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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."

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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There is so much disinformation about the "Super El Nino" floating around the internet b/c mentioning any sort of mechanism that affects weather seems to start a shouting match. So here's a good video that gives you JUST the info you need in under 2 minutes.

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 13/09/2026

The world's greatest marine energy resource is the temperature delta between sun-soaked surface waters and frigid depths. Engineers in India are building what could be the first profitable Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion plant. spectrum.ieee.org/ocean-therma... @spectrum.ieee.org ctrum.ieee.org

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Remote Island Taps Energy From the Ocean's Thermal Layers

Lakshadweep, the Canaries, others test ocean thermal energy conversion

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 14/09/2026

William Heronemus — best known for helping launch the modern wind power industry — pushed ocean thermal energy onto the US energy agenda in the 1970s. Half a century later #OTEC's potential as a massive source of baseload renewable energy continues to inspire engineers...

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 16/09/2026

scummy upcharging ploy the @nytimes.com : pay more, or they'll subject you to repeated account verification

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 15/09/2026

Also, I can and must type more carefully 😂

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T&E @transportenvironment.org · 15/09/2026

NEW RESEARCH: Reckless airport expansion plans will cause 20 major European airports to blow past their carbon limits, with some surpassing their limits almost three times over. 🧵👇

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 14/09/2026

For more on Heronemus' impact on wind power see my @spectrum.ieee.org feature profiling the creation of the @umassamherst.bsky.social 'Woof One' turbine. The founders of US Windpower evolved that 1976 machine to build the world's first grid-connected wind farm. spectrum.ieee.org/william-hero...

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The Tiny Turbine That Kick-Started the U.S. Wind Industry

A nuclear submarine veteran turned a truck axle into a turbine

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 14/09/2026

How the Mark III would generate continuous power: Warm water sucked into the submerged pods vaporizes liquid ammonia. The expanding gas spins turbines in the hull below to generate 400 MWs of power. Icy deep-sea water, pumped up from 4,000 feet below, condenses the gas to repeat the cycle.

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 14/09/2026

Heronemus' vision for #OTEC was grand. The former Navy Captain and nuclear sub designer imagined dozens of supersized OTEC plants tapping the Gulf Stream off Miami and powering the Eastern US. Here's his 1974 'Mark III' OTEC design, with ship at top left for scale...

Drawing for William Heronemus' 1974 Mark III OTEC plant design. Warm water sucked into the submerged pods vaporizes liquid ammonia, and the expanding gas spins turbines below to generate 400 MWs of power. Icy deep-sea water, pumped up from 4,000 feet below, condenses the gas so the cycle can repeat.

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 14/09/2026

That's how the Mark III was intended to work. Here's the drawing...

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 14/09/2026

For more on Heronemus' impact on wind power see my @IEEESpectrum feature profiling the creation of the @umassamherst.bsky.social 'Woof One' turbine. That modest 1976 machine inspired the launch of US Windpower, which built the world's first grid-connected wind farm. spectrum.ieee.org/william-hero...

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The Tiny Turbine That Kick-Started the U.S. Wind Industry

A nuclear submarine veteran turned a truck axle into a turbine

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 14/09/2026

Here's Heronemus' 1974 'Mark III' OTEC design: Warm water sucked into submerged pods vaporizes ammonia, whose expansion spins turbines below to generate 400 MWs of power. Icy deep-sea water pumped from thousands of feet below then condenses the gas, so the cycle can repeat.

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 14/09/2026

" We Would Like to Inform You That You, Your Descendants, and the Very Place That Shaped Your People Will Be Destroyed But Oil Will Be Briefly Profitable for Some Canadian Corporations " -- Alt headline from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social for this blithely written CBC report : www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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Canadians should prepare for a 5 C hotter future, report warns | CBC News

The federal government's new report summarizing the latest science on climate change warns that under current climate policies, the impact on Canadians will likely be "far from benign."

