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Call to insurer even worse than sight of this flood-damaged home
2025-05-02 21:45:03| Spiritual Career Counseling
It's April 7 a week since Thargomindah's levee broke, and nearly the entire township was inundated and Melinda Byrne is finally returning to her home.She makes the final turn in her vehicle and pulls into the driveway, not knowing what waits for her when she opens the front door.For the past week, since being evacuated to the town's airport the only place high enough in town to escape the floodwaters she's tried to cling to the hope that floodwaters hadn't managed to seep into her home."I think for me personally, I chose to believe that [my home] had kept it out so I didn't have to think about the carnage that would be inside," she said.But, as an SES volunteer pulls the sandbags aside and opens her front door, Ms Byrne faces a harsh reality the water mark on her front door reveals just how high it got.Inside, puddles of mud pool on the floor, furniture has been upturned and scattered throughout her home, and water has infiltrated every cupboard, nook and cranny within a metr...
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Data centers drive ERCOTs massive power demand forecast
2025-05-02 12:45:03| Spiritual Career Counseling
By Philip JankowskiAustin Bureau CorrespondentApr. 9, 2025|Updated 5:03 a.m. CDT|3 min. readTexas power grid operator ERCOT is projecting an explosion in energy demand over the next five years, with peak electricity use more than doubling as new data centers come online around the state.The Electric Reliability Council of Texas on Tuesday updated its projections to show peak electricity demand as high as 218 gigawatts in 2031. The current power demand record, set in August 2023, was 85.5 gigawatts.Energy-hungry data centers are driving the massive increases in ERCOTs long-term estimate, accounting for a whopping 86 gigawatts of demand growth. Thats enough electricity to keep the lights on at 21.5 million homes.ERCOT also downplayed the estimate, simultaneously releasing an adjusted estimate that showed power demand would grow, but at a significantly reduced pace. It showed demand hitting 145 gigawatts in 2031, 33% lower.Business BriefingBecome a business insider with the latest news....
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Releasing the Hydra with Rafael Yuste
2025-05-02 12:45:03| Spiritual Career Counseling
Profiles / Neural networks Losing HHMI Investigator status prompted Yuste to study neural networks in a new way. By Brady Huggett, Shaena Montanari 4 April 2025 | 10 min read comments https://doi.org/10.53053/WLAP1965 https://doi.org/10.53053/WLAP1965 - opens a new tab Cite this article Go West: After Yuste finished medical school in Madrid, his mentor Sydney Brenner guided him toward a Ph.D. at Rockefeller University. Photography by Mackenzie Calle Rafael Yuste woke up in his bedroom. It was early on a Sunday morning at the end of March 2019. Manhattan was quiet outside his windows. He had been dreaming of Sydney Brenner, sitting face to face with the Nobel-Prize-winning biologist. Brenner was speaking about Hydra as a model in neuroscience but also chiding Yuste, telling him to forget funding concerns and focus on the things that truly matter in science.He was so shaken by the dream that his wife woke up, too. A few days later, Yuste was reading the news online when he saw that Bre...
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