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Here's how California's canals could advance the state's renewable energy goals

Last year, a study published in Nature Sustainability found that it may be possible to tap into the network of public water delivery canals as a way to both conserve water and advance the state's renewable energy efforts.
— PBS (September 23)   (Pocket)  (Media Bias)

Off the grid: Oregon plant aims to prove renewable energy can work

The project, which will generate enough electricity to power a small city at maximum output, addresses a key challenge facing the utility industry as the United States transitions away from fossil fuels and increasingly turns to solar and wind farms for power. Wind and solar are clean sources of power, but utilities have been forced to fill in gaps when the wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t shining with fossil fuels like coal or natural gas.
— Christian Science Monitor (September 28)   (Pocket)  (Media Bias)

Stanford engineers warn that electric car charging could crash a grid powered by renewable energy

Renewable energy and electric vehicles (EVs) are key to decarbonizing the U.S. and combating climate change, but the technologies could have a hard time co-existing when it comes to charging, particularly out West, a new analysis finds. A looming problem Most EV owners currently charge their vehicles at night when they aren’t in use, taking advantage of cheaper, off-peak electricity rates when demand is low and fossil fuel (mostly natural gas) or nuclear power plants are providing much of the electricity. But by 2035, with hotter nighttime temperatures requiring more air conditioning, a low-carbon grid powered predominantly by wind and solar, and tens of millions of EVs on the road, charging those vehicles at night — ...
— Big Think (September 27)   (Pocket)  (Media Bias)

Saudi Arabia launches five renewable energy projects - Reuters

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— Reuters (September 25)   (Pocket)  (Media Bias)

Renewable energy jobs rise by 700000 in a year, to nearly 13 million - UN News

Worldwide employment in the renewable energy sector reached 12.7 million last year, a jump of 700,000 new jobs in just 12 months, despite the lingering effects of COVID-19 and the growing energy crisis, according to a new report published by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) in collaboration with the UN’s International Labour Organization (ILO).
— United Nations (September 22)   (Pocket)  (Media Bias)

Amazon adds 2.7 gigawatts of renewable energy to its operations

But the question remains whether it is polluting more or less Amazon says it is adding 2.7 gigawatts of clean energy capacity to its operations that are spread across 71 new renewable energy projects worldwide, as it works towards becoming a carbon neutral biz by 2040.…
— The Register (September 22)   (Pocket)  (Media Bias)

Shell CEO To Be Replaced By Renewables Boss

Shell CEO To Be Replaced By Renewables Boss British energy giant Shellannounced Thursday that CEO Ben van Beurden will step down at the end of 2022 and that his successor will be the company's renewables director. FTreported preparations for van Beurden's departure began last May when Scottish businessman and former CEO of BHP Billiton Sir Andrew Mackenzie became Shell's chair. Shell CEO Ben van Beurden Two unnamed sources told Reuters that Shell's board succession committee met several times this summer about Beurden's departure and potential successors. They picked Wael Sawan, Shell's director of integrated gas, renewables, and energy solutions, to lead the company on Jan.
— ZeroHedge Opinion (September 15)   (Pocket)  (Media Bias)

@MetroMayorSteve: 🌹 Proud that our next @UKLabour Prime Minister @Keir_Starmer set out his vision for a fairer, greener future: ⚡️A publicly-owned energy company 🌊 Tidal + hydrogen renewable energy ✊🏻 Strengthened workers’ rights ⚖️ A Hillsborough Law Now 🏡 Tackling the housing crisis

American Airlines says hackers obtained some customer and employee data

American Airlines says that hackers may have obtained personal information for a "very small number" of customers and employees. The company did not say exactly how many people were impacted, though it noted there's no evidence that the attackers have misused the information. It told affected customers that names, driver’s license and passport numbers, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth and medical information may have been compromised.The hackers gained access to American's email system through a phishing campaign, as the Associated Press reported. The company told regulators in Montana that it discovered the intrusion in July. It started informing affected customers last week.
— Engadget (September 20)   (Pocket)  (Media Bias)

A flying taxi ordered by American Airlines just completed its first piloted flight

VX4, the electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) capable aircraft from British aviation startup Vertical Aerospace completed its first take-off from the ground over the weekend, the company said in a press release. Also referred to as "wheels up," the milestone is a major boost for American Airlines, which has plans to incorporate 250 such aircraft into its fleet when they are available.
— Interesting Engineering (September 28)   (Pocket)  (Media Bias)

New Flying Taxi Completes First Test Flight. American Airlines Has 250 on Preorder - CNET

David Anders is a senior writer for CNET covering broadband providers, smart home devices and security products. Prior to joining CNET, David built his industry expertise writing for the broadband marketplace Allconnect. In his 5 plus years covering broadband, David's work has been referenced by a variety of sources including ArcGIS, DIRECTV and more. David is from and currently resides in the Charlotte area with his wife, son and two cats.
— CNET (September 27)   (Pocket)  (Media Bias)

