A Ukrainian government official frequently cited as a source by western news media for her allegations of atrocities committed by Russian troops has been fired by the Ukrainian parliament, in part because of the unevidenced nature of those claims.
Horrific allegations from Ukraine’s Human Rights Commissioner include a 9-month-old baby being penetrated with a candlestick and triplets, 9, being raped in front… ALL 100% LIES
A Ukrainian official has been relieved of her duties over her handling of reports detailing sexual assault allegations made against Russians in Ukraine.
On Tuesday, the Ukrainian parliament, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, removed Lyudmila Denisova, the parliament’s commissioner for human rights, from her post, according to Ukrainska Pravda. No new appointment has been made to fill the role.
The move to dismiss Denisova came after outrage about the wording used in public reports about alleged sexual assaults committed by Russians, as well as the alleged dissemination in those reports of unverified information. Despite accusations from Ukraine, the Kremlin has repeatedly denied that Russian soldiers have committed war crimes or sexual assaults during the invasion.
As it happens, Newsweek is one of the many western outlets who have uncritically cited Denisova’s unevidenced claims in their reporting of events in Ukraine. She was the “Ukraine official” in Newsweek’s incendiary April headline “Russians Raped 11-Year-Old Boy, Forced Mom to Watch: Ukraine Official,” an article whose entire first half featured unevidenced claims by Denisova.
"The racist occupiers must bear the strictest responsibility!" said Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, Lyudmila Denisova, of Russian soldiers. https://t.co/ObN7cDbEJv
A Ukrainian official has been relieved of her duties over her handling of reports detailing sexual assault allegations made against Russians in Ukraine.
The new REPowerEU Plan presented last week by the European Commission is the latest proposal of measures that would speed up the transformation of Europe’s energy landscape..
The dependence on fossil fuels imported from Russia may be the most pressing issue tackled by the proposal. For the first time, geothermal energy has been included as a mainstream solution to address the challenges associated with both Russian aggression and climate change.
This is good news. only deep geothermal energy can offer not just gigawatts, but terawatts of clean and sustainable baseload energy needed by industry and large-scale district heating and cooling.
Deep geothermal energy can be harvested almost anywhere – at depths of 5 km and more. The problem is that the costs associated with traditional conventional drilling in depths of more than 3 km in the hard rock under increasing pressure and temperature rise exponentially.
GA Drilling, a technology company from Slovakia, is one of the few tech startups developing contactless drilling solutions to enable linear cost increase of drilling to any depth – and it is the only one based in the EU.
GA Drilling has now associated with Narbors to: accelerate field commercialization and eliminate traditional economic barriers of ultra-deep projects to expand global access to geothermal energy.. see report below
Its unique drill bit Plasmabit has already caught the attention of major global players in the drilling and oil industry as the technology to power the deep geothermal revolution, anywhere.
With “Plasmabit inside”, the existing drilling equipment and rigs developed originally for conventional oil and gas exploration in shallow sediments will be able to unlock the vast potential of deep geothermal energy in hot hard rock, guaranteeing the economic viability of geothermal projects.
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Nabors invests in ultra-deep geothermal drilling technology company
Apr 1, 2022 shared with thanks
Nabors Industries added to its clean energy portfolio with an $8 million investment in geothermal technology company GA Drilling. GA Drilling’s PLASMABIT drilling tool will be integrated into Nabors’ automated and lower-emission drilling operations.
The collaboration aims to accelerate field commercialization and eliminate traditional economic barriers of ultra-deep projects to expand global access to geothermal energy.
GA Drilling joins Nabors’ geothermal ecosystem, which is comprised of three other prior venture investments in geothermal companies. These technologies were assembled to help make geothermal energy widely accessible across geographies, while reducing cost per unit of energy generated to match the cost of other energy sources.
“Now is the time to invest in innovative and bold geothermal solutions that have the potential to unlock terawatts of clean, renewable and reliable energy on a truly global scale,” said Anthony G. Petrello, Nabors Chairman, CEO and President. ecosystem.”
