We start off the week with #MuralMonday to bring some color to your week and inspire you to take some adventures around your town to find new murals!

Tag us in photos of your Tern in front of a local mural!!

🚲 #TernGSD
📍 #Seattle
📸 @thename.bsky.social (First Bluesky submission!)
🎨 @henry_beyond_museums

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these chodes look so delicious

🌍✊ Join the Fight to Protect Dutch Higher Education! ✊🌍

I want to bring your attention to an important issue that affects not just the Netherlands, but all of us who care about education and the future of our society. The new Dutch government has announced a staggering €1 billion in cuts to higher education and science—the largest reduction we've seen in decades. This decision threatens the quality of education, the well-being of staff, and the future of countless students.

As we face global challenges that require well-educated individuals to tackle complex problems, these cuts will only exacerbate existing issues like increased overtime, deteriorating working conditions, and the discontinuation of vital study programs. The "Internationalization in balance" law could also drive away international staff, further weakening the educational landscape.

We cannot stand by while the Dutch cabinet pledges to address societal problems yet simultaneously undermines the very institutions that are essential for solving them. Strong colleges, universities, and research institutions are crucial for overcoming challenges like the housing shortage and teacher shortages.

I urge you to stand in solidarity with Dutch students, educational staff, and society at large by signing this petition: Stop Cuts on Dutch Higher Education. Every signature counts and sends a powerful message to the government to reverse these devastating measures.

Let’s work together to ensure a brighter future for education and research! 📚💪 #StopTheCuts #HigherEducation #Solidarity

change.org/p/stop-cuts-on-dutc…

Stop cuts on Dutch higher education!

^{Hedde Zeijlstra (Change.org)}

"Small modular reactors could play an important role and contribute to the Dutch energy transition, a joint report by NRG-Pallas and TNO concludes. The study shows that there is room for more than 13 SMRs in 2050.

The study, the partners said, utilises "NRG-Pallas' expertise in innovative reactor technologies and TNO's energy system model OPERA".

Two scenarios drawn up by TNO were used in this study: ADAPT and TRANSFORM. These scenarios are based on different visions of the future for the Dutch energy system. In both visions, the aim is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 55% by 2030 and to achieve greenhouse gas neutrality by 2050.

In order to investigate the sensitivity of the results with respect to boundary conditions and assumptions, a few 'what-if' analyses were performed. These what-if analyses examined whether investment in and use of SMRs change when input parameters are varied.

"The results show that SMRs have a role to play in the Dutch energy transition," the study says. "The optimal contribution of SMRs to 2050 was calculated for various assumptions about future society. The results show that two to more than 13 SMRs (of 150 MWe) can be deployed with room for further expansion of this number in 2050."

It adds: "These results are contingent on policy objectives, expected market availability and realisation periods. If constraints on the potential deployment capacity are partially lifted, as is done in some of the what-if analyses, it is observed that there may even be room for more than 27 SMRs (of 150 MWe). This what-if analysis result can be interpreted as a more economically optimal solution, but is obviously conditional on the aforementioned aspects used to define the potential limits for the scenarios being sufficiently adjusted to allow for this to occur.

"On the other hand, with delayed introduction of SMRs or no nuclear at all, a carbon neutral energy system in 2050 is possible as well. The exact optimum depends mainly on the future of industry, and more specifically on the future heat demand from activities such as refineries and (bio-)aromatics production, and the degree of electrification in society. Nevertheless, it can be concluded that SMRs are an important option for decarbonisation of the industry by supplying process heat."

An earlier scenario study by TNO showed that in an energy system without new nuclear power plants, the system costs are 1% to 2.5% higher than with nuclear energy. "Although nuclear power plants are initially more expensive than wind turbines and solar panels, the loss of nuclear energy as an energy supply should be compensated for by greater use of more expensive flexibility options, such as energy storage," NRG-Pallas noted.

In April 2023, in its draft Climate Fund for 2024, the Dutch government budgeted funds totalling EUR320 million (USD352 million) for the development of nuclear energy. The funds will be used for the preparation of the operational extension of the existing Borssele nuclear power plant, the construction of two new large reactors, the development of small modular reactors and for nuclear skills development in the Netherlands.

In August 2022, the UK's Rolls-Royce SMR signed an exclusive agreement with ULC-Energy to collaborate on the deployment of Rolls-Royce SMR power plants in the Netherlands. ULC-Energy - established in 2021 and based in Amsterdam - aims to accelerate decarbonisation in the Netherlands by developing nuclear energy projects that efficiently integrate with residential and industrial energy networks in the country."

#Nuclear #News #Netherlands #SMR

world-nuclear-news.org/article…

SMRs to help decarbonise Dutch energy system, study concludes

Small modular reactors could play an important role and contribute to the Dutch energy transition, a joint report by NRG-Pallas and TNO concludes. The study shows that there is room for more than 13 SMRs in 2050. ;

^{World Nuclear News}

Acabo de escuchar en un video la expresión:

"You are so dense that light *bends* around you"

He creído necesario compartirla por aquí.

Looking for vegan places and not a fan of proprietary datasets? #MapComplete has several themes to find (and edit) vegan places, based on #OpenStreetMap data!

The “restaurants and fast food” theme will show most places you might be interested in. If you love fries (like I do), “fries shops” will be helpful for you. And in the “gluten free” and “lactose free” themes, you can filter for vegan places too!

You can also easily edit these places with MapComplete, for example to add details or update incorrect or outdated information. Your changes will be uploaded to OpenStreetMap, which is freely reusable data!

🔗 mapcomplete.org/

MapComplete - editable, thematic maps with OpenStreetMap

MapComplete is a platform to visualize OpenStreetMap on a specific topic and to easily contribute data back to it.

^{mapcomplete.org}

If you've been using #Bluesky more lately, you'll want to know that an unofficial app for Windows 11 is now being worked on.

While it's still in beta, we should see updates every few days to bring it up to feature parity.

DETAILS: windowscentral.com/software-ap…

Beeskie is the first native Bluesky app built for Windows 11, and a Microsoft engineer makes it

If you’re using the social network Bluesky more and more, then you’ll want to follow this new app’s real-time development

^{Daniel Rubino (Windows Central)}

Have you ever wanted to buy the ebook of "Program Management for Open Source Projects" but you only want to pay 60% of the list price? Well let me tell you a secret: if you use promo code turkeysale2024 through December 2, you can do just that!

pragprog.com/titles/bcosp/prog…

Program Management for Open Source Projects

Go beyond mere project management and improve teamwork, communication, and predictability in open source development. Make meetings and schedules work for you.

^pragprog.com

Imagine if Mozilla had improved Firefox RSS support instead of removing it.

I guess that's what happens when innovation is stripped from the minds of the leadership.

See also them (Moz) getting wasted on ad-biz and AI.

"We are so glad to have found you," the aliens said. "So many of our old friends are gone."

"We're so sorry to hear that," the human said. "What happened to them?"

"Oh, just the expansion of the universe. They were closer a few billion years ago. We write, but it's not the same."

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories