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The Chernobyl Podcast

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The official podcast of the miniseries Chernobyl, from HBO and Sky. Join host Peter Sagal (NPR’s “Wait Wait...Don’t Tell Me!”) and series creator, writer and executive producer Craig Mazin after each episode as they discuss the true stories that shaped the scenes, themes and characters.

Great podcast to listen to once you’ve watched the HBO series. The author explains the narrative choices he had to make and how much/when the series departs from what actually happened.

And for good measure, two episodes of the BBC’s ’More or Less’:
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1) Questioning the Chernobyl disaster death count

The recent TV miniseries ‘Chernobyl’ has stirred up debate online about the accuracy of its portrayal of the explosion at a nuclear power plant in the former Soviet state of Ukraine. We fact-check the programme and try and explain why it so hard to say how many people will die because of the Chernobyl disaster.

▻http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07dtdwq.mp3

2) Is nuclear power actually safer than you think?

We questioned the death count of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in last week’s More or Less podcast. In the end, Professor Jim Smith of Portsmouth University came up with an estimate of 15,000 deaths.

But we wondered how deadly nuclear power is overall when compared to other energy sources? Dr Hannah Ritchie of the University of Oxford joins Charlotte McDonald to explore.

▻http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07fgfl5.mp3

#podcast #chernobyl #statistics

ABB sets out electric, digital, connected approach for shipping
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With this new approach, ABB focuses on harnessing the full potential of its power, control and automation solutions through a program of digital integration that will bring about a step change in vessel and fleet management.

“We are living through one of the most exciting periods in the history of the maritime industry,” says Juha Koskela, Managing Director, ABB Marine & Ports. “We believe the next generation of ships will be electric, digital and connected as the industry moves towards the use of new energy sources and automated ship operations. Electric. Digital. Connected. encapsulates ABB’s drive to deliver solutions that make the maritime industry safer, more efficient and more sustainable based on a holistic perspective.”

Special issue: How the economic changes caused by the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy will affect world security

Introduction: International security in the age of renewables
▻http://tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00963402.2016.1240927

There is, however, a class of climate change impacts that has received less attention, perhaps because their effects will be indirect. These consequences will result not from increases in world temperatures, but from the world’s attempts to limit those increases. As the international community tries to reduce and eventually eliminate greenhouse gas emissions, global energy systems will undergo a massive transformation. Whether quickly or slowly, the nations of the world will almost certainly give up reliance on the fossil fuels – coal, petroleum, and natural gas – that drove the Industrial Revolution and created wealth and power dynamics that long dictated international relations. Britannia ruled the seas for a few hundred years, and the 20th century was American, in significant part because of the military might and financial power provided by fossil-fuel-powered industrial sectors.

Will the coming transition to energy sources with low or no carbon dioxide emissions – solar, wind, nuclear, and other – also create new geopolitical winners and losers? The general answer to that question is almost certainly, “Yes, to some degree.” Specifically how – and how greatly – the shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy will affect global power dynamics are matters of less certainty, so I have asked four prominent experts to address those concerns in this issue.

The complicated geopolitics of renewable energy
▻http://tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00963402.2016.1240476

#climat #géopolitique #énergie

Trump uses energy speech to outline general election pitch - The Washington Post
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Presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump unveiled an “#America_first” energy plan he said would unleash unfettered production of oil, coal, natural gas and other energy sources to push the United States toward energy independence.

But the speech, delivered at the annual Williston Basin Petroleum Conference in Bismarck, North Dakota, went far beyond energy, as Trump laid out, in his most detail to date, a populist general election pitch against likely rival Hillary Clinton.

“She’s declared war on the American worker,” Trump said of Clinton, reading from prepared remarks in a stadium packed with thousands.
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In March, Clinton said, “We’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.” She has since walked back the remark, calling it “a misstatement” and outlining a plan to help displaced coal workers.

Trump said Thursday he would do everything he could “free up the coal” and bring back thousands of coal jobs lost amid steep competition from cheaper natural gas and regulations designed to cut air pollution and reduce greenhouse gases blamed for global warming.

“They love it,” Trump said of those who work in coal mines. “We’re going to bring it back and we’re going to help those people because that’s what they want to do.”

Artificial wind energy may be Turkey’s answer to demand
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Produire du vent artificiel à partir des pertes d’énergie de différentes unités de productions et alimenter des éoliennes. C’est pas un peu comme si on utilisait un sèche cheveu pour produire de l’électricité ? Quelquechose m’échappe dans l’intérêt d’un tel projet !

Turkey can meet growing energy demand from artificial wind, says innovative project owner. An innovative technology in the energy sector, which generates electricity by creating artificial wind, could provide Turkey with a much needed alternative to tackle its energy demand problem, Nurettin Aydin, the project’s patent holder, told Anadolu Agency on Thursday.

The project utilizes energy sources which are unable to be turned into electricity by current power plants due to their low heat quality, he said, and added that these sources include, low heat geothermal energy, waste steam and hot water from industrial facilities

#Turquie #Electricité

Energy minister’s comment on HDP voters draws criticism
▻http://www.todayszaman.com/national_energy-ministers-comment-on-hdp-voters-draws-criticism_395523.

Energy and Natural Resources Minister Taner Yıldız’s implication in a meeting that pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) voters will change their minds about the party if they are left without electricity for three days has drawn widespread criticism in the media.

The minister was answering questions from members of the press after attending a meeting on Monday where the Turkish National Committee of the World Energy Council (WEC) report on energy sources and energy consumption was presented.

Referring to the “strategic voters” of the HDP, Yıldız had said: “Our citizens realize that the actions of the HDP have been changing in the last two months. Whether there’s an early election or not, I believe the majority of the HDP’s strategic votes will disappear. I expect that when the voters are left without electricity for three days, they will begin to evaluate the situation properly.”

The strategic voters of the HDP are composed mostly of liberals and leftists who supported the HDP in the recent general election not because of its political views but to prevent the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) from winning the majority in Parliament, which was accomplished when the HDP passed the election threshold.

HDP voters perceived Yıldız’s statement to be a threat to leave them without electricity for three days so that they would vote for the AK Party if no coalition government is formed and an early election is held. Many Twitter users reacted to the minister’s statement, with one saying he will consider Yıldız responsible for any future power blackouts that take place in Turkey

#Turquie #Electricité #Election

The Man Who Delayed D-Day - Issue 15: Turbulence
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When Dwight D. Eisenhower was planning the invasion of Normandy, he made sure to check with Walter Munk and his colleagues first. Munk had come to the United States from Austria-Hungary to work as a banker before switching to oceanography, eventually making major advances in the science of tidal and wave forecasting. He was a defense researcher at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 1943 when his team calculated that the seas on June 5 of that year would be so rough that a delay was in order. The invasion would happen on the following day. It was just one highlight among many in Munk’s career. From explaining why we always see the same side of the moon to sending a sound signal halfway around the world, Munk is the very definition of the enterprising scientist. When I spoke to him (...)