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DOE and the looming shutdown

The U.S. research community is holding its breath after the abrupt collapse last night of a bipartisan deal to avoid a government shutdown on Saturday.

https://www.science.org/content/article/u-s-scientists-brace-looming-government-shutdown

Trump’s transition team has landed at DOE

 Members of the Trump transition arrived at the Energy Department on Tuesday to meet for the first time with department leaders.

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/12/19/congress/trump-transition-energy-department-00195309

Enter the nuclear fusion machine

How likely will this machine be effective? 

Will it survive trump's haphazard decisions?

 https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/12/18/climate/world-first-nuclear-fusion-power-plant-commmonwealth

Fact-check: Drones were not tracking missing radioactive material in New Jersey

"The Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration's Nuclear Emergency Support Team (NEST) does not employ drones for nuclear/radiological detection missions, and is not currently conducting any aerial operations in that region”

https://abcnews.go.com/US/fact-check-radioactive-material-triggered-drone-theories-missing/story?id=116884712

12/17/2024 4:44 PM

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Are solar super flares overdue?

 These are interesting articles indicating the possibility that huge solar flares or superflares are much more frequent than previously thought, and can be larger in magnitude than previously thought, of course these could pose dangers to the electric grid, satellites and astronauts, including colonists on the moon or mars.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/12/241212145729.htm

https://www.livescience.com/space/the-sun/our-sun-may-be-overdue-for-a-superflare-stronger-than-billions-of-atomic-bombs-new-research-warns

https://www.mps.mpg.de/superflares-once-per-century?c=6775

Mirror life

 This is an interesting article about "mirror life" -- biologists have been hard at work making mirror imagine biomolecules and eventually it will be possible to make mirror image lifeforms, perhaps in 10 years, a threat that can cause human extinction perhaps:

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ads9158

Green energy future

Could the end of the energy crisis be in sight?

Can you I make sense of this analysis?

https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/nuclear-fusion-power-plant-startups-energy/