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- on A Finnish town is heating itself with 2,000 tonnes of crushed rock: its giant “sand battery” can cover almost a month of heating demand and has cut district heating emissions by 70% in c/technology@beehaw.org · 19 Aug 2026
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on A Finnish town is heating itself with 2,000 tonnes of crushed rock: its giant “sand battery” can cover almost a month of heating demand and has cut district heating emissions by 70% in c/technology@beehaw.org · 19 Aug 2026
It’s easier to freeze water than to cool rock borehole
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on More Renewables Lead To Lower Demand For Methane In Europe in c/technology@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026
This will continue as long as there are CCGTs used as baseload, then it will drop as CCGTs (and biomass + waste burners) will cover the gaps
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on More Renewables Lead To Lower Demand For Methane In Europe in c/technology@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026
methane cracker? that’s a very unusual unit that outputs hydrogen and carbon. i could find info about opening of ethane cracker in 2025, but that’s for plastics, next to shutdown of another similar unit
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on A solar powered website that goes offline when there's no power in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026
Lithium-iron is about 2x more expensive, there might be different availability and energy use during manufacture is probably higher
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on A solar powered website that goes offline when there's no power in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026
Lead-acid batteries work if you don’t care about weight and lithium-iron phosphate if you do
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on This A.I. Just Created Viruses Not Found in Nature in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Aug 2026
You can’t critihype it when you call it phage madlibs from the beginning
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on This A.I. Just Created Viruses Not Found in Nature in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Aug 2026
waaaaay less impressive when you take a look inside
Once Evo got familiar with the genomes of Phi X-174 and its kin, the researchers prompted the model to write new versions of its own. Evo generated 700,000 potential versions; the scientists pursued only the ones that looked as if they had the best odds of succeeding.
They ended up making DNA molecules from 285 of Evo’s suggested sequences. […] All told, they discovered that 16 of Evo’s genomes produced viable new viruses.
Dr. Crook cautioned that Evo’s viruses were not radically new creations. They tend to be very similar to natural species, relying on the same underlying biology.
look out for breathless boosters “warning” everyone that ai will kill us all and it’s definitely not used as a marketing strategy

that’s no problem at all, systems like that are in use