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☆ Big oil is racing to scale up carbon capture to slash emissions but the challenges are immense
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-06 | by ( Spencer Kimball | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +14 min

Some climate activists accuse the industry of simply investing in carbon capture as way to extend the use of oil and gas. The technology typically uses chemical absorption to capture carbon dioxide emitted from the chimney of an industrial plant. "The economic viability of carbon capture and sequestration is a challenge today because the cost of building most plants in order to capture carbon dioxide are very significant," the executive said. About two-thirds of the industry's carbon dioxide emissions come from chemical reactions that occur when breaking down limestone. SLB this month announced a nearly $400 million investment in Aker Carbon Capture, a pure-play carbon capture company based in Norway, in an effort to accelerate deployment of the technology at commercial scale.

Persons: Chin Lee, Biden, SLB, Fred Majkut, Majkut, Adam Miklos, Miklos, Baker Hughes, Olivier Le Peuch, Alessandro Bresciani, Jeff Gustavson, Gustavson, steelmaker Nucor, Linde, Dan Ammann, Ammann, Fatih Birol, We're, SLB's Majkut Organizations: Chevron, Houston Chronicle, Hearst Newspapers, Department of Energy, RTI International, International Energy Agency, Exxon, Rystad Energy, Clean Investment Monitor, United Nations ., Gulf Coast, CF Industries, Talos Energy, Carbonvert, IEA Locations: Winnie, Mississippi, Vicksburg, Schlumberger, United States, Paris, Chevron, United Kingdom, U.S, Aker, Norway, Houston, Port Arthur , Texas, Gulf, Louisiana, Beaumont , Texas, Mississippi , Louisiana, Texas, Bayou, Port Arthur

NEW YORK (AP) — Smoking has surpassed injecting as the most common way of taking drugs in U.S. overdose deaths, a new government study suggests. CDC officials decided to study the topic after seeing reports from California suggesting that smoking fentanyl was becoming more common than injecting it. Potent, illicit versions of the painkiller are involved in more U.S. overdose deaths than any other drug. But “both injection and smoking carry a substantial overdose risk,” and it’s not yet clear if a shift toward smoking fentanyl reduces U.S. overdose deaths, said Tanz, a CDC scientist who studies overdoses. It’s complicated to map out exact percentages of deaths that occurred after smoking, injecting, snorting or swallowing drugs, experts say.

Persons: Lauren Tanz, Tanz, it's, Alex Karl, Kral, ‘, snorting, ” Organizations: Disease Control, CDC, RTI, District of Columbia, West, Associated Press Health, Science Department, Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science, Educational Media Group, AP Locations: California, U.S, San Francisco, Northeast

☆ Shipping industry could lose $10 billion a year battling climate change by 2050
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Diana Olick | In Dianaolick | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

It is just the latest in a growing number of disruptions hitting the shipping industry as it battles the effects of climate change. A similar reduction in 2019 cost global shipping as much as $370 million, according to a study by RTI International. "We firmly believe that climate change poses a great threat to the shipping industry and the consumer overall. The impacts of climate change on ports alone, from damage to disruption, could cost the shipping industry up to $10 billion annually by 2050 and up to $25 billion per year by 2100, according to the RTI study, which was reviewed by the Environmental Defense Fund. Of all the transportation sectors, shipping is one of the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change.

Persons: Narin Phol, Phol, Hakan Agnevall, Agnevall, It's, it's, Erica Posse Organizations: U.S . Army Corps of Engineers, RTI International, Maersk, North, RTI, Environmental Defense Fund, Wartsila, Shipping, CNBC Locations: Mississippi, Vicksburg , Mississippi, Panama, Vancouver, Canada, North America, Paris

☆ ‘Monster Fracks’ Are Getting Far Bigger. And Far Thirstier.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-25 | by ( Hiroko Tabuchi | Blacki Migliozzi | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +23 min

Dallas TEXAS Austin Houston San Antonio Dallas TEXAS Austin Houston San Antonio TEXAS TEXAS Amarillo Lubbock Dallas El Paso TEXAS Austin Houston San Antonio Corpus Christi UNCHARTED WATERS ‘Monster Fracks’ Are Getting Far Bigger. Water wells that supply fracking Nationwide, fracking has used up nearly 1.5 trillion gallons of water since 2011. Now they account for almost two out of every three fracking wells in Texas, the Times analysis found. ‘Monster fracks’ take off in Texas Proportion of fracks Source: FracFocus chemical disclosure database as of Aug. 1, 2023. In 2020, New Mexico halted sales of water supplies to oil and gas companies fracking on state land.

