Alexander C. Kaufman

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I have a new feature out in Latitude Media. It's about Heron Power, a new power electronics company founded by former Tesla exec Drew Baglino. The technology is pretty cool and promises to shake up the sleepy world of grid transformers, making it easier and safer to patch more solar panels and wind turbines onto the grid. https://www.latitudemedia.com/news/inside-heron-powers-plan-to-transform-the-grid/

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It was supposed to be the United States’ grand entry to the global race to make green steel — a symbol of a return to American innovation and of revival in the nation’s rusting industrial heartland. Instead, Cleveland-Cliffs’ plan to replace coal-based blast furnaces with cleaner, hydrogen-ready technology at its Middletown Works facility in Ohio — the same mill that Vice President JD Vance described as his grandparents’ “economic savior” in his “Hillbilly Elegy” memoir — now risks being swept away in the undercurrent of Washington’s shifting partisan tides. From my latest piece on Canary Media: https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/green-steel/cleveland-cliffs-middletown-trump

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Nice scoop from my colleague at Latitude Media, Maeve Allsup (I’ll try to persuade her to come here at some point.) The second acting LPO director is out after clashing with Secretary Chris Wright. https://www.latitudemedia.com/news/lane-genatowski-is-out-at-lpo/

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Checking in on the betting markets amid all the chaos and the odds look very good that Khamenei is out by the end of the year. 25% chance by the end of the month.

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Kazakhstan has supplied much of the world's uranium for years, but it's only just now building its first nuclear power plant. After a lot of debate over which vendor to go with, the country is splitting the difference between its two powerful neighbors and going with Russian *and* Chinese technology. A really interesting example of how Moscow and Beijing may end up competing in this arena in the years to come as China starts exporting more of its technology https://havli.substack.com/p/kazakhstan-splits-the-baby-on-nuclear?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2446111&post_id=166062913&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=9wuu&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

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A parting thought before going to bed because I have early flight to Chicago in the morning: The four-photo display on Farcaster looks great and moves seamlessly. Truly a feature that blows X and Bluesky’s displays out of the water. Nice work guys.

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Why does “Churchil” look like el-Sisi?

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Pretty terrifying new thing I had never heard of before? Apparently manufactured microbes that “mirror” bacteria threaten to bring back all kinds of horrible diseases, the cures for which would be rendered impotent against the new synthetic bacteria.

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The One Easy Trick To Make 'Nature's Adderall' That Big Pharma Doesn't Want You To Know About

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Interesting: The deep-sea drilling startup The Metals Company just inked a nearly $90 million deal with a major South Korean metal refiner. It's a big step forward for TMC, which benefited from one of Trump's executive orders recently as the U.S. looks to make its controversial ocean-floor mining project a competition with China. https://investors.metals.co/news-releases/news-release-details/tmc-announces-strategic-investment-korea-zinc-world-leader-non

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Good question. I looked it up and apparently the etymology of Palawan is debated. Some think it's from the Malay word "pahlawan" for "hero/warrior," some think it's from the Spanish word "paragua" for umbrella due to the island's shape. Obviously there's a connection to the Palawano indigenous people who live there, though not clear if that name came before or after colonization.

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Obama-era NRC chairman Greg Jaczko calls Trump's firing of Democratic commissioner Christopher Hanson "outrageous." Not sure how much weight his words will have, given that he's emerged from his tenure at the agency as a harsh critic of the nuclear industry. But notable nonetheless.

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Potentially big news: it looks like there could be something of a standoff happening off the coast of the Philippines' Palawan Island, where two Chinese Coast Guard ships and two Philippine Coast Guard vessels are clustered near each other.

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Yet another truly Bluesky moment. Check out this exchange. This person promptly blocked me after responding "haha"

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