Vincent Song

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“There is zero chance we can recycle our way out of the problem,” he said. This is true. There isn’t enough lithium on the market for battery recycling to realistically meet present demand, let alone the expected increase.
A Good Prospect - The Drift
“Everybody would say recycling is important,” he told me. But “most people in this conference aren’t interested.”
A Good Prospect - The Drift
Focusing on lithium consumption, the report models different developmental pathways for the U.S., using variables like car ownership, the size of E.V. batteries, city density, public transit, and battery recycling. The worst-case scenario, the authors claim, would result in major lithium extraction, as PDAC attendees expect.
A Good Prospect - The Drift
Are there no alternatives to this rush to extract the world’s metals and minerals?
A Good Prospect - The Drift
His pessimism was rather more fundamental: “Perhaps the destiny of man is to have a short but fiery, exciting, and extravagant life rather than a long, uneventful, and vegetative existence,” he wrote in 1975. “Let other species — the amoebas, for example — which have no spiritual ambitions inherit an earth still bathed in plenty of sunshine.”
Energy Revolution: Want to Save the Planet? Re-Industrialize - Bloomberg
By dipping our toes into the pool of anxiety and willingly contacting those thoughts and feelings, we learn to tolerate shame and insecurity as normal parts of a human life.
The Status Trap - No Small Plans - Every
Where there is a strong status fantasy, there is often a raw or tender spot underneath.
The Status Trap - No Small Plans - Every
"It is an art that we Europeans know. When a man speaks, we make marks on the paper. When another man looks at the paper later, he sees the marks and knows what sounds the first man made. In that way the second man can hear what the first man said."
The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling by Ted Chiang — Subterranean Press | devonzuegel.com
Remem monitors your conversation for references to past events, and then displays video of that event in the lower left corner of your field of vision. If you say "remember dancing the conga at that wedding?", Remem will bring up the video. If the person you’re talking to says "the last time we were at the beach," Remem will bring up the video. And it’s not only for use when speaking with someone else; Remem also monitors your subvocalizations. If you read the words "the first Szechuan restaurant you ate at," your vocal cords will move as if you’re reading aloud, and Remem will bring up the re…
The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling by Ted Chiang — Subterranean Press | devonzuegel.com
“In the face of the inevitable, the only choice is to adapt.”
The Perfect Match - Lightspeed Magazine
Churchill said that we shape our buildings, and afterwards, our buildings shape us. We made machines to help us think, and now the machines think for us.”
The Perfect Match - Lightspeed Magazine
“It is inevitable. You think destroying Centillion will free you, whatever ‘free’ means.
The Perfect Match - Lightspeed Magazine
“You grew up believing you were free, which made it even harder for you to see when you weren’t. You were like frogs in the pot being slowly boiled.”
The Perfect Match - Lightspeed Magazine
But then he remembered how it had felt to have Tilly lead him by the nose on every choice, how he had been content, like a pig happily wallowing in his enclosure.
The Perfect Match - Lightspeed Magazine
“It’s like we’re all living in Oz’s Emerald City. Centillion puts these thick green goggles over our eyes and we all think everything is a beautiful shade of green.”
The Perfect Match - Lightspeed Magazine
The 20 RNG facilities WM expects to build could provide enough revenue to supplant recycling as the waste major’s biggest cash flow driver in its sustainable business segment by next year, deriving new revenue from both open and closed landfills where gas either goes uncaptured or toward less profitable operations.
WM could earn more from RNG than from recycling by next year as part of dramatic scale-up | Waste Dive
adjusted operating EBITDA more than doubled after RNG facilities were installed at four sites in the past several years, and they anticipate an average increase of 50% to 75% at planned sites.
WM could earn more from RNG than from recycling by next year as part of dramatic scale-up | Waste Dive
The investments are expected to generate $450 million in free cash flow in 2026, when the expansion is scheduled to be complete, and stabilize at or above $400 million in the following years.
WM could earn more from RNG than from recycling by next year as part of dramatic scale-up | Waste Dive
The state has abandoned mentally unwell people, and left them to fend for themselves in a society in which they cannot function. For the only mildly or temporarily disturbed homeless, perhaps the patchwork of buffet-style social services offers a pathway to treatment and social reintegration. But for the rest, the asylum has merely been replaced by a jail cell. For such people, institutionalization never really ended, it just changed, became more erratic — the pretense of care and rehabilitation, however flimsy, completely dropped.