“The present agreement will allow us to move faster through the final stages of PLASMABIT development, to integrate this revolutionary drilling tool into the systems of the rig. Nabors will introduce European high-technology capacities into the US market. Together, we will work toward meeting imminent demand to rapidly diversify the global energy mix.”
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Quaise’s ultra-deep geothermal drilling plans: Your questions answered
Quaise says it has a plan, and the technology, to drill deeper than ever before and unlock the vast geothermal power of the Earth to re-power fossil-fired electricity plants with green energy
Quaise’s ultra-deep geothermal power plan is one of the most exciting and fascinating green energy projects we’ve seen. In a nutshell, this Boston-based MIT spin-off says it has repurposed powerful millimeter-wave beam technology – originally developed to superheat plasma in fusion experiments – to blast through previously undrillable rock far below the Earth’s surface.
The company says this will allow it to drill bore holes far deeper than has ever previously been possible, going down far enough to access rock temperatures around 500 °C (932 °F). That’s well past the point where water becomes heated to a “supercritical” state that radically boosts the efficiency of geothermal power extraction.
More or less any existing power station that uses fossil-fueled heat to create steam and run turbines can be connected to a totally reliable, 24-hour supply of green energy that’ll keep those turbines turning without a single puff of CO2 escaping, and without the worrying intermittency of other renewable sources like wind and solar energy.
Quaise’s hybrid ultra-deep drilling rig will combine conventional rotary drilling with gyrotron-powered mm-wave directed energy drilling, pressure-purged with electromagnetically-transparent argon gas
It’ll be surprisingly quick, too. The deepest hole humanity has ever drilled to date took nearly 20 years to reach a depth of 12,289 m (40,318 ft), but Quaise says its hybrid drilling rig – using a traditional rotary bit to get through the easy stuff and a gyrotron-powered energy beam to melt, fracture and vaporize the tough stuff – will take just 100 days to deliver you a hole 20 km (12.4 miles) deep.
If all hurdles can be cleared the end result gets you a long-term green energy supply, in a stable bore hole lined with glassy melted rock, wherever you want it.
The details and history are fascinating, and I thoroughly recommend you read our original story to learn a lot more. But as with any radically disruptive idea like this, enquiring minds are going to have questions.
Your questions answered
Here at Atlas we’ve collected the best – and a few of the worst – questions from both these sources, and put them to Quaise CEO and co-founder Carlos Araque, who was kind enough to get back to us. His lightly edited responses are reproduced below.
A la Unión y Coordinación de Asambleas Populares en defensa de la Soberanía Nacional del Paraná y de la Soberanía Comunitaria Isleña sobre su hábitat y sus formas de vida.
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¡UNIDAD CONTRA EL PLAN MONSANTO EN LOS HUMEDALES!
¡UNIDAD CONTRA LA DESPOSESION y EXPULSION ISLEÑA!
¡UNIDAD CONTRA EL GENOCIDIO ISLEÑO!
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CONTACTOS:
Autoconvocados Campana / Autoconvocados Rio de la Plata (3489 65-3787)
Autoconvocados San Nicolás (336 419-4734- Asociación Unidad Isleña 3487…
“Paroli Esperanton estis iam esenca parto de anarkiismo”.
(Hubo un tiempo en que hablar esperanto era una parte esencial de ser anarquista).
Cuando Eduardo Vivancos, de 97 años y nacido en Barcelona, camina por las calles de Toronto, donde vive exiliado desde 1954, nunca se cruza con otro hablante de esperanto.
Sin embargo, cuando aprendió la lengua por primera vez en junio de 1937, en plena Guerra Civil y Revolución Española, pensó que era un elemento natural del mundo libertario.
Y así fue.