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Ido Liven @idoliven.com · 14/09/2026

"Climate disasters are getting bigger and more frequent, as was widely anticipated. There's often a hope that one of them will be a wakeup call, but a lot of us are wide-awake and a lot of the rest are deeply committed to ignoring or exacerbating this crisis" - @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

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Climate: Who Dies, Who Fights, Who Surrenders, Who Sabotages

"Canadians will have to prepare for a future that's 5 C hotter, according to a new report summarizing the latest science on climate change," says a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation report on a Canadi...

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 13/09/2026

Wide OTEC deployment could slash global temperatures by up to 2.5C by 2100 by surfacing cold water and displacing fossil power plants, according to modeling by @ajwvictoriabc.bsky.social's group at UVic. Adding OTEC-powered CO2 capture would add further global cooling. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Mitigating anthropogenic climate change with aqueous green energy - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Mitigating anthropogenic climate change with aqueous green energy

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 13/09/2026

NIOT's technology could help many small island developing states = #SIDS, which suffer from water scarcity and dependence on diesel power. It could also boost confidence in OTEC generally, helping firms like Makai Ocean Engineering and Global OTEC line up investors for bigger plants.

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 13/09/2026

India's National Institute of Ocean Technology moved the needle by adapting OTEC equipment for desalination, supplying drinking water that's transformed life on the remote Lakshadweep islands. The plant I profiled will re-integrate power generation, freeing the plants from the diesel grid.

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 13/09/2026

One deep-pocketed conglomerate in Taiwan is ready to invest to help power the country's advanced chip fabs. But Taipei-based TCC Group is stalled by concerns over its proposed plant's impact on the local marine environment. www.eco-business.com/news/taiwan-...

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Taiwan delays ocean thermal power project over deep-sea environmental concerns

Regulators seek more data on marine impacts of proposed plant at Heping coal facility.

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 13/09/2026

But the profitability of #OTEC power remains elusive. Plants must process tons of water per second with exquisite efficiency to generate more power than their pumps consume. But bigger plants operating offshore promise economies of scale, but exceed investors' risk tolerance.

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 13/09/2026

Pilot projects have proven Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion's technical feasibility. And #OTEC installations in Okinawa and Hawaii provide sustained economic value via aquaculture and natural products industries that use their nutrient-rich deep seawater. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vs2...

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Kumejima OTEC Facility In Okinawa, Japan

YouTube video by SIDS DOCK Secretariat

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 13/09/2026

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Remote Island Taps Energy From the Ocean's Thermal Layers

Lakshadweep, the Canaries, others test ocean thermal energy conversion

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It is our solemn duty not just to remember what happened 25 years ago but to acknowledge and repudiate the brutality it summoned in America. robertreich.substack.com/p/a-quarte…

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 01/09/2026

Marco Brugmans, a top official with the Netherlands' nuclear regulator, offered a smart forward-looking suggestion: Order up an IAEA peer audit of the NRC. European countries submit to those audits once a decade. The NRC hasn't had one since 2014.

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John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Google's future data centers in Utah to be powered by 400 MW of enhanced geothermal. This is geothermal industry leader Fervo's largest-ever power deal.

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Exclusive | Fervo Secures Its Largest-Ever Geothermal Power Deal, With Google

The company, which counts Bill Gates as an early backer, went public in a buzzy IPO in May.

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Edwin Lyman @nucsafetyucs.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Excellent article in @nature.com by Peter Fairley on the challenges to the NRC's status as an independent #nuclear safety regulator: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Are pro-nuclear politics a threat to public safety?

Oversight agencies suddenly face pressure to rapidly assess a range of relatively untested reactor designs.

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 01/09/2026

>> Raphael Schutz, a former Israeli ambassador, thought of his mother, who fled Nazi Germany as a 9-year-old... Today when she watches videos of settlers shooting innocent farmers, she feels shame. “To her it is inconceivable that Jews can behave this way.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/w...

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These Generals Fought for Israel. Now They See ‘Jewish Terrorism’ as the Threat.

A growing number of former Israeli generals, intelligence officials and prime ministers are accusing settlers in the West Bank of committing ethnic cleansing with government support. “Once a society b...

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 27/08/2026

In @nature.com's latest nuclear package: International takes on the Trump NRC's pro-nukes approach to nuclear safety. Is "shovels in the ground" an appropriate measure of success for a #nuclear regulator? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Are pro-nuclear politics a threat to public safety?