U.S. Suit Over Alliance of American Airlines and JetBlue Goes to Trial - The New York Times

U.S. Suit Over Alliance of American Airlines and JetBlue Goes to TrialThe New York TimesDOJ starts hearing to unwind 'northeast alliance' between JetBlue, American AirlinesCNBC TelevisionJustice Department's fight with JetBlue and American Airlines heads to courtCNBCUS Should Block JetBlue Deal for Spirit, Not Alliance With AmericanBloombergAmerican and JetBlue face antitrust trial over joint sales agreementCNBC TelevisionView
— New York Times (September 27)   (Pocket)  (Media Bias)

Passenger in American Airlines faces up to 20 years in prison after punching flight attendant

In these screenshots from a video, Alexander Tung Cuu Lee can be seen hitting the flight attendant on American Airlines Photograph:( Twitter )
— WION (September 23)   (Pocket)  (Media Bias)

American Airlines says data breach affected some customers, employees - Reuters

Sept 20 (Reuters) - American Airlines Inc (AAL.O) on Tuesday confirmed a data breach and said while an "unauthorized actor" gained access to personal information of a small number of customers and employees through a phishing campaign, there was no evidence of data misuse.
— Reuters (September 20)   (Pocket)  (Media Bias)

@ImSarahRice: @johnnybananas @AmericanAir Hey American Airlines, Sarah here! 👋 I would never turn my back on you, not even for a big pile of cash! Feel free to reward my loyalty with 175K bonus miles (one for each dollar someone took)…DM me for my loyalty number. I have it memorized.

Rodgers Explains Viral Jumbotron Quote After Bucs Win

Following the Packers’ 14–12 win over the Buccaneers on Sunday, quarterback Aaron Rodgers drew some raised eyebrows with his post-game comments in which he said he noticed something about the Bucs’ formation on the Jumbotron at Raymond James Stadium. He shared the information with Packers coaches before Tampa Bay’s two-point conversion attempt, which was ultimately unsuccessful and sealed the win for Green Bay.
— Sports Illustrated (September 27)   (Pocket)  (Media Bias)

Mahomes throws for 3 TDs, Chiefs overwhelm Buccaneers 41-31

Patrick Mahomes threw for 249 yards and three touchdowns, including an electrifying jump pass to Clyde Edwards-Helaire, to lead the Kansas City Chiefs to a 41-31 victory over Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday night.
— Washington Times (October 3)   (Pocket)  (Media Bias)

NFL Week 4: Chiefs-Bucs, Bills-Ravens and the rest. Nailed 4 outright upsets last week

Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady (left) and Kansas City Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes (right) square off Sunday in Tampa Bay in the NFL Week 4 Game of the Week.
— Miami Herald (September 29)   (Pocket)  (Media Bias)

Hurricane Ian: Buccaneers announce Week 4 matchup vs. Chiefs will be played as scheduled in Tampa Bay - CBS Sports

Hurricane Ian: Buccaneers announce Week 4 matchup vs. Chiefs will be played as scheduled in Tampa BayCBS SportsKansas City Chiefs-Tampa Bay Buccaneers game to remain in Tampa after Hurricane IanESPNBucs to host Chiefs at home stadium despite Hurricane Ian's destruction in FloridaFox NewsBucs continue preparations in Miami for Sunday night's game against ChiefsWFLAChiefs vs. Bucs to Be Played in Tampa Bay as Scheduled amid Hurricane Ian ConcernsBleacher ReportView
— CBS Sports (September 29)   (Pocket)  (Media Bias)

Kansas City Chiefs-Tampa Bay Buccaneers game to remain in Tampa after Hurricane Ian - ESPN

Kansas City Chiefs-Tampa Bay Buccaneers game to remain in Tampa after Hurricane IanESPNTampa Bay Rays in town facing Guardians, but thinking of families amid hurricaneWJW FOX 8 News ClevelandMinneapolis chosen as contingency site if Kansas City Chiefs-Tampa Bay Buccaneers game has to relocate because of Hurricane IanESPNHurricane Ian news creates ‘a challenge’ for RaysTampa Bay TimesSkyview Networks To Remotely Produce Tampa Bay Rays Games During Hurricane IanBarrett Sports Media
— ESPN (September 29)   (Pocket)  (Media Bias)

Packers 14, Buccaneers 12: How it happened, highlights, big plays - Packers Wire

The Green Bay Packers (2-1) used touchdown passes from Aaron Rodgers on back-to-back drives to start the game, a dominant effort on defense and special teams, and a late stop on a two-point try to escape Raymond James Stadium with a 14-12 win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (2-1) on Sunday.
— USA Today (September 26)   (Pocket)  (Media Bias)