En aquella época, en ciudades como Barcelona y Valencia, había cursos de esperanto y grupos en todos los ateneos (centros sociales anarquistas). La CNT (Confederación Nacional del Trabajo), el sindicato anarcosindicalista, publicaba un periódico, Nia Bulteno (Nuestro Boletín), con artículos en esta lengua. Todos los demás grupos relevantes de España tenían también publicaciones en esperanto. El grupo marxista antiestalinista, el POUM…
The Russian offensive continues, now almost exclusively in Donbass, and without increasing its 140,ooo strength (only ‘about 15% of the over 1 million Russian military’).
Russian-led forces are surrounding the city of Svyatogorsk. There are battles in the Bogorodichne area.
A battery of FH-70 howitzers transferred to the AFU by Italy was destroyed:
After the town of Krasny Liman came under the DPR control, Russian-led forces continued their advance towards Slavyansk from the east. The AFU positions in the village of Rayhorodok located 10 kilometers from Slavyansk are already shelled by Russian artillery.
The Russian advance threatens the military supplies to the AFU units deployed in the Severodonetsk-Lisichansk metropolitan area from Slavyansk and Seversk…..
Erdogan is the real terrorist!..Nudem got 19 years jail for singing in Kurdish
Imprisoned Kurdish singer Nudem Durak has called on Turkish authorities to release her from prison, saying she suffers from multiple illnesses and wants to sing as a free woman once again, the Bianet news website reported.
Turkish authorities have increasingly restricted the use of Kurdish in recent years. Hate crimes against Kurds for speaking their language have also increased.
Durak suffers from osteoporosis and Graves’ disease, an immune system disorder that attacks the thyroid glands. The disease can also affect the quality of the voice. Speaking to her family on the phone, Durak said she was afraid of losing her voice and wanted to sing to the public one last time.
The Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetland, has been battered in recent years by agricultural development, drought, and fire. Dredging the rivers will destroy the water levels and everything will burn.
Now, a push to turn the region’s key river into a waterway for soybean-laden barges threatens to alter the natural flows of this iconic ecosystem.
It takes 14 hours for Lourenço Pereira Leite to reach his fishing spot.
He and his brother-in-law chug along in a simple one-engine motorboat, towing their traditional fishing canoe behind them.
They’re in the Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetland, traveling on its main body of water, the Paraguay River. At almost 47 million acres, the Pantanal is 10 times the size of Florida’s Everglades and flows across Bolivia, Paraguay, and Brazil.
The vast wetland, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is made up of more than 1,200 rivers and streams rushing into the region from the eastern Andes.
After winding along 150 miles of the Paraguay River’s deep curves, Pereira Leite and his brother-in-law arrive at Pacu Gordo, a campsite in Brazil among the lush green trees along the river’s edge. They tie up their boat and set up a makeshift cage around the area where they plan to sleep — protection from the Pantanal’s abundant jaguar population. The fishermen will spend two weeks along the river, targeting the prime species — pacu and pintado — that will fetch the highest price.
A third-generation fisherman, Pereira Leite is part of a group known as ribeirinhos, traditional people who live on a river’s edge and support themselves with sustainable fishing and small-scale farming.
When he was younger, Pereira Leite, now 52, was able to reach his quota of 275 pounds of fish per week in a fraction of the time and much closer to his home on the periphery of Cáceres, a city of almost 95,000 in the heart of the Pantanal.
But the arrival of large-scale ranching and farming, infrastructure development, drought, and severe fires in 2020 are steadily taking bites out of the Pantanal, threatening the ribeirinhos and their way of life. He fears his three children will be unable to carry on his traditional fishing lifestyle.
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Now a new threat is on the horizon. With the rapid growth of industrial soybean farming in the Pantanal, a proposal to build a commercial waterway has been revived, with three ports — coupled with major dredging and course-alteration projects — planned for the Paraguay River.
One of those planned ports, known as Barranco Vermelho and located in Cáceres, has already received a preliminary license from the Environmental Council of Mato Grosso state, the first step in the permitting process that would allow the port to be built.
The construction of a second port in Cáceres is also planned, as well as another in the nearby city of Corumbá. All three are being privately funded.
