johnthesecure

Two prototypes now operating (15 Dec 2025): https://electrek.co/2025/12/15/fortescue-infinity-train-elec...

Easier to access at https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-physical-science/fulltext/...

I experienced this issue, but it works on another device, and after a refresh it worked on the original device. Good luck...

Rather than looking at different letters, perhaps look at different font families. Clearly sans-serif I-beams are structurally much worse than avec-serif I-beams.

It's interesting to see the number of deaths caused by pollution. But everyone will die of something. Could it be that many of those people whose death was caused by pollution may have been frail and close to death anyway? I wonder if it would be more useful to talk about quality-life-years (QUALYs) lost as a result of pollution. Probably much harder to get that data though.

The calculations paper talks about the water cycle and explains that fresh clean water isn't well distributed. I wonder whether big evaporators like data centers might actually help to redistribute water across the planet.

Two years ago, the Boston Dynamics Atlas could do mid-air somersaults - that's better than most 10-year-olds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF4DML7FIWk

Surprising to see the crash (or controlled) landing described as auto-rotation.

I don't think "Protein Poisoning" is of serious concern. The dietary guidelines people could find no suitable upper limit for protein. But I agree that it would be better to know more about these diets.

Importantly, I don't think many people would say that <45% carbs qualifies as "Low Carb". 20% or 26% carbs is a more typical threshold. For example: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK537084/ https://www.aafp.org/pubs/afp/issues/2006/0601/p1942.html

I currently use a Google sheet, but I'm looking for something better.

I have many automatic payments (credit card, telephone, utilities, etc) from a transaction account. I also have a loan with redraw, and I want to have most of my funds keeping the loan balance low, but I don't want my transaction account to go negative. So I need to forecast future transactions.

Future transactions may be annual, monthly, four weekly, two weekly, etc. It's a real mess. Some are easy to predict accurately, others can only be estimated.

I have a column to keep track of which future transactions are predictions/estimates/allowances, and which ones have been confirmed.

I also have a column to keep track of which transactions have been reconciled with the bank. (This is currently a manual cross-checking process, since my bank doesn't have API access.)

My preference would be a text-based system (https://plaintextaccounting.org/), but haven't found one that neatly allows estimates of future transactions that can be modified once the details are known.

That's enough energy to boil those kettles dry, if my calculations are correct. To bring them to the boil, 59MJ would run about 600 kettles.

Tell that to https://li-cycle.com/ and https://northvolt.com/revolt/