☆ Meta, Italy's Mediaset sign deal against online piracy
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-29 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

MILAN, March 29 (Reuters) - Italy's top commercial broadcaster MFE-Mediaforeurope (MFEB.MI) said on Wednesday its unit Mediaset had partnered up with Facebook owner Meta Platforms (META.O) to fight online piracy. Under the multi-year partnership, Mediaset will work with Meta to implement a set of tools and systems to protect its unit Reti televisive Italiane (RTI)'s copyrighted content, including live broadcasts. Meta will also provide RTI with training and support to make the most effective use of the U.S. group's 'Rights Manager' tool to allow the Italian company to authorise, manage and protect its content. Reporting by Federico Maccioni, editing by Cristina CarlevaroOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Fact Check-Robot was designed to run on plant-based items, not human or animal flesh
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-11 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

The Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot (EATR) was intended to consume vegetation, not animals, one of the robot’s inventors told Reuters. A Facebook video with 11,000 shares at the time of writing (here) has been reshared by others with comments including, “Flesh eating robot !!!! It’s a crazy world,” “they couldn't create zombies so theeeey created ROBOT ZOMBIE” and “EATR ROBOT.. eats biological ( canbeflesh) as fuel? “It would not recognize bodies, human or animal, as fuel,” Finkelstein said. The EATR was never intended to consume human or animal flesh, and its design makes consuming flesh impossible, the robot’s inventor told Reuters.

☆ ‘Law & Order’ actor Diane Neal weighs in on how the show can affect perceptions of police
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-15 | by ( Harmeet Kaur | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Over numerous seasons of “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” the tough and persistent assistant district attorney convicts scores of sex offenders and delivers justice to their victims. An internal NYPD investigation in 2018 criticized the department’s handling of sexual assault cases. A representative for Dick Wolf, the creator of “Law & Order,” did not respond to a request for comment. In a 2020 special celebrating the long-running “SVU,” Mariska Hargitay, who plays detective Olivia Benson, spoke of the positive impact the show had on sexual assault survivors. Others have argued that “Law & Order” and police procedurals more broadly shouldn’t be expected to reflect reality precisely because they are fictional – a point that Oliver acknowledged in his show.

☆ (foto) Se deschide o nouă secție de terapie intensivă la spitalul municipal „Sfânta Treime”. Va avea o capacitate de 14 paturi
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-19 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +1 min

(foto) Se deschide o nouă secție de terapie intensivă la spitalul municipal „Sfânta Treime”. Va avea o capacitate de 14 paturiLa Spitalul Clinic Municipal „Sfânta Treime” se deschide, începând cu luna mai, o nouă secție de terapie intensivă și reanimare cu o capacitate de 14 paturi. „În prezent lucrările de reparație sunt pe ultima sută de metri, iar pentru deschiderea secției, din bugetul municipal au fost alocate mijloace financiare în sumă de circa 6 milioane de lei”, spune Ion Ceban. Necesitatea creării acestei unităţi critice pentru sistemul medical municipal, a apărut odată cu debutul pandemiei COVID-19, când instituţia medicală, pe lângă serviciile înalt calificate pe care le acorda pacienţilor pe diferite specialităţi medicale, mai trata şi pacienţi cu coronavirus. Astfel, după deschiderea noii secţii, numărul total de paturi în secţiile RTI la spitalul „Sfânta Treime”, va constitui 68 de paturi, fiind spitalul municipal cu cea mai mare capacitate.

Persons: Ion Ceban Locations: municipal

☆ Trei partide în cinci ani și 11 ani de deputăție. Vezi traseul Violetei Ivanov, care se vrea președintă a țării din partea Partidului Șor
▼ + stars: | 2020-10-14 | by ( ) agora.md time to read: +10 min

Printre deputații deciși a fost și Violeta Ivanov, care deținea funcția de președintă a fracțiunii parlamentare. Citește și: Violeta Ivanov promite că n-o să-l dezamăgească pe Vladimir Voronin (FOCUS)„Dacă vorbim despre pantofi, îmi place Loriblu. Ulterior, Ivanov a participat la alegerile parlamentare din anul 2019 și a astfel și-a asigurat un nou mandat de deputat. Partidul Șor a anunțat că se alătură acestei inițiative, iar ulterior Ivanov a declarat că se aliază cu echipa condusă de Ilan Șor. Deputata a fost aleasă în funcție de vicepreședintă a fracțiunii parlamentare a Partidului Șor.

Persons: P . Șor, Violeta Ivanov, Ivanov, Marian Lupu, Vlad Plahotniuc, deputata, Pavel Filip, Ilan Șor, Guvernul Tarlev, Greceanîi, ., PCRM . Violeta Ivanov, Vlad Filat . Ulterior, Vladimir Voronin, Voronin, Calvin Klein, ea.md, Tahari, Margareta, Vasile Ivanov, Violeta Ivanov deţinea, Violeta Coşuneanu, Filip, Guvernul Filip, Andrei Năstase, Vladimir Vitiuc, Deputata, Renato Usatîi, Andrei Năstase Organizations: P, Partidului Democrat ., PD, Partidului Comuniștilor, PCRM, PLDM, FOCUS, Partidul Democrat, Partidului Democrat din, Partidului Democrat, Pro Moldova, Partidului, Partidul Șor, Violeta Ivanov, Calvin Klein, Tahari, Violeta Coşuneanu Locations: PCRM, Chișinău, Guvernul, . Moldova, Moldova, deputata, Tahari, străinătate, Geneva, Paris, Chişinău, Partidului Democrat din Moldova, învestire, Singapore, AGORA

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