Jordan Neely Wouldn’t Be Dead in a State Hospital
I’ve seen no evidence that the man who killed Neely is a villain, but he isn’t a hero either. From the outside, he just looks like a guy who choked a homeless guy out because he was reasonably afraid he, or someone else, was about to be attacked. That’s not heroism, that’s an instinctual reaction, particularly for someone with a military background. Jordan Neely didn’t deserve to die. He deserved to be taken in as ward of the state and treated until he was able to integrate into society, if possible. If not, then cared for the rest of his life. That is how a civilized country deals with those …
Jordan Neely Wouldn’t Be Dead in a State Hospital
Maersk told The Wall Street Journal that it now holds an interest of less than 2.3% in TMC and is in the process of selling all of its shares. The shipping company held more than 9% of TMC in 2021, according to data from FactSet and has been an investor in the company since 2017.
Shipping Giant Maersk Drops Deep Sea Mining Investment - WSJ
TMC had previously said it aimed to start seabed mining in the second half of this year but is now willing to wait until a mining code has been finalized, which is also the Republic of Nauru’s official position.
Shipping Giant Maersk Drops Deep Sea Mining Investment - WSJ
Maersk said it entered into a contract with TMC five years ago, under which it would provide shipping services to the company. Maersk said direct payment from TMC wasn’t possible at the time and so payment for the contract was provided in the form of shares that it is in the process of selling.
Shipping Giant Maersk Drops Deep Sea Mining Investment - WSJ
It’s clear that Shopify was betting big on the logistics side of its business, so to sell all that off for a 13% equity interest in Flexport seems like a major writedown, on the surface at least.
Shopify to reduce workforce by 20%, sells logistics business to Flexport for 13% equity | TechCrunch
Other costs, such as packaging and marketing, make up a bigger share, he said — a fact that he and others missed when they projected drought-related price increases in 2012. The increase was around 1 percent, rather than the 4 or 5 percent they predicted, he said.
Drought parches America's breadbasket - E&E News
If that happens, he said, it would be only the third time such an annual decline has occurred since 1980.
Drought parches America's breadbasket - E&E News
A combination of the normal 10-year cattle cycle and the quicker-than-normal reduction in cattle numbers has set the stage for higher prices to come, they said — and perhaps a hint of the big swings of a climate-driven future.
Drought parches America's breadbasket - E&E News
Different systems can yield big savings, too, including microirrigation that applies water close to the plants or even underground, but high-technology systems are usually better suited to high-value fruit and vegetable crops,
Drought parches America's breadbasket - E&E News
With pasture drying up and other feed harder to come by last year, Janssen did what many of his fellow farmers did: sold hundreds of cows for slaughter. He had about a third fewer cows than normal headed into spring, thanks to drought-related herd reductions. He also didn’t bother to harvest 400 acres of water-starved corn, leaving the stunted stalks in the field through the winter to prevent erosion.
Drought parches America's breadbasket - E&E News
Although operating dirty assets can hurt a company’s reputation, “it doesn’t mean you can’t make money from them,” says the person involved in the transaction who didn’t want to be identified.
EPH Fossil Fuel Empire Makes Billions Betting Against Europe Climate Plan - Bloomberg
Details of the controversial transaction weren’t disclosed. According to estimates by Osicka, the Czech buyers paid only €29 million. That would be a steal considering the properties had assets worth €3.4 billion, against liabilities and provisions of €2 billion. The real coup for Kretinsky, however, was that the transfer included about €1.7 billion in cash that Vattenfall’s utilities had set aside to cover the future cost of dismantling the mines and restoring the land. And the German government said it would pay LEAG an additional €1.75 billion to switch off its lignite plants more quickly.
EPH Fossil Fuel Empire Makes Billions Betting Against Europe Climate Plan - Bloomberg
“There are some unique characteristics to the linear generator that make it an interesting tool,” Jenkins says.
New Generator Technology Can Produce Clean Energy - Bloomberg
Mavenir is not naming further investors in this latest capital injection, but other existing backers include Koch and Pendrell.
Mavenir raises $100M to build more AI into its cloud-based automated network technology for telecoms services | TechCrunch
Cold food storage specialists Lineage Logistics LLC decided to try a linear generator at a warehouse in the Southern California city of Colton, matching it with a rooftop solar array.
New Generator Technology Can Produce Clean Energy - Bloomberg
Duker told Boies he’d received evidence that the auctions Venezuela uses to sell its oil had been systematically rigged for a decade or more, depriving the economically beleaguered country of billions of dollars. Among the scheme’s beneficiaries, Duker said, were Glencore, Trafigura and Vitol, the three biggest commodity trading houses in the world, with combined annual revenue of a trillion dollars.
Venezuela Oil Industry Lost Billions in Bid-Rigging Scandal - Bloomberg
Starting [at a young age] he’s read everything that he could find about business. The subject that interests him, he’s read newspapers, biographies, trade press. He went over to his grandfather who was a grocer and he read the progressive grocer magazine, and he read articles on how to stock a meat department... What he’s really done is he’s created this immense vertical filing cabinet in his brain of layers and layers and layers of files of information that he can draw back on now for more than 70 years worth of data.
Curius / Onboarding