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📝 🇻🇪 🇬🇾 A cautionary reminder from history:
🔶️ On 1990-07-31, a meeting took place between Iraq and Kuwait in Saudi Arabia. Iraq stated that it would not use armed forces against Kuwait.
🔶️ Two days later, Iraq invaded Kuwait.
🔶️ Oil makes powerful people do crazy things.
🔶️ Guyana was of relatively little interest to Venezuela until the country began producing oil just four years ago. Since then, it has been a focal point.
🔶️ PS: The oil production is done offshore by vessels which can always depart.
🔶️ On 1990-07-31, a meeting took place between Iraq and Kuwait in Saudi Arabia. Iraq stated that it would not use armed forces against Kuwait.
🔶️ Two days later, Iraq invaded Kuwait.
🔶️ Oil makes powerful people do crazy things.
🔶️ Guyana was of relatively little interest to Venezuela until the country began producing oil just four years ago. Since then, it has been a focal point.
🔶️ PS: The oil production is done offshore by vessels which can always depart.
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📢 🇺🇸 🚢 White House spokeman to Shipping Companies on the threats in the Red Sea:
🔶️ "I would let these companies speak for themselves... They have to weigh the balance of risk and benefit of the transit of their ships all around the world."
ICS:
"States with influence in the region should, as a matter of urgency, work to stop the actions of the Houthis in attacking seafarers and merchant ships, and de-escalate what is now an extremely serious threat to international trade."
https://www.ics-shipping.org/statement/international-chamber-of-shipping-statement-on-the-red-sea-ship-attacks/
🔶️ "I would let these companies speak for themselves... They have to weigh the balance of risk and benefit of the transit of their ships all around the world."
ICS:
"States with influence in the region should, as a matter of urgency, work to stop the actions of the Houthis in attacking seafarers and merchant ships, and de-escalate what is now an extremely serious threat to international trade."
https://www.ics-shipping.org/statement/international-chamber-of-shipping-statement-on-the-red-sea-ship-attacks/
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☢️ 🇨🇳 🌊 Chinese researchers turn to seawater for nuclear fuel uranium
⬛️ Uranium ions float freely in the world's oceans at concentrations 1,000 times greater than ore deposits on land and serve as fuel for reactors.
🔶️ Researchers at the Northeast Normal University in China have successfully tapped seawater as a source of uranium, a widely used fuel for nuclear reactors. The approach could help fuel the transition to a carbon-free source of energy.
🔶️ Uranium fuel is extracted from its ore in various parts of the world. From here, the metal needs to be enriched to a level where it can used in a nuclear plant. The Nuclear Energy Agency, however, estimates about 4.5 billion tons of uranium floating around in seawater.
🔶️ This is 1,000 times the quantity of uranium estimated to exist in land deposits and serves as an unconstrained source of carbon-free energy if one could tap into this. The dissolved uranium exists in the form of uranyl ions in the seawater, and researchers Rui Zhao and Guangshan Zhu at the Northeast Normal University in China set about the difficult task of extracting them from seawater and developing a material to help them address the challenge.
https://interestingengineering.com/science/seawater-source-of-nuclear-uranium
⬛️ Uranium ions float freely in the world's oceans at concentrations 1,000 times greater than ore deposits on land and serve as fuel for reactors.
🔶️ Researchers at the Northeast Normal University in China have successfully tapped seawater as a source of uranium, a widely used fuel for nuclear reactors. The approach could help fuel the transition to a carbon-free source of energy.
🔶️ Uranium fuel is extracted from its ore in various parts of the world. From here, the metal needs to be enriched to a level where it can used in a nuclear plant. The Nuclear Energy Agency, however, estimates about 4.5 billion tons of uranium floating around in seawater.
🔶️ This is 1,000 times the quantity of uranium estimated to exist in land deposits and serves as an unconstrained source of carbon-free energy if one could tap into this. The dissolved uranium exists in the form of uranyl ions in the seawater, and researchers Rui Zhao and Guangshan Zhu at the Northeast Normal University in China set about the difficult task of extracting them from seawater and developing a material to help them address the challenge.
https://interestingengineering.com/science/seawater-source-of-nuclear-uranium
Interesting Engineering
Chinese researchers choose seawater for nuclear fuel uranium
Uranium extracted from seawater could be an unconstrained source of nuclear fuel, helping a well-tested carbon-free source of energy grow.
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NEW - China iPhone ban: Many Chinese agencies and government-backed firms across the country have ordered staff to stop bringing iPhones - Bloomberg
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While there is a surge in federated social media sites, like Bluesky and Mastodon, some technologists are hoping to take things further than this model of decentralization with fully peer-to-peer applications. Two leading projects, Spritely and Veilid, hint at what this could look like.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/12/meet-spritely-and-veilid
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/12/meet-spritely-and-veilid
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Spritely and Veilid: Exciting Projects Building the Peer-to-Peer Web
While there is a surge in federated social media sites, like Bluesky and Mastodon, some technologists are hoping to take things further than this model of decentralization with fully peer-to-peer
🇻🇦 Former Vatican official Angelo Becciu jailed for five-and-a-half years over corruption scandal
The charges focused on the purchasing of a showroom in London's Sloane Square formally used by Harrods, which was bought for €140m more than its market value - defrauding the Vatican.
The pope's former deputy secretary of state and nine others have been found guilty in the Vatican's biggest financial corruption scandal.
