some context for the bottom row https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/16/exiled-russian-accused-of-spying-on-opposition-including-navalny-movement https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2025/11/04/russian-pro-democracy-activist-detained-in-poland-admits-to-working-for-fsb-en-news

tldr openrussia didn’t learn that there’s no such thing as former fsb agent, and now there are consequences

roughly tube with a very thick wall and spherical ending (it has to survive 100+ atm under high temperature and neutron irradiation - weakens everything over time)

as i understand, this is what bellingcat uses as a major source of data when reporting on russian activities

“It is one of the paradoxes of modern Russia: on the one hand, these services are illegal and rely on leaked data, yet on the other, they are far more convenient for day-to-day police work than the multitude of official departmental databases,”

gaben on piracy: “We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem,”

still up for me, but in any case https://web.archive.org/web/20251223055820/https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet 8/EFTA00025010.pdf

is really every digital turd dished out by trump’s court newsworthy

There is a thermal energy storage included as s major part. This works because compressing CO2 to 55atm adiabatically heats it up to some 450-ish C, so that heat is pretty high grade, and only the final stage cools it down with heat exchanger open to air. In discharging direction, some heat is taken from outside air to evaporate part of CO2 and heat stored is used up

compressors, turbines (like steam turbines), piping, some of which heat-resistant (500C), container for liquid carbon dioxide, lots of plastic for the bubble, something for thermal storage, dry and clean carbon dioxide, these aren’t unusual or restricted resources, don’t depend on critical raw materials or anything like that

Compressed air without heat recovery is more like 30%, so this is huge

Carbon dioxide can be liquefied relatively easily which is what i guess makes this efficient

wood, magnesium, aluminum, plastics, they say titanium is bad, but i’d expect iron, nickel, manganese, tungsten, silver, maybe zinc to be worse

no no no no it’s on by default so it’s opt-out, and switch for that isn’t even implemented yet

at least he didn’t say he “fell on it” and it was totally an accident

in this economy?

it can be bought in italy as a cleaning agent without going through entire process as for reagents purchase iirc

Sr-90 that was involved in cases you mention is strong beta emitter, but Pu-238 isn’t, it’s mostly-alpha emitter, so it’ll only get dangerous if somebody ingests it, but it’s a piece of ceramic inside a strong case

it’s not the type of plutonium that is fissile, 40% of it decayed by now, and it was formed into hard, chemically resistant ceramic in the first place

have you read the article

“article” is entirely too charitable, this is a substack post

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nah. loam is, for example, 40% sand, 20% clay, 40% silt and it’s close to middle of that polygon, on top of letter O

for example, draw a line from 50% sand point on edge to 50% clay point on edge, the first one is 50% sand 50% silt because that axis for sand is also 0% for clay, the second one is 50% sand 50% clay because it lies at the line that is 0% silt

at this point just leave your phone at home or get burner for this exact purpose