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Australia briefly crosses the 50% renewables barrier

The combined output from solar and wind reached 50 percent the near 25GW being produced on the main grid.  This includes QLD, NSW, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia.  Rooftop solar provided half of the renewables output, or 23.7 per cent, followed by wind (15.7 per cent), large-scale solar (8.8 per cent) and hydro (1.9 per cent).

Australia’s main grid reaches 50 per cent renewables for first time

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Collecting a small amount of trash in the middle of the ocean is boring

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WFIRST Space Telescope

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Most Ocean Plastic Pollution Comes from Rivers

The Ocean CleanUp Project just announced their new project to stop plastic at their source: rivers.  The have Interceptors actively removing plastic from rivers in Indonesia in Jakarta, Malaysia and soon Vietnam on the Mekong River and Rio Osama in Dominican Republic.  Jump to 19:20 for the announcement.

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Spurious Correlations

https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

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Making your phone faster, next year

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xkcd: Lakes and Oceans

https://xkcd.com/1040/

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Voyager’s Nuclear Power Drops at 4 Watts a Year

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New techniques to measure Earth’s gravity

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