U.S. coal miners are enjoying the surge in demand for the fossil fuel, with almost all of their production through the end of next year—and some into 2023 even—already sold, according to a Bloomberg report. Prices are higher, too. According to the report, Arch Resources, the second-largest coal miner in the United States, has sold its 2022 output at prices 20 percent above current spot market rates. This suggests that this year’s surge in coal demand may not be just a short-lived hiccup in the energy transition. Share prices of coal miners are also rising amid the demand surge. Peabody Energy Corp., America’s largest coal miner, saw its stock gain 17 percent within a day earlier this month. U.S. coal-fired electricity generation is expected to increase this year for… Source link

Helion Energy Inc., one of several companies searching for future energy solutions, has hired Hogan Lovells senior associate Sachin Desai as its first general counsel. Desai, a former law clerk for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, joined Helion last month after spending the past five years at Hogan Lovells in Washington. Helion spokesman Isaac Steinmetz confirmed Desai’s hire to Bloomberg Law. He said Hogan Lovells has been serving as energy regulatory counsel to Helion, which has received financial backing from prominent investors like billionaire Peter Thiel, the tech venture capitalist and former associate at Sullivan & Cromwell. Helion, founded in 2013 and based in Everett, Wash., broke ground over the summer on a new fusion technology power plant in its hometown. It said in… Source link

A team of US government scientists working with NASA recently published a science article outlining a new “framework” for reporting scientific findings in the search for extraterrestrial life. The proposed guidelines would create a “confidence scale” in order to “set reasonable expectations” about NASA‘s endeavors to track down evidence of alien life. Per the team’s article: The search for such evidence is often framed as an all-or-nothing proposition: either a mission returns definitive evidence of life or it has fallen short of its objective. The binary nature of this framing poses a substantial risk to the overall endeavour (sic) by levying unrealistically high expectations on its initial stages. Up front: Wow! What a great idea right? Every single scientist on Earth… Source link

Ahead of the 2023 general elections, a group loyal to the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, on the platform of Osinbajo Support Movement (OSM) has faulted some comments and analysis made by some commentators against the ambition of the Vice President. The group raised concern over attempts by various acclaimed social media influencers to act under the guise of analysis, free speech and supposed objectivity in political analysis to insult and defame the person of Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo.  In a statement signed Wednesday in Abuja by the national convener of OSM, Liberty Olawale Badmus, said all assemblies guided by envy, hate, disapproval with sound, intellectual and modern ways of politics are meant to end in doom.  The group asked Nigerians to reject any mere speculations, often… Source link

1of8 Clockwise, from top left; Chloe Robbin, 8, paints her original composition, the alien themed “Planet Pumpkin,” on a window at the Westport Public Library. Scarlett Nathan, 7, paints on the window of a participating downtown business. Elise Mergenthaler, 12, paints on a window of Local to Market on Main Street. A haunted house is painted on a window as part of the Westport Chamber of Commerce’s annual Halloween Window Painting Contest. Brian A. Pounds / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less 2of8 Elise Mergenthaler, 12, paints on a window of Local to Market on Main Street in Westport as part of the chamber of commerce’s annual Halloween Window Painting… Source link

WESTPORT — A record number of children participated in this year’s annual Halloween Window Painting Contest put on by the Westport Weston Chamber of Commerce. About 105 children painted 65 windows on businesses and town buildings throughout Westport for a chance to be one of the nine winners to receive a $25 gift card from Cold Fusion, which was also one of the participating windows. Painters competed for scariest, most original and best Halloween themed windows within the elementary, middle and high school levels. “What a turnout. A major increase from last year’s record,” said Matthew Mandell, the chamber’s executive director. “This event is so much fun, the kids and parents just love it… Source link

1of8 Clockwise, from top left; Chloe Robbin, 8, paints her original composition, the alien themed “Planet Pumpkin,” on a window at the Westport Public Library. Scarlett Nathan, 7, paints on the window of a participating downtown business. Elise Mergenthaler, 12, paints on a window of Local to Market on Main Street. A haunted house is painted on a window as part of the Westport Chamber of Commerce’s annual Halloween Window Painting Contest. Brian A. Pounds / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less 2of8 Elise Mergenthaler, 12, paints on a window of Local to Market on Main Street in Westport as part of the chamber of commerce’s annual Halloween Window Painting… Source link

The other day I saw this meme. Variations of this meme, which depict Strega Nona, the beloved “Grandma Witch” created by the late children’s book author Tomie dePaola, as an exemplar of mutual aid and socialist praxis, appear quite regularly. Given the internet’s limitless appetite for deciding anything people have affectionate feelings toward is Actually Anti-Capitalist, it was perhaps inevitable that Strega Nona’s draft number should come up. Unfortunately, as a person who has read Strega Nona (and its many sequels) to his toddler one thousand times over the last year, I must insist everyone knock it off. Strega Nona is not your Marxist meemaw. Strega Nona is going to be the first one up against the wall. I could retype this book from memory, but I’ll keep the plot summary… Source link

Oct 19, 2021 Daniel Tynski

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