A bionic pancreas aims to take the math out of managing type 1 diabetes

For people living with type 1 diabetes, it pays to be good at math. Keeping blood glucose in a healthy range requires a constant stream of calculations: counting the carbs in each meal, and then finding the right dose of insulin to balance them out. But new clinical trial results from an automated insulin delivery system from Beta Bionics suggest that computation can be reliably outsourced to a machine — potentially putting better blood glucose control in the hands of more patients.
— STAT (September 28)   (Pocket)  (Media Bias)

Bionic pancreas improves type 1 diabetes management compared to standard insulin delivery methods

A device known as a bionic pancreas, which uses next-generation technology to automatically deliver insulin, was more effective at maintaining blood glucose (sugar) levels within normal range than standard-of-care management among people with type 1 diabetes, a new multicenter clinical trial has found. The trial was primarily funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), part of the National Institutes of Health, and published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
— NIH (September 29)   (Pocket)  (Media Bias)

A bionic pancreas could solve one of the biggest challenges of diabetes

In a recent trial, a bionic pancreas that automatically delivers insulin proved more effective than pumps or injections at lowering blood glucose levels in people with type 1 diabetes. Type 1 diabetes is a serious condition that causes a person’s level of glucose, or sugar, to become too high because the pancreas can’t produce enough…
— MIT Tech Review (September 28)   (Pocket)  (Media Bias)

Multicenter, Randomized Trial of a Bionic Pancreas in Type 1 Diabetes | NEJM - nejm.org

Currently available semiautomated insulin-delivery systems require individualized insulin regimens for the initialization of therapy and meal doses based on carbohydrate counting for routine operation. In contrast, the bionic pancreas is initialized only on the basis of body weight, makes all dose decisions and delivers insulin autonomously, and uses meal announcements without carbohydrate counting.
— New England Journal of Medicine (September 28)   (Pocket)  (Media Bias)

Children who had Covid may be at higher risk of developing type 1 diabetes

Jamie Hartmann-Boyce, Associate Professor at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, said: “The team uses a strong study design to investigate this link, comparing people with Sars-CoV-2 to a matched group with other respiratory viruses during the same period.
— Weekly Standard (September 23)   (Pocket)  (Media Bias)

Human Pancreatic Islet Cell RNA Splice Regulation Offers Diabetes Clues

For a paper in Genome Biology, a team from the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology and other international centers explore transcriptional regulation in pancreatic islet cells from hundreds of donor individuals. In an effort to better understand type 2 diabetes (T2D) and type 1 diabetes (T1D) risk, the investigators brought together RNA sequence and genotype profiles from 399 samples to focus in on pancreatic islet cell splicing quantitative trait loci (sQTLs) and expression QTLs (eQTLs), uncovering ties between T2D- or T1D-associated variants and apparent sQTLs affecting genes such as ERO1B and DCLRE1B, respectively. "We uncover sQTLs that show fine colocalization with genetic variants associated with T2D, discover new genetic associations, and expand the spectrum of putative ...
— Genome Web (September 19)   (Pocket)  (Media Bias)

Insulin pills could end the need for painful injections

Researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC) just got amajor stepcloser to developing oral insulin pills to help people manage their diabetes. “These exciting results show that we are on the right track in developing an insulin formulation that will no longer need to be injected before every meal, improving the quality of life, as well as mental health, of more than nine million Type 1 diabetics around the world.” said principal investigator Anubhav Pratap-Singh. Uncontrolled diabetes leads to nerve damage, heart disease, blindness, and more. Why it matters:Insulin is a hormone our bodies use to convert blood sugar into energy.
— Big Think (September 17)   (Pocket)  (Media Bias)

British pound plunges to new, all-time low as proposed tax cuts spark economic concerns

LONDON (AP) — The British pound fell to all-time low against the U.S. dollar early Monday after Treasury chief Kwasi Kwarteng pledged a sweeping package of tax cuts, fueling concerns about the government’s economic policy as the United Kingdom teeters toward recession. The pound fell as low as $1.0373, its lowest level since the decimalization of the currency in 1971, before rallying to above $1.06 in London late afternoon trading.
— PBS (September 26)   (Pocket)  (Media Bias)

Implementation of covid-19 vaccination in the United Kingdom - The BMJ

Within one year of the genome of SARS-CoV-2 being sequenced, vaccines had been developed, tested in randomised controlled trials, and rolled out in population based vaccination programmes across the world. This is one of the great success stories of the covid-19 pandemic. Vaccination offers countries a method of suppressing the number of people with a serious illness that could lead to hospital admission or death, thereby allowing societies to return to a more normal way of living and working.1
— BMJ (September 29)   (Pocket)  (Media Bias)

