I’m not. Will use SpaceX cold gas thruster system with ultra high pressure air in a composite over-wrapped pressure vessel in place of the 2 rear seats.

🇯🇵⚡🌊 Le Japon a mis au point une nouvelle façon de produire de l’électricité… simplement en mélangeant de l’eau salée et de l’eau douce, et cette technologie est utilisée dans une centrale située à Fukuoka. Cette centrale unique n’a besoin ni de soleil, ni de vent, ni de carburant. Elle utilise ce qu’on appelle « l’énergie bleue ». Lorsque l’eau de mer rencontre l’eau d’un fleuve, la différence de salinité crée naturellement de l’énergie. À l’intérieur, d’extrêmement fines membranes séparent l’eau salée d’un côté et l’eau douce de l’autre. Les ions, ces minuscules particules issues du sel, traversent la membrane pour rejoindre l’eau douce. Leur mouvement génère de l’électricité, que la centrale récupère. Comme elle ne dépend que de l’eau de mer et de l’eau des rivières, l’installation fonctionne 24 h/24. Elle est silencieuse, ne nécessite aucune machine en mouvement et ne rejette aucune pollution dans l’air. Des milliers de membranes sont empilées les unes sur les autres, formant autant de petites « batteries ». Ensemble, elles produisent une énergie stable capable d’alimenter les communautés proches. C’est une technologie idéale pour les îles et les régions bordées de rivières : compacte, fiable par tous les temps et entièrement renouvelable. Deux eaux qui se rencontrent… et une électricité propre pour l’avenir. 💚

If you’re paying for Starlink, I beg you to find another provider.

Brace yourselves. Over the next few weeks you are going to see a wave of hatred against Elon Musk unlike anything before. A four-hour hit-piece documentary rolling out nationwide. Midterms three weeks away. Every outlet, every NGO, every “expert” panel suddenly singing from the same sheet, on the same day, with the same words. None of it is spontaneous. What you are watching is an organism. Call it international socialism, call it the managerial left, the name doesn’t matter. It is a network that spent decades quietly capturing the universities, the newsrooms, the foundations, the administrative state, every institution that was supposed to referee the game instead of playing it. For years it worked because no one with real power ever looked under the hood. Then a man who lands rockets, owns the public square and needs nobody’s permission started looking. And started showing everyone else what he found. So the organism does what every organism does when it senses a threat to its survival. It screams. Don’t mistake the noise for strength. What you are about to hear is not the roar of a system in control. It is a death cry. The louder it gets, the closer he is to the nerve. I wrote about why this happens, and why “Nazi” is always the weapon of choice 👇 xitter.cf/brivael/status/2069203…

I am really worried about Austrian electricity supply. Looking at midday market split between Germany and Austria it became clear that exports from Germany are constrained by Bavarian interconnectors. However, this doesn't answer the question: Why is there a shortfall of domestic power generation in Austria? So I crunched 12 months of data for Austrian power supply and came to the conclusion - it does look scary. How on earth Austria will go through the winter this year if they are to face week or two of the continental cold snap? Now lets look at some data: 1. Austria produced less than it used in 9 of the last 13 months. It covered its own demand only April to June, when snowmelt pushes hydro to its peak. 2. Its mostly hydro-and-solar system is weak in autumn and winter. This autumn has been unusually dry. And about 40% of its gas fleet, the plants that would normally fill the gap, has been out on planned or unplanned outages. 3. What's left is filled with imports, mainly from Germany, until the link between the two countries is full. 4. The new Limberg III plant (2 × 240 MW) has been reported unavailable all year. 5. By time of day, the shortfall is worst at night and in the morning, around −1.3 to −2.8 GW. Solar nearly closes it at midday The shortage gap is rising year-to-year as seen on the graph below, so this situation will worsen into November when solar output drops drastically. To be honest, I have never looked into Austrian power supply and was quite surprised to learn that situation is so dire. I have little info about policies there, so if somebody makes it through the end of this post do let me know why self-sufficiency is not a thing anymore in the Austria, why there is an idea that imports will cover all demand and what happened to nearly 4.3 GW of gas power plants being on outage over the last 60 days.

I genuinely don't understand why anyone would want a beautiful Siberian tiger to be killed simply because a human chose to enter its enclosure of their own free will. The staff who reportedly fired warning shots to scare the animal away did an incredible job trying to save the man's life while also preserving the tiger's life. Tigers are apex predators. They view humans as potential prey. We all know this. Why on earth should this magnificent animal lose its life for behaving exactly as nature intended? The man's death is tragic, but killing the tiger would have achieved absolutely nothing. The tiger did nothing wrong.