Oversight agencies suddenly face pressure to rapidly assess a range of relatively untested reactor designs.

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I don't think there's a more important issue right now than standing up for the rights of trans people. It's essential to do and correct on its face and it's also a proxy for so many other fights we face today. This is one of the best statements on that importance I've seen. This is the way.

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 23/08/2026

This took guts. Freelance journalist Jen Golbeck went into the North Carolina forest to visit Proud Boys at a secret location and engage with the violent extremist group up close. Interview via @pbsnews.org. Golbeck's story via @esquiremag.bsky.social. www.esquire.com/news-politic...

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I Spent a Weekend with the Proud Boys to Find Out Who They Really Are

They claim they’re just a men’s club that likes to troll the libs. Their actions betray something more sinister. The line, I’d discover, is still blurrier than that.

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Includes: Great Danish Wiener Schnitzel German Shepherd's Pie Chow Chowder Roasted Collieflower Baked Alaskan Malamute Ramen Poodles Cream of Wheaten Pit Roast Cockapoo Pu Platter Baby Ridgeback Ribs Yorkshire Terrier Pudding Whippet Cream

copy of book "cooking with your dog" with price sticker covering the word "with"

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 20/08/2026

My favourite film turns 20 this month. It's hidden depth and penetrating brilliance is only now being recognized by the over-educated. If @salon.com can't settle your doubts, please savour the grace of Ricky Bobby's grace: www.youtube.com/watch?v=seoH... www.salon.com/2026/08/16/t...

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"Talladega Nights" predicted America's Sunbelt shift

Twenty years ago, Will Ferrell's stock car manchild presaged an overheated era of US culture

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 20/08/2026

California's ZEV program got the EV revolution rolling. President Trump's war is helping seal the deal. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 18/08/2026

Love it! >> when a 20-year-old from WV was charged with defacing Flock cameras, Facebook commenters rushed to his defense, offering fake alibis... “He was saving my neighbors dog from a fire all day couldn’t be him" “I saw him serving at a soup kitchen at the time of the incident” wapo.st/4x0RpjS

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Americans are destroying license-plate cameras as surveillance backlash grows

Flock cameras have been shot, spray-painted and cut down as how-to videos spread online. “People are fed up,” one suspect said.

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

That's right.

Graphic that says "In this house, we believe: cars ruin cities, streets are for people, accessibility is a human right, honking won't help, you'd be happier biking, there is life after cars."

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 15/08/2026

All thermal plants have a design vulnerability. All are ultimately impacted by global warming and drought. But nuclear plants require more cooling per megawatt than the rest, and are this most vulnerable.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 13/08/2026

The ICE raids and cruelty we are seeing inflicted on children are unacceptable.

The federal government has stripped legal representation from hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied children. Many will soon face an impossible choice: navigate our immigration system alone or risk detention and deportation.

Our city is stepping up. We've invested $16.9 million in immigration legal services for unaccompanied children, with another $32 million in this year's immigration legal services budget, including rapid-response legal advice and representation for people in detention.

If you need immigration legal support, we're here to help. Our free, confidential Immigration Legal Support Hotline is available in your preferred language, regardless of immigration status.
Call 1-800-354-0365

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 12/08/2026

Sign-o-the-times: A win for Binface would be a vote for planetary sanity, given Nigel Farage's enmity for climate science and renewable energy www.npr.org/2026/08/10/n...

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 10/08/2026

And capital cost recovery if utilities regulators allow it

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Justin Gerdes @justingerdes.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

"It’s the strangest thing: I’ve spent 15 or so years working in public-sector economic development; I’ve never seen people cheering for job destruction, particularly elected officials,” Tim Sullivan, formerly CEO at NJEDA, told Ajani Stella: insideclimatenews.org/news/0908202... 🔌💡

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As US Offshore Wind Disappears, a Generation of Workers Is Left Behind - Inside Climate News

Building trades spent the past five years preparing for an offshore wind boom that went bust. Now, U.S. workers mourn the well-paying careers they don’t see coming back.

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