Tempest 6th Generation Fighter: What You Need To Know

The UK’s Tempest – What We Need To Know: It was just four years ago, at the last Farnborough Air Show that the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence announced that a new jet fighter program was in the works. The Future Combat Air System (FCAS) – which shouldn’t be confused with a rival French-German-Spanish effort […] The post Tempest 6th Generation Fighter: What You Need To Know
— 1945 (September 27)   (Pocket)  (Media Bias)

Short-term local predictions of COVID-19 in the United Kingdom using dynamic supervised machine learning algorithms | Communications Medicine - Nature.com

Short-term local predictions of COVID-19 in the United Kingdom using dynamic supervised machine learning algorithms
— Nature (September 24)   (Pocket)  (Media Bias)

UK weighing relocating embassy to Jerusalem, Truss tells Lapid

NEW YORK - The United Kingdom is considering relocating its embassy to Jerusalem, British Prime Minister Liz Truss told her Israeli counterpart when the two leaders met on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. The matter was confirmed by a Downing Street spokesperson who said that Truss spoke with Lapid about her "review of the current location of the British Embassy in Israel," according to a report in the Telegraph.Israel has not commented on the report. Prior to their meeting, a senior Israeli official said that Lapid had been hopeful that Truss would indeed move forward on the matter and that he planned to raise the issue with her.
— Jerusalem Post (September 22)   (Pocket)  (Media Bias)

@wakawaka_doctor: The SCALE UP VISA for the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 A thread :

@IuliiaMendel: The G7 foreign ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States and the High Representative of the European Union said Friday they will impose additional economic costs on Russia over the illegal annexation of Ukrainian territories-CNN

N. Korea fires ballistic missile that flew over Japan

North Korea has fired a ballistic missile over Japan, its neighbors said, escalating tests of weapons designed to strike key targets in regional U.S. allies amid stalled nuclear diplomacy.
— PBS (October 3)   (Pocket)  (Media Bias)

Seoul: N. Korea fires ballistic missile toward sea

“North Korea’s series of actions, including its repeated ballistic missile launches, threatens the peace and security of Japan, the region, and the international community, and poses a serious challenge to the entire international community, including Japan,” Japan’s top government spokesperson, Hirokazu Matsuno, told reporters.
— The Independent (October 4)   (Pocket)  (Media Bias)

South Korea Vow "Stern Response" After North Korea Ballistic Missile Flies 4,500km At A Speed Of Mach 17

South Korea Vow "Stern Response" After North Korea Ballistic Missile Flies 4,500km At A Speed Of Mach 17 Update (9:40pm): According to South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, North Korea’s intermediate-range ballistic missile flew ~4,500km with an apogee of ~970km, reaching a speed of Mach 17 before splashing in the Pacific ocean, some 2800 nautical miles east of Korea, having traveled above Japan. The JSC added that South Korea and US intelligence authorities are still analyzing more details. South Korea also said that North Korea’s consecutive missile launch provocation strengthens South Korea-US alliance’s reaction capability and intensifies North Korea’s isolation from the international community.
— ZeroHedge Opinion (October 4)   (Pocket)  (Media Bias)

North Korea fires ballistic missile that flew over Japan

North Korea on Tuesday fired a ballistic missile over Japan, its neighbors said, escalating tests of weapons designed to strike key targets in regional U.S. allies amid stalled nuclear diplomacy.
— Washington Times (October 3)   (Pocket)  (Media Bias)

North Korea fires ballistic missiles in latest tests amid tension - Al Jazeera English

North Korea fires ballistic missiles in latest tests amid tensionAl Jazeera EnglishNorth Korea fires fourth ballistic missile in one week after Vice President Harris' gaffeFox NewsNorth Korea tests missiles for 4th time this week in response to rivals’ army drillsThe Times of IsraelKamala Harris Under a Microscope: Deft Asia Diplomacy Despite DMZ GaffeBloombergDefense & National Security — Harris concludes Asia trip with DMZ visitThe Hill
— Al Jazeera (October 1)   (Pocket)  (Media Bias)

Amid escalating tensions, North Korea fires two ballistic missiles, claims Japan coast guard

Japan's coast guard said that North Korea fired what appeared to be two ballistic missiles on Saturday (October 1).
— WION (September 30)   (Pocket)  (Media Bias)

N.Korea fires ballistic missiles, marking fourth in a week

North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles towards the sea off the east coast on Saturday, South Korea's military said, marking Pyongyang's fourth launch in a week as it ratchets up tension around the Korean peninsula.The launch comes after the navies of South Korea, the United States and Japan staged trilateral anti-submarine exercises on Friday for the first time in five years and follows US Vice President Kamala Harris' visit to the region this week.The two short-range missiles were launched from Sunan, north of the North Korean capital Pyongyang, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement. It estimated the range at 350 kilometers (217.5 miles) at 30 km altitude and a speed of Mach ...
— Jerusalem Post (September 30)   (Pocket)  (Media Bias)