Cardinal Angelo Becciu, Vatican employees and two outside Italian brokers were among 10 defendants described by Vatican prosecutors as "actors in a rotten predatory and lucrative system".
https://news.sky.com/story/former-vatican-official-angelo-becciu-jailed-for-five-and-a-half-years-over-corruption-scandal-13031146
The charges focused on the purchasing of a showroom in London's Sloane Square formally used by Harrods, which was bought for €140m more than its market value - defrauding the Vatican.
The pope's former deputy secretary of state and nine others have been found guilty in the Vatican's biggest financial corruption scandal.
Cardinal Angelo Becciu, Vatican employees and two outside Italian brokers were among 10 defendants described by Vatican prosecutors as "actors in a rotten predatory and lucrative system".
https://news.sky.com/story/former-vatican-official-angelo-becciu-jailed-for-five-and-a-half-years-over-corruption-scandal-13031146
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Former Vatican official Angelo Becciu jailed for five-and-a-half years over corruption scandal
The charges focused on the purchasing of a showroom in London's Sloane Square formally used by Harrods, which was bought for €140m more than its market value - defrauding the Vatican.
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The Countries Pledging the Most Military Aid to Ukraine
Ukraine President Zelensky was in Washington D.C. yesterday, in an attempt to save the military aid lifeline his country's ally has continually provided since Russia's February 2022 invasion. Last week, an emergency spending bill to send more than $50 billion in new assistance to Ukraine, as well as $14 billion for Israel, was blocked by Senate Republicans.
Democrat and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer warned after the result that the risks of Ukraine failing to win the war were great, saying the vote was a "serious moment that will have lasting consequences for the 21st century," and that "If Ukraine falls, Putin will not stop there". Schumer added: "Western democracy will begin to enter an age of decline if we aren’t willing to defend it."
While Republicans are yet to show willingness to budge on the issue, Zelensky didn't end his trip empty handed. In a press conference last night, U.S. President Biden told reporters that he had signed "another $200m drawdown from the department of defense for Ukraine”.
As this infographic using data from the Ukraine Support Tracker by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy shows, the United States has been by far Ukraine's most important military aid partner since the war began. Looking at pledges of military aid to Ukraine between January 24, 2022 and October 31, 2023, the U.S. government committed a total of €43.9 billion.
Source: Statista
Ukraine President Zelensky was in Washington D.C. yesterday, in an attempt to save the military aid lifeline his country's ally has continually provided since Russia's February 2022 invasion. Last week, an emergency spending bill to send more than $50 billion in new assistance to Ukraine, as well as $14 billion for Israel, was blocked by Senate Republicans.
Democrat and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer warned after the result that the risks of Ukraine failing to win the war were great, saying the vote was a "serious moment that will have lasting consequences for the 21st century," and that "If Ukraine falls, Putin will not stop there". Schumer added: "Western democracy will begin to enter an age of decline if we aren’t willing to defend it."
While Republicans are yet to show willingness to budge on the issue, Zelensky didn't end his trip empty handed. In a press conference last night, U.S. President Biden told reporters that he had signed "another $200m drawdown from the department of defense for Ukraine”.
As this infographic using data from the Ukraine Support Tracker by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy shows, the United States has been by far Ukraine's most important military aid partner since the war began. Looking at pledges of military aid to Ukraine between January 24, 2022 and October 31, 2023, the U.S. government committed a total of €43.9 billion.
Source: Statista
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🚢 🇾🇪 🌍 Amidst the maritime chaos unfolding in the Red Sea, here is a simple graphic detailing recent incidents in Bab-el-Mandeb region, this visual encapsulates current challenges faced by one of the globe's busiest shipping routes
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🇰🇷 World’s first electromagnetic power generator that uses no fuel debuts
🔶️ One such establishment, South Korea's SEMP Research Institute, has developed cutting-edge technology – an AI Smart Electromagnetic Generator (AISEG) in collaboration with Global Solutions for Project Management.
🔶️ According to the company, AISEG is a non-rotational power generation system operating on fundamental electromagnetic principles and laws such as Biot-Savart's and Faraday's laws.
🔶️ The technology aims to revolutionize energy generation by providing constant output frequency without the need for fuel.
🔶️ The company stated: "This innovation is scalable and can be used in power plants, a house off-grid, electric vehicles with no need for recharging or refueling, ships, planes, and mobile phones. The sky is the limit."
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/first-ai-nonrotational-power-cop28
🔶️ One such establishment, South Korea's SEMP Research Institute, has developed cutting-edge technology – an AI Smart Electromagnetic Generator (AISEG) in collaboration with Global Solutions for Project Management.
🔶️ According to the company, AISEG is a non-rotational power generation system operating on fundamental electromagnetic principles and laws such as Biot-Savart's and Faraday's laws.
🔶️ The technology aims to revolutionize energy generation by providing constant output frequency without the need for fuel.
🔶️ The company stated: "This innovation is scalable and can be used in power plants, a house off-grid, electric vehicles with no need for recharging or refueling, ships, planes, and mobile phones. The sky is the limit."
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/first-ai-nonrotational-power-cop28
Interesting Engineering
First AI-backed 'no fuel' electromag power system debuts
SEMP Research Institute devised an AI Smart Electromagnetic Generator (AISEG) innovated based on the principles of Biot-Savart’s Law and Faraday’s Law.