How Will We Know When We Have Lost Our Democracy?

And how exactly can we tell whether America has crossed the line?

Opinion | How Will We Know When We Have Lost Our Democracy?
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www.nytimes.com A Most Sensitive Subject in the White House: Where Is Melania?

Mrs. Trump has spent fewer than 14 days at the White House since her husband was inaugurated 108 days ago.

A Most Sensitive Subject in the White House: Where Is Melania?
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World's wealthiest 10% have contributed to two-thirds of global warming since 1990, study finds
  • That's two of the big three sources of household emissions. There's a third one though: which is heating and cooling.

    I'd look at getting those off of fossil fuels next, and doing what you can to get electricity from renewables.

  • 18 States Sue Over Trump’s Halting of Wind Power Projects | The halt threatens jobs and holds back energy production at a time the president has claimed an “energy emergency,” state AGs said
  • All you have to do is click through to the lawsuit they link

    STATE OF NEW YORK; COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS; STATE OF ARIZONA; STATE OF CALIFORNIA; STATE OF COLORADO; STATE OF CONNECTICUT; STATE OF DELAWARE; DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; STATE OF ILLINOIS; STATE OF MAINE; STATE OF MARYLAND; THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN; STATE OF MINNESOTA; STATE OF NEW JERSEY; STATE OF NEW MEXICO; STATE OF OREGON; STATE OF RHODE ISLAND; and STATE OF WASHINGTON

    In short, most of the ones with a Democrat as Attorney General

  • The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked | TeleMessage, a company that makes a modified version of Signal that archives messages for government agencies, was hacked.
  • Signal makes it believable by providing source code and reproducible builds. It doesn't rule out the possibility that they've done something clever with the random number generator, or have the app store you use give you a compromised app, or provide any protection against endpoint compromise, but it's about as good as you can get.

    Third party apps derived from theirs, which explicitly promise to log all your messages to a server somewhere, like TeleMessage, are, for obvious reasons, far less trustworthy.

  • It Was Just a Rumor on Facebook. Then a Militia Showed Up. Residents of Oakdale, CA have abandoned traditional media outlets for a mishmash of online sources. Now they’re often unsure what to trust
  • I wouldn't go where you are; I can think of several examples of the NYT and US State Department agreeing about Ukraine in ways that turned out to be very right. It's more important to look at what evidence is brought to bear to support a conclusion, and whether the conclusion is valid based on the evidence, and to look at more than one outlet to understand an issue, so it's not easy to use paltering to mislead.

  • It Was Just a Rumor on Facebook. Then a Militia Showed Up. Residents of Oakdale, CA have abandoned traditional media outlets for a mishmash of online sources. Now they’re often unsure what to trust
  • Media literacy means having a sense of which outlets lie about which issues and why. eg: the Wall Street Journal editorials and op-eds are used as a means of introducing lies for commercial advantage, and New York Times politics writers put out puff pieces to maintain access to wealth and power.

  • On May 1, Germany ran almost entirely on renewables energy during the day
  • And that's how it starts. You add enough wind and solar that they can sometimes provide more electricity than people use. Curtailment orders keep them from causing a problem, but that means wasting otherwise free electricity. So people start installing utility-scale batteries, which soak up that excess, and release it during the morning and evening peaks in net demand. You install even more wind and solar, and people do even more batteries, displacing routine overnight fossil fuel use. Even more wind and solar, and it starts making sense to install low-efficiency long-duration storage, and fossil fuel use disappears completely and permanently.

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