{"id":142817,"date":"2023-06-16T07:00:18","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T11:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=142817"},"modified":"2023-06-15T12:40:23","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T16:40:23","slug":"friday-short-takes-solar-irony-bama-v-af-disinformazia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=142817","title":{"rendered":"Friday short takes – Solar irony, Bama v. AF, Disinformazia"},"content":{"rendered":"

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First up, in uber-green Great Britain, they are shutting down those nasty coal plants and moving to wind and solar power as quickly as they can. However, this week they followed Germany’s lead. You may remember that Germany, unable to generate enough green power, is reactivating nuclear reactor generating plants. The UK started turning on coal powered-plants Monday – their solar arrays are getting too much sun.<\/p>\n

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Temperatures broke 30C for the first time this year over the weekend and meteorologists forecast<\/a> the chance of Britain experiencing a hot summer was 45% \u2013 2.3 times the typical figure.<\/p>\n

The hot weather is expected to push up demand for power, as households and businesses switch on air conditioning units. Air conditioning accounts for about a fifth of the total electricity used in buildings around the world.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n

Seems solar panels lose efficiency as they get hotter, so in the kind of weather they are getting now (over 30C, 86F) their solar arrays are… well, less than stellar. Go solar and wind, they say, it’ll work they say…<\/p>\n

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Then we get to Alabama, which in its attempts to punish the Air Force for trying to deselect Huntsville as Space Command HQ, is now looking a bit petulant. You remember SEN. Tuberville, the guy holding up ALL Congressional approvals for senior officers?\u00a0 Seems the House members are getting into it too.<\/p>\n

Alabama lawmakers are tightening the screws in the ongoing battle over the relocation of the Space Command headquarters, a move that the current U.S. administration is looking to reverse due to the state\u2019s severe anti-abortion law.<\/p>\n

This week, Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee Mike Rogers, an Alabama rep, released his proposed bill that would not only restrict spending on the construction of the Space Command\u2019s current facilities in Colorado but also limit funds in other areas related to the military branch.<\/p>\n

The proposed bill would also limit the travel funds of the secretary of the Air Force until the delivery of the report.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Gizmodo<\/a><\/p>\n

I find it hard to pick a winner in this one – seems to me the easiest solution would just be to leave the original Huntsville decision intact, but Brandon’s administration just HAS to dig their heels in.<\/p>\n

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An article alleges that Russia still has quite the disinformation network on-line pushing Russian propaganda.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 Fake internet pages impersonating media and government sites, as well as hundreds of fake URLs on social networks are spreading Russian war propaganda, says a report by France\u2019s Service for Surveillance and Protection Against Foreign Digital Interference (VIGINUM).<\/p>\n

There were 355 active web domains publishing pro-Russian content or masquerading as publications from Europe, the USA, and the Middle East, from June 2022 to May 2023.<\/p>\n

French authorities discovered more than 160 Facebook pages that had published over 600 links to fake websites and articles.<\/p>\n

VIGINUM named Several Russian nationals responsible for developing the fake URLs in the campaign, noting that the campaign is still active, despite the exposure and measures taken by Meta (Facebook) and Twitter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yahoo News<\/a><\/p>\n

What a shock, a wartime power releasing propaganda. It’s more interesting that WE are providing the means via (ahem) good American companies like Meta and Twitter. Of course, this news comes from an unbiased source – The New Voice of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

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